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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by bishes »

THENATHE wrote: post #333

My father passed away about 3 weeks ago, and the current thing that I am passionate about is setting myself up to be and stay doing things that would make him proud and honor his memory When I say I was close with my dad, that doesnt even scratch the surface. Im 24, and I can think of maybe three weeks worth of days across my entire life where I didnt talk to him (and most of those were solo camping without cell serv…

I also lost my father in 2021, and my life hasn't been the same. I have to deal with a ton of more responsibilities while taking care of my mother and brother. I was also very close to him, and we went on trips whenever we were free and shared similar interests in photography and cycling. I've been doing my best to live upto his expectations, and hope you'll be able to do so too. Best of luck friend.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by kerryoco »

vbezhenar wrote: post #22

Hello from Astana, Kazakhstan. I just spent wonderful night playing World of Warcraft, coding some lua addon for it and tinkering with VPS. It's Sunday's morning and I'm going to prepare more coffee. Now I need to endure till the evening so I can actually attend work at Monday with proper schedule. At work I'm working on creating an ECG device which hopefully will be useful and cheap for local hospitals. And some oth…

What kind of addon you making? WoW addons were what got me started coding ~10 years ago, after several false starts and burnouts in the quicksand of Dreamweaver and the like.

All hail Pylus the creator of GHI, and his custom scripting environment :)

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by erlich »

cultofmetatron wrote: post #496
erlich wrote: post #298

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And coffee.

yea.. I don't drink alcohol. I am not specifically avoiding it.I just find it boring as far as drugs go. People regard me as an alien when they find out s I'll usually have a drink just to go along but I'll never drink it on my own. Coffee on the other hand. coffee is life. coffee is purpose. all hail the elixir of the dark lord! in all seriousness though, I drink like a whole pot just to take up in the mornings. bla…

I think a problem with not drinking is people think 1. you are no fun 2. you have a problem. So sometimes I find I will even have a drink because I don't want people to speculate on me having a problem.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by _jcrossley »

motohagiography wrote: post #673
_jcrossley wrote: post #663

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So happy to hear you’re giving CG a shot as well! That attitude and image of “Campfire Bach” is excellent, are you practicing BWV 999 Prelude in Dm yet? That was my first intro to Bach - such a wonderful tune, and a little easier than other Bach pieces for guitar. I’ve heard really great things about Mearns’ arrangement of the Chaconne (which I’m tackling now, against my better judgment). I gave it a very brief read…

BWV 999 was my first, it's such a pleasure, then 846 (wtc 1), and this year's project was 1007 and have it down as well, but after hearing Mearns' version with a whole bunch of the implied counterpoint filled in, it's almost embarrassing to play the original now. I'm thinking my next project is his bwv 847, and I have been warming up to it by slightly rearranging bwv 846 by adding an alberti bass note via a sort of t…

Excellent!! I'll have to look into that Mearns arrangement of BWV 1007. I worked on that one for my RCM 8 exam - shameless plug, but a "final" recording from this time period is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTm_J8p9eU It's far from perfect, but I'm proud of where I got it

Would love to connect over YT / Twitch / whatever and follow your journey! Happy trails to you too

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by IvanR3D »

I am passionate about creating apps & content around Otto DIY robots!

As a EdTech teacher and educational experiences creator I am always trying to find new ways to engage students and other teachers with tech learning… and these epic & cute robots have mean a great source of inspiration!

I am currently developing some software tools to interact with robots based on Arduino and ESP boards. And never lost the opportunity to make some nice photos and/or videos of these robots doing something nice to show on social media. :)

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by mckirk »

zuric wrote: post #176

Great post! So great that this will be the first time I post a comment here on HN. I’m from Sweden and I’m passionate about two things currently. The first thing is that me, my wife, my mother and my father is building a house from scratch to me and my wife. I’ve never built anything before so a lot of what free time I have goes towards reading up on how to do it. We started building 1,5 years ago and started taking…

I know I'm a bit late in answering now, but just wanted to let you know, I'm honored my post managed to tempt you out of lurkdom :D

Also, building a house with your own hands sounds pretty awesome, I think there's a reason these 'do stuff the old-fashioned way' videos on YouTube have such a following (there are these pretty famous videos about a project similar to yours[1], if you haven't seen them). And good luck with the project!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBX5qh09OIE

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by mckirk »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #514
marceloabsousa wrote: post #486

Thank you for this post. It’s nice to see that it wasn’t buried. From the times of IRC, I do miss the feelings of the early times of the internet. I’ve the privilege to invest a lot of time thinking about what I should be doing my life professionally. In the end, the best I could think of was to be an enabler for others - which for me meant ‘to give them time’. I realised that I also needed to use my expertise to try…

>In my early days of using the internet it was much easier to make meaningful connections. That's what I recall as well. I wonder what happened. One story is something like: high-profile hostile interactions drive engagement, and are actually good for the bottom line of e.g. social media websites. But they also have the effect of modeling bad behavior, reducing "internet social trust" and "internet social capital". I…

> That's what I recall as well. I wonder what happened.

I think the biggest factor is a kind of 'paradox of choice' effect, where any online community feels less worthwhile just because there is such a huge variety to choose from. If I look at my Discord now, I'm part of a few dozen servers now, which all at some point seemed interesting. But that interest was fleeting, because... well, how important can they be, if there are a few dozen of them in my list, without me even looking very hard?

So I think on the one hand, it's fine to be a bit nostalgic for an old internet that simply won't exist in that way again. But on the other hand, it's probably also a matter of personal choice and a willingness to engage with the small communities that still exist, which could probably revive some of that old feeling of connectedness.

I think I was pretty lucky with this post, because I managed to capture people's attention in a place that's maybe a bit unusal for this kind of interaction, which made it more singular and 'worthwhile' again. But that can't be repeated at will, of course.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by mckirk »

tobbob wrote: post #623

I'm a night owl, always have been, always will be, but we live in an early bird world, and fitting in with that is worth a lot. So at the moment I'm passionate about fixing my daily routine to finally get enough sleep, and get to work early, leave early, and hopefully have energy to do things in the evening. I've changed all my clocks back one hour so that psychologically it's easier to stomach. I have a light set on…

Oh man, I can relate to that a lot... have you experimented with melatonin? A really low dose (0.3mg) of it at around 11-12pm helps me tremendously with keeping my rhythm somewhat in check. I still make liberal use of option to work whenever I want, but at least I'm not in "get up at 2pm" mode anymore.

But it seems you've found a pretty good way of managing your sleep already, arriving to work at 6:30 sounds like an alien world to me. How have you managed that? Just the strict bed time? Doesn't that mean you lie awake for an eternity?

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by mckirk »

silisili wrote: post #320
x86hacker1010 wrote: post #301

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Recommend a good daily driver that’s affordable?

If you just want to smell nice and not overbearing or trying to impress...Issey Miyake Pour Homme or Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue. Issey is probably my all time favorite, it's so different and refreshing. But it's pretty neutral. If you want to smell more overbearing and 'sexy', Armaf Club de Nuit Intense Man. It's a powerful Aventus clone. I consider Aventus the perfect 'man trying to be sexy' scent, and they nailed…

Thanks for the tips! That's a rabbit hole I went down a few years ago as well, but I only reached the point where it all became too complicated and I ended up with a random cologne from a Rituals outlet... which I still quite like, but I could have saved myself a lot of research, lol. But if I ever want to get into that world again, I now have some decent points to start from!
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