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

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Post by drakonka »

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 to see a fellow sci-fi writer! I've been writing and self-publishing science fiction romance in my spare time for a couple of years. I'm doing a rough edit pass on the first draft of my next story now in preparation for sending it to the developmental editor.

I have not read the whole thing yet but am finding your "Age Scaling and Publishing Journey" post very interesting, specifically having skipped to the "Publishing journey" part to start with. I love your optimism about traditional publishing and hope you will find a publisher who gives your manuscript the investment it deserves.

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Post by biztos »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #381

Rollerskating as an exercise in a zen state of mind. In a crowded rink, you have to put everything else out of your mind, lest you damage yourself or others. When I've had tough weeks at work, which I've had plenty of this year, rollerskating at a rink running a popular roller disco on a Friday night has provided a clean-room level of buffer between my stressed-out work state-of-mind and my happy-go-lucky-parent week…

Any advice for newbies?

I don't even know if there is a rink where I live, but I'd love to give it a try, haven't skated since I was maybe 9 -- but I'm also terrified of falling, breaking my head, running into other people, etc.

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Post by martopix »

I'm learning Swahili. Any Swahili speakers on HN?

On the longer term, this year I finally accepted that I do not care about research and even though I tried loving it for the past 8 years I'm only ruining my life. I love teaching. My contract ends in 8 months and I'm looking around for all the ways I could find a job that I really care about, a teaching-oriented role in a university or school. And I'm so excited about this next step.

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Post by seibelj »

s3000 wrote: post #396
seibelj wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Have you considered that your market-rate could be 66% up (166*0.6=100) because everybody in your market has to pay 40% and wants to have a certain living standard? Or the other way round: how much will your income fall if taxes would be abolished? If you want to see change, link up with other productive people. It takes one to get one. Those 40% are kind of a global standard. Instead of fighting big government, why…

Philosophically the government is the one holding the gun. I want it as tiny and efficient as possible with the minimum number of guns pointed at its citizens. There is no way you can give politicians, nor any human, the exclusive right to giant amounts of money and not expect them to be corrupted. If you didn’t earn the money and you aren’t responsible for keeping the productive enterprises working then you simply don’t care and will never understand. It’s always about stealing more money to feed the ever hungry Leviathan.

And believe me I am linked up with other productive people all dedicated to reducing the size and scope of the immoral and unsalvageable corrupt state.

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Post by atchoo »

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…

Ooh! This could be a glimmer of a passion for me. Can you recommend any beginner guides or tips to get started?

I've dabbled but get tied in knots overthinking the phrasing of a single sentence. I'd love to just get into a flow state.

I've tried some tools like Final Draft (yuck) and Scrivener (meh). However Fountain.io plugin for vscode felt fantastic. The restricted format of a screenplay was really helpful to me actually getting some plot and dialogue down. It's easy for me to think like a movie instead of a novel. The markdown syntax was delightful.

However I don't want to write a screenplay because that can't really go anywhere - can't self publish a movie lol. Does writing the first draft as a screenplay sound nuts?

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Post by drakonka »

dbetteridge wrote: post #434
MrVandemar wrote: post #390

Hello from Redmond, Western Australia. It's rural, close to the South Coast of WA. We live in a straw-bale house on a farm where we run a small number of cattle, horses and donkeys, and we grow a lot (but not yet all) of our own fruit and vegetables. We steward of 50ha area of pretty pristine Australian bush in a biodiversity hotspot, and we've replanted the roadside and house area and put in some windbreaks with nat…

Howdy fellow west aussie! 50ha is an amazing sized property and the south coast is an incredible part of the world. My wife and I have recently bought some land near Margaret River/Augusta region and are planning out how we can plant local species and invite as many native critters as possible to come by. Best of luck with your replanting and conservation projects.

I lived in Perth for 6 years but had only been to Margaret River once in all that time. The thing I remember most from that trip was the air. I remember getting out of the car on the side of a road for the first time after entering the region and there was something so different, fresh, and perfect about the air. I know what "fresh air" smells like and of course it's going to be different when you're in the city vs out in nature, but this was somehow different. I'm not sure if my memory just skewed and exaggerated the effect after all these years, but I distinctly remember thinking that the air in Margaret River was very distinct (in a wonderful way).

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Post by AnnaKelvin6 »

We need to stop being fooled by all these brokers and account managers, they scammed me over $100,000 of my investment capital, they kept on requesting for extra funds before a withdrawal request can be accepted and processed, in the end, I lost all my money. All efforts to reach out to their customer support desk had declined, I found it very hard to move on. I was researching and find a broadcast that teaches on how scammed victims can recover their funds, I contacted the email provided for consultation, bitcoinandfundsrecoveryexpert@gmail. com I got feedback after some minutes and I was asked to provide all legal details concerning my investment, I did exactly what they instructed me to do without delay, to my greatest surprise I was able to recover my money back including my profit which my capital generated. I said I will not hold this to myself but share it to the public so that all scammed victims can get their funds back.

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Post by Moissanite »

netjiro wrote: post #251
surfsvammel wrote: post #232

I usually tell people that I am passionate about technology. I don’t know if that is true anymore. Ever since the pandemic hit, something has changed. I used to be passionate about wave surfing. That was all that I could think of. Now, I have not been in the water since my first kid was born six years ago. I need to change that. I need to go surfing again. Oh. And hello from Sweden, by the way. I’m very much a real p…

potential bullshit warning [1]: Parents who take time for themselves and don't _just_ live for their kids tend to end up happier and with better relationships with their children as they grow up. [1] I don't have children of my own, so wtf do I know. But: My lifestyle, spending a lot of time practically living with my friends and their families, allows me to get a fairly deep insight into a large set of varied famili…

Also have no kids myself but can support this observation with N=2 anecdata.

Couple of friends who continued to live their lives - with the kids as additional features - have ended up with kind, intelligent, thoughtful little people.

Other couple who didn't have much adventurous spirit to begin with and sacrificed everything about themselves to do "parenting" have ended up with selfish, rude little shits.

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