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by actionfromafar 323 days ago
Increased response times …
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i wish more people understood that 'exponential' is a rate of change and no value can be said to be 'exponentially' larger or smaller compared to any another value.
I wish more people understood that metaphorical colloquialisms are not intended to be taken literally.
so is it exponential growth or decay he's talking about?
Luckily, he is not an engineer for the fire-nuke-or-nah module.
I mean, I’m sure that he accidentally a whole word, but I do find it entirely possible to increase response times by leaving older systems. There was a certain immediacy to older tech that simply doesn’t exist anymore. I just hope that they didn’t move to a recent version of Windows with forced updates and whatnot, or a recent version of Ubuntu which defaults to unattended updates.
I hope it doesn't boot without internet! (Because I'm probably in a target zone.)