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i killed mine

yes

off-topic: anyone else’s plant dying

but big data is slow

until they need big data

so everyone else wins

laptop is for everyone else

distributed is for big companies

i just drink tea now

off-topic: anyone else’s coffee machine broken

still slow

until you need them

lol

distributed systems are overrated

same

off-topic: anyone else’s wifi acting up

but scaling is hard

until they need to scale

so solo devs win

laptop is for solo devs

distributed is for teams

my cat is fine

off-topic: anyone else’s cat doing weird stuff

good point

laptop crashes too

but crashes happen

laptop is for not crashing

distributed is for fault tolerance

me neither

nope