Do they know one second is slow?
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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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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..
Maybe they didn't have time to see how the platform performed for the reader?
They only waited half a second before signing up
The author chose to host on a platform that does that. So it is their fault