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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by feiss »

googlryas wrote: post #251
feiss wrote: post #202

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haha :D

Sorry, I'm not sure if that came off as an insult("the kid won't use that computer"), but just that the kid will probably use the computer to the extent that it is useful or interesting to her, and have an easier time putting it aside, which is different from traditional computing these days where everything is designed to suck you in regardless of what your interests are.

yeah I took it as "she won't use that" which was hilarious. But you are right, what I pretend is to remove the addictiveness part of current computers, and make it a useful, exploratory, learning tool. Which will demand effort from her, and will get her tired much sooner than youtube.

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Post by ThePhysicist »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #281
dthedavid wrote: post #215

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What is your business? I'm starting out now at $0 profits. Hope to change that this year.

I have multiple businesses. All online, some in the B2B space and some in the B2C space. My biggest tip would be: focus on the supply chain. Supply chains are the secret to business. It took me a decade of failures to get this fact. If you ever played factorio, therein lies the secret to business. The rest of it is just funnel optimization.

What do you mean by supply chain in relation to a software company (assuming you're talking about software and not trading / eCommerce)?

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Post by denvrede »

domh wrote: post #364
denvrede wrote: post #361

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Make sure to give Home Assistant a try. It's local first (option to add a "Cloud" connection). It has, by far, the biggest community around home automation. It's easy to extend yourself. It just ticks all the boxes. I've never heard someone talking bad about it. https://www.home-assistant.io/ Tip: don't bother running it as a container or "standalone", just use their HAOS distribution.

Thanks! Been eyeing up Home Assistant a lot over the last few days. Also tempted to attach a touchscreen to my raspberry pi, put it in a nice case and use that as a UI for it, though adding a web browser to the installation rules out using HAOS directly I guess? What are the reasons to prefer HAOS over installing via docker on a host system?

> Also tempted to attach a touchscreen to my raspberry pi, put it in a nice case and use that as a UI for it, though adding a web browser to the installation rules out using HAOS directly I guess?

I don't get that part? HAOS is a Linux distribution with a pre-configured / installed version of Home Assistant. It behaves (almost - see below) like a "normal" Home Assistant installation.

> What are the reasons to prefer HAOS over installing via docker on a host system?

For me it's that you can manage "addons" directly via Home Assistant e.g. if you need a MQTT broker on your system (I do because I use zigbee2mqtt for integration of my Zigbee devices) you can just go to the addon store, click install and it also automatically integrates with Home Assistant. Same for zigbee2mqtt. If you want to do that with a container version of HA you need to start up a MQTT / zigbee2mqtt broker manually (as another container) and then connect it to HA. It's not the end of the world, but why make it harder as it could be.

You can also upgrade HA via the UI and don't have to stop the container, chose another image, restart the container. Backup & restore is also breeze.

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Post by bambax »

jashkenas wrote: post #264
thomastjeffery wrote: post #262

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It's really disillusioning to see the top comment in a front-page HN-thread require payment to even be read completely. I can see that this isn't your personal design decision, but there is a literal paywall preventing you from communicating with me. This is absurd.

Sorry about that! I didn't think to put in gift links, and of course I should have. Here are (what should be) unpaywalled versions: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie...

On the first link scrolling is extremely slow on Firefox -- but curiously the problem doesn't appear on the other two.

(Also -- completely OT, sorry -- but science doesn't have a "photoshopping" problem as much as a fraud problem, as the author herself makes clear in the body of the text:

> With a sense of unease about how much bad science might be in journals, I quit my full-time job in 2019 so that I could devote myself to finding and reporting more cases of scientific fraud.)

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Post by modernerd »

Get good at rapidly prototyping games and software in general.

Last year I learned Rust deeply in the hope that it would be my “everything” language to build games, web servers, and CLI/TUI apps.

I like Rust but using it for personal projects taught me that I value higher-level tools as well as very fast prototyping and feedback loops much more than I realised, particularly for games.

So I'm planning to go back to Godot for game prototyping and Go for CLI/TUI/web services, then join a bunch of hackathons to help normalise fleshing out rough but useable prototypes in two days instead of two weeks.

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Post by feiss »

panphora wrote: post #229
feiss wrote: post #127

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Thanks, I guess Twitter is the best option, yup. I'm also in mastodon, same username at c.im. But I must warn you that I'm not the most focused, perseverant person.. I also have a 3yo, so if I'm late for the older one, we still have time left for our young ones :D

Haha, nice. And same — maintaining focus is hard :)

btw, really cool work with Remake, it's really neat!

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Post by feiss »

Archelaos wrote: post #245
feiss wrote: post #195

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Nice, gorgeous machine. But I was looking for something more generalist than maths and programming. Although you say there's a plethora of hobbyist software too.. I'll take a look, thanks!

What about buying an old C64 for her? I don't think that it is a problem, that it is old, if you make it interesting enough. I remember how proud I was at that age to own some old big radios to show to my friends.

Yeah, old C64, even a DOS, is also something I consider.. but I also wonder about the real value into going back to the 80s.. we are in 2023, after all! :think:
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