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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Windows 11 often requires new hardware. But that will be extremely pricey or have very little RAM for a while.

I dont believe that a single competent person works at Micro$oft anymore, but maybe maybe this could lead them to make a less shitty OS?

And garbage software like Adobe Creative Cloud too?

They obviously dont care about users, but the pain could become too big.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like the early days of programming when you really had to manage your memory, often down to the last bit. Those were the days when programming was more difficult. Now it's mostly just point and click for middle-schoolers.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm presuming you know nothing about programming because this is complete and utter nonsense.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

A ZX-81 had 784 bytes of RAM. And no secondary memory.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.

However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven't actually written any code in the 70's and 80's, but what I've heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.

Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's not a "bit extreme" its absolute nonsense

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

LabVIEW is definitely programming of some sort, but doesn’t feel at all like programming. Pretty marginal example, but still…