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Based on a true story (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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Turns out the status quo of Linux memory management somehow works pretty damn okay, nobody seems to really know why, and nobody cares.

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

you just gave me a panic attack about trying to get ultima underworld II and Star Wars: TIE Fighter to run

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    For me I loved the challenge of squeezing out a few extra k of lower memory. My autoexec.bat had four hundred lines in it.

    I miss those days honestly. There's really not much practical benefit to overclocking anymore, even broke college kid level devices come with at least 8 gigs of ram.

    8.... gigs... of ram... and ALL of it treated like lower memory... Could you imagine that in the mid 90s? I'd be thinking star trek.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (5 children)

    I learned so much in those days about the outrageously absurd, efficiency of code and concatenation and stupid little things. Early days of coding and even scripting through these silly difficulties shaped us in ways we can’t even recognize now.

    It was all about solving puzzles using primitive tools and incompatible systems just so we could play simple games. I’m reading articles now about how Gen Z doesn’t even know how to type, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    The curse of accessibility, if you make something so easy that anyone can use it, everyone will.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Or nobody will trust it

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well since we are talking about the internet, is that such a bad idea?

    It's not called the 'web of lies' for nothing.

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