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Post by dbetteridge »

chrisrickard wrote: post #100

Hello from Melbourne, Australia. This weekend it finally started to feel warm, and I'm ready for summer. I ran a software development agency for 8 years, sold it at the start of the pandemic, and been travelling with my wife in an RV around Australia thinking about what's next. One of the issues we faced in our business was around centralising project requirements, and ensuring both our clients and our team could ref…

How are you finding RV life?

Wife and I finished a Nullarbor run to Perth recently from NSW and camped along the way, mulling over picking up a sprinter van in the near future and remote working around Australia as theres so much to see and do.

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Post by probablypower »

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…

Awesome, I'll stalk your work through your profile, I'm addicted to good scifi.

I've mostly written poetry for the last 15 years, but I've been meaning to transition into long form writing. I'm wondering if you could share your process? Do you sketch out a plot then fill out the gaps? Are you creating situations then letting your characters grow the story organically? This is the bit I'm sort of stuck on, so hearing how other people approach the strategy of longform writing might hopefully jolt me into action.

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Post by zoover2020 »

erlich wrote: post #298
frans wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Coffee doesn't destroy your muscles or increase estrogen levels

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Post by _ewbb »

M4v3R wrote: post #238

I’m from Poland. 20+ years ago as a teen I got to play Final Fantasy VII and even though my English vocabulary was pretty limited I felt in love with it. I was thinking about all the people who couldn’t play it because of the language barrier. So I got online and found some folks that were willing to help translate it to Polish. The only problem was that the game files were proprietary and while the modding community…

Incredible, I've been scrolling through these comments thinking of my own passion which is Final Fantasy VII speedrunning. Fell in love with the game as a kid and only recently discovered the FF7 speedrunning community who are amazingly kind and generous. The runners themselves are incredibly helpful and can be found on Twitch. There's also a Discord where technique, glitches, and skips are worked on and improved.

I'm working on running in the 100% category which currently has a world record of 17 hours 38 minutes, it's a marathon of concentration. I'm not a young single person so finding the time to do a run has been the hardest part.

For casual players there are a ton of mods that make the game more challenging, updates for the graphics, and tons of other really interesting modifications. I love the New Threat V1.5 mod and the Chibi style character model updates.

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Post by kirso »

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…

As a person who is on the other side of the table, I noticed that this is usually the case when you stayed in the field for quite long.

For the context, I just started a coding journey - so everything seems new and fascinating, so many areas to delve into: - Compilers - Generative art - Stable diffusion models - APIs

To the point that its really confusing and chaotic but super interesting.

I kind of think that every decade we'll have to re-invent ourselves and find something new that excites us and move there (either professionally or personally). Doesn't have to be tech, but you surely spend time on some interesting things that can give you meaning and excitement!

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Post by dave333 »

Water can now boil itself - i.e. energy released from hydrogen atoms in water by converting them to a state where the electron is closer to the nucleus is enough (200x burning molecular hydrogen) to boil water at way more than break even. Hundreds of kW are being generated by machines smaller than a domestic washing machine. There are over a dozen experimental results that demonstrate this is real. https://brilliantlightpower.com/live-suncell-boiler-demonstr...

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Post by pdimitar »

plonk wrote: post #435
pdimitar wrote: post #422

I am passionate about not working and finally doing some hobbies and being a lazy slob at least once a year. At 42 years old I am nowhere near close any of that though and I am slowly losing hope and despairing. But it's the world we're living in, nobody is giving you money for existing so what can you do. I am severely burned out and me switching jobs in the last several years didn't help because I don't want to wor…

Why not move to a tech hub and start a challenging job? If you're technically good, I don't think your current lack of money would block you. You sound like you'd have a lot of motivation if you got out of your current local minimum. Making a big life change tends to do that.

I am really not sure. I am not looking for more responsibility and more pressure on my psyche right now. I am very capable and have proven it in numerous projects but I honestly need to dial down the responsibility...

Not sure how one breaks this loop though.

