Re:Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers
by robinsonb5 on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:34PM
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To be fair, bundling a Java Runtime Environment will give you a decent head start...
Having to ship instructional assets in multiple (human) languages is a fair point, and one I hadn't considered - though in this particular case there are no movies or animations that I've seen.
Most of Dale's points are correct, though - but that doesn't make it a sane state of affairs, and it saddens me that we just accept it with a sense of dejected resignation instead of trying to do better. I had (obviously naively!) expected the the microchip shortage to prompt a massive drive to extract every bit of value from the ones already in service.
For example, Calibre is around 350 MiB. It embeds Qt, Chromium, Python and ICU, is fully localised, and has rather a lot of functionality.
Video content can be fairly large, but a high-quality 1080p encode is around 500 KiB/s. Can you really pack an hour of instructional videos into some printer software?
I can think of a couple ways that you could cross the 1 GiB mark, but none that would involve sane engineering choices or "trying and rejecting" other options.