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What doesn’t scale well is John Carmack (and those of similar devotion). And yes, I’m aware that there are also those with the chops, who are not permitted by

• bottled_poe 5y ago
  Those “money masters” are responding to market conditions. If the market demanded greater efficiency (eg. Through climate policy for example), we would quickly see a change in priorities.
  • Dah00n 5y ago
    So basically we need a climate tax on software to fix the problem. Putting the tax directly at energy would not cause much optimization in software in my opinion. I don't believe software development has a culture than can take on responsibility of its actions, neither in energy usage nor in security, which all leads back to programmers not being an engineer kind of worker but more like an author/writer. Hardware engineers on the other hand can and often do take responsibility. All in all I don't have any hope of software developers being up to the task if it landed in their lap to fix this so if we wanted their hand forced the tax needs to be directly on software instead of hardware or energy. I don't believe this is mainly market driven as the market is unlikely to be able to fix it. It's at least as much a culture problem.
• hasmanean 5y ago
  Yeah, doom advanced the state of the art by maybe a decade(?). Instead of needing a silicon graphics workstation or a Graphics accelerator, it allows a generation of kids to play on any hardware. If you want to know how the world would be like without video game programmers, just like at internal corporate software and how slow it is. How many other advances are we tossing away because people don’t know how to optimize and code for speed and fun!
• photojosh 5y ago
  I think of John Carmack as the software equivalent of Roger Bannister, he of the first 4 minute mile. Yes, he is absolutely incredible, but once that magic is revealed to the world, it shows what is achievable and people can follow in his footsteps. Of course, I'm over here with my poky 6 minute mile...