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which ones are you thinking go? I'm interested in this space too-- it'd be great to get in touch and discuss (my contact info in my profile).

same, i've been trying to do proactive / productive work in this field I think I'd do anything with a friendly team

Interested as well! But the future is not so dark, things like e.g. https://github.com/lh3/minimap2 are a breath of fresh air.

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Being a dad - Preparing for the Google Cloud Associate exam (5 YEO front-end developer trying to get out of my bubble) - Fixing my posture using a daily routine - Really fine-tuning our budget, researching the stores that have better prices for items we frequently buy, having a better grip on upcoming expenses, figuring out what things we need that we can buy used, and most importantly, getting the most out of the amount we can spend monthly!

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Guitar, and as a subset of that, music theory and composition. It started as a something to get me through the first pandemic winter in Minnesota in 2020, never having held a guitar before, and it turned out to be something I've been completely obsessed with for more than three years now. I have played guitar literally almost every day since I started. I play for about a half hour every day before I head out to catch…

I finally got back into music this year because my kid started piano. I played guitar a ton throughout high school and my early 20's, did classical for a few years in there too. I could play almost anything, but I was terrible at writing so I sort of just stopped. I really wish I had had the infinite supply of composing videos that are so easy to come by now. I learned so much this year already in my "spare time", I feel like I could have been decent at it back when most of my time was spare.

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Space Race Two. China versus the USA.

Which country will achieve the first crewed lunar landing of this millennium?

Which country will set up the first permanent moonbase?

Which country will achieve the first crewed martian landing?

Which county will set up the first permanent base on Mars?

etc.

I was surprised by how much progress in space China has made. They have a permanently inhabited space station. They are planning to achieve a crewed lunar landing by 2030. They are planning to complete a permanent moonbase by 2035.

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Working through "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms": https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/comput...

Finally found the trifecta of an engaging lecturer with recorded lectures, an excellent textbook, and a solid set of exercises.

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Print media -- seriously. There are vanishingly few types of paper-based products left besides mass-market paperbacks and a handful of soulless conglomerate-owned magazines that may disappear tomorrow. Just like there are small farming collectives out there, I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsle…

Are you ruling our hardcover books that still get written and published? I'm on email mailing lists of two small/Independent publishers, and they still make books.

And where I live, there's a book binders workshop on my street.

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Being a dad - Preparing for the Google Cloud Associate exam (5 YEO front-end developer trying to get out of my bubble) - Fixing my posture using a daily routine - Really fine-tuning our budget, researching the stores that have better prices for items we frequently buy, having a better grip on upcoming expenses, figuring out what things we need that we can buy used, and most importantly, getting the most out of the am…

Becoming a dad or are you already one and just upping the excitement? If you’re new, my two pieces of advice are that there’s only right now to deal with when things start to feel rough, and lick your fingers to open the nappy sack before you start dealing with the nappy. Both gems and hard-won

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

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Being a dad - Preparing for the Google Cloud Associate exam (5 YEO front-end developer trying to get out of my bubble) - Fixing my posture using a daily routine - Really fine-tuning our budget, researching the stores that have better prices for items we frequently buy, having a better grip on upcoming expenses, figuring out what things we need that we can buy used, and most importantly, getting the most out of the am…

Could you share your routine for fixing your posture?

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

#190
Building an open source sync backend for Logseq: https://github.com/bcspragu/logseq-sync

I'm a big fan of Logseq for keeping track of useful information and tasks and stuff, but the file-based (or Git-based) syncing has sharp edges, and the actual Logseq Sync feature has a proprietary backend, so I've been enjoying figuring out how the protocol works and building an OSS implementation.

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