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/

What exactly is the left wing propaganda
in Sesame Street???

Empathy and learning to read.

When I was in academia, it was generally understood that the moment you got a PhD, you lost the ability to carry out basic tasks. Especially printing. No one with a PhD can operate a printer.

I assume this is what they mean when they talk about GPT-5 having "PhD-level intelligence".

Ever since the Matrix was released in 1999, cell phones have been steadily replacing landlines - which were shown to be the only way to escape.

London Evening Standard: London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside

The only fox news I'm prepared to read

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/richmond-twickenham-library-foxes-b1238568.html

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside

Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

Evening Standard

@brendan @ricci once upon a time, I built a system to resolve merge conflicts by detecting them and phoning the landline in my students' lab to ask them to resolve it over the phone

PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY AS OUR MERGE CONFLICT OPTIONS HAVE CHANGED. PRESS ONE TO ACCEPT THEIR CHANGES. PRESS TWO TO KEEP YOUR CHANGES...

@ricci But it could be so much more fun!
I don't need AI to not read my emails, I'm perfectly capable of not reading them on my own
Kind of guy who has every possible cable and adapter but can't find any of them
i’ve taught students who are new to programming who try to justify their use of LLM code tools with self deprecation — “i’m bad at this”, “there’s no way i could ever figure it out on my own.” i wish i knew how to get through that the actual value your college tuition pays for is access to live human beings whose job it is to give you the kind of help you’re seeking from the LLM. that those human relationships are what give life meaning & there are so precious few opportunities to create them
I don’t remember what this reminder was supposed to say but yeah, Siri. Yeah.
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