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I very specifically cited someone like you as being a person who has a valid complaint. I'm calling out people who get upset at the idea of a computer doing "wa
by gfodor 7y ago
I very specifically cited someone like you as being a person who has a valid complaint. I'm calling out people who get upset at the idea of a computer doing "wasteful" work, when that wasteful work has no meaningful impact on latency, responsiveness, power draw, etc. This is common and is a form of "visibility bias". For example, computers do not report their CPU cache miss rates in a highly visible place. I'd imagine if they did, you'd have countless people agonizing over them, despite the fact that in most cases a higher cache miss rate would not result in perceptible difference when using the computer.
- zapzupnz 7y ago> I'm calling out people who get upset at the idea of a computer doing "wasteful" work, when that wasteful work has no meaningful impact on latency, responsiveness, power draw, etc. But who gets to make that call? For every person out there who complaints that using voice chat in Discord on a MacBook Pro on battery causes the chassis to heat up, fans to kick into turbo boost, and the battery to dwindle — but only when using the .app, not when using the website through Firefox, there's another person who says "oh, but my computer doesn't do that". So then everybody who has a similar complaint as the first person is branded a liar and whiner.