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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by recursive on Monday April 10, 2023 @01:57PM (#35515204)
The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by teraflop on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:02PM (#35515269)
No, it makes sense. The parent is talking about continuous power measured in megawatts, i.e. megawatt-hours per hour, or megawatt-days per day.

300 million users * 4 hours/day * 5 watts = an average continuous savings of 250 MW.

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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by recursive on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:04PM (#35515287)
Ok, I get it now. This does make sense.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by arnaudsm on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:02PM (#35515267)
No typo, I meant Watts. I averaged the 4 hours per day
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by hgomersall on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:01PM (#35515255)
It was not so well explained, but the GP does mean averaged over 24 hours, the power requirement is 250MW.
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Re:Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox... by xdavidliu on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:02PM (#35515272)
one way it could just be mW is if he/she meant “a coal power plant for the 5 years that the bug was active”
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