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... are you joking?

by lsh 10y ago

... are you joking?

lucb1e 10y ago
(not OP) I understand why the requirements are strict so I can see why s/he was being downvoted, but I do agree that samples would be nice. Like, do I have to go search for some images with these requirements just to see if it really works (since it was supposed to take $100k)? By now someone mentioned it works in the comments though, so I guess I'll trust them.
- shaymcrasherson 10y ago
  Is it really that hard to take a screenshot of a couple windows on your desktop and run: $ convert screenshot.png -resize '500x500!' bar.jpg or $ sips -s format jpeg -Z 500x500 screenshot.png --out bar.jpg Generating some workable source images is trivial. You're not interested in making a 'perfect hack pdf' for some nefarious purpose, just seeing if the service does what it says it does.
  - ythn 10y ago
    > Generating some workable source images is trivial Everything is trivial if you know how to do it off the top of your head. Generating white noise samples is trivial. UV-mapping a texture to a mesh is trivial. Soldering resisters to a PCB is trivial. Generating an ARM toolchain with Yocto Project is trivial. Is it a crime that I didn't feel like researching a bunch of CLI tools I've never heard of to try to use an app I was only mildly curious about?
    - TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
      This overstates the difficulty of creating a JPEG. If you have an image editor on hand that isn't MS Paint (or you're using macOS, which has Preview), you merely need to export a JPEG and choose a low quality setting. For a Windows user with no decent image editor or viewer installed, though, it could certainly be a hassle.
      - ythn 10y ago
        None of the things I listed are difficult. They just require the right tool and know how. For someone like me with Xubuntu, I had neither the tools nor know how for creating small jpegs. I didn't fell like wasting 30 minutes researching and I didn't feel like walking over to a different computer that has MSPaint.
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kinkrtyavimoodh 10y ago
Most people wouldn't have such small JPGs lying around on their computer, and even less likely that they have 2 of them with the same aspect ratio. So, it's likely that they'll have to go and create them, which is quite a hassle. I know because I went to the site and then after mucking around in some of my directories, gave up.
- Buge 10y ago
  You don't need to have such JPGs. You just crop/resize them in Gimp or Paint.
StavrosK 10y ago
Well, a sample pair of PDFs would be nice, so we didn't have to go looking for or creating the JPGs...

... are you joking?

by lsh 10y ago

... are you joking?

(not OP) I understand why the requirements are strict so I can see why s/he was being downvoted, but I do agree that samples would be nice. Like, do I have to go search for some images with these requirements just to see if it really works (since it was supposed to take $100k)? By now someone mentioned it works in the comments though, so I guess I'll trust them.

shaymcrasherson 10y ago
Is it really that hard to take a screenshot of a couple windows on your desktop and run: $ convert screenshot.png -resize '500x500!' bar.jpg or $ sips -s format jpeg -Z 500x500 screenshot.png --out bar.jpg Generating some workable source images is trivial. You're not interested in making a 'perfect hack pdf' for some nefarious purpose, just seeing if the service does what it says it does.
- ythn 10y ago
  > Generating some workable source images is trivial Everything is trivial if you know how to do it off the top of your head. Generating white noise samples is trivial. UV-mapping a texture to a mesh is trivial. Soldering resisters to a PCB is trivial. Generating an ARM toolchain with Yocto Project is trivial. Is it a crime that I didn't feel like researching a bunch of CLI tools I've never heard of to try to use an app I was only mildly curious about?
  - TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
    This overstates the difficulty of creating a JPEG. If you have an image editor on hand that isn't MS Paint (or you're using macOS, which has Preview), you merely need to export a JPEG and choose a low quality setting. For a Windows user with no decent image editor or viewer installed, though, it could certainly be a hassle.
    - ythn 10y ago
      None of the things I listed are difficult. They just require the right tool and know how. For someone like me with Xubuntu, I had neither the tools nor know how for creating small jpegs. I didn't fell like wasting 30 minutes researching and I didn't feel like walking over to a different computer that has MSPaint.

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kinkrtyavimoodh 10y ago

Most people wouldn't have such small JPGs lying around on their computer, and even less likely that they have 2 of them with the same aspect ratio. So, it's likely that they'll have to go and create them, which is quite a hassle. I know because I went to the site and then after mucking around in some of my directories, gave up.

Buge 10y ago
You don't need to have such JPGs. You just crop/resize them in Gimp or Paint.

StavrosK 10y ago

Well, a sample pair of PDFs would be nice, so we didn't have to go looking for or creating the JPGs...