@ewen @nic How many eels can you fit in that hovercraft anyway?
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Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 05:22:23 JST Garrett Wollman -
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Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 06:37:28 JST Garrett Wollman @jef @nblr Both came out of Barbara Liskov's research group. In 1994, although Scheifler had moved on, Barbara and her group were still there, around the corner and down the hall from me.
The 5th floor of 545 Tech Square was an astonishingly productive place: X, the End-to-End Principle, library operating systems, packet audio and video over wide-area networks, "soft state", RSVP, mesh networks, content-addressable file systems, TCP time-sequence plots, ...
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Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 03:10:08 JST Garrett Wollman @futurshox This is apparently why Koreans with the family name "I" still use "Lee" on their passports and not the government recommended "Yi".
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Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 18:00:11 JST Garrett Wollman @airtower @mcc @megmac There was kind of a religious war about this, with different people arguing that either all header files should be self-contained or that no header file should include any other (user-visible) header file, because namespace pollution. POSIX adopted the former, but also introduced a lot of new typedefs which meant that anyone doing anything nontrivial had to follow suit (because C doesn't have incomplete typedefs) even if most clients would never use them.
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Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 05:19:55 JST Garrett Wollman @inthehands Stipulated that polysemy is a thing, but to what extent are the students socialized to understand that these different kinds of "discomfort" are not in fact the same phenomena?