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Ephera

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  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • I mean, don't get me wrong, I also find startup time important, particularly with CLIs. But high memory usage slows down your application in other ways, too (not just other applications on the system). You will have more L1, L2 etc. cache misses. And the OS is more likely to page/swap out more of your memory onto the hard drive.

    Of course, I don't either sit in front of an application and can tell that it was a non-local NUMA memory access that caused a particular slowness, so I can understand not really being able to care for iterative improvements. But yeah, that is also why I quite like using an efficient stack outright. It just makes computers feel as fast as they should be, without me having to worry about it.

    I heavily considered ending this comment with this dumbass meme:

    Then I realized, I'm responding to someone called "Caveman". Might've been subconscious influence there. 😅

  • My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?

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  • Nah, I did understand it like that.

    I posted that comment, because people generally wildly underestimate how common depression is. Because of that and because they don't know how to deal with depression, they will look for other "explanations", like yeah, sure, my kid's just lazy. And that even despite these other "explanations" being extremely toxic and worsening depression.

    So, this basic fact, that depression is among the most common disorders, would be part of my rebuttal. In hopes that she can accept that and help you work through it, like an adult should, rather than this silly game of peek-a-boo, where she hopes for it to not exist, so long as she doesn't believe in depression. That is not helping anyone.

  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • I don't know what part of that is supposed to be an insult.

    And the article may have talked of such stark differences, but I didn't. I'm just saying that the resource usage is noticeably lower.

  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • Yeah, you need to do tree-shaking with JavaScript to get rid of unused library code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Tree_shaking

    I would expect larger corporate projects to do so. It is something that one needs to know about and configure, but if one senior webdev works on a project, they'll set it up pretty quickly.

  • My mom says that people who don't have "value" don't deserve to live and that "depression" is just an excuse for laziness. What's is your rebuttal for it?

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  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • This isn't Reddit. You don't need to talk in absolutes.

    Similar to WittyShizard, my experience is very different. Said Rust application uses 1200 dependencies and I think around 50 MB RAM. We had a Kotlin application beforehand, which used around 300 dependencies and 1 GB RAM, I believe. I would expect a JavaScript application of similar complexity to use a similar amount or more RAM.

    And more efficient languages do have an effect on RAM usage, for example:

    • Not using garbage collection means objects generally get cleared from RAM quicker.
    • Iterating over substrings or list elements is likely to be implement more efficiently, for example Rust has string slices and explicit .iter() + .collect().
    • People in the ecosystem will want to use the language for use-cases where efficiency is important and then help optimize libraries.
    • You've even got stupid shit, for example in garbage-collected languages, it has traditionally been considered best practice, that if you're doing async, you should use immutable data types and then always create a copy of them when you want to update them. That uses a ton of RAM for stupid reasons.

  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • Yeah, gonna be interesting. Software companies working on consumer software often don't need to care, because:

    • They don't need to buy the RAM that they're filling up.
    • They're not the only culprit on your PC.
    • Consumers don't understand how RAM works nearly as well as they understand fuel.
    • And even when consumers understand that an application is using too much, they may not be able to switch to an alternative either way, see for example the many chat applications written in Electron, none of which are interoperable.

    I can see somewhat of a shift happening for software that companies develop for themselves, though. At $DAYJOB, we have an application written in Rust and you can practically see the dollar signs lighting up in the eyes of management when you tell them "just get the cheapest device to run it on" and "it's hardly going to incur cloud hosting costs".Obviously this alone rarely leads to management deciding to rewrite an application/service in a more efficient language, but it certainly makes them more open to devs wanting to use these languages. Well, and who knows what happens, if the prices for Raspberry Pis and cloud hosting and such end up skyrocketing similarly.

  • Which is better for mechanical pencil 2B or HB

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  • More Bs means it's softer, so more graphite will get onto your paper when you draw a line, which makes it darker.

    More Hs means it's harder, so less graphite. The advantage is that it doesn't get used up as quickly and you can draw finer lines, although the latter is kind of a given either way, since you're using a mechanical pencil.

  • Have you ever tried to "acquire" a taste? (Ie. spent time eating/imbibing something you didn't like at first to start to enjoy it.)

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  • Have you ever tried to "acquire" a taste? (Ie. spent time eating/imbibing something you didn't like at first to start to enjoy it.)

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  • Personally, I also found that it's something you have to get used to. I used to barely eat greens and wouldn't feel terribly great, if I did.Then, earlier this year, I spent a month eating lots of greens. I'm guessing my gut microbiome adjusted, because yeah, now I can eat a whole salad bowl for a meal and if I don't have greens at home for a few days, I will start to feel unwell.

  • The beginner of tutorial hell

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  • I mean, there is a reason why that is so pervasive. It makes you set up the dev environment and figure out how to run a program, which is a step that you cannot skip.

    Of course, you should go for a slightly more complex project afterwards.

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  • foss

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  • To be fair, you can also somewhat steer whether it will take off as a dev, by how you promote it and how much time you take to make it easily usable by others. Many devs really don't care to have their passion projects take off, because it means you'll likely spend less time doing your passion thing, more time doing user support.

  • I appreciate our community

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  • Hmm, interesting, thanks!

  • I appreciate our community

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  • Yeah, I get called a tankie on the regular now, just because my user account is on .ml and I still don't actually know what it's supposed to mean. Apparently, I'm supposed to have political opinions on topics that I'm significantly more ignorant on than the people who call me that.

  • RIP Minecraft, I'll miss you

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  • Yeah, but anyone willing to implement shaders for Luanti can just contribute it to the game itself. Then you wouldn't need to do anything to get the support.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I mean, Firefox Reader View is probably the closest you will get...

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Yeah, I also use the Lemmy webpage on my phone. In particular, I want to be able to come back to posts later, when more of a discussion has unfolded, which is where browser tabs work really well.

  • Shallow

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  • I have never heard a guy decline a girl because she is poor.

    I mean, I've never heard it said explicitly, and our still-largely-partriarchical society does expect and therefore respect penis-havers to bring home the money. So, it doesn't matter that much, with how much money the person without the penis starts out with.

    But I do think class differences implicitly still play quite a big role.To some degree as part of secondary factors, for example you might look for an educated, physically fit partner, which a poor person cannot afford to take the time for.To some degree, you just won't ever get to know certain poor people, because they might not be able to afford the same hobby as you, or shopping at the expensive store etc..

    But even if you do meet someone and they could tick your preferences, it is easy to dismiss their interest outright as just being about money, if you can tell that they have less of it than you.Even in a patriarchical society, you don't particularly want to be the guy where friends and family snicker that you're being used...