[decimalenough]

I can't recall cost ever coming up as a consideration during my years of formal computer science studies in school. Big-O efficiency, sure, but the cost of compute, storage, bandwidth, nope, not once.

It was absolutely hammered into me in the years of working for startups that followed, though.

[loloquwowndueo]

Just noticed you did say computer science, not computer engineering. Two very different things.