logoalt Hacker News

throwaway27448today at 5:49 AM1 replyview on HN

> How can you even compare binary with embedded images.

How are the images encoded?


Replies

brazzytoday at 6:57 AM

In ways that ensure that they are not visually recognizable on the physical medium afterwards, because the visual layout represents a whole lot of redundancy, and the job of compression is to remove redundancy. If the end result has any recognizable patterns, the compression is not doing its job well.