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Comment by sleepy_keita

2 days ago

Yeah, it's named after the person who wrote the RFC - John Nagle. Wild coincidence! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc896

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pests  2 days ago

hes on hn as "Animats"

  • tptacek  1 day ago

    Funner trivia is why he's named "Animats".

    • teach  1 day ago

      I've been on HN a long time and this comment was the one to finally make me realize that "animats" is "stamina" spelled backward.

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