yagibear
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Comment · 2 years ago
Nature has a more detailed article https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00383-3?s=08 describing why they chose petunias, and propagation via cuttings.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's mentioned in an expired Internet Draft https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schwartz-add-ddr-forwa... which refers to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...
Comment · 5 years ago
A free Mariner’s Weather Handbook https://setsail.com/mwh.pdf
Comment · 6 years ago
ranked by check outs p.a.:
rank, title, total check outs, date of publication, check outs p.a.
1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 231,022 1998 10501
2 The Snowy Day 485,583 1962 8372
3 Where the Wild Things Are 436,016 1963 7649
4 The Cat in the Hat 469,650 1957 7455
5 To Kill a Mockingbird 422,912 1962 7292
6 1984 441,770 1949 6222
7 Charlotte's Web 337,948 1952 4970
8 Fahrenheit 451 316,404 1953 4722
9 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 189,550 1969 3717
10 How to Win Friends and Influence People 284,524 1936 3387
Data from https://125.nypl.org/125/topcheckouts which mentions other factors, such as shorter books having higher turnover.
Comment · 6 years ago
It seems that that work didn't make much impact because it sat as a tech report and wasn't published until 1987, by which time Perlman had published her algorithm that received more exposure in SIGCOMM in 1985.
Comment · 7 years ago
Never heard of since it was last discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436591
Comment · 7 years ago
This could be useful for design problems if they were cataloged or tagged, e.g. identifying input as rotary or rectilinear, and type of output.
Comment · 8 years ago
Radia Perlman's books ("Interconnections" about switches/routers and "Network Security") are great at explaining why with a sense of humour.