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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 214 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I am so tired of people, especially people who pretend to be computer experts online, completely failing to understand what Moore's Law is.

Moore's Law != "Technology improves over time"

It's an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years. That's it. It doesn't apply to anything else.

And also for the record, Moore's Law has been dead for a long time now. Getting large transistor density improvements is hard.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm gonna go on "no stupid question" and ask why my old hard drives aren't doubling in size.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

You need to properly feed, water and fertilize them. If you don't do this, your old hard drives will just waste away until they're just a few megabytes, not flourish into giant petabyte trees.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

You have to walk around in the right environment otherwise they're all going to turn into generic eevees, and you don't want that

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It might be from a brand that doesn't evolve, or only has one evolution instead of two.

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