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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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.

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

forbes.com

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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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

An academia email asking if I wrote an article in 1989

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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

A flyer for a pumpkin beer festival with 60 beers on tap

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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!

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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!

me in the new CSE datacenter, wearing a high-viz vest and hardhat

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Finally submitted grades for the quarter

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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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a man in a red shirt is standing in front of a door with the words adult swim on it

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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!

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

an excerpt from a newspaper about how gaming is the most expensive hobby

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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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a person typing on an oliver typewriter with a piece of paper in the background

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

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a man wearing headphones is watching a race on a track with the hashtag viralhog

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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...

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It is with great sadness that I must report that my next door neighbor's kid has started to learn the trumpet. He practices outside right near my window. Please keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time.

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Another wonderful Center for Networked Systems (CNS) review here at UC San Diego. It was great seeing all of the projects, research, and research collaborations that have and will develop.

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

TIL that "Blue books" used for taking exams are blue because they were developed at Butler University, whose colors are blue and white!

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

NSF sending out it's "NeTS May 2025 Newsletter" email to everyone

A dog types on a computer while absolute chaos happens in the background

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

These days, when your NSF grant proposal shows as "pending" 7 months after you submitted it, does that mean it's still alive? Or has the person who was supposed to evaluate it fired? Or was the person who runs research.gov fired? So many mysteries...

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Reading Rainbow was funded, in part, by a grant from the National Science Foundation 😢

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is going to hurt American competitiveness and result in fewer scientific advancements, fewer chances to train the next generation of scientists, and a lower quality of life for everyone. We need to reverse these harmful changes to our critical scientific infrastructure.

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Many of the iPhone's internal software and hardware components are inventions funded by the National Science Foundation, whose funding is now being drastically cut. If we want to maintain US leadership in the tech sector, we must fund fundamental research in CS (and many other fields as well!)

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

LA is a great city! America is full of wonderful cities.

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The movie "E.L.E. (2018)" is basically a really bad cross between "Fail Safe (1964)" and "Crimson Tide (1995)"

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I'm unfortunately not going to be able to make it to NSDI this year. I love this conference and wish everyone attending a safe trip and enjoyable time there!

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Why did Apple get rid of the "clear" button on their calculator? Now there is just "Delete/backspace"??

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I'm so thankful Fastlane isn't alive to see what's become of its successor 😢

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It's really not OK for applications/operating systems to only offer the choices of "Yes" or "Maybe later". No needs to be an option!

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

eBay sort: Choose an item on eBay that nobody else will bid on. Given an unsorted input array, place a bid for a dollar amount corresponding to each item's value in the array. The winning bid is the highest element, going at the end of the output array. Continue N times until the array is sorted.

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