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Re:Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully prog... by commonlisp94 on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:07AM (#37034641)
> I think there's a lot of nostalgia at play here

I don't think that's the case with latency, as we can measure that directly.

> There's a lot of ways in which modern computing is far nicer than it was in the past.

And resource consumption and latency isn't one of them.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully prog... by djur on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:29PM (#37036685)
My delight at lower latency pretty quickly evaporates in the face of a spinning hourglass. I'd rather have consistent availability at the expense of latency.
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