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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by lxgr on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:33PM (#46516467)
The neat thing about code is that there's no upper limit on how inefficient one can get.
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by HPsquared on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:34PM (#46518277)
It's literally "work expands to fill the available time" (s/time/cycles and memory/)
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