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Some very interesting variations. I love the Gate's Law variant.

Surely Parkinson's Law [0] - the work expands to fit the resources available - is behind it all (something that Gall mentions in Systemantics [1]). What I like to do is combine suckless [2] code with modern processors. An Orange Pi Rockchip running something like Fluxbox WM massively outperforms a i9 or AMD Ryzen struggling with Windows. Everything is just instant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

[2] https://suckless.org/