Charlie Stross2d ago

HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".

Moore's Law is coming to an end. The Macbook Neo says "why choose?"

Nobody needs a laptop with a 40 hour battery life. Nor does anybody needs 200 cpu threads and an AI coprocessor and 256Gb of RAM and 8Tb of SSD. So we're finally seeing the sweet spot in the phase diagram drift inexorably towards the corner labelled "cheap".

Show threadPhosphenes1d ago

@cstross

Someone once said the Moore's law of software is that the number of CPU instructions it takes to add two numbers doubles every two years.

Show threadthe esoteric programmer
@Phosphenes @cstross and the number of frameworks which have a runtime of at least 1 MB each, which can be used to display hello world to the screen, doubles every two years as well
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