e/acc founder Beff proposed compute-in-memory architectures as an alternative.
Take the compute-in-memory pill anon
it would be cool if the memory crunch, to the extent it forces major cross-platform software developers to care about on-device memory use more, leads to e.g. ram-efficient slack and chrome as a second-order consequence
Users largely dismissed claims that memory shortages will spur efficient Slack and Chrome versions as unrealistic or impossible, with sarcasm aimed at Electron developers, while one noted past code-efficiency gains from similar constraints.
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@deanwball Apple being caught off guard makes me wonder how much the AI skepticism of some of their researchers impacted their forecasting.
@deanwball It would also be nice if we could learn how to levitate by the power of our minds alone.
@deanwball I can believe in the possibility of ASI but I can't stretch my mind to encompass this
@deanwball I am old and used to have to bend over backwards finding linear algebra tricks to do what I needed with as little RAM as possible. Now I could have programmed naively with consumer grade, but code is more efficient. Just agreeing that a crunch can force improvement
@deanwball I’d say point Fable at the Electron stack and tell it to fix its memory consumption and bugs but that might trigger the vapors at Amazon and lead to another round of export controls
@deanwball Doubtful
@snewmanpv @deanwball Step 1: Shoot every developer that’s ever built an electron app.
@deanwball Only got like a 2yr runway, don’t we?
I wouldn’t bank on it.
@perrymetzger @deanwball Are you implying that it’s impossible to make current apps more memory efficient?
@perrymetzger @deanwball I can do that.