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Post by vbezhenar »

tomcam wrote: post #72
vbezhenar wrote: post #22

Hello from Astana, Kazakhstan. I just spent wonderful night playing World of Warcraft, coding some lua addon for it and tinkering with VPS. It's Sunday's morning and I'm going to prepare more coffee. Now I need to endure till the evening so I can actually attend work at Monday with proper schedule. At work I'm working on creating an ECG device which hopefully will be useful and cheap for local hospitals. And some oth…

Man, building an ECG. What is your job description? What kind of organization are you working for? Also your English is excellent!

I think tech lead or something like that. It sounds more serious than it actually is. Electrical engineering is done by someone who knows his stuff, I'm more software guy. Actual ADC is Texas Instruments chip built for ECG applications. So we basically interact with it and deliver a recorded signal to UI and finally to our servers. We have working business and we integrated with some ECG devices which are used on the local market, but having our own device would allow for much better integration and interesting features. Well, management always have infinite stream of ideas.

The hard part is going to be a certification, I guess.

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Post by rakejake »

Subsentient wrote: post #71
rakejake wrote: post #42

Earlier 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).

It's true, what intelligence I have (not particularly impressive) has already caused me enormous suffering. Yet, there's this piece inside me that tells me that "the only way out, is through".

Yeah I've been there. But I don't think you can improve your working memory or your "intelligence" (however you choose to measure it) much beyond your baseline (which could be quite high already, compared to the average). And the only way to stay at your baseline is by having a very relaxed life (good quality sleep, good nutrition and water, exercise etc).

Yearning for a bigger brain only made me feel worse.

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Post by tomcam »

djur wrote: post #103

For 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…

Exciting! What a feeling to know you can do it!

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by fuzzythinker »

Spent most of the year building an origami folding webapp via English-like structured command texts. I've been asked why I choose this difficult endeavor, and I don't really have a true answer to it, other than being too naive about my ability to make it work and falling for the sunk cost fallacy. It's now beyond where getting away from it makes sense, so hopefully the remaining blockers are solvable and people will enjoy using it.

Find my contact in my profile and ping me if you're interested in seeing it before launch.

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Post by sideproject »

michaelhoney wrote: post #132

Hello friend, from Launceston, Tasmania. Right now I'm procrastinating on building a backyard sauna. Each of the plausible next steps has considerable activation energy to get started. I'm thinking about that resistance and what it means.

Would love to see the progress of this!

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by poly_morphis »

This is interesting to me, because I've grown up in a time where I have (largely) not had the opportunity to see what the internet was like in the earlier days. It's only recently that I've come to realize: the internet used to be very different.

Anyways. I'm currently interested in healthcare, specifically medicine. I think that it would be satisfying to treat patients and potentially save their life, and then to realize that the doctor and patient have probably never had contact before, and might never have contact again in the future. Just one stranger caring for another.

I'm not completely set on it, but there's many paths to follow at this point. I'm currently a SWE, and just feel that I want something more. To help people. To make their lives better.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by jacobmarble »

Hi from Idaho, United States. It snowed here this week, first time this season.

Software engineering is my job, but I'm 41 years old now, and it isn't as fun as it used to be.

I became a pilot 1.5 years ago, and now I'm selling my first airplane and buying a larger one.

I've also done some woodworking projects recently. What a pleasant way to do something useful for my family.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by djur »

nyanning wrote: post #120
djur wrote: post #103

For 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".

That's a good point. I really just lucked out in immediately finding a good teacher. It's probably worth doing some research and watching some videos from vocal instructors online to get the general idea of what good and bad advice sounds like.

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Post by [deleted] »

defrost wrote: post #129
nynx wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can say that they have multiple station keeping and orientation methods. The ion thrusters are public info!

There's been some interesting work on rigid body attitude control with sliding weights of late (as an alternative to gyros) - all fun stuff. My main hope for internet satellites and other massive constellations is they all shutdown over radio quiet zones and ideally do something about being so shiny in the sun .. I'm a fan of radio astronomy and the night sky. Fingers crossed. :-)

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