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by Syonyk 1491 days ago
Nah. "Raspberry Pi Day at Google." One day a week, your dual Xeon workstation is replaced with a Raspberry Pi 4. 8GB. Overclocked if you want.

It is absolutely adequate to do a lot of things one wants to do. But it will show when you've done something stupid with CPU.

I'm still bitter that Google ruined the Blogger editor interface. Fancy, shiny new interface... that lagged horribly if you had a low power CPU and a bunch of photos in a post. The old interface handled it perfectly, because I wrote an awful lot of blog posts on an old Atom netbook with a nice keyboard.

But, yes, any new hardware performance is more than chewed up by new software abstractions.

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Well they’ll just limit table rows to 6 instead of 10.

That’s what React does: Instead of showing a table of 200 rows, the performance of React is so poor that it’s a design trend to make you paginate through 10-line pages. So, soon 6, “for better performance”.