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

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DEADBEEFC0FFEE
47m, I was reading about installing Kubernetes the hard way, when I learned my 9yo son is a badass sniper in Fortnite.
cerberusss
41m, Swift protocol-oriented programming
HugoDaniel
35, yesterday I learned how to play poker (texas hold'em)
antoniorosado
Texas hold’em is life :)
majewsky
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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gaspoweredcat
34. How to build a HiFi tube amplifier
jwbensley
I've been thinking about stepping up my hobby electronics projects to further my knowledge, building a basic amp and DAC, I'd love to hear more about this.
markatkinson
31m, how important air conditioning is to my sanity.
deven88
30 - Yesterday, I learned how to make flask (python) web app.
shriphani
27 - this morning I learned to apply gold leaf to wood. Most recently acquired skill - chip carving wood.
abhiminator
21. Last thing I learnt was fixing my Android device's super annoying boot-loop.
cbluth
Nexus 5x? Single core bootloader fix?
kregasaurusrex
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.
boxhead852b
Why does age matter ? What is the point of asking about age ?
nift
Not the OP, but I can be an interesting metric with regards to what people learn. For instance with regards to languages, do "younger" commenters learn more "hyped" languages than "older"? Or is the reverse?

In general I would classify it "just for fun" and the OP did state it was optional. Perhaps edited after your comment?

cvaidya1986
Imagine someone responding I am 200 and last thing I learned is the secret to immortality.
boxhead852b
Why does age matter ? What is the point of asking how old a person is?
minikomi
35.

1.5 mount and Buddha's revenge.

Scea91
26 - Walking 5 meters on slackline.
I_complete_me
56. how to ssh into an AWS instance. Oh the joy!
Raed667
26- I learned that my body is not as "unbreakable" as it was ten years ago
maccard
If it helps,im the same age as you, and I learned my body wasn't as unbreakable as I thought it was when I was 16. Hope it works out for you. What I've learned is our bodies are impressively good at fixing the things that go wrong with them
flashgordon
39. I feel the same way as you!
sunstone
A forty year old body takes twice as long to heal as a 20 year old body :( I learned this quite some time ago but it still seems surprising.
flashgordon
Hah - Surprising yep. And dissappointing too :)
DecoPerson
24 – I learnt how helping myself helps me help others. My body and mind are instruments and they require attention and maintenance.

On the tech side, I started learning Rust and delved deeper into how Perforce works so I could write a tool to backup and restore my pending changelists to/from Git repos.

fbomb
55. Just stumbled across a philosophy course online. I had always thought of philosophy as archaic, useless and boring. I could not have been more wrong.
srik
Could you provide a link to the course. Id like to check it out.
tucaz
Not the parent but check out Philosophy Crash Course in YouTube. You can thank me later :D