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  • Car with horse existed when theses road were designed.
    It’s even a paved road, I find it a bit sad they tore down the pavement. There is even a photo somewhere on internet where you can see a dead horse with kids playing next to it as car pass by.

    Exemple of a photo 100year ago in Paris:

    Pedestrian can walk on pavement.

    I’d like to remind that cars were banned in center of Rome, because there was too much cars.
    And I’m talking about the Rome of 2000 years ago.









  • inside hundreds of organisations (not hundred of installs)

    At the time of the article, the extension listed around 300 hundred installation on the VS marketplace. There is a lot of bots downloading packages, one extension i contribute to, and nobody use it except 3 peoples, have been indicated to be downloaded 238 times.

    If you look at the number of extensions available on the vscode marketplace, and the false positive they listed as “malicious code” (read the code attentively), I’m sure my own extension will show up in their “malicious code” (it isn’t)








  • The point of the article is that the costs increased non linearly with the number of user, the cost just keep increasing.

    Maybe why you didn’t notice anything is exactly because they made these spendings to ensure no major hiccups? I’m confident OG Wikipedia code wouldn’t be able to support their internet hosting needs today. Maybe their infrastructure costs would be 100x of today’s if they hadn’t spent the R&D on optimizations?

    A few line before what you quoted: The point is taken into account, the traffic did x12 and the costs of server x33, and the author call it

    This seems reasonable given that they have improved reliability, redundancy and backups.

    since 2005 the WMF has hired hundreds of extra employees and is now spending 1,250 times as much overall

    So the traffic did x12, but the spending on staff did x1250.

    Did you skipped this whole part on purpose or you didn’t read the article completly and jumped to there ?
    You started to say “yes but they didn’t had a single year in a net loss”, the point of the article I sent is that wikipedia is spending too much money because they have too much money.