Am I mistaken or has Intel pretty much shelved the Tofino switching hardware that supports P4 in the first place?
I seem to recall Oxide having to switch suppliers over this?
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I seem to recall Oxide having to switch suppliers over this?
I've worked at multiple lean companies that were purchased by bigger public entities. Without fail, the "problem" the company existed for moves from delighting customers to financial engineering.
Since going it solo, it's been amazing how satisfying a job/business can be once you get a sense of what "enough" is each month. I find that going the extra mile for customers, even when you aren't getting directly paid for it is incredibly rewarding and knowing when I've made "enough" each month allows me the time to do this.
Don't get me wrong, I went hard in the first few years to build up some buffer, but it's amazing how powerful and enjoyable building goodwill is, and how it pays for itself down the line.
The Oil & Gas industry is not sexy and never will be, but it pays well above market and people with niche skills will do very well there (as you have no doubt now seen).
Technological progress in the space tends to move pretty slowly (especially on the Operational Technology side of the business) owing to many factors, but mainly risk avoidance. The flip-side of this is that once one company adopts a technology, the others tend to follow suite, so what you're doing may be very portable should the need arise.
Another benefit of O&G is that due the the specialised nature of a lot of the roles, you'll keep running into the same people at different organisations throughout your career, so keep your keep expanding your network along the way.
Don't let your perception of slow growth worry you too much - on the technology side, progression will come naturally as you take on new and more challenging projects. As a tech in a very different field, but a similarly isolated environment, I too have had these thoughts throughout my career, but remember there is a big wide world outside of silicon valley, and plenty of successful careers to be had.
It sounds like you have a boss you like who you could learn a lot from - this is huge. I'd focus on getting him to teach you to become a domain expert in the Oil & Gas space. This combined with your (relatively) niche technology skills will make you a unicorn in the future and combined with your network, pave the way should you want to become independent in years to come.
Good luck!
Sounds about right.
You would be amazed how much taking colour out of the equation lowers the addictiveness of the content. I guess the people that make poker/slot machines knew about this decades ago, but I think this one step helped me more than anything else.
And there it is, beautifully distilled into one sentence.
> Also from my experience it's the counterparty that should feel honored to be working with Apple rather than the other way around
The Beats purchase was interesting in that I'm almost certain that Apple didn't need the technology for yet another set of headphones, but what they bought instead was the reputation/cultural allure of Beats, its founders and music catalogue.
I suspect Iovine and Dre are well beyond needing validation from or being "honored" to be working with Apple as both are such prolific creators in their own right(s).
Devoured all three books - really interesting hard sci-fi, although as noted by others, the first one took a bit of effort to work through.
What I love about it now is how it presents a view of life in the universe as entirely random, but mostly harmless and fun, and that interplanetary exploration is something you would do as a hitchhiker on an adventure, rather than a conqueror chasing resources.
That vision really lifts me when contemplating the future and our place in it when we reach for the stars.
Thanks for your insight though - I was told "a couple of days" to get used to them would be enough.
Yes, they pick up sounds I don't normally hear, but I would compare the experience to listening to world through a cheap high-school PA system.
...and after handing all that money over, will be thwarted from charging their vehicles when someone else parks outside their house in that spot.
And for those who aren't sure about buying a 2nd-hand gaming device from checks notes 23 years ago, you can get yourself something more modern to play it on: https://www.analogue.co/pocket
In Australia, this has been happening for some time - plants are literally having their output dialled back (or even being disconnected entirely) during peak times by the market operator.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-23/solar-farm-overload-h... [2] https://reneweconomy.com.au/aemo-slashes-output-of-five-big-...
I have been kicking around the idea of starting a meetup in my city to meet interesting people in my field.
Being a freelancer on large projects in my day job, it sometimes feels like I'm out of the loop for long periods of time.
Switches (specifically Layer 2 switches) will send broadcast frames to all ports*, but traffic that is unicast to a specific MAC address will only be sent to the port where that MAC address was learnt. To keep track of the MAC address to port mappings, a switch will have one or more "forwarding" or "MAC-address" tables.
Routers (and Layer 3 switches) are not necessarily Internet connected, but will mostly be seen in larger networks. Being mostly Ethernet-based these days, they maintain two tables - an ARP table (mapping IP Addresses to MAC Addresses) and a routing table (mapping IP prefixes/routes to destination IP addresses). When an IP packet comes into a port, the router will consult it's routing table and find the most specific route that matches the destination of the packet. From the destination IP of the route, it will then determine the egress interface that it should send the packet towards, then use the ARP table to work out the destination Ethernet MAC address for the Ethernet frame it will construct to transport the IP packet in on it's way to the next-hop router.
* During the early 00s there were "Dual-Speed Hubs", which were basically two hubs (one 10Mbps, one 100Mbps) joined together internally via a two-port Ethernet switch. Fortunately the price of 100Mbps Ethernet switches kept falling and they weren't around too long.
* Provided those ports are all members of the same broadcast domain/VLAN
> I was surpised to see that the distribution of attacks is extremely uneven with most of it concentrated in parts of Asia, Europe, and the US, and (almost) none from South America, Middle East, and Russia.
Aside from the casual stereotyping of bad actors here, the article completely neglects the fact that just because the attack is sourced from a certain IP/geolocation doesn't mean that the attacker resides in that location.
What you most likely have is a listed of pwned PCs with fast internet connections being used in botnets.
You are not alone in this. I see announcements like this one from Meta and others like Oxide - companies out there having a swing in a different direction and it makes me glad that there are people out there thinking outside the monoculture that computing feels like it's become sometimes.
Sure, standardisation has been good in some respects, but I feel like the incentive to really innovate (as opposed to incrementally improve) in the operating system and compute space has really dried up.
I seem to recall that only Quake 2 or 3 was capable of actually using that second processor during a game, but that wasn't the point ;)