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Breaking news : a single caterpillar excavator has more excavating power than all the toy shovels in the world together. I still find the approach of the articl
by kubiiii 13y ago
Breaking news : a single caterpillar excavator has more excavating power than all the toy shovels in the world together.
I still find the approach of the article interesting, but what would be relevant is to compare the power consumption of the bitcoins miners compared to the power consumption of all the personal computers in the world.
- logicallee 13y agoI know we're used to reimplmenting PONG at 0.5 fps on an 8088 vm shoehorned into pure CSS around here... (you know you would click) but this is ridiculous. Personal computers are 3 ghz * 2-4 cores * a billion devices.[1] It is huge! That's why we can work at layers that are 10 layers above what we're actually doing. Such as a style sheet interpreted by a browser. Try dropping down to C sometime. These machines are not toys. [1] random lazy link: http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-computers-are-there-in-the-world http://www.ask.com/question/how-many-computers-are-there-in-...