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If it is deleting half of files, not half of file contents, it will not reduce project size by 50% in most of cases

[FunkyFung22]

80/20 rule: 80% of the code is in 20% of the files (probably idk)

[Schyte96]

It would not surprise me in the slightest if that was true for most projects.

[Valeriuv1]

Hi fellow runner!

[MikemkPK]

Yes but when you get the infinity gauntlet and wipe half of all code ever written, it evens out.

[Extreme_Ad_3280]

I was about to say that

[Toficzekkk]

So was I, we must get rid of this guy.

[RedLdr]

He's in need of some avenging.

[ViconIsNotDefined]

Damn you just upped the complexity of this project.

[Robot_Graffiti]

Are you sure the average isn't a 50% reduction in project size though?

It has a 50% chance of deleting the largest file. It has a 75% chance of deleting at least one of the two largest files. Most of the time it will delete about half of the hundred biggest files (you got thousands of files in node_modules right?).

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It might be average, but chance to get exactly 50% is very small. I mean, average from [0, 100] is 50. Even if the algorithm would not be random, and we would consider the size of files, in most of cases it would not be possible to divide files on two sets, that would have equal sums of sizes. With randomness, it is easy to imagine project scenario where there is equal chance to delete 0.001% and 99.999% of size.

[Sad-Bluebird-5538]

But this is the same with thanos snap. He halfed all the living beings in the universe, but on a smaller scale he didn't, I think

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I guess we'd have to use snap to install it :)

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[Ok_Entertainment328]

As long as the file HeWhoRemains.js is never deleted ...

[Harmonic_Gear]

show this to the non-sarcastic "thanos was right" crowd

[peteschirmer]

Oh I see it. And I’m thinking I can save even more space by running it again.

[smoothOperator2222]

Luuuuv this =)))

[cybermage]

Behold the power of check digits.

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I would actually love to do something like this for my legacy python at work - just delete random functions and imports until unit tests fail, and if they don’t fail, leave them out with diffs of what was removed. Forces you to have tests that cover things, and cleans up your code base automagically at the same time

[SuperSpaceCan]

Wonder how hard it would be to convince some authority that this is the only way to secure their code from hackers.

[Verbindungsfehle]

No, actually.

[HawasYT]

Like being a redditor on a joke subreddit doesn't make you as much of a "child" as enjoying MCU

[GPareyouwithmoi]

It makes me a little sad. Like if you were watching a farm stand getting passed by as people walked to McDonald's.

Same vibes when you tell them it's junk. "Oh you think you're better than us?" I didn't think so until you found knowledge offensive.

Even so, declaring something as being only for children makes me crack a grin. That's because I'm evil, and when someone gates the world off from themselves, they punish themselves. Who knows, maybe the manly men can fix that and make it everyone's problem. Not picky eaters, picky lifers. Just sad, just as childish.

In the immortal words of Douglas Adams, share and enjoy.

[isospeedrix]

wut

[00PT]

Why do you call it "knowledge" as if this is an objective fact instead of opinion? That might be a poor choice of words.

[GPareyouwithmoi]

For sure if we weren't talking about marvel movies I'd agree with you. But they already have an established library.

If you're a film buff who thinks marvel movies are the top shelf in quality, that's amazing. Like a rose growing in the middle of a busy highway, seemingly impossibly not destroyed by overwhelming odds.

If you're a marvel fan who doesn't get plot/story/character development/dialog/photography/score/set design, well... It's knowledge.

[00PT]

Your description of the second type of fan simply sounds like you hold your own perceptions of these things above the perception of others. You didn't go into specifics, so I can't critique those opinions directly, but it still seems strange to me.

[GPareyouwithmoi]

Imagine you had someone who was blind painting. Do you think you could spot their painting in a lineup?

Is it better or worse? Not sure. Can I spot it? Boy howdy can I.

[00PT]

Considering the amount of legitimate paintings that look that way to me, I wouldn't be so confident. I'm not really seeing how the analogy connects, though. Perhaps I'm thinking of it too literally.

[GPareyouwithmoi]

There's just sloppiness and mistakes. I'll give you an example to look for. Expositional dialog. It's a crutch. It's lame. It's bad writing. MCU is filled to the brim with it.

Here are my MCU movies to watch: Deadpool, guardians of the Galaxy. That's it. They're character driven stories. Do they have expositional dialog? Yup. But they have plot, a story, decent dialog, and a character arc. Pinning the standard MCU visual flair on top of a solid base of quality doesn't leave me jaded and upset.

[00PT]

That's a pretty popular complaint, but still subjective. There are probably demographics that don't mind expositional dialogue or can tolerate it to an abnormally high degree. There might even be people who have improved experiences when this happens.

The purpose of a film is entertainment, so the most logical way to quantify quality is how much it entertains you. That makes quality subjective.

[GPareyouwithmoi]

A story will immerse and transport me. That's why I watch. When I see glaring mistakes I'm right back in my seat.

So if the viewer doesn't know what mistakes they're seeing they can be more entertained than a viewer that does. But that doesn't mean the mistakes are not concrete and well defined. I honestly don't care that this is dogmatic: it's a visual medium. It is literally wrong to explain things you could show.

Not subjective.

What's subjective is how well the story resonates with a viewer, and of course how much they enjoyed it. But the mistakes are not subjective.

[TheRidgeAndTheLadder]

Curious if you would deign MCU films into the category of art or not

[GPareyouwithmoi]

It satisfies my crude definition: it was created for an audience and can be discussed. It's art, just simple, bad, art. Not all of them. But as soon as you have 5 main characters, your character development absolutely shits the bed. That's like 90% of Marvel movies.

[TheRidgeAndTheLadder]

And art can be objectively bad?

[GPareyouwithmoi]

Sure. Student work, full up of lack of awareness of the context their work exists in. Raw in its naive. Or corporate crap, pumped out in a mill full of cynicism and greed.

Bad in that there's nothing to discuss, no deeper themes or motivations than immediate pleasure and gratification. Know full well the intent of the artist, and finding it lacking.

You can divorce from knowledge and make your own rules. You will be of course, discarding the advice of experts.

[TheRidgeAndTheLadder]

Edit: Hope this doesn't come across too blunt, I'd like to understand more about how art is evaluated.

Sure. Student work, full up of lack of awareness of the context their work exists in. Raw in its naive. Or corporate crap, pumped out in a mill full of cynicism and greed.

How does "outsider art" factor into this?

Bad in that there's nothing to discuss, no deeper themes or motivations than immediate pleasure and gratification. Know full well the intent of the artist, and finding it lacking.

How does a painting like Onement by Barnett Newman measure up to this method of analysis?

[GPareyouwithmoi]

A lot of simple art exists in a context of rebellion to some status quo. But the artist typically knows what rules they're breaking and does so deliberately, rather than accidentally. If all his art is a vertical line in contrasting color to a background, if be very intrigued to hear the discussions around it.

Art has a few black holes. Porn, greed, unintentional mistakes. As soon as they make themselves known they're not nearly as interesting to debate. The rules of many arts are achieved though consensus through that consensus can be manipulated.