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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 132 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What language was that jpeg compression written in?

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You ever heard of lossless compression? Well they developed lossfull anti compression, it compresses and decompresses the images so many times that the added artifacts create a larger file than original ! Impressive ain't it?

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Gilles_D@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

and the Nobel goes to some nerd playing with electrons. Unbelievable

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO ACCESS STARCH DIRECTLY