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“As a baseline reality check, we should not be sending over 1% of a 3.5" floppy disk purely in signatures and public keys.” Really? This is a ridiculous statem
by lphillips0825 2y ago
“As a baseline reality check, we should not be sending over 1% of a 3.5" floppy disk purely in signatures and public keys.”
Really? This is a ridiculous statement and sounds like we're worried about bandwidth consumption from the time when a US Robotics modem was a luxury.
- layer8 2y agoAs the article explains, it’s about latency, not bandwidth. Maybe they were alluding to floppy disk access times. ;)
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- vladak 2y agoIt is a strange comparison indeed, esp. with some generations of engineers might not even know what a floppy disk was, let alone imagine how the 1% of the capacity translates to network protocols.