Nice. I’ve done some of my best learning by trying to do things with very artificially low resource constraints. The struggle I have at times is to properly calibrate my brain to the right resource scope. Ie. “No, stop optimizing these enums as integers instead of strings… this isn’t the game boy emulator this is a web browser. It’s fine.”
LeoPanthera 4 hours ago||
There’s a lot of LLM text in that article. It’s very offputting.
armadsen 21 minutes ago|
Yeah, it’s really starting to depress me how much text published to the web is written using an LLM now. Things that seem interesting at first glance become much less appealing when they have that telltale LLM quality to them, and I also start questioning whether they’re full of factual errors (“hallucinations”). I don’t know why I should spend my time reading something the author couldn’t even be bothered to spend time writing.
phreeza 3 hours ago||
What really gets me is that the time between windows 95 and now is more than between voyager launching and Windows 95. Same for the moon landings for that matter.
tkocmathla 4 hours ago||
It's very distracting to have every sentence in this article be its own paragraph.
branon 2 hours ago||
It's LLM slop unfortunately, bears the hallmarks at least :(
LorenDB 3 hours ago||
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djb-at-durable 2 hours ago||
I feel like that's also what's running the backend of Spirit Airlines, but somehow it feels more impressive in the context of Voyager 1.
thomasgeelens 1 hour ago||
I know it makes no sense about what I'm going to say but: whenever I lose a 'simple 5G phone call' connection I remind myself that the Voyager 1 runs on 69kb of memory and there's a robot on Mars.
I’ve been looking at emulation for the first time in a long time, and it also blows my mind that entire big detailed games that we played for many hours take 100-400kb total (NES) or 2-4mb (Genesis).
masfuerte 3 hours ago||
My first computer had 32KB. Reading the headline there's still a part of my brain that went "69KB? Luxury!".
zimpenfish 2 hours ago||
> My first computer had 32KB.
1KB for me[0]. Then another 1KB[1] expanded to 16KB via my father's electronic wizardry. Then an official 16KB[2] and ever upwards from there.
Still amazed how much fun it is to play a 36KB Stargate Defender!
lnsru 3 hours ago||
Welcome to the world of embedded systems. They often do not have more resources that that. Even as completely new development (of pool control system or electricity meter).
wek 2 hours ago||
Amaze. Amaze. Thank you for sharing.
trgn 2 hours ago|
Wish javascript devs would read this. If the web is slow, its because of them