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For context, I presume most of you have heard the old old joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. (Or the older joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation and naming things.)

>There are two hard problems in computer science: naming

concurrency

>things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

No "and async." Figures.

Or that we only have one real joke, and it kinda sucks.

Ah, I wondered why that tweet was going around again! :-)

A little tribute to Phil Karlton's classic. And DNS.

Great joke. Told it on a zoom meeting today. Got a big laugh from half the people... the programmers.