• utopiah@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way

    Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.

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      4 hours ago

      Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It’s the stack. We’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.

      Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don’t even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.