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by z3t4 2567 days ago
There's nothing wrong with being resource efficient, but relatively SQL queries used to take two minutes, and the result printed on paper, and the whole machine cost two million.
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Yeah and sending a message to someone across the sea used to take months and probably wouldn’t even get there half the time, that doesn’t meant it’s not ridiculous that I can’t run two instances of slack without my computer melting.
the VR world where everything is HR enough that you can go to work inside the simulation. Like in various Sci-fi movies.