Drawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monument from the early 19th century

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Taj Mahal is one of the bizarre things that need to be seen with your own very eyes to appreciate the beauty and the monumental work that had been done in order to build it.

For me, it's the realization of the fact that the floral patterns decorating the building are not painting but made up from many varieties (apparently about 28 of them) of colorful gemstones and many of them are imported from outside India.

Interview question I got once - The Taj Mahal took 27 years to build, if you could work on something for 27 years what would you pick?

Well, 27 years and nearly unlimited money—I feel like the presence or absence of that would affect my answer quite a bit :-)

If you pay others to do the thing it's not you who's doing it btw.

I suppose, but the person funding it was probably one of the few people involved with it for the whole 27 years.

I guess it's going to sound offensive, but that question sounds like it was devised by someone rather talentless.

I've been working on my computer skills for over 30 years. And my guitar playing. My song writing. Hell, hundreds of other things. What else do you do with your life?

A second Taj Mahal that is 10% bigger and more resplendent directly across from the original.

Nice obscure reference.

What does this refer to?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weh_Antiok_Khosrow

If my needs were taken care of then so many things. An operating system, a productionized AI and LiDAR powered drone/submersible to continuously map every inch of the earth and the oceans, a way to perfect safe total gene replacement etc.

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