I started climbing and bouldering a few weeks ago. I'm doing a top rope climbing course and will maybe follow it up with lead climbing. Having been running for several years now it's really fun doing something completely different. Every weekend now I drive to a different climbing gym to mingle with the weekend crowd and tryharding on easy routes.
Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
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#72There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…
One of my favorite things about Deathloop was kicking unsuspecting NPCs off of cliffs and roofs. I've played a lot of that game and that hasn't gotten old yet.
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#73Memorization techniques, basically what's in _Moonwalking with Einstein_ by Josh Foer. Here's a podcast on the topic https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_how_to_re...
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#74I’ve never been a car guy, but somehow came across a kit car that I think is so gorgeous I have to build it. But I have few mechanical skills. I took a (tig) welding class at the local community college and have signed up for an intro to auto mechanics class for the coming semester, with plans to take more after that. I built a nice work bench in the garage and am getting it cleaned up. Suddenly tools are interesting and exciting to me. Would never have predicted this :) I figure it will take two years to gain skills, and five years to actually build. We’ll see if the passion/lust for that car endures long enough to get there.
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#75Learning about Information Theory. It’s pushing me out of my comfort zone. For example, leading me to improve my math skills in order to understand some of the concepts and notations that are used in research papers. Also gives me some context into learning C, a language which I consider low-level as a web developer, and it’s been fun to have to think about things like memory management, along with other things I don…
What sources for learning do you use?
Here's a few
- Book called Compact Data Structures by Gonzalo Navarro https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/compact-data-structures...
- Ben Langmead's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@BenLangmead
- MIT Open Courseware https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-02-introduction-to-eecs-ii-dig...
- Stanford lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv_7iO_xlL0Kz2nU05COp...
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#76Currently have some free time between jobs to explore what actually makes me passionate, so threads like this are really useful to get inspired!
Been starting various projects to quickly figure out what I like and don’t like. Realized that I miss working on highly technical projects after working on consumer apps for a couple of years. So as a result been revamping my resume and planning my next steps in my software engineering career. There are some really cool companies out there in the space of databases and distributed systems.
As part of scouting for jobs built some little tools with help of LLMs to tailor my resume to job positions.
Also, rediscovered that I enjoy solving little algorithm problems after practicing with LeetCode. ChatGPT makes as if I have my own tutor to explain and hint when necessary, reminded me of university and study groups.
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#77The political thought of Louis Brandeis and George Kennan. These two men are very different, but between them they seem to have comprehended and sometimes even developed solutions to nearly all the large issues facing our country and world today.
That and cellular communication. The g-protein coupled receptor[0] is basically an all-purpose biological switch. Combined with other messaging pathways it is used to build complex logic into cell message/response networks.
[0] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/gpcr-14047471/
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#78Games. I've been forcing myself into productivity for too long because that is the thing to do. I recently built a gaming pc, picked some jrpgs, and I'm having a blast. There are entire franchises and worlds for the exploring. There are amazing rich stories and history and beautiful soundtracks that I'm living through right now. My wishlist grows by the day as I discover new tales.
What are your favorite RPGs at the moment? New or old? I feel like RPGs have been holding strong since the Super Nintendo and there so many hours of incredible gameplay to be had.
I know it's got a lot of hype at the moment, but Baldur's Gate 3 really is something special. I never played the first 2 games, but I have played D&D regularly for some 16 years now and it's one of the best narrative adventures I've ever had.
I'm planning on going back and playing the Divinity: Original Sin games that Larian made before it. I hear they're fantastic as well.
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#79I started skateboarding two years ago in my backyard and this year I started skating at my local skatepark. I'm all padded up for safety and even use hip pads. It's a very fun and cheap hobby. Seeing a lot of progression so it's very fun.
Hey! I’ve been skating for a few years myself! Have fun keeping at it!
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#80Building lo-fi synthesizers with Teensy or Arduino. They are becoming more like interactive sculptures than instruments now. The sound is important, but the visual aesthetic is just as interesting to me.