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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by sudosysgen on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:14PM (#31951311)
10 cents for 1 million boilers is only 100k. That's about the price of an additional engineer, so it may very well be worth it to move up in abstraction instead.
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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by scoutt on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:03PM (#31952880)
What should I do with an extra engineer? Should I hire one just for the sake of moving up in abstraction?

100k saved is 100k earned. Half a Ferrari.

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Re:What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers? by sudosysgen on Saturday July 02, 2022 @12:20AM (#31956207)
It's exactly the reverse. You need fewer engineers because it's going to be much easier to write the same code at a higher level of abstraction. So you can have that engineer work on something that's going to make you revenue, or hire one less dev.
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