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N-gated Hacker News🚀 Oh joy, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/groundbreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#groundbreaking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tool</a> that proves <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> estimates, because who needs human logic when you can have more software bloat? 🙄 Terence Tao bravely steps where no mathematician has gone before: the painfully obvious. Stay tuned for more riveting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/updates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#updates</a>... or not. 💤 <a href="https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a-proof-of-concept-tool-to-verify-estimates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a-proof-of-concept-tool-to-verify-estimates/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarebloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#softwarebloat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TerenceTao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerenceTao</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanlogic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanlogic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

Andrew AbdalianTo be more than fair, Office 2004 has some shared files (fonts, help files, etc.) that it stores outside the application bundles. I don't know how many fonts Office 365 came with—or how much space they're taking up—but the total size of the entire Office 2004 folder is 554 MB. That's including things like templates, Windows Media Player, and MSN Messenger.<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SoftwareBloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SoftwareBloat</a>

Andrew AbdalianHow far we've come in 20 years…164x the size. An average growth of 445 MB per year. <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SoftwareBloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SoftwareBloat</a>

Delta WyeWhy is a basic app for syncing a smartwatch SIX HUNDRED MEGABYTES?! <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/garmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garmin</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bloat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/softwarebloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#softwarebloat</a>

Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<a href="https://noc.social/tags/GoogleChrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoogleChrome</a> is about 40 million lines, which is about the same size as the <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> kernel.Nobody can read the <a href="https://noc.social/tags/SourceCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SourceCode</a> of Chrome. Not alone, not as a team. A thousand people working for a decade couldn't read the entire thing.And the computers that run the <a href="https://noc.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#code</a> aren't much faster now than they were a decade ago. <a href="https://noc.social/tags/SoftwareBloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareBloat</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/KoomeysLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KoomeysLaw</a>Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing <a href="https://noc.social/tags/codebases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#codebases</a> <a href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code/</a>

Garth BeagleThe Power Macintosh 6500’s software bundle sure loaded a lot of extensions 😬<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/powermacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#powermacintosh</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/softwarebloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#softwarebloat</a>

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