• Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    The NASA computers were among the most advanced computer science of their day. They were built by engineers with cutting edge technology. Chrome is a web browser, an absurd behemoth intended to view everything from a static page from twenty years ago to a dynamically assembled webapp using frameworks even the app’s creator doesn’t know one tenth of, but still has to import, and the whole thing is built to spy on what you do while you surf for cat pics and pussy pics for the ten trillionth time, feeding google’s monopoly.

    Not even apples to oranges. Apples to the lump formerly known as the planet Pluto.

  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
    14·
    3 months ago

    The guys that went to the moon were engineers and highly trained to use the computer. We can dream to have users half as competent.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 months ago

      After separating from the Command Modupe for lunar descent, there was a faulty abort switch discovered on the Apollo 14 lunar module that required Alan Shephard and Edgar Mitchell to reprogram the lunar module computer in lunar orbit.

  • dan@upvote.au
    132·
    3 months ago

    Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Apps like Chrome use available RAM if it’s available, but they should be releasing it for other apps to use when there’s high memory pressure.

    It’s the same with disk caching. If you have a lot of free RAM, the OS will use all of it for caching files.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      20·
      3 months ago

      my problem with certain programs, chrome included, is they tell the os “no, you can’t have this ram back. i’m using it”

      i understand the logic of your argument, but it’s never played out in life

      • dan@upvote.au
        6·
        3 months ago

        In some cases, the RAM actually is in use by the site. That’s especially the case on sites with heavy client-side logic. In that case, it’s not Chrome’s (or Firefox’s) fault, it’s the website’s fault. If you hover over the tab, it should show memory usage in the popover.

        Chrome has a “Memory Saver” feature where it’ll unload tabs that are offscreen/hidden which helps quite a bit. Not sure if Firefox has something similar.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      No, the reason why browsers use so much RAM is because every tab is it’s own process and sandbox. That and lazy handling of content.

      Edit: apparently i overestimated the overhead of process & sanbox per tab? So it’s more lazy handling, i.e. keeping pictures in RAM instead of pushing them to cache?

      • dan@upvote.au
        2·
        3 months ago

        Sandboxing does use some RAM, but it was a big win for security. One site can’t crash the entire browser or use a security hole to get access to data on other tabs. Still, the majority of the RAM is taken by the site itself. The processes do share some RAM - they’re not entirely isolated.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    Back in 69 more people were carrying the load of logic in their heads. Its been a double edged sword of progress with more responsibilities offloaded to automation

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    My desktop with 64gb sat idling with a web browser open:

    You got 32gb to play with chump

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    853·
    3 months ago

    STOP. DOING. UX.

    Computers were meant to do math, not make pictures.

    Trillions of pixels illuminated, but no real life benefit has been discovered.

    GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.

    Terms dreamed up by the deranged.

    They are playing you for fools!