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Ask HN: What's one new skill you learned during Covid-19?

by mrburton on 7/10/20, 11:51 AM with 11 comments

• by maps7 on 7/10/20, 12:55 PM

  None - 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.

• by giantg2 on 7/10/20, 1:30 PM

  I'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.

• by mindvirus on 7/10/20, 1:01 PM

  I'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.

• by mrburton on 7/10/20, 6:36 PM

  For me - Cooking and furniture refurbishing

  Making homemade bread, Italian food, various other meals from different cultures etc.

• by rurban on 7/11/20, 10:15 PM

  Asian cooking. Gained 10 pounds.

• by eande on 7/10/20, 7:47 PM

  How option trading works and some self named guru do it.

• by random31415 on 7/10/20, 3:57 PM

  Python, Computer Vision, Deep Learning.