Dan Ports

@dan@discuss.systems
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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.

But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.

I also administer https://discuss.systems/

webhttps://drkp.net/

Minion hopes everyone is having a floofy #caturday.

#cats #catsofmastodon

@atsuzaki @dan I recently took this series of photos and someone commented that he looks like a Humans of New York subject.
I love the Fediverse because half of it is like "fifteen well-sourced reasons for UBI" and the other half is "I draw the furry porn your dad doesn't admit to buying" and they're actually the same half.
Please apply (or encourage your students to apply) for the SIGCOMM travel grants, deadline June 30: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025/cf-travelgrant/
ACM SIGCOMM 2025

ACM SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). ACM SIGCOMM 2025, the 39th edition of the conference series, will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, September 8 - 11, 2025.

ACM SIGCOMM 2025
Time for an #Introduction. We are the Special Interest Group (SIG) focussed on all aspects of computer networking, part of the @ACM professional computing society. We host multiple conferences each year, including our flagship annual conference; publish a quarterly newsletter (Computer Communications Review); give awards in a number of categories; and generally support researchers and practitioners in computer networking. More details at our web site:
https://www.sigcomm.org
acm sigcomm

SIGCOMM is ACM's professional forum for the discussion of topics in the field of communications and computer networks, including technical design and engineering, regulation and operations, and the social implications of computer networking. The SIG's members are particularly interested in the

The main reason I am on the fediverse is because if JD Vance ever turned up here, he would instantly be eaten by angry furries
Found a way to distinguish which one is my personal laptop and which one is my work laptop.

Someone just told me (via email) that it's "unbecoming for a professor" to use language like "bullshit".

Now that's some bullshit right there.

Forget tabs-vs-spaces and emacs-vs-vim. Today's question is:

assert expected == actual
or:
assert actual == expected

Explain your answer.

This is so exciting! 55 different radiocarbon results now support that humans were in New Mexico 22000 years ago, 8000 years before first humans have been assumed to be in the Americas https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/
New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory

Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago.

Ars Technica
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