bobbyraduloff

11 uur geledendiscuss

We had an incredible run with Zamund, RARBG and Arena. I’m still salty because I spent 15 years building up my ratio by repurposing old PCs as seed boxes even when I was a kid living with my parents. Too bad our govt is focused on piracy instead of the plethora of other cybercrimes that Bulgarians fall victim to on the daily.

bobbyraduloff

10 maanden geledendiscuss

> But far from demanding more electricity personal computers have become more efficient with laptops mostly replacing large standalone boxes, and software improvements reducing waste.

If only it was true, I reckon we’re using multiple-orders of magnitude more computational per $ of business objectives simply because of the crazy abstractions. For example, I know of multiple small HFT firms that are crypto market makers with their trading bots in Python. Many banks in my country have excel macros on top of SQL extensions on top of COBOL. We’ve not reduced waste in software but rather quite the opposite.

I don’t think this is super relevant to the articles point but I think it’s an under discussed topic.

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