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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

It's incredible how much the prices have fallen and that's how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.

The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it's a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that's what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.

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[-] jafo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

You young fellas sit back, I'mma tell you about the time in '96 that I bought a 1GB hard drive for a thousand doll-hairs. And then later that year got 64MB of RAM for another thousand doll-hairs, and the next month the price dropped in half. I could run two java programs AT THE SAME TIME!

[-] AnAngryAlpaca@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well To be honest java is a slug, especially on old hardware. If you wanted speed you would use some c or Assembler program....

[-] jafo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I had been programming C for almost a decade at that time, and was tired of working so low level. I hoped Java would get me higher level, but it didn't work out. Eventually ended up on Python, which was fairly light weight, fast enough, but a joy to program (unlike java).

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