Otter steals surfboards, baby orangutan, stray cats of Cyprus, and how to scratch your tapir.
And finally: How to Scratch Your Tapir
Tara O. asks: "When was the last time a Tapir was featured on Cutetropolis?" Um, right now.
#cats #kittens #orangutans #otters #Tapirs
A few years ago, @irene and I met this extremely friendly and extremely fuzzy mountain tapir, Carlotta. Sadly, Carlotta is no longer with us, and there are (IIRC) only four mountain tapirs left in North America.
Happy World Tapir Day! https://www.phylopic.org/nodes/bcdfc056-2a44-46ec-94e4-0bcab2e7209d/lineage #tapir #Tapirs
Migrating another distributed-systems-explained-by-cats^H^H^H^H tapirs thread from Twitter for #TapirTuesday.
Let's revisit TAPIR -- the Transactional Application Protocol for Inconsistent Replication -- with the help of some cute and friendly tapirs. (🧵)
(TAPIR originally appeared in SOSP'15 and TOCS'18, by @irene, Naveen Sharma, Adriana Szekeres, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and myself)
#tapirtuesday #distributedsystems #systems #transactions #scicomm #Tapirs
Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii) at #TapirValley #CostaRica
#TapirValley #CostaRica #Tapirs #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography