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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 20:15:59 JST nixCraft 🐧

   How true 😂 do you agree?

   • Paul Tourville (taobear@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 20:25:34 JST Paul Tourville

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     @nixCraft Well, I 've only been saying /this/ for twenty years. Computer performance has increased to insane levels over the last thirty or so years, and software has managed to fill all that space with asbestos and blancmange to the point that work-a-day tasks /still/ take just as long as they did on an Osborne 1

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 20:28:55 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft Idk. Suppose you didn't affort a good meal when your bank balance was $0. Now that you're making $100 a day, you decided to invest in your better meal and the balance keeps going down to $0 again. Would you call it negating the bank account?

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 20:52:19 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @nixCraft Jonathan Blow nailed it. Modern software can do amazing things. Just take 'filter' facial morphing, alone, on video chat - but, you can guarantee that's the smallest part of the software, floating in an ocean of slow, buggy, unsecure crap.

   • potpie (potpie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 21:33:01 JST potpie

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     @nixCraft This is what makes me feel like a grumpy old man. Instead of complaining about "kids these days," I go on rants about slow software, apps that need constant updating, functionality that changes all the time, and poor user interfaces. I find myself telling young people about buying programs on CDs "back in the day." Send help.

   • Emily Bristor (pdlobster@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 23:14:10 JST Emily Bristor

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     @nixCraft Overheard a hardware engineer once: Software engineers think hardware is just the green stuff that smokes.

   • C.L. Who (clwho@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 02:58:17 JST C.L. Who

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     @nixCraft "Optimization? We don't need to do that, modern computers are more than powerful enough to handle it. Sell it now, if people complain we'll patch it later, maybe."