The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

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Post by rudenoise » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 11:23 AM UTC

The Hidden Life of an Amazon User
janavirgin.com

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Post by bransonf » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 7:13 AM UTC

off topic, but I first read the domain as Java Virgin and had a good chuckle...only to realize that I misread

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Post by rootw0rm » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

pretty cool art project, thanks for sharing.

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Post by graphememes » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 8:09 AM UTC

90% of the code is jQuery / third-party (also includes jquery / polyfills) / polyfills btw.

At some point, convenience wins.

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Post by isoprophlex » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 8:10 AM UTC

Shouldn't there be figures in watts (a measure of power) rather than watt-hours (measure of energy) on the project page?

Right now it seems to me there's non-monotonically increasing energy expenditure when looking at the Wh figures.

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Post by ginko » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC

>The average amount of energy needed to load each of the twelve web interfaces, along with each one’s endless fragments of code, was 30 watts.

What is that supposed to mean? A watt(= 1 J/s) is a measure power so energy per unit of time. Shouldn't this rather be given in joule?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 9:30 AM UTC

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Post by Jowdaym » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 10:20 AM UTC

Irritating color scheme.

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Post by bno1 » Sun, Nov 24, 2019, 11:10 AM UTC

ginko wrote: post #6

>The average amount of energy needed to load each of the twelve web interfaces, along with each one’s endless fragments of code, was 30 watts. What is that supposed to mean? A watt(= 1 J/s) is a measure power so energy per unit of time. Shouldn't this rather be given in joule?

Maybe it meant the rate of energy consumption while the servers are rendering and sending the page. You'd have to multiply 30w with the time spent by the server doing all this stuff (probably less than a second) to get the total consumed energy. A web server consuming 30w of power per connected user sounds exaggerated to me. A high-end server CPU at full load probably pulls 200w and can handle at least 1000 users.

But this is an art project and I have no idea what expertise does the artist have, and I'm not an expert either.