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No need of a ball and infrastructure when you really want to play
edit: although I probably wouldn't trust the source when reading about Middle East conflicts...
Perhaps check in your country if that isn’t true as well, people automatically assume IKEA killed all local shops, but there are many out there if you search for them.
I think we spend around 5k in aws, and I’m pretty sure we could be much more performant for a fraction of that price.
The problem is, who is going to setup everything? Hiring someone would for sure cost more than 5k
It blows my mind how no other country in the world wants to follow their example on this. Are they too proud to copy a third world country? Even when it’s doing some things better?
I’m conflicted about it, seems like a good convenience, but I wouldn’t want my team to get dependent on an exclusive feature of a single provider
The article is just trying to find an historical explanation on why something so inefficient became norm in modern civilization, there’s no sexism here…
Any chance of elaborating on that? I’m new here, so I don’t get it
But I think they are comparing the wrong values, as Xcode 26 seems to run the benchmark slower than Xcode 16
This is not about big increases of productivity, this is whole thing about selling dependence on privately controlled, closed source tools. To concentrate even more power in the hands of a very few, morally questionable people.
(I don’t have the link to the video, but hopefully someone else remembers this joke)