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remember when computers were embedded machines and the interface latencies were below the boundaries of meaningful human perception?
remember how that all got fucked over the last few decades?
there are some (not all, but some) operations on the new rMBP that feel that electronic lightspeed instantaneous. i'm not sure if it's the 120hz display or the stupid fast cpu or specific macOS optimizations, but there is a man-machine tight feedback loop of the kind long gone. it's spooky.
@sneak apple is the only one left it seems, outside of games, that seems to approach caring about the user responsiveness loop
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
I did it for a job for a couple of years, the amount of organizational inertia against it is fucking madding. You need founders or other leaders to care about it to make it a thing. https://linear.app/ is an example of the founders caring about speed.