On: The Bitter Lesson (2019)

[jmole]

Yup - and this year's top CPUs have almost 10x the performance per watt of CPUs from even 2-3 years ago [0]

Raw computation is only half the story. The other half is: what the hell do we do with all these extra transistors? [1]

0 - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html

1 - https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA?t=2167

[fxtentacle → jmole]

Any day now people will start compiling old programs to web assembly so that you can wrap them with election, instead of compiling them to machine code. Once that happens, we have generated another 3 years of demand for Moore's law X_X