“The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends.” And of course the Alternate Text “They could say “the connection is probably lost,” but it’s more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.”
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I’ve always held the belief that the author of the original time remaining algorithm should be shot, but not before they gave him a rusty spoon and told him to slowly kill the guy who came up with the genius Vista transfer system.