j245

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1. 61.▲
   by j245 5y ago

   Imo this is a bad analogy. I would say it’s more akin to Kia and BMW. The proportion of potential users priced out of owning a Mac vs. a PC is much lower than Ferrari vs. Kia What I mean to say is - customer base for Mac vs. PC overlap alot
2. 62.▲
   by j245 5y ago

   This record was set ~3 months after someone else did it for 50 days. From an engineering stand point, performance of components or materials are always assumed to be much worse than actual and the forces / conditions they are subject t
3. 63.▲
   by j245 5y ago

   Neat - but not interesting from a technological stand point.
4. 64.▲
   by j245 5y ago

   I’ve always wondered - would the effort to develop such software be lower, because the hardware is more forgiving. In which case you are trading human (software development) time for hardware resources. If that were the case, it seems like
5. 65.▲
   by j245 5y ago

   Why pay 5x ? If you wait - you’ll get a 20x machine at current prices. This is what Moore’s law is about ? I.e. Density (~= proxy for compute) doubling at some fixed period.
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   by j245 5y ago

   Phew ! - That’s only one or two years of suffering for the Afghan population. Who cares ?! /s