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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by cedws »

pipes wrote: post #601

Not drinking. I only drank at weekends. But pretty much every weekend for 25 + years, this is totally normal from where I'm from. I read the book alcohol explained https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alcohol-Explained-William-Porter-eb... Listened to the Huberman podcast about alcohol. And realised I don't want to drink anymore. It's really strange, I used to struggle having a single weekend with no booze. Now I actively just d…

Cutting a vice out of your life is always a good thing, so well done.

But I am curious: why not just moderate your drinking? The dose makes the poison. Yes, it is true that alcohol is bad for you, but so are many things. If you limit yourself, you can enjoy it on occasion without doing too much harm.

I personally don't see utility in having a hardline approach to alcohol. You only live once. If you want to crack open a bottle at Christmas, why not?

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Post by sanderjd »

bostonwalker wrote: post #370

Parenting. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to prepare my kid to grow up around the internet, smartphones, and AI. Our technology often takes an indifferent or even cynical view of children, and I can’t understand why there aren’t better tools available (e.g. smartphone designs) that put their developmental needs ahead of the need to exploit them for immediate profit.

How old are your kids? My eldest is 5, and this is starting to be more and more top of mind. I felt like earlier on that it wasn't worth thinking much about it because it was too hard to predict what the issues would be as they became relevant to her. I think this turned out to be right, because if I'd thought about this a bunch a few years ago, I wouldn't have included generative AI in my thinking at all.

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Post by _jcrossley »

coldpie wrote: post #36

Guitar, and as a subset of that, music theory and composition. It started as a something to get me through the first pandemic winter in Minnesota in 2020, never having held a guitar before, and it turned out to be something I've been completely obsessed with for more than three years now. I have played guitar literally almost every day since I started. I play for about a half hour every day before I head out to catch…

Hey, a fellow classical guitarist!! Love that York piece and Lee’s Autumn Leaves

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by LispSporks22 »

Motorcycling. Didn’t expect to love it so much getting into it later in life.

Love the speed, the acceleration, braking, leaning, the sound and the smell of it and getting over that second-guessed fear of death every time I get the bike out.

Also love the dynamics, physics, maths of it and the skill and absolute attention it takes to control.

Actually my job is just a means to support my motorcycle addiction now.

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Post by ianox »

pipes wrote: post #601

Not drinking. I only drank at weekends. But pretty much every weekend for 25 + years, this is totally normal from where I'm from. I read the book alcohol explained https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alcohol-Explained-William-Porter-eb... Listened to the Huberman podcast about alcohol. And realised I don't want to drink anymore. It's really strange, I used to struggle having a single weekend with no booze. Now I actively just d…

That Huberman Lab episode had a similar effect on me. I've barely touched alcohol since.

Link for anyone who is interested: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/what-alcohol-does-to-you...

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Post by _DeadFred_ »

vivekd wrote: post #354

This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn't that. What caught my attention about her is that she has a sense of purpose. She has a purpose in life and has devoted her life to it. I used to have one. My goal was to make the l…

Hey I fell into this, only I tried to improve the health care industry and it fell apart over a decade ago. My tip, be a good person, don't let other people change you. Bring kindness to the world. You aren't god, you're vivekd, which is actually much harder to be. You aren't all powerful, yet your mind can comprehend so much beyond your reach. Read some Sun Tzu, only fight the battles (including those in your head) that are winnable (I.E. the outcome is worthy of the energy). Be a good person. Stand up for others. Give up political dogma, emotional mastrubation, and just be human. My grandfather spent his whole live advocating for better mental health care in a midwest state. Just hitting a brick wall. But he was content, he did what he could do, and what he felt he must.

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Post by FFP999 »

xeonax wrote: post #385
FFP999 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember this: if you finish a game at all, you are well ahead of the crowd. Best of luck.

It's already published on multiple platforms, as well as available as EA on steam. But not finished yet. Doing incremental updates as per player feedback.

Nice

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Post by skoocda »

nathants wrote: post #243

playing high performance multiplayer games. building high performance multiplayer games. exercising. hanging out in the backyard.

Any specific favorites? Or technical achievements that are worth calling out?

I feel like battlebit is laudable for getting 254 players in sync at a 60 tick rate

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Post by mikewarot »

vaylian wrote: post #534
mikewarot wrote: post #530

I push capability based security relentlessly, because I see its absence as the root cause of a bunch of waste, and the cause of the loss of the war on general purpose computing. The world could be so much better if we could trust our computers. I'm scratching an itch, hoping to get a chip made to implement the biggest waste of transistors ever, per George Gilder's call. (A cartesian grid of LUTs, clocked as to avoid…

That sounds interesting. If you want to share more about the project: Is there some writeup about it?

Here's my old blog on the subject

https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/

Here's my github repository where I have an emulator written in Pascal

https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

Here's a writeup on the idea, from a computing language perspective, on the esoteric languages wiki

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

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Post by uncrushed »

kbf wrote: post #59

Mental health. I recently passed out in public and had to finally admit to myself that I’m severely burnt out. I had ignored the signs and mentally written off the concept of burnout as a bit of a wishy-washy mostly “emotional” concept and not as the very real psychological AND physiological condition that doesn’t just go away if you get a good nights sleep and a day off. It was emotional to actually read up on it an…

I feel so seen. And the first time I created an account here to respond to a message after lurking for many years. I am off work due to burnout after having recently understood that was what I was experiencing.

People are talking about therapy and while I’m in therapy I find that it could benefit from someone who actually understands working in Tech/SaaS. Wonder if others here have felt this while talking to therapists and what they’ve done about it.

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