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You need to CTRL+S whenever you do something
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.
the way I think of it is that we do it all the time but its much, much more costly for us humans than for computers
Same