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Could you explain further?
Probably CPU cooling getting extremely loud. Server fans are notorious for very high levels of noise unlike what you usually see in personal desktops. (At least I think so, never having actually been in a datacenter due to living in the middle of nowhere.)
Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
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Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your story is quite messed up, your partner is responsible for ruining your trust and your wellbeing. And it seems to me that this one time slip up for 6 months is something that is no accident but says something fundamental about your partner. Not sure what you could do now and you’re right about being depressed about it. But life throws you a curveball and things may end up in a totally different unexpected place a…
Everyone's story is different. What op is doing might be right for op. Or maybe not. But as the child of divorcees whose divorce massively improved my relationship with both of them I thought it might be helpful perspective.
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
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I found it difficult when my best friend came to the same conclusion as yourself as we have journeyed together for nearly 40 years. I am still a magical thinker as you put it. It helped me the day the penny dropped and I realised he had become a Humanist. He has not discovered anything new. He has chosen to believe something different. My views on religion are as robust as your not-views on religion. We all make a ch…
Not sure what you're trying to communicate here. > He has not discovered anything new. Perhaps something new to himself, if not new to all humanity. Those of us raised in relative isolation or with rigid interpretations of the world may find outside views difficult to truly consider objectively. > We all make a choice. Indeed. And what choice is more profound than the foundations of ones belief systems and world view…
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#204A handful: 1. Stumbling upon a r/diy post on reddit of some dude building a kegerator with a raspberry pi. I thought it was cool, impulse bought a raspberry pi, and fell in love with programming. I was working at a gas station as a maintenance tech before. Ended up switching careers into software engineering and greatly increasing my life satisfaction, income, etc 2. Joining twitter. I joined in late 2020, and starte…
How did people found out what you were building on Twitter and start following you? 0 -> 20k in a couple years is quite the achievement. Did building in public force you to work more diligently or was it purely about getting your product to the audience of people that would use it?
I think building in public was great for motivating more progress
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#205Then he showed his amiga, I'll never forget my first time ;) That drove me in media and tech for a good part of my life.
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#206Three. First was when i was 19, I took a year off after highschool and went to a new town to study and accumule as much knowledge on physics, until one day when my roommate brought some hump, i took some of it as I was about to watch "the social network" and made me switch from physics to spending the rest of the year learning c++, and eventually getting an engineering degree on systems informations. Second and third…
> I found myself in an "interesting" position where I had to reshape my identity from scratch. What did you end up doing about it?
When it suddenly clicked to me that maybe I was just deluding myself my whole life, and that was a few months after I went to my hometown from the big city I used to live in and study after the implosion I undergone through, I found myself heavily tied to so many ideologies I no longer wanted to be tied to, and I basically had to think of how I'd reconstruct my identity from the ground up. I started dropping my beliefs bits by bits, and re-evaluated my view of a lot of things I used to be against/for. On another hand, I also went into a complete hiatus, confining myself from the environment I was living in. I did cut my ties to everyone I used to know, and got into an escapism whirlpool for a few years while being as minimalistically hedonistic as I can as long as I don't get to affect or hurt anyone by it(I basically went into lazy mode, but I didn't want to put any burden of guilt on myself for that period of time).
Since past year or so, I got out of that escapism loop, started getting social again, but I'm also pretty cautious in term who I want to spend my time with, especially since I did "waste"(I don't regret it) a good amount of it when I was keeping it to myself for that period of time.
The implosion I had did made me rethink so many things in life, and I'm very thankful it did happens nonetheless.
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#207In 2007, I joined the US Army infantry at the height of the Iraq war, two months after my 17th birthday. I had grown up brainwashed into the idea of military service being the single best thing a person can do, and wanted nothing more at that point than to get out of my small hometown. As I was training with my unit for deployment, we were spending days on end practicing combat drills to storm buildings. This was the…
Thank you for your service.
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#208Had I not played Counter Strike as a teenager, I very well wouldn't be alive now. At the very least, stuck in my home town with dependency problems like most of my graduating class It's a very long story, but through that competitive community (and tech) I made a good group of friends and learned a lot. It lead to me finding a viable career and escaping serious poverty
Haha I also have Counter Strike to thank for starting my first company in game server hosting and pays for my livelihood even until today.
I can't say I was industrious enough to do the business thing, maybe one day.
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
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Not sure what you're trying to communicate here. > He has not discovered anything new. Perhaps something new to himself, if not new to all humanity. Those of us raised in relative isolation or with rigid interpretations of the world may find outside views difficult to truly consider objectively. > We all make a choice. Indeed. And what choice is more profound than the foundations of ones belief systems and world view…
I was communicating, reacting, to the disparaging terms you frame religion. I have faith in God, you do not. My faith is reasonable and intelligent. Your views are reasonable and intelligent. Faith is what separates us. Not magical thinking, grifters or illiterate shepherds.
Faith by definition cannot be based on physical evidence, and isn't falsifiable. Or else why does one need faith to believe? So whether that is reasonable is debatable. I'd argue you appear to be proposing a false equivalence.
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#210When my dad died, shortly followed by my mum. It really made me realise the futility of life. Since then, it's been ten years or so, and I look forward to being dead. Not for any religious, spiritual purpose, but just to get all this life nonsense out of the way. It will be much easier to not exist any more.