@roanutil @mattiem @mattcomi You must be doing ObjC projects then. I'm mostly doing Swift and that usually is bound to a single CPU. It can scale out if you have a lot of independent modules, but that seems rare.
As mentioned the one occasion I see system load is if swift-nio-ssl is being built for the millionths time (it's C++, so it actually runs parallel). BTW that there is no binary support in SPM is just a ridiculous waste of time and resources.

It's funny how 8GB of RAM is seen a constraint today. 8 *GB* (high end NeXT's had 32 *MB* and that was essentially the same thing at the core).
You run a web browser, Pages, Numbers, Mail, and ... Discord on that 🙈 Not a bad take: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116234598035271523

It may look a little burned, but was actually really good. #food

The Firefly cast have secured the rights to Firefly, and plan to turn it into an animated series with the original cast voicing. https://deadline.com/2026/03/nathan-fillion-firefly-animated-series-development-1236754122/

@mattiem It does because Swift compilation units are not self contained, unlike C units

@mattiem @mattcomi That’s separate to you building the compiler, which is C++ and should scale to the available cores.

@obrhoff Take the money and run 🙈

@mattiem @mattcomi “this would imply that disk speed is a major bottleneck” I think it actually is for Swift targets, they are not multi core constrained but disk plus single core perf.
The only time I see my CPU exercised is when compiling swift-nio-ssl, ie BoringSSL, which sucks all cores available.

@mattiem @mattcomi My concern would be that the speed is eaten up by all the FS layers, but who knows. Sole reason I consider a 48+ machine tbh 😬

@mattiem @mattcomi The SSDs are *very* fast now, but RAM is still much, much faster.

@mattiem @mattcomi I know someone who is putting DerivedData into a RAM disk and claims that this is a great idea. I think it could be.

@krzyzanowskim @nicklockwood @kkolakowski Slack can open new windows for a long time (since Shrugs? 🥸).
I don’t think there is a particular technological reason that Electron apps can’t do it. Electron builders just don’t care about those things 🤷‍♀️

@saagar Either way, the smart thing is not to do any of that, but to have in-house storage and charge that at the cheapest price point. Battery prices still have to come down more to make that really worthwhile, but it'll happen.

@saagar I mean you have to connect them to your LAN, not to the Internet. Not all home automation systems run off the Internet, only most of the consumer ones 🙂

@saagar I haven't really looked into that, but I think we start having providers that do dynamic pricing. So you could essentially say "start the washing machine if the price is below X". Or another variant: Charge the house battery (or car) when the price is below X. (another use for storage)

Both current greek letters kinda look like the destroyers in Tron.

The three forms of a Pi(e). Alt-Shift-p, Alt-p, no shortcut for the actually relevant thing (sorry dear greek people).

@nsgeek Funny enough, you can literally do that, by option-p: π. But it's the greek letter, not the special math character.

@saagar Old German saying: "Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert.". It's ~10% savings on charging your car, that's not nothing?