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#42I 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
Man I would love to really get into either, but I have a 9-6 in the Bay Area and the one "workshop" weekend class I took was about tool use. It's really difficult to get into anything in a serious way, but any tips about somewhere in the Bay that really gets you into "carpentry" or into "woodworking" on weekends would be excellent!
Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?
#43I 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.
It sounds like you are trying to filter out unsafe hobbies?
Electricity can be done carefully and safely - just know your limits. I'd recommend at least getting comfy replacing outlets and switches. If you want to go one step further, light fixtures are also not too bad. Basically, anything where you just disconnect one widget from between two wires, and replace it with a different widget is fair game for most people. I call someone if I need new wires run or need to touch the main panels, though.
Likewise, woodworking is not as safe as most people think. Saws can bite you, as can drills, routers, etc... even rough edges on wood, or flying chunks of wood when you are teaching your 14 year old son to build a workbench and he just stands up a piece of wood next to your head and starts up a hand-held belt sander on it without clamping it.
The point being that tools that use electricity can be just as dangerous as the wires that carry the current, so plan accordingly.
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#44Portraits. And Jax I guess
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#45How to get a decent rating without burning out, how to make it to the next level, and how to make tons of money.
You need a two pronged attack: Make more, spend less. Check out Dave Ramsey if you haven't already.
Rome wasn't built in a day, start very small, and tell yourself your doing GREAT every time you make or save a few extra dollars, even if it's just a few cents.
Write down your "WHY". Remind yourself multiple times throughout the day why you want more money.
Remember: Money can be made or spent, Time can only be spent.
Good Luck Friend!
Re: Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?
#46Beekeeping. I'm finally at the place financially where it won't matter if I lose my hives the first winter.
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#47Manually spin up and manage a meaningful local Spark cluster (say at least 1 master node with 8+GB and 3 worker nodes with 4+GB memory), build a data pipeline (don't care to much about the analytic things, I'm more into parsing tons of JSONs) and parse a meaningful number of JSONs (say 10GB at least) and optimize the parsing algorithm.
Low level computing. I purchased a kit and prepared to register a coursera embedded class. I also want to learn Windows system programming especially those related to Malware analysis (How does VM in OS work? What does a process contain? How to hijack a process? How to write shellcodes? These kinds of things).
Cold war politics and military-intelligence history. I got attracted to this field years ago after watching Godfather 3 and searched a bit about the background story. I know a few buzzwords but don't really have the $$, language capacity and time to drill deeper.
Mainframe. I didn't manage to register the IBM event this year, so it has to wait until 2022.
Sigh, too much to learn and too few time.
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#48Starting already this month:
Digital painting and drawing. I'm already not bad at that, but I want my skills to be semi-professional at least. I have a very vivid imagination, and I want to be able to recreate the concept I see in my mind.
Computer science foundation. Right now, I'm at the stage that I know enough to explain them in layman terms, but not enough to actually participate in an active discussion or projects that rely heavily on academic knowledge. Stuff like compilers and interpreters, computer architecture, database systems, distributed systems, and OS architecture.
Another item on my list is reflecting more about philosophical and psychological matters (I read more fiction books than non-fiction ones at a ratio of 25:1, the only bibliography I've read was about George Lucas).
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#49How to get better at technical interviewing, this is a skill that has cost me the most in terms of opportunity cost.
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#50Elixir/Phoenix
what is the motivation?
uh, I love Rails, and I get even paid to code with it :) :)
and so many says it's even better then Rails.
I do really wish to write code that is used by millions (super fast and easily scalable) and not just a small teams of engineers (I write mainly backends for my clients/contracts)
Then it is something new: I am so glad I moved to Rails many years ago (10), and now it's the first time I'm tented .... :)