Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by zer0t3ch 3394 days ago
> For every extra cycle the hardware engineers give us, we software engineers figure out some way to soak it up

This seems to be true in way too much of the tech field these days. My go-to example is drive storage. Every year, our hard drives get increasingly larger, by pretty big margins even, but game developers just make bigger and less compressed assets, even though they're not needed.