how the fuck are you broke you dumb bastard you take all of my money

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      all our computer shit would be way better if devs were forced to be as diligent as the 80s instead of memory and processing gains being wasted on bloat

      • D3FNC [any]
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        2 years ago

        Oh thank God, I'm not the oldest person here.

        Just imagine this reply is in assembly, I'm way too lazy.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        tasks expand to fill the memory available they were dilligent back then because they had to be

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          it doesn't have to, there's just no financial incentive or regulatory pressure. embedded systems are still constrained because they want to pay less for hardware, but you care a lot less if you're not the one buying ram.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            yeah but there is financial pressure to get the product released quickly which means there is pressure to cut corners and the memory being available makes it a corner that can be cut. Software developers now aren't morally inferior than they were then bosses then just listened when developers pointed out issues of bloat