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> In practice this argument is used to justify bloated apps, bad engineering, and corner-cutting. Yes, yes it is. But they were going to do it anyway. Even if

> In practice this argument is used to justify bloated apps, bad engineering, and corner-cutting. Yes, yes it is. But they were going to do it anyway. Even if people were to stop accepting this argument, they'll just start using another one. Startup culture is never going to stop being startup culture and complacent corporations are never going to stop being complacent. As the famous adage goes: If you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself. > File Pilot is written from scratch and it has a ton of functionality packed in a 1.8mb download. File Pilot is... seemingly a fully-featured GUI file explorer in 1.8mb, complete with animations? Dude. What.

gizmo 2y ago
Yes, there is a generation of programmers that doesn't believe something like File Pilot is even possible.
- genewitch 2y ago
  They'd be very confused at something like "A mind is born" then? https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ 7030 times smaller than the file pilot.
  - LoganDark 2y ago
    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
    - genewitch 2y ago
      This was on the cover of a book and it prints a maze using block characters? copilot said the block characters part but not the maze, i remembered that after seeing the "one of two block characters." unfortunately that requires a BASIC to run, which will probably be larger than 256B and possibly even 1800000B - the mind is born .prg can just be "run" on the computer it was written for with no interpreter.
      - LoganDark 2y ago
        yes, I am aware of the Commodore 64 :) and I also know what machine code is.
- LoganDark 2y ago
  Generation? Are you for real? I just don't really see drawing like that by binaries that small. Though I've seen plenty of demoscene, not really the same. I just checked one of the project pages (behind some links - here: https://filepilot.handmade.network https://filepilot.handmade.network) and the first post says C with OpenGL. Boy is it rare to see one of those nowadays.

gizmo 2y ago

Yes, there is a generation of programmers that doesn't believe something like File Pilot is even possible.

genewitch 2y ago
They'd be very confused at something like "A mind is born" then? https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ 7030 times smaller than the file pilot.
- LoganDark 2y ago
  10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
  - genewitch 2y ago
    This was on the cover of a book and it prints a maze using block characters? copilot said the block characters part but not the maze, i remembered that after seeing the "one of two block characters." unfortunately that requires a BASIC to run, which will probably be larger than 256B and possibly even 1800000B - the mind is born .prg can just be "run" on the computer it was written for with no interpreter.
    - LoganDark 2y ago
      yes, I am aware of the Commodore 64 :) and I also know what machine code is.
LoganDark 2y ago
Generation? Are you for real? I just don't really see drawing like that by binaries that small. Though I've seen plenty of demoscene, not really the same. I just checked one of the project pages (behind some links - here: https://filepilot.handmade.network https://filepilot.handmade.network) and the first post says C with OpenGL. Boy is it rare to see one of those nowadays.