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It’s fine. The public pays for sci-fi clocks used by NIST and the Navy and we get shit latency over NTP and a WWVB signal that barely reaches a huge chunk of th
by user3939382 10mo ago
It’s fine. The public pays for sci-fi clocks used by NIST and the Navy and we get shit latency over NTP and a WWVB signal that barely reaches a huge chunk of the country. CLOCKS WE PAID FOR. Jane Street gets lightning access to clocks and our pension managers get their NTP trades front run. NTP is a disgrace and an insult when it is working.
- royce 10mo agoThe rest of the snark/ bitterness aside ... NTP takes latency as a constraint, and accommodates for it. And far from a disgrace, NTP was a brilliant design for its time, and has proven to be far more future-proof than should have been expected.
- user3939382 10mo ago“snark bitterness side” I see so I’m not entitled to my feelings and I’m holding it wrong. No. It’s a disgrace. The latency is shit the precision is shit and WWVB to go with it is an insult. Future proof? Are you living in the same future I am where our trades are front run? I notice you didn’t engage with the substance of my attack at all.