I find this test interesting because I received an ACE score of 1, but I'm the oldest child in my household and I'm realizing that my siblings would probably score slightly higher than me... :-(
I moved out when I was around 20 before alcoholism and divorce destroyed the beautiful family dynamic that I grew up with.
This makes me want to try and understand the differences between myself and my siblings a bit more closely.
As an also low ACE person with high ACE loved ones, I super encourage this!
With the serious caveat that ACE score isn’t a great predictor for individuals: if your siblings have ACEs >=3, it’s entirely plausible that that trauma explains none, some, or all of the differences you’re referring to.
(If, like me, you grew up thinking socioeconomic status was the gold star predictor of cohort health, the past couple of decades of research here are pretty shocking!)
Citi is doing a great thing and it's charging a fair price. There is a benefit for all of us when businesses charge a fee for the products and services they provide: We don't take those products or services for granted.
Just because some big bank can afford to pay for your bike ride, doesn't make you entitled to ask them to do it.
I'm going to engage because there's nothing pathetic about these guys.
I bet many people said people like "Thomas Edison", "The Wright brothers", and "Steve Wozniak" were "sad and pathetic" like you say as they tinkered on their projects.
I just remembered compiling an early 2.0.xx kernel on an old 386DX AT&T server that was given to me when I was a teenager in the 90s. It spent hours doing it and I loved watching gcc take several seconds to compile each file! I also recall that the hard drive in that thing must have weighed at least 40lbs. Those were fun days!
Yeach. Yeah I had two of those when they were being thrown out. MCA was a really horrible bus between ISA and PCI. I recall it not wanting to boot unless you installed drivers for all your cards into the BIOS, or something.
So not only did your OS need drivers, but your BIOS did too.
I may misremember.
Compiling the kernel was basically an overnight operation, IIRC.
But yeah they were built like tanks. Even the power switch felt like you were turning the power back on to the fences in Jurassic Park.
For me, on my 386DX 24Mhz with 8MiB RAM, it took about 20minutes late 92 or early 93 (SLS 1.0 -- pre 1.0 kernel), but I had to leave X11, as otherwise the machine would swap to death.
That may have been later, thus with a bigger kernel, but on older hardware. It was probably 386 and 486s back in maybe 2.0/2.2 kernel era.
For the specific machines in question I set up some sort of RAID0 between two 60MB SCSI drives, to be able to do much.
The reason I say overnight may be because I had machines with specs like that a few years later than you. I did run Linux to some extent since 1994 (Slackware 2.0), but don't remember the kernel compiling aspects of back then at all.
But it's a good point. I was not comparing latest kernel to latest (or even necessarily median) kernel at the time.
I'm going to upvote this comment because not everyone in the world can afford $300 for 64GB+ of RAM. The solution to not dump everything into RAM is a great one.
Fortunately, I've had a fancy Silicon Valley job for 15+ years which now lets me afford many GBs of RAM if I wanted to but it was a different story in my 20s. I relied on free or almost free hardware to learn. And that free hardware usually lagged in specs.
Yeah I agree with you not everyone can afford it, but lots of young people build $1800 gaming PCs. If you want a powerful Linux workstation desktop PC for fun projects like this you can get a Dell t5610 with two 8 core xeons and 128GB of ram on eBay for $650, then add your own $100 SSD.
I would not recommend running out and buying a new current gen Ryzen board+cpu or core i7-whatever and 128GB of new ram at ddr4-4200 prices.
If you're like me and have spent several years working with Java projects, moving to Kotlin will slow you down at first. You also may not know all the cool new features available in Kotlin from day 1, so you may find yourself doing "java" things in Kotlin, or not knowing how to do some things in Kotlin at all.
If you're on a tight deadline for something, you might want to just stick with Java (if you know it) until you can dedicate enough time to learn Kotlin well. If you're new to both Java or Kotlin, then learn both. :)
"I would advice Mr. Sam Altman to not write such an insulting article. He should take it down immediately. Many of us reading it live in San Francisco."
I built https://fishygram.com with a DSL you can copy and paste into ChatGPT to build diagrams for you.
You can take a look at the examples to see what it can do.
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