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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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[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They coulda picked a better picture. Institutional cinderblock hallway, prominent fire extinguisher, florescent lighting, etc.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

It's from Wikipedia. It's nice to see he was still working in 2005 - I suspect this was taken at University of Delaware.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best people in history are the ones who don't want to stop working just to get their picture taken.

One of my favorite pictures of a person ever is Albert Einstein just working at his desk, oblivious to everything around him.

[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm sure better pictures of him exist

EDIT

Like this one, which is the first image search result

https://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2012/dec/mills-research-computer-120711.html