Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
by Ekaros on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:07AM
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It feels that there has been two trajectories. Hardware has gotten more powerful and more efficient. While software has become less efficient. Not that it doesn't do in some cases more things like bigger resolutions and such, but in many others it feels like we are doing the same or less while having much more computing power available.
Just compare what software did 10 or 20 years ago today, and it seems that we haven't really progressed so much. Even while we have massively more memory and computing power available...
Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
by pjerem on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:25AM
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I'm totally in this boat. I can't understand how basic things like chatting (Slack, Teams, Discord ...) needs so much power to do, basically the same thing (plus artifices) MSN or IRC did 20 years ago.
I'm not saying that we have not better software but please, there wouldn't even be enough RAM to run Slack on the computer I used to chat with hundreds of people.
Hardware have never been so efficient, giving you a lot of computing power for very little energy usage.
What is questionable is what we do with this power. Basically we use it to run our badly written garbage collected programs into layers and layers of VMs.