> No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can't increase the speed of light.
This reminds of one of favorite videos with the famous Grace Hopper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8. She visualizes the speed of light to aid family, students and generals.
Except by e.g. switching from fiber to microwave -- in certain constrained and financially motivated circumstances, such as regional and local transmission for the purpose of electronic trading.
Or so I've read; not my thing.
But it's a reminder not to take anything for granted -- not even "truths".
1. The network is reliable.
2. Latency is zero.
3. Bandwidth is infinite.
4. The network is secure.
5. Topology doesn't change.
6. There is one administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.
8. The network is homogeneous.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 20.4 ms ] threadIgnored by every technical RFC on L2/3 networking published after this document
This reminds of one of favorite videos with the famous Grace Hopper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8. She visualizes the speed of light to aid family, students and generals.
Or so I've read; not my thing.
But it's a reminder not to take anything for granted -- not even "truths".
Sounds like all modern JS frameworks :)