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.

Sure, but also no.

More’s law is at the most fundamental level a observation about the exponential curve of technological progress.

It was originally about semiconductor transistors and that is what Moore was specifically looking at but the observed pattern does 100% apply to other things.

In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.

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More’s law is at the most fundamental level a observation about the exponential curve of technological progress.

No. Let me reiterate:

Moore’s Law was an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years.

It is not about technological progress in general. That’s just how the term gets incorrectly applied by a small subsect of people online who want to sound like they’re being technical.

Moore’s Law is what I described above. It is not “technology gets better”.

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I meant that sentence quite literally, semiconductor is technology. My perspective is that original “moors law” is only a single example of what many people will understand when they hear the term in a modern context.

At some point where debating semantics and those are subjective, local and sometimes cultural. Preferable i avoid spending energy on fighting about such.

Instead il provide my own line of thinking towards a fo me valid reason of the term outside semiconductors. I am open to suggestions if there is better language.

From my own understanding i observe a pattern where technology (mostly digital technology but this could be exposure bias) gets improving at an increasingly fast rate. The mathematical term is exponential.

To me seeing such pattern is vital to understand whats going on. Humans are not designed to extrapolate exponential curves. A good example is AI, which large still sucks today but the history numbers don’t lie on the potential.

I have a rather convoluted way of speaking, its very unpractical.

Language,at best, should just get the message across. In an effective manner.

I envoke (reference) moores law to refer to the observation of exponential progress. Usually this gets my point across very effectively (not like such comes up often in my everyday life)

To me, moors law in semiconductors is the first and original example of the pattern. The fact that this interpretation is subjective has never been relevant to getting my point across.

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Do you have to archive all the porn in the Internet?

“We do these things not because they are easy. But because we are hard!” -JFK

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Did I just pave way to the greatest joke today.

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2028: ~363TB 2029: ~439TB 2030: ~531TB

This is what I came up with.

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Source?

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Just attempting to format those in a more readable way.

And I was impressed by Seagate launching their Mozaic 3+ 32TB HDDs…

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That’s honestly intense. I would be terrified of having that much data in one place

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While not hard drives, at $dayjob we bought a new server out with 16 x 64TB nvme drives. We don’t even need the speed of nvme for this machines roll. It was the density that was most appealing.

It feels crazy having a petabytes of storage (albeit with some lost to raid redundancy). Is this what it was like working in tech up till the mid 00s with significant jumps just turning up?

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The size increase in hard drives around that time was insane. Compared to the mid-90’s which was just a decade ago, hard drives capacities increased around 100 times. On average, drive capacities were doubling every year.

Then things slowed down. In the past 20 years, we’ve maybe increased the capacities 30-40 times for hard drives.

Flash memory, on the other hand, is a different story. Sometime around 2002-3 or so I paid something like $45 for my first USB flash drive - a whole 128MB of storage. Today I can buy one that’s literally 1000 times larger, for around a third of that price. (I still have that drive, and it still works too!)

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Well hell, it’s not like it’s your money.

This is exactly what it was like, except you didn’t need it as much.

Storage used to cover how much a person needed and maybe 2-8x more, then datasets shot upwards with audio/mp3, then video, then again with Ai.

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I guess you’re expected to set those up in a RAID 5 or 6 (or similar) setup to have redundancy in case of failure.

Rebuilding after a failure would be a few days of squeaky bum time though.

At raid6, rebuilds are 4.2 roentgens, not great but they’re not horrible. Keep old backups.but the data isn’t irreplaceable.

Raid5 is suicide if you care about your data.

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I’m more shocked how little I need extra space!
I’m rocking an ancient 1TB for backups. And my main is a measly 512GB SSD.
But I don’t store movies anymore, because we always find what we want to see online, and I don’t store games I don’t actively use, because they are in my GOG or Steam libraries.
With 1 gigabit per second internet, it only takes a few minutes to download anyways.

Come to think of it, my phone has almost as much space for use, with the 512GB internal storage. 😋
Maybe I’m a fringe case IDK. But it’s a long time since storage ceased to be a problem.

I download both windows and linux offline installers when I buy games at gog.com, it’s one of the reasons I buy there.

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I can understand that having your own copy is nice, especially if the service is closed for some reason.
I just don’t bother doing that anymore, I prefer browsing my library on GOG instead of a file-manager.

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We can argue as much as we want about whether moore’s law covers technological development in general or be pedantic like good old fundamental Christians and only read what the words say.

The bigger problem is that we have reached the era of what we could tentatively call “wal s’eroom”. Thanks to enshittification (another one of those slippery words!) I predict that technological progress reverses from now on by 50% every 2 years.

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