• @bouh@lemmy.world
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    15 months ago

    None of those are major breakthrough. They’re more computing power. It’s still the same technology.

    Today llm are the prime candidate for a breakthrough. They still have to prove themselves though, to prove that they’re not just a fancy expensive useless toy like the blockchain.

    Risc-v is not meant to be a breakthrough. It’s an evolution.

    Internet was a breakthrough. The invention of the mouse was a breakthrough.

    Increase in power or in disk space, new languages or os, none of those are breakthroughs. None of those changed how computer programs were made or used.

    The smartphone is a significant thing. Wi-Fi is not really important though, because you don’t do anything more with WiFi than you can do with ethernet. The smartphone though and its network, that is a big thing.

    • @jeffhykin@lemm.ee
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      35 months ago

      Sure not a breakthrough, but they are “real” progress not fake progress (which is what I was responding to in your earlier comment)