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/

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We are trying to settle on "house style" for the plural of AS (Autonomous Systems). Since 1995 (when we had a good copy editor) our style has been "ASs" which seems to be consistent with many style guides and also the most common way to pluralise the similar-looking OS. However, much of the literature on routing uses ASes, and there would also be some support from style guides for using AS's. Please give us your vote:
ASs
ASes
AS's
Avoid the term
Poll ends at .

@sarahtaber I live in an agricultural county.

Almost every day I see people working hard in the fields.

And every time I think: Perhaps this generation of workers won't experience the full American Dream, but among their children and grandchildren will be our nation's future Curies and Mozarts, future Twains and Spielbergs - a child of one of those workers may find a cure for cancer.

I am more than happy to pay extra $$ so that these people have a better chance of growing into (and enriching) our American culture and life, just as my great grandparents and grandparents did.

I also support UBI, free healthcare, and free education for all who are here (not just citizens.)

Many of our religions - including Islam, Christianity, Judaism - all teach us to care for the foreigner and stranger.

(I would add that we need to pull back on our national worship of advanced university degrees and note that often those who work with their hands are as skilled as a scientist with a PhD.)

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.
the next time you want to piss off a techbro, just tell them intersectionality is systems thinking for human values
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@RickiTarr Adapters are easy.
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If you and your fellow explorers find yourself lost in a vast urban wilderness, it is helpful to know how to start a fire.

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Apparently that outlet should have an Easy Button as well as the other two.