We’ve come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I’m running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn’t enough.
True, but one of the biggest things we’re using that power for recently is “why bother optimizing?” With splashes of “can we obtain any more data from the user?”
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It’s not only commercial software.
We’ve come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I’m running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn’t enough.
True, but one of the biggest things we’re using that power for recently is “why bother optimizing?” With splashes of “can we obtain any more data from the user?”
Yeah, there aren’t many hackers in space.
That we know of
… Bruh!
Sure would. I’m sick of the move at all and break things in modern software ecosystems. Were things this bad in CLI land too, until POSIX?
Correct, a lot of ppl who started using emacs at inception still do so today.
Windows XP is more than halfway there. In case you wanted to feel old today.
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