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Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by jmeyer2k »

chrissnell wrote: post #100

Some suggestions: - Build something. A new workbench for your office. Fix up an old car. Build a pull-up bar in your garage. Use your hands, cut some wood and metal, and treat yourself to a new tool or two. Do this with every project and you will have a nice tool collection before you know it. - Learn to take pictures on a manual camera. You can do this with a modern automatic camera if it has a manual mode. Learn ab…

The nightly walk part is really life-changing. We need time to process what happens in the day and a walk is a great way to do that.

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by taurath »

grvdrm wrote: post #403
geddy wrote: post #332

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Funny thing about those people is they constantly complain about how expensive everything is, yet they spend frivolous amounts of money on what's probably the highest marked up item: food. Meal prep for a week for ~$75 and you're set. It would cost probably 4 times that (at least, depending on where you eat) to eat out, not to mention you don't know how it was prepared, and it's probably wildly unhealthy compared to…

Totally agree. It's so easy to overthink cooking. Take off the exec-chef-in-restaurant apron and focus on the simple stuff: - Add salt/pepper/spices by hand if you can. Shakers/larger-volume canisters lead to over-application, but it's so easy to grab a little bit of salt, apply, taste, and do it over again until you hit the right mark - Learn how to cook in a single pot - stews/soups/etc. Saves on cleaning, and brot…

Easy to overthink you say, yet you’ve listed a lot of quite complicated aspects, many of which aren’t directly related to cooking.

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Post by kbrackbill »

andrewzah wrote: post #394
oh-4-fucks-sake wrote: post #385

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I guess I understand how many people dislike cooking, I guess. For me, it's a very creative, relaxing, rewarding, (and necessary) process in my life. For me, it's like coding, but with ingredients. Take a bunch of relatively trivial components, and combine them creatively into something complex, useful, even beautiful--inspiring. You generally follow "industry best practices", but there's plenty of room for interpret…

It’s like coding but with none of the frustrations. You can’t get stuck midway because you have an incompatible version of carrots. All you need is ingredients and a good repertoire of recipes to draw from.

Huh, I feel the exact opposite- it's like coding with a bunch of extra frustrations like shopping and cleaning, and the possibility of messing up in an irreversible way (burning something, for example).

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Post by GcVmvNhBsU »

komali2 wrote: post #388
Spellman wrote: post #371

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Yes, it's the reverse sear, and proven to be better by SCIENCE

Scientists better get their hypotenuses straight before they take on my stomach But, what science?

https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/03/how-to-reverse-sear-best...

Most likely something from The Food Lab when talking about food and science.

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

chishaku wrote: post #451
the_gastropod wrote: post #386

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I have a suspicion this kind of living, in part, explains why so many people are miserable. I feel like removing every inconvenient thing from your life, and "having someone else do it for you" must make your ability to handle discomfort atrophy to the point where the tiniest unpleasantness feels like a catastrophe. Like muscles, your brain, your immune system, etc., we need a little discomfort / struggle once in a w…

> we need a little discomfort / struggle once in a while to grow. One could argue that struggle is the prerequisite to growth.

i think the term is called eustress

Re: Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

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Post by reaperducer »

chrissnell wrote: post #100

Some suggestions: - Build something. A new workbench for your office. Fix up an old car. Build a pull-up bar in your garage. Use your hands, cut some wood and metal, and treat yourself to a new tool or two. Do this with every project and you will have a nice tool collection before you know it. - Learn to take pictures on a manual camera. You can do this with a modern automatic camera if it has a manual mode. Learn ab…

Listen to classical music. This one didn't come to me until my 40s but I finally realized: there's a reason that this music has been popular for 300 years.

I agree. It's funny how when I was young I would only listen to one type of music, like it was some kind of tribal loyalty. Now I listen to all kinds of things, and I've learned to hear the difference between really good music and stuff that's just manufactured for corporations.

(Ironically, what got me to expand my musical horizons was Apple's corporate promotion, back when you used to get a free iTune each the week on the iTunes store, by picking up a card in Starbucks, or buying a bottle of Pepsi from the vending machine at work.)

Getting back to classical, I also recommend apps for KDFC/San Francisco, KING-FM/Seattle, RTBF Musiq'3/Brussels, RTHK4/Hong Kong, and RTÉ LyricFM (Dublin?). I used to be a WQXR/New York fan, but it lost its way after the New York Times sold it. I've heard good things about WRR/Dallas, but haven't tried it yet.

KING-FM-HD2 is awesome background brain lubricant when you're working on something hard and mathematical.

If anyone else has any favorite classical stations, please reply.

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Post by take_a_breath »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #460
take_a_breath wrote: post #420

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I am also skeptical of "optimizing" every part of our lives. Cell phones allow us to do so many things more efficiently than in the past. But what are people actually doing with that freed up time?

>But what are people actually doing with that freed up time? Vomiting their ideology upon strangers on the internet and watching youtube (or some other video platform).

And becoming more and more depressed, it seems.

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Post by aianus »

vpEfljFL wrote: post #32
hijinks wrote: post #3

Kubernetes.. almost all the companies are on it or looking at it in one way or another.

If everybody knows kubernetes what is the point to learn it? You can't stand out with this skill if you wouldn't do it professionally. Just to get familiar is enough. I would go with bash, sed, awk.

Knowing how to use a car instead of a horse is useful regardless of whether other people are using cars or horses.

It is just a much more powerful tool, despite the complexity arguments you see people throw around online.

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Post by Infinitesimus »

dsego wrote: post #404
jsjolen wrote: post #258

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He shattered his spine? Was he 80 years old and his spine calcified?

I do not know the exact injury. Something broke and it required surgery to fix it.

Pretty good chance he tried to lift with his back instead if legs. It's the most common deadlift mistake I see.

Sorry about your friend :(

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