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Re:Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all th... by fragsworth on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:57PM (#13112362)
I'm not sure how this relates to the article?
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Re:Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all th... by orware on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:17AM (#13112429)
I believe the comment is referring to how the newer ARM CPUs in smartphones utilize small battery efficient cores for basic stuff and can ramp up to more power hungry cores for the heavy stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE
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Re:Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all th... by GavinMcG on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:19AM (#13112434)
It's offering the smartphone as an analogy for the behavior described in the article.
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