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What you have here is not a controversial claim. It's also not what you've been arguing until this moment, but for whatever reason you've softened your positio

What you have here is not a controversial claim. It's also not what you've been arguing until this moment, but for whatever reason you've softened your position substantially, now to the point of (IMO) banality. What's controversial (because it's false) is the claim that, "Memory is a precious resource." That is not a true statement.

otterley 5y ago
We call memory a "precious resource" because it is often a fixed quantity in a given computer, and often the most expensive component after the display unit. Many laptops these days do not offer upgradeable memory, and even when they do, they often have very few slots in which to add it. So for many people, an upgrade involves an entire unit replacement at significant cost. I think most people understand this, so again, I don't see how it's particularly controversial.
- TameAntelope 5y ago
  Humans are not limited to one computer in their lifetime, so the resources of one computer at one moment in time are not relevant to this discussion. Additionally, your own citation shows that at this moment in time a vanishingly small number of computers have an amount of memory that would result in any kind of performance degradation due to the use of one or a few Electron apps. Therefore, Moore's Law applies, and we can safely say that resources which double every two years are not scarce. Your continued insistence on a false fact will continue to be "controversial".
  - otterley 5y ago
    This discussion has never been about whether the aggregate amount of computer memory in the world is a fixed quantity. (At least, that's not what I meant to discuss, or how I think most people would interpret my claim.) It's about the impact on real people who have laptops with fixed amounts of memory in their hands today.
    - TameAntelope 5y ago
      The impact on real people who have laptops is low because the aggregate amount of computer memory in the world is doubling every two years. It doubled, people bought new laptops, and reaped those benefits by running multiple Electron apps seamlessly on those new laptops. So it remains a false statement to say, "Memory is a precious resource."

otterley 5y ago

We call memory a "precious resource" because it is often a fixed quantity in a given computer, and often the most expensive component after the display unit. Many laptops these days do not offer upgradeable memory, and even when they do, they often have very few slots in which to add it. So for many people, an upgrade involves an entire unit replacement at significant cost. I think most people understand this, so again, I don't see how it's particularly controversial.

TameAntelope 5y ago
Humans are not limited to one computer in their lifetime, so the resources of one computer at one moment in time are not relevant to this discussion. Additionally, your own citation shows that at this moment in time a vanishingly small number of computers have an amount of memory that would result in any kind of performance degradation due to the use of one or a few Electron apps. Therefore, Moore's Law applies, and we can safely say that resources which double every two years are not scarce. Your continued insistence on a false fact will continue to be "controversial".
- otterley 5y ago
  This discussion has never been about whether the aggregate amount of computer memory in the world is a fixed quantity. (At least, that's not what I meant to discuss, or how I think most people would interpret my claim.) It's about the impact on real people who have laptops with fixed amounts of memory in their hands today.
  - TameAntelope 5y ago
    The impact on real people who have laptops is low because the aggregate amount of computer memory in the world is doubling every two years. It doubled, people bought new laptops, and reaped those benefits by running multiple Electron apps seamlessly on those new laptops. So it remains a false statement to say, "Memory is a precious resource."