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Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by AdamJacobMuller »

hunter321 wrote: post #45

Scuba Diving - it's great, everyone should try it. Although it's fairly expensive as hobbies go. Equalise early and often!

Picked this up on a complete lark during a trip to Israel in 2019. Did a try-dive in what I later found out was one of the best places in the world to go diving.

Got OW certified just before the pandemic (literally in the last week of feb/2020) and though the pandemic slowed me down a bit i'm now AOW+Nitrox certified and did a two week trip to St Maartin last year to dive for my Birthday.

https://adamjacobmuller.github.io/subsurface/index.html

Really fantastic hobby and suggest everyone try it!

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by MandieD »

cliffwarden wrote: post #37

My hobby is hobbies! I'm notorious for picking up new hobbies all the time. For me the enjoyment is diving into something as a beginner and building up a basic mastery. Normally, at that point it get a little bored and move on. Granted, i do not feel like a master of anything i pick up, but i feel like i have a grasp of the basics and enough to more fully enjoy the topic. For example when i was really into photograph…

I’ve learned a lot of textile arts to a “basic mastery” degree and moved on - wasn’t a waste, because I now better understand and appreciate things I see in museums and old churches, and a lot about the economics of pre-industrial/early industrial Europe, especially women’s work. For example, learning how to make bobbin lace, hanging around the old ladies whose mothers actually still got paid (pennies) as girls to make lace at home, making a few Christmas ornaments and visiting a bobbin lace museum [0]. Now when I see elaborate old lace around an altar cloth… Someone put hundreds of hours into that! And probably just got enough money to keep eating! Certainly not enough to actually wear lace like that!

[0] general museum info: https://www.museen-abenberg.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-315... awkward gallery of amazing artifacts: https://www.museen-abenberg.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-312...

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by squarefoot »

f0e4c2f7 wrote: post #27
powersnail wrote: post #22

Job: Programmer My biggest source of happiness comes from playing the violin and listening to music. I tried getting into making electronic music, but I too hit the wall of not wanting to sit in front of a computer anymore after workday. That's why I like the violin's pure analog-ness: absolutely raw and crude, no abstraction, no interface, fret-less, zero-config, no knobs to be _fiddled_ with. You sound as good as y…

I'm not very musically inclined but I really enjoy playing with this little device as a way of making electronic music without sitting at my PC. OP-1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=yuXq3gBQ0dI

Very powerful, but the pricing is insane. With a lot less money one can buy a full keyboard synthesizer plus a multi track recorder. I don't think that portability alone can justify that price tag.

Examples: https://www.thomann.de/intl/yamaha_mx61_v2_black.htm https://www.thomann.de/intl/zoom_r20.htm And I didn't choose the cheaper ones.

Also, for those into diy electronics, check out the Electrotechnique Tsynth at https://electrotechnique.cc

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCA2L7CeWSE

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by thakoppno »

amateur radio

especially in the bay area, one can listen to engineers who worked in the valley and at places like SRI during its early days.

for me, it all spawned off that interview question about what happens when you press a key? i got to the part where wifi kicked in and I realized just how abstracted my knowledge of radio propagation was.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by slyall »

Audiobooks and podcast while walking and rowing.

Chess. Pre-pandemic I was doing an evening a week at the club plus a weekend tournament every month or so. Plus study etc every day/

I have an interest in Transport policy, discuss online, follow experts, local developments etc.

Tolkien fandom. Follow podcasts, read articles etc. Hope to attend/organise a meet at some point.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by joecot »

Larping. I've been playing Vampire the Masquerade Larps for a decade and I'm working on my own larp about the Huldufolk. Between the two I've gotten a lot of mileage out of being a larper who knows how to code and run servers.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by cclark00 »

jsnodlin wrote: post #43
cliffwarden wrote: post #37

My hobby is hobbies! I'm notorious for picking up new hobbies all the time. For me the enjoyment is diving into something as a beginner and building up a basic mastery. Normally, at that point it get a little bored and move on. Granted, i do not feel like a master of anything i pick up, but i feel like i have a grasp of the basics and enough to more fully enjoy the topic. For example when i was really into photograph…

What exact welding machine would you recommend for someone that has never done it before but wants to build a significant structures (a greenhouse, bunk bed, work table etc.)? What YouTube channel or books/other resources do you recommend?

I would suggest finding a community college or hardware hacker space like The Crucible in Oakland, CA to take a class. Nothing like hands-on instruction and having the machines set up perfectly so you can concentrate on your skills and get immediate feedback.

A MIG welder is probably easiest to learn. I haven't watched YouTube videos but see there are many. Learn to Weld by Christena is a popular beginners book. Have fun!

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