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Or ... be smart about being smart!

Choose what problems you work on wisely. Make sure when you are getting paid, you are getting paid for familiar work (less tiring for the brain) and then use up your smart reserves on your side project, or for your friends/family or community or society.

One option is to be like an Electron app, throw more RAM at it and be busy, the other is to be like a native optimized app - get the same stuff achieved with less resources.

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To address your burn more energy to get rid of pollutants. I wonder if a 20 minute nap has the same effect. It is the CPU equivalent of letting the overclocked CPU cool down. Rather than throwing energy at the problem (which means more work and chemical processing for a biological creature), just let the body run it's natural defrag cycle.




This is why I like this forum: Understanding brain biology with a Electron's app RAM consumption analogy.


Had the same thought. This really is the better Reddit for nerds.


no wonder this place is dying


Or...I could do all those things 10x faster and better by burning 10,000 calories a day, breathing pure oxygen, redirecting bloodflow to my brain (necessitating sitting in a chair), and running a 50 watt cooling system at all times. That's not necessarily the Electron app style, if you're already doing the best you can do your only option is MOAR POWER


Yeah, but after you've done all that, you still have room that you could do better with overclocking yourself.




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