"if you don't build me a world eating data center my shitty autocomplete algorithm will run slow :(" meanwhile in the 90s if your code needed more than a few bytes of ram they just took you into the parking lot and shot you
@computer
Can confirm, i've been shot so many times in my foot.
May 12, 2026, 2:56 AMThe problem with programmers these days isn’t that they can’t fit a line printer driver in a couple of spare bytes in high memory, it’s that they won’t even try.
@computer good times, good times.
That's a Silicon Valley thing, dude.
Japan is polite and traditional. Here, they just nicely asked you to go into the office garden and commit Seppuku.
May 12, 2026, 4:58 AM@computer Maybe in the 90s. In the 80s if you had a problem with resource use they just used a laser to send you inside the computer yourself to figure out what was going on. TRace ON.
@computer ah, see, that doesn't matter now because RAM is so cheap /s
@computer Good ol' days...
@computer Jokes on them, autocomplete has become so useless in the past 5 years I turned it off ages ago anf just eat my typos as they come.
@RamenJunkie @computer he'll, I leave it on for the assmusement.
My first web design job had the following constraint: max 10kByte per page, total, including all formatting and graphics.
Today I look at current web monsters and can only shake my head in disgust.
May 14, 2026, 9:14 PM@computer I didn't think I'd yearn for the times when 768KB were enough
May 24, 2026, 7:29 AM@computer I'm still advocating for a yearly mandatory training for all software developers where they have to build something useful on an ATtiny2313A (i.e. 128 bytes of RAM, 2kB of flash, 8 MHz clock rate) microcontroller.
For everyone to get some perspective, ffs.
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