▲ 219 ▼ Did you check inside the box? (lemmy.world) submitted 4 days ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 58 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] solarspark@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 child) Be the change you want to see, and report back 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) I already did it on floppies. I also attempted to program the entire AD&D rules as an Amiga Basic program. It ran well for a start, but then I noticed that the random generator always returned the same dice rolls. Turned out that the RAM was used up, so it couldn't store the random value anywhere. The program was fine otherwise. Just out of ram. Anyway, I miss the ingenuity of having too little space, more than I am impressed with the possibilities of having too much. People simply did more with less. I want that to return. The bloat is obscene, and hopefully AI is going to break the balloon of it. Nobody really needs several gigabytes of code to run a 2 line program. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) I already did it on floppies. I also attempted to program the entire AD&D rules as an Amiga Basic program. It ran well for a start, but then I noticed that the random generator always returned the same dice rolls. Turned out that the RAM was used up, so it couldn't store the random value anywhere. The program was fine otherwise. Just out of ram. Anyway, I miss the ingenuity of having too little space, more than I am impressed with the possibilities of having too much. People simply did more with less. I want that to return. The bloat is obscene, and hopefully AI is going to break the balloon of it. Nobody really needs several gigabytes of code to run a 2 line program. permalink fedilink source parent