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Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by knopkop_ »

kataklasm wrote: post #62
_odey wrote: post #40

I drilled a hole in a fridge and put temperature and humidity sensors inside, plus a fan, and a dehumidifier. Now I have a miniature "basement" that I can inoculate with good mold, fill with different types of meat, and make my own charcuterie. Been doing this for a year now, had a few successful produce as a result, and many many failures.

Is there somewhere you are writing about this, think yesterday's "Do Things, Tell People" post? This sounds very intriguing!

Not OP but there's a lot of useful old blog entries about this topic to explore at curedmeats.blogspot.com

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by slmjkdbtl »

Mainly music, go through ~10 albums a day, play / jam along, recent obsession is Sun Ra. Have a band and we play together about once a week, which is also almost the only time I social and I found that to be just enough.

Other than that mainly just thinking, philosophy and stories. Currently building a fictional world, have hundreds of years of detailed history and characters to fill in, couple of languages to design, really can occupy all my time.

There's another one software related that's currently on hold, which is to write every software I use myself, like programming languages, game engines, drawing / music programs, music players etc. Also a life-time project

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by _odey »

kataklasm wrote: post #62
_odey wrote: post #40

I drilled a hole in a fridge and put temperature and humidity sensors inside, plus a fan, and a dehumidifier. Now I have a miniature "basement" that I can inoculate with good mold, fill with different types of meat, and make my own charcuterie. Been doing this for a year now, had a few successful produce as a result, and many many failures.

Is there somewhere you are writing about this, think yesterday's "Do Things, Tell People" post? This sounds very intriguing!

I'll write an article about it on my website once I'm confident enough in my skills and knowledge that I won't accidentally encourage people to grow dangerous molds or botulism bacteria...

Meanwhile you can enjoy the youtube channel that I followed for the hardware and culinary information here:

https://youtube.com/c/2GuysACooler

Edit: if you're more into a traditionalist, high skilled approach instead of the high tech, high precision one like above then go here:

https://youtube.com/c/cuoredicioccolato

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by lormayna »

Cycling: taking advantage of WFH I started practicing cycling again after 15 years of inactivity. It's a very good help for my mindset and fatigue helps me a lot on being focused in my daily task at work. In 2 years I lost 13kgs and I am more thin than when I was 25.

Learning chinese: I started 3 years ago, before COVID and it's a funny experience. Understanding the Chinese culture and the Chinese mindset is a big part of the amusement.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by gglitch »

thakoppno wrote: post #54

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.

I've recently become interested in radio, despite having no background in any form of engineering or any other STEM discipline. I crammed for my Technical, but am slowing down to try to actually learn the field well before taking my General. It's fascinating, but the learning curve for me is sharp. It reminds me of when I dove face-first into GNU/Linux and Emacs in my twenties. That was a thrill, but I had a lot more time to dedicate to it. I suppose in my life I keep being drawn to these vertiginous technical challenges that don't become fun until you absorb a fair amount of knowledge: audio production, Unix, Emacs, roguelikes, SuperCollider, Chess, Go. Guess I like a challenge :)

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by kataklasm »

_odey wrote: post #73
kataklasm wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there somewhere you are writing about this, think yesterday's "Do Things, Tell People" post? This sounds very intriguing!

I'll write an article about it on my website once I'm confident enough in my skills and knowledge that I won't accidentally encourage people to grow dangerous molds or botulism bacteria... Meanwhile you can enjoy the youtube channel that I followed for the hardware and culinary information here: https://youtube.com/c/2GuysACooler Edit: if you're more into a traditionalist, high skilled approach instead of the high te…

That's totally fair! Thanks a lot for the links!

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by kataklasm »

knopkop_ wrote: post #71
kataklasm wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there somewhere you are writing about this, think yesterday's "Do Things, Tell People" post? This sounds very intriguing!

Not OP but there's a lot of useful old blog entries about this topic to explore at curedmeats.blogspot.com

Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by thakoppno »

gglitch wrote: post #76
thakoppno wrote: post #54

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.

I've recently become interested in radio, despite having no background in any form of engineering or any other STEM discipline. I crammed for my Technical, but am slowing down to try to actually learn the field well before taking my General. It's fascinating, but the learning curve for me is sharp. It reminds me of when I dove face-first into GNU/Linux and Emacs in my twenties. That was a thrill, but I had a lot more…

It’s a lot harder for me too. I’ve been studying for my general for over a year now and still don’t have a shot at passing the test.
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