Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/slowing down?

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/s... by mikewarot on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:25PM (#31440368)

I learned to program on a 1 Mhz CPU with 64K of RAM, and no storage. It's really hard for me to not continue to be amazed at this laptop with a 2 GHz, 4 Core CPU, 8 Gigabytes of RAM, 250 Gigabytes of effectively 0 mSec seek disk, and 100 Megabit Wifi that connects to the world.

We're so hardware rich, it's amazing. When I was in college, a Cray-I was the ultimate in computing... 80 Million FLOPS sustained. The supercomputer in my pocket (a $200 Motorola Smartphone) can easily beat that, doesn't require 3 phase power, raised flooring, or industrial cooling.

You kids don't seem to realize just how good you've got it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/s... by hulitu on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:38AM (#31444814)

Really amazing. I also learned to program on a Z80 clone. Now i use a laptop with 4 cores from which only 1 is usable due to thermal throtling. Teams is eating 1 from my 16 GB of RAM and 7 GB are occupied by Outlook (400MB) Excel (400MB) Edge (400MB) Acrobat (200MB) and the Windows 10 ( rest till 7 GB).

On Linux i use the same programs as 10 years ago and while the functionality has not been greatly increased, they need 4 times the amount of libraries compared to 10 years ago to function. Amazing.

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/s... by mbrodersen on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:59AM (#31445328)

You are 100% right. I am surprised you were downvoted.

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