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by filmor 1645 days ago
Please be aware that all uppercase comes across as quite aggressive.

Writing a lot of data to a terminal can happen accidentally or by having an application running that throws out a burst of log messages. In both cases, you'll want to have your terminal to be responsive again as soon as possible and you want it to be light on your cpu s.t. it doesn't interrupt other applications.
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usrbinbash 1645 days ago
> In both cases, you'll want to have your terminal to be responsive again as soon as possible.

My terminal emulator doesn't become unresponsive just because the renderer cannot keep up. It still processes input, so if I accidentially

    cat some-linux-distro-1of4.iso
...I can still Ctrl-C it and stop the process.

> it doesn't interrupt other applications.

It can't do that anyway in an environment that does preemptive multitasking.

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