Nate Cull (.social)May 28, 2018

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Show threadZulgribMay 28, 2018
@natecull Well, people don't optimize for resources anymore
Show threadNatanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
@Zulgrib A real shame. Imagine what a current high-end computer would be capable of doing if everything was perfectly optimized straight down to the kernel. You could probably run the personal computing needs of a small city on a single machine. @natecull
Nov 8, 2022 at 12:03pmWeb
Show threadZulgribJan 3, 2023
@Natanox @natecull
Don't know if that much could be accomplished, but surely more than what we do now
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAJan 5, 2023
@Zulgrib @Natanox @natecull I’m immediately concerned about privacy in this hypothetical community processing unit. When we look at multi-tenant (particularly multi-level security) computer systems, we find that there are a lot of concerns. For MLS, you need to disable simultaneous multithreading (SMT) to minimize risk of data leakage between threads that may not be in the same process.
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAJan 5, 2023
@Natanox @natecull @Zulgrib I know the point was that we’re just amazingly wasteful with resources, and that’s certainly true. The phone I’m typing this on is faster than the first several of my computers.
Show threada1Jul 4, 2023
@Natanox @Zulgrib @natecull Now you can run the computing needs of a whole AdTech ecosystem without even noticing on one machine (except when hitting the button makes the download of that 50 MB ad crash it)