Ask HN: Shouldn’t we be turning an eye to power consumption?
by Damogran6 on Hacker News.
Our corporate policy is to fully scan our Hard Disks with AV weekly. It never finds anything. That’s 22,000 systems using a full CPU core every week…adding wear and heat and power consumption. Likewise, marketing for this fastest hardware generally consists of a product that’s 140% the cost, 110% of the performance, and 120% of the power consumed due to processor binning and supply/demand curves. SaaS is a bottomless hole where you throw your processing without thought of power consumption, just write a check and make it go away. Flight Simulator 2020 requires a 250gb download, every couple of months. Every endpoint, every cable modem, every Akamai cache. I don’t know how to even formulate the statement: Maybe consider your carbon footprint when performing that next full code compile?