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		masswerk on June 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly.... Let's assume, 10 milliseconds = 1 CPU year. (If dogs can have their own years, why not CPUs, as well?) So, there you sit, waiting hundreds and hundreds of years…

okwhateverdude on June 23, 2023 [–]

I already struggle with waiting for the rube goldberg-esque build-deploy-to-dev loop at my current gig. Thanks for the additional disgust.

masswerk on June 23, 2023 | [–]

I hear, the British Heath Robinson version (by Tommy Flowers) was quite fast… ;-)

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