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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Working the Performance Inequality Gap series update from a flight and boy howdy, none of the rosy networking predictions the JS-first crowd pinned their hopes on have panned out *even for the wealthiest users*.
It's been a decade-deep branch mispredict on the client environment being post-resource-scarcity. Things didn't get uniformly faster, they got more variable.
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- [from 40k ft at 580mph groundspeed, a super-modern Intelsat connection somewhere over Alberta, Canada has impressive downlink max (>35Mbps post-Nagle) but RTT's north of 1 second and upload channel capacity measured in the Kbps.
Rich users are marginal users too.][3] ([remote][4])