Re:Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:24PM
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I couldn't do physically modelled audio synthesis in real time on ANY processor of that era.
Now I can do a ton of it, though not enough to represent a full orchestra.
And I could not compile 600k lines of C++ in 4 minutes on any processor of that era.
Now I can.
The fact that desktop environments have gotten "heavy" has essentially zero impact on the compute-heavy tasks that are important to me. If I was a video editor (I'm not), the same "progress" would apply there too.
Now I can do a ton of it, though not enough to represent a full orchestra.
And I could not compile 600k lines of C++ in 4 minutes on any processor of that era.
Now I can.
The fact that desktop environments have gotten "heavy" has essentially zero impact on the compute-heavy tasks that are important to me. If I was a video editor (I'm not), the same "progress" would apply there too.