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before the screen is finished rendering

2018-10-29 16:30:58.558236+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Here’s how to avoid problems with straight-ticket voting in Texas:

But according to the Texas secretary of state’s office, the voting machines are not at fault. Rather, the problems reported are the result of “voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering,” which de-selects the pre-filled candidate selection.

"before the screen is finished rendering". What the fuck century are we living in that a screen of a couple of candidate choices is taking longer to render than a display refresh?

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#Comment Re: before the screen is finished rendering made: 2018-10-30 06:27:58.012006+00 by: spc476

Perhaps because the app is written in a bloated environment?

#Comment Re: before the screen is finished rendering made: 2018-10-30 17:09:15.75539+00 by: Dan Lyke

As someone currently fighting with drag and drop on Cocoa, on a 2018 MacBook Pro that has how many thousands? Millions? more cycles per second than the machines I learned to program on: Oh hell yes on bloated environments. Ugh.

Others have suggested that the whole thing looks like a WinCE device...

I remember when we thought that Emacs was bloated.

Sigh.

#Comment Re: before the screen is finished rendering made: 2018-11-01 01:18:51.409685+00 by: DaveP

Hey, making emacs feel svelte and responsive is quite a trick!

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