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Ask HN: Most interesting things you've learned/discovered in 2020?
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#2I learned how to make coffee like a barista. I purchased an espresso machine with a milk steamer, and learned how to make rudimentary latte/cappucino art.
My best result so far:
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting things you've learned/discovered in 2020?
#3There are dialects of Japanese where the moraic obstruent can occur rather freely, and where grammatical clitics cause complex resyllabification mutations in the stem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particles_of_the_Kagoshima_dia...
It's probably not the most interesting thing per sē that I learned in the hole year, but simply what I remembered because I leanred it recently.
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#4Maybe culturing mushrooms at home.
I set up a sort of glovebox/laminar flow hood with a HEPA filter, sterilized nutrified agar/plugs in canning jars, and cloned some shiitake and lions mane. I also made some 4"x4" glass slides for spore prints and inoculated some logs.
There are a lot of interesting fungi out there. Many have interesting and surprising properties. And they're delicious.
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#5That nearing age 60, I am an animal lover. I don’t even have a dog, but I have just purchased a farm and plan to fill it with chickens, goats, pigs, alpacas, and perhaps emu.
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#6That nearing age 60, I am an animal lover. I don’t even have a dog, but I have just purchased a farm and plan to fill it with chickens, goats, pigs, alpacas, and perhaps emu.
Don’t kill animals. Grow them and release them in the wild giving them freedom.
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#7I learned how to make coffee like a barista. I purchased an espresso machine with a milk steamer, and learned how to make rudimentary latte/cappucino art. My best result so far: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lob9lfjpqtgxkvj/IMG_1011.jpg?dl=0
straight out of a hipster coffee shop my dude, good work!
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#8I am studying human brain and learned that everything we experience has already been experienced before. Given the pandemic here are findings -
1. Humans are very difficult to understand yet demonstrate quite predictable behavior. This could be contributing to the branching factor in evolution.
2. Most people can’t stand themselves and don’t enjoy their own company.
3. Most people, especially in western society, are exceedingly lonely.
4. Most people spend their lives going after vanity achievements, of which, everything is nullified in a snap.
5. At the end of the day what matters is were you happy and did you enjoy your life. Did you do something good for your family?
6. Matrix is real.
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#9Life is hard without goals. Or more that it’s hard to have motivation or purpose without goals. Also I realize that this is a fairly simple topic that may be obvious to others, I’ve just started realizing that this may be the core of some personal issues that I’ve been dealing with for the whole of my life.
For the longest time I’ve felt burned out or depressed and I thought it was from doing too much of my job (swe). Instead I’ve realized that I haven’t had goals pulling me, or motivating me to do the things I do on the daily. Instead I’ve been running from the fear of failure; be that in making it through college, or somehow losing my job. It turns out that fear is an effective, but terrible “motivator”. It also turns out that it’s hard to be happy when you’re running away from something instead of towards something.
This thread first started for me when I saw the hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932795 and then further became more clear to me after some deep discussions with my friend and his showing me this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7RgtMGL7CA.
The thing is I’ve had goals, but nothing that I could use as a means for helping to pull me through life. Goals like staying fit, or reaching FIRE are good goals, but in themselves it’s hard to derive a sense of meaning.
Making goals for yourself that allow you to tell a story about the things you’re doing can help with motivation; at least I think that’s the trick as I haven’t been doing that. This is the part I’m learning about right now and need to figure out to change the way I’m going through life.
Re: Ask HN: Most interesting things you've learned/discovered in 2020?
#10Life is hard without goals. Or more that it’s hard to have motivation or purpose without goals. Also I realize that this is a fairly simple topic that may be obvious to others, I’ve just started realizing that this may be the core of some personal issues that I’ve been dealing with for the whole of my life. For the longest time I’ve felt burned out or depressed and I thought it was from doing too much of my job (swe)…
Really good response. Thanks for sharing. I will add that Richard Hamming's first lecture is probably the thing that does this for me.