3 ms·
The sad thing about this is that I'm dreaming up ways to use it when I had no real use for it previously. There is no rational reason for this.
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
The sad thing about this is that I'm dreaming up ways to use it when I had no real use for it previously.
There is no rational reason for this.
- garyrichardson 17y agoYes there is: if you have work to be done with a low priority and no deadline, it's perfect. For example, I bet the EC2 bill would be cheaper than my electric bill if I wanted to run SETI@home on a bunch of instances when it dropped below a certain mark. The tech didn't exist 2 weeks ago, but now that it does there is a whole class of problems that can be solved more easily.
- patio11 17y agoI did exactly the same thing. Why, with just a few dozen hours of hard work, I could probably slice 10% off my $150 a month server bill! And it would make pretty graphs and take cool algorithms and be so much cooler than A/B testing button colors even if that would be about 20 times more effective per unit of effort. My job as a business owner is to ruthlessly soulcrush the engineer in me some days.