Friendship works the same way. The container is the coffee meetup, the text message, the yearly phone call. But the friendship itself—the libvpx layer—is the compression of shared history. It knows that you don't need to re-explain your childhood trauma or your political beliefs every time you speak. It sends the delta : the small change since last Tuesday.
But when you think about it, that is the foundation of any lasting friendship: not the grand gestures, but the reliable, background processing of two systems that have agreed on a protocol. You handle the noise. You compress the past. You send the delta. friendship libvpx
And every once in a while, you send a keyframe—a full, uncompressed, undeniable message that says: Friendship works the same way
Written in memory of every make command that failed, and every friend who stayed on the call anyway. It knows that you don't need to re-explain