What’s the one thing you’ve always wanted to learn and why?
For me, The true art of sewing. I have tried in years past but I could never seem to have enough patience to get it down. I am however, on the edge of trying again soon.
What’s the one thing you’ve always wanted to learn and why?
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How DO they get the caramel inside of a Caramilk bar? The ad triggered a curiosity that has been unanswered for more than 50 years… 
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Music. I have no aptitude for it, but I’ve always wanted to be able to re-produce my favorite songs. Have tried guitar a few times but never stuck with it long enough to make substantial progress.
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Same here. I’d love to play half as good as this guy. Buut I don’t stick with it long enough to get past the point where I can play well enough to be fun instead of just hard practice.
Drekes
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I am learning skateboarding with my son. 
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There’s so many things I’ve always wanted to learn, mostly for fun and curiosity sake.
One of my goals this year is to build either an autonomous drone, or an anti gravity device, or an over-unity zero point energy device that exploits David Bohm’s non-local field. Basically, build something with high voltage, magnets and lasers.
Finally learning to play the dust covered guitar could be cool too.
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Those are the hardest ones to learn to play I’ve heard. So I keep wiping the dust off mine every six months or so.
I’m trying to get my feet wet in robotics currently but tend to be a “learning a whole lot of things all at the same time” kinda guy so things kinda jockey for position in my life. The list of things jockeying for position right now include (but aren’t limited to):
- Touch typing
- Animatronics
- Wingfoiling
- Juggling (been ‘on the list’ for over a decade)
- Fitness after 50
- The cello
Like Aza I assume, I love learning for the sake of learning and curiosity. I do find once I’ve “learned” I seem to move on and from the outside (meaning as far as my wife probably sees it) it may appear I’ve lost interest but it’s just that I’ve “learned it” so I move onto the next thing. The only downside to this is that I’ll forever be a jack of all trades, master of none. But I’m OK with that. I’ve got ice carving to claim my mastery. The rest are just fallbacks perhaps.
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I would like to be able to say I’ve had a crack at everything, and music is one of those things that I’m just not going to conquer.
But I will build a partially cnc’d, partially printed busker organ and play other people’s tunes through paper rolls I’ve punched with a laser.
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One day.
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I want to play more TTRPGs. I played a little in middle school and my son is getting really into it. His group of friend’s dads invited me to a game and I have really had fun. I am still getting the hang of it.
For those of you in the know, I asked my son for the type that would be a glass cannon and he chose evoker wizard. The character is an Assimar, descended from heavenly beings, but is an atheist. He is definitely a glass cannon. Lvl 11 with only 45HP.
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For those not in the know, even though English is your first language, nothing in your post makes any sense at all! 
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For me, I would break it into two things I’d like to learn. For the mind, I’d really like to learn more coding. I’ve messed with it through the years, but my jobby job is something in a completely different domain. I’ve taken a bunch of courses through the years, but it’s ultimately helped me understand what it really takes. Hats off to the guys on this forum that handle the coding related heavy lifting.
Physically I’d like to learn welding. I am pretty comfortable in wood, and am reasonably comfortable with some other materials. There are just times when bulk, weight, strength, and durability call for working with steel, and it’s always been a bit of a blind spot for me. A bit worried that it would call for a bunch of tools I shouldn’t buy and more space in a crowded “weekend warrior” garage shop. But I think welding would be a cool skill to develop as part of my “maker” hobby.
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It can be so frustrating and feel so powerful to code. I don’t think anything can be replicated as well as software. So it has the potential to go extremely far with very little cost. Sharing STLs is a similar superpower, IMO. It can be frustrating because it seems like you are in a constant state of failure. You work and work and work on it until something finally does what you want. Then you immediately break it to add the next feature. There is never a time where you get to enjoy it just working.
The hardest part about learning to code is motivation. When you learn on the job (which is basically what I did), you have to solve problems every day. You have to make shortcuts to get it to work and you learn why those shortcuts end up biting you in the ass as you keep working on the code. That experience really hones your skills and gives you the ability to make great code that is easier to maintain.
But if you just want to work on it as a hobby, you don’t need to put yourself through that crucible. But you still need a reason to try all the different things programming can do. So you need a puzzle or a project (or many) to get you into it and keep you focused on a goal.
The other poorly kept secret in software engineering is that no one knows everything. Most SWEs are in a “fake it till you make it” mindset. It takes a really long time to be able to know enough to not hate the code you wrote 6 months ago. Almost everyone is asking chatgpt or looking on stack overflow for solutions. No one memorizes all the apis. So don’t sweat it. If you get to the end of a puzzle or project and it works, you earned the SWE merit badge. Anything after that is just more experience. You are already a coder.
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Let me translate it for you: his character deals a shitload of damage but if an enemy looks at it sideways, he’s going to die. 
Best builds. I also always do glass cannons. 
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Thank you for the translation!
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How to legally fly, dead reckoning and better map skills.
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Are you flying otherwise?
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I should have worded that better. I have never flown solo and I want to get my license.
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Aw bummer. Flying a Boeing 747 without any training would be pretty epic.
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Once. 
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It’s not the flying that is the problem. It’s the landing!
I too would like to get off my butt and get my pilots license. I used to fly with my dad in a number of his homebuilt planes and really enjoyed it. Did ground school at college and just never went any further.
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