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Jim Gettys

@JimGettys

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X Window System author, HTTP/1.1 Editor, OLPC software guru, bufferbloat windmill tilter, embedded system and Covid paranoid. https://t.co/VU4vwMuoYv

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@JimGettys
Jim Gettys
8 years
@ietf RFC 8290 has issued. My latest blog entry on #bufferbloat and its solutions "The Blind Men and the Elephant": https://t.co/3zF4tbFHlZ. You can take action yourself: "Home products that fix/mitigate bufferbloat"…
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Trying to steer anything the size of the Internet into a better direction is very slow and difficult at best. From the time changes in the upstream operating systems are complete to when consumers …
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When I posted this with No Kings, it failed to post several times.
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Adam Schiff
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Donald Trump forced out a respected U.S. Attorney because they wouldn't go along with Trump’s demands for political prosecutions. Less than a week later, his inexperienced handpicked successor brings charges against a member of Trump's enemies list. In my almost six years as
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One of the worst possible changes for no reason
@NotATeslaApp
Not a Tesla App
1 year
Tesla Says 12V Power Socket Access Will Not Return: https://t.co/BICjrkTbSx
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1 year
The message, of course, was the warning that the monitoring camera was obscured by the sunshade! Any notification in FSD like that needs to have an accompanying sound so the driver will momentarily go read it!
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@NASASpaceflight
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com
1 year
@ENNEPS I don't ask me for much, but I'd love @danhuot to mark Booster 12's catch with this on the SpaceX commentary 😅
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@PeterHotez
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
1 year
I agree with the statement that begins “Every step that you add in the process…” for vaccine uptake it’s typically essential to make it easy/breezy. From my experience, once you start to make immunizations fussy or complicated, vaccine coverage declines pretty quickly.
@MotherJones
Mother Jones
1 year
For uninsured and underinsured Americans, the Covid vaccine just got significantly more expensive. "Every step that you add in the process of trying to get a vaccine, you’re going to lose people," an epidemiologist warned.
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@EricTopol
Eric Topol
1 year
New report of a nasal vaccine booster provides strong, durable #SARSCoV2 cross-variant protection—preventing infection— compared with shots in non-human primates https://t.co/nOV0afzw85 @NatImmunol
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Mary Lou Jepsen, PhD
1 year
Exciting news today for Openwater as we announce we’ve reached $100M in total funding to commercialize our technology platform and advance our mission of making advanced medical care accessible worldwide. @Axios has more:
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Innovation is often offset by high development costs.
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Jim Gettys
1 year
Sunita in a better time and place! I hope she can return again soon... @Astro_Suni
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@SteveRattner
Steven Rattner
1 year
Even before Covid, Trump sent the deficit soaring over a trillion dollars. After Covid, it hit more than $3T. @Morning_Joe
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If I had the chance and or inclination to do things over, the system would be entirely different. Nothing that they've done would really get in the way of what I've had in mind. All these UI systems are fundamentally missing the concept that everything should be network-centric.
@pfuetz
Matthias Pfützner (@[email protected])
6 years
@JimGettys @alanc @XOrgFoundation Time passes quickly in this industry. It‘s really astonishing to follow all these changes and innovations. Still, I think, wayland is a small step back, as the „network is the computer“ idea of a networking windowing system got lost a bit...
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1 year
40.... Same comment as last time.
@JimGettys
Jim Gettys
6 years
@XOrgFoundation Oh, my; I guess it's 35 years today... In some ways, X has aged amazingly well; in others, its age is showing.
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@NASASpaceflight
NSF - NASASpaceflight.com
1 year
A much appreciated official statement:
@Space_Station
International Space Station
1 year
There is no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station. At approximately 5:28 p.m. CDT, audio was aired on the NASA livestream from a simulation audio channel on the ground indicating a crew member was experiencing effects related to decompression
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@ID_AA_Carmack
John Carmack
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It is great to see Starlink being really serious about latency. If @mtaht (the bufferbloat guy) is praising your progress, you are doing well! https://t.co/FnbBSeYm3V
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