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

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Post by samschooler »

smm11 wrote: post #152
beachy wrote: post #147

Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0]. Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors. Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag. The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming c…

Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing. Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

I think this very much is a personal perspective thing. Skiing is only increasing in popularity. Many ski resorts recording record high visitation this year. https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/29/national-ski-areas-record...

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

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Post by interestica »

aeonik wrote: post #34

I'm obsessed with interfaces at the moment. How do humans interface with computers and data, from control to visual feedback. How humans interface with music, perform it, read it, store it. How do birds interface with tones and rhythm? How software interfaces with other software and hardware. How humans interface with the world via symbols. I've been reading about Semiotics a bit, and find the field fascinating. http…

For my masters I proposed that you could treat urban spaces as one giant interface (and that interface would appear different to different users). After stepping away from it for a while, I've gotten back into it. My main interest is information design for wayfinding, transit, and urban navigation. It's such a human problem and it's so fascinating.

Though he never called it such, a lot of it intersects with Donald Norman's work that he describes in "The Design of Everyday Things". Even the objects we intereact with are interfaces.

Drop me a line if you're looking to chat about it all.

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Post by p1mrx »

smm11 wrote: post #152
beachy wrote: post #147

Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0]. Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors. Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag. The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming c…

Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing. Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

> Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

I imagine you could answer that question by going to a golf course or ski slope to see who's there.

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Post by linsomniac »

user_7832 wrote: post #124
abakker wrote: post #14

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when you make them, be sure to post here about what you find out. It feels to me like that community does a lot of Q&A, but not a lot of build logs (Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?) Also, if near Boulder, CO, I've got some CNCs if that helps you build stuff.

Thanks, that's very kind of you but unfortunately I live in the Netherlands haha. I'll almost certainly post my speakers when I make them, though probably on diyaudio or reddit. Re build logs, I have seen quite a few on diyaudio.com as well as reddit's r/diyaudio and r/diysound (which I frequent much more often). Are you more curious/interested in the enclosure hardware (woodworking) side or the driver selection and…

I'm in Fort Collins, I'll be right over! :-)

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

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Post by FFP999 »

thewakalix wrote: post #146
lcall wrote: post #117

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> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep…

Going to the bathroom is like porn to you? Not to kinkshame, but that seems like your problem, not anyone else's.

I bet I can think of a less erotic environment than a public restroom, such as...

...I'm going to have to get back to you.

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

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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

Unrelated, I just looked at your profile and realized you were the author of that "Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase" article. You're basically a minor folk hero at my work.
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