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		the8472 on April 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone is still terrible at creating software at... > Any random access structured programming language completely breaks down for working with GBs of data, in parallel and on a cluster of machines. Why would you need a cluster of machines to work on mere gigabytes? You can get single-processor machines with terabytes of ram. Even laptops come with 64GB now.

oblio on April 10, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, big data these days should be petabytes of data or at most high hundreds of terabytes coupled with very intensive access patterns.

sebastialonso on April 11, 2021 | [–]

It's almost like the parent comment is just putting keywords together instead of a coherent argument!

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