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> Knowing that my computing resources just sit there unused bothers me. Why? Does it bother you also that your car isn't driving when parked? Nothing bad about

> Knowing that my computing resources just sit there unused bothers me. Why? Does it bother you also that your car isn't driving when parked? Nothing bad about an idling CPU. Less power consumed, less CO2 produced.

puttycat 3y ago
Another reason not to own a car...
hunter2_ 3y ago
My take is that it's not about creating new workloads, but about letting the natural increase in other people's workloads run on existing processors instead of driving demand to create new processors. The same logic would apply to cars. The problem is, those workloads should be performed in a data center, not in a distributed residential fashion, for power efficiency that would likely be green enough to overshadow the extra manufacturing. The same logic would apply to cars: manufacture trains instead.
542354234235 3y ago
>Does it bother you also that your car isn't driving when parked? Yes, absolutely. I hate that my car sits all night, unused. then it sits in a work parking lot all day, again unused. I hate that 90% of the time, my car is just a waste of space, costing me money while depreciating right in front of my eyes, and that is if it don't have some sort of expensive problem that needs to be fixed.
UtopiaPunk 3y ago
This is a major problem, actually. Cars sit parked more often than they drive, usually. Parking a car requires kind of a lot of space, like a parking lot or a garage. Car users also expect to have a parking space at their destination, which is another parking space. Added up, the land devoted to parking is a lot. That land isn't serving any other purpose either, it can't even be nature (no plants can grown and rainwater can't permeate into the soil). That land also costs money, so that makes housing and commercial rent more expensive. If we shifted our transportation styles to be less reliant on car ownership (public transit, bicycles, walking, or even car rental/rideshares), that land could be put to much better use, such as building housing, parks, or wildlife preservation areas. More discussion on this happening right now over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758355

puttycat 3y ago

Another reason not to own a car...

hunter2_ 3y ago

My take is that it's not about creating new workloads, but about letting the natural increase in other people's workloads run on existing processors instead of driving demand to create new processors. The same logic would apply to cars. The problem is, those workloads should be performed in a data center, not in a distributed residential fashion, for power efficiency that would likely be green enough to overshadow the extra manufacturing. The same logic would apply to cars: manufacture trains instead.

542354234235 3y ago

>Does it bother you also that your car isn't driving when parked? Yes, absolutely. I hate that my car sits all night, unused. then it sits in a work parking lot all day, again unused. I hate that 90% of the time, my car is just a waste of space, costing me money while depreciating right in front of my eyes, and that is if it don't have some sort of expensive problem that needs to be fixed.

UtopiaPunk 3y ago

This is a major problem, actually. Cars sit parked more often than they drive, usually. Parking a car requires kind of a lot of space, like a parking lot or a garage. Car users also expect to have a parking space at their destination, which is another parking space. Added up, the land devoted to parking is a lot. That land isn't serving any other purpose either, it can't even be nature (no plants can grown and rainwater can't permeate into the soil). That land also costs money, so that makes housing and commercial rent more expensive. If we shifted our transportation styles to be less reliant on car ownership (public transit, bicycles, walking, or even car rental/rideshares), that land could be put to much better use, such as building housing, parks, or wildlife preservation areas. More discussion on this happening right now over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758355