@aeonofdiscord Incremental progress? I was under the impression that the standard for computer science was exponential progress, in everything from transistors to polygon counts. I'm not saying it's certain, but I think a fairly steady stream of "Yeah that was impossible last year but now it's easy" is to be expected. :/

@Angle it's definitely true that the semiconductor industry got very good at cramming a lot of transistors onto a die, very quickly, and that drove expansion in a whole lot of areas.

software...hasn't really improved at the same rate. afaik most of the foundational CS stuff was done in the 50s-70s; people develop new algorithms all the time, but they're mostly optimisations and specialisations of already-known stuff

@aeonofdiscord I mean, that's technically true, but what matters is less when something was invented or discovered, and more when it was put to use. And thats been happening at an exponential rate.