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[-] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

We used to have a rule in computer system design that if an event would take more than 4 seconds we had to show a "waiting" icon like the hourglass.

Now though, people are sensitive to half a second between tap/click and something happening. Incidentally there's no reason for a fuel pump control to be slow, even running on a potato. The engineer who designed it wasn't given time to make it efficient

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