To me, the threshold of cringing is when web forms are laggy. This 50-billion-instructions-per-second box can be slower rendering an input form than a VT220 terminal from 1983. When the task of the machine is to, e.g. enter appointment booking information, and it handles the task worse than hardware from decades ago could in some cases, that's when we know we've lost the plot.
>To me, the threshold of cringing is when web forms are laggy.
Same here that was what ticked me. I was reading up HN threads I saved and the Remix framework was one of them. People were cheering for a well design, animated and smooth webpage. Because most of the other similar design tends to Jank and not smooth. We are coming to 2022, rendering a webpage on modern CPU with GPU accelerated browser should be trivial. And yet that web page was, true to most comments and my experience, an outliner.
A lot of people continue to say those latency doesn't matter. It does. I am picky, I hate latency. I am latency sensitive. I can only wish some day ( again may be VR or Metaverse ) we could kick start latency computing. Or Real Time computing.
"To make Metaverse, we need Real Time Computing" seems like a good message to VC and consumer market :)
Even worse is text fields that cannot keep up with typing even on a brand new processor.
I haven't used facebook messenger in yearw, but last time I did, typing was at leas O(n^2) and would bring any cpu to its knees if messages were typically 100s of words.
Gumtree is another (doesn't register characters if you type them to fast). Probably the exact same code as they were acquired by facebook.
Yes, or, even more annoyingly, when slack lags as you type. I think I've had ssh connections to the south pole with less latency than slack sometimes has.
A big performance problem is live autocomplete on your input. The website running some kind of a query on every character you input sometimes causes huge delays. On my phone I can sometimes wait a good 5-10 seconds after I finished typing for it to actually show up on screen.
