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[โ€“] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 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 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man.. how is this funny? ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

'tisn't the least bit funny.

[โ€“] nacho_taco@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

Iโ€™ll explain it. The kid has fetal alcohol syndrome and will be severely disabled for life:

[โ€“] sleen@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pff as if they know what a ram is..

/s

[โ€“] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days 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

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

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Swap to gdrive.

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AWS glacier is cheaper.

[โ€“] mx_smith@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 days 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 5 points 2 days ago

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

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

I'm still trying to download that pizza.

[โ€“] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days 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 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is still possible. Its called swap

[โ€“] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

swap is way slower than physical RAM though

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PCIe4 NVME is faster than DDR1 used to be.

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 6 points 2 days ago

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

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

Nowadays people like zram swap

[โ€“] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days 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 3 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 2 days ago

So alcohol makes kids smart!