If you disable pagefile (like I did for some of my servers) and your program mallocs more than what you have in available space (even without ever dirtying a page) you will observe this.

I'm sure that this helps Windows a lot, even if it's not counted as actually used until the page is dirty.

Linux programs very often have virtual addresses many times the amount of physical ram, because there's never been any restriction. It's then very easy to just malloc huge chunks and use what you need and don't care about it too much.

Especially with many "tiny" allocations, python for example has huge sized objects which consume gobs of RAM dynamically, so any long running python process not only fragments memory but ends up having a bunch of objects consuming virtual memory...

idk why I felt the need to rant about this, but it's a difference that I've noted.

"The best good ever is to maximise shareholder profits" is a tired and cliched caricature that some people unfortunately take seriously. But this is too on the nose.

No offence to anyone, but I would not consider the performance of MS office to be great.

I guess it's comparative, but then I compare to its previous editions which used a sliver of the resources to accomplish 95% of what modern o365 does.

> You've hit your org's monthly spend limit · run /usage-credits to ask your admin for a higher limit

I'm paranoid enough to have the thought that it's shills trying to use HN's "hotness" downranking against negative publicity...

... maybe I'm too paranoid, but it feels like this outage has a lot more totally useless comments than normal.

I mean, there are some egregious examples.

"oh noo", twice.

"Hello!", being another..

Along with one new account asking "which local LLM is better"... twice.

Yet, both have to have medical degrees in order to be called doctors.

That you specialise after the fact doesn't really mean what you imply, not everyone who becomes a doctor can do brain surgery.

The only cookie is a functional one.

in fact. you probably don’t need to track users.

At least for GDPR...

The only ways to actually track without a consent pop-up are:

(1) stay off the device entirely and process server-transmitted data under legitimate interests with a privacy notice, or

(2) confine any device storage to what's strictly necessary for the service the user requested

I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things like login are exempted) and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.

I’m not in it for the money, and that I can make a good (better than most) living from it is just pure luck and I am genuinely thankful.

But there are lots of people in it only for the money, and they will be very disappointed when it dries up, because the #1 thing these bosses want is for us to have less leverage.. They want it even more than they want revenue.

a 2011 laptop will likely perform the same on this metric with a contemporary website. (a 2011 website with a 2011 laptop, and a 2026 laptop with a 2026 website).

“how long it takes to load the mail app and send a mail”

probably the 2011 laptop out performs on this metric.

I’m sure the modern laptop is a few times more powerful in terms of raw compute, but lets not confuse compute with utility, because better laptops should mean more capabilities, not more shitty developer harnesses to make the same programs we had before.

I think it would genuinely be the same for me.

I was always weirded out by the “only in IT for the money” crowd, which is a lot more than the people in it for passion these days it seems, and I might be an extreme case, but consider that while I run an IRC community- I do not write open source software.