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Game development. I’ll admit that part of my problem is chronic depression over a decade+. The idea of gamedev excites me, but I have a hard time feeling passionate about anything these days. You definitely need that for games. Hell, I’m barely able to sit down and even enjoy games anymore.
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if you are not already, stay connected to the ladybird dev community. don't complain to them about the difficulty to build, but keep an eye out for others having the same challenges. see if there are others also trying to build on MacOS and share your experience. perhaps together you can overcome the issues. the majority of ladybird contributors are probably on linux, so mac support may take some extra effort. consid…
You know what, I’ll give it a shot again tonight. Thanks for the fist bump. Let’s see how far I go.
note that i am not at all involved in ladybird (i only just joined the discord myself), i am just an interested bystander with some experience mentoring FOSS contributors. i would say the same things for any other project someone is interested in
Hobby electronics & robotics. I can make an LED blink on a ESP8266 (it's been a while), but that's it. I'd like to get more familiar with a multimeter, figuring out broken kids toys, etc. but it's a bit daunting. Maybe there's too many options and not enough constraints. I'm not sure.
Check out the Arduino starter kit. This is how I started with electrics. It comes with everything you need including a great book which walks you through everything. Very much worth the money. https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products/arduino-starter-kit-mu...
Two things: - firearms technology: designing or modifying guns. Feels out of reach because... laws, obviously. - general ICE engines knowledge: Will probably be obsolete when I get the space and the time to pursue this.
The problem with firearms is of course the "thought crime" aspect of the recent/current? BATF stance on making a firearm w/o an FFL, using it, and selling it, as well as ITAR concerns. Naturally, there are DefCAD/Defense Distributed and the like and a couple of very active subreddits/forums and some new developments/techniques. Arguably, 1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment == the right to 3D print firearms, but of course,…
Yeah, but no such thing where I live unfortunately. Meanwhile I'll just watch Mark Serbu's fun experiments.
I am fascinated by the idea of building something like the Lisp Machines or Smalltalk 80 from scratch. Build a Forth in assembly, build a Lisp in Forth, build an OS and computing environment in Lisp. AOT-compile only the Forth interpreter, load and compile the rest from source during system boot, maybe with later stages optimizing the previous stages as the system is assembling itself. I imagine two languages - Langs…
You might already know it, but Dusk OS[1], which is a Forth, has a Lisp implementation[2] which includes a native code compiler for i386, amd64, arm, risc-v and m68k. You might consider it a good starting point for your project.
[1]: http://duskos.org/
[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/co...
A job where I can support my family and feel valued/respected. I think that would be cool.
The first is traditional machine learning - not “AI”. I know what I don’t know and I can fake it well enough to talk to a subject matter expert when leading projects and I have a dual math/cs major from three decades ago. But it would take years to be good enough to be at the same level of seniority I am in my existing niche.
The second is more important for my life is learn Spanish well enough to be conversationally fluent. I know some. But my wife and I are going to start living in Costa Rica during the winter and I want to actually learn it to embrace being thier.
Game dev. I like the idea of programming the core loops, but cannot fathom getting into assets and art design as I do not have a single artistic bone in my body
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The problem with firearms is of course the "thought crime" aspect of the recent/current? BATF stance on making a firearm w/o an FFL, using it, and selling it, as well as ITAR concerns. Naturally, there are DefCAD/Defense Distributed and the like and a couple of very active subreddits/forums and some new developments/techniques. Arguably, 1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment == the right to 3D print firearms, but of course,…
> Arguably, 1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment == the right to 3D print firearms Yeah, but no such thing where I live unfortunately. Meanwhile I'll just watch Mark Serbu's fun experiments.
Maybe do air guns instead? There's a big modding community around them, and PCP weapons can be quite powerful (though maybe also regulated?)
Perhaps try an Olympic Match air pistol? Or purchasing a basic model and re-working it to make it match-quality?