Alex Russell on Nostr: The correct response to realizing computers are fast is not to make your software ...
The correct response to realizing computers are fast is not to make your software slow, because:
a.) you won't benefit as much as you hope
b.) if you break pro-user norms, so will every other site/app/library, and your thing will feel slow even if it's "fine" in isolation
c.) HW bounty is not evenly distributed, so your product becomes less usable non-linearly below some resource floor
Pretending constraints don't exist is not engineering, it's bullshitting.
a.) you won't benefit as much as you hope
b.) if you break pro-user norms, so will every other site/app/library, and your thing will feel slow even if it's "fine" in isolation
c.) HW bounty is not evenly distributed, so your product becomes less usable non-linearly below some resource floor
Pretending constraints don't exist is not engineering, it's bullshitting.