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Re:Barilla Passive Cooker by vasco on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:44AM (#33502022)
> A thousand small changes add up, however

You also start optimising your computer programs not by targeting the function that takes 90% of the time, but the utility method that takes 0.0001%, I see.

"Every little bit counts" thinking is one of the most destructive in society.

Re:Barilla Passive Cooker by Arn_Thor on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:43AM (#33503574)
Nice straw man. Well done.

I'll gladly take an extra few minutes to make my pasta if it saves a lot of energy and emissions. But you do you, bud

Re:Barilla Passive Cooker by vasco on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:32AM (#33506220)
It doesn't save a lot, while making you feel good for optimizing something very close to 100% useless, that's the whole point of my argument.