"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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I'm sorry, my patience for lack of even a back-of-the-envelope validation of tech nostalgia rants runs very low these days
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Slack is a remarkably badly engineered application, no argument
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I feel like the people making these systems are making a concerted effort to address this issue and it's incorrectly diagnosing the problem which is the memory wall
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Nobody really worries about program speed because you don't notice that issue as often but it's not like programmers are somehow more adept at writing faster algorithms. CPUs are better so you don't notice it as much.
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Throughput, often not, but (input) latency still matters a lot and it has only marginally improved overall, with many bad individual losses
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Tell that to people with internet connections that are sub 10Mbps average. There’s nothing worse than pulling down 10s of megabytes of js/css that doesn’t have any relevance to the actual content you wanted from the site. Bring back gopher imho.
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This isn't about size of webpages on the wire, but rather about RAM consumption of browsers. The Google keyboard app does not take 150 MB on the wire.
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actually I don't WANT an operating system, I want something pretty on my screen to distract me, so I think it's fair to demand that it be written by a 90s demoscener
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yeah that argument had all kinds of obtuse and prima facie Bad comparisons that had me from 100 to 0 in like 2 minutes. i like this talk bcs he at least isn't insulting and attempts to provide a solnhttps://youtu.be/kZRE7HIO3vk
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