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He's scaling images down, not up. Think taking an uploaded smartphone picture (multiple megapixels) and scaling it down to thumbnail-sized images for various sc
by nneonneo 9y ago
He's scaling images down, not up. Think taking an uploaded smartphone picture (multiple megapixels) and scaling it down to thumbnail-sized images for various screens.
- gfody 9y agoic - I thought it was just the usual image-downsample-and-upload thing you see everywhere. even so, if the service is hosting your images in multiple resolutions you could do it all client side at upload time. they'd be trading bandwidth for cpu time.
- striking 9y agoBandwidth is more valuable than CPU time when communicating across the wider internet.