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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by piva00 »

mapleoin wrote: post #60
rchaud wrote: post #42

Print media -- seriously. There are vanishingly few types of paper-based products left besides mass-market paperbacks and a handful of soulless conglomerate-owned magazines that may disappear tomorrow. Just like there are small farming collectives out there, I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsle…

I've had the opposite experience. I'm amazed at the types of print magazines on niche topics that still exist. Are you aware of https://www.stackmagazines.com/ ?

I've been looking for something like this for a while, thanks a lot for sharing! It just sucked when I was checking out a few mags and after calculating the cost for shipping to Sweden it was higher than the total cost of 4-6 magazines...

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by abakker »

kragen wrote: post #50
abakker wrote: post #10

I'm currently passionate about trying to understand the importance of young's modulus in machine design, and whether it can be "worked around" with different materials that are easier to work with.

you mean like concrete where the sand is silicon carbide 'epoxy granite' is a thing

right now, I'm trying to figure out if fabricated steel with the right design can accomplish a functional analog of what cast iron can. the objective is to leverage flat pack laser cut pieces instead of castings.

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Post by immranderson »

Compiling and editing together my travel footage for my YouTube vlog. I've had the fortune to have traveled to 96 countries in my life so far, and have been posting a vlog for every country that I've visited (I'm making an attempt to go to every country)

I got hung up around country 55, feeling that I hadn't found my "editing voice" and have had difficulty finding the motivation over the last year to edit and post my most recent 41 countries worth of content. I want to say that part of it is because I'm overwhelmed with how much there is to go through? I also get in my head and have to consistently reassure myself that I'm ultimately editing this for my future self/family to watch, and that I shouldn't necessarily be optimizing for viewership (though passive income through travel vlogs would be nice.)

There's a definitive, "what's up brand gang, immranderson here!" blueprint that could be followed, but I have no interest in ever doing something like that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by FFP999 »

surprisetalk wrote: post #19

Obsessed with quite a few things right now: • diving into plant law; writing a series on plants and property • research clamping mechanisms and jigs for woodworking with handtools • sadly smitten with all the genai advancements • plotting multiple "chaos for social good" projects • trying to figure out therapists can be so attuned to feelings while staying neutral • promoting tiny blogs and the "small web": https://b…

I don't know what "chaos for social good" is supposed to be, but I am intrigued. Would you care to expand on that?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by surprisetalk »

FFP999 wrote: post #106
surprisetalk wrote: post #19

Obsessed with quite a few things right now: • diving into plant law; writing a series on plants and property • research clamping mechanisms and jigs for woodworking with handtools • sadly smitten with all the genai advancements • plotting multiple "chaos for social good" projects • trying to figure out therapists can be so attuned to feelings while staying neutral • promoting tiny blogs and the "small web": https://b…

I don't know what "chaos for social good" is supposed to be, but I am intrigued. Would you care to expand on that?

I'm producing tools for the following:

• converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission)

• easy legislative templates and meetups for removing billboards from your municipality

• low-powered and repairable permacomputing hardware designs

• tools for improving home ventilation

• software for retrofitting walkable infrastructure into existing towns and cities

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by miki_tyler »

solardev wrote: post #7

There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…

Is this based on any of Jean Giraud/Moebius's work?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by FFP999 »

surprisetalk wrote: post #108
FFP999 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what "chaos for social good" is supposed to be, but I am intrigued. Would you care to expand on that?

I'm producing tools for the following: • converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) • easy legislative templates and meetups for removing billboards from your municipality • low-powered and repairable permacomputing hardware designs • tools for improving home ventilation • software for retrofitting walkable infrastructure into existing towns and cities

Neat.
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