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dan

@dan@discuss.systems

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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dan, to random
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Today I ran Wireshark over X forwarding over ssh over ssh over a VPN over a VPN over ssh over a VPN...

...so that I could look at some packets that contained a UDP/IP packet inside an Ethernet packet inside a VXLAN header inside a UDP/IP packet inside an Ethernet packet inside an ERSPAN packet inside an Ethernet packet.

I understand that every problem in computer science can be solved with another level of abstraction...

lzg, to random
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finally the org is large enough that there's another Lena at work. let the namespace collision begin!

dan,
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@kf @lzg we now have two Irenes in my group which is very disorienting

ai6yr, to random

Hmm...

dan,
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@ai6yr the Minnesota branch of my family is divided into three warring factions: the ones who love Norwegians, the ones who hate Norwegians, and the ones who are Norwegians.

They have been expressing their frustration for decades by mailing lutefisk to each other.

dan, to random
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delighted to learn that my wine cellar is the example used to explain cache hierarchies in UW's introductory courses

(the wine fridge in my kitchen is labeled "L1 cache", the cellar is main memory, and the offsite warehouse is the archival block store)

dan, to Dogs
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snoot

regehr, to random
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we’re having couscous aux sept legumes tonight and one of the legumes a kid picked out is a chayote. as my mom likes to say when serving dinner: I bet you’ve never had this combination before.

dan,
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@fernomac @dev @smurthys @ricci @regehr let's not overlook that over in New Mexico, the state university has a Chili Pepper Institute
https://cpi.nmsu.edu/

dan,
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@regehr @fernomac @dev @smurthys @ricci reminded of the classic sign in Weed, CA (which I am sure has been changed to stop people from stealing it all the time)

dan, to random
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currently attempting to use an ethernet interface called "enp8s0f0npf0vf1" and cannot help but think

STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

dan, to random
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I think my headphones are now 25 years old. Can't think of any other piece of technology that's lasted that long, let alone one that I still use regularly...

dan, to random
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Now the proud owner of my very own zero-volume non-orientable surface!

dan,
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@jonathankoren yup!

dan, to random
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I have been thinking a lot about the old platinum-iridium International Prototype Kilogram since it was replaced 5 years ago this month.

I hope Le Grand K is enjoying its retirement. I hope it gets to live in the French countryside with a nice family who brushes it from time to time.

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Please congratulate @sharon on her first paper acceptance at USENIX Security!

dan, to random
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For this one brief, glorious moment I have all of my calendars syncing correctly to the devices they're supposed to sync to.

I do not expect this to last more than a day.

dan, to random
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Can't believe Seattle requires cats to be licensed, everyone knows that cats are libertarians*.

  • "convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand"
dev, to random
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Me, a year ago: I’m so glad they’re building high density housing right in downtown. Without the parking minimums, it’ll be perfect for students and transit, this kind of high density walkable urbanism is what’s needed.

Me, checking the status in a year: no, not like that

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@regehr @dev have never been convinced Nebraska is real

dan,
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@dev @lzg @regehr this reminds me that the local PNW questionable taco chain used to sell tater tots as "Mexi-Fries"

They recently renamed them, because apparently the name was the offensive part here?

dan,
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@dev @regehr @lzg funny you should mention that…

https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2021/08/31/why-raw-meat-cannibal-sandwich-endures-what-the-wisconsin/7906831002/

dan,
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@janeadams @regehr @dev oh, is that the place that angry people keep showing up at because when some IP geolocation service fails it just returns the geographic center of the US?

dan,
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@regehr @dave_andersen @dev @lzg also, I thought all animals in German were either subtypes of Baer or Schwein

lzg, to random
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@dev now that you work for microsoft, are you the entire family's MSoffice support guy?

dan,
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@dev @lzg oh, hey, you're in an actual product group, that means you can answer all of my questions about Microsoft products

dan,
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@dev @lzg I just take care of anteaters.

https://discuss.systems/@dan/110708465167136445

dev, to random
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Just learned about two bit floats, want to use them,,,

dan,
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@dev meanwhile, in VHDL, booleans can have up to nine different values. That's twice as many as these floats!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1164

dan,
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@dev @kstatz12 @ricci one of @irene's first jobs at VMware was to replace every if statement with a switch to see if that made the code size smaller.

Narrator: it didn't.

dan,
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@ricci @dev @kstatz12 @irene 20+ years ago, I read a webpage about object-oriented programming that said, without a hint of irony, "every if statement is a lost opportunity to use dynamic polymorphism" and that phrase has been living in my head since

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