I want to learn more about AVL equipment and tools. I have joined the technology committee at my church, and we're using a whole bunch of audio and video equipment I've never been exposed to before, like digital mixers, microphones, propresenter, SDI and Dante, etc etc etc.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)
Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
That's why I mentioned Beamer's docs. There is a very good tool-agnostic chapter in them.
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#231. AI/ML stuff. I'm very much of the "let's get stuff shipped" persuasion, but also like to understand the basics. So, no deep math here, but, incremental building blocks, focussing on how to deploy and maintain applications
2. Gardening: we bought a house with a sizeable plot of land. Want to get better at managing it. Grow some stuff, build some stuff. Focus on permaculture, and working within the parameters of our environment.
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#241) 1.1. Improve in distributed systems (a. Read: Designing Data Intensive Applications, b. Learn TLA+) 2.1. Observabilibity (a: Read: Systems Performance, b.Learn Graphana, Prometheus...)
2) 2.1. Python stuff, for example, thinks to help with my stocks. 2.2. Sports: gym, running, walking, swimming... 2.3. Reading classic novels. 2.4. Travel with my family.
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#25I was running with the dogs and fell forward and stress fractured both elbows (using hands to not land on face). That was a couple months ago, so I'm mostly healed, but I want to improve both flexibility and strength. At 40, I didn't think this kind of injury from a fall was a thing quite yet.
Imo add balance to the list. Balance practice can be weird, but helps a lot in preventing falls (along with strength, also necessary).
There's a lot of balance exercises out there which will seem like they're too "easy", and that may be because it's focused on like 80 year olds. If you find it too easy you can do stuff that they do for e.g. 3p rifle (a sport which is a majority about just standing there perfectly balanced):
https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3215
(Don't dig too deep into that route though because it will quickly get hyper focused on the meta of 3p. E.g. if you find yourself looking at MEC or Heinz Reinkemeier through looking for balance exercises, you've probably gone past the point where it's useful for general balance exercises lol)
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#26Calisthenics
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#27I recently obtained my amateur radio license and I'm looking to start using it next year. I'm particularly excited to participate in ionosphere sounding studies that use ham radio during the North American eclipse in April.
Nice! I also got my ham radio license a couple of months ago. Haven't really done anything with it yet, but it was fun and interesting to study for.
Other than the eclipse, what other kind of things are you planning on doing with your license?
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#281) Networking: While I don't plan to do much home networking, knowing fundamentals would be helpful to my day to day. So I'm going to go through Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach (https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/index.php) and augment it with CS 144 (https://www.scs.stanford.edu/10au-cs144/).
2) SQL: As another user mentioned, while I am primarily a FE, there are times when I need to work on the backend and having a shaky understanding of SQL can be a major stumbling block. I might start a bookclub in my city or at work just to ensure I'm consistent with learning.
3) C++/Rust: Will probably do a basic project and may hire a code mentor to do some code reviews/guidance.
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#291) SQL As a mainly frontend engineer I just haven't had a whole lot of exposure, but always experience friction against it while doing side projects. 2) Woodworking After finally diving in earlier this year, really took to it as a nice break from screens. Taking this winter break to organize my garage and set up proper dust collection so I can stop creating layers of sawdust in my garage (and probably my lungs).
I took a single DB class in college and it has put me head and shoulders above my average SWE peers for the last ten years or so. Having a basic concept of what normalization is and how to apply it, and what level of normalization is practical in a project at your work’s scale, is super important and helpful. Learning just a small amount of theory can really help!
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#30I was running with the dogs and fell forward and stress fractured both elbows (using hands to not land on face). That was a couple months ago, so I'm mostly healed, but I want to improve both flexibility and strength. At 40, I didn't think this kind of injury from a fall was a thing quite yet.
Imo add balance to the list. Balance practice can be weird, but helps a lot in preventing falls (along with strength, also necessary). There's a lot of balance exercises out there which will seem like they're too "easy", and that may be because it's focused on like 80 year olds. If you find it too easy you can do stuff that they do for e.g. 3p rifle (a sport which is a majority about just standing there perfectly bal…
In this specific case, it was a dog running under my feet and me not wanting to stomp on her. But my balance has never been great -- also, as mentioned, interested in general stuff as I age -- so I'll definitely research that, too, thanks!