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Re:Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint by theoreticalmal on Monday May 19, 2025 @08:52AM (#44029334)
The “time to talk about grown up…” is a bit much.
Re:Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint by rob_c on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:24PM (#44063605)
No, electronics at scale isn't the same as a 9v and filament bulb. There's real effects which aren't overly observable in a small setup that need to be addressed.

It's like pretending all of compiling is a direct translation to a lower language all the way down. It's not you make changes, adapt and optimise for the language and system you're in not just write Fortran in assembly