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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    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.