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Frigging everybody has a 3Ghz multi core CPU in their back pocket now and people still need ways to not to “feel lag while typing.”

This is the world we have made
in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

Trying to imagine going back to 1985 and telling someone their computer would eventually have eight multi-gigahertz cores, and yet the cursor would still lag behind you while you type
in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

“great for heavy web apps like Gmail!” how did we get to a place where an instantly recognizable example of crushingly computationally complex software is an EMAIL CLIENT
in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

I had a fully functional email client on my frigging Palm Pilot. It had 8 megabytes of RAM and a 16 megahertz processor.

M E G A H E R T Z
in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

Seriously, how did we end up in a world where it's supposedly faster to be livestreaming video rather than downloading textfiles!?
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Jason Lefkowitz
Agreed! CPU power to the people ✊
in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

i would rather say: "Properly developed efficient # to the people!" and we can run on old # for years to come and avoid tons of unnecessary electronic #. and be not as much affected by the current chip shortage that, as far as i know will get worse and worse the further we push the #
@mikolaj
in reply to Jason Lefkowitz

The fun thing is that the client application is made using Electron, so it's essentially you're running Chrome to load another instance of Chrome in a server and then use it to do the actual browsing :02smile: