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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The correct response to realizing computers are fast is not to make your software slow, because:

a.) you won't benefit as much as you hope
b.) if you break pro-user norms, so will every other site/app/library, and your thing will feel slow even if it's "fine" in isolation
c.) HW bounty is not evenly distributed, so your product becomes less usable non-linearly below some resource floor

Pretending constraints don't exist is not engineering, it's bullshitting.