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Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste?
by TylerE 3y ago
Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste?
- avoid3d 3y agoVery pedantic but I’d want to know. A watt is a unit of power, which means gigawatts per day is a rate of change of power. If you want a unit of energy you need power multiplied by time not divided, so “gigawatt days” not “gigawatts per day”.
- Faaak 3y agoMaybe they meant "gigawatt-hours per day"
- protomolecule 3y agoWhich gives you power again, not work. "gigawatt-hours per day" = gigawatt/24
- stephen_g 3y agoIf you consider that watt hours is just a convenience unit for (3600) joules, then “1 gigawatt hour each day” correctly should be “3600 GJ/day” which works.
- geon 3y agoWhich is a reasonable metric.
- protomolecule 3y agoExpressed in an unreasonable way.
- Etheryte 3y agoGigawatt hours per day is just gigawatt hours per 24 hours, so just gigawatts but divided.
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- IAmGraydon 3y agoI’m not following. Why would disabling the GPU use more power? If anything, I would think it would reduce power consumption.
- TylerE 3y agoHardware implantations of things like graphics routines can be hundreds of time more efficient than software implementations running on general purpose CPUs. Try to decode mpeg video at HD resolution in software sometime.
- chii 3y agosurely, the user will be taught to enable the hardware for video if they start seeing stutter. Or the browser can prompt the user to switch to "high-end graphics" if it detects prolonged video decoding. If a website that has no obvious case for using the GPU, but is instead using it to fingerprint, then the user won't experience any slow downs from a software renderer (as it is usually done relatively quickly). If a website needs the GPU for their videos/graphics, but also incidentally wants to fingerprint you, you're shit out of luck in that case. But this is no worse than what we have current day.
- TylerE 3y agoOh expect users to understand this? The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies?
- pietro72ohboy 3y ago> Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste? It would still be way less than what large companies are burning on training proprietary LLMs. Do you think the ChatGPT model you use daily was the success at first go? And in that same world, consumers should not even try to protect themselves from GPU fingerprinting? > The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies? Stop with the condescension. It's not about being confused; it's about mitigating genuine privacy concerns. We're not idiots, and dismissing genuine worries won't make the issues disappear.
- dylan604 3y agoIs it anywhere close to the amount wasted on mining shadycoins?
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoJust a guess, 1.21 GW?