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Comment by skohan

3 hours ago

We had decades to work on making software more performant, but instead most users' space-age 2nm chips spend most of their time running Javascript because it was faster to make software that way.

even my ten year old laptop browses the web fine ^_^

If I had to complain about any site/app it'd be datadog... each tab uses like 1gb in firefox.

  • I think it's hard to understand how much better your experience could be if all your software was 10x faster and using 0.1x the resources, since you can't test both experiences side by side

    It's like riding a bike with a tiny bit of resistance in the bearings. You will get used to it, and will probably feel like your bike is fine. But if you replace the hub and remove that friction, you will wonder how you ever tolerated riding a bike that way.