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Don't complain about things that already have obvious solutions.

A lot of programmers think investing in hardware is stupid, because they think "if it was just coded more efficiently, I wouldn't have to".

If my car can't pull a trailer that's too heavy, I can complain that the trailer is too heavy and spend way too much time hauling stuff. Or I can buy a car that's better suited for the job and do more work in one day.

That's a stupid analogy of course, because a machine with 32Gb of RAM often costs less than what you make in a week. Stop complaining, just deal with it.



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