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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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
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Replying to @whitequark
There are exceptions for worthy people. You are one of the very very few.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Replying to @whitequark @cynicalsecurity
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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Replying to @whitequark @cynicalsecurity
Ah the old "scavenger collector garbage collector will solve everything!" Gotcha.
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