| ▲ | bduffany 4 hours ago |
| Someone please do the math on how fast this guy would have to type, and how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment |
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| ▲ | kxrm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina. |
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| ▲ | Waterluvian 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is a wonderful Minute Physics or What If? idea. I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC? |
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| ▲ | not_kurt_godel 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some napkin math - total Internet bandwidth is estimated to be 3-4 petabits per second. Let's say 1% of that is inference traffic - 35 terabits - then that's ~4.375 trillion characters per second at 8 bits per character. A single keyboard press might require 2 mJ, so you need roughly 8.75 GW (electricity required for ~9 million homes) of continuous mechanical force to keep pace. This would cause the keyboard to heat up 175 million degrees C per second. Disappointingly, this is not enough to create a black hole but I'm sure Randall Munroe could tell you how the guy's pet T-rexes would be vaporized into previously unknown types of plasma and how satisfyingly whimsical that would be. | | |
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| ▲ | jzb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Surely the keyboard switches would start to fail within minutes. |
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| ▲ | chrisBob 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The keyboard springs are sooooo weak. It takes forever for them to recover after a press. Our dude would have to grab the key after each character and pull it back up so it can keep up with him. | | |
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