Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to learn about how computer works and be a sysadmin.
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#182There was this blog post about how to form yearly goals, maybe for New Year’s resolutions or something? I remember they were divided into 10-15 categories, dealing with all areas of life (career, health, family, etc.) and had probing but specific questions in each.
https://alexvermeer.com/8760hours/
There you go!
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#183A comment about how we are entering a dark age in science. I can't quite remember the whole argument, nor the subject of the post it was on, but it was fascinating.
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#184I found a link to a SaaS product that provided full-document search across a variety of cloud app platforms, chiefly Google and Atlassian. I spent nearly an afternoon searching for it a few months later to no avail...
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#185Related. I sometimes find a good recipe on Google, but next time I want to do it, it's nowhere to be seen. I often find lost HN posts via Google search though. And I always upvote or favorite post's that I might go back to later.
Have you tried searching your browser history?
Yes. Browser history in Firefox sucks. It's like they don't want you do use either bookmarks nor history. There is not even a search functionality more then on site title.
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#186There was one motivational type article about how you should “go first” or “be first” when approaching problems in life. Like when making friends or just socially in general. I was looking for it again recently but couldn’t find it.
I'm sure the article is a nice read, but I think you summarized it quite well. Gotta take the initiative on things.
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#187There was a really interesting post against Elon Musk’s argument that AI will destroy us all.
The article made lots of counter arguments about why AI won’t destroy us all.
I can’t find it even after lots of searching.
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#188Within the last year, a guy did a writeup on his DIY electrical panel circuit monitoring setup.
It allowed him to very accurately measure power consumption of everything in his house, and he was able to trace a sudden and mysterious rise in his monthly bill to a faulty pool pump.
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#189An extraordinary long-form piece about a child who'd been born deaf (perhaps of Latino origin, growing up in the streets of a US city) and was then abandoned by his parents. He hadn't learned to speak. As an adult he was given help by a charity (or research group?) who, over the course of years, taught him to speak. There's a moment described in the article when he finally realises that all objects have names, and bu…
That sounds like the story of Ildefonso. I originally heard the story on Radiolab [0] and it is also the subject of a book [1] by Susan Schaller called "A Man WithoutWords"
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#190Someone commented: "how things have changed, emacs and vim are partners and the enemy is Eclipse and Visual Studio" A play on words of an episode in star trek the next generation, where someone from the past wakes up to realize that now humans and Klingons are friends and the enemy are the ferengi and the borg.
Ha, the Ferengi are never really an enemy. They just want that latinum.
The AI does not love you. Nor does it hate you. But you are made of atoms which it can use for something else.