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by recursivecaveat 2039 days ago
Such a bar is fine imo, especially considering the ratio of effort to return, and much preferable to a spinner. Even if the relative size of various tasks is totally random and disproportionate, at least when the bar fills up, even a pixel, you know forward progress is still being made. The spinner will just spin forever, whether it is deadlocked or not.