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Post by Simon_O_Rourke »

djur wrote: post #103

For the past five years or so, I've taken singing lessons. I really recommend it to anyone who has even the faintest interest, even if you feel like you can't carry a tune in a bucket. What I learned the first four to six lessons was enough to make a substantial difference both in my vocal quality and in my comfort in singing for long periods (one of the first things you learn, essentially, is how not to shred your v…

I'd love to get back into it, but I'd fear that all my lessons and parental "guidance" with music and singing would come flooding back and ruin it again for me like it did the first time around. I was one of those kids whose parents kind of imposed music on us kids rather than let us enjoy it.

It makes me happy to see someone getting some joy out of singing, I hope you really emjoy it!

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Post by pelasaco »

zuric wrote: post #176

Great 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…

We did it in the pandemics. We started on April 2020, and Monday we are getting an electrician here to connect our solar panel array to the main network (Germany). Me and my wife learned a lot, we fought a lot, but was such fun. I value much more now the people that do that as daily job. Not everything looks perfect, and in our opinion it was definitely more expensive than paying someone to do it. If in one hand you can ave labor costs, in the other you spend quite often more money in more material (buy more then necessary, buy stuff that you dont need and etc). Have fun!

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Post by js2 »

Markoff wrote: post #265
js2 wrote: post #79

I’m sick and tired of paying soda stream. Mostly on principle. My wife really likes her carbonated water though. So much so she’s green lit a kegerator for the sole purpose of housing a 5 gallon corny keg of carbonated water! Carbonated water on tap. Even better, I can plumb it into the fresh water line so it’s continuous! Infinite soda water on tap… till the co2 tank runs out anyway. I’m sure this is all old school…

In commie times or early 90s in eastern Europe people (or at least my friend) used to have at home extremely simple device soda charger adapter with two PET bottle connectors on top and bottom, where on each end you could screw 1.5-2L PET bottle, I think one filled with syrup water, other empty, in the middle on side you screw small soda charger bomb (see link, think size you could put in small air gun, one small bom…

You can use a carbonation cap and diffusion stone with any 2L PET soda bottle and any CO2 tank with regulator:

https://www.amazon.com/Carbonation-Cap-Diffusion-Air-Stone/d...

The original version of this was a plastic cap but it doesn't work all that well:

https://www.morebeer.com/products/carbacap.html

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Post by Simon_O_Rourke »

zuric wrote: post #176

Great 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…

What's the zoning and regulations around building a house in Sweden? If you're connected to utilities like water/electricity, do you still need a professional to come out and certify everything?

Even if you're totally off-grid, do you still need someone to certify the build and the design itself? Any time I hear of house building in Europe I keep thinking back to that British version of Grand Designs, where there would be the inevitable house builder that would forget to add metal ties between masonry courses or something and end up costing themselves thousands of bucks.

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Post by lostlogin »

rakejake wrote: post #206
softfalcon wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m no longer building a house. My family did when I was younger. One day my Dad took us to a random plot of land and went “we’re building a house here”. I figured he meant contractors, did not realize that for the next 5 years, every weekend was going to be building a home from scratch. My parents are retired and live there permanently now. It was a wild ride, learned a lot.

Are there resources online on how to do this? I've always wanted to learn more about construction work, at least to the level where I can do some minor repairs.

I think you just start and then redo the mistakes until it works.

If you end up getting tradespeople in, you end up redoing their work as it was worse than the v1.0 that you did initially.

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Post by hexatin »

Hello! I suppose more than anything recently I’ve really been trying to improve and increase my social relationships, which I feel like I’ve left too long by the wayside. It has been an endlessly rewarding journey so far and I feel like I still have so far to go. And I was just thinking about how social I used to be online too, so this thread really hit on something I’ve been thinking about a lot too recently. Thanks for making this, OP!

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Post by erlich »

frans wrote: post #256
blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

May I suggest the book "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace? I learned about it here on HN [1]. I have no alcohol issues, but there are some eye-opening ideas in that book that should appeal to everyone (unless you already are on zero alcohol) "Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking." [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714527

And coffee.

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Post by x86hacker1010 »

hYqnLX wrote: post #258

Reading all the comments on this post made me very happy. I am from Kolkata, India and am finishing up my CSE degree in a few months. I took CS because of my interest in computers and the job prospects of a CS degree. I don't know how to say it but even though I like tech and programming, but I am not sure if I want to do it for a living for the rest of my life. Maybe it has not much to do with programming at all, bu…

In college I sat on the floor of my school library and read Siddhartha in one sitting. Great book!

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Post by 2StepsOutOfLine »

I spent the weekend so far making a quick project to visualize optic capabilities for vehicles in a tank simulater game called War Thunder https://github.com/ImVexed/ThunderView. It's pretty fun getting a useful data viz out of a data mine. I even used another project I made, https://isobot.io, to automate triggering its CI anytime the data mine gets updated.
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