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This article [0] covers its fascinating history and adoption by somewhat unsavory characters.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...

> I think very few people realize that many parts of it are closed source

Which parts are closed-source?

> So – this made me wonder. When we do high performance networking – why do we bother using the Linux kernel’s TCP stack at all, if it’s so expensive?

What makes the Linux kernel TCP stack expensive?

This is super useful! I've been hacking recently on qdisc classifiers, and trying to set a filter up with BPF, but there's a paucity of documentation on the subject. The tc tools are sorta documented here (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-bpf.8.html), but it's quite hard to find docs on the underlying syscalls and the behavior of `bpf_prog_type_sched_cls`.

I bought a copy of BPF performance tools to learn more about the BPF interface, and it's really useful but quite focused on performance! I wish there was a resource of similar depth and breath about eBPF for classification/XDP.

I do wonder whether the electoral college system somewhat insulates the US from election tampering or voter fraud. The current system disaggregates election certification to the state level, which is then made official by a discrete vote of the electoral college. For instance, if Donald Trump wants to claim that the election was rigged or tampered with, it's sort of moot as it's ultimately up to the state electors.

It feels like in the face of this, it's very hard for one candidate to dispute the election, as it's ultimately resolved by electoral vote. If we were to change the system to one based only a national first past the post poll, even one certified by vote totals from individual states, I wonder how you'd ensure an impartial certification of the final result.

It looks like several of the images in this post are taken (without credit?) from Cloudflare's primer? https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-...

Build Impossible Programs - Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/18/build-impossible-programs/

Hm.. Is Functional Neurology (the journal in which this published) related in any way to the field of functional neurology? I think the latter is a rebranding of chiropractic neurology, which some would argue purports some less than scientific ideas.

- etcd

Can you explain a bit more more about why you believe Delaware is the proffered place to register a corporation?

> That said, I didn’t want to mislead people. So we chose to be clear to them that there is a technical term; it’s just not going to be important for the rest of the content.

Maybe I missed something in the article, but how do you know the phone app is transmitting data to the insurance company?

My understanding was that GDPR requirements apply to all citizens of the EU regardless of where the company is located. Someone else can chime in if that's not accurate!

I'm hopeful that Zuckerberg has matured at least slightly in the intervening 14 years.

Oh my god. And Starcraft, and Axis and Allies, (original) DOTA. I was even a WOW player back in the day before I got fed up buying expansions. Man, the hours of productive time I wasted...

I don't know. I grew up in the XP era and I played a lot of brainless games (3D pinball was where it was at) and read a lot of mindless Wikipedia articles as a kid. But then I got curious about how it all worked behind the scenes.

Maybe I'm too optimistic, but my hope is some of that inquisitive spirit hasn't been totally quashed. It's too depressing think that kids are not still discovering the internet as a virtually boundless repository of human information and a fascinating set of technical problems.

I credit much of my current aptitude with (and interest in) computers to getting to use one throughout my childhood with no restrictions. I understand it can be nerve-wracking for parents ceding that much control to children, but I think children are both smarter and more self-disciplined than we give them credit for and I think digital free range can build independence in the long run. Maybe my opinion will change when I have kids of my own someday. Who knows.

What do you believe defines terrorism?

This seems very cool, but it's hard to imagine myself ever using this for anything. What use cases do you imagine this has or have other people found for something like this?

How does the JVM determine the number of cores on a Linux system by default?

Sorta. The JVM provides portability but has less fine controls for things like disk, network and CPU isolation and limiting.

The ad in question was of course totally tasteless and tone-deaf, but I'm curious as to whether Snap is uniquely susceptible to price fluctuations based on the comments of social media influencers for some reason.

On a slightly tangential note, how do you like the Homepod?

I hope I never have to do something like this to keep my beloved 2015 Macbook Pro alive.

Excuse me, the first statue should be 18 USC § 1348, not 15 USC.

No. Shkreli is going to jail because he committed fraud.