Something tells me this will be edited very soon.
Pff as if they know what a ram is…
/s
Dedotate mor wam
Hey, that kid’s probably grown up now. Fuck, makes me feel old.
S3 bucket as swap space.
AWS glacier is cheaper.
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.
Swap to gdrive.
But seriously, don’t drink if you’re pregnant. It’s not that hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder
Fun fact: you can mount a Google drive on your computer and put a swap file in it
But why?
Man… how is this funny? 😐
'tisn’t the least bit funny.
I’ll explain it. The kid has fetal alcohol syndrome and will be severely disabled for life:
So alcohol makes kids smart!
I’m still trying to download that pizza.
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
Used to be?
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.
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
I love that song
