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deafpolygon | 5 days ago

It’s not a terrible metaphor when it’s the closest thing we have to explaining this issue to a layperson.

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gaigalas|4 days ago

Ah, yes. The typical layperson that understands threading and processor architectures.

deafpolygon|4 days ago

honestly, young people these days are smarter than you give them credit for. multi-core and threading is something that pretty much anyone on the internet “gets” conceptually, even if not on an engineering level.

selridge|4 days ago

the closest thing we have to explaining the issue of focusing on something is "imagine a CPU from the 1990s"?

C'mon.