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Optimizations? Never heard of it (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Shady_Shiroe to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

There was a financial calculator from HP that they made for decades. The newer ones were so fast doing large mortgage calculations that the users didn't trust it, so they intentionally slowed down the results.

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