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
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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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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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
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Replying to @whitequark
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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