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vmfunction on May 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Engineering for Slow Internet

>A lot of this resonates. I'm not in Antartica, I'm in Beijing, but still struggle with the internet.

Not even that, with outer space travel, we all need to build for very slow internet and long latency. Devs do need to time-travel back to 2005.

andrepd on May 31, 2024 [–]

I'm sure this is not what you meant but made me lol anyways: sv techbros would sooner plan for "outer space internet" than give a shit about the billions of people with bad internet and/or a phone older than 5 years.

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