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Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

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Post by kregasaurusrex »

abhiminator wrote: post #14

21. Last thing I learnt was fixing my Android device's super annoying boot-loop.

I remember being 17 and doing that on the very day I got my first android phone! Decided to flash a custom ROM (CyanogenMod) without charging the device first and nearly bricked it, and forced me to learn how adb and device bootloaders work.

Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

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Post by Spacemolte »

1mike12 wrote: post #85

I play this game airsoft (like paintball) and I like to go especially on beautiful days like today. It's so much cardio and you don't even notice it. Anyways, this Canadian company makes these really innovative reusable bang grenades and I finally learned how to toss them just right to clear out rooms. In movies the badass hero makes perfect throws without even thinking. But turns out in real life having your gun in…

So true, it really is amazing that you don't even notice the exercise when combining it with something funny/purposeful. I was in a milsim game some years ago, in a room at a military training site with my mate, and suddenly we see something thrown inside the room, and we just know that we gotta get out, so we scramble for the door only to get stuck shoulder to shoulder getting shot in the back by a guy in the window. The "grenade" was a brick .. :)

Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

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Post by seanhunter »

zck wrote: post #80

33. Most guitar tabs for The Beatles' Norwegian Wood are wrong -- they have the intro accurate, but it's not the same as the part played under the lyrics. And it's not just that the song is played on a sitar -- even the sitar isn't mirroring the intro to the song through the lyrics. Look at, for example, this tab ( https://www.guitartabsexplorer.com/beatles-Tabs/norwegian-wo... ), which explicitly says "Use same guit…

Many (and possibly most) guitar (and bass) tabs for songs are (unfortunately) wrong. Likewise very many chord boxes and often the chord names themselves are wrong. There are notable exceptions (eg "Standing in the shadows of Motown" - the transcription of James Jamerson's basslines is genuinely superb).

There's really no substitute for listening really closely to music you really like and figuring it out for yourself. I have boxfiles of transcriptions I did and if nothing else, it improves your ear to the extent you get faster and faster not only at doing transcriptions but at learning music generally.

Re: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

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Post by jwilbs »

jakidud wrote: post #29
mohitmun wrote: post #28

25, learned vim, went from 100% sublime to 100% vim in 6 months.

What are the differences and why do you prefer vim?

As someone who switched from sublime to vim after college (dev team was all sublime), I second the request for any benefits of vim over sublime (aside from being cooler). I’ve been wanting to relearn using it with fluency, but can’t justify the time-sink/productivity loss yet.

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Post by JoelSanchez »

Immortalin wrote: post #93
JoelSanchez wrote: post #76

24, how to create a k8s cluster with kubeadm using cheap VPSs. Also, sea waves are more dangerous than I thought

How are you handling node additions and removals? Terraform?

Yes, I use a modified version of https://github.com/hobby-kube/provisioning
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