https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
> pingfs is a filesystem where the data is stored only in the Internet itself, as ICMP Echo packets (pings) travelling from you to remote servers and back again.
Re:Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
by MichaelZuo on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:30AM
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That's pretty cool, it might be possible to apply some redundancy to it.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Re:Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
by throw0101c on Thursday June 29, 2023 @02:40PM
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pterry
Storing information in a non-stable state of a physical process is of course possible but generally not a good idea.
“DRAM is not a good idea” is a bit of a hot take…
Re:Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
by cbm-vic-20 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:53AM
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See also Tom7's "Harder Drive" video. The whole thing is great, but the part relevant to the parent comment starts at 2:31.
ha ha, thanks for that, made my day.
if you draw a Poincare disk model [1] where one dimension is nerdiness and the other is humor this guy is floating somewhere outside the boundary.
Re:Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
by anonymousiam on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:25AM
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Many may not be aware of this, but signals through fiber optic cables actually propagate more slowly than through copper. Fiber carries bits at about 0.67 the speed of light in a vacuum.
https://www.commscope.com/globalassets/digizuite/2799-latenc...
It doesn't go the speed of light in copper, either. In fact, that study has a nice table on page 5. Looks like other than thick coax, fiber is a bit faster than most copper options.
Re:Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet
by _trampeltier on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:53PM
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.. and if you wanna be fast for HF trading, use microwave.
There is something intriguing about this image of localizing information along the cable...