How far you've fallen

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• theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t know what I find more impressing. The 4kB of RAM from the moon mission in 1969 which worked back then or the 69kB of RAM from the Voyager mission in 1977 which still functions to this day!

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ima go with Voyager, because it was real science, versus (admittedly cool) mostly dick waving and missile development.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The engineering on the Apollo flights was much tougher because they had to keep the astronauts alive.

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• DoctorPress@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m tired of electron apps each shipping with a full blown browser requiring min. 4GB ram to even properly start. Bring back native apps.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    PC - fans blasting, groaning under the workload Me - not even using it

    Checks processes, steam web helper using 100% of CPU.

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    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fucking steam web helper. I’ll have locked my desktop machine and switched my KVM to my work laptop when suddenly the fans spin up. I switch back over and it’s multiple steam processes each using a full core. WTF?!? I’m looking up how to have the lock screen also ‘kill all -9 steam’ to keep it from happening.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I refuse to dedicate even 4kB to Chrome.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sorry everyone, we just uh, forgot, uh, yeah, we forgot how to render video games without $2000+ GPUs, so, you just need to buy those now.

  No. No.

  Do not look at MGSV’s Fox Engine.

  Do not look at TitanFall2’s custom Source fork.

  They’re not real, stable, performant, realistic realtime graphics are only possible with very expensive, hypermodern technology, ok?

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    UE is the worst offender. My hardware is able of astonishing features, just to get wrecked by fucking shader stutter and default engine settings not even touched by game devs (I even stopped playing the Dead Space remake over the stutter, it’s unplayable regardless of settings). Some modders take it upon them to try and fix the second part, so i know it’s not the hardware, esp. when stuff like cyberpunk works fine on the appropriate detail level for 1440p or near maxed @1080p.

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    • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s especially bad with ue5 I think. Most of the games I refunded turned out to use ue5 and their lumen shit.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Kids these days need to install a 4gb framework to write a storage/ retrieval web app. ‘Full stack’ is kinda funny when their contribution is just a few k of scripts.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Sometimes being a programmer isn’t about the code you write, it’s about knowing which libraries to use. It still takes skill.” I tell myself as I add my 20th nuget package instead of writing ten lines of code to reverse a string.

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    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok, c’mon now, be honest. Does it really make the code easier to understand/ manage though?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean the reason python succeeded is because you don’t need to write more than one line to reverse a string (etc).

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    … and that’s assuming their contributions are just vibe code, spat out by an LLM.

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• bobzrkr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes. Modern software is extremely bloated. But the Apollo computers were operated by people with masters degrees or PhDs. And they trained to use them for over a year. Good luck trying to get the average person to use anything that runs on kilobytes of RAM.

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just switches and numbers, no foreign language support, no screen reader, no tool tips, no drag and drop, no night mode, …
    The only convenience feature was converting metric to imperial for display.

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• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  heck even 16 isn’t enough if you dare use w11

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Programmers in the early days were geniuses

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also a big difference between embedded systems and general purpose computing.

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