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As someone with a similar background to the writer of this post (I did avionics work for NASA before moving into more “traditional” software engineering), this post does a great job at summing up my thoughts on why space-based data centers won’t work. The SEU issues were my first though followed by the thermal concerns, and both are addressed here fantastically.

On the SEU issue I’ll add in that even in LEO you can still get SEUs - the ISS is in LEO and gets SEUs on occasion. There’s also the South Atlantic Anomaly where spacecraft in LEO see a higher number of SEUs.

I got hired at my current company back in 2022 through their post on a Who’s Hiring post here. Likely never would have heard of them otherwise, but glad I did!

Thanks for sharing this. I had the pleasure to work with Don Eyles in a previous job, he is a brilliant man, didn’t realize he had written a book. I actually didn’t even realize who he was initially when I first met him until another co-worker told me of Eyles’ history.

Reminds how in one of the Bethesda Fallout games, they needed a subway train car. Solution? Make an NPC with a train car head that runs really fast.

Fun fact: when the Quindar tones were no longer needed, NASA initially removed them. However, it caused confusion in mission control since everyone was used to them, so NASA added them back.

Your argument assumes a just state that will not outlaw things like dissent against the government, being LGBTQ, etc. Plus, having something to hide does not automatically mean you are doing something criminal. I do nothing criminal, but I still have things to hide.

For those interested in this topic, the IEEE piece by Gregory Travis linked in this article is a fantastic read.

Figure 2 is great, but I would agree the entire paper is needed if you are implementing raft. There are a few specifics in the paper that you need when implementing it.

P.S. love your blog :)

I love this site. When I was learning & implementing raft in my distributed systems course, this page was invaluable. Plus the paper itself is pretty easy to read.

Raft is not byzantine fault tolerant.

Yeah medical info and HIPAA was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. My company doesn’t deal with medical data but I can’t imagine any company dealing with PII wants to use Zoom now.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.