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n2d4 • today at 5:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

A tiny minority of applications use a vast majority of compute.

If 97% of programs use 2x more compute, the total amount of compute used in the world will be nearly unaffected.


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bombcar • today at 7:33 PM

Exactly, my fleet of machines is usually idling at 10% CPU or less.