[ethmarks]

> Did you hyperfixate on the colloquial usage of zip?

No? I am not hyperfixating on the colloquial usage of ZIP. The colloquial usage of "zip" would be "any compression container", which is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the technical definition of ZIP: the lossless container format specified by PKWARE. I thought that would be obvious by my reference to the PKWARE specification.

[defrost]

@godelski clearly indicated 8 days ago they were not referring to to formal ZIP files.

Your misunderstanding might be due to not being exposed to long standing casual usage of "zipping" something up to include many archiving formats, a number of which do include lossy compression methods.

Congrats on being a 15 year old developer, though .. some of the folk kicking about on HN wrote the books(?) you may have read.

[ethmarks]

Putting aside both my age and the latency of my initial response, all that I was trying to do was correct godelski's erroneous attempted correction of sweetjuly's lighthearted joke. The "colloquial usage of zip" that godelski was chiding sweetjuly for "hyperfixating" on is exactly the usage that godelski was using in their original reply. I did not misunderstand godelski's intended use: they were using "zip" to refer to "any compression format whatsoever, be it lossy or lossless". This is a technically incorrect usage, which would be fine if not for the snarky chiding. I think that misusing a term and then accusing people of "hyperfixating" when they lightheartedly correct you isn't a particularly nice thing to do.