//arikast.com/tags/humanity/ Recent content in Humanity on Ari Kast Hugo en Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:15:51 -0500 //arikast.com/post/human-ack/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:15:51 -0500 //arikast.com/post/human-ack/ <p>An important life lesson for human interactions, brought to you by the world of computer communication:</p> <ul> <li>in TCP communication there&rsquo;s the ACK flag</li> <li>in microservice architectures there is backpressure</li> <li>in network calls there is the exponential backoff algorithm</li> </ul> <p>Participants who ignore these feedback cycles may broadcast tons of info, but not much if any of it is ever received. Even in one-way communications like television and radio, there is feedback through ratings.</p>