TCP_NODELAY solved a delayed-ack problem Julia was having with publishing messages to NSQ adding a 40ms delay in #TCP.
John Nagle explains that TCP_QUICKACK is a better solution than TCP_NODELAY to the delayed-ack problem in #TCP, if you have it in your TCP.
the introduction of #antibiotics in the US in 1936 reduced deaths by 220 deaths per 100,000 per year, while all other “medical technologies” combined up to 1980 reduced deaths by a further 20 per 100,000 per year. Here we have a predictor of antibiotic-apocalypse demonstrating a little hope, not just because now the government is sitting up and taking notice, but also because he feels that #bacteriocins are promising, even though he didn’t when he researched them for decades.
Yahoo locking ad-blocker users out of Yahoo Mail until they turn off the ad blockers.
Meredith Patterson on #human-rights, #free-speech, and #key-escrow.
Pope #Francis says Christmas 2015 is “a charade” because “the whole world is at #war”.
A #SAT problem generator, explaining a bit about how to prepare difficult SAT problems for SAT solvers like MiniSat.