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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by bee_rider »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

There are lots of ways to rewardingly expend your time without worrying about money. Volunteer. Do open source stuff. Get into dungeons and dragons. Have kids, or get into Warhammer 40k minis, if you want to go broke.

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Post by aydwi »

delegate wrote: post #646
dcz_self wrote: post #474

Too many ideas given the time, but now I'm focused on two: 1. Building an open source bicycle computer. It's been over 20 years since they arrived at the scene, and there still isn't one that you could hack! An outrage! No published sources yet, I'm getting stuck on not having much experience building physical things. 2. Getting rid of the directory hierarchy. I have 10K photos, 30K emails, 10000km of GPS tracks, and…

I've been working on 2. since January. All your photos, chats, e-mails, messages, health data (eventually all your data) into a single database, which can be distributed onto multiple removable 'volumes' (disks). Plug in the volume and the db index is seamlessly merged and queries run on all the connected volumes. No files. No cloud. Data on your disks only. There are processing nodes that run in the background index…

I can empathize with this to some extent. I realized that homebrew is too slow and bloaty for me, so I decided to write an alternative from scratch (also meant as a learning project).

Eventually got discouraged by the sheer amount of real-world workarounds and corner cases that need to be accomodated rather than some inexplicable technical hurdle. And broke up with my long-time girlfriend.

Now I have little desire to go back, and things just feel meh. I play basketball sometimes to keep my sanity.

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

CircaSurvive wrote: post #559
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tether is just one of many cryptocurrencies -wouldn‘t its implosion lead to people pulling out and investing their money in other crypto, hence consolidating the market and making every other coin rise?

Would you trade me a dollar for 12 cents? If it implodes who’s going to trade you the other coins for something of questionable value? Additionally, say you hold 50% tether and the rest in a mix of coins. Your portfolio would be cut in half. How does that result in other coins being purchased if people are uncertain of tethers true value and unwilling to trade for it. Then there’s the whole using tether as margin for…

God I hate "crypto". It's all a big fucking "get rich quick scam", all of it, without exception. Hopefully I will cash out at the right time (probably not).

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Post by hcmacro »

sigg3 wrote: post #548
philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

This is quite normal. Many who win big in the literal lotteries are worse off. I know reddit is all antiwork these days, but that's really mostly about rights and not not working. Being a productive member of society is meaningful. I'm from Scandinavia and a lot of our identity is tied up with our careers. Being without a job or any structural social purpose is asking for depression. GWF Hegel wrote about suffering f…

I think you're too easily taking for granted that having a job makes one a productive member of society.

Evergreen link: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...

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Post by neysofu »

colecut wrote: post #385

My son's mom died of cancer last February, and two days later they found tumors in my then girlfriend/now late fiancee. She passed away last month. I stopped working several months ago and have no immediate desire or need to go back to work. I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse to have so much free time to grieve. Enjoying the downtime with occasional spontaneous bursts of tears. Edit: thank everyone for the kind…

I'm so sorry. She looks so happy in this video.

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Post by chalcolithic »

dcz_self wrote: post #618
chalcolithic wrote: post #594

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Queries kind of suck when it comes hierarchy, do they? And you sure have some folder hierarchy, even if you're not happy about it?

I identify the hierarchy as the source of my problems. I don't need hierarchy, and when I use it, it's because that's the one tool I have. There's no hierarchy between time and place, and I shouldn't be forced to establish it. There might be some hierarchy between tags: PhD/laser experiment, PhD/dissertation, but there's rarely a need for it to be more than 1-2 levels deep, so I prefer to suffer the pains of inadequa…

I was mostly referring to the fact that filesystem kind of enforces hierarchy, so you have it even if you dislike it. When I'm sorting out the mess that is my hard drive I defenitely value information about hierarchy overlap (due to (incomplete) copies), but I still have not found a tool that would help me an I can't imagine a query language that would be helpful.

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Post by liptide »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

I feel you're on the right path, reading and learning are good ways of finding things you'd want to give your time to. (Although there is that feeling of aimlessly letting time pass in part of the Russian literature which might resonate with your own condemdrum - although it's liked to a very interesting political context) If you're lucky enough to set aside the "How am I going to get enough money to live the next X weeks/month/years?", it frees out that much time to answer the much more interresting questions : "What do I love enough to spend all this time time doing ?" "What would I like to understand and/or change about the world?" Volunteering to causes you discover you care about, be it open source projects or walking dogs for old people or anything in between can feel great!

Happy birthday

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Post by vesuvianvenus »

david927 wrote: post #5

Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.

Where is the user "dang"?

Dang deletes posts just for saying something simple like "yes" -- b/c apparently an upvote is supposed to serve that purpose.

but i suppose such rules are selectively enforced (and probably entails some bias, such as political view, etc.)

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Post by jack_pp »

y4mi wrote: post #631
TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #582

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Considering the number of depressed people who have jobs, this seems a very questionable view.

Most of these people are forced to work. I think for me personally a 4-6h workday on 4 days per week would be optimal. It's enjoyable to actually work together with a team on a product and provide a service which people want to use. Such part time jobs can be very fulfilling if money is not an issue.

Wouldn't there be resentment from the team because they work harder than you or just generally putting in more effort?

Open source might be the right avenue for this type of freedom. Work on something important like Matrix or something

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Post by lettergram »

foogazi wrote: post #458
jaggederest wrote: post #151

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Same but about 18 months out from purchase :) Want to have enough land to do some farming and forestry and hobbies that take up space, maybe be self-sufficient so far as that is possible. With Starlink being a thing, can work remotely in a truly remote location.

How much land do you need ?

Probably only need 5-10 acres for a decent mix of food and what not. You’ll need to optimize and you won’t be able to grow all your own, etc.

I bought >100 acres, 40 acres of fields for cattle, rest is woods. I have 1 year round creek and two year round springs on opposite sides of the property. It already has an small orchard, 50 ft pecan tree, and some black walnuts.

I plan on having 8-15 or so cattle, chickens and a big vegetable garden.

I’m doing it at a very large scale though.

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