@FaheemMitha it’s the size of the files shipped inside the “data” part of the package, and it doesn’t include generated files.
Some packages compress extremely well; Haskell binaries contain a lot of redundant information. (They’re not the only such files; Go binaries are similar.)
@FaheemMitha I haven’t figured that out yet — not that I’m particularly interested in reducing Haskell binaries’ sizes, but I would be interested in smaller Go binaries. In my current project we compress the binaries we ship with UPX (typically reducing binaries to a quarter of their original size), but I would like to be able to drop that.
@StephenKitt I saw this. That's sad. I disagreed with him and found him annoying at times, but that does not take anything away from his contributions, and I have the outmost respect for him as a developer and contributor to the open source community. ... and to POSIX for that matter.
@FaheemMitha I think there's a loose connection to reality, but since most links/hits are probably to Questions, it's hard to tell who really read an Answer. But I remember SE having some equation for the situation.
My mother died of breast cancer in 2018. According to the people I spoke to, cancer is skyrocketing in India. Specifically, breast cancer. I don't know how reliable their opinions were, though.
But pollution levels here are very bad and getting worse.
I hear plastics is a real problem. Microplastics get into everything.
@FaheemMitha My two cents may not be really useful, since I use Firefox and haven't used chromium much in a while, but the "Auto Tab Discard" add-on, which seems to be available for chromium too, is pretty effective in keeping the browser's memory usage low.
