From: rja.carnegie@gmail.com   
      
   On 15/02/2026 16:55, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:11:51 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   > Dorsey) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:19:59 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> "A penny's worth of better algorithm is worth a million dollars   
   >>>>   worth of better hardware."   
   >>>>       -- gus baird   
   >>>   
   >>> Was that back when programmers were being paid pennies to program   
   >>> computers worth millions of dollars?   
   >>   
   >> Yes, as opposed today when programmers are paid pennies to write   
   >> programs run on millions of computers each worth only a few dollars.   
   >   
   > Then shouldn't the "penny" be adjusted for inflation?   
      
   Code review alone costs more nowadays...   
      
   Charles Stross's fixup _Accelerando_ eventually   
   imagines planets converted entirely to computing   
   matter, probably operating as optimally as   
   possible, but there is reasonable doubt that   
   it is doing anything useful.  Doubt only, because   
   living humans are no longer in the Solar System -   
   so how could they tell?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)