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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code... by mh- on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:55PM (#37937760)
>SSH used to work perfectly fine over 28.8 kbps modems.

I can't agree with "perfectly fine" here. Not unless you enabled local echo in your terminal emulator. The keyboard latency, especially for typo correction, was maddening. I still remember what a staggering QoL improvement it was the first time I used a low-latency connection to a server.

Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code... by vbezhenar on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:53PM (#37938163)
That's why vi is so handy over bad links: with rich command set you minimize number of key presses to achieve the target goal.