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One of DNS pillars should be replaced by BGP.
And NTP, if I recall correctly.
When was that?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The undersea cables actually connecting the entire internet. Sometimes sharks just take a bite of them, they're reasonable well protected but it's enough damage to cause outages and disruptions. It's the single pin under everything because there are a limited number of those cables especially in some regions so a single shark can take out the entire internet for some countries. http://www.mirceakademy.com/uploads/MSA…
I feel like having them as a single brick is a bit hyperbolic, since undersea cables are pretty redundant in most of the world. Get rid of one and traffic just routes around it. Ships have been routinely destroying cables in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in the past couple of years without causing significant disruptions.
The whole Internet was designed for precisely this use case. If there is an outage, the distributed system will try to find another path. No actual central point of failure. As you say, the single brick is hyperbolic. But yea, those sharks can certainly be disruptive at times.
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#103I love that clicking the empty space and just doing nothing at all still causes the blocks to fall apart after some time.
Since it's going to collapse anyway, it's fun to table flip everything using the botton block.
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#104I would add some lerp-smoothing to the position of the cursor/touch, since it's a bit rigid. Click-drag-release often doesn't result in a fling but rather a sharp drop.
Lovely idea by the way.
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#105Here's a little more context about the author's motivation: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132
Oh cool, a product of Waterloo's Craig Kaplan, most famous for his work on the discovery of the einstein monotile
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For me, bottom blocks stay still while those on the very top fall down.
If I open it, click on the background to activate the physics and just keep the tab open, pretty much all of the blocks that can collapse do eventually collapse.
The Nebraska guy’s block remains surprisingly stable, even when the whole thing above it collapses. Very symbolic.
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Can someone help me understand the single brick at the very bottom under Linux? What is it representing?
The undersea cables actually connecting the entire internet. Sometimes sharks just take a bite of them, they're reasonable well protected but it's enough damage to cause outages and disruptions. It's the single pin under everything because there are a limited number of those cables especially in some regions so a single shark can take out the entire internet for some countries. http://www.mirceakademy.com/uploads/MSA…
Do satellite networks not move the needle in terms of capacity/reliability now?
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#109needs angry birds version
or not, it’s great as is BTW
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#110I love that the initial state itself isn't stable. The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.
That's the javascript effect.
Nah that's just the effect of turning on the simulation. The initial version isn't the same as the first steps because there's no weight. If you look closely after you click the blocks overlap slightly.
Something similar happens all the time in games when you go from a static version of something to the higher level of detail version with physics enabled, if the transition isn't handled gracefully or early enough you can get snapping.