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throwaway85825 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The MacBook Neo

8GB would be fine if not for a decade of terrible development practices creating bloated software.

kevhito 4 months ago [–]

Like freeways, it's not clear that increasing the baseline ram for basic laptops is an effective way to mitigate software bloat. Rather it likely creates bloat.

throwaway85825 4 months ago | [–]

Induced demand.

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