<![CDATA[you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production]]>RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360

you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d58392d4-bca4-43c3-99a4-bfbf6a06da22/you-ever-write-code-so-inefficient-you-have-to-secure-80-of-the-world-s-dram-productionRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 15:08:55 GMTFri, 03 Apr 2026 01:08:41 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:22:38 GMT]]>@luc0x61 @colinstu @harald not can every space be filled, but every space WILL be filled.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/cybeej/statuses/116341693366793085https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/cybeej/statuses/116341693366793085Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:22:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:06:03 GMT]]>@colinstu As someone who remembers packing bits and worrying about approaching address &A6F0, the reach for petabytes worries me that someone is doing it wrong.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/j5v/statuses/116341628172431993https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/j5v/statuses/116341628172431993Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:06:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:17:54 GMT]]>@omar @colinstu one can only hope. not much of a computer toucher myself, especially these days, but I do have some interest and hope for a permacomputing movement that would align well with this, even if it's not looking like it will be a mainstream thing in the near future.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/elexia/statuses/116340731030860395https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/elexia/statuses/116340731030860395Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:17:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:08:14 GMT]]>@elexia @colinstu

while this period sucks, i'm rather positive cause it seems that there is a growing interest at low code, optimization etc... I might be in a echo chamber as it is one of my interests, but as i'm spammed by vibe-code bros and like-it-or-not wannabee, i think it's legit.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/omar/statuses/116340693045655096https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/omar/statuses/116340693045655096Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:08:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:24:16 GMT]]>@ahltorp The first version of Linux I actually installed was from Lasermoon, an UK distributor, Linux-FT 1.x, and it did run on a 486 with 4 MiB RAM. We used it, along with early Slackware, on many 486 on static IPs to the net, for some time.
A colleague some 10thousand km from the office, one day that no one was noticing him online, logged on a machine to play the "when henry met sally" notable scene, on the speaker. That generated quite some hilarity in the silent office.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ap/users/116092650648397225/statuses/116340520180236654https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ap/users/116092650648397225/statuses/116340520180236654Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:24:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:53:56 GMT]]>@colinstu Wot happens if you tell an AI "see this code base? - make it do the same thing but a few orders of magnitude faster and cheaper".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116340400864887988https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/TimWardCam/statuses/116340400864887988Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:53:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:08:35 GMT]]>@colinstu
C programming on 64KB w/Z80 cpu.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/stevewfolds/statuses/116340222531959486https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/stevewfolds/statuses/116340222531959486Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:08:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:59:17 GMT]]>@colinstu of course we've long abandoned any pretenses that code needs to actually be useful and work for its intended use case. just more code for the code god.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/elexia/statuses/116339714127036176https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/elexia/statuses/116339714127036176Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:59:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:57:51 GMT]]>@colinstu you'd think with scarcity of RAM developers would refocus on writing more efficient code that can handle tasks with less RAM use.
but instead we get more vibe coding.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/elexia/statuses/116339708468396508https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://catcatnya.com/users/elexia/statuses/116339708468396508Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:57:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:45:14 GMT]]>@luc0x61 I had installed Linux on a machine with 16MB in 1995, started X, a web server and a Netware server. I had an bunch of terminal windows open. It wasn’t until I started another terminal window that I ran out of memory and found out that this Slackware version didn’t enable the swap correctly, so I had done all that without swap.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116339658904812382https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/ahltorp/statuses/116339658904812382Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:45:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:18:31 GMT]]>@colinstu doesn't count if your program was correct.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/ariels/statuses/116339553814996046https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/ariels/statuses/116339553814996046Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:18:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:47:45 GMT]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://westergaard.social/objects/6582e3c6-1a8a-4c19-9dc0-2278bdb958echttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://westergaard.social/objects/6582e3c6-1a8a-4c19-9dc0-2278bdb958ecFri, 03 Apr 2026 06:47:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:33:05 GMT]]>@colinstu So I really didn't need that university algorithms course after all?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/ap/users/115702352497105111/statuses/116339375202054498https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/ap/users/115702352497105111/statuses/116339375202054498Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:33:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:13:35 GMT]]>@colinstu In the era of the first Pentium processors we had 8 MiB (yes, Mibi) of RAM do often, and 16 MiB the lucky ones.
Had a colleague who wrote a memory leaking application, because he wrote convoluted C++ code, instantiating too many out of control classes - the style that I would later witness with Java.
When he got a new job position he was triumphant: "Ha! Now I have a PC with 256 megs!".
He didn't realize that any space can be filled.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ap/users/116092650648397225/statuses/116339298507742718https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ap/users/116092650648397225/statuses/116339298507742718Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:13:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production on Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:18:43 GMT]]>@colinstu Electron app authors be like

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/Elizafox/statuses/116339082779383217https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/Elizafox/statuses/116339082779383217Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:18:43 GMT