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by zontorol 895 days ago
When you were a young little nerd old timers were saying "such a shame modern computers don't have LEDs showing the individual state of each bit of the control registers like our mainframe did. Computers these days are so dumbed down. Users can't even see where the instruction pointer is which is so useful to get a feel for what the hardware is actually doing"
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Sure, but I think it's fair to say that feedback has gotten too minimal when you have to put sleep(10) all over your diagnostic processes because there is no other way to tell if the computer/app is laggy or dead.