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it's probably time to call those old retired programmers to ask them how to reduce software memory footprint or to teach that again
Seems unnecessary. We can simply ask the LLMs to do it after, of course, imploring them to not make any mistakes.
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Many countries would develop much faster if there weren't bombed nor maintain by puppet dictactors from (economically) developped nations (USA and france keep doing this intensively, while countries like Germany dont mind supporting fascist states). (PS: I'm not woke, not even Marxist).
What country would be the stereotypical example you are thinking of? I fail to find any
Historically, most of Latin America.
Very recently: why was Venezuela attacked by the US?
Well this brings back initiative to stop throwing RAM at the problem and start optimising the code. Would like to see what smart people can do when there are money saved from buying more RAM.
For some uses right now, this makes sense, but it has to be at scale. If you're working on something that will ship in two years and is used by end users, it might not be worth the effort since production will catch up.
Sounds unlikely.
Unless RAM use would impact financial metrics, it would be hard to justify the work on memory footprint if customer doesn’t complain a lot.
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You can just as well not run docker. 1GiB machine can run a lot of server software, if RAM is not wasted on having duplicate OSes on one machine.
> You can just as well not run docker. this is naive "just as well"? lmao sure i guess i could just manually set up the environment and have differences from what im hoping to use in productio > 1GiB machine can run a lot of server software, this is naive it really depends if you're crapping out some basic web app versus doing something that's actually complicated and has a need for higher performance than synchronou…
I don't know why people instantly forget the context of the discussion, when their favorite way of doing things gets threatened. :)
Context is hobbyists and SBC market (mostly various ARM boards). Maybe I'm weird, but I really don't care about minor differences between my arch linux workstation, and my arch linux arm SBCs, because 1) they're completely different architectures, so I can't avoid the differences anyway 2) it's a hobby, I have one instance at most of any service. 3) most hobbyist run services will not work with a shitton of data or have to handle 1000s of parallel clients
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My iPhone 11 hanging on for dear life…
I replaced my old iPhone XS when they stopped making IOS updates for it. I was also curious what the news ones could do. Turns out not much more.
SBCs are not just RPis. Other brands can still be bought cheaper.
A few, until their current stocks run out. Orange Pi already increased prices (their boards are similar price or more expensive than equivalent Pi's now), and Radxa seems to just stop selling certain models (at least in NA) once they run out of stock. Arduino has one of the cheapest 4GB boards now, but I wonder if it's just because they made a ton and the demand for their strange board has been low?
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Hypothetically what would happen if China took over Tawain and TSMC?
There would be a brief, or possibly extended depending on how much damage the fabs took, outage, then it'd be back to business as usual.
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> Will it be such a big deal though? Currently people are swapping out their phones for another model that's exactly the same but with a different number at the end of the name every 12 months. I don't think they do that at the low-end (nor the high-end, though that doesn't matter here - higher-end manufacturers have a small margin they can eat into). People on the low-end phones want a new phone, they just cannot af…
But why? I just replaced my Huawei P20 after eight years and only because nobody cares about app sizes and compatibility.
My desktop PC is from 2008 but I'd never consider this to represent anything like common usage. In fact it's so unusual that I get to point it out in posts like this.
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> Will it be such a big deal though? Currently people are swapping out their phones for another model that's exactly the same but with a different number at the end of the name every 12 months. I don't think they do that at the low-end (nor the high-end, though that doesn't matter here - higher-end manufacturers have a small margin they can eat into). People on the low-end phones want a new phone, they just cannot af…
But why? I just replaced my Huawei P20 after eight years and only because nobody cares about app sizes and compatibility.