NotAWorkNick

I meant more in terms of leaking PII ;)

Thanks for caring though, and hang in there :)

You are correct @idontknow.... I did omit some ellipses; My Bad.

Thank you for pointing it out (Unfortunately the edit window has closed otherwise I would add them :) )

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.

YMMV

Alternate link for those hitting the WSJ PayWall

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994332/uber-yellow-taxi...

(link submitted by pseudolus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30789593)

Kudos to them - ya gotta give Credit where credit is due. It's good to see them take a second bite of the Apple.

(all extremely bad puns - its been a long day with an early start)

If the raw material for the smoke signal was cannabis bushes - would that qualify as a High frequency transmission?

“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?

A quick DDG brought up this list https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners/

Out of all of them on the list I would go for antiX (https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/FAQ/index...)

If you can - get hold of a second hand SSD on eBay/Amazon

Really?

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).

P.S, YMMV and obviously does :)

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)

I believe that every new account is shown a banner to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

(The answer to that question is FAQ #5)

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

(not the one that downvoted your comment btw)

" The reports were inaccurate, based on misinterpretations of the documents, which were real. " (TFA, 4th Paragraph).

So does that mean the article's title is clickbaitish?

I think I might need some more coffee

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.

There's some really nice photo of the Duga installation - well worth looking at

https://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/over-the-horizon/

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?

How does this sound?

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?

Done, thanks for the heads-up! (Also corrected it to read 'achieved' ;-)

An easier to find link that shows how to make the home-brewed antenna for those interested in trying it out for themselves

https://flylib.com/books/en/2.434.1/hack_83_make_a_deep_dish...

"The company claims the purity and strength of this material (i.e. the case!) gives you ‘bass notes [that] are clear and powerful’ and an ‘atmosphere [that] is more expansive.’"

I think I've just spotted a press release written by an ex Monster cable ad executive.

According to [0], Taiwan’s Minister of Economics Affairs offered to resign over the incident, which was accepted by Premier Lin Chuan

Wow. That's some major level of accepting full responsibility given that "The power outage was caused by a human technical error at state-owned gas supplier CPC Corp that affected the operations of a state-owned Taiwan Power Co power plant in northwestern Taoyuan, the two companies said at a news conference on Tuesday evening."

[0] https://time.com/4902500/taiwan-power-cut/ (Note: I had to use reader mode for the link to fully show with JS disabled)

Apologies for the rather poor quality of source; the only other links I could find were either Twitter links or .ru domains.

Perhaps someone else has a better link (if true)?

The series of movies that are the Matrix Trilogy are chuckling at this news release

I don't understand why anyone would want to do this? Unless Putin himself visited my site, then yeah middle-finger time but to paint the entire Russian population as hostile when the have about as much (or even less) say in what their leader(s) are doing as the rest of us do with our own bunch. I mean, Since when did a sternly worded letter to your congress-critter result in any policy change?

To each their own and if its your site then its your rules I guess.

Errr, think there is a link error (www.ww.) - submitted link works but shows a bad cert error

I'll save others the click - Pricing is 2 €/month(!) with a 7 day trial.

All for the low, low price of your WhatsApp phone number.

Speed reading and paragraph parsing

I've kept an aquarium or two in my time so I'm always happy to see articles that show the proper way to do things.

If any beginners take away one single point from the Aquarium Basics guide then this is it -

    Feed lightly once a day an amount equal to one fish eyeball (six fish = six fish eyeballs)