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How to receive a million packets per second

Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!" That got me thinking. While I agree that...

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Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk

This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called “Rolls Royce of chalk.”

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mikeash.com: I Do Not Agree To Your Terms

Apple introduced their News app at WWDC, and the other day they sent me an e-mail saying they want to include this blog in News.

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A Curious Midlife Crisis for a Tech Entrepreneur

Fabrice Grinda, who is worth an estimated $100 million, ditched his 20-acre estate and $300,000 sports car in search of an elusive happiness.

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California Announces Restrictions on Water Use by Farmers

Farmers with long-time rights to California water will face cutbacks, the first reduction in their usage since 1977, state officials announced Friday.

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Reassessing Airport Security - Schneier on Security

Reassessing Airport Security News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security "red team" tests was justifiably shocking. It's clear that we're not getting value for the $7 billion we're paying the TSA annually. But there's anothe…

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