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Redeployment Part Three

87 points by wofo 3y ago

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carimura 3y ago
it was really great to see these pop up on Hacker News. I would forget about the blog in the daily bustle of my own life and then see the familiar brr.fyi where I could open up a different world for a few minutes. Like finishing a good book, I'll miss following this person's story! (for a few minutes)
- mynameisvlad 3y ago
  Same! I always go through the last few posts that I missed each time, easily one of my favorite blogs out there.
tarofchaos 3y ago
This really made me re-think of what I am doing in tech. This seems much more liberating than sitting in front of the computer for the whole day
- briffle 3y ago
  I have a friend that was on the over-winter IT team.. he has great stories of his winter there. Datacenters where you open a valve to let in super cold super dry air to cool the servers, rathan than think about AC.
matricaria 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067512
- subarctic 3y ago
  no comments there, unfortunately
catherinecodes 3y ago
Lovely photos. What camera is used?
- paulette449 3y ago
  "In the 9 months I’ve been in Antarctica, my trusty cell phone has taken some truly remarkable photos under challenging conditions. Nearly every photo I’ve taken for this blog has been a cell phone photo. " [1] His "old phone" he keeps in a drawer for internet usage is an Android but I can't see any attribution to his current phone model. [2] [1] - https://brr.fyi/posts/polar-night https://brr.fyi/posts/polar-night [2] - https://brr.fyi/posts/sms-mfa#phone-in-a-drawer https://brr.fyi/posts/sms-mfa#phone-in-a-drawer
  - SushiHippie 3y ago
    I've run exiftool over some of his photos, and some of them include make and model, and these were the Samsung S22. I haven't gone through all the images, so maybe some other phone models could be found in there. And some of the images contained "Profile Copyright: Apple Computer Inc." but I don't know if this means that some were shot on an iPhone. Fun fact: the webcam on the observation hill (https://brr.fyi/posts/observation-hill https://brr.fyi/posts/observation-hill) is an AXIS Q6055-E.
throwup238 3y ago
> At some point in November 2022, this blog took off in popularity. I wasn’t expecting this, but it has been a lot of fun writing something that has brought joy to so many people. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brr.fyi&next=34002411 https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brr.fyi&next=34002411 First post on HN on Oct 31, 2022 (89 comments). Sounds about right :-) We were reading about Antarctica before it was cool!
- fragmede 3y ago
  it was the big dead place before it was brr.fyi the site's dead now but archive.is has it https://archive.is/AeC8y https://archive.is/AeC8y https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930646 2013, no comments

87 points by wofo 3y ago

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it was really great to see these pop up on Hacker News. I would forget about the blog in the daily bustle of my own life and then see the familiar brr.fyi where I could open up a different world for a few minutes. Like finishing a good book, I'll miss following this person's story! (for a few minutes)

mynameisvlad 3y ago
Same! I always go through the last few posts that I missed each time, easily one of my favorite blogs out there.

tarofchaos 3y ago

This really made me re-think of what I am doing in tech. This seems much more liberating than sitting in front of the computer for the whole day

briffle 3y ago
I have a friend that was on the over-winter IT team.. he has great stories of his winter there. Datacenters where you open a valve to let in super cold super dry air to cool the servers, rathan than think about AC.

matricaria 3y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067512

subarctic 3y ago
no comments there, unfortunately

catherinecodes 3y ago

Lovely photos. What camera is used?

paulette449 3y ago
"In the 9 months I’ve been in Antarctica, my trusty cell phone has taken some truly remarkable photos under challenging conditions. Nearly every photo I’ve taken for this blog has been a cell phone photo. " [1] His "old phone" he keeps in a drawer for internet usage is an Android but I can't see any attribution to his current phone model. [2] [1] - https://brr.fyi/posts/polar-night https://brr.fyi/posts/polar-night [2] - https://brr.fyi/posts/sms-mfa#phone-in-a-drawer https://brr.fyi/posts/sms-mfa#phone-in-a-drawer
- SushiHippie 3y ago
  I've run exiftool over some of his photos, and some of them include make and model, and these were the Samsung S22. I haven't gone through all the images, so maybe some other phone models could be found in there. And some of the images contained "Profile Copyright: Apple Computer Inc." but I don't know if this means that some were shot on an iPhone. Fun fact: the webcam on the observation hill (https://brr.fyi/posts/observation-hill https://brr.fyi/posts/observation-hill) is an AXIS Q6055-E.

throwup238 3y ago

> At some point in November 2022, this blog took off in popularity. I wasn’t expecting this, but it has been a lot of fun writing something that has brought joy to so many people. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brr.fyi&next=34002411 https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brr.fyi&next=34002411 First post on HN on Oct 31, 2022 (89 comments). Sounds about right :-) We were reading about Antarctica before it was cool!

fragmede 3y ago
it was the big dead place before it was brr.fyi the site's dead now but archive.is has it https://archive.is/AeC8y https://archive.is/AeC8y https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930646 2013, no comments