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I am "shocked" how much human collective time is wasted on inefficient software and configurations, including:

- UI animations sliding/folding (e.g. 1Hz interactivity vs 120Hz interactivity).

- MS Windows default keyboard settings with slowed down key repeat rate.

- corporate firewalls configured to DROP instead of REJECT the LAN traffic.

- latency to access office documents in the cloud.

- MS Teams bugs frustrations.

- increased number of mouse clicks in WIN11 to reach common functions.

- other software bugs/annoyances we cannot fix, c.g Jonathan Blow.

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- Multi-threaded UI updates, where the elements being shifted from the expected position (after a background update), causing the mouse clicks to miss the expected element. Need to delay the clicks and wait until the UI updates are settled, before clicking on an element.

No--you have it backwards. The problem comes from delayed clicks, it won't be cured by delaying clicks. You click the spot you want and something more loads causing the control to move before the click is processed.

I'm not sure how to do it but the clicks need to be processed against the state of the display when the click was done rather than against the state when the click was processed. The only way to do this that comes to mind is to snapshot the hot zones on the screen before doing anything that will disrupt the screen and any click received during or within 300ms (configurable, I'm figuring a minimum reaction time) after the screen update should be processed against that map, not against the current state.

It still will be a timing game. What if I want to click on the new object in 300 ms time period? I need to wait 300 ms to do so, this is a flow issue.

If 1 billion current MS Windows users would make daily 1000 UI operations, but each time wait 100 ms for UI animations, the collective wasted time on the animations would be 3000 years of collective wasted time.

Fortunately most are just watching movies and shopping online, so not much collective _productive_ time is wasted ;)

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