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by brolover 2961 days ago
Exactly. The amount of energy spent on heating and cooling is huge. Then it's transportation and agriculture. Then somewhere far behind is the whole Internet and efficient electronic devices.

I use the same argument when it comes to bitcoin. That stuff is so tiny in our profiler. Sane thing to do is to optimize the slowest functions.

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> efficient electronic devices

When hardware has a two year average life cycle, the environment is not benefiting from any of the hardware's efficient characteristics. You seem happy with your new phone though, I guess that's the main thing.

I'm using xperia mini st15i, personally optimized ROM. Yet still, no industry comes no where close to heating and cooling.

Let's optimize the slowest functions not tiny percentages.