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I once took a stab at Ladybird browser but had to back out due to the complexity of its build chain. I couldn’t get it run on Xcode/CLion on macOS but would love to give it a try once again.
Does anyone have any tips on getting started again?
There's 2 big ones that I want to learn. Quantum computer programming. I've dived a couple times into Qiskit from IBM. Also tried to get into dwave and ocean sdk but they never got back to me. Qiskit tutorials are easy to blow through and i think even understand. But when trying to use it for my own purposes, just never get anywhere. The other one for me with no success. Training my own specialized predicting AI mode…
Are you trying it for anything in particular?
(I'm only getting started in it now in my Master's programme)
digital signal processing for synths and audio stuff. maths :/ brain hurt. i did some digital signal processing in my phd but i need to go through and implement a bunch of things from scratch to learn/relearn and it’ll just be a bit of a grind. i’m avoiding doing that by working on data file parsing / project management utils for the elektron octatrack instead, which is useful, but tangential to what i want to do. lo…
I've heard The Audio Programmer discord is a great resource for this sort of thing. Worth checking out: https://www.theaudioprogrammer.com/
i just have a mental block similar to the one i had with rust. avoided learning it for a long while until i made a decision to finally to do it.
i just keep avoiding making the same decision here for some reason. not sure why. probably the old “it’s going to be really hard” thing i had with rust (which turned out to be rubbish, it just took time and repeating stuff over and over and learning from mistakes over and over).
Making electronic music. Any recommendations for where to start?
Back when I was more active with electronic music I would do an entire album worth of tracks with each new synth I got, software or hardware, good way to learn a synth.
Making enough money to retire
Any realistic strategies that you have considered in order to try achieving that? Genuine question.
If crypto keeps going up there's a chance my 3k investment in it eclipses my 40yr 401k so I'm hoping for that....
digital signal processing for synths and audio stuff. maths :/ brain hurt. i did some digital signal processing in my phd but i need to go through and implement a bunch of things from scratch to learn/relearn and it’ll just be a bit of a grind. i’m avoiding doing that by working on data file parsing / project management utils for the elektron octatrack instead, which is useful, but tangential to what i want to do. lo…
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Any realistic strategies that you have considered in order to try achieving that? Genuine question.
Genuine answer: I buy a lotto ticket like once a week. ~100 bucks/yr seems like a decent risk/reward tradeoff once over a certain tier of income.
Why I'm not doing it: I'm not sure it would be accepted. I took a lot of lumps for trying to use Hashcash in email, and I'm not sure I want to go through that again, but it does have value. Embedding proof-of-work puzzles in a protocol is a great way to limit abusive requests and patterns. SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS are easy to modify and probably could be done via a proxy. I'm not sure how easy it is to change the SSH protocol, but that would be useful as well.
2) Low-income living space electrification.
I tested this idea out on a friend who works for a Housing Authority, and their eyes lit up. However, they warned me that it would take a few years for everyone to sign off on it.
The original idea was to provide a kit, a bag of parts, that an affordable housing authority could use to improve living quarters and housing for low-income people, and eliminate/reduce the use of gas.
a) Replacing gas stoves with a set of three induction plates. The significant challenges are filling the void created by the original stove, ensuring sufficient power to operate the induction plates, and addressing how to handle the absence of an oven.
b) Filling the hole is easy. This is something a halfway decent carpenter could do, or we could provide an adjustable-size box that fits in such a space, not quite an IKEA flat-pack but roughly similar.
c) Power is a little more difficult. One company is solving this problem by putting in a battery to handle the load. This is possible, but the baseline cost would now be approximately $2,000, just for the parts.
d) window mount heat pump. New York City has funded in-window heat pumps as part of a design project. The problem is they run around $4,000 to $6,000, but an ordinary handyman could install them.
3) Recycling car batteries from crashed vehicles into home power banks.
This project is a bit of a stretch for me. I know people are doing this, but not in the States as far as I can tell. The off-grid solar community has a variety of inverters and solar chargers that may be suitable for this kind of situation, but I don't have enough knowledge.
4) Ad hoc virtual power plants
Many people have rooftop solar. The grid gets overfull on bright sunny days. People who can't have solar often have space for batteries. Work out the instrumentation and accounting so that solar producers can charge batteries, and everybody gets compensated when the grid demands the battery's power.
It seems to me that this would be a great application of distributed system concepts, providing a win for the local community and grid resiliency.
I need a second life to make progress on these ideas
I want to make my own music streaming app. Fix all the UI problems, improve discovery, remember all the musical phases I went through. Unfortunately, you can't just sign up for API access to millions of songs. And the streaming apps either don't provide a playback API, or their TOS limits what you can do with it.