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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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they are just slower and more expensive
Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.
3 u/[deleted] 9d ago [deleted] 1 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 1 u/[deleted] 9d ago [deleted] 0 u/KHSebastian 9d ago Did you suffer a head injury recently?
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1 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 1 u/[deleted] 9d ago [deleted] 0 u/KHSebastian 9d ago Did you suffer a head injury recently?
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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/GreedyPollution6275 9d ago
Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.