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> It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script. Yes. That's precisely why my company runs dBase 7 on a fleet of old 286DX machine from Comp
by hackyhacky 7mo ago
> It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script.
Yes. That's precisely why my company runs dBase 7 on a fleet of old 286DX machine from Compaq. /s
Running obsolete software will be cheaper, but the value provided by the newer technology will make the difference insignificant.
- esseph 7mo agoI don't think so, because that carried efficiency scales. Why do 50,000 tasks with an LLM when I can do 64,467,235 without an LLM that the LLM created for the same cost on probably far lower cost hardware?
- duskdozer 7mo agoBecause in their ideal world, you won't have your own hardware beyond a secured thin client running only "approved" programs running on their servers.