Programmer Humor

33560 readers

749 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
- If the mod doesn't find it funny, you're banned. Ha-ha!... For real: do not use the community for "statements". There are other places for such content. Keep it chill and funny.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

anzo@programming.dev

Feyter@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

1801

might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

292 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://raru.re/@ocean/116214437024389203

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

That's a different definition of wasted though. The RAM isn't lost just because it isn't being currently utilised. It's sitting there waiting for me to open a intensive task.

What I am objecting to is programs using more RAM than they need simply because it's currently available. Aka chromium.