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enticingturtle
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
A good take from the time

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/05/11/Sell-Babel-8
enticingturtle
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Are you actually seeing degraded performance, or do you just have an aesthetic dislike of swapping?
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It holds a Chrome runtime, no? Features like the fastest JIT in the world and a universal DOM aren’t waste. Not to mention, Chrome can run on much less ram if that’s all there is. It only has a high memory footprint when the OS allocates it unused memory.
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Unused ram is wasted ram. Swap speeds and intelligent swap logic are fantastic these days (especially on macOS). It’s a good thing to see programs using more ram. Better caching is a feature, not a bug.
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The upside of a larger cache is that everything is more responsive and old threads load faster. What’s the downside?
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Java does this with checked exceptions and it’s a huge hassle to work with.
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This is wrong. Trading is positive sum. When companies trade with employees to buy labor or trade with consumers to sell goods, all parties are better off from the interaction — otherwise they would not trade.
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Because the derivative of a quadratic is linear, meaning meaning you spend votes proportionally to the strength of your preference (indifference at the margin).
enticingturtle
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Short answer: your best employees will leave