I recently bought myself a copy of Ashley's Book of Knots, and been teaching myself... well... knotting. In my ignorance, I used to see knowledge of knots as this complex, hard to learn thing, but one thing I've been learning is that the more common, practical, knots tend to be fairly easy to tie. There's just different knots for different purposes. The decorative ones can get very complex, though.
Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#712Earlier quoted context omitted.
> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep…
I feel that broad overgeneralizations like this are often just self-revelation. This reads like you find people besides your wife attractive, but rather than recognizing this as normal and healthy, you vilify and repress it. But you see (part of) the responsibility for avoiding your thoughts with others, and expect of them to act according to your needs and wants. The thought of people of the other gender using a toi…
Thanks for the considerate reply.
I have learned for myself that God exists, that he cares, this life is not the beginning or the end, that our choices matter, and that the commandments he gives us (like the 10 commandments, as an example) are to help us get through this life and prepare to receive the blessings he has promised based on our choices.
I have written more of why I know this, at my web site (in profile).
All the best to you.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#713Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel that broad overgeneralizations like this are often just self-revelation. This reads like you find people besides your wife attractive, but rather than recognizing this as normal and healthy, you vilify and repress it. But you see (part of) the responsibility for avoiding your thoughts with others, and expect of them to act according to your needs and wants. The thought of people of the other gender using a toi…
> I feel that broad overgeneralizations like this are often just self-revelation. That's how I feel about "I know it when I see it". It's the kinks of the proverbial seer.
I tried to explain a bit more in a related comment, FWIW.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#714Earlier quoted context omitted.
> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep…
Fine. I do not share your views and I will not cater to them.
I tried to explain a bit more in a related comment, FWIW.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#715Sound localizing. I was intensely passionate about it when I saw the possibility to do it well on a Raspberry Pi. There were quite a few more problems than so expected which is why it took five months (of weekends) to complete it well.
But I’m super happy with the result and have a bunch of geeks with recording nodes setup a long distance apart. Localizing large explosions show that it’s possible to localize to a carpets even when some of the nodes are almost 5 away.
For those interested, here is the project:
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#716Sound localizing. I was intensely passionate about it when I saw the possibility to do it well on a Raspberry Pi. There were quite a few more problems than so expected which is why it took five months (of weekends) to complete it well. But I’m super happy with the result and have a bunch of geeks with recording nodes setup a long distance apart. Localizing large explosions show that it’s possible to localize to a car…
Localize to car parks that was supposed to say.
One node almost 5km away. Another more than 2km. One more than 3km. But they all converge nicely to a small area.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
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This is a complicated question. First of all, your statement is absolutely accurate. The weights involved can cause injury and can possibly be dangerous or even fatal when not handled correctly. On the other hand, exactly what is meant by "injury" can vary widely, so we have to be precise in our language. Acute, serious injuries typically come about due to poor form, carelessness, failure to use safety mechanisms, or…
I have been into powerlifting since the 90s. I think it is a convenient myth that form prevents injury. "Form" is just something that everyone thinks they do well and everyone else does poorly. It is ultimately a trade off. I don't know any long term powerlifter who doesn't have a ton of injury. Ultimately, it isn't a good idea to load your spine with 400lbs+ over long periods of time. There is no mystery what is goi…
Just a couple of weeks ago I saw a video of a guy who got internally decapitated by the barbell during a high bar squat because he leaned forward and came up onto his toes rather than sitting back.
That's a freak accident, and it's certainly turned out that stuff like deadlift hyperextension is not nearly as dangerous as originally thought, but "form" also means "keeping the bar path under control and in a safe range".
Just because most people have figured that out before they graduate to handling potentially dangerous weights doesn't mean it's not still a critical piece of the safety equation.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#718Tabletop Role-playing Games (ttrpg), specifically being the Game Master (gm). I'm actually pretty new to ttrpgs was always more of a card and board gamer. I have a friend who recently Kickstarted a diceless system he designed. I helped with some proofreading and it seemed really interesting. He invited me to do an Actual Play and I was hooked. Decided to dive into the deep end and immediately started gm'ing.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#719Quit my job earlier this year to start an indie game studio and a little bit of contributions to misc open-source projects. A fair balance of relax time but also enjoying the time off. There is so much I want to do and get excited for, but I still suffer a lot of procrastination related problems or else I feel like I could have done a tremendous amount more. I feel like there is lifetimes of things I get excited abou…
I'm also trying to find some free time to contribute to some open source projects. It's not hassling but I just want to give back to the community—who gave me the career and many awesome tools already.
Getting into contributing is not easy, I have to admit. It's like you're having a second job and no one has the dedicated resources to help you understand the internal architecture. All you can do is submitting the bugs, questions, pull requests and hope for the best.
Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
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Mental health for me as well. That's the point of https://rationaldino.substack.com/ and this pseudonymous account. Separately I have other children who were impacted by COVID and lockdowns and are part of https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g... . That's also been hard. All of this is made more complicated by the fact that I regard psychology as having a lot of pseudoscience in it. Feynman was…
For anyone dealing with mental health things, see https://www.therapistaid.com/ You can work through most of the worksheets online for free, and it helped me understand mental health better than I ever had. I think they charge $9 per month to download PDFs of the worksheets, which is cheaper than therapy with a professional confuser. I am not affiliated with them, and I do not make money off them. I am a former custo…
Thank you for the recommend. Given where I now am, I don't believe that I need this. But it is a resource I will likely forward to others.