Can we replace BGP, just because it's a flaming dumpster fire?
MystikIncarnate
joined 2 years ago
Hi. I'm a network specialist. The Internet is not a big truck (it's a series of tubes).
To explain simply: time, distance and money. That's why nobody is doing it. All the humans are spread out over too much land, and to span the vast distances between places, you need either a really long cable (see: fiber optics) with permission to run said cable over that distance, or you need wireless relays (these don't have as much bandwidth).
The main problem isn't getting the power to reach a particular destination... You could fire a wireless signal from New York to LA if you had line of sight with relatively little power.... The problem is, the damned earth gets in the way.
So what do we get if we try? A bunch of independent communities with spotty connections to nearby communities, and it's likely that as soon as you go any significant distance, the demand on bandwidth would vastly outstrip any bandwidth you have.
Great, now the internet is slow, shit, and half the time, doesn't connect to what you want to access.
The Internet is set up the way it is because it's efficient and economical to do it this way. Let me talk at you for a minute and explain.
ISPs in your local area use copper wires, such as telephone or cable TV lines that were put in place more than a generation ago, to handle the "last mile"... The fact that we can get as fast of service down 20+ year old lines is a miracle half the time. Also, anyone with fiber, go sit in the corner, you're in a different class.
So all these last mile runs go to their distribution building that amalgamates them into a small number of high speed, high bandwidth fiber lines that go towards the nearest exchange. Not telephone exchange, internet exchange. They're usually located in data centers.
Internet exchanges act as a nexus of cross connectivity between ISPs, and corporations that host internet services like Meta, Google, etc. As well as transit providers, international data connectivity service providers that own undersea cables.... Everyone and everything that wants to communicate on the internet is connected at these points, which is why they're in data centers. The data center is attached to the internet exchange, not the other way around.
IX-es are connected to eachother over long distance fiber cables, usually run along utility properties, like those used for high voltage power transmission towers, or run along railroads or similar. Basically anyone who has a long, uninterrupted stretch of land, probably has been approached by transit providers to run fiber across their property between locations.
It's a huge, complex web of companies that have agreed to move customer traffic between locations.
Recreating all of that is an insane technological challenge especially for a rag tag group of volunteers and hobbyists with little money, and no resources.... From scratch.
I like the idea, but implementation is going to be nigh impossible.
Maybe, but also, relationships take a lot of time and effort and sometimes your significant other is just crazy and you have to break it off.
It seems like getting a real-enough experience with a "real doll" and then not having to deal with another person or their drama, may appeal to some.
Not me, I've been in a long term relationship for going on 10 years now. I can just take my bias out of the discussion and consider other perspectives.
The most significant insulin development in recent years is glucose reactive insulin.
I would argue that any development short of GRI is not significantly different than any other insulin treatment. You have to take insulin and either regulate how much insulin you take for how much sugar you consume, or regulate how much sugar you consume too match how much insulin you're taking.
The intervals/amounts differ, even methods of administration differ, but they are not drastically different.
GRIs actually regulate blood glucose "automatically" like a pancreas would. Which makes treating diabetes with a GRI, not dissimilar to treating any other condition that requires a single dose of medication every day. You take the medicine and go about your business, not giving your condition a second thought in your day to day activities. That's huge.
This is all well and good, however, GRIs are little more than a lab experiment at the moment. Human trials are set up begin in 2025 sometime.
So my point stands, make insulin cheap, let people live for a few more years until they can see the release of GRIs; where there is a real, tangible change in how they manage their condition.
Everything else, is just variations on the same, bad, theme.
My brother has used so many different brands and types of insulin, from long-acting to short, in vials, pen-like dispensers, and even a couple pumps.... They're all varying levels of bad. The least bad has been the pumps, but the pump isn't dependent on what brand or type of insulin you use.... It's a tool to make it easier to manage the amount of insulin being recieved at any given time. Everything else is little more than a difference in labeling.
Given the existence of products like "real doll", there's some merit to it happening to humans.
I don't know enough about any of it since I'm in a relationship with someone who has a pulse, and I like it that way.
I just upgraded to a Xeon E5 v4 processor.
I think the max RAM on it is about 1.5 TiB per processor or something.
It's not new, but it's not that old either. Still cost me a pretty penny.
Why not both?
Let's hold them all to account. Why should we give someone a pass just because they're not part of the c-suite?
Pardon me, but, Mr Rose, can you please tell me.... What fucking better treatments?
My brother is T1D and he's been like that since his teens. Literally the only way for him to continue to live, at all, is to take insulin.
It's times like this that make me thankful I don't live in the USA.
But seriously, if anyone knows of a "better" treatment for type 1 diabetes, I'm all ears. I've been looking for something for my brother for years, and I've come up with jack shit.
I think I've already watched this. Interesting stuff.
Pretty much everything gets it wrong in stone capacity. Some get very close, but fall short of representing radio in reality.
Just don't.
Throughout my life, things have always gotten worse.
I've come to the conclusion that for any major investment, the time to invest was the early 2000s, and the second best time is right now, because it's only going downhill from here.
Unless it's tech, because early tech is almost always shit compared to later versions of the same... To a limited degree. Eventually it all gets enshittified.