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haha great timing!

This morning I was scraping the images from the 2016 report and given they were like ~230 images I thought it could be cool to download them in parallel, but I quickly realized this would lead to such path and downloaded these in serial.

I still wonder what's the _right way_

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It's the same number of bits either way, so the relevant info is were the images are stored and what the bottleneck is in accessing them. If they're all on a single disk drive, for example, it would probably make no difference if you did it in parallel or serial.

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