2016-03-25 8:55 GMT-03:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:
On 24 Mar 2016, at 22:25, phil@highoctane.be wrote: Internet, the great CO2 production device. http://www.internetlivestats.com/watch/co2-emissions/
It feels to me that those calculations are always too simple, and wrong as well. Multiplying maximum server power usage times maximum dirty electricity generation CO2 emission gives overstated results. There is a huge drive for lower power consumption (because electricity in a data center is VERY expensive), to move datacenters to cooler areas, to power them with clean, renewable electricity.
Ask bitcoin miners about getting efficient computing. :)
BTW, it seems that I did not fully understand the story about the left-pad.io library, here is one writeup:
Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and âbroke the Internetâ Dispute over module name in npm registry became giant headache for developers http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpubl...
Quite interesting & food for thought.
It's interesting, and that's a difference with Debian's apt-get; while npm is both the tool and, mostly, an unique the registry, apt-get decouples that so you can have your custom deb sources. Pharo way of dealing with dependencies is good, but we lack the packaging system and convenient CLI. Dale's tODE is a good example of something done in that direction. Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo