Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by emsy on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:44AM
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I haven't tried Missive, but how are memory and battery usage? I've seen fast electron apps, so I know they exist. Programmers basically treat memory as if there's enough of it to not care about, but Laptops are still sold with 8GB of RAM and the upgrade markups on current devices are insane.
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Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by Junk_Collector on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:21AM
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Is it not insane to anyone else that we talk about only having 8 GB of ram with regards to the performance of mail and chat applications?
Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by nitrogen on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:28PM
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Seriously... 8GB is an ocean. People were reading and editing HTML email in the days of 16MB.
Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by efreak on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:16AM
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HTML has changed since then, though. HTML email might basically be stuck with whatever old version of HTML, but nobody writes an HTML renderer just for email--they embed a fully functioning browser engine in the mail client (or write the client itself to run in the browser).