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> Your computer is probably 95% idle. Just saying. On that point, my next machine will be in the cloud. 32 GB laptops cost around $1,500. For the same cost I
by tome 6y ago
> Your computer is probably 95% idle. Just saying.
On that point, my next machine will be in the cloud. 32 GB laptops cost around $1,500. For the same cost I can buy 6,250 hours on a VPS ($.24 / hr) which is three years' working-hours use. It's even cheaper if I only need all 32 GB for a fraction of the time.
In return I get zero risk of theft, zero risk of hardware faults, zero capital outlay. The best part is that I can try it for a month for $10[1] and if I don't like it I can revert to the status quo!
[1] I'll probably start with an 8 GB machine
- klodolph 6y agoNot that long ago, I provisioned a VM for myself and started doing some development there. I wanted to compile a fairly large project, so I stopped the VM, changed it to a much larger instance (32 CPUs, 128 GB memory) and ran make -j32. The build finished ten or fifteen minutes later, and I swapped it back out for a smaller instance. It’s nice.