Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)

submitted 1 year ago by invicticide@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions – billions! – of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer.

Yet I sometimes wonder whether one second is the smallest unit of time most programmers think in. Do they know that you can run entire test suites in 1s and not just a single test? Do they know that one second is slow?

Seeing how slow modern software can be, on modern hardware, just makes me sad sometimes. I really feel this person's pain, including the slow creeping insanity of "how is nobody else noticing/bothered by this". 😓

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[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 66 points 1 year ago

complains about losing one second

literally has an "sign up for my newsletter!"-overlay that appears in front of the article, while you're reading the article

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And talks about a time before the internet while he looks what? 30-40 in that image?

Yes, things are bloated and slow, it's annoying. But the article didn't add much or go into the reasons why.

[-] Walnut356@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

People in different socioeconomic situations/locations experience new technology at different points in time. Just because the internet existed doesnt mean they (or anyone in their immediate vicinity) had internet, state of the art computers, etc.

[-] qwertyasdef@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

It's a Substack thing, not added by the author

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure but if they chose a better publishing platform that time wasting overlay wouldn't be there.

Maybe if the author chose better tools, they wouldn't have to wait around so much? I don't have to wait 1 second for a unit test to run for example - and I don't have particularly fast hardware..

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe they didn't have time to see how the platform performed for the reader?

[-] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

They only waited half a second before signing up

[-] Paradox@lemdro.id 10 points 1 year ago

The author chose to host on a platform that does that. So it is their fault

[-] gamma@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I was going to say "At least I can click 'Continue reading' and it actually goes away immediately" but actually, no. This is still enshittification, I've just gotten used to shittier versions of it.

[-] zlatko@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there was a bit of discussion about that on Lobsters :)

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