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The most amazing thing about the tech industry is that the state of software development across the board is so unbelievably bad that you can't even tell that the computers we are on are 15x faster than the ones we were on a decade ago because they feel the same.
Mar 12 at 4:59amWeb
Show threadRMar 12

@ocean some time ago i was discussing the OLPC XO-1 with people, since it played a not-insignificant role in making hardware designers get their act together and start targeting that low-price segment (despite missing the "$100" goal)

in the wider context of "why does everyone seem to _hate_ modern craptops? they're still way faster than the 433 MHz XO-1 was"

only to have it pointed out that Sugar (the XO-1 UI) actually, y'know, worked. unlike win11 on a modern craptop

Show threadLilith Ashley Nyx Arson Mar 12
@ocean wait. modern computers are FIFTEEN times faster than 2016 hardware???
Show threadLampMar 12
@ocean Omg ikr I can't believe computers are so many orders of magnitude faster yet all the performance tiers continue to feel the same! With such crazy power everything should be hyper snappy!
Show threadIoMar 12
@ocean i think the phenomenon,

better tech -> more demanding Software -> Same performance

might be a form of Jevons Paradox
Jevons paradox - Wikipedia