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blackoiltoday at 4:03 AM3 repliesview on HN

Maybe this RAMmageddon will trigger a wave of optimized softwares that don't need GBs of memory for anything and everything.


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TrackerFFtoday at 9:24 AM

Let's see.

A) Programmers will get their shit together and start shipping lean software.

OR

B) New laptops will become neutered thin clients, and all the heavy lifting will be done by cloud service providers.

Which one seems more likely?

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sourcegrifttoday at 7:45 AM

If electron dies, I'll forgive the people responsible for this shortage

Cyph0ntoday at 4:47 AM

Or you won’t need RAM because everything will be hosted in the cloud and used via browser or just desktop streaming :)

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