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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by vikingerik on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:40PM (#32432725)
At least that one saves a byte on every request. The cumulative savings are in the terabytes by now.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by tomjakubowski on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:12PM (#32432981)
It saves 2TB/year, just on Google searches! (4e6 requests/minute)
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by 13of40 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:41PM (#32434216)
It's a big world. I'm sure there's someone offsetting this by keeping a 2TB hard drive just filled with 'r's.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by a9h74j on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:31AM (#32434726)
> keeping a 2TB hard drive just filled with 'r's.

r-chive.org

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