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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by stickyricky » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:33 AM UTC

lovich wrote: post #69

Kinda just stare at the sky a lot. Went from a job working 60-80 hours a week nonstop with no expectation of time off if you got a call to one with 1/10th the effort needed for the same pay. Feels surreal at difference in compensation vs effort in, especially because I’m more productive at the new place. Not really sure what to do with all my free time when there’s no fires to put out

Same. The way I see it we're paid for our expertise - not our time.

In terms of free time, I've tried to fill it with hobbies, side-projects, and learning. A lot of my time goes to my son now that he's here. But before that there were some periods where I just did not do anything. The thought has crossed my mind to work two jobs or maybe start a consultancy.

I think the real trick is to find friends. But I'm 30 and its difficult making friends at this age. C'est la vie.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by kennu » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:34 AM UTC

hihihihi1234 wrote: post #56

kennu wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentralized web, following up the current cloud-based centralization. So I decided to start learning more about what has been going on the past few years in that space and to start getti…

Any reading recommendations re: web3? I still don't really understand what it is but I've been meaning to do a deep dive.

Reading this conceptual overview was what made me excited today. I knew all the basics but it was nice that someone put them all together. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3/

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by motohagiography » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:34 AM UTC

scarecrowbob wrote: post #78

Since this summer, I've been doing audio-visual work and playing in an improvisational jam band, doing over-night parties in UT, CO, and AZ. It's really fun to play in; usually we do a couple sets for various sub-formations of the band who write songs, and then we improvise a set for a couple of hours. Everyone in the band plays multiple instruments (keys, synths, guitar, violins, flutes, trumpets, drumset, etc). We'…

I think you have it figured out.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by epberry » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:35 AM UTC

I'm developing the open software stack for cashierless checkout systems at http://prcvlabs.org

More generally I'm interested in continuing to study large scale computer vision projects. Progress has been slow with a new job but I'm hoping to gain momentum through the winter.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by ldd » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:38 AM UTC

I'm making a game, using mostly web technologies: Necromancer's Gift - Think pokemon combat mixed with Slay the Spire map navigation

There's a discord: http://discord.gg/u64Mg4X with mini games like trivia

And a steam page, of course: http://steam.pm/app/1409650

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by sircastor » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:39 AM UTC

Halloween display is over and set to be taken down when I have a free moment and dry day. I’m awaiting a shipment of addressable LEDs from China to expand my Christmas display. I’m putting together a ‘Mega tree’ this year in addition to the animated arches I made last year. Once I have the controller and layout setup, I can get going on the sequencing. I should probably find a radio transmitter too for the music.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by 93po » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:40 AM UTC

GDC7 wrote: post #92

93po wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't, partially because a liver panel is like $350 and I have no reason to think my liver is anything but healthy. I'm injecting the testosterone directly and not using orals. Injecting it doesn't really have a reputation of being hard on your liver - orals do though. I mean they both do have an effect on your liver but it's not really the focus of all the material I've read on injection (which does advise strong…

What about transdermal cream? I am interested in the domain too, but I never pulled the trigger on the exogenous T. I am at 600 but that means nothing because there's also the SHBG value and the T/Estradiol ratio and the T/DHT ratio , but most importantly the density of the AR receptors in the muscle fibers. So somebody can be golden with T at 300 , whereas somebody else might need 950. In any event I wanted to try a…

The skin cream is fine if you're doing TRT. To do an actual "cycle" of high levels of test you'd be basically swimming in it. It's also crazy expensive compared to injections, and I've never seen it available "underground" and you won't find a doctor willing to prescribe you enough for anything other than TRT

>In any event I wanted to try and improve my T number via winning physical fights.

Is this a joke? lol

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by gsinclair » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:41 AM UTC

I’m slowly developing a note-taking ecosystem that’s kind of duct-tapey but works well for me. Nothing is hosted anywhere yet, but the main thing is the ideas.

I find I want to _accrete_ information, not mutate it (in most cases), so the main organisation is chronological. But tags are important to find related information and see the chronological development of one “thing”, be it a work task, a personal hobby, etc.

But here’s the big idea: information can have an expiry date so that you can use it for years and not get buried in clutter. It’s as simple as tagging, say, exp+3w to set an expiry date three weeks after creation. There are other meta-tags too, like imp+2m means the information is “important” for two months but not after that, and it doesn’t expire.

The ideas have been percolating for years, and it’s fun to finally be working on it properly, albeit in fits and starts.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by 93po » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:41 AM UTC

stickyricky wrote: post #93

93po wrote: post #39

I started taking steroids two weeks ago. 500mg/week testosterone. They haven't even really kicked in yet (takes about 3 weeks to get really testosterone levels up) but I'm feeling real good and I'm really excited with all the weight gain I've had so far this year. I started at around 155 in June and today I'm up to 180. A lot of it is water weight I'm sure but I'm excited to hit over 200 in the next 5 months of my fi…

How long have you been training pre-steroids?

Non-seriously my entire life. My starting weight of 155 is an indicator of that. But I was 175 when I hopped on 2 weeks ago and it's been 6 days a week for the past half year. I know it's earlier than a lot of people recommend.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by conesus » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 12:44 AM UTC

sircastor wrote: post #106

Halloween display is over and set to be taken down when I have a free moment and dry day. I’m awaiting a shipment of addressable LEDs from China to expand my Christmas display. I’m putting together a ‘Mega tree’ this year in addition to the animated arches I made last year. Once I have the controller and layout setup, I can get going on the sequencing. I should probably find a radio transmitter too for the music.

I’m interested to know which led ics are you buying. WS2813? What about the controller, are you DIY or off the shelf?

I’ve been using SP105E as a controller but it doesn’t have smooth fades and it takes too long to write my own firmware on a custom board to achieve that for a one off.