Also if you keep it for longer, the performance boost from a new one is noticeable. If you replace every 2 years, you get an imperceptible change and have to waste more money for it lol

Oh, right. I forgot American ISPs are allowed to pull shit like that. I don’t think this would fly where I live. I also don’t use public WiFi, because why would I even

It really doesn’t, on a technical level.

You’re not sending them any data. None that they send you is unique to you. There’s no real benefit in encrypting it.

I must be old because I remember that as being the standard form until Java popularized

<visibility> <static?> <type> <name> {

I mean I’m not that old, but I was reading more C and C++ books and tutorials when I was a kid, because “ew Java”

They make one shitty SUV. They must’ve learned something from Porsche because the shitty SUVs got Porsche out of financial trouble and now they can use that money to keep on building 911s and Caymans and shit, instead of building cars for Mercedes and Audi to keep their sports car business.

The supercars are marketing for the SUVs and the SUVs pay for the R&D for the supercars.

I was wondering how they would make their EV different from every other high performance EV. The suspension setup seems quite interesting and the ridiculous amount of regen braking will be awesome for spirited driving, though I’m still not entirely sure that this thing can have the true Ferrari feel. But it’s irrelevant because I’ll never be able to afford one anyway.

Hmm, true. That is a curious job. I think it’s called programmer’s spouse.

Well they don’t usually f… Exclusively programmers, but professionals do exist, yes.

Absolutely!

Unless you have assholes on your team. Luckily I haven’t had many.

We still are if you find a smaller company run by people who love tech, not just money. It’s not as easy to find as big tech jobs used to be though.

I’m assuming it’s a map/dictionary notation here, rather than a type hint

#define satan fubarx

To be fair, the community edition IDEs from Jetbrains are open source and any telemetry is optional.

Bring back spacebar heating!

I used to, all the time

This was in the XP days so I didn’t know how to figure out which service it was, I was a kid. But some svchost process would manifest as a task to switch to in the alt + tab switcher and made the computer slow and weird. I just killed it. No idea if it was a bug or a virus.

Ah right, I was on mobile and Voyager doesn’t show instance addresses by default lol

Well yeah, but as a private citizen, I don’t want MY spending transparent to everyone like that

Now businesses? Yeah would be nice

But the thing is, you can’t use all your clothes at once, your memory CAN all be useful in the moment, hence no need to be anal about leaving it unused.

In your example, those tools are providing you with insight and you could turn them off. They have to index a bunch of files and build models of them in memory.

Then when you actually run your compiler, it’s helpful that your OS has probably “wasted” some RAM keeping source files cached after a few runs, even the ones you haven’t edited recently.

That’s memory not hogged by a single program, making me able to use it for other stuff.

But it’s not unused memory.

People have this weird fetish with free memory. Remember all the idle app killers on Android, etc?

Besides, if I’m playing a game, I WANT it to have preloaded assets so I don’t have to wait for them to load from the NVMe. I also don’t want the developer to spent half their time reducing memory usage by 10 kilobytes - I’d much rather that time is spent on making the game do more things.

I wait for the OOM killer to fire up before saying, “it’s full”.

Then you’re already different from most the “everything uses too much memory these days” folks. Most look at the Windows task manager which shows 14 gigs in use out of 16 and go buy more - because Windows dared use 8 gigabytes of cache that it was completely willing to free if another program asked for it.

In fact, I should be panicking right now:

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        32789900    21931604      283888     2760372    13429988    10858296
Swap:              0           0           0

Nearly no free memory!

making it hard to even use the clang tools on large projects.

I hope you’re not claiming that to also be wasted memory. clang/LLVM is a pretty complex toolset and does damn near close to magic to optimize the binary it shits out.

I can let updates continue in the background

That’s used memory

I can open a web-browser on a second monitor

That’s used memory

I can afford to buy less memory

But I bet you don’t, because you look at your computer say it’s all being used - when actually a lot is being used for caching and is freed upon request.

I can run a server on the same computer, instead of having to buy another one to become a dedicated server

That’s, again, used memory