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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The dream of infinite CPU and fast, stable networks was sunk by the emergence of broad-based mobile computing:
https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/
Here's a talk from '16, warning of what I was seeing then; a harbinger of what was to come:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4
And an solemn update from '19 on how it was going (spoiler: badly):
And here's the latest update on networks & CPUs:
https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/
TL;DR: we have never been post-scarcity.