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Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

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Post by defterGoose »

mr_tristan wrote: post #29
mbg721 wrote: post #7

I want to get some basic woodworking skills together. I can do simple household plumbing, and I'm not going anywhere near electricity or roofing, but I would love to be able to patch up that corner of the staircase and have it look decent.

You might want to look up carpentry, instead of woodworking. They're actually pretty different in skills and approach. It's like, with woodworking, step one is often "make everything perfectly square". In carpentry, nothing will ever be square. So you just have pretty different problems to solve

In construction contracting, an 1/8-1/4" tolerance is sufficient depending on the scale involved. With fine joinery, I typically find myself in the 1/32-1/16" range.

Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

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Post by randomluck040 »

bootlooped wrote: post #26

How to use a Mac. I've always been on Windows and used Linux VMs or WSL. I think it's time to take the plunge though. Just got one recently. The difference between keyboard combos for text selection and navigation, and window switching is annoying so far, but I'm confident I'll get used to it.

Tell me about it, man… guess where the „@„ sign on the German keyboard is? On „q“. Guess how often I’m closing applications when I want to type an „@„ haha. Outside of that I think it got a lot better though.

Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

mr_tristan wrote: post #29
mbg721 wrote: post #7

I want to get some basic woodworking skills together. I can do simple household plumbing, and I'm not going anywhere near electricity or roofing, but I would love to be able to patch up that corner of the staircase and have it look decent.

You might want to look up carpentry, instead of woodworking. They're actually pretty different in skills and approach. It's like, with woodworking, step one is often "make everything perfectly square". In carpentry, nothing will ever be square. So you just have pretty different problems to solve

I think of carpentry more like building a deck or a shed and woodworking is more of building a bench or a bookcase.

Even with woodworking things end up not square and fixing/hiding those mistakes is part of the project, just using a smaller scale than carpentry.

Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

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Post by throwaway47292 »

keddad wrote: post #23

I want to learn some low-level programming and hardware stuff, however, I don't really know where to start - sure, I can order an arduino with some kit, but I don't know much about electrical engineering, so making anything harder when a blinking LED will be a challenge.

i would suggest to follow Ben Eater's 8 bit computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU&list=PLowKtXNTBy... and would strongly recommend to build it (you can see the parts on his website https://eater.net/ or buy the whole kit)

Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?

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Post by xu3u32 »

asadawadia wrote: post #25
pindogu wrote: post #9

Being decent at Java, the first programming language i am currently learning :)

check out kotlin

The internet is always there to sidetrack you once you pick a direction. Learn Java. Build something. Kotlin will always be there and you will have a greater appreciation for it.
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