4 Feb
2019
4 Feb
'19
3:37 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:23:32PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
And I must say you have done a great job of handling stuff going off
course. I don't mind a little wander, this list reminds me a lot of
Usenet around 1985 or so. Not a ton of people but most are pretty
darn interesting. So your policy of letting it wander a bit seems
just right to me, yeah the Jimmy Page guitar thing was way off track
but it wound down fairly quickly.
I agree completely with Mantas' comment about "drivel that I can
already find on Reddit." The technical content level for programmers
on reddit seems pretty lame. Though the one that really puzzles me is
https://news.ycombinator.com/
That place is called "Hacker news" and the level of decent hacker
content is amazingly low. Once in a while there would stuff like
the Netflix writeup of how they got to 200Gbit/sec on a one core
server (with the data coming up to user space to be encrypted,
and doing it with 1Mb/s per socket, that's 200,000 sockets running
in parallel). That was an amazingly impressive accomplishment
and the sort of thing I'd like to see on Hacker news but I rarely
do. As in once every 10 years or so. I stopped reading it.
So go you, Warren. You have the right touch for the list and while
I hope you continue to do so for decades, maybe think about picking
out someone who seems like a younger you as a backup. I like this
list a lot.
Cheers all,
--lm
So I
don't know what counts as 'signal' on this list versus 'noise',
but I'd much rather read a million posts about OSI, CLNP and other
networks ??? a history lesson and information that's been getting scarce
in general ??? than kill/mute yet another thread full of generic "boo M$
Windoze" drivel that I can already find on Reddit.
Warren's protocol for off-topic material: let it slide for a day or two,
then politely ask people to move it to the COFF list when it doesn't
veer back to the Unix direction :-)