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I am rather amazed by the patience people have.

tripzilch 7y ago
I think most people have patience for different things they enjoy. Someone recently told me they were amazed of my patience, because one of my programs for computer-generated art took 20 seconds to render (meaning it takes 20 seconds, plus a bit of coding, to iterate on a previous output). Their workflow involved a few (powerful) pieces of software, with instant preview for certain tweaks. I'm going to assume most people here write a lot of code, and that you do too. Haven't we all at some time done a debugging or iterating session that took 20+ seconds just to test? (To clarify, usually my programs don't nearly take as long, but sometimes they grow increasingly more complex as I iterate, and when you also increase the resolution ...) I'm sometimes amazed by the patience people have doing running sessions longer than 30 minutes. Or soldering many equivalent pieces on a PCB. Or reverse engineering software. Or hardware. Doing big DIY stuff to your house. Surely there are cool things that you have patience for, that many other people would envy. Probably more than one, I have patience for cooking projects, pen and ink drawing, much more actually. I don't have time for all of it though :) I used to have patience for rather huge (but tiny in size) projects that took half a year of coding in my free time, to write non-interactive real-time procedural graphics and audio applications called 4k demos (4096 bytes of x86 machine code). But I don't have the patience for machine code any more, and that is fine too :)
- thrwaway69 7y ago
  I instantly thought of rust when you mentioned long times, lol. You are right, though. People have different amount of patience for things but some go beyond it. I have seen projects posted here which people worked on for a decade consistently. That is some hard work and dedication. I can't imagine doing the same and perhaps, it's better I don't. There are many different things to learn and dip into, maybe some day I will have the same patience for things I take up and throw (ADHD).

I think most people have patience for different things they enjoy. Someone recently told me they were amazed of my patience, because one of my programs for computer-generated art took 20 seconds to render (meaning it takes 20 seconds, plus a bit of coding, to iterate on a previous output). Their workflow involved a few (powerful) pieces of software, with instant preview for certain tweaks. I'm going to assume most people here write a lot of code, and that you do too. Haven't we all at some time done a debugging or iterating session that took 20+ seconds just to test? (To clarify, usually my programs don't nearly take as long, but sometimes they grow increasingly more complex as I iterate, and when you also increase the resolution ...) I'm sometimes amazed by the patience people have doing running sessions longer than 30 minutes. Or soldering many equivalent pieces on a PCB. Or reverse engineering software. Or hardware. Doing big DIY stuff to your house. Surely there are cool things that you have patience for, that many other people would envy. Probably more than one, I have patience for cooking projects, pen and ink drawing, much more actually. I don't have time for all of it though :) I used to have patience for rather huge (but tiny in size) projects that took half a year of coding in my free time, to write non-interactive real-time procedural graphics and audio applications called 4k demos (4096 bytes of x86 machine code). But I don't have the patience for machine code any more, and that is fine too :)

thrwaway69 7y ago
I instantly thought of rust when you mentioned long times, lol. You are right, though. People have different amount of patience for things but some go beyond it. I have seen projects posted here which people worked on for a decade consistently. That is some hard work and dedication. I can't imagine doing the same and perhaps, it's better I don't. There are many different things to learn and dip into, maybe some day I will have the same patience for things I take up and throw (ADHD).