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I don't think we can have 'too much' CPU or RAM. The stuff I'm working on as a single software consultant, give me a budget of 100k and I can put out software
by skim_milk 5y ago
I don't think we can have 'too much' CPU or RAM. The stuff I'm working on as a single software consultant, give me a budget of 100k and I can put out software using .Net Core and Angular that you would have needed a 10 million dollar budget in the 90's to make due to code being tied up around the restrictions of hardware. The productivity improvements from fast CPUs and large amounts of RAM are enormous and enables small businesses to use or make custom, niche, high-quality tech for next to nothing, just get someone who knows HTML and javascript well enough. It really lubricates society making us all less rigid and dependent on huge corporations and their access to capital and investment to produce social change.
- jfrunyon 5y agoSure, $100k, plus another $100k for the latest and greatest hardware every few years (or worse yet to rent a small chunk of not-latest-or-greatest hardware for a year), plus another $100k for the software licenses...
- pillefitz 5y agoMost Win95 applications were way snappier than any recent Webapp I've used or developed.