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Except he provides no evidence this is true, and in fact, it's almost certainly 100% not true ;-) Hint: the power draw on these watches is not from drawing. O
by DannyBee 11y ago
Except he provides no evidence this is true, and in fact, it's almost certainly 100% not true ;-)
Hint: the power draw on these watches is not from drawing.
On phones, with powerful CPU's, the display is usually 10x the draw of the CPU (depends on the CPU).
On a watch, what do you think that ratio is?
- exabrial 11y agoI have this weird feeling his statement might have been a joke, rather than to be taken literally as an engineering calculation. Nawh, I'm probably wrong.
- lionet 11y agoToday I learned that even HN trolls may not always understand a concept of trolling. It was indeed a joke. (author).
- DannyBee 11y agoAs a joke, it's stupid. Because it is basically "look at these idiots drawing pngs". Except they aren't idiots, because if it worked, helped them develop faster, and doesn't actually matter, it's actually probably the right thing to do. So it just makes him look ignorant.
- monochromatic 11y agoJokes are funny when they contain an element of truth. There's a difference between hyperbole and being wrong.