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Kind of interesting to think how much money/energy this can save across the planet
by droopyEyelids 7y ago
Kind of interesting to think how much money/energy this can save across the planet
- TylerE 7y agoSeems like near zero. RAM is specced based on worse case, generally - and it's not like this is going to save that much anyway since it's not user-space memory.
- vbezhenar 7y agoUnused RAM usually is utilized for filesystem caches. So more cache, less disk usage, less power usage. Though difference must be truly negligible. Those trends of computing ecology terrifying me. People are talking about truly insignificant things. Yes, at large scale even 0.001% of energy saving seems like a significant number. But large scale is planetary scale and now on that scale it's again rounding error.
- TylerE 7y agoIf you want to save energy, do everything you can to kill cryptocurrency. Now THAT is some obscene waste of energy.
- imhoguy 7y agoI wonder how much impact would uninstalling social apps from smartphones have. Getting rid of FB, TW, WA clients pooling made my phone run for 2 days without charging vs 1 previously. Now at 1 billion users scale...
- xmodem 7y agoWell, the Jevons paradox would probably apply to any significant gains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
- dmead 7y agoit's definitely not zero. if you have a million machines in your data centers then it easily adds up to something quantifiable.