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It's a truly fantastic paper, but like many things the idea that it's impossible to have a perfectly consistent global view of time doesn't mean it's not possible to have a near-perfect one. The blog mentioned AWS's Timesync which lets you be synchronized into the microseconds (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-ti...), and Google's TrueTime is used to give ranges of times that you're guaranteed to be within (https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...).


It's near-perfect ... until it isn't and everything goes to shit in a cascading wtafc (what-the-actual-fuck-catastrophe).

1ms is an extremely long time in computer land where decisions are made in nanoseconds. There are 1000 nanoseconds per millisecond.


1000000 nanoseconds per millisecond.


Think you mean micro rather than milli


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