I am more convinced than ever that software developers should work on an 64Kbps ISDN Internet connection, a VGA screen, an i486 with 8MB of RAM and a 512MB disk.
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for example, consider 4WD cars that are designed in a way that makes them unsuitable to ever go offroad, and the incentives that create them. they are not failures of engineering.
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consider how much perfectly good, unopened, sterile medical equipment US hospitals simply throw out because they can't bother restocking them. consider apartments that are built with investment in mind, not for people to actually live there. consider Volkswagen
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consider premade DC-DC converters for FPGAs that you choose like you'd choose an npm module for your new website to save on development costs. they're great, by the way. waste and "waste" is everywhere, you're just particularly sensitive to it in software because it's your job
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Undeniably true. Not sure I like this general direction the world is going in.
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the world has always been that way. remember the fate of the passenger pigeon?
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In Dastardly & Mutley the pigeon wins :)
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IRC server I can understand a huge RAM size due to the stupid hash table but client?
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it leaks memory and no one cares → effectively unbounded heap size. 10 GB is a red herring, it would eat infinite memory if you let it
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Ah the old "scavenger collector garbage collector will solve everything!" Gotcha.
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