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My least favorite type of latency is when you start typing and the application takes at least 1 - 2 seconds to catch up with you. This still happen to me often

My least favorite type of latency is when you start typing and the application takes at least 1 - 2 seconds to catch up with you. This still happen to me often enough to be a normal occurrence on both my desktop computer and phone.

saagarjha 8y ago
What’s worse is when the application drops events during that time.
- O_H_E 8y ago
  Main offender for me is chrome, so much lost typing in new tabs and windows
tartoran 8y ago
I work with Embarcadero Rapid SQL and I got used to these hiccups already, sometimes up to 10 seconds delay. I don't want to start on how crappy software is in terms of user experience, but I see people getting their jobs done with it and not complaining just one bit. Should I think I got spoiled with snappy fast barebones editors? I'm getting better at ignoring the ugliness and I feel it's a good exercise of willpower.
- majewsky 8y ago
  > Rapid SQL > 10 seconds delay Oh the irony.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  > I don't want to start on how crappy software is in terms of user experience, but I see people getting their jobs done with it and not complaining just one bit. Most people, including technical folks, don't complain (unless extremely agitated) because they know they can do nothing about it but accept it. Doesn't stop making them miserable, though.
andrekandre 8y ago
this is unfortunately my almost daily experience using slack...
Shank 8y ago
You know what, I'm actually more okay with this than perceptible, constant latency. If nothing is happening then I know I can just stop looking for characters to appear and keep typing. A tiny part of me loves to "get ahead" and just keep going because I know it'll be magical when it does arrive. If it's just always laggy, though, it's disorienting and disconnects me much worse. Now if it's always doing that -- like a 1-2 second delay more than a few times in 10 minutes, for instance, it's terrible. But if it's a one-off, I don't mind it.
- wingerlang 8y ago
  > A tiny part of me loves to "get ahead" and just keep going because I know it'll be magical when it does arrive Same here! My old laptop did this and it was a thrill to see how much you could write before it started coming in at lightning speed.
- O_H_E 8y ago
  What is extremely annoying is when I get used to this "getting ahead" dance, but every once in a while chrome would just ignore what I typed and I would have to go back and retype it.
shakna 8y ago
This is rather painful for me, especially when you don't notice and slow down for it to catch up, and it begins to drop characters. I'm not talking latency with the keyboard - I'm talking voice input when the receiver hits latency. If I'm using voice, I generally can't see the screen. It's a source of infuriating spell-checking. When C int becomes nt.
Moru 8y ago
This still exists with todays computers and systems? I remember back in school (a long time ago) we had computers that was so slow it took 7 seconds for the backspace key to start doing something on some of the computers. This was in the 286 age with windows 3.11 I believe. I haven't seen it much since then. What in the world are you using to have this experience?
- LandR 8y ago
  My work laptop is an i7 with 16GB RAM and I sometimes see this delay in inputs when running Visual Studio. I type a line of code then wait a few seconds for it to appear. Weird thing is when it does this, I'm not using all the memory and the CPU is normally sitting way below 50%. I've no idea why it sometimes just gets unusably slow.
  - namanyayg 8y ago
    I had the same thing, I uninstalled GitLens which fixed it (or at least made it rarer). Might be one of your plugins?
  - badpun 8y ago
    Cpu sitting below 100% indicates that the program is spending time waiting for a data fetch from disk or memory.
    - majewsky 8y ago
      Or it does not use all cores.
    - marcodave 8y ago
      is there any tool out there that monitors IO calls from one specific process? I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.
      - phit_ 8y ago
        resource monitor in windows can do that
hutattedonmyarm 8y ago
The Windows 10 Start Menu on my machine loves to eat the first one or two typed characters

saagarjha 8y ago

What’s worse is when the application drops events during that time.

O_H_E 8y ago
Main offender for me is chrome, so much lost typing in new tabs and windows

tartoran 8y ago

I work with Embarcadero Rapid SQL and I got used to these hiccups already, sometimes up to 10 seconds delay. I don't want to start on how crappy software is in terms of user experience, but I see people getting their jobs done with it and not complaining just one bit. Should I think I got spoiled with snappy fast barebones editors? I'm getting better at ignoring the ugliness and I feel it's a good exercise of willpower.

majewsky 8y ago
> Rapid SQL > 10 seconds delay Oh the irony.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
> I don't want to start on how crappy software is in terms of user experience, but I see people getting their jobs done with it and not complaining just one bit. Most people, including technical folks, don't complain (unless extremely agitated) because they know they can do nothing about it but accept it. Doesn't stop making them miserable, though.

andrekandre 8y ago

this is unfortunately my almost daily experience using slack...

Shank 8y ago

You know what, I'm actually more okay with this than perceptible, constant latency. If nothing is happening then I know I can just stop looking for characters to appear and keep typing. A tiny part of me loves to "get ahead" and just keep going because I know it'll be magical when it does arrive. If it's just always laggy, though, it's disorienting and disconnects me much worse. Now if it's always doing that -- like a 1-2 second delay more than a few times in 10 minutes, for instance, it's terrible. But if it's a one-off, I don't mind it.

wingerlang 8y ago
> A tiny part of me loves to "get ahead" and just keep going because I know it'll be magical when it does arrive Same here! My old laptop did this and it was a thrill to see how much you could write before it started coming in at lightning speed.
O_H_E 8y ago
What is extremely annoying is when I get used to this "getting ahead" dance, but every once in a while chrome would just ignore what I typed and I would have to go back and retype it.

shakna 8y ago

This is rather painful for me, especially when you don't notice and slow down for it to catch up, and it begins to drop characters. I'm not talking latency with the keyboard - I'm talking voice input when the receiver hits latency. If I'm using voice, I generally can't see the screen. It's a source of infuriating spell-checking. When C int becomes nt.

Moru 8y ago

This still exists with todays computers and systems? I remember back in school (a long time ago) we had computers that was so slow it took 7 seconds for the backspace key to start doing something on some of the computers. This was in the 286 age with windows 3.11 I believe. I haven't seen it much since then. What in the world are you using to have this experience?

LandR 8y ago
My work laptop is an i7 with 16GB RAM and I sometimes see this delay in inputs when running Visual Studio. I type a line of code then wait a few seconds for it to appear. Weird thing is when it does this, I'm not using all the memory and the CPU is normally sitting way below 50%. I've no idea why it sometimes just gets unusably slow.
- namanyayg 8y ago
  I had the same thing, I uninstalled GitLens which fixed it (or at least made it rarer). Might be one of your plugins?
- badpun 8y ago
  Cpu sitting below 100% indicates that the program is spending time waiting for a data fetch from disk or memory.
  - majewsky 8y ago
    Or it does not use all cores.
  - marcodave 8y ago
    is there any tool out there that monitors IO calls from one specific process? I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.
    - phit_ 8y ago
      resource monitor in windows can do that

hutattedonmyarm 8y ago

The Windows 10 Start Menu on my machine loves to eat the first one or two typed characters