Gregory's ServerEvery time I see a dev with a decked out computer with LED lights, colorful fans, glowing tubes all sorts of shits sticking out of the thing, without miss, they write bloated as fuck slow programs.
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 @neauoire initially I thought that maybe a PC would work, and it's by far the most modular and serviceable / upgradable way to go, AND you can underclock them, AMD is really reeeeeally efficient underclocked. But having to go through an inverter and then through a PSU is a killer.  @neauoire I can understand this sentiment, but, have you really checked the code of EVERY dev that has a colourful computer setup?  1. Everybody's programs are bloated compared to yours 😄 2. I know lots of people with sleek, streamlined (often silver colored) computers that write bloated programs 🙂 @akkartik I was trying to think when I wrote this, do I know people who use dumpster computers and write slow programs, and I'm not sure that I do. If I had to guess, I'd wager that it's harder to write efficient programs with top of the line specs, than it is to write inefficient programs on a computer that cannot run them. @neauoire I'm definitely guilty of that myself. Like when I was programming in 30-year old machine code but my repo was hundeds of MB and you couldn't easily clone it. It's so easy to take for granted what I have and forget that not everyone has it.   @neauoire While my PC *does* have a glowing fan, I actually hate it and didn't realize how bright it'd be when I grabbed it, it was just the cheapest effective option >_> I've also deliberately disconnected the lights on the case from the power supply, because why on Earth would I want my computer glowing? Given that I do most of my personal dev work on decade-old hardware at best, I'm fairly sure I tend to do a good job with regards to efficiency :) |
@neauoire I don't think I've ever seen a developer with a riced computer like that... I thought that was only a "gamer" thing??