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[โ€“] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

But seriously, don't drink if you're pregnant. It's not that hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder

[โ€“] hex@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Man.. how is this funny? ๐Ÿ˜

'tisn't the least bit funny.

[โ€“] mx_smith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think you can actually outsource RAM to Google drive or w/e if you want. Problem is you just shift the bottleneck from RAM to network speed

[โ€“] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

Or ya know you could use your hard drive like normal people do when they run out of ram.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago

Swap to gdrive.

[โ€“] sleen@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pff as if they know what a ram is..

/s

[โ€“] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, that kid's probably grown up now. Fuck, makes me feel old.

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AWS glacier is cheaper.

[โ€“] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm still trying to download that pizza.

[โ€“] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fun fact: you can mount a Google drive on your computer and put a swap file in it

[โ€“] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day ago

The ram will be as fast as your internet, good luck with cloud ram.

[โ€“] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember when virtual ram was a thing. I can't remember exactly how it worked but IIRC software designated part of your hard disk as temporary ram. Which is a convoluted way of saying it used to be possible

[โ€“] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is still possible. Its called swap

[โ€“] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

swap is way slower than physical RAM though

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PCIe4 NVME is faster than DDR1 used to be.

[โ€“] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Uhh kinda. I don't think latency is anywhere near 70ns on a NVMe drive, so it would still be ridiculously slow compared to ddr1 even for most tasks.

[โ€“] And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 day ago

The backup ram isn't as good as a dedicated one? Color me shocked

[โ€“] amon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Nowadays people like zram swap

[โ€“] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, it's swap on *nix and "page file" or whatever on Windows. Without it, the OS would have to kill apps or just crash when it runs out.

[โ€“] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm aware. I was hoping op could expound on their statement.

i haven't explicitly used it since i had a 386, forgive me if my memory's rusty

[โ€“] devfuuu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

So alcohol makes kids smart!