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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by europeanguy on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:52PM (#33698532)
Do you know that weird phenomenon where you just learned a new word (which is weird in itself, how come I've live 20, 30, 40 year sand never saw this word before?!) and immediately after you see the same word again in an entirely different context?

Well that just happened with "bufferbloat". I had just learned about this word on the book "alrogithms to live by". And now, here.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by blacksmithgu on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:28PM (#33698992)
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, or simply the "frequency illusion". Or maybe just dumb luck :)
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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by DonHopkins on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:54PM (#33700804)
"Plate of Shrimp"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJ5cCP0ZPE

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

BTW, Jim Gettys is the cofounder of the Bufferbloat group! He's an extremely smart and nice guy, and it's a great and important cause to support and contribute to. So much has changed since the original TCP/IP protocols were designed... All that cheap memory is a double edged sword when widely deployed in routers running protocols designed in the 70's.

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

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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by dave_taht on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:46AM (#33706347)
I keep hoping everyone will have that Aha! moment one day, and we'll all have cake. https://libreqos.io
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