I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers. And lots of DVDs and Blu-rays.

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  • We have 64 bit multi-core CPUs unconstrained by clock speeds, RAM, bus bottlenecks, instructions sets, addressing modes, registers, or storage speeds. Monitors are beyond visual resolution, graphics are pumped out at a rate of zillions and gazillions of 32 bit pixels per second. How can any software be anything less than instantaneous these days? How can this modern bloated AI-dreamt high-level sludge code be as slow as my Commodore 64 booting GEOS from a 5.25" floppy?

    The mouse button shouldn’t even have time to bounce up from my finger releasing it and the screen should already be loaded.