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by throw0101a 1519 days ago
> 3) Economics is a key component of engineering. There is a cost to everything, the computational power, the energy needed by the servo, etc, etc. Given 1 and 2, a dynamic solution simply has a lower ROI than a static one.

A 'joke' we had in engineering school: Anyone can design something to do X for $5, but it's an engineer's job to get the same results for $3.