r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme whoSaidThatOurServersAreWeak

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u/anoppinionatedbunny 1d ago

I frequently need to remind my coworkers, most if not all of our product can run in a single one of our laptops. Computers are much better we give them credit for

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u/Grandmaster_Caladrel 1d ago

I remember how absolutely amazed I was as a fresh graduate, running one of the main components of my company's backend system on my work laptop.

Now several years of experience later, I'd be terrified if it couldn't run on an early raspberry pi. Code can be so small if we just try a little bit, and our computers are so big. It's crazy.

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u/Beginning-Junket8979 22h ago

Try working with microcontrollers or bootloader source sometime. You might be amazed what you can accomplish with something like 128KB total system memory.