I imagine the smoking room was partly a safety feature. It was pressurised and located somewhere where hydrogen wouldn't leak. So you now have all of the smokers do it somewhere safe instead of trying to light up in secret somewhere unsafe.
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm so glad it worked out in the end.
This story however is also why algorithmic interviews and the supposedly "irrelevant to the real job" programming interviews are not going anywhere soon.
Having done a lot of hiring, it's surprising how many candidates do not actually know how to code despite experience and looking good on paper.
The article includes a link to https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc - virtual AGC which is interesting.
Although the github repo itself is not new news (see github dates), it's still good news this history is preserved.
Only thing missing is a SCSI hard drive, it's a shame for the Adapter controller to only have the CDROM connected to it. Perhaps an external SCSI RAID array?
"The name Radiation Laboratory, or "Rad Lab," was chosen to be intentionally deceptive, creating the perception to those on the outside that the laboratory was working on nuclear physics, a discipline that was seen as too immature to have an impact on the war effort. During the fall of 1940, the Rad Lab sprang to life on the MIT campus, and by December, a primitive two-parabola system had already been emplaced and was undergoing initial testing on the rooftop of Building 6 at MIT.
During the next five years, the Radiation Laboratory made stunning contributions to the development of microwave radar technology in support of the war effort. Inventions included airborne bombing radars, shipboard search radars, harbor and coastal defense radars, gun-laying radars, ground-controlled approach radars for aircraft blind landing, interrogate-friend-or-foe beacon systems, and the long-range navigation (LORAN) system. Some of the most critical contributions of the Radiation Laboratory were the microwave early-warning (MEW) radars, which effectively nullified the V-1 threat to London, and air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, which turned the tide on the U-boat threat to Allied shipping. In November 1942, U-boats claimed 117 Allied ships. Less than a year later, in the two-month period of September to October 1943, only 9 Allied ships were sunk, while a total of 25 U-boats were destroyed by aircraft equipped with ASV radars (Buderi, pp. 155–169). "
Sad end of an era - not bc there aren't good reasons for it, but bc there was a lot of good opportunities for shared code and skills between NGINX and k8s with this approach.
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