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0 pointsKirillPanov4y ago0 comments

I'm not so sure about that.

Smartphones are a massive leap forward in low-power/energy-efficiency, but my 2013 desktop machine (KGPE-D16) still creams every smartphone ever manufactured on any metric other than power consumption.

I'm kinda tired of hearing nontechnical people congratulate themselves on having a "supercomputer" in their pocket.

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nitrogen4y ago

Compared to the supercomputers of the 1980s (if I remember right my dad had an old copy of Journal of the American Meteorological Society I found as a kid, with an ad for Cray talking about one gigaflop being state of the art), they're not wrong.

KirillPanovOP4y ago

Nobody calls graphing calculators "supercomputers" even though that's what they would've been in the 1960s.

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