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Re:A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk by moralestapia on Saturday May 21, 2022 @07:52PM (#31463408)
LOL, tech guys (me included) are SO detached from real life.

This is not a "just spin up more AWS instances" kind of thing.

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Re:A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk by Mountain_Skies on Saturday May 21, 2022 @08:00PM (#31463455)
Doesn't help that the build pipeline takes a long time to complete. By the time the build is done, the needs may have changed. Agriculture is not good at iterative development, at least not rapid iterative development.
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