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Time scales too. Remember how long the death March to Chicago was? It was 1993 and NT had finally shipped, Linux was slightly useful and this was OS/2’s era t

Time scales too. Remember how long the death March to Chicago was? It was 1993 and NT had finally shipped, Linux was slightly useful and this was OS/2’s era to shine as Microsoft had stagnated with no consumer releases of any meaning post Windows 3.1. 1993 finished, and 1994 came and went as well. IBM pushed out Warp as this was their chance to arrive early, and then it was late summer of 1995 that Chicago finally shipped. Now look at the window of the MacPro 2013 to 2020. And it felt like nothing. How long has Windows 10 been a thing? Feels like only yesterday we finally moved all production off of Linux 2.6 Time really telescopes

shrimp_emoji 5y ago
I can't tell if this is a "getting older" thing or a "I got used to marking time with exponential growth in tech and tech-adjacent culture" thing. 2000 to 2010 felt like a huge jump, and it was -- you had the explosion of broadband, enabling huge MMOs like WoW which was a life-absorbing phenomenon for me, and computers and GPUs went from scrawny, green-board things to beefy, pro-sumer luxuries blazing with LEDs. Fat client IMs and social media redefined how we connected to people online. Compared to that, 2010 to 2020 feels like an inertial flatline. We dropped Skype for Discord, which is the best IM since WLM (yet still inferior in many ways lol), GPUs have gotten beefier since they're purely parallel compute machines (and yet nearly 70% of people still have a 1080p display according to the Steam Hardware Survey[0], a resolution that was readily available on LCDs 13 years ago!). Motherboards have more LEDs than before, and look more and more like exotic alien space cities, which is awesome. SSDs have gotten... slightly bigger. Ray tracing and VR, which seem like the only major innovations of the decade, are both kind of here, but only kind of, and not enough for a WoW equivalent or genre to capitalize on. The games we play or their graphics haven't changed significantly. I started using Linux and learned exponentially more about tech than in the prior decade, and I now play those samey games on an open source OS, and that's cool. :p Crypto came, and a lot of security lessons have been learned in the tech world. That's nice. But it feels like bacteria filling out the blank spots of a petri dish that's stopped expanding. 0: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
- bsder 5y ago
  Telecom monopolies are to blame for the flat line in tech from 2010-2020. Computer advances follow network bandwidth increases. Network upload bandwidth has been stagnant for almost 20 years. Give everybody symmetrical gigabit and watch the sparks fly.
- hattmall 5y ago
  A 2010 computer is still fine for most anything today. In 2010 a 2000 computer was not sufficient. The advances have been in connectedness, mobile phones, smart home stuff etc.
  - trey-jones 5y ago
    I can vouch for this, still using the computer I built in 2009 (Windows XP at the time, now Windows 10). Her days are drawing to a close, but she's perfectly functional. The AMD Phenom 2 was a criminally underrated chip.

shrimp_emoji 5y ago

I can't tell if this is a "getting older" thing or a "I got used to marking time with exponential growth in tech and tech-adjacent culture" thing. 2000 to 2010 felt like a huge jump, and it was -- you had the explosion of broadband, enabling huge MMOs like WoW which was a life-absorbing phenomenon for me, and computers and GPUs went from scrawny, green-board things to beefy, pro-sumer luxuries blazing with LEDs. Fat client IMs and social media redefined how we connected to people online. Compared to that, 2010 to 2020 feels like an inertial flatline. We dropped Skype for Discord, which is the best IM since WLM (yet still inferior in many ways lol), GPUs have gotten beefier since they're purely parallel compute machines (and yet nearly 70% of people still have a 1080p display according to the Steam Hardware Survey[0], a resolution that was readily available on LCDs 13 years ago!). Motherboards have more LEDs than before, and look more and more like exotic alien space cities, which is awesome. SSDs have gotten... slightly bigger. Ray tracing and VR, which seem like the only major innovations of the decade, are both kind of here, but only kind of, and not enough for a WoW equivalent or genre to capitalize on. The games we play or their graphics haven't changed significantly. I started using Linux and learned exponentially more about tech than in the prior decade, and I now play those samey games on an open source OS, and that's cool. :p Crypto came, and a lot of security lessons have been learned in the tech world. That's nice. But it feels like bacteria filling out the blank spots of a petri dish that's stopped expanding. 0: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

bsder 5y ago
Telecom monopolies are to blame for the flat line in tech from 2010-2020. Computer advances follow network bandwidth increases. Network upload bandwidth has been stagnant for almost 20 years. Give everybody symmetrical gigabit and watch the sparks fly.
hattmall 5y ago
A 2010 computer is still fine for most anything today. In 2010 a 2000 computer was not sufficient. The advances have been in connectedness, mobile phones, smart home stuff etc.
- trey-jones 5y ago
  I can vouch for this, still using the computer I built in 2009 (Windows XP at the time, now Windows 10). Her days are drawing to a close, but she's perfectly functional. The AMD Phenom 2 was a criminally underrated chip.