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yomlica8 ◴[23 Jun 23 14:32 UTC] No.36447314[source]▶

It blows my mind how unresponsive modern tech is, and it frustrates me constantly. What makes it even worse is how unpredictable the lags are so you can't even train yourself around it.

I was watching Halt and Catch Fire and in the first season the engineering team makes a great effort to meet something called the "Doherty Threshold" to keep the responsiveness of the machine so the user doesn't get frustrated and lose interest. I guess that is lost to time!

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1. Dylan16807 ◴[23 Jun 23 18:22 UTC] No.36450472[source]▶

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Trying to meet a specific threshold is part of the problem. The better the development hardware, the earlier that threshold is met in testing, which tends to mean optimization effort falls off a cliff.

Also that threshold is an entire 400ms. We should expect significantly better than that these days.

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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?