Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

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Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.
Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.
- Wasn't expecting this under a random unrelated post. A very welcome comment nonetheless.
  Never forget that the exponential boom of renewable energy tech the last 20 years has entirely served as additional energy, not as replacement of fossil fuels.
  
  Unexpected but entirely welcome.
  People do forget this all too often.
  Cheaper stuff, use more , value less.
  
  Source?
  In the EU at least this is demonstrably false. LNG has slightly risen since 2000 but other fossil fuels (namely coal) have gone way down. Total consumption has been steadily declining in the past few years and is down to 2004 levels. So overall our electricity is a whole shitload cleaner.
  The story is even starker for domestic heating. Gas and coal are vanishing since the mid-2000s.
  
  Why would you assume I am talking about Europe which accounts for 1/10 of the global energy consumption and why would I be talking the continent that has mostly outsourced its heavy industry to third world countries? Why would you assume this?
  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy?time=2000..latest
  Here's your source. Here's your total energy consumption. It couldn't have been that hard to look at our world in data right? How can you be so absolutely wrong about data in plain sight while being confident about it? Do you have an agenda?
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox.
  Edit: the other comment below mentioning this did not load initially..
  
  20 years ago there were 2000000000 fewer people in the world.
  
  too many zeroes I can't read that number omg
  
  That was my point
- Exactly, this is known as the Jevons paradox
  
  Thanks, got a new term today.
- I misread you as saying "Thanks late stage filesystem." 🤣

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