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

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Post by eslaught »

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 some very formative times. The community was a bit more "prickly" than we're used to with Rust and some of our modern open source projects, but they were committed to technical excellence, and the fact that a random kid could show up and be in conversation with these people at so clearly far above my own level was (and still is!) nothing short of astonishing.

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

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Post by tomcam »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #31

I converted my mountain bike to an ebike and I’m having a blast with it! I just moved to Oakland and there’s pretty good bike infrastructure here, so I can use the bike for transportation even for relatively large distances. I’ve been using it to get groceries, run to the bike shop, and see friends. For the nerds, I added a Bafang BBSHD mid drive motor and EM3EV 52v 20.5AH pack to my Norco Fluid HT bike. I added a re…

Damn, robots one day, electric bikes the next. You are enviably handy. And TIL about full face downhill mountain biking helmets.

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

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Post by iopq »

Hello,

I am posting this from NixOS. I am so passionate about it I became a NixOS maintainer, working on packages that bypass Internet censorship so they are available from nixpkgs.

The killer features for me are rollbacks, insulated packages, declarative configuration. I will most likely never worry about breaking my system and being greeted with a black screen with a blinking cursor again.

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

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Post by systemicdanna »

seibelj wrote: post #27
weakfish wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would _love_ any semblance of evidence that the current order is in any form socialist

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…

So... are there any countries in the world that are not socialist by your definition? Maybe China? It has, perhaps, lower taxes and better public schools.
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