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

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Post by atomashevic »

voidee wrote: post #573
blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

Good work! I stopped drinking two years ago. After year one of the pandemic, I came to the realization that alcohol brought zero positives and many negatives to my life. Being in lockdown with few options to go to pubs provided the space to make the break. My local friends are all moderate to heavy drinkers, but they also respect my choice and it’s not awkward to be the only one not drinking. If you don’t have a frie…

Congratulations and thanks for sharing! I'm on the verge of making the same step. Hopefully, I will have the same kind of respect from friends and coworkers.

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Post by exo-cortex »

graposaymaname wrote: post #610

At the moment, I'm trying out comics after reading non-fiction for a long time. I started with Watchmen, a supremely cinematic experience so far. I've not found such joy from reading a book in a long time.

I highly recommend french comics - or "bande dessinée / BD" as they are called there. I believe France has the biggest and most interesting culture when it comes to comics - so many different kinds of genres, art styles and forms are alive there. Reading "L'Incal" as a very young and slightly unattended child in a french bookstore put some really freakish images in my mind.

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

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Post by atomashevic »

graposaymaname wrote: post #610

At the moment, I'm trying out comics after reading non-fiction for a long time. I started with Watchmen, a supremely cinematic experience so far. I've not found such joy from reading a book in a long time.

Great, give "Doomsday Clock" limited series a chance after you finish with Watchmen, it's an interesting crossover with mainstream DC Universe.

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Post by ShredKazoo »

oars wrote: post #604
ShredKazoo wrote: post #534

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what a field guide to the old internet would look like. Here are some things I might include if I was writing such a guide: All-time top stories on reddit in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://reddit.com... reddit was originally a bit of a niche site for a tech audience, kinda like Hacker News. However, techies used over-represented on the internet anyways. "The internet used to be a lot…

Wow, thank you for sharing this. Reddit was indeed just like HN. https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://reddit.com...

The top submission actually ends up being a surprisingly good guide to what was going on with the internet circa 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20060313005123/http://www.paulgr...

An interesting point is that the non-techies who initially used the internet socially were mostly teens and young adults on sites like MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, etc. (and IM services like AIM -- essentially like Google Chat) If you want to see what MySpace was, I suppose tagged.com is the nearest modern equivalent?

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

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Post by nunez »

Thanks for asking! I love this place.

You made me think "what the fuck am I passionate about?" Turns out, I'm passionate about lots of things!

At the moment, I am passionate about

- lawn care

- making a clean cup of coffee in my French Press and AeroPress

- this thing I'm writing that will allow me to set my status for multiple online platforms in one place. I wish I had more time for this :(

- I'm also very fortunate to be writing software for my employer that I really want to ship, so that's been living rent-free inside my head for a while.

- Also passionate about learning more about sales!

I used to be more passionate about cycling but work consuming more of my time and moving to a city that is a literal opposite of being bike friendly did me in. I also bought a new bike over ten years ago that never fit properly, so doing long rides in it would create rashes and hurt my lower back.

That said, I want to buy me a really nice and really properly fitting bike so I can get back on the saddle and accumulate those miles. We're also moving to a more bike-friendly part of town, which I'm looking forward to. I'm thinking of getting an S-Works carbon everything with nice wheels. Expensive, but I can finally afford this.

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Post by nunez »

blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

Congratulations to you. Sounds like a very difficult journey.

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

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Post by stzsch »

Great thread OP. I'd say there are three main things on my mind lately:

First is trying to move from my third world country, which is pretty involved. There's a lot to prepare financially, culturally, and you basically have to have a job arranged to pull it off. Reading this on HN, you would think about getting a job as a software engineer and then just moving, but as an electronics/firmware engineer, it is hard to both get a remote job and also make that little career jump.

Second is thinking about connecting more with people online, I recently realized I've been on the internet for over 10 years and I haven't really made any friends. I'd say I'm much fonder of the older forum style communities than the more fleeting and instant chat based ones of today, but even when they were the norm I didn't really make friends either, so there's something about my approach that needs work for sure.

A third one is stable diffusion and other current AI developments. I didn't really pay AI much thought, but since stable diffusion came out I've been pretty obsessively watching it as it develops. I even bought a new GPU just to try it out (currently waiting for it to arrive). I find drawing fascinating despite never nurturing my skills very well, so being able to "draw" properly, even if just by conducting a big black box of matrix computation instead of my hands, feels pretty great.

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Post by Mark_Ko »

The only thing I ever wanted since I was 7 is to have friends, go on adventures and battle dragons. That's it.

So 20+ years later me and my friend I met at college are building two houses next to each other (friendship), we are both immigrants who started at the bottom (adventure), and we try to do some side small project to help people investing (dragon).

Our classes are unfortunately both tanks. We can work a lot, but produce little damage.

We also both have healers in our team (girlfriends/wives), who provide additional support.

We are broke as any other mercenary, but we try our best to find that good loot.

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

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Post by hpagey »

dev_throw wrote: post #68

I love niche forums like HN because it satisfies my itch for mind expanding content. The closest I got to that was OG StumbleUpon, if you know, you know. I'm unfortunately not passionate about much nowadays; in treatment for stage 4 cancer, so I'm fairly exhausted all the time. I'm glad I can still maintain my cognitive abilities during chemo so I can still do my job.

I completely understand what you are going through . I am in similar spot not cancer but chronic genetic condition that’s destroying my organ . The exhaustion is real .
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