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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by minimuffins on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:45PM (#24053194)
I don't think it's the nature of progress. There's no question we have the _capacity_ to engineer our way out of these problems. They aren't unsolvable. But a lot would have to change before the necessary resources are mobilized against these kind of problems instead of churning out yet more bloat, which, let's face it, is what most of us are doing with our time every day.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk

I'm not expert enough to say if his technical solutions are correct, but it's a pretty good explication of the problem.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by sergeykish on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:19PM (#24054611)
He counts Linux as 17 MLoc, half of it is drivers, tinyconfig is just 300 kLoc [1]. Is there any reason to watch? Chrome is huge though.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-l...

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