PC speed gains erased by modern software

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Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

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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.

The biggest contributor is actually screen size. Your phone screen is about 8x larger and 16x higher resolution than an old dumb phone.

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

Would love to see a vsauce style video

Heyy Vsauce, Michael here. But where 'here' is in modern computers, is very different from where 'here' was, or used to be in older PCs. But why is that?

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law : The duration of public administration, bureaucracy and officialdom expands to fill its allotted time span, regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Fitting quotes:

  • Data expands to fill the space available for storage.
  • The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero). The reverse is not true.