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I'd rather not have websites soak up my compute resources, thanks. They are already doing that many times too much for my taste.
by topaz0 4y ago
I'd rather not have websites soak up my compute resources, thanks. They are already doing that many times too much for my taste.
- mschuetz 4y agoYou're free to disable features you don't like. For others, this is good news.
- topaz0 4y agoIncredible insight, but I fear it won't work out well: when the option is there and ubiquitous, websites will rely on it, so disabling features is basically choosing to save some of my resources in exchange for a broken web experience.
- mschuetz 4y agoSince I'm doing 3D graphics in Web Browsers, I consider not having 3D graphics APIs in Web Browsers a broken web experience. The browser is the easiest and safest way to distribute applications with virtually no entry barrier to users. I don't trust downloading just any binary and therefore I won't execute them unless they are from a trusted source. But with 3D in browsers, I can trust any web site not do damage my system and try a large amount of experiences that others create and upload.
- topaz0 4y agoThere are applications where the point is 3d graphics. I don't object to letting them use my gpu if they ask nicely. There are other applications -- really the vast majority of them -- where 3d graphics is completely beside the point, and has nothing to do with the reason I'm on your website. That is my concern: that that second class, being the vast majority, will say, "hey, I have access to all this compute power, why don't I just throw some of it at this needless animation that I think looks cool, or at this neural network, or at this cryptominer". Past experience suggests that this is a reasonable concern.
- cyral 4y agoIronically by hardware accelerating those resources, they will be less noticeable.
- topaz0 4y agoWhat do you think there will be more of: a) existing functionality moves to more efficient implementation on gpu, or b) "hey, we can use gpus now, let's shove some more compute-intensive features into this app that add nothing but make it seem more innovative".
- cyral 4y agoIf whatever compute intensive feature they come up with wasn't possible on the CPU, I highly doubt it is a bloated useless feature they are adding just for the heck of it.
- Lichtso 4y ago> Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use increases its demand, increasing, rather than reducing, resource use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
- account42 4y agoParkinson's law says no.