These 30 ms and 4 ms numbers were typical Apache to Netscape from MAE East and MAE West in 1998. Twenty five years and orders of magnitude more computing later? Same numbers.
But now it's that fast from almost everywhere on the planet, with nearly zero effort from the developer. We've been limited by light speed here, not compute.
I get 381ms/401ms on first load and not the claimed ~30ms. I'm not really sure what the point is here though. CDNs and browser cache headers work? Static sites are fast to paint?
Yeah, I'm not seeing fast uncached times either. I usually hit Cloudflare's Miami datacenter, which is only about 200 miles and very low latency. But I'm seeing 200+ms on this site right now.
Most cloudflare products are very slow / offer very poor performance. I was surprised by this but that’s just how it is. It basically negates any claimed performance advantage.
Durable objects, r2 as well as tunnel have been particularly poor performing in my experience. Workers has not been a great experience either.
R2 in particular has been the slowest / highest latency s3 alternative I ever had experience with, falling behind backblaze b2, wasabi and even hetzner’s object storage.
The circumference of Earth at the equator is about 40,000 km and the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s. The appropriate division results in about 0.13 s.
That seems to track. The vast majority of requests won’t go half way around the Earth, so maybe halving that time at 0.06 seems like a reasonable target.
I believe that FTL communication (if it's achievable) will start out in data centers at small scales. Perhaps millimeters.
Possibly as an extension of Quantum Computing where some probabilistic asymmetry can be taken advantage of. The QC itself might not be faster than classical computing, but the FTL comms could improve memory and cache access.
Also MetaGoog will use it to serve up hyper personalized ads in their Gemini based Metaverse.
No, they didn't. They talked about their process and their mindset. They didn't share the photo.
Your response feels spiteful and needlessly mean. When someone is talking to you, listen to their words - such as their words talking about creating art even without an audience - before jumping immediately to attacks.
> I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human languageI believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language
Ask any human client buying dev work from a web agency how "natural language" spec works out for them.
It's not clear to me at all that "natural language" alone is ideal -- unless you also have near real time iteration of builds. If you do, then the build is a concrete manifestation of the spec, and the natural language can say "but that's not what I meant".
This allows messy natural language to vector towards the solution, "I'll know it when I see it" style.
So, natural language shaping iteratively convergent builds.
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There are some nice neon sign options here as well:
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