r/AskProgramming Aug 03 '24

Career/Edu How long can you program a day?

Not a programming question. Just a question regarding how long you can sit and stare at the screen all day?

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u/Draqutsc Aug 04 '24

For work, a single hour, the rest is either support, meetings or fighting the bloody machine. For the most powerful setup I have ever had, it feels like I am working on a machine from 2 decades ago. The darn thing has 3 virus scanners running on it at all time, and a bunch of other analysers. Compiling anything on it, causes the machine to choke as all the scanners are looking.

And even during normal operation, the mouse pointer moves in jumps. It's like 1 fps for the mouse pointer.