But .txt is not the same as .rs; yet .txt is not the same as .docx, although both of these files look the same to the human eye.

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    3 days ago

    It’s pretty hard to break file types into these discrete categories. Images can be raw pixel colours (see ppm), losslessly compressed pixel data (see png), or lossily compressed pixel data (see jpeg).