46, and I learned how to use redis sentinel without having to integrate it into your code by leveraging haproxy to handle failover.
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#5263 - PowerShell scripting. I think I learn some little thing almost every day.
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#5346, I took Discrete Math I & II this past spring. It wasn't easy. Last math class I has was (failed) Calculus I in 1989 and (failed) again in 1990.
I got a B+ and an A- this time, but I probably put in 30 hours per week studying and doing homework.
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#5442. Ground and tower comms related to pursuing private pilots license.
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#5535, yesterday I learned how to play poker (texas hold'em)
Texas hold’em is life :)
I played Texas hold'em last week, and all of us hadn't played it in multiple years. It was pretty hilarious since we started from the assumption that "this ain't so complicated, we've done it before", but then debated for most of the time how blinds work.
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#5644 - Learned how to use a 4.25 inch grinder to strip apart a safe that I can't move. I now realize that padlocks are just there to keep the honest people honest.
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#5731. Polish. Still in progress and will probably take another couple of years.
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#5841 - learning to trade options on the stock market.
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#5924. Tennis
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#6039. Class struggle and racism in America from its founding up to the present through a series of books a history post-doc friend assembled for me. “Going deep” on a topic as Tyler Cowen suggests.