ROFL! Seconded! The quote itself has a bit of greybeard smell to it, but the "ran out of stuff to delete at 100GB with 1000 out of 6000 targets compiled" had me in stitches.
On October 31, 2023 10:16:10 AM PDT, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > >On 31 October 2023 at 19:58, Ivan Krylov wrote: >| [...] The computers that helped launch the first >| people into space had 2 kWords of memory, but nowadays you need more >| than 256 MBytes of RAM to launch a bird into a pig and 10 GBytes of >| storage in order to compile a compiler. This is what progress looks >| like. > >Fortune!! > >Dirk > -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
