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Re:Redefining the Scale of Social Problems [pdf] by tehjoker on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:23PM (#23503483)
This metaphor only makes sense if there are no inherit limits to the system you are working in and you're climbing the right mountain.

For software engineers, think about single core vs multi-threading or scalar processing vs SIMD. You are limited in the performance you can get in a particular regime without making radical changes.

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Re:Redefining the Scale of Social Problems [pdf] by luckylion on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:09PM (#23504410)
> You are limited in the performance you can get in a particular regime without making radical changes.

But you don't know where you are relative to those limits. You may be in 1999 on a 400Mhz Celeron and you'll still see plenty of increase in single-core performance.

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