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This still doesn't make sense. It doesn't take a full year to do optimizations like this. Maybe a month at most if you include the investigation time. And the m
by xmprt 4y ago
This still doesn't make sense. It doesn't take a full year to do optimizations like this. Maybe a month at most if you include the investigation time. And the memory usage is $150 times the number of users which is in the thousands at least.
- jart 4y agoTragedy of the commons. If you want to do something that benefits everyone a little bit, and you can't productize it like OpenAI's $20/month subscription, then there's no rational economic reason to do it, and you have to wait for someone like me who has an irrational love of coding. It's not a lifestyle that makes you rich, but it does help you see the opportunities to fix problems that the well-resourced folks who are supposed to be solving them would never even notice; in fact, they'd probably think you're trolling them if you ever brought it up.
- axlee 4y agoTragedy of the commons only work for things you don't directly pay for.
- nablags 4y agowell in a way - open source software something that you don’t directly pay for
- sli 4y agoMore saliently, the overwhelming majority of the Linux kernel's direct and extended userbase has contributed nothing at all directly to the Linux kernel, as just one example.
- ElectricalUnion 4y agoExactly, the software supplier isn't paying for RAM.
- somesortofsystm 4y ago>Tragedy of the commons. Tragedy of folks forgetting how to program. This mmap() "trick" isn't a trick, its a standard practice for anyone who has cut their teeth on POSIX or embedded. See also mlock()/munlock() ..
- jart 4y agoWell that's exactly the thing. They haven't. We're talking about a group of people here who live inside scientific papers and jupyter notebooks. They're able to make machines literally think, but you'd be pushing them out of their comfort zone if you stuck them in front of something like Emacs with C. Some people like GG, Jeff Dean, etc. are strong in both skill sets, but they're outliers.