I feel like my Emacs setup would be perfect after the winter isolation. :) - Has anyone studied the Antarctic winter with respect to deep focus and personal productivity?
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#12If you zoom in on the first warehouse picture, you see there's ice inside the stores warehouse. I guess they let everything that can tolerate it freeze?
Check out his previous post: https://brr.fyi/posts/frost
> We don’t heat spaces unless we have to!
> The ice isn’t really “wet” per se. It has the consistency of shattered automotive safety glass. On a related note, the snow doesn’t really behave like “frozen water crystals”. It’s more like “very cold sand”.
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#13How are the interpersonal relationships like being stuck with others for months
Apparently not great if you're a woman:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/as-antarctic-fieldwo...
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#14If you zoom in on the first warehouse picture, you see there's ice inside the stores warehouse. I guess they let everything that can tolerate it freeze?
Yep, see this other post: https://brr.fyi/posts/frost
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#15Very cool!
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#16If you're interested in the people and personalities and activities at the South Pole, the Werner Herzog film Encounters at the End of the World is a revealing and interesting documentary. It includes a fascinating part about a deluded penguin choosing to leave its flock and begin a fatal journey towards the center of the island...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_W...
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#17Closest you get to the "another" world experience on this planet. That and mount everest.
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#18The "About" page shows an interesting fact. This guy applied to the work position in Antarctica back in 2017 and it took almost 2k days for the hiring team to get back to him for the next steps of the hiring process. Quite a long wait, but I guess it was worth it. A "one in a billion" lifetime opportunity.
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#19Closest you get to the "another" world experience on this planet. That and mount everest.
Except that Mount Everest is full of people supposedly.