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by hinkley 1587 days ago
Being a renter definitely kept me lighter for a long time.

When you have to box things up over and over you find that the physical and mental energy around keeping it aren’t adding up. I wonder if migrating from cloud to cloud would simulate this experience.

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Being a renter just taught me to batch my $STUFF I/O to minimize read-writes to disk and maximize available low-latency space. ie. fill my bags to the brim with shit I didn't plan using whenever I'd go to my parents'.
Two space garbage collector in action right there. Maybe all things software need a "move it or lose it" impetus. Features in apps, old data, you name it. If you've gotta keep transferring/translating it, it would definitely pare things down.
maybe reuse is inferior to re-implement. Moderately re-inventing wheels may be beneficial. What may be a threshold?