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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by gindely on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:13AM (#23221869)
> But now I had to upgrade my RAM.

But I can't. My ram is soldered on. How many tons of carbon dioxide should I emit so that you can use React? There are ways to do declarative ui/state management without dom...

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by arvinsim on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:46AM (#23222221)
If carbon footprint is that important to you, maybe you should find ways to encourage companies not to solder on RAM instead.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by jschwartzi on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:31AM (#23223622)
Why not both?

My computer still computes with 2 GB of ram. It’s just that developers are gluing more and more stuff together to do things we did on Pentium processors with 64 MB of ram.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by headlamp on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:12PM (#23228433)
no. just because soldered on ram is bad doesn't mean that bad code is ok.
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