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Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams by fsloth on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:31AM (#43359859)
As a fun anecdote I think this same rationale - ”next years hardware is so much better” - is why so many desktop softwares 90’s->00’s became slow - ”meh you don’t have to care about performance, next year’s cpu is going to be so much faster anyway”.

Then suddenly single threaded speedups didn’t happen anymore (and people realized even though cpu speeds had grown, it was not directly related to Moore’s law).

Ofc your rationale used Moore’s law correctly while the ”cpu infinite speed growth rah rah rah” peoples didn’t.

Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams by lovich on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:06AM (#43360514)
Seeing this multiple times in a day for multiple, articulable reasons in the mid 2010s if my memory doesnt fail me

>FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory > 1: node::Abort() [/usr/bin/node]

Is what made me decide it might finally be worth the time to actually learn how memory worked

Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams by Dracophoenix on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:36AM (#43360138)