17 karma · joined July 27, 2014
It starts about cutting costs by the choice of infrastructure and goes further to less resource hungry tools and cheaper services. But never compares the cost of these things. Do I save actually the upgrade to a bigger server by using Go and sqlite over let's say Python and postgres? Or does it not even matter when you have just n many users. Then I do not understand why at one point the convenience of using OpenRouter is preferred over managing multiple API keys, when that should be cheaper and a cost point that could increase faster than your infrastructure costs.
There are some more points, but I do not want to write a long comment.
Here a pic for comparison: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationales_Congress_Centr...
The fee for the TU Berlin is composed of:
Verwaltungsgebühr (gem. § 2 Abs. 7 BerlHG) (administrative fee)
50,00 €
Beitrag zur Studierendenschaft (Contribution to the student body)
8,70 €
Beitrag zum Studentenwerk (Contribution to the Student Services)
48,77 €
Beitrag zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the semester ticket)
179,40 €
Beitrag zum Sozialfonds zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the Social Fund for Semesterticket)
3,50 €
= 290,37 €
Of course it is still much cheaper than to study in other countries. But the fees are growing and you have to pay for the semester ticket, which is essentially a ticket for all public transportation in Berlin, even though you wouldn't need it.
*Translated with Google Translator