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Awesome, thank you for the suggestion!

I was unexpectedly blown away by a post-apocalyptic book called Wool by Hugh Howey, the first one of the Silo trilogy. Hard to say what did it exactly, just the overall combination of plot, storytelling and pacing. I read (or rather listen to) a lot of fiction and sci-fi specifically, and can't recall the last time I was this much into a book. About to start the second one, and also looking forward to the TV series based on it.

Amazing story, got sucked into watching the whole video despite not knowing much about the hobby. A random little bit stood out to me, when the president of Sony made a personal promise to fix the TV after it stopped working (a while back). Now that's dedication to quality and customer satisfaction.

Charity Majors (https://charity.wtf) is a great writer and speaker, and her work on observability is directly relevant to infra at scale.

I read that comment as a sarcastic response to the "we don't know the Great Pyramid's age" claim, rather than a disagreement with my mortar post.

While we can't radiocarbon date rocks, we can do that with other building material. From Wikipedia:

Mortar was used generously in the Great Pyramid's construction. In the mixing process ashes from fires were added to the mortar, organic material that could be extracted and radiocarbon dated. A total of 46 samples of the mortar were taken in 1984 and 1995, making sure they were clearly inherent to the original structure and could not have been incorporated at a later date. The results were calibrated to 2871–2604 BC.

Every discussion I've seen mentions filesystem-based storage rather than any database. Haven't seen any evidence to the contrary.

Really sorry this happened to you! I don't really have an immediate solution for you, my own experience tells me you're unlikely to get the account unlocked any time soon. That said, my story did have a happy end eventually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36335975. There were other reports that 2 years might be a magical amount of time before they let you back in. Not consolation right now, I know, but maybe better than nothing.

Amazing engineering here, but isn't this equivalent to raising your camera above the wall and then snapping a pic? This wasn't really seeing behind walls in the sense I expected.

Literally from the article:

"Popkiewicz believes these coins may have belonged to the German soldier, possibly a numismatics enthusiast, as they hail from several countries the German 73rd Infantry Division likely traversed, to which the soldier may have belonged. The hypothesis suggests that the soldier collected ancient coins as a hobby or perhaps exchanged or acquired them during his military movements."

This was similar to my reaction to that question, and how I'd respond to it in the interview (with curiosity around what they're trying to get out of it). It's not that I don't have strong opinions, but they are necessarily couched in context. Strong opinions lacking in context are a sign of a lack of experience. Sometimes unit tests are a must, and in other cases they are an absolute waste of time. Sometimes microservices are the right call, and others they are an unnecessary complexity. The more experience in this field I get, the more gray and amorphous my opinions become, and "it depends" is the default, if not interesting, answer.

I doubt aphantasia is related. I have it, but have been a huge book reader all my life. Have you tried audiobooks? That's been my go to whenever I'm driving, cleaning, brushing teeth, etc.

Interesting choice to go with a PI who's focused on recovery rather than criminal convinctions. Given the lack of sophistication in this operation, I suspect recovery would have happened either way, and the thieves might have faced some actual consequences. As is, they didn't lose anything other than the stolen items and will likely continue to capitalize on similar opportunities in the future.

Same memories, and even the same timeline :) I still recall being blown away by the concept of "code is data", the magic of which I haven't encountered in professional development, alas.

Setting trolling aside, this could also be an act of a person who is very scared and angry at the diagnosis, and who is dealing with the news by looking for external factors they can blame and redirect their feelings toward. It's a very human reaction for someone in a terrible situation, and I would be inclined to give them some grace for it.

Understanding is not agreeing though. Of course none of this is on you. Everybody deals with stress in their life, and if code review bickering was the worst thing they faced, I'd consider that pretty lucky indeed. As others mentioned, you can't control how others deal with adversity and emotions, and this includes this LinkedIn outburst. No need to feel guilt here whatsoever (though perhaps worth thinking about professional disagreements in general, and ways of handling those conversations in a productive rather than adversarial manner).

Become a consultant and set your own hours.

I love the fact that an early digital format for sound recordings is used here for early sound recordings. Fun fact - RealNetworks is still around.

Sounds like DoubleSpace (later renamed to DriveSpace), which was built into MSDOS and early Windows versions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace

The good news is that this is the final outcome, basically. While the original site did become a museum, the owner bought a building next door and opened up a trattoria there (albeit almost twenty years after starting the dig). https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190807-a-trattoria-with...

Please don't post ChatGPT-generated text on HN. You're very likely to be downvoted/flagged, which is what happened here. People here are capable of using ChatGPT themselves, and most of that text is not interesting in the HN sense.

Separately, I think the answer was clear to most people - they did better than other well-paying alternatives (meaning it wasn't a poor outcome / waste of effort from individual perspective), but they're not going to share the specifics.

Not just the US. As a kid growing up in Russia, I was very aware of Alexander's prominence (known to us as Alexander the Macedonian).

Hah, and I liked 3BP but didn't care much for Egan's books (excellent ideas, poor writing IMO).

I agree about having AI write the text, it's usually easy to tell that something is off. I do wonder if there's some merit in having AI analyze and give feedback on comments prior to posting them. Something along the lines of: "How might this comment be interpreted by readers?" and iterating until the feedback is positive.

Another "haunted domain" check is by trying to post about it on social media. I ran into this with my current project's domain name. After building an MVP and trying to test the social sharing functionality, I found that Facebook was blocking the domain outright. Turns out there was some spamming from it years ago. Getting it unblocked was extra fun, as the page to request manual review was itself broken! Thankfully I knew someone on the inside who alerted the relevant team, but the whole experience was quite the novel speedbump.

I don't know about favorite ever, but I've discovered Harry Mack freestyling about a year ago and have spent dozens of hours catching up on the entire backlog, this man is a genius (and this is not a music style I even care for) . This particular video is my favorite of his due to the infectious beat and sheer positivity: https://youtu.be/dxYah-Tlkmc. Everything he does is an instant classic though.

Teams, Meet, Skype, BlueJeans, WebEx, GoToMeeting, etc, etc. I still think Zoom is the best of the lot.

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by the same author was pretty good as well, though I liked the Genghis Khan book more.

What is this new trend of describing recurring phenomena that one does not understand as bots?

The term aphantasia was coined in 2015, so yes, it is new. We aphantasiacs only heard this described relatively recently, and my mind was blown that apparently people can actually visualize things. A whole lot of things that we assumed were mostly wordplay or concepts ("imagine you're sitting on the beach") turned out to have much more substance than we've given them credit for. It's not that we've started having aphantasia, it's that there's new understanding about the range of human experience.

Edit: looks like half of your comments are about HN being overrun by bots, so I guess I'm unlikely to change any minds here.

> That’s a pretty bad design decision

How would you design it?

You can extend your Quest with third-party accessories to do this. I got a better head strap with external battery support + 2 batteries and charger from BoboVR. With the magnetic snap-in the batteries can be easily replaced mid-play, in essence providing infinite charge time.