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locknitpickertoday at 10:33 AM1 replyview on HN

> There is a good reason: teaching yourself not to over-engineer, over-provision, or overthink, (...)

This is specious reasoning. You don't prevent anything by adding artificial constraints. To put things in perspective, Hetzner's cheapest vCPU plan comes with 4GB of RAM.


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sgarlandtoday at 11:58 AM

If I give you a box with 1 GiB of RAM, you are literally forced to either optimize your code to run in it, or accept the slowdown from paging. How is this specious?

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