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I once spent around an hour optimizing a feature because it felt slow - turns out that the slower simulated connection had just stayed enabled after a restart (can’t remember if it was just the browser or the OS, but I previously needed it and then later just forgot to turn it off). Good times, useful feature though!
solarkraft | parent | next
Working as intended!
vunderba | parent | next
hahaha - I've done something similar. I had an automated vitest harness running and at one point it ended up leaving a bunch of zombie procs/threads just vampirically leeching the crap out of my resources.

I naturally assumed that it was my code that was the problem (because I'm often the programmer equivalent of the Seinfeld hipster doofus) and spent the next few hours optimizing the hell out of it. It turned out to be unnecessary but I'm kind of glad it forced me into that "profiling" mindset.

rkuska | parent | next
Have the same story but I forgot to disable tc netem on a server, luckily it was just staging.
reactordev | parent | next
Imagine the speed of those optimizations once you turned it off. lol. Love it!
tech_hutch | root | parent
It's like removing weighted clothing
6510 | parent | next
I wonder if that works beneficial on old computers that freeze up when you try load the GB js ad-auction circus news circus website. I want to browse loaded pages while the new tabs load. If the client just hangs for 2 min it gets boring fast.
FabHK | root | parent
Datapoint: During the pandemic, I had to use an old 2004 Powerbook G4 12" (256 MB RAM, OS X Leopard). Everything sort of worked and was even reasonably snappy. But open one website, and the machine went down. Unusable. Even if, indeed, I just wanted to read or look up a few kB of text. So painful.
alanning | root | parent | next
One tool I've found useful in low-power/low-bandwidth situations is the Lynx web browser [1]. Used to be installed by default in most Linux distributions but I think that's probably not the case anymore. Wikipedia says its also available on OSX and Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

deepsun | root | parent | next
If only there was browser-as-a-service. That would load the pages over it's fast connection and show them to you.
fwip | root | parent
I feel like there already was one, on HN a few years ago. If I remember right, they were hoping to charge $20/month.

Edit: Ah, this was it: https://mightyapp.webflow.io/

NegativeLatency | root | parent
Didn’t want to upgrade the memory?
jazzyjackson | root | parent
It’s the speed of the JavaScript compiler, on those old browsers they were expected to handle a few kilobytes max of event listeners. The chrome vs Firefox browser wars sped up JavaScript compilation by 10x at least
mattnewton | parent
sounds like the MacOS network utility. I've been bit by leaving it on after testing ios apps :D