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Post by lamroger »

harmmonica wrote: post #142

Don’t think this is novel, but I’ve mentioned on an HN thread before that my friend and I were building (and have now built) a tiny house. We’d been complaining for years that housing was too expensive and so after doing a house flip and stops and starts on trying to build a spec house we decided to try a tiny house to see if we could build something move-in ready that looks (somewhat) nice and also is inexpensive. J…

wow its beautiful!

doesnt need to be novel imo. hope you really do go the long term lease route to help shelter folks. do yall have any newsletter? would love to follow

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Post by throwaway34241 »

messe wrote: post #21
lukem567 wrote: post #19

Working on a way to write Oculus Quest apps in Golang. The entire thing is a tower of yak shaving. Current adventure: attempting to write a reactive UI system that doesn't need to dynamically allocate memory.

> Current adventure: attempting to write a reactive UI system that doesn't need to dynamically allocate memory. Avoiding dynamic memory allocation... in Go?

It's actually easier than you might think: Go has most of the capabilities of C, including calling C APIs like malloc/free etc and casting them to Go data types. Of course (like C) writing code in that way won't be particularly convenient or memory safe.

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Post by abathur »

(mostly) picking at the problem of rewriting bare invocations of external commands in shell scripts to use abspaths (plus some related yak-shaves). Primary motive is making shell easier to package in the Nix ecosystem, though the behavior isn't Nix-specific. https://github.com/abathur/resholve

Currently... chasing a luxuriously-maned yak named "granular documentation single-sourcing", though...

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by lamroger »

iamwil wrote: post #152

I started selling spice blends, the flavor being "Beef Noodle Soup". After seeing "Everything but the Bagel" at Trader Joe's, I thought it was the first spice blend I saw named after a dish. Interesting! If people can have bagels anywhere, what else would people want to have anywhere? I asked my partner what sort of flavors would be familiar to people we knew, and she came up with the triumvirate: Pho, Ramen, and Bee…

love the idea of doing something without writing code!

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Post by Const-me »

I'm making a smartphone OS for my personal use. Gonna opensource under GPLv2 once ready.

OS kernel is Alpine Linux from https://postmarketos.org/ The entire userland is custom: graphics is on top of drm, kms, gles2, FreeType. Audio is on top of ASIO with just a few third party libraries like soxr, fdk-aac, minimp3. IPC is mostly domain sockets, input is raw input, wifi is controlled through wpa_supplicant.

Most of the code is in C#, .NET 5. Only 25% of code in C++, either SIMD heavy math like vector spline tessellation, or to consume libraries like FreeType designed to only be usable from C.

Got 2 devices to test, ARM64 Pinephone, and ARMv7 LG Hammerhead.

Graphics stack is good by now, works on both. The only large missing piece is accelerated video decoding. The highest level was inspired by MS WPF, with XML instead of XAML, and a variant of CSS for styling. Performance is OK, uses couple percepts CPU while rendering animations at 60Hz, because GPU-centric architecture all the way down. Found a freelancer to help with GUI design, so far so good.

Audio is in progress: mp3 playback works, capture and high-level mixer controls missing. Too bad the LG lacks Linux kernel drivers so I'm only testing these pieces on Pinephone.

After the audio, gonna start integrating GSM modem: being able to call people is one of the use cases I care about.

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Post by arthurcolle »

stickyricky wrote: post #166
arthurcolle wrote: post #161

I just moved to Miami, so mostly unpacking and dealing with claims for broken stuff. Context is I've been working remote for the company I previously worked for, so just keeping the owners of capital happy while I continue my life haha. Separately, I have been continuously iterating on my market data collection systems (leveraging Airflow for task orchestration and dependent tasks management) for use in investment ma…

Welcome to Miami! I'm out in Coral Gables. Moved here December of last year. Love it. Now is the time to be outside. Summer can be miserable if you're not used to the heat. Personally I love it. But it is required that you enjoy winter here!

Nice! An ex colleague of mine from my GS days and his fiancé (now wife... spoilers) just got married at this adorable little church our in Coral Gables, I love it down there. The little roofs are adorable haha. Haven't spent too much time there but I really think it's quaint and I love the 'low to the ground' architecture, not sure the right term, that seems prevalent.

Appreciate the kind words, and yeah, I dart out of my apartment at every available moment. Today spent some time in the design district which was fun. I usually end up lost in some bar or another rehydrating after a few hours kicking around aimlessly haha.

'Winters' with 80 degree weather.... Hmm sign me up

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by sircastor »

conesus wrote: post #110
sircastor wrote: post #106

Halloween display is over and set to be taken down when I have a free moment and dry day. I’m awaiting a shipment of addressable LEDs from China to expand my Christmas display. I’m putting together a ‘Mega tree’ this year in addition to the animated arches I made last year. Once I have the controller and layout setup, I can get going on the sequencing. I should probably find a radio transmitter too for the music.

I’m interested to know which led ics are you buying. WS2813? What about the controller, are you DIY or off the shelf? I’ve been using SP105E as a controller but it doesn’t have smooth fades and it takes too long to write my own firmware on a custom board to achieve that for a one off.

The strands I just purchased are WS2811 bullet pixels , with regulators to run on 12v. For the arches I used 2812Bs. In retrospect I wish I would’ve gone with 2815s - again for 12v. I have to deal with multiple voltages in my setup. I run my shows off of a Raspberry Pi - though I’m planning on integrating a teensy 4.1 to handle the tree.

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Post by JudgePenitent »

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #22

Building circular food production systems. Local, automated, data driven. Some stuff posted here, but much more going on. http://cirkularodling.se/build-an-aquaponic-indoor-farm-part...

Wow! This is really cool! Is the entire nutrient cycle automated, or are there some parts which have to be manually done after the initial germination for foodstuffs? Are there machine learning algorithms which learn from the nutrient and water inputs and quality of the batch (by lb, shape, taste, etc) adjust and try to get higher quality with each batch?

Also really well documented.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by philangist »

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other options) over the last few months. Just feeling very aimless so I’ve started reading Russian literature and spending hours on Reddit every day.

27/M (today was my birthday :)

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