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by AshamedCaptain 1353 days ago
You simply get used to it. In many industry sectors (think CPU architects), multiple layers of inception is the norm (crossing multiple operating systems), and it is not strange for a keystroke to take 2 seconds, and for a menu to open and finish rendering in 10 seconds. This "experience" is probably the reason why I can still comfortably work over a DSL link with just network X (even though I still find NX much more comfortable).

You really just adapt your way of interacting, and start planning more carefully every one of your actions instead of simply clickety-clacketing everywhere like if you were trying to win a game of Starcraft. It's practically subconscious and it really changes you.

I always think it must be much, much worse for blind people.

It also reminds me of people who complain that 5-minute build times "impair their productivity". How do you even work on _any_ mid-sized commercial codebase then ? It's not that uncommon for a build to take hours (e.g. games), and in engineering it is also not that uncommon for builds to take _days_ even on powerful server farms.

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You're a CPU architect and you wait 2 seconds for a keystroke? And you stay in that job? You must be one of the dumbest geniuses I have ever met.

That's absolutely ludicrous that anyone would be expected to work that way.

There is a long queue of geniuses waiting for this genius to quit.