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Re:Scaling to 100k Users by thereisnospork on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:02PM (#22252565)
> a low power machine (a human) to reduce significantly the long-term power usage of a high-powered machine (a computer or cluster thereof).

That seems a sad view on the value of a person.

Shouldn't the whole point of technology and infrastructure be to allow a person to use more resources so as to better[0] allocate their limited time?

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Re:Scaling to 100k Users by filoleg on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:21AM (#22253611)
A lot of people tend to not consider time invested as a measurable resource, and that is a sad thing indeed, as that is one resource that can only be spent.
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Re:Scaling to 100k Users by gmueckl on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:31AM (#22256189)
You're entirely missing the point. If I'm spending a month to optimize some code so that it is 25% faster, these gains don't go away again once I'm done optimizing. They stay in the product for months or years. And this is where the effort pays off.
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