feld  
You: making computers do more work (AI, LLM, crypto)

Me: making computers do less work (only using a shell, turning off useful OS functionality because it consumes a couple megabytes of RAM, writing everything in C, using the slowest computer I can find with the lowest carbon footprint, using plaintext protocols because math is a waste of resources)


we are not the same
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m0xEE  

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> writing everything in C
E-e-eww! What a bloat! True minimalists use assembly… Wait, no — they write opcodes right in hex! 😏

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feld  
@m0xee at least C is portable tho
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To an extent — yes, it is. Syscalls might be different on different architectures, but usually there is a layer of abstraction over that.
But that was a joke anyway 😄

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