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

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Post by Cilvic »

siva7 wrote: post #533
giantg2 wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you can cross the military off your list. If you've made enough money to not work, I feel like you'll get tried/frustrated of the BS involved in a lot of it before your commission is up. I could be wrong though - just things I've seen.

I feel someone should see a therapist if thinking about joining the military out of boredom

I can actually relate to that to be honest. I can't speak for OP, if it's about boredom/fun then it's very selffish. But it might be about making a difference there.

Because military, government etc. all deserve people who are in it for "the best" / purpose alone, especially if that's different from the motivation of the majority of people who join.

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Post by sideshowb »

dcz_self wrote: post #598
sideshowb wrote: post #574

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Fair enough on the closed source thing! My take is that we have specialist requirements for photos that are probably better served by a photo specific UI. Lightroom's doesn't inspire me to say it's great, but it's adequate. Can search by metadata like camera or capture date, save previous search results as 'smart folders' (e.g. I have one for all pictures since I last had a book printed). It indexes thumbnails for qu…

Thanks, that's a great summary. It does seem it's most of the way there already. How does it handle removable storage? Ironically, the fact that a topic-specific UI is needed for topic-related tasks is another strike against closed software. Something open would have been a starting point for other sorts of views (email? PDFs?), but when there's no modification, there's no ability to do that.

Import dialog for copying SD card to wherever you keep your photos on disk. Different dialog for adding photos to the db without moving the files. I don't know how it would handle having your library on something removable, haven't tried.

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Post by akegalj »

stickyricky wrote: post #118

A couple of things. All unfinished (of course). First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of peo…

For Elm like language for Linux have a look at https://www.roc-lang.org/

The language is still in its early stage, but looks like it covers your use case

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Post by bspammer »

dcz_self wrote: post #572
bspammer wrote: post #564

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For your second point, you might want to have a look at Perkeep: https://perkeep.org/ It supports the kind of queries you are after, but it’s a bit of a passion project and development is slow. What’s already there works well though.

Thanks for confirming. I intended to check on perkeep, but my frustration never reached that point before. I hope it can be adjusted to my needs: I expect I'm going to have to find solutions for tracking files' sources, for snapshots, and for remote/removable storage, in addition to all the UI work.

The included web UI is quite nice (they really should include a screenshot on the website), and setting up backups/remotes is very simple, everything is content addressed so you can just copy stuff without fear. Snapshots I suspect wouldn’t be too hard.

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Post by tdstein »

joe__f wrote: post #540

I'm healing from PTSD, I took two years off work and then the last nine months I just finished up my PhD in mathematical physics working part time. I'm still disabled in different ways, I get triggered by groups of people so I can't socialise very easily I'm kind of slowly reintroducing interacting with society. I had an interview for a postdoc in my field last week and I'm waiting on whether I got offered a job or n…

I'm sorry to hear about your struggles with PTSD.

I've experienced significant healing through EMDR therapy. I highly recommend undergoing treatment if you can find a licensed clinician or therapist.

https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

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Post by jhugo »

pugworthy wrote: post #373

I moved to a new team where we leverage the idea of precise dispensing of fluids but apply it to life sciences. A pipette is all about dispensing a precise amount where you want it - so is a printer. We think outside the box on that. Feels good to be making something to make people healthy and not to just sell consumables. I also finished walking every street in my city a while ago. See https://citystrides.com/users/…

> I also finished walking every street in my city a while ago. See https://citystrides.com/users/31460/map#44.56456589999999,-1... Lot of fun, lost 10 pounds, saw a ton of fun stuff I had no idea was here (even after 40 years).

This inspired me to try to do the same in my city. CityStrides looks like a nice tool for tracking that, but when I clicked Signup, the only options are "connecting" with various services that I don't have. Any recommendations for other similar tools that have their own mobile app so that I don't need to sign up for two services?

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Post by bserge »

philangist wrote: post #180

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 opti…

If you're only asking "what more can I do for myself?" You're playing life wrong.

When you're personally settled/stable, you work for the rest of society. Doesn't have to be for free, just help others. It's way more satisfying than getting a new car or travelling imo.

Help an orphanage, help some homeless people, help someone with getting a job or running their business, help someone get medication or kill themselves, there's a lot you can do.

Not necessarily with money, but action.

I know you didn't ask for advice, but this is just my experience I'm sharing on this banned account that seems to work like some sort of personal blog now.

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Post by Heneeque »

philangist wrote: post #180

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 opti…

My goal when I reach this hopefully before 60 or so:

Buying a farm, building a nice private park, building Rome style bath, japanese onsen and having space for family and friends so they would like to visit me because it's very nice.

But sure you need the interest in wanting to design and build your own house, park, pool etc.

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