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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/

randomly reminded today of the fact that Bill Clinton wrote a political thriller in 2018 that contained a surprisingly passable explanation of the Border Gateway Protocol.

I'm not saying we should necessarily have an exam on distance-vector routing protocols as a cognitive test to be qualified for the presidency, but... actually, why not?

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#cats #catsofmastodon

Tonight's dinner: ma po tofu, stir fried pea shoots with garlic and oxtail

#food

Wow, even Google's AI appears to be endorsing @alice's "using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck" theory now!

(https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116774139532809023)

Early American Chinese restaurant menus were designed to be parsed as SQL.

how it's going: napping counts as exercise, right?

#cats

So a new cat treadmill just arrived and it is, uh, enormous.

Also it is a bit optimistic to think that the cats in this household will use a treadmill when the humans never did, but we'll see how this goes...

#cats

Thanks to her arthritis treatment, Pixel is back to being an adventure cat.

*Short adventures only. Then it’s time for a nap.

#cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

Sometimes you can really tell a Wikipedia article is gonna be good from the table of contents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

In 1971, my uncle George designed the HOME OF TOMORROW, and it can be yours for only $370k if you want to live in Duluth, MN and also the future!

https://archive.is/7hQzu