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Re:Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the ... by leonroy on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:32AM (#17282465)
> many IT systems will schedule some tasks during the night when there is not much going on

Indeed, it’s natural that we do this but kind of funny when you consider that our machines now have their own circadian rhythms in tune with ours.

What might our IT infrastructure look like if humans evolved to sleep far less or not at all I wonder!

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Re:Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the ... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:02AM (#17283534)
> What might our IT infrastructure look like if humans evolved to sleep far less or not at all I wonder!

Sounds like your typical developer or sysadmin to me, so probably not much different at all. ;)

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Re:Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the ... by maushu on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:04AM (#17283078)
> What might our IT infrastructure look like if humans evolved to sleep far less or not at all I wonder!

We probably would have started with multi-core systems much sooner.

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