If you could have spun up a Tevatron at will for $10, would the culture be the s...

		reitzensteinm on Aug 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old co... If you could have spun up a Tevatron at will for $10, would the culture be the same today? I suspect that software really is different in this way, and treating it like it's complex, one off hardware is cultural inertia that's going to fade away.