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Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?

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These are very good suggestion to make it go faster. However, it is also a distraction. My raison d'etre is not to make our infrastructure run fast on Apple's hardware, but to build our core product – again an argument to support my experience of the hardware. I actually think it is Apple's responsibility to make these things run fast. replace it with a native image This is not possible, as we work with a specific ve…

I don't agree that it's a distraction. You want to build your core product. You want your productivity to be high to do that. Part of that is being able to run tests with a fast turnaround so that you can be confident in your changes. Why would it be Apple's responsibility to make x86 optimized code run at native ARM speeds? That makes no sense to me. It's Apple's responsibility to make your upgrade path to ARM hardw…

Send you application to arkive.net: https://arkivedao.notion.site/Arkive-Job-Board-e1242a78aa4d4... I will make sure to fast track you to an interview.

You sound like a really good candidate. If you can develop and manage this type of optimisation in a startup with a teams of 3 that manages blockchain protocols, a web app, a mobile app, a multi modal service backend, and several integrations while also delivering on product faetures, then you are definitely the person we need!

Re: Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?

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do you have any data to support that?

Sure. Two good sources are: 1. Life Cycle Assessment of Fairphone 4, showing an estimated 75% of energy use occurring during production and 16% during the lifetime of use: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Fairpho... 2. Eco profile of a 13.5" Surface Laptop 5, showing 85% of energy use occurring during production and 12% during the lifetime of use: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmat…

What about for desktops? Servers operating at capacity? GPUs?
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