Counting Until the End of the Universe
essenceia.github.ioBroadcasting over Ethernet until the heat death of the universe with a custom ASIC, or yet another terrible idea, this time inspired by reddit.
> So here is to hoping our paperclip optimized overlords will still have the 802.3 spec in their training data by then.
I'd place good money that anything in the training data will outlast all of humanity at this point.
Overall fun article. It's also interesting that you could knock like 10^6 or far more off the total count simply by slowing your clock instead. Your approach is a more interesting one for sure.
P.S. you had "[...] to pull a single all right this time" at the bottom. So, you're saying you pulled an all wrong?!
Haha, nice one. Defiantly all wrong, if hardware design was a religion I might have been excommunicated for this. Deploying the fix now, it should have been "all nighter".