Programmer Humor

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[–] dan@upvote.au 39 points 8 months ago (15 children)

This is so cursed that I want to try it out.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 28 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

You like cursed?

Way back in the mists of time I got a 32MB (not a typo) upgrade for an 8MB computer. In total: 40MB.

Since I knew it ran fine with just the 8MB, I set up a RAM disk of 32MB and put the Windows swap file in it. Windows absolutely insisted (and maybe still does) that there be a swap file, so why not put that back in RAM?

It worked perfectly, but that memory was better used for other things, so the cursed setup didn't last all that long.

Edits: Typo city baby.

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Your comment

(not a typo)

Looks inside

Typo city baby.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

You should have seen it when the typos were still in it. Now try to figure out whether the parenthetical was there before the edits.

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Ah i didn't see it before edits, but still a hit funny to see it

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[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

I would have loved to have 32 MB RAM. I was stuck with a 486 with 16 MB RAM and 600ish MB HDD until 2003 or so, because we couldn't afford to upgrade. I think I upgraded to a second-hand Pentium 3 at that point, and upgraded the RAM with mismatched RAM modules (different brands, different capacities) salvaged from systems my school was throwing away.

A simpler time. I miss it sometimes. Neither me (as a teenager) nor my parents had any money, but I did have enough free time to learn how to code and play shareware games. It gave me something to do that didn't cost much money. Over 20 years later and I'm still coding.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

systems my school was throwing away

I wish people threw away perfectly usable stuff in places I could easily find them.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The computers they were throwing away were broken, and they didn't have a use for PC-133 RAM any more.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

Over here, people usually sell that level of stuff to some known parts dealer for pretty cheap.
I am just a hoarder who has kept my last few phones hoping to some day be able to use their high quality cameras with something else.

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[+] SystemDisc@piefed.world 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You had me concerned for a second, but "mists of time" shows up on Wiktionary (easier to be wrong), Merriam Webster's site (likely to be right) or the Oxford English Dictionary (practically canonical), whereas "midst(s) of time" does not.

Collins Dictionary and Dictionary.com don't list either, but the existence of the former in other places would seem to suggest that that's the right one.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Mists of time" is correct.

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[–] SystemDisc@piefed.world 2 points 8 months ago

My mistake. Thanks

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago

"Solamente aquí para 'mist' el tiempo."
- Misters of time

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Let me know how it goes, lmao

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 8 points 8 months ago

My bet is that simple CLI apps will kind of work but having a graphic environment would just freeze.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago*

There was a dude somewhere on the internet that used Google drive for swap space. I'll see if I can dig it up....

Edit: link.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Inngh...need...more...SWAP.

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[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Or you could use google drive

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[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Do not speak the dark magiks here boy!!!!

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Tell me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be more expensive (and slow) than HDDs even at current prices?

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 32 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Look, I'm not saying I'd gleefully burn Nvidia to the ground. I'm just saying I wouldn't help put out the fire.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I’d piss on nVidia, though.

Especially if I had a massive amount of asparagus.

It’s not likely to do much with a good fire, it, eh, it’s gonna make them smell nasty.

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[–] Supercrunchy@programming.dev 25 points 8 months ago (1 child)

https://downloadmoreram.com/ for those who miss the reference (and btw, it's safe to click the download button, it doesn't do anything, it's just a good old school joke website)

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I got my extra RAM on a floppy! SoftRAM95 baby 😎

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I downloaded more RAM in the 90s. It was a product called RAM Doubler for the Macintosh. At that time memory had to be pre-allocated for applications through a setting in the resource fork, always used exactly the amount you set, and couldn't grow beyond that. It was static, making it hard to run multiple programs simultaneously. RAM Doubler did wonders to work around that OS limitation.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There was a virtual swap space program that I downloaded in the Windows 95-98 era that did something similar. Worked reasonably well, if slowly, but everything was slower back then with computers.

(version 2.0 could triple your RAM)

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago* (8 children)

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Use with caution.

Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what's worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.

Just FYI, don't double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You heard it here first folks, straight from the horses mouth: it's all this guys fault the world sucks.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

You know who else wanted more RAM? Harambe. I hope you're fucking happy now

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Don't we all now?

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 8 months ago

... Reed, is that you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 6 points 8 months ago

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[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 8 months ago*

At least this looks like it actually tried to do something.

There was similar software for Windows, called SoftRAM. Turns out it didn't actually do anything. Their driver was just sample code from Microsoft, and the app reported fake RAM savings.

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[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 17 points 8 months ago

What's peoples issue? I've been talking to AI and had my agent code me some more RAM. Unlock your PCs power for free and follow me for more tips.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago

sudo apt install systemd-zram-generator

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

sudo mkswap /swapfile 64G

Problem?

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah, storage prices also suck :-(

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

$ zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA COMPR   TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle      62.6G  2.8G  972M 1011.4M         [SWAP]

Already did

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Based zramctl. Makes my 8GB RAM system run like I had 12 GB, which is quite significant in this new internet world where opening a second tab in a web browser costs almost 600 MB.

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[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

What's the use case over RAM or disk swap? It's compressed but faster than SSD? Hmm. That could help in distinct use cases...

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 6 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's basically faster than disk swap but uses some CPU cycles. The compression algorithms involved are very fast on modern CPUs so in some sense it's "free RAM".

I set mine to almost 1:1 my physical RAM, because the way it works is that the zram disk size (62.6G there) is the amount of uncompressed data allowed on it, and the compression on real-world data is almost always at least 50% -- so if the zram device fills up, it'll be using something like 32G of physical memory. I'm yet to hit real-world usecases that would have tested these limits though, and the defaults are much more conservative.

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[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 1 point 8 months ago

I prefer zstd but your data shows that even the algorithms with less compression efficiency do quite well.