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by Chabsff 189 days ago
In the grand scheme of things, we've only had about a quarter century where you needed a *very* specific kind of problem where prosumer hardware wasn't adequate across computer science as a whole.

It's kind of amazing we got that at all for a while.

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If you discard the early days of gigantic expensive computers. I guess it's come full circle after a fashion.