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It's a reasonable approximation for most calculations. It seems unfair to call that "disinformation". Serialization delay, queuing delay etc. often dominate, b
by lxgr 2y ago
It's a reasonable approximation for most calculations. It seems unfair to call that "disinformation".
Serialization delay, queuing delay etc. often dominate, but these have little to do with the actual propagation delay, which also can't be neglected.
> when a customer is yelling at me telling me that the latency should be absolute 0
The speed of light isn't infinity, is it?
- Izkata 2y agoSpeed of light also explained why these emails were limited to a little over 500 miles: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html So it can be relevant, even as an approximation.