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/

Jan. 2025: According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might deploy troops against what he deems domestic threats, including political enemies, dissenters and immigrants.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/12/trump-military-immigration-domestic-deployment-00195609

Nope. Nothing I might add could improve this headline.

Somewhere Barbara Streisand can heave a huge sigh of relief. It will henceforth be known as "the Vance effect."

#JDVance #fascism #couchfucker

Fun fact: @irene’s Miata gets a discount on the ferry because it is smol.
It’s still kinda crazy to me that I can just *put my car on a boat* and this is a normal means of transportation in the PNW.

I know I asked this a while back, but I'm stubbornly going to keep at it.

There are more than a few entities on fedi that are into standing up old phone networks, ranging from military field comms, business PBXes, even homelab ESS implementations.

But I can't find a dedicated hashtag for the life of me, so I'm going to pick one and run with it.

#OtherNetworks is a great catch-all for the more esoteric, #RetroLab is broad but you get the idea, and #HomeLab is *really* broad.

#Boost maybe? ❤️

#PhoneLab
#VoiceLab
Something Else
Just use #HomeLab and #OtherNetworks
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STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth

MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

Lena's plan for world peace:
1. everyone adopts ISO 8601
2. tbd
How do you do projects?
I start many projects, and rarely finish any.
I start a single project, and finish it.
I have multiple projects going, and finish them al
Projects are not meant to be done.
People have time for projects?!
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Absurdly proud of @notypes for winning one of two SIGPLAN dissertation awards this year! Check out that award-winning thesis: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/files/pubs/dissertation.pdf (photo credit @avanhatt)
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Absurdly proud of @notypes for winning one of two SIGPLAN dissertation awards this year! Check out that award-winning thesis: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/files/pubs/dissertation.pdf (photo credit @avanhatt)

The other winner is @harrisongoldstein, who also has a rad thesis about usable PBT you should check out: https://harrisongoldste.in/papers/dissertation.pdf

I am getting a little misty-eyed because Harry is one of the first undergrads I worked with at Cornell. Congratulations, Harry!!

Surreally, @notypes then hopped over to ISCA to collect his honorable mention for the SIGARCH dissertation award. I can’t think of a more appropriate recognition of the unique way Rachit’s work spans two research traditions. Congratulations, Rachit—it’s extremely well deserved!
@adrian Whoa congratulations @notypes, very well deserved!
@adrian @harrisongoldstein CONGRATS to both these wonderfully deserving dissertations and the incredible humans behind them!!! 💞💐🎉