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Can I get an ELI5 ?

I know this gets said a lot. But this is another example why I keep coming back to HN, I love all the tech talk for sure, but every once in a while, something sweet and inspirational like this gets slipped in and sometimes is just what I needed at the end of a long week.

That brought back memories for me, it was 1981 or 82, the company that I worked for at the time flew us to New Jersey for some meeting. But three of us "younger engineers" (I was about 22 at the time) wanted to go into New York City. Our boss let us use the rental car to drive into the city. He told us not to do anything he wouldn't do. In that case why go? We all joked later. We got into CBGB's on a weeknight, by the time we got out of there it was maybe 2 or 3 AM and we were pretty high and we were walking back to the garage where we parked the car when we came upon a filming in the streets. One of the security guys told us they were shooting Hill Street Blues, but who knows, we were told later they lie about that stuff to looky loos. But it was fun to watch so we stood there for a couple hours. We got back to our Hotel in Newark at around 6AM just in time to pack and head to the airport. Luckily it was a direct 5 hour flight back home. I slept like a baby.

My situation is not exactly the same, but I am feeling much the same way lately. Thank you to everyone on HN who gives sincere advice and words of support. I think there is a lot of good advice here.

Thank you for the post. Good luck my friend.

My new word for the day: incunabulum

This brings up an interesting legal issue...

https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-fraud-free-speech?share=1

https://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147257716/is-a-lie-just-free-...

https://pomlaw.com/monitor-issues/free-speech-vs-corporate-l...

If he had just said he thought the art was worth this much. He would probably would have been fine.

You guys are so sharp...

It would be sucking in a metaphorical vacuum.

Ugh. Apologies :)

Man, wouldn't it suck if it turned out the only place in that vastness that supported sentient life was Earth and we fucked it up?

Well.

I would agree. You have to see it at least once to appreciate it :)

Agree. Too much here is more of the same. Ugh.

I like cowbell.

Here is an endless loop of cowbell ringing and nothing else.

It's like torture.

Exactly!

Going to the video store was organic and analog. Like going to your barista that still insists on using the hand pump espresso machine. Perhaps the human touch still is the best?

I am old enough to remember when the wife would call me at work on a Friday and say hey, stop by the video store and get a movie for tonight and I'll stop and get wine and take out. What was special was the "Dave" at the video rental place (it wasn't blockbuster but whatever). I don't recall the guy's name, but he always remembered me and what we liked and had great suggestions and sometimes if you said, nah but how about something completely different, he would always find us something great. Or usually (one time he recommended Eraser head, we still laugh about that one, so even though it was a dud, great memory).

I get it, today's AI is pretty good, meh, not really, but it would be hard to beat my old "Dave". Maybe someday.

Agree. No proof, I know, but such an interesting idea to think about!

They used to be land mammals. Maybe they had a civilization, but they ruined the climate with it, then evolved to be sea mammals but kept their intelligence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

Something to ponder.... https://whalesanctuaryproject.org/the-worlds-most-intelligen...

> "we’ve known that the neocortex of a whale or dolphin brain has more folds than ours. All those folds mean that the surface area is greater and therefore may have more units to process information."

Maybe they know something we don't?

Wonderful parable. But both the fisherman and businessman focus on the reward for themself. I don't have a parable, but for me, my reward has been sharing what I have with others.

but she introduced him to a side of himself he never knew, now, they site on the beach and write music and poetry together

perhaps they stayed up all night finding a mental connection as they discussed quantum physics late into the night.

hmm, does he do weed, based on some of his tweets... um...

I am taking notes for a sci-fi romance novel.

Hey, everybody, take it easy on my fantasy!!

:)

just kidding, all in good fun.

Man, I am old.

What gen is it then?

Gen Z ?

I went to the article, but everything after the first sentence was faded out and they wanted me to sign in to read it. Instead, I made up my own fictional back story about how this happened:

Rich CEO meets young sexy tattooed gen-X intern, they date, she takes him to a rave, the smoke weed after and listen to jazz. They fall in love. He quits... now fade out.

I am not sure I care what the real story is.

Interesting side note: Golay codes were used by pagers. Ya, you know, those little devices doctors and a few others would wear, it would receive a number that you were to go find a land line and call them back on. That thing. https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Golay_Paging_(GSC) http://www.braddye.com/golay.pdf

Fair point on survivor bias, it worked out for me, I am sharing my experience.

I think I could amend my statement to something like owning a home is still the best investment for the little guy, if owning a home is important to you. It is for me, and I assumed anyone asking that question probably feels the same.

If your situation is different, if for example, you want to move around a lot, or, if you do not want to be saddled with the work involved with owning and maintaining a home then it's not for you of course.

But my advice stands, I you want to own a home, you should buy, even if it feels like a bad time or is going to be difficult.

When I was 25 (1985) I asked my Dad that exact question. He said, it's the worst time to buy a house and it's the best time to buy a house, and, that's always true.

I asked him what he meant, and he said, it always seems like a bad time, but you can't really ever time it perfectly. You get a house you can afford. Do the best you can, work your way up, fixing it up, selling it and moving to one that's a little better. Then you wake up 40 years from now and you'll be glad you did it.

That turned out to be true for me for sure, living in my dream home now, glad I dug deep and did it. It was tough going at first but, owning a home is still the little guy's best investment. It was true then and I think it still is.

OMG, I loved the original scan of this, wow, flash backs for me!!! Thank you soooo much.

BTW, anyone just cruising by this post, it might be just me, but the advertisements at the very end of it are so dear. Just take a peek, so funny!

One of my favorite things about HN, is how, every once in a while, some obscure cool thing I have not hear about before gets pointed out, which, I find cool. But then, we "hug it to death" in the HN vernacular. Which is also really cool. Some neglected corner of the web that someone cared about, suddenly, a bunch of us nerds jump on it and recognize the nerd-coolness of it. I love that. Hope this was OK to say and not too off topic. I just love that.

My favorite smart ass response when someone asks me what dark fiber is: Evil Fiber

But seriously, it is just a term of art, when one carrier sub-leases fiber without any terminating equipment and they provide their own equipment to light the fiber. It is "dark" from the standpoint of the provider, they are not "lighting" it. The customer is. Typically the fiber is leased using something called an IRU indefeasible right to use. Basically "condo-ised" fiber.