• Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
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    11 months ago

    This comment sums it up pretty nicely:

    LOL innovative invention of swapping memory to storage…… maybe they can call it something cool like “cache”.

    Apple being “innovative” my ass, lmao

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      11 months ago

      Well, if that commenter had more than just a vague idea of caching and/or swapping, they would know that the right algorithm can make or break performance.

      That paper is not “we invented caching”, but “this is how we make some certain models work well despite constraints imposed by RAM and flash storage.”

      It’s a worthy job for an engineer or researcher. Not quite as innovative as the invention of the wheel, but still enough to write a paper on (and read it, if you can manage to understand it).

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      11 months ago

      The easiest way to tell that something’s not really innovative is if the person describing it uses the word innovative.

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      11 months ago

      35 upvotes in the technology community…man you guys really are just all knee-jerk reactionaries and it really knowledgeable tech at all. git gud