That's what I never understood about this story; did you guys have any suspicion it would dump radiation into the patient all at once, or was this like a concurrency bug
We weren't able to reliably install security daemons on a client's machine because the entire automation system didn't account for autoscaling. The issues were raised well before I joined and the project head legitimately didn't understand it as a problem that needed solving. The hosts were for a presidential candidate's webserver, and they noticed the webservers were missing security daemons days before the election.
If infrastructure is immutable (which makes it work even better for autoscaling), nothing new will get installed unless you build a new image. Export whatever data you require to ensure things you want to be running are running. Monitor entry and exit points.
How is a Hacker News comment thread not the right place to respectfully ask questions in response to interesting comments. I know I'm not entitled to an answer, nor do I intend to start a flame war. Sheesh
There's nothing respectful about asking something that someone has very blatantly made a deliberate decision to leave out of their post, for completely understandable reasons.
On the contrary, I don’t think there’s anything respectful about assuming that the OP doesn’t have the agency to decide for themselves whether they want to respond to my question or not.
Additionally, I don’t have a lot of respect for anyone with the ego to assume they know what information was withheld “deliberate”ly or not in a discussion like this. How do you know that?! How do you not see that the OP can make this decision for themselves?!
> On the contrary, I don’t think there’s anything respectful about assuming that the OP doesn’t have the agency to decide for themselves whether they want to respond to my question or not.
If being respectful means anything it means reading their post closely and trying to understand what they were trying to convey. You can't talk about denying someone agency if you won't pay attention to what they're telling you.
> How do you know that?! How do you not see that the OP can make this decision for themselves?!
They did make that decision for themselves! It was clear from their post!
It is personal information that risks identifying them more than they already had at the time of posting. It took about two seconds to put everything together. I don't have a dog in this fight politically one way or the other, people don't need to identify themselves IRL here.
Who are you to decide what others are comfortable sharing on here. It is quite literally as simple as the person I replied to choosing not reply to my comment. Why is this issue a concern to you?
> I don't have a dog in this fight politically one way or the other
Neither do I.
> people don't need to identify themselves IRL here
I don't think they do either. Why are you assuming I "needed" this information?
I did what I could with a handful of selenium scripts, then hit a road block because we didn't have ssh access to a chunk of the autoscaling hosts. Gave up after that, told the customer rep to tell them we can't do it, and gave my two week notice about a month later.
Ouch, that has to be rough to endure. I'm glad you seem to be in a better place now. Good on you for doing the right thing and getting the hell out of there when your options ran out.
I'm think it's a meta joke - Therac-25 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) was a radiotherapy machine from the early 1980s and is (in)famous for having software failed and killed I think dozens of people. It's become a well known case study, but it's highly unlikely anyone on HN worked on it - I think that's the joke.
