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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 132 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What language was that jpeg compression written in?

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 85 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gilles_D@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago
[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO ACCESS STARCH DIRECTLY

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago