Category: General
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BBRv3
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/117/materials/slides-117-ccwg-bbrv3-algorithm-bug-fixes-and-public-internet-deployment-00
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The Rise of UDP
Once upon a time, much of the high-value and high-volume traffic on the Internet was TCP-based. Games and other real-time applications adopted UDP early to avoid the head-of-the-line blocking problems inherent in TCP’s design. However, these applications tend to use a relatively low traffic volume. What’s changed? A few things (at least): As an example,…
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Watch “Netdev 0x16 – Keynote: It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter” on YouTube
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“Stop Writing Dead Programs” by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)”
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Persistence Programming
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3526210
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Great Distributed Systems Paper
This well worth reading if you are into distributed systems. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fulltext
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https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/?s=09
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the Federal Deficit
I recently finished reading “The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy“. As the subtitle says, this book is focused on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Please read the book for a much better explanation but here’s the short version: There is an important difference between currency users and currency creators.…
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WE Charity and Conspiracy Theories
I’m on a mission to not become a grumpy old, conspiracy lover as this seems to be the fate of many old men. This post is part of me working on that. The fervor over the WE charity stuff the last couple weeks has been crazy. First the simple part. This whole thing is a…
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Long, good and scary read
https://features.propublica.org/climate-migration/model-how-climate-refugees-move-across-continents/?utm_source=pocket-newtab