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yomlica8 ◴[] 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. AlecSchueler ◴[] No.36454271[source]
We're so glued to our screens now that our threshold for losing interest is far higher. We'll check our phone while waiting for a desktop app to open rather than walking away and finding another activity.