yeah, if i were to guess, i'd assume IRC will be harder to set up (due to cruftiness, outdated documentation, whatever), but also less resource-intensive (b/c modern stuff tends to assume big fat machines for whatever reason)
but that's a total shot-in-the-dark guess. i haven't looked at either protocol in detail, so, if you go find out YOU get to be the expert and come tell ME (yes this is a ponzi scheme bwahaha)
almost kind of like studying technology from how it was first made to get those historical quirks, if you know what i mean?
funny you mention it because that's SUCH a good instinct with a lot of technology. like, depends on the domain, but this was the only way to approach really understanding CPUs, in particular—i got thrown into the deep end of "hey make this new feature on a modern Intel CPU work, kthxbai," and felt like i was constantly wading through this vocab and nonsense i didn't understand...
...then an electrical engineer friend told me to just go find the oldest Intel manual i could find, read and really understand *that*, and then go forth. so much easier! still didn't know everything but it was so much easier to be like "oh this looks like it's a modern version of [x] to compensate for the weaknesses of [y] but i can mentally treat it as filling a similar role" or whatever
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Date: 2023-06-01 01:09 am (UTC)but that's a total shot-in-the-dark guess. i haven't looked at either protocol in detail, so, if you go find out YOU get to be the expert and come tell ME (yes this is a ponzi scheme bwahaha)
almost kind of like studying technology from how it was first made to get those historical quirks, if you know what i mean?
funny you mention it because that's SUCH a good instinct with a lot of technology. like, depends on the domain, but this was the only way to approach really understanding CPUs, in particular—i got thrown into the deep end of "hey make this new feature on a modern Intel CPU work, kthxbai," and felt like i was constantly wading through this vocab and nonsense i didn't understand...
...then an electrical engineer friend told me to just go find the oldest Intel manual i could find, read and really understand *that*, and then go forth. so much easier! still didn't know everything but it was so much easier to be like "oh this looks like it's a modern version of [x] to compensate for the weaknesses of [y] but i can mentally treat it as filling a similar role" or whatever