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by voodootrucker 2036 days ago
Not only do they lie, but they are often poorly implemented. I was pairing with a coworker, and a download was taking forever despite his fast speed tests. (I think this was chocolatey) and we tried again after 15 minutes of waiting with `--no-progress` and the download finished in seconds.

We joked that it must take a lot of work computing those VT-100 characters and went back about our business, and I swear to god, an hour later the exact same thing happened in a completely different piece of software.

I can't believe the art of software development has regressed so much in my lifetime.