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The book follows an American family who gave birth to 12 children, 6 of whom were later diagnosed with schizophrenia in their teens.

It’s interesting because the book gives lots of insight into the historical to modern research on the condition. In the past psychologists thought schizophrenia was caused by the environment and/or bad childhood. But most of the research right now is pointing towards a genetic cause.

I save money by not buying much stuff in general. So when I do have to spend it’s not a big deal. It’s not like saving $80 by not going to a concert would have some profound impact on my future financial situation. Same with vacations or buying clothes. I don’t do that stuff often, so when I do, whatever. Why ruminate so much on it.

I used to be more of your mindset but realized it was stupid. And you end up missing out on opportunities if you’re too frugal just for the sake of it (rather than necessity). People I’ve met on trips, random books I’ve bought, etc have changed my life in lots of positive ways.

All the big sites seem to load slower and there seems to be more tracking/bloat going on in the background. I think they are desperate for revenue and finally pulling out all the stops. I unfortunately can’t give any concrete examples of this.

Here is an example. I was interested in real-time 3D graphics programming. How did I go about it? I followed the bare minimum tutorials to get OpenGL set up with C++ and then I just wrote code for several months, trying different things. This allowed me to develop my own intuition around linear algebra, geometry, 3D rendering, GPU pipelines, etc. I knew I wasn't doing anything groundbreaking, but what I found was after this experimentation I was able to readily digest and understand the formal approach to the topic. And it was out of my own interest too. I was watching university lectures, reading about mathematical proofs, etc. Something I thought I'd never be able to do. And I found it much more rewarding as I was able to see where my intuitions were correct and lined up with the formal approach, and also where I was very wrong.

But I also disagree with you. Lambda ends up being very cost effective at the place I work at. Its a payment processor so lambdas are only ever run in response to approved transactions. For this sort of SAAS the economics of lambda work very well. I'm not sure what would be better. Of course if I were running a public facing free web service I would not use lambda, but for something where every user is a paying customer? I think Lambda is very cost effective. And if it ever got to the point where moving to k8's would result in a massive cost-savings, I would just pay a guy like you to handle the migration. At that point its probably not a small startup anymore.

This exact same thing happened at my Uni. Reason for it was the exchange server was compromised by ransomware. Solution was to abandon it and fast track O365 migration for all users.

I’ve worked IT help desk before and have seen lots of phishing emails. If scammers tightened up their spelling and grammar skills a tiny bit they would catch many more victims effortlessly. The bar is insanely low. Most users could spot obvious phishing emails. But emails with even just a little more effort put into spelling and grammar were insanely successful. I worked at a University - I’ve seen professors, students, admin fall for these ones.

Why can’t they spell? Because most scammers are operating from the developing word and don’t have great English. That’s it. There’s no elaborate theories beyond that.

I would argue the current anti-car movement in the U.S is a result of more americans going abroad for vacation to Europe and Asia and seeing what works there and bringing those ideas back. But how easy is it for Americans to go abroad? Most can't.

I don’t think FB knows how to make games. They know how to make social media platforms and web technologies but making games is it’s own skillset.

Later I found out that batch of XPS were prone to failure. They do this “power-saving” thing where they never shut down completely. So for that reason you weren’t supposed to transport them - wtf?? I would carry it in a bag sometimes to university and you would feel it randomly turn on with the fans whirringe. From reading lots of dell support threads, it seemed like dell qc was really hit or miss. So much variation between batches.

Anyways that experience gave me ptsd for high end windows laptops and I got a M1 Air few months ago. It’s been a way better experience so far. It does laptop things really well imo. Nice display(huge!), lightweight, good battery life, great performance for everything except gaming(don’t bother). I press the on button and it instantly picks up from where I left off. That’s huge coming from xps, I would turn that shit on and wait anywhere from 1-10mins, with no guarantees that id be reconnected to the wifi. I even got a high end windows 11 laptop from work that’s more expensive then my M1 and it feels sluggish.

I think dynamoDB streams and kinesis streams work similar under the hood? But dynamoDB streams are way cheaper, pricing is on-demand compared to hourly for Kinesis.

How do most users interact with TikTok? through the FYP (for you page) which is the algo curated feed that you can endlessly scroll through. From my observations - FYP starts out by showing you content from creators in your geolocation (drains so much battery cuz it loves to use location services). From there it will try to associate you with trending hashtags in content you are more likely engage with. Most important engagement metric is watch-time. So if you complain that your tiktok is full of porn/horny content then you probably have high watch-time in these areas. It will alternate between showing you vids of high user engagement (1M+), medium engagement (<1M) and low engagement (<1K) in the trending hastags/topics it associates with you.

So the content and trends move very fast. Eventually your schtick gets old.

we have CI/CD pipeline that builds and deploys serverless functions using serverless containers.

not a serverless enthusiast btw. microservices have their own set of issues but they can be the right fit for certain apps.

I can see LinkedIn adding a feature like this in the future - though I think LinkedIn spaces would be terrible (insane amount of self-promotion ugh). Reddit is already testing it.

WhatsApp seems to dominate in Europe and South America.

But I look back now and realize a lot of my foundational knowledge on economics, programming, networking, teamwork, came from MMORPGS. They are social games where you deal with people - and that is a valuable experience.

Unfortunately modern MMO’s are very asocial games and I don’t think much can be learned from them.

And with that being said, I have no idea how you unschool as an adult without having significant capital. I wanted to unschool for a long-time prior to 2020 but working/doing school 8 hours a day left me with little energy. I was fortunate to be able to live under my parents roof rent-free in 2020 and the COVID relief money I received from the government was enough to let me purchase the resources I needed (lots of books). If I didn't have these benefits I doubt I could do such a thing. I definitely couldn't do such a thing if I still had to work full-time - believe me I tried many times.

Not to mention there is a lot of stigma around doing this as an adult if you don't have capital. I'm young and don't have any dependents so the consequences of potential failure weren't as significant. But if I did? I think that would create a lot more crippling self-doubt throughout the entire process.

I use the free tier for firebase to store real time trade data. The front-end was built using Next.js and hosted using the Vercel free tier.

The real-time data was visualized on a website. Here is an example. https://algot.io/