Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people’s way of earning, for example fishing.

55 points

I write software for fun and give it away. I also write software for money and don’t give it away.

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🤘 Ditto!

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Good man!

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So many

Homelab

Buy broken electronics, repair, resell (so like microsoldering, diagnosing, etc)

Woodworking but I’m bad at it

Cooking

Music but I’m bad at it

3d printing/cad but I’m bad at cad

Language study 日本語

Pcb design and some coding related to this but I’m bad at it

It’s why I get the anti work people. If I could change careers every few years I would. I love learning about new stuff. I post a lot but most of the time I do that is either when I have idle time at work, before or right after work (although sometimes it leaks into weekends). I hate the phrase jack of all trades master of none, it’s cool to know about a lot of things (as long as you recognize the limitations of your knowledge)

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sorry to tell you(maybe not, may make you feel better depending on how you take it), but almost no body makes an earning by language studies, not even professors (only very small amount of them make something reasonable with respect to their effort)

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Op just said profession, not whether it was viable economically

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touche

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I recently learned that the full quote goes like this: “Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one.” Thought that might reconcile you with the phrase :)

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it doesn’t matter whether you’re good at it or bad at it. As long as you enjoy what you do, that’s all that matters :)

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You can also be a jack of all trades, master of some. Or a lot. Or most. 🤝

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Or, you can be, Abserd!

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Does 日本語 mean “I’m bad at it”

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Ha no, it means Japanese (or Japanese language). The kanji would be pronounced “nihongo”

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I do almost the same thing as a(n unpaid) hobby that I do as my (paid) job. I’m a software developer who writes open-source software on the side.

I’ve also seen a few of my other hobbies grow into serious industries with real employees. The (hobby) drone industry and the 3D printing industry are quite large and growing (I assume).

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Linux Sysadmin here.

I have a couple open source apps/scripts that have tens of stars and ones of forks. I’m also getting into micro soldering to fix electronics. Mostly for myself but I’ll hardmod or fix friends equipment for cost of parts. I’ve been known to buy a broken console, fix it, mod it, then sell it for some extra cash to buy more soldering equipment.

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Nice! What are your projects?

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That reminds me of the box of half-broken Game Boys from back when I got really into chiptune … I kinda get backpain from soldering, though, any tips on that? Other than “go see a doctor”, of course.

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Apparently I study timekeeping so much that I can program a clock on a graphing calculator without using any timer function.

It takes a fixed amount of time to alter a pixel on the screen, and when carefully crafted, the pixel clock itself serves as a timer.

I’m actually currently testing such a clock demo on my Casio right now.

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are there significant differences in pixel response as battery voltage goes down?

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Very good question!

At this moment I don’t know for sure.

I’ve only been running it on consistent 5V USB power until yesterday.

I am keeping the voltage level question in mind though…

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Welp, one of my 4 batteries died today (no worries on the memory on this model). I found a spare battery, but between that and switching back and forth to USB power, it does seem the calculator’s speed might be lightly affected by voltage levels and even possibly by temperature.

Hey, ain’t nothing perfect…

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I guess it doesn’t matter since you can’t look at it with a dead battery anyway.

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Update: To answer your question, yes apparently the calculator is indeed sensitive to variables such as battery voltage and even possibly/likely the temperature.

I made a couple tweaks to the display layout, but left the core minute pixel timer algorithm alone. Tonight’s test shows it’s already off by a minute after only 25 minutes of running.

Oh well, it’s still a fun experiment, even though I was already aware I might be playing with digital fire with this silly project. 🤷‍♂️

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Timekeeping?

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Yes, as in the studies of everything between keeping up with time zone rules, knowing when the next lunar eclipse is (in the USA that’s coming up shortly early morning March 14), and even learning and understanding how long different CPU instructions take.

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