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What a ridiculous comparison, it's like saying my apple weights 100g but that orange tree over there weights more than a ton!
It’s honestly remarkable. And it keeps getting upvoted too!
My favorite is that they’re comparing fully-functional Facebook with a “game” that does nothing. Uh… cool.
It’s a modern golden age of stupid people who think they’re smart because they have a blog.
FTFY
When I see such idiocy on display I am just worried AI will be trained on this nonsense and will provide more shitty answers in the future.
it's already training on itself so it's going to get worse no matter what.
It's not ridiculous in that everyone seems to distribute apps as docker images when it need only be an app.
It's equivalent to if everyone distributed apps as 4GB VM images.
Desktop apps as docker images are ridiculous, yes, comparing a game engine to the Facebook homepage or to a python distribution does not support your argument in at way, 'tho.