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Re:How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++ by dajohnson89 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:27PM (#15701240)
isn't it a meme at this point, pushing computational work to the client side? I have a laptop or mobile device, please don't hog my limited cpu and battery life by forcing my device to resize images.
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Re:How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++ by _Tev on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:42AM (#15703321)
Are you sure your wifi connection will not eat more power with huge upload than processor/gpu doing the scaling?
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Re:How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++ by dajohnson89 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:17PM (#15706870)
I dont see how that matters at all.

also -- there's also page load time. if it's an intensive calculation then the overhead of sending the results over http is still less than the browser calc time.

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