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A Recovering Physicist
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A Recovering Physicist is a personal blog at recoveringphysicist.com about programming and science. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover science news, such as Pluto's atmosphere being replenished, a piece on journalistic units of measurement, and a Sophos antivirus issue that affected Time Machine backups. The comments only cite them.
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What Hacker News says?
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on “Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere”Submitted Did Sophos Free A-V for Mac kill my Time Machine backups? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJeff -- thanks for posting, yours is the only other case I've heard of. I let Sophos know. Yours is interesting because the data loss happened without any human involvement. Also interesting because you may have a better chance of figuring out what happened: if you haven't uninstalled Sophos, there may be logs that shed some light. Also, your Time Capsule may contain more remaining clues than mine does. Would you pl…
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on “Did Sophos Free A-V for Mac kill my Time Machine backups?”