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"Some people are TCP. Some are UDP." Nailed it! This is going up on the wall in my office.
by SirFatty 1y ago
"Some people are TCP. Some are UDP."
Nailed it! This is going up on the wall in my office.
- mariusor 1y ago> are UDP. some :P
- mafuy 1y agoMisses, sure. But it should be quite rare that the order is wrong. It would only happen if the route changes.
- mariusor 1y agoEh, comedic posts should probably be allowed some leeway in their attempt at being funny.
- JdeBP 1y agoEspecially as it's impossible to tell whether jvanderbot's "people" datagram got dropped by some intermediate hop in the UDP version or was never sent. (-:
- jvanderbot 1y agoOr, does "Alexa, add peanut butter to shopping list" fall under the UDP frame size? Joke reversed.
- JdeBP 1y agoYour wife is possibly wondering why you send everything cleartext in one single frame and don't do challenge-response or any sort of state machine resynchronization between client and server. (-:
- jvanderbot 1y agoMy wife is probably wondering why I'm using her politeness as a joke on the internet
- mariusor 1y agoShe can welcome the coming of our future robot overlords, as between you two they'll most likely spare her. :)
- TOGoS 1y agoThat's why you put enough context in each packet that nobody gets confused if the order changes or some get missed.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoAnd some people, like me, are... what do you call TCP but without initial handshake? Like: ---- Other person: Hi, what time was that thing? Me: Hey, 14:00. ... ... Me: Hey, 14:00! ... ... Me: walks in their face Hey you, the thing you asked, it's at 14:00. Other person: Yes yes, I heard you first time! Me: boils internally, muttering to themselves so why the fsck didn't you say so? ---- Please don't hang on "Hello", but for $deity's sake, confirm reception of messages, especially in analog communication.
- simonw 1y agoWeirdly I really enjoyed MrBeast's line on this in his leaked internal production memo: "Since we are on the topic of communication, written communication also does not constitute communication unless they confirm they read it." https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbeast-production/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbe...
- whoisyc 1y agoThis is why emoji responses on Slack are so useful. You can ask others to affirmatively confirm that they have read a message and they can make the confirmation without clogging up the channel with tons of text messages. And no “read receipt” as it is usually implemented would not cut it, because it only means “this message showed up on the recipient’s screen once” not that they have actually read it.