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They all forward to one guy in a closet who types really fast, and he has a dentist appointment.

bduffany 23d ago
Someone please do the math on how fast this guy would have to type, and how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment
- kxrm 23d ago
  > how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina.
- Waterluvian 23d ago
  This is a wonderful Minute Physics or What If? idea. I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC?
  - not_kurt_godel 23d ago
    Some napkin math - total Internet bandwidth is estimated to be 3-4 petabits per second. Let's say 1% of that is inference traffic - 35 terabits - then that's ~4.375 trillion characters per second at 8 bits per character. A single keyboard press might require 2 mJ, so you need roughly 8.75 GW (electricity required for ~9 million homes) of continuous mechanical force to keep pace. This would cause the keyboard to heat up 175 million degrees C per second. Disappointingly, this is not enough to create a black hole but I'm sure Randall Munroe could tell you how the guy's pet T-rexes would be vaporized into previously unknown types of plasma and how satisfyingly whimsical that would be.
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- jzb 23d ago
  Surely the keyboard switches would start to fail within minutes.
  - chrisBob 23d ago
    The keyboard springs are sooooo weak. It takes forever for them to recover after a press. Our dude would have to grab the key after each character and pull it back up so it can keep up with him.
    - snazz 23d ago
      Capacitive touch keyboard?
natsucks 23d ago
is it the guy in Nebraska from the xkcd comic
testfrequency 23d ago
Future Show HN Post: “Hi I’m Foobar. I own Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT. It all runs on my Plex server at home. AMA!”
- mikestorrent 23d ago
  > Sorry it was down, guys, I was bulk transcoding some Buffy
evereverever 23d ago
At least it's routine dental work and not an appointment at 2:30.
mister_mort 23d ago
It turns out AI was just An Individual.
christophilus 23d ago
It's been Fabrice Bellard all along.

Someone please do the math on how fast this guy would have to type, and how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment

kxrm 23d ago
> how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina.
Waterluvian 23d ago
This is a wonderful Minute Physics or What If? idea. I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC?
- not_kurt_godel 23d ago
  Some napkin math - total Internet bandwidth is estimated to be 3-4 petabits per second. Let's say 1% of that is inference traffic - 35 terabits - then that's ~4.375 trillion characters per second at 8 bits per character. A single keyboard press might require 2 mJ, so you need roughly 8.75 GW (electricity required for ~9 million homes) of continuous mechanical force to keep pace. This would cause the keyboard to heat up 175 million degrees C per second. Disappointingly, this is not enough to create a black hole but I'm sure Randall Munroe could tell you how the guy's pet T-rexes would be vaporized into previously unknown types of plasma and how satisfyingly whimsical that would be.
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jzb 23d ago
Surely the keyboard switches would start to fail within minutes.
- chrisBob 23d ago
  The keyboard springs are sooooo weak. It takes forever for them to recover after a press. Our dude would have to grab the key after each character and pull it back up so it can keep up with him.
  - snazz 23d ago
    Capacitive touch keyboard?

natsucks 23d ago

is it the guy in Nebraska from the xkcd comic

testfrequency 23d ago

Future Show HN Post: “Hi I’m Foobar. I own Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT. It all runs on my Plex server at home. AMA!”

mikestorrent 23d ago
> Sorry it was down, guys, I was bulk transcoding some Buffy

evereverever 23d ago

At least it's routine dental work and not an appointment at 2:30.

mister_mort 23d ago

It turns out AI was just An Individual.

christophilus 23d ago

It's been Fabrice Bellard all along.