Seconding the zstd rec.

For anyone like OP worried about having an offline copy of the utility on hand, I strongly recommend throwing a copy of cosmos on your recovery drive. It’s a set of common tools that are compiled to a special binary format that’ll run on all major OSes (and ARM64), including zstd.

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Just to tail on the “Postgres is a better document DB than Mongo” theme, there’s now a QuickJS procedural extension for postgres (in addition to the earlier but clunkier plv8):

https://github.com/plv8/pljs https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html

The rub is that you can yeet any document data you like into JSONB columns, and mung them efficiently and freely with JS — taking all the upsides of Mongo, yet letting you merge them seamlessly with the full capabilities of PG’s relational model.

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The problem isn’t the kids, it’s the old fucks in charge.

A brief visit to College Station will fiercely dispel that notion. Most aggies regardless of age are in favor of this.

Zero, unless you’re a big eBPF user.

Yeah, that’s fair.

I was focused on the marginal effect no matter how small, but you’re right that heat of solvation for gases is minuscule. I’m won over on the idea that it would be outweighed by cooling effect of gas expansion from fart decompression.

We need a room calorimeter and a lot of beans.

Care to elaborate on your stance?

I didn’t take shartery into account, but that’s a great point.

Yeah, you’re right — there would be some cooling from pressure release.

I might need to do some math tonight.

In a nutshell, the bonds in question are intermolecular forces, not bonds between atoms within a molecule.

The act of mixing fart into air is an exothermic process that does in fact explicitly generate heat. You can read up here if curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_change_of_solution

Granted, it’s not intuitive without getting deep into the weeds of thermodynamics, but when different molecules that are attracted to one another get mixed, that combined form is a state with lower chemical potential energy than the original substances would have if left separate. I.e. you’d need to invest energy to break up the intermolecular attractions if you wanted to re-separate the molecules. The potential energy “lost” in the process of mixing is extruded in the form of heat.

I have a degree in physics and work in biomed R&D. I am a qualified fart scientist — this is what I live for.

Top comment is wrong: the short answer to the post title is a hard “yes” due to enthalpy of solvation. The process of fart mixing into ambient air generates heat.

The answer to your followup question would require some modeling — with the main factors being fart composition, body mass, thermal gradient, and room size.

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