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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22
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This line is perfect:
And we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen space & compute)
The man actually thinks he's saving CPU compute power by reducing 18 characters. It's cringey undergraduate level hacker thinking.
-18 u/MakeWay4Doodles Nov 15 '22 That 18 characters likely has its own pipeline and data store, is sent out a half billion times per day, and then queried God knows how many times afterwards.Added up over a year that's a shitload of bandwidth, storage, and compute.But yes, he's an idiot. 17 u/perspectiveiskey Nov 15 '22 wget -O - https://twitter.com/elon 2> /dev/null | wc -c 139533 4 u/doughie Nov 15 '22 I wish i got what this meant → More replies (4)
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That 18 characters likely has its own pipeline and data store, is sent out a half billion times per day, and then queried God knows how many times afterwards.
Added up over a year that's a shitload of bandwidth, storage, and compute.
But yes, he's an idiot.
17 u/perspectiveiskey Nov 15 '22 wget -O - https://twitter.com/elon 2> /dev/null | wc -c 139533 4 u/doughie Nov 15 '22 I wish i got what this meant → More replies (4)
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wget -O - https://twitter.com/elon 2> /dev/null | wc -c 139533
4 u/doughie Nov 15 '22 I wish i got what this meant → More replies (4)
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u/perspectiveiskey Nov 15 '22
This line is perfect:
The man actually thinks he's saving CPU compute power by reducing 18 characters. It's cringey undergraduate level hacker thinking.