• earthworm@sh.itjust.works
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    a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next

    Why would anyone ever need to do this?

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      Laziness? Why designate storage for a downloaded repository when you can just use the blazing fast company network to make someone else’s storage your storage? Systemically it’s fucked up, but individually it kinda makes sense.

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      They don’t design a system that does so intentionally. It’s equal parts ignorance, automation and cluelessness

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      Maybe they’re building containers every day? Idk. Can’t think of how that’d blow up into thousands without some sort of VM or containerization dependency.