I’ve had a slight obession with them recently, is it possible?

  • @[email protected]
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    126 days ago

    Referring to the death of a pigeon as “packet loss” feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.

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      6 days ago

      Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

      Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

      • @shalafi
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        66 days ago

        To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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          The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.

          But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there’s not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.