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		lisper on Feb 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format Doesn't matter. Whatever you do to compress losslessly you can always do better if you're allowed to discard information. And the structure is part of the reason. For lossless compression you have to keep all the noise, all the invisible details. With lossy compression you're allowed to discard all that.

kragen on Feb 7, 2020 [–]

Yes, that's what I said.

lisper on Feb 8, 2020 | [–]

Just for the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272837

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