Athena L.M.if you had a key on your keyboard that sent a ping and you chose a typical nearby-but-not-LAN server as the destination, the ping would travel through all the routers in between getting processed and queued at each, reach its destination, and the reply would return, again through all the routers in between, and arrive back at your machine, probably in the time it would take your finger to lift away from the key
computers are really fast and it's a shame on the software industry that they don't act like it
malevolent dictator for life@alilly oh, they do act like they're fast. they just think they're faster and more capable than they actually are and overuse the computer resources
@astrid software acts like the computer is fast, leading to the computer acting like it is slow