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Open on discuss.systems Dan Portsweb:
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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington. But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes. I also administer https://discuss.systems/
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Can you tell from their expressions that tonight’s dinner involved albacore and bonito flakes? Getting daily updates from the cat sitters to reassure me that the cats’ noses are not going unbooped.
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Yesterday I found myself sitting at 40,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific, miles from any civilization, when my phone popped up a notification that one of my cats had used the litter box. This is a level of technology I could never have dreamed of. Or necessarily wanted to.
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@dan It is the great transparency of life. Think of the planetary wealth required to get that urgent message to you. I wonder if your cat would be self conscious about bouncing signals off satellites in orbit to get this information to you within a few seconds of it happening, or would it be overwhelmed and hide in a cardboard box until your return? I suspect cats, if they knew, would hack their litter box and spam you for ransom treats. My meetings this morning were interrupted by a surprisingly loud snoring sound from the couch. |