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Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

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303 points zdw | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 16:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.463s | source
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lesser-shadow ◴[08 Jul 25 14:27 UTC] No.44500318[source]▶
Don't get it
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SV_BubbleTime ◴[08 Jul 25 14:37 UTC] No.44500398[source]▶
It’s a nerd story about short timeouts. Effectively a what is the speed of light or electricity in copper and over infrastructure. It’s a joke that doesn’t make any sense because 3ms was clearly bullshit devised for example. Don’t think about it too hard, it doesn’t suddenly snap into anything meaningful.
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1. vidarh ◴[08 Jul 25 15:08 UTC] No.44500722[source]▶
Why do you think it's "clearly bullshit"?

connect() will take time. Either you then fail on reiceiving EINPROGRESS, or you attempt a select() with 0 for the timeout, which will also take time. That that time could add up to 3ms on a mid-90's system also used for other things seems entirely plausible to me.

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