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Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?

BobRobster · 8.5M views · 2013-05-27 · 0:06

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Overview

A King of the Hill clip in which Hank-style character rants about saving images as PNG instead of JPEG after exporting from Windows Paint.

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Posted as a joke when image compression or repeated quality loss comes up.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2022–2026

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fwlr · 2026-07 · Joke / meme

I do see the appeal, it’s easy to imagine that workflow working, and working well - but it’s hard to how it avoids this fate: [VIDEO]

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themafia · 2026-02 · Joke / meme

It has to annotate it too. We've let models do this before. They devolve into an incomprehensible mess in very short order. Errors multiply. Lossy weight compression on erroneous material makes it all that much more worse. [VIDEO]

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fletchowns · 2022-11 · Joke / meme

Made me think of the classic "Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?" [VIDEO] (loud audio warning)

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