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Open URL in Private Tab Shortcut for Safari iOS in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Take a look at Firefox focus. It’s great for private web browsing. I happily use it for maybe 95% of my browser usage on an iPhone.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/

Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s clear that you don’t agree with my original opinions. And that’s ok. But it really doesn’t seem so simple and clear. Take a look at the ratio of up to down votes.

https://programming.dev/comment/10313390

Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I keep looking back at this thread as new people grow annoyed at my comments 🙂.

At the time I writing this, there are currently 15 upvotes and 28 downvotes on my original comment. That’s clearly negative and that’s ok. But that also makes it the third most voted on and the 4th most upvoted comment in the entire post. Seems there’s a very split opinion in the community here. This is now officially entertaining!

Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for the happy comment. But it’s all good. People are allowed to not like my comment. I’m not exactly swayed by the downvotes but maybe I could be just wrong here.

Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not

Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra -1 points 5 months ago

Potentially. See my edit shove

Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage in c/[email protected]

[+] Lodra -9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)

Ok that is an impressive number but it feels a little disingenuous. You still need to something on your machine to interpret the js code, right? Is that included in the 13k? How much storage does that take?

EDIT: Well this is by far my most negative comment here. That’s almost entertaining. I’ll share a few more of my thoughts here rather than respond to individual comments. Maybe the context will make this more palatable.

First, I expect that the js language is doing most of the work here. Which makes sense. But having a browser installed as a prerequisite is an enormous dependency.

How would that stack up against other languages? Can I build a 13k binary using C? How about C#? I think Go is maybe the most interesting because the binary is entirely self contained by default. No external dependencies aside from the OS. I don’t think this or a similar game is viable with only 13k. Which is fine! I just that I find 13k is disingenuous.

That brings up the question of whether or not we should include the OS in the storage size. I would think not. But that’s only because the OS is (usually) the least common denominator when we talk about developing software. It’s generally assumed by default. But if someone wants to compare with a game that interfaces with hardware directly, then yes, we should absolutely include the OS as a dependency.

Now that I’m giving this more thought, I suspect that the devs wrote 13k of code + assets to make the game functional. Still impressive. But the more I think about this, the more meaningless that number gets. Does pre or post compiling matter more? What if we compress the thing as tarball? There’s just too many ways to manipulate this number.

"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Ya… being paid to perform isn’t immoral. Honestly, I hope he took a ton of cash from Amazon for the show.

Amazon is the crowd doing evil crap. Their immorality doesn’t automatically spread to everyone they interact with. Especially, people that aren’t actually aiding their efforts. This one is corporate waste

What if This Is Our Last Real Election? in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for pointing this out. It was the first thought that came to my mind.

I have no idea when the last real election was. But it certainly hasn’t been in the last decade or two. Social media is too strong of a platform for propaganda. I think there are exceedingly few people now with an accurate understanding of modern political parties, affiliations, etc.

Plus, there’s waaaay too much money in politics. Votes are bought

Is there a "markup language" to describe a debugging session? in c/experienced_devs

[–] Lodra 1 points 5 months ago

For debugging across disparate app, hosts, etc.,x I think the best current option is spans and traces. If you aren’t already familiar, look into general observability, logs/metrics/traces, and definitely opentelemetry!

Soldiers in Ukraine say US-supplied tanks have made them targets for Russian strikes in c/[email protected]

[–] Lodra 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Wait. Who’s genocidal here?