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What the hell am I doing arguing with a high priest? You guys need more than thinking out of the box, you need to think out of the Valley. High priests are the

• brudgers 10y ago
  If by 'valley' you mean the Chattahoochee valley -- which ain't much of a valley but Valley, Alabama is named after it -- then I'll cop a plea since Valley ain't that far away. Old habits die hard and a few years ago, my BASIC background showed its head. I was writing a kludgomatic and the example code for the key library call needed to make it work allocated an array[10000] and I was like, that will use up all the memory and be slow. It didn't and it wasn't because of Moore's Law type effects. Last year I was fooling around with RPi's and I bought a box of ten 16GB microSD's for about $50. That's 160GB of solid state storage for about what I paid for my first box of 3.5" DD DS disks. Worrying about software bloat is a nice problem to have. It means one has options...and compute and leisure and is willing to give up YouTube and NetFlix