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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by legends2k »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #266

I’m loving raising my new kid. Funny enough, one of her favorite books right now is Hello Hello by a Brenden Wenzel. I love the way she’ll carry it over to me and crawl into my lap, waiting for me to begin, turning each page for me, how she says hi to the animals in its pages. I don’t care how many times she wants to repeat it, watching her learn and enjoy reading is absolutely delightful. I feel like I’m giving her…

Bed time reading/narration with my two little boys is my father-sons bonding time! Nice story, thanks!

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Post by ripe »

seibelj wrote: post #27
weakfish wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would _love_ any semblance of evidence that the current order is in any form socialist

Depends on your world view. I give ~40% of my income to a decrepit government where I have no say how it’s spent. My city pays $25,000 USD per public school student and the results have not only been atrocious for decades but are declining year after year. Government jobs require college credentials… colleges whose accreditation are approved by the government, in some circular fashion of reciprocal approval. Our medi…

I see you are frustrated you can’t convince others that government is the root of all problems. Have you considered that you might be wrong?

Serious problems require serious efforts to understand and solve. Calling people names like “statists”, you sound like a toddler following some ideological talking points. Use the Internet and library to expand your perspective. Grow up.

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Post by glotchimo »

pyro123 wrote: post #250

You are kinda right. But I guess it's kinda inevitable. I am in college right now chasing a computer science degree. Nothing particularly intresting going in my life right now. Life right now is a constant jumble between excitement and boredom. I have a crush on a girl right now even though I rarely see her around the campus and her being from a different class makes things even harder but a crush nonetheless. I have…

Make this time different! Because why not? That feeling could turn into more and feelings can be awesome :)

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Post by MandieD »

topspin wrote: post #121

What am I passionate about at the moment? Hmm. Last week I got "on the air" for the first time in years. Operating on 20 meters with a well designed but temporary home brew wire antenna. I made contact with people from Italy, the UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Japan in a period of two hours. It went very well. Right now I'm designing a permanent, high performance antenna system, planning it out and lining up the ma…

Especially if you’re space-constrained, I’d like to see your antenna.

Currently fiddling with the length of a not-so-long wire on a 1:9 UnUn, up the 2m that my tree and neighbor situation permits.

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Post by AdamEllison »

What a great post, I created an account just to share like we used to :)

Right now I'm passionate about and proud of a recent invention which is a type of cycloid robot gear with less friction, less parts and simpler manufacturing. High ratio gearing has been a passion area for almost a decade now, and it's a very mature and opaque field, so it's quite difficult to make meaningful contributions. Several prototypes and some dyno testing show I have finally created something of value! Thanks to the efficiency and low noise it's looking like it will be a great fit in the eBike motor gearing space too.

For those interested in further reading, here is the basic principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloidal_drive

and here is a more typical industrial robot style implementation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_tcLx9nmoI

and a recent cycloidal type gear used the eBike space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLh5U3Ril94

Mine is not published yet, but I'm looking forward to sharing it with the world. I would love to hear from anyone familiar with the space (it's a pretty lonely niche at the professional level).

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Post by flippinburgers »

rakejake wrote: post #94

I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc. Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (th…

There is too much churn for me to really feel anything about tech anymore. The last bastion might be rust so if I ever become passingly proficient I would like to find a job that primarily uses it and then attempt to "call it a day" when it comes to my career. I probably only have another 15 years in my anyway (if I am lucky and ageism doesn't kick me to the curb).

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Post by InsOp »

Bhurn00985 wrote: post #284

As a deeply technical person, I am trying to figure out business development. I have come to a stage in my career where I am more valuable in finding projects for my team, than in delivering projects myself. So as somewhat of a prerequisite, I need to learn about personal / team branding, relationship building, marketing, and consulting sales. While this is definitely out of my comfort zone, and I'm still figuring ou…

I have my own company with 10 employees and only recently started out learning about business development. I recently took a coach for sales and she could provide valuable info. now I figured that it would be better to hire someone who does that for me.

that being said, I believe that you shouldn't wait until you learned skills X and y until you open your own company. you'll never start if you always think that you have learn more before you start

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Post by 5amdotis »

I also miss the early internet and personal websites. That is why I started to work on a personal website. So I can have my own space on the internet. Writing about things I like without worrying about how many people visit it, or algorithms.. that is also the reason why I do not use analytics.. I do not care, this website is for me, and if other people read it that is a nice bonus.

Feel that more people should do this. Grow indie web :)

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Post by Simon_O_Rourke »

eslaught wrote: post #51

I spent my morning working on a science fiction novel. (I won't post more here, but you can find it through my profile if you're interested.) Are there any other writers in the house? On a completely unrelated topic, one of my earliest "internet" memories was wandering into open source communities and trying to figure out this CVS thing and connecting it to GNU Savannah so that I could download some code. Those were…

I'm very (very) slowing writing a book, a kind of biography of a local teamsters chapter from Rhode Island which my grandfather was part of. I've given up on it a couple of times, only to come back to writing again, and maybe on a good day cranking out 5,000 words that gets edited back down to maybe half that.

What are you thinking about in terms of publication? After reading on the kind of fees traditional publishers extract from sales, I'm considering going down the self-publication route, and will definitely take a closer look at the Amazon e-book/print on demand service when the time comes.

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Post by silisili »

x86hacker1010 wrote: post #301
silisili wrote: post #49

I go through phases of being passionate and fixated on something, always reading about them, buying them, etc. Sometimes say, knives, sometimes computers, gadgets, etc. Right now on colognes. Kinda just hit me out of nowhere. Learning a ton about different notes, how they change over time, etc. I must have bought 25 in the past couple months. So, I guess that's my current passion.

Recommend a good daily driver that’s affordable?

If you just want to smell nice and not overbearing or trying to impress...Issey Miyake Pour Homme or Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue. Issey is probably my all time favorite, it's so different and refreshing. But it's pretty neutral.

If you want to smell more overbearing and 'sexy', Armaf Club de Nuit Intense Man. It's a powerful Aventus clone. I consider Aventus the perfect 'man trying to be sexy' scent, and they nailed it. But it would get annoying smelling it all day in an office, IMO.

If you have specific tastes lemme know, Cremo also makes really nice cheap stuff. And also really bad cheap stuff :p.

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