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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by sovietswag »

november84 wrote: post #409
SwiftyBug wrote: post #260

Learning to use Vim! I've tried three times before in the past 10 years. This is the first time it actually clicked. It's the first time I've tried Neovim. It's awesome and I feel like I'm playing a game with myself while working. I thought it would take much longer to get to the speed I'm at now. I've been using Vim exclusively for a month.

Any resources you can share or did you jump into the docs?

(Not the person you asked) but it helps to realize that vim in "insert" mode is just like any other text editor you know, you can use your arrow keys and the delete button to edit your document. You will get annoyed pretty quickly navigating with arrow keys and no mouse cursor, so you might search up "how do I jump the end of this damned line!" (hint: it's the $ sign). As you edit documents you will get more and more annoyed and search up more shortcuts which you will be happy to incorporate into your life. This is what worked for me, anyways.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

philip1209 wrote: post #366
itake wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is glass causes higher levels of carbon emotions b/c it is heavier to transport [0]. If you are re-using the jars, then that would have a lower impact, but if you're buying jarred butter and jelly, you're making the problem worse. [0] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230427-glass-or-plastic...

Glass correlates with higher levels of carbon emissions, but doesn't cause it. At Silo, wine causes a lot of headaches. Their solution is to use wind-powered transport ships. Then, they turn the waste glass into tiles. So, the carbon footprint is low. If you can tolerate slow shipping, then the carbon footprint can be reduced. So, well-preserved food in glass (as opposed to, say, flowers in plastic) can have a lower…

    they turn the waste glass into tiles
This is delusional. Think about how much heat energy it takes to melt glass to make tiles. There is no way this has a low carbon footprint. I applaud the PR team at Silo for convincing their customer base of this fantasy. The lifetime carbon footprint (from manufacturing to "recycling" / disposal) is much lower for plastic compared to glass. And, I write this post as someone who tries to reduce my plastic footprint as much as possible.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

azemetre wrote: post #357
itake wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is glass causes higher levels of carbon emotions b/c it is heavier to transport [0]. If you are re-using the jars, then that would have a lower impact, but if you're buying jarred butter and jelly, you're making the problem worse. [0] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230427-glass-or-plastic...

I'd think the benefit of using glass, especially in the context of food and drink, would be lessening the amount of nano plastic your body digests. Besides it's not hard to tip the carbon emission in favor of glass if the externalities of plastic (and fuel) were appropriately priced and not massively subsidized.

About nano plastic: Are they any serious (respected), peer-reviewed scientific studies on the negative health effects of nano plastics? It is frequently mentioned by the "natural crowd" on HN, but I never see any scientific evidence shared.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Gabriel_Martin »

hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

Do please divulge, I'm at my heaviest, but have started jogging backwards to try to limit the damage as I get used to it again. What're your tips?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

philip1209 wrote: post #302
sotix wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been doing this for about 2 years now. Got a few glass mason jars that I fill up with items like rice and nuts from the bulk bin at the grocery store. Peanut butter and jelly both come in glass jars. I get just about everything else from a local farm share where the items are not packaged in anything. It’s nice not dealing with plastic with my food. I used to throw so much of it away. Now most of my food waste…

I do similar things. Just replacing plastic sandwich bags with reusable silicon ones has been a big win. Even at the farmer's market, I eliminated the last little plastic by bringing cotton vegetable bags. To be clear, I'm not puritanical about this. I still do takeout sometimes. And, I'm about to hop on some flights that will burn a ton of oil. (Ironically, one of those carbon-belching flights is to a dinner at Silo…

My god, this section is full of self-congratulatory, delusional posts. Hop on a flight to go to dinner at Silo? That single flight it probably worth more than a decade of reducing plastic sandwich bags.

    My cotton jeans, leather bag, and metal water bottle are all more expensive - but they are higher quality, have lasted for years, and can often be repaired.
You can probably buy jeans at Walmart for 10 USD. They will last for a decade.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by hyperific »

X4 Foundations

If you've never heard of it X4 is a space sandbox game with an emphasis on trade. I can't remember the last time I was this captivated by a game. It combines a lot of things I love - simulation, automation, optimization, statistics, space combat, slow but quantifiable progression.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #373

Studying the relation between just how volatile SPY 0-day-to-expiration options are in regards to the underlying. A 1% directional move in SPY can yield a 1600%+ in most cases if you can time it right in regards to direction + strike. I would never actually trade or anything like that. It's just fun to scrape data. Historical option chain data isn't really publicly free/available so I wrote a scraper + analytics on t…

FT has written extensively about the rise of zero day options on the S&P 500 index.

Example: https://www.ft.com/content/312e9b3c-a5e0-4eff-8b9a-8637696d2...

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by matthewmueller »

veqq wrote: post #466
matthewmueller wrote: post #386

Building out the web ecosystem for Go over at: https://github.com/livebud Go is a surprisingly pleasant language for building websites, especially for indie hackers, yet the tooling is not quite there. I'm trying to get the developer productivity for building websites in Go to be on par with building web applications in Node. With ESBuild and Goja maturing, we're pretty close. Go is still just missing a few important…

What about go tooling's missing in your mind? I've never found a language as prepared for it (node feels horrifying and dreadful in compariosn).

Mostly the frontend story. Server-rendered React pages that work with layouts and error pages. You can cobble something together, but it's not as seamless as Next.js or Remix.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by smileysteve »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #469
philip1209 wrote: post #251

Low-plastic living. I read a book by the world's first zero-waste restaurant, Silo. The book got me thinking about how different our lives would be if oil were expensive. "Pretend oil is really expensive" is a good proxy for doing things that are "eco-friendly." Since reading the book, I've tried to eliminate single-use plastic from most of my life. It's incredibly hard. Everything from my socks to my vegetable packa…

Everything from my socks Are you socks synthetic fiber? I am surprised they are not cotton. One way to think about plastic: Is there a reasonable alternative? For most plastic (food) wraps, the answer is (sadly): no. They are the best option to reduce food spoilage and only take a couple of grams of oil to make them. Plastic bottles for drinks? Most of them can be avoided by reducing your consumption, or reusing old…

Patagonia has a great article on plastics - wool socks on a polyester core create a drastically better and longer lasting sock than 99% cotton or wool.

https://www.patagonia.com/why-plastics/

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