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Microsoft Defender destroys WSL performance unless you create exclusions.
Then there’s NTFS behind that. Just use a VM. Ten times faster.
Ten times faster at what? Do you have any benchmarks?
Slow Software
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and no one runs antivirus on the Mac, ever. Working at a large company (also not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies) and if you get a macbook, they are managed remotely and have BitDefender installed.
I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connec…
Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce!
Perforce integrates very nicely with a whole bunch of third party tools in a way git does not, and is on the whole a lot easier to use for most people than git (and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like Perforce at all)
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#153When I read the headline I thought this was going to be something like slow food or the slow movement in general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture) and arguing for software to be slower. I'm glad I was wrong.
My understanding of Slow Food is that it isn't necessarily about "slowness" so to speak. More about keeping things close to nature and not interfering with them / overprocessing too much. Something similar would make sense for software (e.g. using lower level languages, less extraneous JS on websites etc)
turn on, tune in, NOP out
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#154Somebody once posted a well known news website with an alternate link that loaded instantly. Anyone remember this? I don't remember if it was WSJ, or NYT or something else.
A couple news sites have 'text-based' versions. Became popular as a way to give people in disaster areas with spotty signal a chance to find things out. These are some I found: [0] https://lite.cnn.io/en [1] http://thin.npr.org/
how do I get my browser/OS to modify link URLs when I go there so it prepends the right "lite" URL?
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Place I worked at the laptops often had one core pegged at 100% load by some disk monitor that was competing with the AV software. I left very quickly and you should too.
Why not compaign for the change to different AV software?
Why not compaign for the change to different AV software?
Depending slightly on the company, that is often a complete and utter waste of time.
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#156I have an HP EliteBook with an i5 processor, 8GB RAM, and an SSD that’s about 70% empty (only 30% space is being used). It runs the latest Windows 10 image from work and is slow as molasses. Almost every action I take, be it a mouse click or hitting a key or switching between applications, takes a few seconds or much longer. I thought it’s a McAfee issue, but the CPU usage is above 50% almost all the time and this us…
McAfee intercepts every IO read/write afaik, which makes it horribly slow
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For practical purposes, that's not true. Macs do not allow running unsigned software by default, and no one runs antivirus on Mac, ever. So even if they were commonly being infected, which they aren't, the person above would have organizational indemnity if someone were infected because they're following industry best practices by not running antivirus on Mac. If you want, you can further restrict Macs to only App St…
> Macs do not allow running unsigned software by default, and no one runs antivirus on Mac, ever. My company-issued MBP is running something called "Cylance Protect" (and "TrendMicro" earlier). And also something called "Forecpoint DLP". I have no control over any of that, software just appears and disappears. I think it's done by something called "Jamf". I don't really care either way. The only thing I actually use…
It sounds like we might work together; the only difference is that I do most of my dev work on my MBP so I consider it an expensive Linux machine instead of a chromebook :)
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#158You will never massage and cram all the remote cruft efficiently enough to get back the responsiveness of an Apple II. Today’s software is turtles all the way down from the library to the sub-library to the JIT to the application and OS and hardware and they each need 5-25 milliseconds to even wake up. That’s before you even hit the network. Things don’t get bad, they get worse.
> Today’s software is turtles all the way down from the library to the sub-library to the JIT to the application and OS and hardware and they each need 5-25 milliseconds to even wake up. Where do you get these numbers? I have programs that run from start to finish in 5 ms, including tons of OS syscalls. I think many of us forgot how efficient OSes are because of the shitshow that app developers put on top.
I have a Go program that parses command line arguments, loads and parses a text file, then interprets that code on a faux-CPU. Total time 24ms start to finish for 107 faux-CPU steps (sorting 12 numbers of bunches of 3) according to `time`.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I went into construction, and then industrial alpinism with tree-trimming inclination starting 2016. But before I did that, the one-before-the-last place I've tried to work was this hostile environment where everything was Windows and MS-based, as far as what we were meant to use for work. I couldn't bring my own lappy. I ended up writing an AutoHotkey script that would get mouse scrolling about 80% sane and manage m…
What is industrial alpinism?
Basically anywhere where you're paid for your alpinist skills. Mounting/dismounting things up there. There was an example like cleaning up the walls of an old fortress from grass.
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#160Input latency, I can understand. Web latency, at least you know what you are paying for (trackers, fonts, bloated stylesheets, MBs of JS libraries...). But core software latency, that is pure madness.
Android share menu: what on earth takes 500ms-2000ms to display a menu??
Android scrolling: I could have a smoother scrolling if I rendered the view on a wall in Doom III. Why on earth is the scrolling process not prioritized above everything else?? iOS got this right.
Microsoft Outlook on Mac: it can teak easily 2000ms to close(!) a window, are you kidding me?
My new 2018 Touchbar Mac does not "feel" any faster than my old 2013 retina Mac, while the paper specs and benchmarks show at least 100% increase in computational power. They can both equally easily choke down on some unwanted Skype update or stupid WebEx video stream (yes, I work in corporate).