It’s the pages. It’s all the JavaScript. And especially the HTML5 stuff. The amount of code that is executed in a webpage these days is staggering. And JS isn’t exactly a computationally modest language.

Of the 200kB loaded on a typical Wikipedia page, about 85kb of it is JS and CSS.

Another 45kB for a single SVG, which in complex cases is a computationally nontrivial image format.

The program expands so as to fill the resources available for its execution

– C.N. Parkinson (if he were alive today)

I’m a bit lost with

a more cautious user might first paste the url into the address bar of their web browser to see what the script looks like before running it. In the

You… You just… You just dump the curl output to file and examine that and then run it if its good

Just a weird imagined sequence to me.

Yeah, it’s like products that include FOSS in them, only have to release the FOSS stuff, not their proprietary. (Was kind of cute to find the whole GNU license buried in the menus of my old TiVo…)

That’s because every version of Windows since XP has been kind of dogshit

Oh I have literally thought of this too. Maybe a bit more like Cops or if The Office was a real paper company office… but at a software company. So many fires to put out, so many blockers, so much drama between design / pm / dev / qa / execs, etc. Launch date blockers. Post-release hotfix nightmares. It could work

“Bring cycles, guns and Huel” just doesn’t have the same ring to it

Would actively fuck apps up because it would register as a file touch and break things that expected unchanged file content

I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can’t prove it though

Which part?

cries in left_pad

It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings

Me: I need spec – not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I’m replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit

I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say “you will give us a fucking spec” and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec