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I'm an old fart, seeing the curl in every example is like nails on chalkboard. 565 KB, that's about 3 minutes download on a 28.8kbps modem I started getting on

• zamadatix 3y ago
  When you got that modem were you concerned with how long it would have taken to type/write the information sent over it or were you just happy it didn't matter anymore? I often wonder what I'll think of technology in say another 20 years but I can never tell if it's all just some general shift in perspective or, as you look farther back, if certain people were always just about a certain perspective (e.g. doing the most given the constraints) and technology changes enough that different perspectives (e.g. getting the most done easily for the same unit of human time) become the most common users for the newer stuff and that these people will also have a different perspective than the ones another 20 years down the line from them and so on. For example, maybe you think it's crazy to ask for the exact piece of data you need, I think it's crazy to do all the work to not just grab the whole half MB and just extract what you need quickly on the client side as often as you want, and someone equidistant from me will think it's nuts to not just feed all the data into their AI tool and ask it "what is the data for ${thing}" instead of caring about how the data gets delivered at all. Or maybe that's just something I hope for because I don't want to end up a guy who says everything is the same just done slower on faster computers since that seems... depressing in comparison :).