Hello there. I am a recovering Chemist having abandoned chemistry for SRE. Recovering because am now getting back, teaching myself and such. I just cant stop thinking of the beautiful world of molecules, charges etc
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#172Sometimes, I think about what I really want. What I want most in the universe, for myself. There's plenty I want for everyone else. I seldom let myself think about what would be good for me lately. Sometimes, like tonight, I do know what I want for myself. It's impossible, but it's my greatest desire for my life. I want to be "uplifted". I want my brain capacity to be expanded by orders of magnitude. I want to unders…
I recommend you to watch the movie "Transcendence", ignore the reviews. After that let it just be an idea for the movie plot and instead go walk through the woods for a while. I used to be where you are now, but no singularly can fix what is in essence a spiritual problem.
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#173I just got back from the Banff Film Festival, where I saw Fire of Love[1]. It’s the story of French scientists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who become fully devoted to each other and the study of Volcanos for the rest of their lives.
Created using hours of their archival footage, it’s a story driven by a singular shared passion, amazingly found by two people born only 20km apart.
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#174>Just being online and being part of the few select communities that existed back then was a commitment, and I believe that's in part what made it feel special.
I attended an offline conference after more than 3+ years yesterday. It was a welcome change after all the online interactions ;)
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#175Hello from Sydney Australia.
We’ve got some beautiful weather here today (Sunday)! I just went for a surf with my beautiful wife while the grandparents walked our 6 month old around the beach.
I wish the world was a peaceful as our time in the water.
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#176Great post! So great that this will be the first time I post a comment here on HN. I’m from Sweden and I’m passionate about two things currently.
The first thing is that me, my wife, my mother and my father is building a house from scratch to me and my wife. I’ve never built anything before so a lot of what free time I have goes towards reading up on how to do it. We started building 1,5 years ago and started taking down trees in the small forest where the house was to be located three years ago. Anyone on HN building their own house?
The second thing I’m tinkering with is coding a game in swift playgrounds using only the iPad. It is a fps game built with Metal using only SDFs for rendering and collision.
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#177Been going to the gym for the past six weeks and trying to get in shape and learn more about good form. Done wonders for my posture and mental health. Hoping to make it long lasing habit! Thanks for posting, stranger.
It's all about form! Good form = less risk of injury. Good form = opportunity to reach higher potential. As a former personal trainer it makes me happy to hear this. :)
Yeah I've been having some regular PT sessions in between workouts. Amazing how much more motivated you feel and better you perform getting some 1-1 advice and teaching from an expert. Was both a humbling and rewarding experience and highly recommend to anybody wanting to get into going to the gym.
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#178Thank you for posting this! Excellent idea.
Currently, I'm passionate about nailing pinch harmonics on the guitar. I've been struggling to get the right sound but I'm looking forward to the day I can do that so that I can cover so many amazing songs that use it!
Also, spending some time learning about docker extensions and thinking of some ideas of what kind of extension I can make :)
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#179Hello 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…
>ECG device
An ecg device saved my dad's life, it caught a weird heart murmur he was having and alerted the doctors to an issue with his heart. He's now better becuase we detected it early, its so wonderful there are people like you working on these devices that makes modern medicine do its thing. Thank you!
Also, how do you prepare your coffee?
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#180Hello from Colombo, Sri Lanka. I'm a former C++ dev turned manager, running an engineering team of about 60 engineers (stack: MERN + AWS). But my current passion is how to help bring about social change in Sri Lanka, after a series of remarkable events [1] culminating in this (which you may have seen in the news in July): https://youtu.be/hkuExq-WBEo?t=35. These events convinced me, and a lot of other people, that peaceful, positive change is possible in a country that we had almost given up on.