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wjeon The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001)

A person who studies metaphysics.

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy dealing with questions like 'What is there?'.

I try to avoid eating processed foods. I ride a bicycle. I go to a climbing gym. I built a hangboard so I can train at home. I read lots of books to exercise my brain.

But more important than any of that: I stopped working a job that had me sitting down in front of a computer screen all day, and started working jobs that keep me on my feet.

wjeon Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan

There's a solo RPG titled after the phenomenon that, I feel, pretty well captures he idea and feeling of being a hiki. It's a kind of 'week in the life' game, where the narrative occurs entirely in the form of journal entries that you write to make sense of your rolls. Very chilling, in some playthroughs.

http://dsg.neko-machi.com/hikikomori.pdf

wjeon Ask HN: Does anyone dream of code?

I don't.

wjeon Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code

lyx + instant preview, perhaps?

wjeon Interview with the author of React-like Inferno about JavaScript optimisations

Sadly, this article has nothing to do with an inferno OS port to js.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

wjeon InfernoJS – A JavaScript library for building powerful user interfaces

Unfortunately unrelated to Inferno the operating system, which was warped into running in a browser, many moons ago.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

wjeon Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

* Barnacl.es * aesi.news (defunct) * DnE

wjeon Ask HN: Someone here to team up with me on a project to learn React together?

Sounds fun! I'm down to learn with you.

wjeon Ask HN: Good email host?

Run your own!

wjeon Boycott Docker

I am the former owner of boycottsystemd.org. I think I may have started something terrible.

wjeon Ask HN: Thinking of mentoring? looking for a mentor?

I'll start: I'm a Haskell newbie looking for someone with a decent understanding of the language and functional programming in general to help me improve the (small amounts) of code I've been working on.

Prefer to communicate via email on a semi-regular, low volume basis.

wjeon Japan home to 541,000 young recluses

There's a solo pen and paper RPG called Hikikomori (named after the phenomenon) which is quite unsettling to play.

http://dsg.neko-machi.com/hikikomori.pdf

wjeon Tell HN: New features and a moderator

More likely (> karma downvote-threshold) since news.arc is written in, well, arc.

wjeon Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop?

Thinkpad T430: i5-3320M @ 2.60GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB Samsung SSD + some nondescript 32GB mSATA SSD I picked up from work. I'm usually running Debian Unstable, but I distro hop pretty regularly. It "just works" for whatever I feel like doing at any given time. I even spent a while running 9front (with working wifi!) as my daily driver OS. I'm not a huge fan of the chiclet keys, but I've a Model M for use at my desk, and I can deal with them while I'm on the go.