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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:42PM (#26958325)
Is there an equivalent to Parkinson's Law ("Work expands to fill the available schedule"), where software expands to fit the available performance?
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by flohofwoe on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:49PM (#26958414)
"Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container." - Nathan Myhrvold

PS: apparently the quote is from 1997, go figure.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by jml7c5 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:09PM (#26958681)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by RachelF on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:04PM (#26963117)
An old joke:

c - the speed of light, independent of the speed of the observer.

w - the speed of Windows, independent of the speed of the hardware.

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