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PC speed gains erased by modern software
(hackaday.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Isn't this equivalent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Went down a bit of a rabbit hole here. Very interesting. Would love to see a Vsauce style video going into various real life examples of this
Thanks for sharing.
Cell phone batteries. Phones used to have shit batteries but they would last 3 days because the software running on it was minimal and the hardware was low power. Batteries have become way better in the last 20 years but phones don't even last a day because if all the hardware and software running super demanding and inefficient programs.
Part of that is just us using our phones more. If I used my smartphone the way I would use an old flip phone, the battery would probably last a few days