• theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      I think a better takeaway is this… Hiring runs on nepotism. It always has, but for a while you could go through an application process and land a decent job

      You have to work your social connections to find a job these days. People are just way more willing to put in the energy to evaluate you if they have someone vouching for you

      Especially now with remote work and AI… The screening process has devolved into nonsense. If they’re not pulling your resume out of the stack, it’s very likely no human is looking at it

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      9·
      3 months ago

      I know it’s obviously much easier said than done, but this is exactly why unions exist.

      I have a union position, and none of what you just said applies to me. It’s wonderful.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’d very much like to see the Accountable Capitalism act hit these companies. Force them to rethink their employee-hating positions when they need their votes to win over the board.

      • Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        👎 download more RAM

        👍 make software use less RAM make development take 10 times longer and get fired from your precarious dev job as you wasted time making optimisations no one needed nor asked for

        Fixed that for ya

        • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          Non ironically: In practice it mostly boils down to experience, writing relatively efficient software should not take much more time or even long term accelerate development (less time to wait) (I don’t talk about the last few percent of compiler reverse-engineered SIMD optimisation that takes time…)

          I detest the state modern web development has downspiraled to. I bet I’m faster writing a big application in Vanilla js vs using the abomination that Next.Js has come to…

          • Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            I wish that were true but writting efficient software, with low allocation, low memory foot print, all that good stuff, definitely takes more time.

            • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
              1·
              3 months ago

              It’s a culture problem too. Just today, reading about OLPC:

              Jim Gettys, responsible for the OLPC laptops’ system software, has called for a re-education of programmers, saying that many applications use too much memory or even leak memory. “There seems to be a common fallacy among programmers that using memory is good: on current hardware it is often much faster to recompute values than to have to reference memory to get a precomputed value. A full cache miss can be hundreds of cycles, and hundreds of times the power use of an instruction that hits in the first level cache.”[54]

            • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 months ago

              Welcome to Rust which “solves” this issue…

              Yeah it takes more time than a quick and dirty python script. But when I’m counting the countless hours (what irony) into this equation because of mindless leaky abstractions and resulting debugging, I’m certain that I’m at least not a lot slower writing that. As I said I’m not talking about the last 10-20% of performance that’s possible say even up to 40%, but more like an order of magnitude (at least), i.e. algorithmically insufficient or relying too much on that your abstractions do everything right and you use it correctly (which in the case of react is seemingly not the case, when looking at the modern web).

              Taking that example (Rust) again, I very often get away with .clone() everywhere, i.e. not even caring much about performance while the performance is not significantly impacted. Then I switch to our typescript code-base in my job and get aggressions because of this extreme slowness (because of stupid abstractceptions, like wtf? shadcn needs to be built on radix-ui needs to be built on react etc. which in effect results in a slow abstraction-hell… and leaky abstractions everywhere)

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      RAM is a resource that works best when you have more than you need. I always want there to be some unused RAM because then my system can do anything it needs to without spending time swapping out the least recently used pages before it has any free ones to use.

      Shitty programs that take GBs of memory to do things that should only need MBs or KBs of it isn’t “getting my money’s worth out of my computer”.

      • OR3X@lemmy.world
        61·
        3 months ago

        I agree, having a bit more memory than you typically use is a good idea, there is a point of diminishing returns though. If you typically use less than 16GB of memory, buying 64GB isn’t really giving you much of an advantage because the majority of that memory will sit unused. You could argue future proofing, but the fact is you would be better off waiting to purchase that extra memory when you actually need it as it will (usually) be cheaper by that time.

  • python@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    This hurts, I finally decided to build my first own PC like 2 months ago, got everything planned out but decided to wait for black friday to actually order all the parts. Now I have everything except RAM and an SSD, because I refuse to pay those prices 🥲 Maybe I’ll buy a single second hand 8GB stick just to find out whether my system even boots…

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      3 months ago

      My current PC is decently specced today but it’s definitely a very ship of Theseus situation. Everything apart from the ram and motherboard has been changed over the years as new deals sprung up and I could afford better parts. You can definitely make due with less until either the shit floats away or you end up in a better financial situation.

      • python@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, that’s what I’m hoping to do with my system too! I’m not even in a bad financial situation rn, I just don’t really need that PC asap and don’t want to encourage the current market by actually buying at those inflated prices. It’s gonna be a very cool setup once DDR5 RAM goes back to being affordable, but in the meantime it’s just a very expensive adhd pile on my floor xD

        • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          3 months ago

          Looks great. Grab that 8GB stick and finish the build. You will be very happy you finally did it.

  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
    5·
    3 months ago

    I thought this was going to be about female sheep. Instead, there’s a long argument about a ram.

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 months ago

    You shoud definitely build it soon, even if just to test it.

    If you don’t, it will invariably be your bad luck that a component doesn’t work and you are then past the return window…

  • Dijon@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 months ago

    LOL, that exact model of RAM kicked the bucket in my PC last week. The two sticks died pretty much simultaneously. Thank fuck it was only half of a mismatched set, so my PC can still run on the other half