Re:Why are online recipes always so long-winded?
by jwestbury on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:27AM
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Not sure experiencing the web on a modem is a real factor here. Anecdotally, at least, I've certainly experienced the web on a modem -- and living in a rural area, broadband wasn't available for me until maybe 2005-2006 (and even then, only 1.5Mbps until around 2014) -- but I open multiple tabs not to let them load in the background, but to avoid unnecessary context switches. I can load ten tabs async, never context-switch, and then process the tabs one by one. Half the context switches of opening a page, going back, etc.
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Re:Why are online recipes always so long-winded?
by luckylion on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:28AM
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I feel for your prolonged and unnecessary pain with rural broadband, a friend of mine lived just a few hundred meters too far from the great access and suffered for years until the cable company finally relented.
Regarding context-switching: that's even more of an outlier! The vast majority never worries about that, and from my experience even among knowledge workers, that's rare.