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What about the sizeable parts of capitalism that aren't environmentally focused or that are economically comfortable? What about the even poorer people who onl
by tobylane 12y ago
What about the sizeable parts of capitalism that aren't environmentally focused or that are economically comfortable?
What about the even poorer people who only receive new hardware when richer people buy upgrades?
- mwcampbell 12y ago> What about the even poorer people who only receive new hardware when richer people buy upgrades? Good point. I suppose a better solution for the problem of hardware obsolescence caused by software inefficiency would be for conscientious software developers to deliberately use underpowered computers. I'm ashamed that I bought a new computer with a Core i7-4770 processor and 32 GB of RAM about a year and a half ago.
- JasonFruit 12y agoI'm feeling this pretty strongly as a minimally part-time freelance developer; I can't afford new hardware, and am coding on a machine that was at best a mediocre performer seven years ago. Startup time for fairly trivial applications is significant running Lubuntu, and starting a Clojure app is painful; I just timed Clooj at 1:48. I find that it affects my decision whether or not to optimize code; I feel it sooner than I remember doing when I was on a more powerful machine, and that makes me decide, "That inner loop has to go." It also affects my choice of language; I'm more likely to use Pascal or Nim than Python, because the result feels better when I run it.