I am a loner/socially awkward and used to run a bit before 2020. Then in 2020, since we were confined I used to run close to my house. I used to see a bunch of folks regularly running but was apprehensive about approaching them. One day one of them said Hi and now I am thankful and happy to be part of that group. There are still periods when I like to run alone and avoid the group but they welcome me whenever I am ready. I am a lot happier since joining this group. More people have joined this group in last two and a half years and am good friends with some of them. I am not sure but I think the group has helped some of them with their loneliness like me. There is some sense of satisfaction when you improve your timing but a bigger source of satisfaction is when you are helping others with their running or just spending time with them. I was lucky to be found by the group and sometimes I wish we can find more people who would be interested even a little bit but are apprehensive like I was/am.

YES! Wonderful!

Two things you mention that are powerful:

1. Keep it really simple. Just show up. You don’t have to solve what happens next, or make a perfect first impression, or be a perfect person. Give yourself the same grace you would others.

2. The gratitude you feel for having found the group. Imagine how the others you’ve helped feel having found the group.

A great story—thank you for sharing.

The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse. I enjoyed reading both Steppenwolf and Narcissus and Goldmund for the second time.

There are 2 courses on WinDbg at : https://p.ost2.fyi/

I took the Architecture 1001: x86-64 Assembly course at https://p.ost2.fyi/ and enjoyed solving the last two labs.

Thanks for sharing this.

Another related novella by Tolstoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich

Book recommendation:

https://man7.org/tlpi/

It is available on O'Reilly/Safari

This is my first year attempting adventofcode. But doing other things mentioned in this discussion would have been better use of time.

I am doing the following lab: https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/lab.html If you are interested in the subject, i think this can be a good first project.

I agree.

One of the best courses i had taken on Coursera was the Algorithms series by Robert Sedgewick. Apart from going through the lectures, i had obtained a great satisfaction from solving the assignments. But this year, i have taken up the lab assignments for the following: https://cs144.github.io/ https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/info.html

Both have been recommended earlier on HN.

Next on my list is 6.824

I started that course, by my God his presentation is so...sleep-inducing for me. Contrast this with Peter Norvig, who is engaging and scintillates with passion about the subject. By contrast, Sedgewick has this smirk on the whole time, and talks in a monotone. His content is first rate, of course, but sheesh, he's got to work on that pedagogy!

speed it up 1.5x and its fine

Subjective - I like it

Any idea where to get the lecture videos for CS144?

When i had started they were available on Lagunita. Looks like the same videos are available on Youtube.