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Why a software update, that has only 3 fixes install 222 packages totaling over 1 GB?!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Because someone has completion issues?
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Package envy.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Beat me to it. damn it! 
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Same reason HOTS needs to download 50 Mb for a single minor change; it gets wrapped into a big chunk of data to download.
Seeing how excited everyone is about bundling javascript to prevent caching of existing libraries, I'm not very surprised.
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If you mention npm packages than you should know about 4K challenge that none of JS people can beat: deliver software with less than 4096 npm packages.
Otherwise, it might happen that apart from 3 fixes this update delivers a couple of useful features i.e. mining cryptocurrency or sending your personal data to some remote server.
modified 15-Mar-19 5:43am.
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Why?, the answer is Why Not! 
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Sounds an awful lot like a Windows 10 update.
The update's technical page might report only 3 fixes, but that's probably what's new between this one and the last. But it actually includes updates for everything that's been patched since the first OS release.
How far off-base am I?
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The missus needed a new bike, so she searched the interwebs for bikes on sale, and found one, of all places, at the Lidl webshop.
So she orders it, and they give a delivery date, so we get someone to house-sit on that day (today), and they call to say that the box has been delivered, so she's going home.
The missus gets home all ready to assemble her bike and give it a trial run...
... And you've probably at least partially guessed what had happened.
They'd delivered a fridge.
Easy mistake to make.
Same size and shape of box... NOT!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The company just corrected the order, women don't exercise, they might sweat.
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Based on this, I look forward to more companies venturing into the use of 'AI' to assist with the ordering process! Now I can order some mundane innocent item and when something in an unmarked brown package turns up it won't be my fault! 
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Obviously ... you are joking
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Not at all. We ordered a bike, and received a fridge worth a third of the price.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh, did I forget to mention that it's pink?[^]
And there was I, hoping for a baby-blue one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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SKU off-by-one error? 
/ravi
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Off-by-a-mile, more like.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The missus gets home all ready to assemble her bike and give it a trial run...
... And you've probably at least partially guessed what had happened.
They'd delivered a fridge.
I hope she realised this before she assembled it.
(... or did she assemble it wrong??? them little pieces all look the same.)
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lopati: roaming wrote: did she assemble it wrong??? them little pieces all look the same.
I was thinking the same thing. I once bought a coat closet from an eastern bloc IKEA clone. Took it home and once I finished assembling it, I realized that it had become a bike! Plus the box was missing half a dozen dowels, three screws and a MiG-21!
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I was worried that that might be what happened, but then I realised that it was impossible, because she'd never buy a pink bike.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... she wanted a fridge and told you she was ordering a "bike"
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So, all jokes aside did you check the confirmation email to ensure it was supposed to be a bike? And I'm assuming the vendor will be paying for the return shipping to correct their obvious error.
Honestly that has to be one of the most bizarre shipping mix-ups I've encountered. Most of mine are of the "Ordered a pair of sunglasses was sent the wrong size, color, and style. I couldn't wear them but hey! At least you got the sunglasses part correct." variety.
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I got an e-mail an hour ago, telling me that they're very sorry and they're now sending a bike.
Or a doll's house.
Or a jar of leg wax. Who knows?
Now that I've seen the box, though, I've become highly suspicious.
The packing list/invoice is missing, torn off, and the address label looks like it's been peeled off of another box and taped on.
So some smartarse has got herself an expensive bike for the price of a cheap fridge, because Lidl won't bother to investigate -- they'll just blame the devs who made the catalogue/ordering system
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I once ordered pants from J C Penney, which was reflected on the confirmation email and the email upon shipment.
The box contained some pretty hefty DD bras. No pants.
I am a guy.
The CSR that issued the return info and I had a good laugh.
My wife had an even bigger laugh.
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Try ordering fork handles.
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