Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments?

Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

Nice, I didn't think of that. I love the fanless trend in Apple macbook airs.

Back then I didn't foresee the 22GB image our jupyter/ML is in 2026. There must be a better way.

The first Xeon looks to be released 1998, so sounds about right

I still remember my first CPU with a heatsink. It seemed like a temporary dumb hack.