Dan Ports

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Dan Ports
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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington. But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes. I also administer https://discuss.systems/
Does anyone else remember the Biosphere 2 project from the early 90s, where a team of researchers sealed themselves off for two years in a dome in Arizona with a closed ecosystem to simulate space colonization? Did you know that there was a second two-year mission, but it lasted less than a month... ...because the original team broke in to the dome to warn them that the biosphere had just been sold to *Steve Bannon*?
One year ago today, Miso escaped from the house -- the day after we adopted him -- and went on a big adventure, checking out the neighborhood for two days. Now he is sitting in a basket. Not clear he considers this situation an improvement. #cats #catsofmastodon image