Since slops are going viral, what kind of salt do you use, table salt or rock salt?

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Your browser choice says more about you than your OS. Chrome / Firefox / Explorer / Safari / Brave Which one are you and why?

This is so true, isn't it 😂

12/12 We spent 50 years perfecting glass. Now we’re realizing something uncomfortable: The fastest medium for light… …is nothing. The next internet upgrade won’t come from better code. It’ll come from hollow pipes. The glass age isn’t dead. But the air age has begun. /End

11/12 Hollow-core fiber means: • Lower latency • Less signal distortion • Data centers can spread out without slowing down Compute no longer has to live in one room.

10/12 Then Microsoft stepped in. In 2022, they acquired Lumenisity, a hollow-core fiber company. Why? Because modern GPU clusters are now so fast that cable length is the bottleneck.

9/12 In HFT, 1 microsecond = millions. They laid hollow-core fiber between data centers just to be faster than competitors. They didn’t care about loss. They cared about winning.

8/12 For years this was a lab toy. Too fragile. Too expensive. Then high-frequency traders got involved. 💰

7/12 “How does light stay inside an empty tube?” Short answer: geometry. Tiny glass structures surround the air channel and trap light using interference. No mirrors. No reflection. Just brutal, beautiful physics.

6/12 Meet Hollow-Core Fiber. Instead of light traveling through solid glass… …it travels through air. Almost vacuum. Almost full speed of light. Instant ~40% latency drop.

5/12 So we’re stuck. Latency is locked. Bandwidth gains are shrinking. Unless we do something radical: Remove the glass.

4/12 Push glass too hard and it fights back. The signal turns noisy. Bits blur. Capacity stops scaling. This isn’t bad engineering. It’s fundamental physics.

3/12 For 20 years, we cheated physics. More colors of light. Smarter modulation. More power. It worked… until the fiber itself became the problem.

2/12 Everyone says: “Data moves at the speed of light.” Not true. It moves at the speed of light through glass. Glass slows light by ~30%. That delay is baked into the internet.

Thread: We Are Running Out of Physics 🧵⚠️ 1/12 Hot take: The internet isn’t slow because of bad software. Or weak chips. We’re hitting a physics limit. The cables that run the world are maxing out. Here’s the quiet breakthrough almost no one is talking about 👇

Flash models are incredible for the price, hope it stays that way.

12/12 The uncomfortable truth: Modularity was bandwidth compression for human brains. We just upgraded the bandwidth. Adapt or get left behind.

11/12 If you are optimizing repos only for human readability, you are optimizing for the past. The future looks ugly. Large monoliths. Messy code. But they work because the AI sees the whole picture.