Just coding for fun on whatever I want to. 25 years in the biz, lot's of enterprise work that many times was not fun. Having a blast currently with Django/Python. Also poking around with Go and Flutter/Dart.
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So sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Best of luck on your battle, I hope the chemo is having the desired effect. My mom recently finished her chemo rounds. Took a real toll on her. Hang in there! You got this!
I hope your mom recovers well. I'm on chemo indefinitely so its a matter of finding a cure before chemo stops working for me. I'm only in my thirties so it might just happen!
You are young which is definitely on your side. Stay strong and wishing the best for you.
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#653Amazing idea :)
I've been learning and playing with Common Lisp. I've been involved in Java for more than a decade and wanted to try something new. I wanted to try something outside of OOP and more functional. I went from Scala -> Clojure -> Common Lisp. I've also switched to Emacs for almost all of my common tasks. That hurt as a long time Vim user :) but I'm enjoying it so far
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#654I've spent the past two months getting ready for holiday craft shows/shopping events. By getting ready, I mean making and finishing quilts and table runners. Much time has been spent hand quilting a lot of runners and I have had time to think about the parts of the process I enjoy the most and least and what I could be doing to challenge myself, identifying how to be better, etc.
In my prior life--I was a public policy wonk and advocate/lobbyist--I had folks around who challenged and taught me. With quilting, not so much. It's been an interesting couple of years getting beyond "Let's sew and open and Etsy shop". . . It really has been in the past few months that my view has changed quite dramatically.
I'm not a joiner, so not really interested in joining a quilt guild, but have found some folks who, in time, I hope can help me be better and do better creatively.
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#655Sometimes, I think about what I really want. What I want most in the universe, for myself. There's plenty I want for everyone else. I seldom let myself think about what would be good for me lately. Sometimes, like tonight, I do know what I want for myself. It's impossible, but it's my greatest desire for my life. I want to be "uplifted". I want my brain capacity to be expanded by orders of magnitude. I want to unders…
Might want to check out the idea of the Faustian culture by Oswald Spengler
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#656Oooh, a chance to promote my passion work! I’m in the process of producing my second album. It’s a full-length concept album in the spirit of the 70s music I grew up listening to. I have 2 singles out now that 2 or 3 actual people listen to occasionally, I think. I’ve been spamming social media trying to find 2 or 3 more people on the planet that might enjoy it. Social media is an insane place. All the major sites ar…
Tried to find your albums, but there’s nothing on your profile or comments. Do you have anything online we could listen to? I’m curious about the type of music you’re doing.. All the best!
The name of the band is Fields and Waves… which is also the name of the class that convinced me to bail on physics and to stick with software engineering. :)
Edit: My profile has the band website now.
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#657Great post! I’m currently getting into Blender, starting with the famous Blender Guru Donut tutorial. I’m absolutely amazed by how capable and expansive the entire application is for being completely free and open-source software. My PC isn’t exactly the most capable (at least for now) but seeing how 3D models are created, even simple ones, is really illuminating and not to mention super fun!
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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.
Developed countries were created over centuries. They have a giant amount of legacy cruft and baggage that may have made sense in an older world but no longer does. They have no reason nor incentive to reform themselves and its workers are mindless drones that never think if their work has any value because the institution lacks the market test. China is an authoritarian godless dictatorship that will put a bullet in…
The existence of overwhelmed workers who don't have any energy (or desire) to think outside of their daily routine is a shared characteristic of all economic regimes in sufficiently large countries. It's not due to "socialism in the US" or capitalism somewhere else. Lowering taxes or improving public school system won't solve that completely. And, just to note, Catholicism doesn't encourage freethinking either.
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#659Hello 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…
This sounds amazing. I'd be interested to hear more details about what "stewarding 50ha of Australian bush" entails. Do you work with a local conservation organization, and do you have any particular goals for restoration or management? Do you work on documenting the biodiveristy there? Is it home to any endemic or threatened species you're espeially interested in? Any photos you could share?
We don't work with a conservation organisation; we don't have any funding; we do it all off our own backs.
With my limited time, I document the biodiversity of our block here:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&use...
My wife throws up our photos on Flickr, which includes a great many of our efforts at sustainable farming and replanting, an album documenting our house-build, as well as our hiking, and far, far too many of our dog.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/redmoonsanctuary/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/redmoonsanctuary/albums/with/7...
I think we have one or two species that are, on some level, endangered.
Our favourite species on our block is a type of orchid: https://www.flickr.com/photos/redmoonsanctuary/31446320265/i...
It's basically a sex-doll for wasps. The female wasps can't fly, they live on the ground and climb up to the top of a stalk of grass, and the male, attracted by pheromones, would swoop in and carry her off. This orchid presents a rough approximation of the shape, and a convincing approximation of the pheromones that the male wasps are confused and try to fly off with it, catapaulting them into the pollen resevoir. If they get tricked twice: viola! Pollen exchange.
Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
#660Hello 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…
I wrote a comment the other day about how global warming might not be that bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33483424 I know some people will be upset because they think saying that might mean we don't get emissions under control. I don't think people here on HN have much control over emissions, but in any case I encourage you to get emissions under control to the extent you can!
Thank you for your thoughts.
Everyone can affect their emissions to some extent.
* Don't have children is a big one, or limit the number you have. One child is equivalent to 24 people people not driving, someone quoted to me the other day. It's not a popular idea though.
* Drive a small car not a big car. Drive about 90kph, it's more fuel efficient than driving faster.
* Buy local - It might be more expensive in money, but milk shipped 4,000 kilometers is more expensive in emissions than milk from a supplier in your region.
And so on ...