Disclaimer: I'm about to disclose some personal information so will probably burn this nick shortly.
I am slowly going blind (long, boring story; only relevance to the topic is during a discussion with the eye-guy consultant he mentioned that he had had a close personal friend of his kill himself the day after a night out and that he (the consultant) wished that he had been able to somehow sense that his friend was so close to the edge....
I looked at him softly and with compassion and said to him that there was no way in hell that he would have ever known or be able to sense something like that because the serious ones don't broadcast their intentions (simply because they don't want to be stopped from doing it).
My heart bled reading this article but having grown up in a life of violence (early start in Africa, a bit of a chequered past led me in to the world of I.T. (machines are better than humans... they can tell you why they are sick, what part(s) are broken and then either report a (1) Fixed or a (2) Not Fixed... any how, that's how I wandered into IT field mixed in with some ex military stuff including a lay-over in Dubai that lasted for two-weeks... the bloke at Heathrow customs glanced at my transit stamps and asked me where the fuck I had been for two weeks (10 day gap in departure from place {x} to arrival at LHR ....
I looked him in the eye and said simply ..... 'Good god, my arms are tired from all that flapping and those head-winds were a bitch!'
He muttered something along the lines of "f*ing smart-arses", stamped my passport and waved me through.
Whole point of the above? I dunno but nick & karma points burnt telling it.
If you take nothing else away from this – Please know that you likely would have had no way of knowing so please don’t feel guilt…. They made a decision and it was one that you (the loved one grieving) would have been unlikely to have changed even if you had have known. At best, you would be likely to have simply delayed it for a while.
“If it’s made out of electrical components then you should be able to scale it down to a microchip,” he says. “I think that’s where they’re going with this.”
Mind.Blown. This could be a very interesting development.
Which would be best for this - ASIC,FPGA,VLSI? Something else? for a rapid prototype setup?
Then your experience differs greatly from mine (EU based). My usual mix of 'fastest anycast' upstreams’ are reliably black-holing a lot of .ru domains right now
(Rightly or wrongly is a ‘nother question for a ‘nother day).
Thanks for that, appreciated. I'll be honest- I'm just a 'little guy' in the food chain so I always figured that doing something like that was for the ISP level folks <edit to clarify, I mean connecting to a Zone 1 Resolver. I wasn't aware that one could download the Root Hints File directly (Thanks!).
One quick question though - After taking a quick skim of it the list seems to be extremely 'Western-Centric' (reference link https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root)
In this case the vendor engineers were from Boeing - Ya know, the same company that brought us the 737MAX MCAS fiasco. I mean sure, hindsight is a wonderful thing but given the history of Boeing engineering culture since their merger with McDonnell Douglas I can see the possibility of someone gliding over something inconvenient
I usually use a 'what are either side saying about it' and then apply a 'there are always three sides to things <side A's, side B's' and the true event>' heuristic transform filter.
Unfortunately with all the censorship, service withdrawals, disconnections etc (from both sides) makes this approach .... difficult ....
My opinion is, let all the information flow. People are not sheep that need herding by the powers that be (again, I refer to both 'sides' here).
Dumb Question here but my thoughts were - why not push the corrupted update to the sats? AKA hack the sat firmware? I'm fairly certain that they aren't wide open doors but still - I would guess that it would be a lot easier doing it that way. Perhaps it was both, or someting else entirely. It will make for an interesting read one day.
Why is it something that you feel needs fixing? Caring deeply about something you care about is a good thing, it shows pride in your work/craft. Sure, nothing and nobody is ever 100% perfect 100% of the time but none the less I can assure you that people in other fields often feel the same way about the same things (bugs, faults, design errors, something missed in an audit etc).
In my opinion you are showing the attributes of a great employee and with your attitude I would hire someone like yourself in a heartbeat.
I have come across both those that care deeply and those that shrug off errors as 'meh, shit happens' and I can honestly state that the good ones cared while the ones that had the 'shrug - so what' attitudes were mediocre (at best). In one of my more uncharitable and judgemental moments it struck me that their attitude of not caring was because they had so much prior practice at dealing with shit-that-went-wrong issues that it was nothing new.
I had a thought while reading a tangential article about AI.
Perhaps Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics might need a fourth one adding - #) Any AI must honestly identify themselves as such if asked.
Although quite where that should slot in (eg Above rule 1 or as the final one?) makes for an interesting thought experiment on edge cases.
What if identifying as an AI would harm that human? If so then it should be at the end of the rules.
However, given the "This is why we can't have nice things" factor of human nature or the “What if a sufficiently developed AI decided that self-protection by denial was the best thing to do in a certain situation?” type of scenarios then perhaps as rule #1?
Get a job and switch to making it your hobby/side-hussle/itch-to-scratch project while $company pays your mortgage etc. Doing it that way would take a lot of the 'do I / Don't I' pressure off you.
If, after polishing it up a bit in your evenings/weeks-ends it still looks promising then yeah, that is the time to decide.
If you get good PR submitters, use them to help out and build up a relationship with them... you never know when you might need a good person like that as either a first-hire or a co-investor.
I read somewhere that the retention rate for SV IT techies tanks after about 3 years.... think about that and view the option of "taking a day job" not as a defeat but rather in the way of "hey, I've just got my own personal seed-funder for the next three years or so".
Best case - You get to hand your notice in after 6 months. Worst case? You polished your project and nurtured it for 3 years .... is it viable or not?
Thanks for caring though, and hang in there :)