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Comparing 4 GB Ram Performance On Linux And Windows

1 day ago 137.4K views 0 shares

Linux with 4GB RAM: absolutely jacked, running smoothly, could probably compile the kernel while hosting a web server and still have memory to spare. Windows with 16GB RAM: barely holding it together, wheezing after booting up because the OS itself decided to consume 8GB just for existing, plus another few gigs for Windows Defender, telemetry services, and whatever Cortana is doing in the background. The efficiency gap is wild—Linux distros are engineered to run on a potato if needed, with lightweight window managers and minimal bloat. Meanwhile, Windows comes pre-loaded with enough background processes to make Task Manager look like a phonebook. You need 4x the RAM just to achieve the same level of performance, which is both hilarious and slightly depressing if you're stuck on Windows.

Electron Jxl

Webdev Security Javascript Programming Frontend

1 day ago 131.9K views 0 shares

Someone woke up and chose violence against Electron apps, and honestly? They're spitting facts. The rant reads like a manifesto written by someone who just watched Slack consume 4GB of RAM to display text messages. The whole "webapps were not supposed to have life-altering effects" bit hits different when you realize we're literally running entire operating systems inside Chrome just to display a to-do list. We went from "write once, run anywhere" to "download 300MB just to check your email." And that Telnet joke? Chef's kiss. Because apparently wrapping a website in Chromium and calling it "native" is somehow more secure than protocols from the 70s. At least Telnet was honest about its lack of security. The kicker is the "REAL Web Development" gaslighting at the end. Yeah, building a 500MB Discord client that's just a glorified browser wrapper is definitely what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he invented the web. We've been played harder than a fiddle at a bluegrass festival.

Is This Not Enough

Algorithms Programming

2 days ago 206.8K views 0 shares

You've already achieved logarithmic time complexity—the HOLY GRAIL of algorithmic efficiency—and they're sitting there asking if you can squeeze out MORE performance? What do they want, O(1) for everything? Do they expect you to invent time travel? O(log n) is literally one step away from constant time. You're already operating at near-theoretical perfection, and here comes the interviewer acting like you just submitted bubble sort to production. The audacity! The sheer NERVE! It's like winning an Olympic gold medal and having someone ask if you could've run it backwards while juggling. Some interviewers really do be out here expecting you to violate the fundamental laws of computer science just to prove you're "passionate" about optimization.

When The Bug Is Human

Debugging Programming Testing Frontend Backend

2 days ago 209.1K views 0 shares

Oh, the AUDACITY! The absolute NERVE of someone suggesting that YOUR code isn't fast enough! Like, excuse me, but did you just imply that my beautifully crafted, artisanal, hand-typed algorithms are somehow... *slow*? The sheer disrespect! That cat's face perfectly captures the internal screaming when someone dares to blame your "performance issues" when clearly the REAL problem is their unrealistic expectations, their potato server, their ancient browser, or literally anything else. The rejection isn't about YOUR performance, sweetie—it's about their inability to appreciate computational elegance. Maybe try running it on something that isn't powered by a hamster wheel? Just saying.

How Much Ram Is Recommended To Run Nord VPN?

Windows Security Hardware Programming Debugging

2 days ago 208.2K views 0 shares

How Much Ram Is Recommended To Run Nord VPN?

NordVPN's "threat protection service" casually munching on 52GB of RAM like it's protecting you from an alien invasion. Meanwhile, Chrome with 13 tabs is sitting there at 636MB looking like the responsible adult in the room. When your VPN service needs more memory than a professional video editing suite, you know something has gone horribly wrong. Either they're storing the entire internet locally for "protection" or someone forgot to delete a debug statement that logs every packet to an in-memory array. The real threat here isn't online—it's to your system resources.

So Who Is Sending Patches Now

Programming Git C++ Backend

12 days ago 225.1K views 0 shares

Someone tried to roast FFmpeg for having a messy codebase, and FFmpeg's official account hit back with the coldest comeback in open source history: "FFmpeg is written in C and assembly." Translation: "Yeah, our code looks rough because we're optimizing at the metal level while you're over there writing React components." Then they dropped the mic with "Talk is cheap, send patches." That's the open source equivalent of "put up or shut up." You want to complain? Cool, here's commit access. Show us how you'd do it better. The beauty here is that FFmpeg is literally the backbone of half the internet's video infrastructure. Netflix, YouTube, VLC—they all rely on this "messy" codebase. When you're processing millions of video frames per second, nobody cares if your variable names are pretty. Performance trumps aesthetics every single time.

It's The Law

Hardware Algorithms Physics Programming

14 days ago 209.3K views 0 shares

Moore's Law—the sacred prophecy that transistor density would double every two years—has been the tech industry's comfort blanket since 1965. But now? The universe has BETRAYED us. Physics decided to show up to the party and ruin everything with its "laws of thermodynamics" and "quantum tunneling limitations." Programmers everywhere are having a full-blown existential crisis because they can no longer rely on hardware magically getting faster to compensate for their bloated code. The sheer AUDACITY of reality refusing to keep up with our demands for infinite performance improvements! Now we actually have to *gasp* optimize our code and write efficient algorithms instead of just waiting two years for Intel to save us. The horror. The absolute tragedy of it all.

Back In Time

Hardware Windows

14 days ago 187.9K views 0 shares

Modern RGB gaming rigs with their NVMe SSDs and 64GB RAM boot faster than you can blink, and they have the audacity to apologize for taking 3 seconds. Meanwhile, that beige tower from 2003 needed a solid 10 minutes just to POST, let alone load Windows XP. You'd literally hit the power button, go make coffee, check your email on your phone, come back, and it'd still be whirring away like a jet engine trying to load the desktop icons one by one. The real kicker? That ancient machine would take 5 minutes just to get to the point where you could click on Need For Speed: Underground. Then another 5 for the game to actually load. Kids these days complaining about 2-second load screens have no idea about the character-building experience of waiting for a single application to launch while listening to your hard drive sound like it's grinding gravel.

Trust Me Bro We Don't Need Caching

Backend Programming Databases Cloud

15 days ago 211.2K views 0 shares

You know that one senior dev who shows up to the system design interview with a conspiracy theorist's wall of chaos? Red strings connecting random boxes, sticky notes everywhere, and somehow they're convinced their architecture that hits the database 47 times per page load is "fine actually." Meanwhile they're out here explaining why caching is "premature optimization" while their API response times are measured in geological epochs. Sure buddy, let's just query that unindexed table with 50 million rows on every request. What could go wrong? The confidence-to-competence ratio here is absolutely off the charts. They've got the energy of someone who's never been paged at 2 AM because Redis went down and suddenly realized why everyone kept saying "just cache it."

Id Software Are Really The Gigachad Of The Gaming Industry

Gamedev Hardware C++ Algorithms Programming

15 days ago 159.5K views 1 shares

Id Software Are Really The Gigachad Of The Gaming Industry

Unreal Engine out here acting like your helicopter parent, telling you your beast of a machine with an RTX 5090 and 14900KF isn't good enough to run at 1440p 60fps because it insists on strangling everything through a single thread. Meanwhile, id Tech Engine is the cool uncle who shows up and says "use ALL the cores, kid" and delivers billion FPS on a toaster. The difference? id Software actually knows how to write multithreaded code that doesn't make your CPU cry. They've been optimizing game engines since Carmack was writing assembly in his sleep. Unreal just keeps adding more AI-upscaling band-aids instead of fixing the fundamental performance issues. It's 2024 and we're still dealing with engines that can't properly utilize modern hardware. id Tech proves it's possible, but everyone else would rather blame your GPU than admit their engine is running like it's 2005.

Blazingly Fast

Rust Programming Backend

17 days ago 302.6K views 0 shares

The Rust evangelists have entered the chat, and they're armed. "Blazingly fast" has become the mandatory prefix for literally every Rust project announcement, to the point where you could make a drinking game out of it (please don't, you'll get alcohol poisoning within 5 minutes on r/rust). It's like the tech equivalent of CrossFit—you'll know someone uses Rust because they'll tell you. Three times. While explaining why your JavaScript is objectively wrong and morally questionable. The phrase has transcended mere marketing buzzword status and achieved meme immortality, right up there with "web scale" and "enterprise-grade." Fun fact: The Rust compiler itself is famously slow, which makes the whole "blazingly fast" obsession even more delicious. You'll wait 45 minutes for your code to compile, but hey, at least it'll execute 3 nanoseconds faster than the Python version!

Camel Case

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

17 days ago 203.9K views 0 shares

Your laptop just transformed into a portable space heater because you dared to run npm install . The sheer AUDACITY of Node.js deciding that your computer needs to download half the internet just to display "Hello World" is truly a spectacle. Watch in horror as your CPU fan screams for mercy while installing 47,000 dependencies for a simple date formatting library. Your thighs are getting medium-rare, your battery is crying, and somewhere in the distance, a polar ice cap just melted. But hey, at least you got that left-pad package!

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