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Re:Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughou... by the_other on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:12AM (#41625248)
Extracting energy from the environment is a prerequisite for living.

“Extracting” information must be among the lowest energy level consumptions. In many cases it’s a (lossy) copy action rather than a subtraction.

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Re:Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughou... by vouaobrasil on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:51AM (#41625505)
The point is not quantitative, but philosophical. The attitude is the problem, not the absolute cost. The attitude is what propagates more serious problems, and that is what engineer types often fail to understand.
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Re:Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughou... by mewpmewp2 on Monday September 23, 2024 @11:53AM (#41627422)
What makes me sad is people spending more time commenting on Hackernews, but not as much time helping starving kids in Africa.
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Re:Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughou... by vouaobrasil on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:23PM (#41630740)
If it does, that's your right. And I agree that in part spending so much time with technology is senseless.
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