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

    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]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      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