skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were totally different systems between the Roman era (or eras) and the catholic Western European system of nobility.

Even at the peak of the empire, it wasn’t like driving around in a modern nation state, there were all sorts of associated kingdoms and tribes within the borders you see in history books. In many ways the empire was like a franchise with local governors wielding varying power and independence.

As the empire declined, association with that state became less relevant, so they dropped the pageantry of being the great grandson of Marcus Whomeveritus. As the petty kings and nobility started consolidating and emerging as “legitimate” in a system, the “mists of antiquity” served to launder that your background descended from an usurper governor, tax farmer, or barbarian warlord.
Daylight. I'm fortunate to have 270 degree windows.

If the evening and still working, two 16W (100W equivalent) floor standing lights from IKEA, of which one or both may be turned on, behind me, not in field of vision, cream or mild yellow.

I found floaters worse when working with dual monitors and regularly flicking my eyes between screens. I now primarily work with one screen, a very standard ThinkPad experience; focus on a single screen has also brought a workflow change. If needing an additional screen I have a projector (meetings, thinking, walking around) or an external screen which I almost exclusively reserve for video calls and no more (workflow change).