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Discussion on: Does your website really need to be larger than Windows 95?

 
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Alain Van Hout

Engineers also always deal with trade-offs in effort vs ROI: material A is 10x as strong and/O durable as material B, but for this use-case the durability of material B already covers the buffer factor, so there is no point in using material A.

Cars get progressively reduce resource usage because

  • The resource is scarce enough for its cost to factor into the equation
  • Using the resource itself has a(n ecologica) cost, so legislation requires optimizations