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Re:Tales of the M1 GPU by andrekandre on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:39PM (#33794951)
its a pretty amazing hack though

the human body can scale from 1 cell to several trillion without going down for maintenance even once all while differentiating to different functions

it can take a high level of damage and heal without needing a shutdown as well, most software crashes completely at the first exception

cells give you that highly scalable and fault tolerant system that we all want

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Re:Tales of the M1 GPU by ska on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:56PM (#33795081)
> without going down for maintenance even once

doesn't it go down for maintenance approximately once a day?

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Re:Tales of the M1 GPU by alluro2 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:27AM (#33797936)
It's more of a "sleep mode". There are still a lot of wakeups, and cron jobs running clean up of temporary files, cache management and backup routines. Background services still run.
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