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  • billwashere@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devFocus
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    10 days ago

    I wrote a reply before I got this far down in this thread, but 100% agree.

    So for that hour:

    10min to stop the last thing I was doing.

    10 min to switch to new task (getting environment set up, checking out code, etc).

    30 min to figure out where I was the last time I started.

    And now 10 min to actually do anything.

    God forbid a random pop-in, priority email, slack message, system alert, etc happen in that hour.

    Yep seems totally efficient to me.


  • I’m an old comp sci grad. There was a concept we learned in my operating systems class called a context switch.

    So basically, a context switch is when an operating system pauses one running process or thread, saves its state, and loads the saved state of another so the CPU can execute it. This makes multitasking possible by letting multiple processes share a single CPU while each later resumes exactly where it left off.

    I would kill for this feature in real life.