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Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.
Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.
Wasn't expecting this under a random unrelated post. A very welcome comment nonetheless.
Never forget that the exponential boom of renewable energy tech the last 20 years has entirely served as additional energy, not as replacement of fossil fuels.
Unexpected but entirely welcome.
People do forget this all too often.
Cheaper stuff, use more , value less.
20 years ago there were 2000000000 fewer people in the world.
too many zeroes I can't read that number omg
That was my point
LKML and patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0fc810ae3ae110f9e2fcccce80fc8c8d62f97907
He cites his work as being a variant of a patch submitted by another developer, Josh Poimboeuf. It's a team effort folks :)
Yeah, one man did hours of profiling and the other made the patch more elegant lol
Kind of like the butcher who got his hands dirty cutting a steak and then a Michelin star chef cooking it for you.
One got his hands bloody. The other made it delectable for you to eat.
Which is more important to the process?
Nobody ever gives the cow any credit....
Like the Linux kernel, the cow is merely a means to an end in this example.
Damn, those are not rookie numbers!
ITT: one reasonable comment about the topic and a shit ton of Putinist apologizers and hexbear brigading
Edit: three comments
More like a shitton of people with no knowledge about who actually worked on this patch erecting a personality cult around their new NATO hero.
It sucks that it overshadows the actual news.
On the plus side, this post serves as a wonderful tool to clean up some garbage users/servers.
Still not saying it's any good after he became geopolitical.
Huh?
Had a stroll through his profile and he's clearly only here to troll.
He is a finn, what do you expect from him? I fully support his position
Well, when you put it like that, I expect him to join the Israeli death squads "out of pragmatism"
after he became geopolitical.
I don't see him becoming Putin
alright, chill
cool
This has to be a record for the most downvoted comment on Lemmy, holy moly. This is a huge absolute margin even for reddit.
Well I am the most controversial Lemmy user. That was expected after getting a lot of upvotes.
The discussion on LKML was so civilised compared to this one.
I wonder what the phoronix one is like...
What's the catch? Only on a specific price of hardware? Or is this an improvement on any hardware?