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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:14:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200315221453.GG26660@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgz=ev90M2-u2dYU-3vtpbcF_uigyh7+GBOERM-BbhtNeg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:01:46AM +1100, Rob Pike wrote:
> Ha! Someone on hacker news, that fount of profundity, posted the C
> code for typo and said that it would be a simple matter to update to
> modern Unix.

I used to hang out on hacker news, it was one of the few technical
places left.  I left after noticing the guys who run it were protecting
a wack job who every single time something negative was posted about
Round Up, he came up with all sorts of nonsense to defend Monsanto.
Clearly a paid schill.

My dad died at 75 from non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, he wasn't a drinker,
wasn't a smoker, swam multiple times a week, no history of cancer in
the family.  He was convinced that it was Round Up that did him in,
he was a Physics prof but he sort of spanned disciplines, he taught in
the biology department, ecology, he was all over the place.

I'd post my story, the schill would shit all over me, I'd complain to
the powers that be, people who knew me would push back on him, I'm one
of the few systems people hanging out there.

It got to be too much, I haven't been on hacker news for several years.
Even when I was there, the stuff that passed for hacker info was largely
pathetic.  The one exception I remember was the Netflix write up of how
they filled two 100Gbit/sec ethernet pipes with 200,000 TCP connections.
That was extremely impressive, I've worked on problems like that and I
can assure you that it is trivial to fill those pipes with 2 connections,
it's extremely hard to do so with 200,000.  And they were coming off SSD,
up to user space, encrypt in user space, then send it back down to the
kernel out the pipes.  Super, super impressive but that's the one really
interesting thing I've seen there in 20 years.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-15 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-13 23:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-14  0:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 11:30 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-03-14 12:24   ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 22:01     ` Rob Pike
2020-03-15 22:14       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-03-15 23:34         ` Warner Losh
2020-03-16  2:45           ` Anthony Martin
2020-03-15 22:30       ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 23:20       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-16  0:56         ` Rob Pike
2020-03-20 23:20           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 23:35             ` Toby Thain
2020-03-21  0:34             ` Rob Pike
2020-03-17 13:03 ` ca6c
2020-03-17 13:30   ` Andy Kosela
2020-03-17 14:53     ` Cág
2020-03-17 14:57       ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-17 14:59         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2020-03-17 15:40   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-17 22:28   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18  0:17     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-18  3:28       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18  8:40     ` arnold
2020-03-19 12:26     ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-19 21:31       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 11:48         ` paul
2020-03-20 15:40           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 16:40             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-20 17:23               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 18:43               ` Rich Morin
2020-03-19 20:01   ` Tomasz Rola
2020-03-19 20:57 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-19 21:18 ` Tomasz Rola
2020-03-20  7:14 ` arnold
2020-03-20  7:49   ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-03-20  8:18     ` arnold
2020-03-20 14:03 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-20 14:08 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 14:52   ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-20 14:58     ` Dagobert Michelsen
2020-03-20 15:05       ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 22:09       ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-20 15:03     ` Gregg Levine
2020-03-20 15:05       ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-20 22:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-21  4:59     ` Wesley Parish
2020-03-20 21:57   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-22 18:05     ` Tony Finch
2020-03-20 15:07 ` Nemo
2020-03-20 19:03   ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-20 16:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-09-13 15:44   ` Juergen Nickelsen
2020-03-21  1:12 Noel Chiappa

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