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vernrVingingItyesterday at 7:51 PM0 repliesview on HN

Easy; endlessly big little numbers. "Endless" until the machine runs out of real memory addresses anyway.

You all really think engineers at Samsung, nVidia, etc whose job it is to generalize software into mathematical models have not considered this?

We need a layer of abstraction, not Ruby, Python, Elixir, Rails, Perl, Linux, Windows, etc, ad nauseum, ad infinitum... each with unique and computationally expensive (energy wasting) parsing, serializing and deserializing rules.

Mitigation of climate change is a general concern for the species. Specific concerns of software developers who will die someday anyway get to take a back seat for a change.

Yes AI uses a lot of electricity but so does traditional SaaS.

Traditional SaaS will eventually be replaced with more efficient automated systems. We're in a transition period.

It's computationally efficient to just use geometry[1], which given enough memory, can be shaped to avoid collisions you are concerned with.

Your only real concern is obvious self selection driven social conservatism. "Don't disrupt me ...of all people... bro!"

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2987/1/...