• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I am so tired of people, especially people who pretend to be computer experts online, completely failing to understand what Moore’s Law is.

    Moore’s Law != “Technology improves over time”

    It’s an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years. That’s it. It doesn’t apply to anything else.

    And also for the record, Moore’s Law has been dead for a long time now. Getting large transistor density improvements is hard.

    • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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      1 month ago

      I’m gonna go on “no stupid question” and ask why my old hard drives aren’t doubling in size.

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        1 month ago

        You need to properly feed, water and fertilize them. If you don’t do this, your old hard drives will just waste away until they’re just a few megabytes, not flourish into giant petabyte trees.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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          1 month ago

          You have to walk around in the right environment otherwise they’re all going to turn into generic eevees, and you don’t want that

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          1 month ago

          It might be from a brand that doesn’t evolve, or only has one evolution instead of two.

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      1 month ago

      Also the improvements in computer speed from Moore’s law were from Denard Scaling, which says with transistors 2x smaller, you can run things 2x faster but produce 2x as much heat.

      Heat dissipation has been the bottleneck for a long time now.