Hello from South Korea.
I spent my whole day trying to install the latest NetBSD 7.3 onto my Compaq Pentium 3 laptop. I'm passionate on these old computers recently, trying to bring them back to life. A 750mhz Coppermine with 128mb SDRam, or a 1.8Ghz Willamette with 384mb DDR ram.. I love that old times and old machines, similar to my first computers.
I can't really think of more to write, but have a nice day. :)
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#112Love the post and really digging reading through all the passion projects everyone is working on. My current passion project is actually planning my next passion project. I currently work for a FAANG company and I'm incredibly burnt out. I have two more rounds of stock grants I'll like to go through (last one is in March) and then I'm taking a year off to explore the stock market, AI, and would love to build websites and apps for non profits for free.
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#113I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc. Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (th…
Same, I still like tech stuff but I’ve put an end to caring about staying updated on the bleeding edge and started new hobbies that are not in front of a computer screen.
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#114Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…
Congratulations and good luck. I think it's the hardest habit in the world to break for some of us, in part because the rest just can't understand. People are either unsympathetic or too sympathetic, if you get me. Keep on building those "muscles" to carry you through social situations. Sobriety has many rewards.
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#115I'm getting ready to spend a week playing the Interactive Fiction Competition games! Every November I get excited to play the new entries. It reminds me of being a kid in the early 1980's and getting a new Infocom game for Christmas. I makes me so happy that there are other people who not only feel the same way I do about IF, but they actually write spectacularly fun games!
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#116Hello from Raleigh, NC. Just graduated with a degree in political science but found work as a software engineer. Currently passionate about rock climbing, I wonder if there are any other climbers on HN? I’m looking to take a class on lead belaying soon and start sport climbing!
How is the tech scene in Raleigh compared to other medium sized cities on the east coast?
I would say it's pretty good. This area has long had two primary economic anchors: software / digital tech, and life sciences / pharma. You have companies like IBM / Red Hat, SAS, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. here, and a burgeoning startup scene on the "digital tech" front. In terms of life sciences, well, TBH, I can't name most of the companies because I don't work in that space. But lots of pharma stuff. Glaxo-Smith-Kline is probably the biggest and most well-known, but there are a ton of smaller players in that space around here. There's also a lot of the "tech jobs with non tech companies" stuff here. Big companies in fields like finance, insurance, logistics, etc. set up development shops here and do a lot of their software development and IT work locally. You have companies like MetLife, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, etc. here in that sense.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I oscillate between this (having an expanded brain capacity) and the exact opposite (a more limited brain capacity, the ability to take things one at a time, be eternally optimistic, not have your mind race all the time, sleep instantly when you lie down).
> sleep instantly when you lie down The secret to this is lots of exercise (and maybe good sleep hygiene). IME insomnia is mostly a result of being sedentary all day. Never had insomnia when camping and hiking multiple hours each day.
True. I'm not an insomniac or anything close and I exercise regularly. I think sleep hygiene and sleep posture (and breathing during sleep) are the last pieces of the puzzle. Still working on it.
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#118Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…
Congrats on having the courage to make a change! > it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. Paradoxically it's also the thing that creates the crushing anxiety when abused. One day at a time, be kind to yourself, life is a journey.
So true. When abused like I did, it created so many more problems than it solved. I wish I had the clarity to realize that in the moment.
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#119I'm passionate about a particular orange-patterned cat. Come join us at rdrama.net.
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#120For the past five years or so, I've taken singing lessons. I really recommend it to anyone who has even the faintest interest, even if you feel like you can't carry a tune in a bucket. What I learned the first four to six lessons was enough to make a substantial difference both in my vocal quality and in my comfort in singing for long periods (one of the first things you learn, essentially, is how not to shred your v…
How do you go about finding a good teacher that will teach you to sing safely with proper technique? I've had a singing teacher in the past that caused vocal issues and didn't have the faintest idea on why the way I was practicing was causing issues, except for "my other students don't have issues".