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by hueving 3203 days ago
>It is now possible, technically anyway, for operating systems to boot, service the request and disappear.

This was already possible even with a 2 second boot time. The problem is that it's a stupid use case because (unless the OS boots up in <10ms) the latency of waiting for the bootup is intolerable in any use case where a 2 second boot time was intolerable.