Companies don't pay for your 2x RAM and it doesn't slow down their user acquisition so they don't care.
huginn
joined 1 year ago
Companies own the code you write.
It's not your code if you're working for a corp - it's theirs.
Resource optimization has nothing to do with product quality. Really good experiences can be done with shitty resource consumption. Really bad experiences can be blisteringly fast in optimization.
The reason programmers work in increasingly abstract languages is to do more with less effort at the cost of less efficient resource utilization.
Rollercoaster Tycoon was ASM. Slay the Spire was Java. They're both excellent games.
It's how big orgs like Google do it, sure. Working there I had 192gb of ram on my cloudtop.
That's not exactly reducing the total spend on dev ram though - quite the opposite. It's getting more ram than you can fit in a device available to the devs.
But you can't have it both ways: you can't bitch and moan about "always on internet connections" and simultaneously push for an always on internet connected IDE to do your builds.
I want to be able to work offline whenever I need to. That's not possible if my resource starved terminal requires an Internet connection to run.
Ram is dirt cheap and only getting cheaper.
It'd be nice to have that - yeah. My company issued me a laptop that only had 16gb of RAM to try and build Android projects.
Idk if you know Gradle builds but a multi module project regularly consumes 20+GB of ram during a build. Despite the cost difference being paid for in productivity gains within a month it took 6 months and a lot of fighting to get a 32gb laptop.
My builds immediately went from 8-15 minutes down to 1-4.
Last time I checked - your personal computer wasn't a company cost.
Until it is nothing changes - and to be totally frank the last thing I want is to be on a corporate machine at home.
Resources are just way cheaper than developers.
It's a lot cheaper to have double the ram than it is to pay for someone to optimize your code.
And if you're working with code that requires that serious of resource optimization you'll invariably end up with low level code libraries that are hard to maintain.
... But fuck the Always on internet connection and DRM for sure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card
It's actually fascinating. Asymmetric keys with public keys hosted by the government and the private key in your ID.
A 4 digit pin1 code is required to use the authorization key and a 5 digit pin2 is required to use the signing key.
The average Estonian signs 50 documents per year using this method.
Idk if you watched the video but the reason it works is mentioned in the video, if not explored in detail.
You have a digital id and a digital signature that is tied to you as a citizen.
Each vote has to be signed with your personal voter signature.
Government biometric requirements really aren't a joke. They perform pretty regular audits and the liability of not deleting ID could be company ending.
They might not delete your biometrics, but I'd be shocked if they didn't. It's far more likely that they not only delete it but have an audit trail proving deletion.
Post the link to the archive.org mirror obvi
Psychopath
Just because you don't own something doesn't mean you should trash it.
First you insist that companies don't own the code then you say if you don't own it you don't have to care.
God I hope I never work with an idiot like you.