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@sliminality
Shortly after graduating, I told
@andy_matuschak
how I couldn't stand input latency in text editors because it felt like I was expressing myself through molasses. His provocation: "If my bottleneck is input latency, it suggests that I should be working on harder problems" 🤯
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Likewise, "notation software" feels analogous to "text editor" in that notation is a mechanical activity that liaises between composer and engraved output, but the heart of the work lies far upstream.
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@sliminality
^Don't mistake for a defense of input latency; I'm still the last person to abide millisecond delays (and Andy's standards are even higher). But the insight was well-timed—I was boring myself with the same problems ad nauseum. I still think about this when triangulating my ZPD!
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Scott Farrar
@farrarscott
Replying to
@andy_matuschak
and
@sliminality
Input lag feels like a betrayal of the promise of the computer: that it will do exactly what you tell it. Like, hey I’m talking to you— stop whatever else you’re doing. Not bothersome in handwriting because the pen is trying its best... or, is the ink clogged?! Hey pen stop it!
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chris willmore
@cwillmore
Replying to
@andy_matuschak
and
@sliminality
handwriting prose is ok, but handwriting prose with a shitty pen that keeps going out is infuriating. laggy input feels like the latter to me — it's not as smooth as you know it could be, and it disrupts pipelining of thoughts
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chris willmore
@cwillmore
and really, what excuse do we have for laggy input? you blit a character to the screen and advance the cursor! how hard could that be. and yet
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Nintendo .DS_Store »= OPLSS
@sliminality
ST3 is one of the best pieces of software ever written. I went from that to Neovim in Alacritty, skipping all the Electron editors, but I still keep Sublime around for editing really big files. It's so, so good.
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