alt Hacker NewsHardware is cheap ; human labor is not. Companies have figured out that the best way to extract monye from customers is to give them something that barely works now, rather then something that works great later.
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terseus • today at 7:24 AM
Is it, though? Can we really keep saying that "hardware will always be cheaper than human labour" when RAM prices are soaring, GPUs are becoming prohibitively expensive, and we're looking at a probably chip shortage?
I think the era of "poor software for fantastic hardware" is coming to an end.
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piokoch • today at 9:34 AM
That's not true if you are on cloud. Clumsily written software becomes really expensive to run.
> Hardware is cheap ; human labor is not.
Especially true when you're paying for neither hardware nor labor.
Writing inefficient client-side software, whether it's desktop or webshit, makes the customers / users pay for the hardware, and pay with their time.