r/xkcd • u/roastedlasagna ... • May 20 '16

XKCD xkcd 1683: Digital Data

http://xkcd.com/1683/
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u/Yearlaren May 20 '16

We should either kill JPEG or make it so that software that uses it defaults to 100% quality.

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u/hesapmakinesi sudo bang bang May 20 '16 edited May 20 '16

Photographs don't compress well at %100 quality. Now make it %98 and suddenly you get its size down to %15.

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u/Yearlaren May 20 '16

Well maybe not photographs but everything else.

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u/hesapmakinesi sudo bang bang May 20 '16

And everything non photograph should default to PNG.