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dottjttoday at 5:37 AM1 replyview on HN

That's not happening though, hence why we need more ram.


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ssl-3today at 7:08 AM

Eh? As I see it, we've got options.

Option A: We do a better job at optimizing software so that good performance requires less RAM than might otherwise be required

Option B: We wish that things were different, such that additional RAM were a viable option like it has been at many times in the past.

Option C: We use our time-benders to hop to a different timeline where this is all sorted more favorably (hopefully one where the Ballchinians are friendly)

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To evaluate these in no particular order:

Option B doesn't sound very fruitful. I mean: It can be fun to wish, but magical thinking doesn't usually get very far.

Option C sounds fun, but my time-bender got roached after the last jump and the version of Costco we have here doesn't sell them. (Maybe someone else has a working one, but they seem to be pretty rare here.)

That leaves option A: Optimize the software once, and duplicate that optimized software to whomever it is useful using that "Internet" thing that the cool kids were talking about back in the 1980s.

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