"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And thus, our lives slip away moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."

> Why would you be on HN if you weren't a programmer?

This isn't (exclusively) a forum for programmers (in fact, since it belongs to YC, maybe you'd expect businesspeople etc.) For example, I'm not a programmer, and I've never worked anywhere near the IT sector, yet I visit HN often. Also, if you look at the frontpage there are usually many topics not related to programming, or even tech in general.

Reminds me of the monks in the third season of Babylon 5. Who says you can't both be an IT person and a cleric?

Given their history as archivers it seems like a natural complement, really

And scientists. Gregor Mendel comes to mind.

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

Lay preacher here. There are dozens of us, dozens!

That episode with the reformed murderer was especially hard...what a brilliant show

Obviously, the worst song of all time is "The Most Unwanted Song" by Dave Soldier.

I genuinely thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered that one.

Yes, I'm Hungarian, and I'm not even mad (pun intended) about "mad" matching "madzag". I find that we ourselves sometimes conflate characters and letters, so many people's first thought would be that "madzag" is six letters. I think most other digraphs e.g. "sz" or "gy" are considered more tightly bound, so one would be unlikely to say that "szám" (=number) is four letters rather than three.

Yes but it’s utter nonsense that you shouldn’t return it as a search result. There’s no “dz” key on a Hungarian keyboard, so you’d need to create that (or an alternative way to type it)… and on top of that it’s not consistent.

The easiest way is to imagine text being written vertically. In some cases, the digraphs (or trigraphs) will be written together on a single line, and sometimes they’ll be written on separate lines.

However, more consistently, if you imagine a person’s initials, Csanádi Dzsenifer is CsDzs.

I've been binging Branch Education the last week or so, and I concur that the videos are exceptionally well made. Some commenters noticed one or two mistakes in some of them, but nothing major.

I've encountered an old safe which required two keys to open, one of them turning the "wrong way" - perhaps it's an attempt to slow down a possible burglar by making it "surprising"?

Maybe a billion-dollar company has more money to spend on lawsuits than artists do? Doesn't make them the good guys, but I'm not surprised that it's them doing it.

"Please place the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube on the Aperture Science Super-colliding Super-button".

Addendum: some orchestras tune to a slightly different A (442 Hz is common I think), and the oboe player often gives a B-flat as well for those instruments where that's more natural.