i guess these "depreciation crowd" have never deploy and worked in data center space at all or even spend 10 minutes talking to people who actually worked in that space. Before they start spouting non-sense and regurgitate opinion without even doing basic fact check.
In bloomberg server room we still have hardware from pre y2k era. Running on ancient custom optimized c++ code that has diverge from the main release for multiple decades. No one dare to modernize it for fearing it will break sht and its shtty code still make millions for us each month. Dont fix it if it aint broken is practiced lot more often than you expected.
It’s much harder to cure things. This argument doesn’t hold water when you consider a whole number of treatments that have been developed. We cure more cancer than ever before. We have cured hepatitis c for a large number of people that previously would have eventually went on to have liver failure. You’re more than welcome to spend the rest of your life researching, no one will stop you.
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