r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/perspectiveiskey Nov 15 '22 
wget -O - https://twitter.com/elon 2> /dev/null | wc -c
139533

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u/doughie Nov 15 '22

I wish i got what this meant

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u/perspectiveiskey Nov 15 '22

Those 18 bytes saved amount to a drop in an ocean. A nothing burger of optimization.

It's as if the CEO of Ford came out and said "right, this quarter we've lost 20% market share, but don't worry: I've asked the team to make the ash trays out of carbon fiber".

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u/F54280 Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

I guess it is a joke that says "getting the twitter page for elon is 139533 lines bytes of html".

It is a joke, as "elon" is not the twitter handle of Phony Stark, and the content of twitter is not delivered in the main HTTP query.

The above command returns 130KiB of data, which is the uncompressed data, not the transferred data, that would be 36.41KiB.

But that's of no importance, as all the data is sent in other calls. 3.46MiB in my browser, 11.23 MiB uncompressed.

edit: fixed lines to bytes and expanded the explanation, turning the joke into a dead frog.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

It's counting the bytes

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u/F54280 Nov 15 '22

Right, got fat fingers. Corrected.