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• mwkaufma
  Shout-out: Voidtools Everything on windows. Lightning fast file search.
• MomsAVoxell
  Yes, there are so many examples of this .. a recent one for me, is iStatMenu .. it just got to the point that waiting for it to start, alone, was sufficiently boring enough that I sought an alternative .. and of course, I realized, there's no reason not to use the Linux tooling I'm accustomed to, and so I have btop where iStatMenu used to live, kinda. btop doesn't get in the way, doesn't phone home, doesn't check a registration key, isn't harvesting key clicks, and .. so on .. its just small, light, and fast.Well, with the encumbrance of it living in a terminal window, but I also live in the terminal window even on MacOS, so its a feature not a bug.Point is, I wouldn't have this to say about it if iStatMenu had just been a little more discrete about its loading times ..
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  ivanjermakov
  > Google Maps has gotten so slowWhen it comes to navigating (except public transit), hiking, and route building, Organic Maps[1] is very good. OSM data and offline-first is the way forward for detailed and _fast_ map experience.For cycling route building I have to mention BRouter[2], which allows you to write a custom cost function that is used to tweak your route preferences.[1]: https://organicmaps.app/[2]: https://brouter.de/brouter/index.html
• giovannibonetti
  Shout-out to PowerSync for making it easier to develop fast offline-first mobile apps. It pushes data from Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server subscriptions to a SQLite into the user's mobile device, avoiding the need for many loading animations when the data is there ahead of time. My company is a customer and we recommend it.
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  ungreased0675
  I run headless Alpine Linux (a minimal distro) in my homelab and it’s fast AF. The lag in Windows Explorer is sad when something like cd folder/folder is instant in Linux.
• wseqyrku
  I think it's the different feeling you get from using an end-to-end streaming service (compute, not videos) versus the one that does a lot of intermittent buffering. It's quite subtle actually. Using a vanilla language model can feel like that if it's also sufficiently small but they are going towards the opposite direction very rapidly now because cloud.
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  countWSS
  The neglected part here is latency, speed itself can be masked by progress bars/animations, but having visible lag ruins the idea of speed and users treat it as slow vs animated loading bar.
• williebeek
  I will read this entire article tomorrow while I wait for the Cursor UI and Visual Studio to finish loading.
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  rossant
  I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and profiling. I wish more developers felt the same way.
• sylware
  Remove the specter and friends mitigations from your linux kernel, and your system will be significantly faster.
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  fmajid
  No, no software is the best software.BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
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  pgisapedo
  No way I wanna chat with my oven
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  jdw64
  Fast and efficient software varies depending on the local context, but for me, I think I'd be fine with something slower as long as it's convenient enough. After all, once it passes a certain threshold, I can barely even notice the speed difference anyway.I wonder what OP's thinks of IDEs like VSCode. Would they see it as heavy and not great because it's Electron-based? But I find IDEs convenient.
• Ygg2
  Honestly, I'm in partially disagree camp. What matters is how much time it saves.A good WYSIWYG editor will run circles around the fastest text editor. Even if WYSIWYG is a bit slower to open.It would be preferable for software to be more focused and faster over time, but that doesn't attract people to it.
• anon
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  gsu2
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  FrankRay78
  Slop or not, I enjoyed reading it. And could relate.