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Still puts a smile on my face every time I see it posted. xkcd 1053
I'm one of today's lucky 10000, so I really don't understand why people are complaining for something they last saw 7 months ago.
I swear I’ve seen this a dozen times here already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531145 6 months ago, 1225 points, 357 comments. So a dupe it is.
I swear I’ve seen this a dozen times here already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531145 6 months ago, 1225 points, 357 comments. So a dupe it is.
Thankfully it's very sunny right now in Spain.
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They're hypersensitive to suggestions that they might be wrong about something.
Do you have context for this?
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Do you have context for this?
In previous discussions about the site/posts on the site on HN I remember the site owner getting very butthurt in threads over criticism. I don't have specific links however. Just anecdata.
«radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content»!
The dithered images are fun, but I thought PNG is optimized for large continuous areas of an identical color (or pattern?). Is JPG or WebP not better?
A 4-cols PNG can be halfish a JPEG.
Of course, a ~10% quality JPEG can be one fifthish of the original, and present more apparent information than the PNG - but it will look dirty.
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In previous discussions about the site/posts on the site on HN I remember the site owner getting very butthurt in threads over criticism. I don't have specific links however. Just anecdata.
You surprised? They serve (in the "about" page) one big page for everything, with everything (80% of it user comments, I noted nearby), and their motto is «radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content»!
Why publishing a page on the topic of sustainability, and the page (markup) is 257KB big, when 54KB is the author's HTM and and the rest, _four fifths_, are visitors' comments?!