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Anthropy :verified_dragon:

I received the official #Mastodon mastodon!

I guess that means I'm finally an official mastodon server admin :dragon_uwu:

#plushtodon

The Mastodon elephant(/mastodon) plushie, still wrapped in plastic, sitting on top of the cardboard shipping box. (On the right there's a water distillation device, there's a grey wall and a black floor)
Anthropy :verified_dragon:

me: server is down for updates
people: but server X has way less downtime what's up with that
me: *checks that server* ... because they never run any updates and are liable to get hacked some day and also don't have any of the more recent features
people: but what about if it works don't fix it
me: if your front door is literally gone and everyone can walk in, it technically works yes? But you still want to fix it, not just because of the cold air coming in

Anthropy :verified_dragon:

Occasionally I see videos of people rapidly doing things, like doing work, sorting stuff, chopping/building/crafting things, using calculators/devices, and I realized one thing is absent there

Computers. Anything that runs a full operating system.

Why?

Because they SUCK, developers all massively assume that it's okay for an animation to take sometimes even SECONDS, that it's fine to not preload things because "humans aReN't fAsT eNoUgH", etc.

We need more programs that aren't SLOW as dogshit

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Григорий Клюшников

I have seen people use computers fast, except in all cases it was some kind of specialized software and no mice. Mostly in retail.

One example stuck in my head in particular is the information system in a chain of hardware stores in my city. The thing runs in text mode and is fully controllable with a keyboard. It must be fast-usable because there's no feedback required at all — after you've used this system for a while, you develop a mental model of its states and how it transitions between them. You don't need to constantly look at the screen to make sure the program is in the state you expect. You just enter the sequence of keystrokes that are required to get it from its current state to your desired one, without paying attention to the intermediate states.

Various kinds of forms work like that too. You build a mental model of the form and then you tab through the fields without looking at the screen.

And POS systems. Cashiers and waiters are often extremely fast at ringing up orders. It's often touchscreens these days but muscle memory works with touchscreens too.

I have seen people use computers fast, except in all cases it was some kind of specialized software and no mice. Mostly in retail.

One example stuck in my head in particular is the information system in a chain of hardware stores in my city. The thing runs in text mode and is fully controllable with a keyboard. It must be fast-usable because there's no feedback required at all — after you've used this system for a while, you develop a mental model of its states and how it transitions between them....

Alexander Yell
@anthropy except for the start of the program krita seems instant
LisPi
@anthropy @a1ba A lot of those videos involve RTOSes.

I also don't make any of my software like that unless I'm paid to mutilate it in such a way.
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