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PC speed gains erased by modern software (hackaday.com)

submitted 2 years ago by jestyr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

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[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Isn't this equivalent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole here. Very interesting. Would love to see a Vsauce style video going into various real life examples of this

Thanks for sharing.

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

Cell phone batteries. Phones used to have shit batteries but they would last 3 days because the software running on it was minimal and the hardware was low power. Batteries have become way better in the last 20 years but phones don't even last a day because if all the hardware and software running super demanding and inefficient programs.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

The biggest contributor is actually screen size. Your phone screen is about 8x larger and 16x higher resolution than an old dumb phone.

[-] TexasCrowbarMassacre@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Part of that is just us using our phones more. If I used my smartphone the way I would use an old flip phone, the battery would probably last a few days

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I think this one is pretty good.

[-] ExecutorAxon@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

Would love to see a vsauce style video

Heyy Vsauce, Michael here. But where 'here' is in modern computers, is very different from where 'here' was, or used to be in older PCs. But why is that?

[-] SeedOnTheWind@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Most interesting wiki read in a long while! Thanks for posting this!

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law : The duration of public administration, bureaucracy and officialdom expands to fill its allotted time span, regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Fitting quotes:

Data expands to fill the space available for storage.
The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero). The reverse is not true.

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