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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wasn’t aware of him until now and, given the impact of his work on the world, that seems like a real failure in my part.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago

Nah, not so much a failure on your part as a failure on the part of a society that elects to glorify people that "move ball good" or "say line funny" over the people that have built the pillars without which our modern society literally would not exist in the same manner.