Not sure why everyone is making such a big deal about AI, when you have access to this comprehensive resource

Hoping your 2025 is winding down well! This is my plan for the end of the year

It is with sadness that I report that I’ve become one of those “lots of tabs open in my browser” people

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The new "Tron: Ares" movie is surprisingly good. Saw it in the theater because I read that the visuals were good, but the story was really great too. I was pleasantly surprised.

“Allow Solitaire.exe to find and locate devices on this network?” Sure, why not.

Information has been widely available in books for centuries. Professors aren’t a replacement for books, and so this analysis of AI’s role for higher education is flawed www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

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I’m letting Claude pipe the output of an awk script it wrote to “xargs kill -9” I’m sure that’s fine, right?

I’m not, but I wish I was! An article like this would have been a real accomplishment for a 10 year old. I think my biggest accomplishment that year was probably beating Zelda 2 on the NES if I recall correctly.

"The George"

There is a Pumpkin Beer festival in Seattle, featuring 60 pumpkin beers on tap. That is a shocking variety of pumpkin beers! 🎃🍺🎃🍺

Very proud of my student Amanda Tomlinson, who just successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation: "Leveraging the Variability of Computing Resources and Renewable Energy to Lower the Carbon Footprint of Computing." Congrats Amanda!

I got to see the new UCSD CSE machine room. The approach to cooling is dramatically different than the older machine room, with a focus on in-rack heat exchanging into liquid which is pumped out of the room. It's pretty neat, and quite impressive!

"Variables" are by default immutable. But... the word variable means mutable??

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People say that Paxos is quite intimidating, but it looks really beautiful, tbh...

Finally submitted grades for the quarter

I still can't get my computer to stop autocorecting Sigcomm to Sitcom, and I've decided to just run with it. Might add a laugh track and funny opening credit sequence to the opening session this year!

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I'm excited to share that I'm going to be joining Amazon AWS in Seattle! I'll be working within the S3 storage team on some really exciting engineering challenges. It's an incredible opportunity and one that I’m genuinely thrilled about. Monica and I are also excited to explore the PNW!

Command-V / Control-V should paste as "unformatted text" only Thank you for your attention to this matter

Anyone who thinks video games are the most expensive hobby you can have should look into scuba diving

Idea: "Typewriter as a service". You upload a document to a cloud service, and select which vintage typewriter you want, and it types out your document and mails it to you on whatever paper you select. Working on the REST API right now.

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Without fail, every time I've ever taught, or will ever teach, I have to download a CSV file to do stuff the LMS can't do

I'm asking people to 👏 stop 👏 participating 👏 in 👏 video 👏 meetings 👏 while 👏 driving 👏 a 👏 car

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My watch just told me I met my daily "stand goal" but I've been sitting for the past hour

I love Star Trek in general, but I've always been disappointed by the various Star Trek video game releases over the years.

I have a 2021 Macbook Pro, and it works great. But it's like a signal was sent out or something, because all the sudden my battery dies very quickly. I thought it was maybe due to a bug in an OS version but I don't think so. I have a sneaking suspicion it's because it's getting close to 5 years...