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Feb 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
About an hour into it, when I'm describing DNS header compression on generating the query packet for "google.com" that they'll be asking me politely to leave.
I lie. It'll take hours to get to that point, as I first explain how Chrome caches DNS names before making a request to the operating system to do DNS resolution on it's behalf -- assuming they haven't enabled DNS-over-something.
I lie. There's probably a whole day's discussion of what happens when you click with the mouse on the screen to load the page, tracing the path of execution through Windows event handlers.
I lie. There's several days of discussion of USB protocols and physical layer signaling that goes into getting a mouse click such that your desktop/hardware can recognize it.

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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham Profile picture
Feb 16
So I did a thing.

Back a couple years ago, people were rewriting the classic 'wc' program (word-count) in their favorite programming language to prove theirs could be as fast as C.

So I decided to rewrite using my favorite algorithm instead: a "state machine parser". Image
The algorithm to count words (and lines and characters) is 3 lines long, the while(){} loop at line 25.

You are supposed to marvel at how this is absolutely NOT a word/line/char counting algorithm -- and yet, it produces the same results as 'wc'. Image
I implemented the same algorithm in JavaScript, and it ended up being faster than all those "I rewrote wc in my favorite language" examples. But the reason isn't that JavaScript is faster than their language, but because the ALGORITHM is faster. It also jits well. Image
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Feb 10
Note that I'm not a solid source here.
1. I experience weird disruptions trying to make calls to the Ukraine cell phone network
2. Techies (who don't want to be named) said it was because the cell network was being DDoSed.

I'm just passing along what little I know.
I do know that while cell providers are supposed to have private links to each other, I know that a lot of traffic ends up going across the Internet backone, so the scenario is plausible (though not proven).
The weirdest thing was a recorded message saying the subscriber wasn't available, in english, but breaking up severely due to disruption on the network, which as I understand it, shouldn't be possible.
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Feb 10
Your regular reminder that presidents deserve neither the credit nor the blame for things such as "inflation".

Economies around the world are experiencing inflation for the same reason: stimulus spending and disruptions in the economy due to lockdowns.
Here is inflation from the Eurozone. It has the same spike as we do. It's hard to imagine how Biden caused that.
The things that economists cite that cause the current inflation were the steps taken during Trump's administration. Stimulus happened in 2020, the effects were seen in 2021. It was sticking upwards before Biden had a chance to make any difference.
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Feb 9
I woke up last week and discovered "selfie ring lights" are now a thing and I want to go on a murder spree. Image
The number at my local barber a couple months ago: 0
The number at my local barber last week: 6
Violence is never the answer.
Violence is never justified.

Except when murder sprees are justified, such as this case.
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Feb 7
It is partisan. Because republicans refused to participate. Because most are guilty of fomenting unrest by opposing the peaceful transfer of power.
It’s been over a year and republicans still haven’t cited any evidence substantiating their claims of election fraud. Yet they still claim the election was stolen.
You are a patriot if you fight a stolen election with evidence.

Claiming an election was stolen without evidence makes you the opposite of a patriot.
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Feb 7
Fact-check: It's not a nuclear power plant. It's an old steel plant shut down before the 2008 summer Olympics because of the enormous air pollution it caused. Like power plants, steel plants need cooling towers, too.
Not all nuclear power plants have towers that look like this.

Most towers that look like this are not for nuclear power plants.
Here's an article on it:
olympics.com/ioc/news/beiji…
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