Curiosity beats fear of failure. This is a personal story of mine that happen to be in 2020 when I started my work in local FTTH where I was assigned as intern to fix the broken fiber cables from accidents and a general technician intern. I had a senior technician assigned above me and he could only used the Splicing machines, The machines that are used in such task are high precision devices that cost a ridiculous amount of money. A scale for such machine is from picture below. It would be size of a tiffin-box and needed to be operated with very delicate order. A small error in main cores would result in system failure in more than 500 nodes. So, one day we noticed the calibration of machine has been damaged and it is joining fiber endpoints with high error rate which is measures in scale of "db loss" Which is calculated using this formula : Total Loss (dB) =(Fiber Length (km)×Attenuation (dB/km)) Connector Loss Splice Loss The acceptable db loss is 0.1-0.3 And the story is that we have a damaged fusion splicer and this was only device we had for our office and since these devices of super expensive, we had no spare device to work with. The boss said "This needs to be send to repair to capital city" And I replied " Can't we just replace the part that is causing the issue?" He said, "Well but untrained hands like these might damage the entire device, I would rather spend $1000 to repair this one than to buy a new machine for another $12-13k" Then I made a bet, I downloaded the manual of the product we had on hands from internet and then we just had to replace the splicing pins. The manual mentioned that pins needed to be soaked in alcohol(spirit) and then replaced. Lastly the device would need to be set up in calibration mode where it would heat up the pins and shoot the beams off of it for significant amount of time. After it was done with the calibration, we then tested it. Previously the device was showing 0.6-1db loss and now when we tested it, It was showing only 0.1db loss. It worked, I did it! we saved time and money doing so and me having no experience in repair or whatsoever.Not even the senior technician knew or had ever fixed it, he didn't even cared what options the device offered. For me, I was just curious and made a bet against my skills. In picture : The spilicer machine that we used to work and its quotation for reference.

not so great times for bull runners.

A pure C,C internet browser seems like a good project work for me.

such a cool option to disable popups

This is the 50th time I have been rejected in last 30 days. Got 2 acceptances in 2 companies, but they haven't interviewed yet. I guess, I need to level up.

The investor board meeting would be so fun.

Is niche specific Small Language Model ( SLM) a thing?

Late at night, the thought that enters my mind is, “who got the OTC deal for of SBF’s holdings”

“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.”

Less than a million $BTC remain to be minted. Let that sink in.

this is stupid but there’s separate kind of pleasure finding out things your own way. Connection dots without anyone whispering you giving you spoiler alters. It was this year when researching on memory chips I found out what I wrote a year ago turns out to be true.

In 2023, US sanctioned China to @Qualcomm chips but when they went to resell to China because that deal was $600B/yr in revenue China launched Kirin 9000 series chips in @Huawei Mate P50 and now latest while US diplomat was there at visit in China. Fast forward to 2026, Same thing happens but with memory chips

You need super high end specs to run a datacenter. Even so simple ethernet cable have variations in quality and pricing

You can’t be replaced by AI if you know how to guide it, you can be replaced by AI if you take instruction from it without critical thinking. Lending AI your critical thinking and reasoning abilities backfires very quickly when you aren’t even able to make simple life decisions.

Just finished watching first video recommended by youtube. Really loved it! Definitely deserves some praise.