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Many comments are around not seeing the point for connections so fast when you'll get throttled or simply won't notice. I think that's kind of the point of thi
by dietr1ch 3y ago
Many comments are around not seeing the point for connections so fast when you'll get throttled or simply won't notice.
I think that's kind of the point of this experiment (under GFiber Labs). Exploring the challenges around offering this, and discovering use cases for it. It's a silly argument now, but the 640K argument keeps popping up from people who are just fine living in "the current past".
Do I expect Google to roll this out globally? Hell no, they can't do products or support, but it's nice that they run this kind of experiments. Also, it seems that just pushing the industry forward is enough for them, their real revenue doesn't come from Fiber or Fi anyway.
- dietr1ch 3y agoNow, on what new things can be attempted with this? Someone mentioned that this was saturating a single SSD reads, which is interesting. For some applications my SSD does almost only reads, and the writes are mostly to update content. My disk must be 99.9%+ idle. Can then some nix-store/IPFS like system host all the applications I run? I'd be kind of cool to have every package virtually installed on every computer. Games fall on this category too, where people just keep them on SSDs for content to load quickly, and the writes to SSDs only happen when games are updated (or downloaded, which would be a no-op here).