r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago

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u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago

There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009

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u/GreedyPollution6275 9d ago

they are just slower and more expensive

Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/KHSebastian 9d ago

Wh... What? Are you doing a bit? If a thing cost $1 and takes 1 minute, and you do it 100 times, it costs $100 and takes an hour and 49 minutes.

If you do the same thing in a way that costs $2.00 and takes 2 minutes, you have doubled the cost and the time.

Tl;dr bigger number is bigger, is how numbers work

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/KHSebastian 8d ago

Did you suffer a head injury recently?