Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by magneticnorth » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:28 AM UTC

agf wrote: post #55

I posted on a thread about burnout back in May about quitting my job[1] after nine years, this seems like an invitation to post an update. I used the time off to travel around in a van, hiking, eating, camping, and visiting friends. I'm now back in the city and catching up all of the life stuff that I put on hold for the pandemic and / or travel -- minor remodeling, maintenance, friends I didn't really get to see dur…

I would love to hear about your time almost totally away from computers - do you feel more excited about tech? Less burnt out? Or even more determined to move industries?

I read through your linked comments, and I think I'm in a fairly similar place to where you were - lucky to have had a high savings rate for long enough that I can afford a long break; maybe forever if I'm frugal, or switch to a less-well-paid industry - and this has made me feel like I'm probably in my last corporate tech job. I haven't pulled the plug yet and probably won't particularly soon, but I'd love your perspective about what's after that leap.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by Const-me » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:29 AM UTC

CameronNemo wrote: post #202

Const-me wrote: post #175

I'm making a smartphone OS for my personal use. Gonna opensource under GPLv2 once ready. OS kernel is Alpine Linux from https://postmarketos.org/ The entire userland is custom: graphics is on top of drm, kms, gles2, FreeType. Audio is on top of ASIO with just a few third party libraries like soxr, fdk-aac, minimp3. IPC is mostly domain sockets, input is raw input, wifi is controlled through wpa_supplicant. Most of th…

I hope you mean LTE modem. All major carriers in the US are shutting down 2G and 3G cell towers. Calls won't work without VoLTE in the future.

Indeed, besides GSM the modem in the PinePhone supports UMTS, HSPA+, and LTE standards: https://www.quectel.com/product/lte-eg25-g

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by kgin » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:30 AM UTC

david927 wrote: post #5

Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.

Yes please

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by lamroger » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:30 AM UTC

harmmonica wrote: post #192

lamroger wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow its beautiful! doesnt need to be novel imo. hope you really do go the long term lease route to help shelter folks. do yall have any newsletter? would love to follow

Oh man that's super nice of you to say! Quite a few folks have called/written us saying that they really dig the look of it, but you saying "beautiful" seriously warms my heart--thank you! We're feeling the same way about the rental because based on the response we've gotten it's not like the people inquiring about purchase are all folks who need cheap shelter (some folks want to live in it, others for Airbnb, still…

lets do it! substack is super simple to start and you can think about migrating later. me[at]lamroger.com

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by rootsudo » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:32 AM UTC

nielsole wrote: post #193

rootsudo wrote: post #170

I'm having fun, resigned my last client and am surfing, cycling (road bike & Dirt) 20-40 miles daily minimum, want to see if I can do daily century rides. Alongside Language school, in the morning Japanese, in the evening Indonesian. The Japanese is more of a fun goal now, as I'm JLPT N3 and want to see if I can get N1. I should be focusing on Mandarin, but, eh maybe next year. It's really fun to read news in local l…

How does learning two languages work for you? Whenever I try it I get really weird mashups in my head.

So, I do enjoy microdosing - it can be anything, even caffeine but it seems to help alot.

I also do immersion, where I'm currently at, it supports both languages with people to chat with that helps especially. If I didn't have this, it would be much harder.

It does get mixed mash, and it is mental exhaustion but that's why I find it works.

Much like the gym, when you workout to failure, it helps build faster.

The microdosing helps tons, my focus is unbroken, I don't use cell phones besides changing the default language, which is fantastic.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by rfrey » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:32 AM UTC

Learning how to blacksmith. Found a nice 200# anvil at an auction, built a forge and ribbon burner for it, and am about to fire it up tomorrow.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:34 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by mindcrime » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:34 AM UTC

I'm on vacation from my dayjob this week, so I have a lot of time to catch up on side interests for the next couple of days.

Right now I'm mostly still just deep-diving into various bits of "stuff" related to AI. I just finished reading a The SOAR Cognitive Architecture by John Laird, and Engineering General Intelligence Part 2 by Ben Goertzel, as well as Words and Rules by Stephen Pinker. Also spent some time building and installing all of OpenCog, and installing SOAR. The goal is to start messing around with both, and start actually implementing some simple agents.

I'm also now reading Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language by Roland Hausser, and have a book on Cognitive Modeling queued up.

And I need to find some time to get back to working with Apache River (the OSS version of what Sun used to call JINI).

If I'm feeling inspired one day soon, I might finally finish wrapping up the software for my "convection oven to reflow oven" conversion project. The hardware parts have all been done for months, and even most of the code is written, but I sort of mentally stalled out on that and just haven't bothered to push everything across the finish line. Really need to wrap that all up.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by pabs3 » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:34 AM UTC

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Open source is always looking for more people to work on it.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by unemphysbro » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 2:35 AM UTC

I'm designing a full back and shoulders tattoo for myself. About one/tenth of it is completed on my back so-far. Leafing through art history texts, old-maps, and going through museums in my free time.

I'm also getting very conformable on my motorcycle in the twisties; I'd like to try a track-day soon.

I'm still trying to find friends post-pandemic (moved to the bay area during the pandemic).

Besides that, I'm taking a break from tech besides my day job for a bit.