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LiterallyShaking brit/bong TER, drop the F  7mo ago (x.com) 914 thread views #272883

Am I the only one who didn't know that the entire internet is literally wired physically with undersea cables?

https://x.com/jennyzhangzt/status/1794099226281943496

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17170620394448433.webp

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If I have to think for even a second about memory allocation, it means you wrote a shitty garbage collector.

Garbage collectors aren't magic lmao you still shouldn't unnecessarily thrash them, unless you're writing something so simple that performance is irrelevant. Not to mention that you can still have "memory leaks" in garbage collected languages (okay not technically "leaks" but you can unnecessarily keep large objects around until your heap fills up, like adding shit to a list and never removing it).

I do wonder what she thought we used if not undersea cables. Maybe she thought we used satellites, and before satellites there simply wasn't any instantaneous communication between America and Europe?

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>wasting your life and your employer's money on premature optimization :marseyneko:

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If only it was premature :marseydepressed:

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All the bottlenecks in my pipelines are FTP servers run by third party utility data providers. :marseytwirl:

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>FTP

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In big, regulated industries they party like it's 1999. FTP my CSVs, baby.

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is there at least lots of coke?

I remember working my first tech job in 2013 and getting told not to use the ftp servers being they were legacy and being phased out

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>is there at least lots of coke?

Not enough. :marseyrain:

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:#marseycry:

I need to do more drugs. It's a massive moid moment but the first 5 bucket list items I have are molly, coke, lsd, anal and driving a race car.

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Even in burger land I remember learning about transatlantic telegraph cables being a game changer and that was 170 years ago

Putting the :e: in spookie turkey merry new year

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>and that was 170 years ago

How long have you been alive?! :!donkeykongwtf: :!marseydracula:

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unless you're writing something so simple that performance is irrelevant

@JimieWhales is a woman if you weren't already aware

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Believe me, I'm familiar with moids' self-sabotaging performance anxiety.

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