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Post by kirso »

I found a passion in understanding oneself (thyself?) and trying to understand one's emotions and thoughts, distinguishing them, breaking down and then finding root case + future next steps that help people move or transition their life further.

Perhaps its philosophy or some sort of self-authoring programme that helps with inaction, tough situations and

The cause is mostly because I felt stuck for too long without not knowing what to do next. I could have gone on the script of changing jobs, cities etc. but it felt like escapism instead. It takes very deep introspection and a lot of writing to come up with reasons and feelings that help that understanding and I am still in the process, however thoroughly enjoying it!

I believe it is one of the most fundamental and important "meta-skills" these days.

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Post by seibelj »

thinkingemote wrote: post #413
seibelj wrote: post #7

I’m passionate about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Catholicism, the destruction of the state, the lowering of taxes, the betterment of society on individualistic terms, the rise of private schools and the death of public indoctrination. The future is truth and the ruination of government lies. And every day I see more evidence that the socialist order is decaying.

How do you think about individualism, tech and Christianity? There's a difference between an individual and a person with Catholicism I think, and the individualistic approach to life I have heard goes hand in hand with pride, going it alone, rejecting God, others, and ones whole personhood. We live in relation to others. Another thing we hear is that the modern world is in it's troublesome state because of the indiv…

The government murdered the son of god which is a foundational element of Christianity.

The Catholic Church is a supranational entity that will survive as nation states rise and fall. No one in 2022 puts a gun to your head to join nor stay inside it. There is no forced tithe. You are encouraged voluntarily to donate money and assist others but unlike the government not doing so is something you have to deal with yourself.

All churches and orders generally have to be self sustaining. The Vatican is not cutting checks - money flows up but doesn’t flow down and they will close churches if they aren’t cutting the mustard. This encourages self sufficiency and creativity. For example my church owns a lot of rental property and has other income generating assets.

Catholic schools are generally far superior to the local public schools. They charge reasonable rates. I live in an expensive city and the local Catholic elementary school is $10k per year which is a deal considering the public school spends $25k per student and you’d have to be out of options to send your child there because of the violence and awful nature of the education (basically ranked 1/10 nationally).

It’s hilarious that you think I haven’t thought about this deeply. What’s more shocking is that people go through life oblivious to human nature and reality. They think by taxing productive citizens and enterprises all of societal flaws can be solved. The true solution is to let all of us work communally to solve our issues and keep the greedy, evil, self serving, and venal politicians away from the wealth we earned with our own hands.

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Post by MielPopssss »

Hello guys, it's my first time posting here !

Actually, I'm passionate about Lisp dialects, I always been fascinated by languages, when I was a kid, I used to try to learn new languages (Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, ...).

When I was 15, I found out I had a leukemia, a severe form of blood cancer, I had so much free time that I decided to learn programming languages. It was really like a revival, the idea that you can express every ideas into code was mind blowing and a cure for me. I really have a special relationship with programming languages.

Now that I finished my studies at 42 school in Paris and that I have more free times, I can concentrate on what I dreamed to do.

One day, I read the Unicorn Project by Gene Kim and discovered Clojure, which is a dialect of Lisp. I read a lot on the subject, the history of this dialect, the idioms, the functional thinking behind it.

It was mind blowing, the idea that you can express pretty much everything with a little set of atoms ... wow !

So when I find threads on Lisp on HackerNews, I'm always reading it!

Also, I dream about make my own toy programming language, probably a Lisp dialect that will compile to Python bytecode, something like Hy, just to practice.

I take all the advice in my adventure with Lisp !

I'm also passionate about computer science history, last year, I had saved enough money to go to Silicon Valley. For me, it was like a pilgrimage, I visited some historical places, Stanford, the HP house, Palo Alto, Fairchild Semiconductor last place, and of course the Computer History Museum, It was the first time I passed around 6 hours reading every panels.

I'm really thankful to the author of this thread as it was helpful for me to found a place where I can finally express those ideas I had in my mind.

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