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  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    The proliferation of electron programs is what happens when you have a decade of annoying idiots saying “unused memory is wasted memory,” hand-in-hand with lazy developers or unscrupulous managers who are externalizing their development costs onto everybody else by writing inefficient programs that waste more and more of our compute and RAM, which necessitates the rest of us having to buy even better hardware to keep up.

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      annoying idiots saying “unused memory is wasted memory,”

      The original intent of this saying was different, but ya it’s been co-opted into something else