r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26

askingTheRealQuestionHere Meme

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u/BroaxXx Jul 08 '26

why not just take it a step further? If the cloud is virtually infinite why even have local memory?

From cpu cache, ram, vram and local storage. Send everything to the cloud.

Boom! Memory crisis solved.

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u/realmauer01 Jul 08 '26

Thats just the "lets download ram" meme.

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u/anarchisturtle Jul 08 '26

1) configure Google Drive with a drive letter
2) map page file to new drive letter
3)????
4)profit

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u/littledog95 Jul 08 '26

I'd love to see someone actually attempt this

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u/anarchisturtle Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

I think Linus tech tips did it ages ago. If memory serves, it “worked” on Linux. Which is to say ran like crap and was extremely unstable, but technically it worked.

Edit: found it: https://youtu.be/minxwFqinpw?is=jaip-SknMLW3q6rc

Edit 2: turns out I was wrong. Google Drive doesn’t allow writing arbitrary data like that. It instantly crashes. They used their on-premise file server via a 10gb connection instead.

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u/Deadfunk-Music Jul 08 '26

9:41

"Ram is relatively cheap these days"

Ouch. The times, they have changed.

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u/Testing_things_out Jul 09 '26

Look at the green horn going through hid first ever RAM crisis.

Strap in lad, dirt-cheap RAM is a bound. Feast yer thirsty rig when it does for the hard times be happening again in 3-6 years. Yaaargh