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”. 😓

  • qwertyasdef
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    1 year ago

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

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      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…

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          1 year ago

          They only waited half a second before signing up

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      1 year ago

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