[bullen]

I pick the peak of everything, my house is from 1806, my bike is from 1950, my computers are 8-core Atom 2017 (server) and Jetson Nano 2019 (client)... no house/bike/computer will ever be better ever in the history of the universe.

With Java I was just lucky. I learned C++ first and then now 20 years later I learned C, you have to go back in time to see the future. I also went back to the C64 to predict the peak of computers.

[hnedeotes]

> no house/bike/computer will ever be better ever in the history of the universe.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[bullen]

You cannot prove the future, you can only guess it.

But memory will not become faster and therefore CPUs cannot become faster, no matter how many cores they have.

Now there are only bad compromises left in optimizing CPUs that lead to other weaknesses like meltdown.

That combined with peak lithography is when you know the tech has peaked. Game Over!

[hnedeotes]

If time is infinite, it means that everything *must* already have happened *or* can be assumed to have happened, including game over and game restart.

[afiori]

The heat death of an expanding universe might disagre

[hnedeotes]

That's:

a) A theory b) That in no way contradicts the possibility of a continuum where universes may rise, expand, contract and die, only to rinse and repeat c) If nothing can be created out of nothing, and if in the universe energy cannot be created or destroyed that doesn't seem to be correct unless the universe is an artificial system d) The only way for C) to be true is if everything is always the same thing in different forms, at which point we might as well say time is infinite

(caveat: artificial systems of course - but those still need to be initiated from somewhere else at some point down or up the chain of creation - so it should follow that something infinite must be at play)

[jmcgough]

This whole thread is a lesson in Poe's Law

[CyberDildonics]

Unfortunately I don't think there is any satire here.

This person has said:

- humanity will never go beyond 1 gigabit ethernet due to 'the physical limits and energy'

- hydroelectric is the only real source of electricity

- 3D MMOs are the "final medium" and that they are building one to last 100 years,

- they made the fastest database and they have 100% uptime,

- 2011 SSDs are the peak of disk space

- HTTP 1.1 is the 'final transport for humanity'

- java doesn't crash

- smaller transistors 'wear out sooner'

- anything too hot to hold in their hand will break soon

- load balancers save IP addresses

- the synchronize keyword in java makes their programs non-blocking

- multi-threading in games gives them 10 frames of motion to photon latency

They also made up "joint parallel" and then say that certain languages can't do it.

It is interesting but I think they are very isolated.

[bullen]

- humanity will never go beyond 1 gigabit ethernet due to 'the physical limits and energy'

  The complexity and energy requirements of 10GB/s make it improbable at home in the long run, also http://radiomesh.org

- hydroelectric is the only real source of electricity

  It's the only viable alternative to photosyntesis (also powered by the fusion reactor in the sky).

- 3D MMOs are the "final medium" and that they are building one to last 100 years,

  I'm building a MMO engine for eternity, the server hardware is specced for 100 years minimum, could work for 250 years with enough spare parts.

- they made the fastest database and they have 100% uptime,

  100% READ uptime, but very verbose on disk (fixable but I digress)

- 2011 SSDs are the peak of disk space

  They are the peak of writes per bit for the NAND 50nm SLC

- HTTP 1.1 is the 'final transport for humanity'

  Yes.

- java doesn't crash

  It can, but I have never in 20 years seen it happen in a server application; my VR LWJGL MMO has crashed on linux around 5-10 years ago, but I blame that on linux more than Java.

- smaller transistors 'wear out sooner'

  I'm speculating about this one, we'll see.

- anything too hot to hold in their hand will break soon

  Electronics wear out faster with heat, yes.

- load balancers save IP addresses

  Yes, obviously.

- the synchronize keyword in java makes their programs non-blocking

  No, I'm not going to explain this one as the source is there for you to read.

- multi-threading in games gives them 10 frames of motion to photon latency

  Yes, "The Last Guardian" had 10 frames lag on the PS4: http://move.rupy.se/file/20200106_124100.mp4

[bullen]

To err on the side of undecidedness is only possible if you have excess energy.

Soon everyone will have to choose.

But yes if the argumentation is thin because you cannot prove anything then making fun of things does not improve anything.

[dboreham]

Suspect not because the post was too long with grammatical errors to be irony. Amusing thread nevertheless though.

[jhgb]

> you have to go back in time to see the future

Just wait until you discover Lisp!