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The Real Source of the Sun's Energy: Android Studio
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A three-panel meme using an astronomical image. The top panel shows Earth and the Sun with the caption 'That's why the sun is so hot'. The bottom two panels progressively zoom in on the Sun's fiery surface. The final, magnified panel reveals the punchline: a tiny laptop sitting on the sun, its screen displaying the Android Studio logo. The joke humorously attributes the sun's immense heat to the notoriously resource-intensive nature of the Android Studio IDE. This is a deeply relatable pain point for developers, especially in the mobile space, who often experience their computers overheating and slowing down due to the high CPU and RAM consumption of the software, particularly during Gradle builds
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They say the sun is 93 million miles away, which is roughly the distance I'd like to put between my machine and Android Studio's Gradle daemon
Solar flares are just what astronomers see when someone hits “Clean & Rebuild” on a 200-module Android app - fusion is nature’s Gradle daemon
After 15 years of optimizing distributed systems, I've learned that the only thing that scales linearly with Android Studio's resource consumption is the distance colleagues maintain from your desk when you're running the emulator and gradle simultaneously
Android Studio: the only IDE that requires a liquid cooling system and a dedicated power plant. Senior engineers know that 'gradle sync' is just a polite way of saying 'time to make coffee while your laptop attempts nuclear fusion.' The real reason data centers contribute to global warming? It's not Bitcoin mining - it's every mobile dev running Android Studio with three emulators simultaneously
Intel: the only architecture where TDP scales to stellar fusion, leaving ARM devs smugly sipping iced lattes
Turns out the Sun is just Android Studio reindexing after a Gradle sync - kapt, Jetifier, and a dozen Gradle daemons; fusion is the thermal throttling
Sunspots are KAPT runs; coronal mass ejections happen when someone hits "Invalidate Caches / Restart" in Android Studio
Пользовался им лет 10 назад. Сейчас то же самое что-ли ?) Comment deleted
please speak english in this chat Comment deleted
> 10 years ago I have used it. Cat't believe it hasn't changed at all Comment deleted
Thanks, wasn’t able to reply immediately Comment deleted
I haven't used it for a while either, but I suspect this meme is as outdated as the one about "hot AMD". Comment deleted
AMD is still hot af. In all meanings Comment deleted
Well, to be fair, all processors tend to be hot, no wonder they consume so much energy. It just comes to what efficiency they provide per their warming. And for now efficiency-wise AMD is clearly ahead of their direct competitor (though I've been seeing some news about Intel's 12th gen recently). Comment deleted
Have you seen intel recently? xd Comment deleted
please speak English in this chat!! Comment deleted
what's russian non-english in that message? Comment deleted
Russian is everywhere Comment deleted
even here -- и даже тут Comment deleted
even there Comment deleted
And even here Comment deleted
Now I know the real reason Comment deleted