AMA: I'm a Random HN User, ask me anything (and I might respond)

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How much industry experience do you actually have and, with that in mind, do you regularly make opinionated comments authoritatively and beyond your expertise?
It has a piquant nose, not dissimilar to a guavesque beverage i once sampled in Mozambique, before the place was overrun by tourists. What am I drinking?
Why do you participate in this community? What keeps you here?
How do you know you are "Random"?
Tell us two interesting truths and one plausible-seeming lie about yourself.

(You need not reveal which is which:)

If I asked you to send me 1000$, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?
How often do you play outside?
Besides life imprisonment without parole, what other punishment is appropriate for those who use the term "compile" to refer to what an assembler does (which is literally "assembling" not "compiling")?
What do you think of my minimalist text editor in a self contained html document.

https://text-edit.go-here.nl

One is suppose to download the doc and use it like a desktop app.

Which one suits you best?

- Spying with coding - Spying while coding - Spying the coding - Coding with spying - Coding while spying - Coding the spying

Or anything else you are actually doing?

Spying the coding, I guess. When I was young used to be really into Spy Kids, that is why that is my name
What are your favorite podcasts and what are they each about?
What matters to you deeply beyond survival and family and pets
Durian fruit -- yea or nay?
Tabs or spaces?
What's the wildest thing you know that you've never shared online before?
I was cycling and I see an egg shaped cloud of about a million tiny flies across the street. About 3 meters tall and 2 meters wide. It got my attention because it had such sharp edges and had an interesting pattern of waves. I stopped to look at it and thought it looked quite organized. Then I felt it looking back at me. I notice that kind of thing, like someone looking at me from behind. I'm never scared but it scared me a bit.... you won't believe what happened next. The cloud turned into a perfect circle with a dark outline. In the middle of the circle a second circle appeared then between the inner and outer circles 6 more circles formed with the borders touching the inner and outer circle. In the circles lines formed, the center one faded from dense on the edge to empty in the middle. Each of the outer circles had a different geometry to it. I was terrified, I've never been so scared in my life. I jumped on my bicycle and cycled as if my life depended on it with my heart beating hard enough to feel it. 200 meters away I shouted to myself, what the hell was that!

https://imgur.com/a/HFKfffQ

I've taken some liberties with the content of the circles. Only the spiral on the left and the circle filled with circles are somewhat correct.

20 years later, trying to figure out what the hell, I think I've provided a common point for all of them to look at which triggered a common pattern of flight. It was definitely a potent trick worth remembering as I almost pooped myself.

Never told anyone, I mean? Why bother? The response is to predictable.