In no other industry a engineer would think like that...except in IT.
We definitely have too powerful and cheap Hardware, combined with lazy Wetware who just wants to "call it a day"....be proud of your work....or so they say.
You think engineers in other industries won't sometimes choose the more exciting option when a boring but well-understood one would do the trick? That's definitely not true in (at least) mechanical and electrical engineering from what I've seen. From people spending millions trying to have the entire factory operated by robots so they could save 100k on humans to engineers specifying friction stir welders for the most basic of welding jobs, overengineering of parts that would make the people at Juicero blush, etc etc etc.
I have no idea why software people think their industry is the only one where people cut corners. Some form of meta-imposter syndrome perhaps.
>From people spending millions trying to have the entire factory operated by robots so they could save 100k on humans to engineers specifying friction stir welders for the most basic of welding jobs
Look, I come from that industry (metalworking), if you do friction stir where it's not needed you should be kicked out of your job, but wonder, I've never heard of such a thing in reality, don't tell me you're buying another friction stir cnc to save 100k "on people", friction stir is slow, expensive and any robot can weld (normal welding) faster.
Yes people are expensive, but un-optimised work is even more expensive (on factory level), NO ONE in the metal industry would do something like this if it was not necessary (well except the defence sector, because those guys are crazy and have unlimited money).
Most things in life are a compromise and it's easy to get tempted to find the perfect solution instead of spending your time on actually moving forward.
In all industries there is always something you can do better if only you spend more time. But at most places time is worth money and I'd say $3000 for a few SSDs is little enough to not make this worth my time.
In no other industry a engineer would think like that...except in IT.
We definitely have too powerful and cheap Hardware, combined with lazy Wetware who just wants to "call it a day"....be proud of your work....or so they say.