I could totally get into “Ops Thriller” genre of novels like this.

It’s old but “The Cuckoo's Egg” was a great read and had a lot of this. Oh and it was true.

there are dozens of us!

There are often little bits of Neal Stephenson or Andy Weir novels which sound a little like this, describing a technical fault in a plot-driven way (often as a cascade), and I do find those to be uniquely enjoyable. I'm sure there are other authors who do similar things, though maybe "cloud/AI data center" stories should be its own micro-genre, given how crucial these things are to society.

I wrote this recently which maybe people will enjoy in the same vein :) https://martinalderson.com/posts/august-29-2026-a-scenario/

Magic version of this: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5243

I would love to turn this into a screensaver of rain falling onto a window.

Like this one?

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltffzl

AQ2 was such a fun mod. It's been a while since I played, but if I recall you could some real John-Woo style moves as if you are in an action movie.

The article says that Le created it though:

    Two years later he created Action Quake 2, a fast-paced game inspired by “Die Hard”

I think that it’s probably doable in DEVONthink. There are flows to automatically OCR and to organize files into folders based on content.

After some time I find myself waiting for highly composite numbers rather than primes.

Came here to see if I was just imagining things. Thanks for confirming!

Glad I wasn’t the only one who saw the reference! Now I just need a version that ties in M.C. Escher’s impossible staircases with infinite loops.

I was really excited to see how a 19th-century landscape painter was connected with one of the best NBA players of the 1980s and an Ancient Greek mathematician. Not what I got, but the actual subject is still pretty interesting.

I have a .in domain email address and there have been occasions where it is rejected by some email address validation logic.

If I'm running a command in the background, and want to be notified when it's done, I usually run it like

  cmd; say 'files done' 

I wish I could use his voice though! These were sounds of my childhood.

I remember taking a PL class in undergrad, learning Prolog as one of a handful of languages. During that section my brain started to want to "bind" variables to things as I was going about my day, it was very weird.

Where is your data coming from? I’m curious what prevents you from inserting the data into Clickhouse without Kafka.