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All of these shenanigans are just dancing around the intractable problem which is - nobody ever figured out a way to produce reliable estimates.


That’s because you’re dealing with a pile of abstractions on top of the cpu, data storage and channels that connect them all. You’re perched on top of the babel tower trying to figure where to put the next stone without everything crumbling around you. And you don’t even know the shape of the stone. You only have a vague description of it.

Just too many unknowns.




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