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Kartik Agaram

@neauoire

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 🙂

26 Jul 2022 at 16:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on merveilles.town
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Devine Lu Linvega

@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.

26 Jul 2022 at 16:19 | Open on merveilles.town
Kartik Agaram

@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.

26 Jul 2022 at 16:29 | Open on merveilles.town
Alexander Cobleigh

@akkartik @neauoire ye dominic and substack are both adherents of attitude towards coding :~

»if you want to write fast software, use a slow computer»
—dominic tarr

26 Jul 2022 at 17:54 | Open on merveilles.town
⛧ esoterik ⛧

@neauoire @akkartik i think people who write programs to run in VMs or emulators still feel these constraints, but yeah i broadly agree.

26 Jul 2022 at 17:14 | Open on merveilles.town
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