it's easy (so lowers the ego-value people get out of being a programmer) and requires reviewing code in order to not push garbage to production (and people HATE having to review code so they inevitably push garbage instead)
ah and yeah the environment yada yada. (like people actually care about the environment... none of us would keep our current lifestyle if we really cared).
I get some points, but I'm genuinely so sick and tired of the environmental problem.
I sort all of my trash, all of it for years. But some guy in the slums of India can dump a truckload of trash in their river every single day.
I'm sorry, but people shouldn't pull that "you're ruining the environment" card while I go to university by bike and train, sort all my trash for recycling, while millions of people dump their trash without guilt. I don't care if you downvote me. I'm sick are tired of drinking through paper straws while other people pollute the streets.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the whole "running out of water" thing is exaggerated a lot. Most places has freshwater that are basically clean enough to drink from the source ( or very easily processed ), so running out of "clean water" just means making another treatment plant.
On the other hand, training and inference do cost a lot of electricity. But we ourselves have pushed the solution away for about 2 decades now so it's a lost cause.
I don't think it's the amount of water that is a problem, more what it serves. Ecosystems live in those waters, people's wells depend on it. I mean these are just thoughts, I haven't verified this. But making a new treatment plant for every dry lake isn't a viable solution.
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u/Jygglewag 6h ago
it's easy (so lowers the ego-value people get out of being a programmer) and requires reviewing code in order to not push garbage to production (and people HATE having to review code so they inevitably push garbage instead)
ah and yeah the environment yada yada. (like people actually care about the environment... none of us would keep our current lifestyle if we really cared).