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by acpetrov 2661 days ago
The Alexa bit really shows that processing speed or "cheapness" doesn't always matter. The VM in AWS that eventually does that hex addition could have done 10^N more of those same additions in the time it takes Alexa to hear the question and respond.

But, humans are big and laggy, and I don't know if I could type in the question to Google or even a terminal faster than getting the answer from Alexa.