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

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Post by stringfood »

cedws wrote: post #691
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…

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Post by tstrimple »

cdchn wrote: post #406
solardev wrote: post #7

There 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…

>I can't stop thinking about how much fun it is to throw people off cliffs in Baldur's Gate 3. I was too worried about wasting loot then I finished the game with 20k gold and nothing to spend it on and thought "And nothing of value would have been lost if I had yeeted more people off cliffs."

I had a fully converted party my first play through. I was already overpowered, but everyone having telekinesis and flight on some maps was just ridiculously broken.

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Post by tstrimple »

hahahacorn wrote: post #456
theryan wrote: post #351

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Any tips for running pain free? I used to run pretty often (3-5 times per week) for 5+ miles. Longest was 11. However, my feet started hurting while running -- never while walking even long distances.

For me, slowing down, proper foot striking (go for a couple barefoot runs at the park until you know what feels right and then translate that to form with running shoe on), and I did feet and ankle strength training for the first month. Oh and #1 is listen to your body. I’m running for the joy of running. If something hurts I’m not gonna run, lol. Important to rest.

> If something hurts I’m not gonna run

And this is why I don’t run.

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

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Post by shalmanese »

rexpop wrote: post #758
shalmanese wrote: post #757

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> And I devoted the last decade of my life to that. Now that's fallen apart and I'm a little lost and it hurts me alot. You have no contact in your bio but I've run into this with founders a lot and you need to recognize that what you're going through is a period of grief and mourning. I recommend you look up some books on how grief is processed in breakups or deaths and see if you find points of similarity. Kubler-R…

The year is 2024, and I've just read somerhing like the following comment online: "Sounds like you're going through a period of grief and mourning. I've found computers to be a remarkably efficient prosthetic replacement for processing meaningful experiences with other real, live people." It just breaks my heart, and fills me with despair, to see opportunities for human connection so giddily elided. Radio and televis…

The books will tell you to do all that!

They're not ready for me to tell them that, they need to be guided on the path to the path to the path.

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Post by tstrimple »

pharmakom wrote: post #528
Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #474

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Do please divulge, I'm at my heaviest, but have started jogging backwards to try to limit the damage as I get used to it again. What're your tips?

Barefoot running (or extremely minimalist shoes) helped me. Build it up slowly! Your muscles will likely be degraded from a lifetime of low mobility footwear. Consider: how could humanity have survived millennia walking and running around before Nike and orthotics?

I read Born to Run which I think may go a bit over the top in advising running barefoot, but there a big overlap between what this does for you and some of the other best advice in this thread. Taking your shoes off forces you to slow down and pay attention to what your feet and legs are doing.

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Post by emchammer »

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…

Keep it up! Two months is when you start to feel the amazing effects of abstinence. It only gets better over the next year.

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

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Post by tstrimple »

D13Fd wrote: post #612
jonwinstanley wrote: post #151

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Are these mainly new features for the games or graphics updates?

It depends on the wabbajack list you use. Many bring the UI more or less in line with modern standards. Most of them include major graphical improvements. Then they bring new content on top of that - items, spells (if applicable), creatures, NPCs, etc. rarely, they also expand the game maps with new areas.

Don’t forget tons of bug fixes and performance improvements! The amount of work the modding community does for Bethesda games is amazing.

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

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Post by shalmanese »

rexpop wrote: post #758
shalmanese wrote: post #757

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> And I devoted the last decade of my life to that. Now that's fallen apart and I'm a little lost and it hurts me alot. You have no contact in your bio but I've run into this with founders a lot and you need to recognize that what you're going through is a period of grief and mourning. I recommend you look up some books on how grief is processed in breakups or deaths and see if you find points of similarity. Kubler-R…

The year is 2024, and I've just read somerhing like the following comment online: "Sounds like you're going through a period of grief and mourning. I've found computers to be a remarkably efficient prosthetic replacement for processing meaningful experiences with other real, live people." It just breaks my heart, and fills me with despair, to see opportunities for human connection so giddily elided. Radio and televis…

As an experiment, I just went to ChatGPT and tried to solve the problem as if I were OP and here's the result: https://chat.openai.com/share/3f0fe9cd-76ff-44ac-956f-cfb332...

I certainly found it helpful, even as a basic refresher of the field and I learnt a new thing which is apparently there is no single book that explicitly focuses on helping founders move on which feels like a business opportunity?

But also, you can see how I got to a useful place from first principles with the help of an AI. I stopped where I felt I was sufficiently interested that if I were in OPs shoes, I would have just bought the whole book and read it through and I did it in about 15 minutes although I admit I was cheating since I had an end goal in mind already.

I've left it for anyone else to go further in whatever direction and close the gap between where I ended and specific advice like you have provided.

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Post by shalmanese »

justanotherjoe wrote: post #590
m463 wrote: post #489

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It would be nice to have a legal wiki. Maybe not to represent yourself ("anyone who represents himself has a fool for a client") but maybe useful stuff. For example, in california, you have certain online privacy rights you can exercise, and it would be nice to have a form letter to enumerate and exercise those rights. or how to fight a parking ticket, etc.

what i find stupid is that you can represent yourself, but you cant have your non lawywr friend represent you. Despite one being better than the other.

Not stupid at all! There are many things I help others do that I explicitly want others to do if it were me. eg: I am really good at helping other people build websites but every personal website I have tried to build, I've floundered at until I've brought in outside help. I assume lawyers have figured out it works the same way as the common saying goes "Any lawyer that represents himself has a fool for a client".

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Post by azemetre »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #473
azemetre wrote: post #357

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I'd think the benefit of using glass, especially in the context of food and drink, would be lessening the amount of nano plastic your body digests. Besides it's not hard to tip the carbon emission in favor of glass if the externalities of plastic (and fuel) were appropriately priced and not massively subsidized.

About nano plastic: Are they any serious (respected), peer-reviewed scientific studies on the negative health effects of nano plastics? It is frequently mentioned by the "natural crowd" on HN, but I never see any scientific evidence shared.

I'm not aware of any truly long term studies but any substance that takes thousands of years to break down I don't want in my body at any level.

Finding plastic in our blood doesn't seem healthy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/micropla...

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