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1 HN user recommended this in 2022, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2022, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
> I don’t know dude, if you want to write software for the worst performers instead of commodity hardware that’s up to you
I want to write software that people, most people, not only those with SV salaries able to buy a computer every year, can use.
Here's the current best seller laptop in Amazon in my country: https://www.amazon.fr/Dell-Inspiron-i5-1135G7-Ordinateur-por...
It's half past 2022 and the most sold laptop here in France, 7th-ranked in GDP, has 8 gigabytes of RAM and 4 cores. This is what the real world looks like. (and just a year ago it was still 4GB of RAM iirc)
The second best sale is a gamer PC which is a bit better. https://www.amazon.fr/MILUI-Modulaire-Colosseum-Livraison-30...
The third https://www.amazon.fr/Ordinateur-Portable-Celeron-Resolution... comes with a CPU that does not support hyperthreading (so 4C/4T) and does not even support friggin AVX and goes to SSE4.2 at most.
That does not mean not making use of multiple cores of course, but a software should still be able to work on a single-core. Right now we only have certifications such as https://www.blauer-engel.de/en/productworld/resources-and-en... (see https://www.umwelt-campus.de/en/research/projekte/green-soft... for the methodology) but hopefully in a few years we can start making it first heavily discouraged and over time less and less viable to create resource-wasting software - in any case this is a thing I am asking of the people whom I vote for :-)