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    1. Arrigo Triulzi‏ @cynicalsecurity Sep 20

      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.

      9 replies 45 retweets 109 likes
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    2. whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
      Replying to @cynicalsecurity

      how am I supposed to build a bitstream for an FPGA that has more bitstream flip-flops than this configuration has RAM

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Arrigo Triulzi‏ @cynicalsecurity Sep 20
      Replying to @whitequark

      There are exceptions for worthy people. You are one of the very very few.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
      Replying to @cynicalsecurity

      i am very much not happy with such a classification but i don't have the energy to put together a coherent argument about it right now.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Arrigo Triulzi‏ @cynicalsecurity Sep 20
      Replying to @whitequark

      I was only exaggerating but there is a need for resource reduction, if only because of the objective waste of energy which a 10GB IRC client is.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
      Replying to @cynicalsecurity

      in short, what i want to say is: engineering (software or otherwise) is optimizing for mutually conflicting goals. absurd results like a 10 GB heap size IRC client are the result of setting wrong goals and thus are failures of management, not engineering

      2 replies 9 retweets 15 likes
      whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
      Replying to @whitequark @cynicalsecurity

      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.

      6:42 AM - 20 Sep 2018
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        2. whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
          Replying to @whitequark @cynicalsecurity

          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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        3. whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
          Replying to @whitequark @cynicalsecurity

          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

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        4. Arrigo Triulzi‏ @cynicalsecurity Sep 20
          Replying to @whitequark

          Undeniably true. Not sure I like this general direction the world is going in.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. whitequark‏ @whitequark Sep 20
          Replying to @cynicalsecurity

          the world has always been that way. remember the fate of the passenger pigeon?

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        6. Arrigo Triulzi‏ @cynicalsecurity Sep 20
          Replying to @whitequark

          In Dastardly & Mutley the pigeon wins :)

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