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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by dceddia »

myguysi wrote: post #820
dceddia wrote: post #288

Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a neck seemed especially intimidating and requires more special tools. Today I finished soldering the electronics, bolted the neck on, strung it up and it actually works! Now to take it apart an…

That’s awesome! I did the same a couple of years ago (took about 1 year to complete) and it’s one of the things I’m most proud of, so I hope it feels as fulfilling for you too!

Cool! Thanks! I'm most worried about the finishing part, honestly. What did you end up doing for it?

I keep debating between whether to leave the wood visible (with Tru Oil or wipe-on polyurethane), or paint it (lacquer, super labor intensive, slow, expensive), or dye/stain it and use a clear finish on top of that.

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Post by thorwasdfasdf »

simonsarris wrote: post #69

I've been clearing land all day and bought 50lbs of buckwheat. I intend to try sowing/harvesting by hand. I will use this mostly for breads and pastries. This is something of an experiment. Building skills, I'm almost finished a chicken coop. I made a dry stone arch bridge but it failed because the frame sank, I will try again. I am learning carving to make wooden animal toys for my child, who will be born in July (I…

sweet. I just made some buckwheat crepes the other day. Buckwheat is really high in magnesium which is awesome

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Post by yoshyosh »

kilroy123 wrote: post #796
yoshyosh wrote: post #713

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I want to live in Mexico for a little bit one day. I imagine you came out of that with a taste for tacos that can't be matched anywhere. Were there any spots that you really enjoyed that had the organic blue maize that you liked or was it mostly abundant because Mexico hah? I'll definitely bookmark it :-)

I recommend it if possible. I had such an amazing experience living there. It's funny, I never miss the US but I always miss Mexico. I mostly lived in Mexico City, but I've traveled a lot around the country and spent time living in a few other cities for shorter periods of time. I've probably seen more of Mexico than 90%+ of all Mexicans. Some of the best food I've ever had was in a small Pueblo (town) called San Seb…

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm planning on Mexico City and some other small towns like you mentioned. Will definitely add to the list!

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Post by japhyr »

simonsarris wrote: post #830
japhyr wrote: post #766

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Here's how I tell people how my experience of Nashua has changed: "When I was young, we used to tell people how to get to our house by saying at one point, 'Turn right where the cows are. You'll go over an old stone bridge and then through some narrow curves on a few hills. Then turn right at..." Then it turned into "Turn right where the cows used to be." Then it became "Turn right at the ____ subdivision." When I wa…

That's funny. I was born in 1988, so that world was gone by the time I got here. And even then, when I was a kid there were abandoned buildings to explore like the old tannery, and those are demolished now. For all the changes they can't get the downtown to "work" and they are really, really bad at trying. I tried too: the mayor appointed me to the downtown improvement committee where I got to watch nothing happen fi…

I'm sorry to hear that. From a distance, it seemed like there was some interesting revitalization work going on in the downtown area. I remember going to a barbershop off Main Street as a kid with my dad every couple of weeks. Back then it was a classic old downtown, with shoe stores and shirt stores and barbershops and hardware stores and all that.

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Post by rige »

Kezzo wrote: post #598
chairfield wrote: post #366

I'm learning how to level up my more fundamental life skills: nutrition, exercise, and character. Character I'm learning through the study of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which I'm working through with a friend. For exercise, I'm enjoying learning a safe kettlebell program with the book Simple and Sinister . With nutrition, I'm just trying to cook/prepare all my own meals while keeping the ingredients heal…

For nutrition and diet I can highly recommend "How Not To Die" by Dr. Michael Gregger: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/

I also highly recommend Dr. Greger's work! He also has a podcast and very informative website with tons of sources and further information.

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Post by saber6 »

I’m learning how much time and effort my significant effort puts into keeping our household in order and clean (we have 4 pets - 2 cats 2 dogs).

Anyone who says homemakers don’t work hard is full of shit.

(And we don’t even have kids....)

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Post by jamil7 »

I've been porting parts of a Swift / iOS app to a shared Kotlin Native / Multiplatform library and learning more about Android development, I hope to release an Android version of the my app. I'm also eyeing Flutter and hoping to try it out in the near future.

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Post by evsamsonov »

sunsetSamurai wrote: post #212

I'm studying DS and Algorithms, I am a self taught developer and I'm trying to fill some gaps in my general CS knowledge. There's a project I want to work on but I feel a bit overwhelmed and don't know where I should start, I'd appreciate some advice here. I want to create shogi(Japanese chess) server, similar to lichess, the thing is that I've never done anything similar to this, I've been reading about web sockets,…

I guess Elixir is a good choice. Just can advise a couple of good video courses in addition to books. 1. https://pragmaticstudio.com/unpacked-multi-player-bingo-with.... 2. https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra.... In [2] Dave Thomas, author of a Programming Elixir book, goes through creation of online game too.

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Post by straumat »

Advaith wrote: post #795
straumat wrote: post #265

I'm learning about trading bots. It allows me to learn new things about software développement (réactive streams forum example), mathematics, machine learning and deep learning I made it as a side project : https://github.com/cassandre-tech/cassandre-trading-bot And i am writing a guide about what i learned : https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/

this is interesting! thanks for sharing

My pleasure :)

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Post by brandmeyer »

ronyfadel wrote: post #539
brandmeyer wrote: post #483

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Back when I was preparing to apply to a FAANG, I built a game engine as my vehicle for practice. From scratch. Well almost from scratch, if you consider bare nekkid OpenGL to still be "from scratch". There's tons of opportunities in a game engine for exercising and honing your performance chops and your algorithm chops. It also gave me an opportunity to learn a new language and programming model - the GL shader langu…

I’m not too sure about algorithms? You can get away with making a working, performant (basic) engine with some neat functionality nowadays without delving too deep into algorithms or using any advanced data structures. It is a good exercise in “real coding” though.

Off the top of my head, there's pathfinding on a navigation mesh, mouse hit-testing and FOV pruning with a space partitioning tree, triangle mesh sorting. You can also do some agent work by building up an automated opponent.
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