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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mceachen »

geocrasher wrote: post #328

Staying sane by staying busy. My wife is slowly dying and is a thousand miles away at a hospital, hoping they can save her. Today I cleaned a workshop area that I'd been using for storage so that I could use it as an actual workshop. I have car parts to rebuild (Chevy 350 TBI at least) and I have things to build, like a recumbent bicycle from scratch. I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to pla…

Having loved ones have health issues is the worst. Consider keeping a daily log/diary just to have some place to put down what you're feeling, or just tactically what you did that day. That routine helped me when my Mom passed from cancer and I was one of her caregivers.

Good luck to you and your family.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dlhavema »

yjhoney wrote: post #181

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

That's really good success! Weve had a few people come out of a bootcamp and try to apply for jobs, but none were even close to getting hired. I think their bootcamp was only a 2 or 3 months though

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by fevziomurtekin »

geocrasher wrote: post #328

Staying sane by staying busy. My wife is slowly dying and is a thousand miles away at a hospital, hoping they can save her. Today I cleaned a workshop area that I'd been using for storage so that I could use it as an actual workshop. I have car parts to rebuild (Chevy 350 TBI at least) and I have things to build, like a recumbent bicycle from scratch. I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to pla…

I hope all your wishes come true. Your wife can save.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ultrasounder »

danShumway wrote: post #305
ultrasounder wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is god send for my Autistic son who singularly obsessed about space-time continuum these days. He was even looking for games along the same theme. Do you have a patreon or planning to have one? Perhaps we can have a side conversation on ways to support your effort. Last question, any definitive resource you can point to for a 11 year old to grok the concept of space-time mechanics and other fundamentals concepts…

You're maybe the second or third person to mention to me now that this might be something that Autistic kids might be into. I'm not super-familiar with the Autistic community, so I haven't been consciously pushing in that direction, but I am definitely interested in making sure that the game is accessible for Autistic players, in no small part because the few Autistic kids I've playtested with have so far been really…

Thanks for the recommendations to Flatland and Babaisyou. I will playtest the game in the next few days and provide some user feedback to you. Keep GameThesis awesome and I am glad you are open to Patreon.

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Post by ultrasounder »

emckay wrote: post #336

I quit my job last month to work full time on (what I think is) an under-explored area of climate change: how institutional investors block shareholder proposals calling for firms to adopt more climate-friendly policies. I have just published the first bit of research with data on how 500+ funds from the big 3 fund managers voted on climate change-related proposals in 2018: https://voting.greengovernance.org . Later…

Woah! Respect for what you are doing and more power to you!

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Post by mceachen »

I'm building (what I hope to be) your new home for all your photos and videos. It's called PhotoStructure.

TL:DR; see https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

In a nutshell, I've got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services.

Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile.

Nothing I tried scaled up to several hundred thousand files, with cross-platform support (to minimize vendor lock-in).

And nothing I tried had a UX that made browsing that large of a library be delightful and serendipitous.

So I'm making it.

I've currently got a build for Mac, Windows 10, and Ubuntu desktop. I've got a preliminary snap and docker image, and look forward to trying it out on a raspberry pi 4 soon.

I'm looking for more beta testers, if this sounds interesting and you'd be willing to share feedback! Email signups are in the above link.

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

lwansbrough wrote: post #247
bjelkeman-again wrote: post #44

Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system. We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae,…

I'm an absolute beginner in all things botany/agriculture related, and don't have much experience in electrical engineering. However this idea is something I find really interesting and I've started researching it more. I've been playing with the idea of using existing physical infrastructure for building farms. Specifically, server farms. I'm imagining isolated racks with individually, fully controlled environments…

We live in Stockholm, Sweden, where the average winter temperature is -1.5 C. The coldest days it drops down to -25 C (maybe one or two days a year). We want to have delivery of vegetables 365 days a year from our facilities, which means some type of indoor facility.

To me the smallest size which makes economic sense here is from one hectare and up (10000 m2). The bigger the better. We compete with the average greenhouse grower in the Netherlands, among others, which has four hectares.

For desert coastlines, check out Seawater Greenhouse. I know the founder well. https://seawatergreenhouse.com

Other extreme environments are very interesting to me, but I don’t foresee anything in rack size that makes economic sense. Food requires quite a lot of space to produce. But I could be wrong.

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Post by dorpus »

ultrasounder wrote: post #272
danShumway wrote: post #200

Loop Thesis ( https://loop-thesis.com ), a multiplayer time traveling puzzle/arena shooter that allows players to simultaneously travel to different points on the timeline. In co-op/multiplayer this allows you to do things like send someone back in time to open a door for another player in the future, or pull objects outside of time to effect someone in the past. There's a big focus on experimentation and discovery.…

This is god send for my Autistic son who singularly obsessed about space-time continuum these days. He was even looking for games along the same theme. Do you have a patreon or planning to have one? Perhaps we can have a side conversation on ways to support your effort. Last question, any definitive resource you can point to for a 11 year old to grok the concept of space-time mechanics and other fundamentals concepts…

They may be interested in the choose your own adventure comic "Meanwhile" by Jason Shiga. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/meanwhile_9780810984233/

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Post by raghavtoshniwal »

bdibs wrote: post #92

Thanks for asking! I’m working on a podcast community site to give a place for listeners to get together and connect. It’s not too far along but the basics are there, feel free to check it out/give me feedback: https://www.podalong.com/

Hey, looks pretty good. I made https://www.podwhat.com , it allows you to make podcast lists of the shows you like. Are you using the iTunes API for search?
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