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Animats stands for "ambulatory encyclopedia". Also John Nagle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm



I'm just old. I lived in Cleveland when it looked like this.[1] City streets ran through the steel mills. Switch engines pulled short trains of red-hot ingots on tracks on city streets. You could see the ingots make the trip from caster to rolling mill. In a steel town, everybody knows the basic process.

[1] http://timkovach.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/clark-ave...


THAT JOHN NAGLE? Whoa. My life really is complete. Please excuse me while I stalk his HN history ...




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