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		JohnFen on Feb 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Transparent telemetry for open-source projects > we don't blame the tool makers for adding an extra 100Kb or 20MB Honestly, I do. Code bloat is a real thing.

jodrellblank on Feb 9, 2023 [–]

Honestly, I do too, but the world doesn't. If you said "I have 3,500 binaries on my system, imagine if they ALL added 1MB" the reply would be "3.5GB is about twenty cents of NVME storage space" not "oh my, you're right that would be intolerable".

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