• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.

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        2 months ago

        An entire state government could run on your phone but requires an entire data center because it’s written in JavaScript that emulates the original COBOL code that ran the government in the 1960’s.

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            2 months ago

            “State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.

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                2 months ago

                Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores

                US population has grown 25% from the year 2000. Other than Anti AI detection, everything worked on the hardware of 25 years ago. Single core performance has gone up more than 25% over the past 25 years.