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Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by throwaway777x »

q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

To me, if you read On the Shortness of Life and take it to heart, you would delete your blog as a waste of time and mental energy.

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Post by q-base »

techiferous wrote: post #191
q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

> Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. Good for you! Everybody has their own "twist" on Stoicism, and that's fine. You have to find your own twist on it; you have to make it your own. In my own experience, what is most rewarding and promotes my progress the most, is when I put philosophy into action. Then I get authentic feedback from…

I think you hit the nail on the head here and something else I seem to struggle a bit with. I am very good at reading, thinking, contemplating. But I need to get more out of my head - from lack of better wording. I actually wrote "read less - do more". In my notebook recently. So I could not agree more with what you are saying.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by franktankbank »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #164

I live in a condo complex in Florida where the onsite staff at the front desk know me well and they are mostly bilingual and know I’m learning Spanish. I went up to ask then something and jokingly said “no hablo inglés, ¿Hablas español?” and I was able to carry on a more or less complete conversation with them in Spanish and ask for what I needed without pre rehearsing lines for the first time. So I found out within…

Thats awesome. I remember when I finally learned numbers well enough to understand the cashier when I was abroad.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by q-base »

wrongtrousers wrote: post #195
q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

Thanks for the writing and for posting about it here! Found some nice photographs and other content that I'll dig more into later. Liking what I've found so far :)

Thank you very much for your kind words. I think that I have finally reconciled with myself that I will primarily be sharing images on my own website and not social media, even though that may mean that very few people see it. So I am glad to hear you saw some and liked them :)

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Post by azepoi »

nicbou wrote: post #95
spenjovewkwhalo wrote: post #49

The origins of Port and Starboard on ships. Chosen to be independent of a mariners orientation. Starboard - most sailors were right handed and the steering oar was placed on the right. Star = steer. Board = side of boat. Port - as steering oars got bigger, boats tended to dock on the left hand side. This became to be known as “lardboard” which sounded too much like starboard, so it was changed to “Port” (as in the si…

In French, there is babord and tribord. The mnemonic is ba-tri, or “battery”.

Both likely come from (middle) dutch bakboord (the side of your back) facing the stierboord (the side with the steering oar) . Stierboord became estribord then tribord. Its more explicit in modern german and dutch.

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by q-base »

throwaway777x wrote: post #201
q-base wrote: post #82

I have started exploring Seneca/stoicism again. Prompted partly by a recent submission here, partly by personal reasons. Instead of consuming other peoples interpretation of stoicism I decided to go as close to the source as feasible for me. I have read Letters from a stoic a number of times before and my copy is filled with highlights, but this time I think I will try to limit myself to one or two letters a day and…

To me, if you read On the Shortness of Life and take it to heart, you would delete your blog as a waste of time and mental energy.

I get your point. But it depends on how you read it. If I get joy out of writing then I would not consider that a waste :)

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Post by shminge »

I'm sick of using React for personal projects so I've been building a lightweight, functional, and minimalistic reactive web framework. Turns out there are a lot of decisions that go into something like this, it truly is an iceberg of complexity. It creates plenty of enjoyable problems to think about though

Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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Post by nailer »

esperent wrote: post #100
soulofmischief wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you're only a few years into your web career, so I'll provide some background. lodash is a popular library that fills in many blanks that pre-2015 JavaScript had. It still provides value in modern JavaScript, but it's no longer as important as it used to be. JavaScript is actually based on a standard called ECMAScript. ActionScript shares this standard, as an example. In 2015, we got ECMAScript 5, which…

Nope, I'm about 15 years in and (unfortunately) deeply familiar with all of that. As someone else pointed out below, it was the use of ESM as a verb that threw me off. Thanks for taking the effort to type out a history lesson though, hopefully someone will benefit from it.

Sounds like we both got into JS around when node was released. Good times. I miss early JSConf and NodeConf.
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