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Quote: A smart phone now a days has way less power consumption than what a Pentium at the turn of the century had yet the amount of computing powe
Nowadays, a Pentium-equivalent CPU also only consumes a factor of less energy.
I would simply call it technical progress  
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Yeah I have been thinking the same thing after reading some of the posts above.
modified 14-Apr-24 15:43pm.
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AI. What else could do it? 
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It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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In some ways, what you're asking has the same answer as comparing any older technology to a newer technology. At one end of the spectrum we find:
Quote: ENIAC weighed 30 tons, covered 1,500 square feet of floor space, used over 17,000 vacuum tubes (five times more than any previous device), 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, and 6,000 manual switches, consumed 174,000 watts of power, and cost about $500,000.
And at the other end of the spectrum we find smart phones, SBC's like rPi's, heck, single chips that "do it all."
Technological advancements are almost always about efficiency and performance, which then allows for innovation in products so we don't have to lug the 30 tons of an Eniac around to play Wordle.
The more interesting question for me is, with all this computing power, why do we still complain about how long it takes for the computer to do what we want?  There must be something equivalent to a Moore's Law like "the more efficient the technology becomes, the less efficient the code will be utilizing the technology." 
Or, if you prefer a "softer" version: "The more efficient the technology becomes, the more that will be demanded of it."
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When I was very young I used to watch a TV series and read comic book series called Dick Tracey.
He would talk into his watch to communicate with his associates.
Back then I would never have imagined that that would be possible and now...
Try doing something like that with an ENIAC strapped to your wrist. 
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I'm reminded of Thackery (I think it was he), who wrote "They are making haste to build a telegraph line from Maine to Houston. But what can it be that Maine and Houston have to say to each other?"
I prefer to talk to trees. They never argue, they just listen quietly and sympathetically with the occasional sigh, taking it all in.
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Wirth's law:[^]
"software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster"
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My smartphone ruthlessly kills every application left in the background so it is super energy saver. I spend the spared energy and more instead of it.
I hate when scrolled to content in the browser, left it alone, going back and it reloads the page, goes to top.
I hate that I have yet to find an email client that has decent search capabilities AND works all the time.
I hate when the energy-saving-maimed background processes fail to update my calendar so at first opportunity they sync nothing to my phone where originally I registered the appointment.
I hate when the energy-saving-maimed clipboard loses everything a hour later.
Productivity-wise a 2000's Pentium system is still lightyears ahead of anything mobile. Just there is no business in writing the software to be cramped into those systems, and there is no business in replacing the old HDDs with UFS SSDs.
And there are digital nomads getting paid who "work" on mobile...
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I despise smart phones - looking at my iPhone 11 that has gone stupid.....
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Peter Adam and charlieg I’m not a fan of smartphones either. However smaller screen size helps against eye strain when you have to do something “on a computer” other then writing code ( browse the web, read and post comments on forums etc. )
modified 18-Apr-24 15:29pm.
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I think it boils down to resistance, as in ohms.
Shrinking the transistor didn't just mean packing more into a smaller space, it also meant much smaller bits of metal being involved. Physics translates that to meaning exponentially less energy to manipulate the gates.
It'd materially be even better except that we've eaten up a bunch of the gains with bloated insane crap like js.
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I know a lot of you own power tools, so I'm pretty sure someone else here has run across this issue, and hopefully, found a solution.
Many power tools have a (usually black) rubbery insert in the handle for comfort and grip.
After a few years it starts to break down and gets sticky.
What can we do to avoid the ugly black stains I have on my hands?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Talcum powder or equivalent. Not permanent but works.
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Badfinger
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Gloves? (Of the surgical kind, maybe)
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