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All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space (www.reuters.com)
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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idiots, they ought to have switched to tabs for indenting. Everybody knows that.

[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

And who needs 100% quality images. Just set jpeg quality to 60% and be done with it.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, this got me thinking, is there actual difference in term of file size?

[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, 4 spaces are 3 more bytes than a tab.

But if you compress the source files there would be no difference.