Monthly Archives: August 2004

When 4 Miles Is Farther Than 3,000

August 25, 2004 – 10:08 pm

The distance to my workplace from my apartment is a bit over 4 miles. The distance between Tucson, where I am, and my parent’s house, is over 3,000 miles. So why is the average RTT of a network packet from my apartment to my parent’s computer 136 milliseconds, but 140 milliseconds to my work computer? [...]

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Bug Hunting

August 9, 2004 – 11:05 pm

I went on to test the program in every way I could devise. I strained it to expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and low-mass stars, for stars born exceedingly hot and those born relatively cold. I ran it assuming the superfluid currents beneath the crust to be absent — not because [...]

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