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”. 😓
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.
It’s a Substack thing, not added by the author
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…
I’ll gladly wait one second, or ten, to never see a newsletter overlay again.
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.
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.