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> Isn't that just ridiculously slow animations for the most part? Agreed, and as the recent example with the iPhone calculator proved, Apple aren't exactly immune to this either.
Can you just disable animations on Apple devices the way you can on Android?
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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)
Said as someone who likes perforce. Having hundreds of developers working with large binary files was incompatible with git until very recently.
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My work laptop is an i7 with 16GB RAM and I sometimes see this delay in inputs when running Visual Studio. I type a line of code then wait a few seconds for it to appear. Weird thing is when it does this, I'm not using all the memory and the CPU is normally sitting way below 50%. I've no idea why it sometimes just gets unusably slow.
Cpu sitting below 100% indicates that the program is spending time waiting for a data fetch from disk or memory.
I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.
I keep coming back to thinking that it's the gap between dev and "mainstream" hardware. Forget about phones for the moment (lol, Javascript performance on a $99 Android). My PC is a 6-core, 32GB of RAM beast. I suspect that most (non-PC gamers) people's machines look closer to https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/acer-aspir... . Dual core, 8GB of RAM, spinning hard drive (!) I can tell you from experienc…
The machine you posted is pretty typical of PC gamers according to the steam user survey ( https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined ). 8GB+ of RAM only got to 50% of users a couple of years ago. I suspect most non-pc gamers machines to be even worse, the firefox survey has 30% of people still on 4GB: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware . > I can tell you from experience that Windows 10 isn't…
The linked laptop still has an ancient 1366 x 768 screen which is only 12.62% of all players that have taken the survey.
Somebody 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.
In theory, AMP pages should all load instantly, and most news websites have AMP pages. A lot of HNers hate AMP for other reasons, though; I think mostly Google's insistence on using their CDN for it, and for whitelisting mostly their own scripts for use in AMP.
Url category is pornography
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Cpu sitting below 100% indicates that the program is spending time waiting for a data fetch from disk or memory.
is there any tool out there that monitors IO calls from one specific process? I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.
I work at a large company that is not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies. One of the worst parts of working there is the heap of various enterprise anti-virus software they install on our computers. It brings huge typing and disk access latencies. Even opening files in vim with FZF is slow. I can't explain why but this makes programming so much less pleasant. I really just want to work somewhere without…
You too, huh? Last employer moved to McAfee "because active malware protection". Basically, AMP is a set of rules you can apply to disk accesses per application -- like for instance, "no application can delete PDF files from My Documents" (this is one of the "anti ransomware" rules). It wasn't too bad with just the signature-based virus scan, but the updater and AMP were horrendous. The PCs (3.6GHz 8-core Xeon workst…
I remember how I loved my slow hp48, the input buffer was still listening and I could easily think and keep typing operations while the screen was busy, never felt "slow"
Only since I work fulltime with gcc hogging all my CPUs and most of my RAM for up to 10 minutes at a time and also slowing down the computer I fully appreciate having worked in dynamic languages for many years. Yes, that problem might be solvable with a beefy build box.
The difference is interpreted vs compiled, not dynamic vs typed. You can use a C interpreter to instantly run C code without compilation.