>>>I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed
I would like to hear more details on this. Being a CPAP machine user I have never heard of this (lungs failing) before.
"This feels like a particular awful thing to ask someone to do, but I believe if everyone truly were able to imagine the sudden death of the folks they love, it would change how they live."
An anecdote and a poll. I grew up in India in middle class family where education was considered important. A recurring nightmare (autual dream I see during sleep) I see even in my adulthood is about me about to take an exam and not being prepared for it. I do not see this nightmare often but I still remember it since the amount of panic I feel when I see it. I discussed with my wife and she also have these nightmare of similar nature. I wanted to check whether anyone out here see this and whether it is more prevalent in culture like Indian culture or is it a universal phenomenon?
I decided to comment after seeing a number of negative comments here. I went through the process a it was a positive experience for me. I ended up interviewing at 5-6 places and didn't receive an offer. I liked getting the interview feedback. The time saved in skipping the usual application process seemed worthwhile to me ( You spend 2(?) hours on the triplebyte interview. Then a short introducutory call with each company you are matched and the onsite interview). My only complaint was that I was looking for larger and my matches were all 5-50 employee companies. I guess not many large firm are using them. Overall I would recommend triplebyte for anyone who is interested in startups and who currently in a full time job search.
I worked on OpenVMS at the start of my career. I heard that the customer didn't want to port away from OpenVMS and this prevented HP from killing it off. One famous story in VMS folklore was where a building containing a datacenter catches fires and Unix admins run into the building to retrieve the backup disks and OpenVms admin do not since clustering give hot backup by default. Another story was of banks having data centers near the twin towers. The datacenters go down since the air conditioners go down due to the dust from the twin towers crashing. But the OpenVms cluster continue to operate since the half of the cluster is in New Jersey.
It was ported to Itanium while the x84 port and the POSIX compatibility project was never completed.
As an Indian who has lived in 7 apartment/homes in the US, I have yet to see a place which good ventilation in the kitchen. Usually the fan (if any) in the kitchen just circulates the air inside, which serves only to spread the smell. If I am lucky to have a window near the kitchen, I keep it open with fan near it as makeshift exhaust.
Houses in india have exhaust fans/ chimneys (electric or otherwise) that take the air in the kitchen and dumps it outside the house, which I believe is the only way to handle smells from indian cooking.
I would like to hear more details on this. Being a CPAP machine user I have never heard of this (lungs failing) before.