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by loeg 1537 days ago
8b10b is like, 3 PCI generations old (PCI 2)! The next thing was 128b130b (PCI 3-5) and apparently 6 is moving to 242B/256B.
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Fascinating. So I guess I date myself there. But - it makes sense having read a bit. There’s remarkable complexity. “Strong statistical bounds” is again a reason for me to say “it is amazing anything works, anywhere.” I say this typing on a capacitive piece of glass that happens to be a multitouch display, glued to a battery, a quad core processor, and a very precisely arranged lump of sand and gold that’s able to literally shout into the microwave aether to a thingie on a pole in the middle of the air, which then is relaying (encrypted btw) data to some box somewhere that results in an interrupt occurring, a cpu servicing that, and many other things happening many times to result in random people somewhere eventually reading this message.

We’ve come pretty far from the telegraph, haven’t we?