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i wish they could pair these with what the body feels like. the words mean nothing, each of these slices could just as well be a random emoji to me.
you don't really need to be an avid player to have an opinion on the visuals.
sometimes you need a machine that makes things up according to a given specification.
you probably made that cop's night
data centers are mainly air-cooled, and two innovations contribute to the water waste.
the first one was "free cooling", where instead of using a heat exchanger loop you just blow (filtered) outside air directly over the servers and out again, meaning you don't have to "get rid" of waste heat, you just blow it right out.
the second one was increasing the moisture content of the air on the way in with what is basically giant carburettors in the air stream. the wetter the air, the more heat it can take from the servers.
so basically we now have data centers designed like cloud machines.
Edit: Also, apparently the water they use becomes contaminated and they use mainly potable water. here's a paper on it
you are framing a fundamental issue with the system as a positive, which is confusingly common for crypto advocates.
i'm not interested in this conversation.
this reads like a mad rant.
first of all, bitcoin in its original form was meant to be used as a transaction log between banks. it was never meant to be a currency on its own, which can be seen in the fact that efforts in scaling up to more than a few million users consistently fail.
in practice, all cryptocurrencies result in a centralisation of power by default, whether they use proof of work or proof of stake, because they are built so that people with more resources outside the network can more easily get sway over the system. by either simply buying more hardware than anyone else (for pow) or pooling more of the limited resource (for pos) they can control the entire thing.
cryptocurrencies are a libertarian solution to the problem of capitalism, which is to say, a non-solution. the actual solution is to limit the use of financial incentives. i'd wager most people on lemmy would rather abolish currency altogether than go to crypto.
in the case of anubis one could argue that the goal is to save energy. if too much energy is being spent by crawlers they might be configured to auto-skip anubis-protected sites to save money.
also, i'd say the tech behind crypto is interesting but that it should never have been used in a monetary context. proof of stake doesn't help there, since it also facilitates consolidation of capital.
is it not pommes frites? fried apples?
okay, git using the same algorithm may have been a bad example. let's go with video games then. the energy usage for the fraction of a second it takes for the anubis challenge-response dance to complete, even on phones, is literally nothing compared to playing minecraft for a minute.
if you're mining, you do billions of cycles of sha256 calculations a second for hours every day. anubis does maybe 1000, once, if you're unlucky. the method of "verification" is the wrong thing to be upset at, especially since it can be changed
steam that runs turbines tends to be recirculated. that's already in the paper.