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Ask HN: What's one new skill you learned during Covid-19?
- giantg2 6y agoI'm learning bass guitar. So I'm learning the basics and playing easy songs like 7 Nation Army. I also have the Rocksmith game to help me. I'm also culturing mushroom spawn to grow shiitake and lions mane. This involves learning about mushrooms, lab equiptment, and sterile techniques. Of course I dont want to buy expensive equipment so I'm homebrewing a lot of equipment like a substitute for a laminar flow hood, or using 4oz mason jars instead of petri dishes.
- maps7 6y agoNone - but I am sure I'll have plenty more 'covid-19' time to learn something. But seriously, I am just commenting to remind people that we're in a pandemic. It's okay not to come out of this with new skills.
- mrburton 6y agoI agree - we have a lot more time to development new skills and improve ourselves.
- mindvirus 6y agoI've been super stressed by everything (young family living in NYC, no childcare). I've been working on an app in Flutter in the evenings, and it's been really cathartic just building something for the sake of building it.
- mrburton 6y agoI use to live in NYC; in Battery Park City. I was looking to move back, currently in Mountain View, then COVID-19 hit. How is live in NY? I was there in Dec before this whole thing broke out and returned to CA in mid-Jan 2020; mini vacation.
- mindvirus 6y agoNYC itself is great. Parks are open and less crowded, subway is super clean, and some street parking space has been reclaimed for outdoor dining. Almost everyone is wearing a mask, and things are slowly opening up. It feels like the recovery will be slow, but the city will come out of it stronger.
- random31415 6y agoPython, Computer Vision, Deep Learning.
- mrburton 6y agoFor me - Cooking and furniture refurbishing Making homemade bread, Italian food, various other meals from different cultures etc.
- eande 6y agoHow option trading works and some self named guru do it.
- person_of_color 6y agoGot a link?
- rurban 6y agoAsian cooking. Gained 10 pounds.