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!

Here's an eBay item that is pretty much exactly what I had back then: https://www.ebay.com/itm/294597619526?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=...

By "hard drive" I assume you mean "computer"?

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.

> I may misremember.

Yeah, I think you do.

> Compiling the kernel was basically an overnight operation, IIRC.

When, on what hardware?

Who was it who complained that compiling the Linux kernel took always ten minutes, regardless of hardware generation? (which of course, isn't entirely true: https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-linux-kernel)

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.

> When, on what hardware?

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. :)

These tools made my life so much easier when I worked as Windows System Admin several years ago! Thank you Nir Sofer for your work!!!

"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."

Hi ars, this is an article that discusses your concerns: http://www.xencraft.com/resources/multi-currency.html

Take a look at the section titled "Presentation Formats"

This seems ok given that the startup has generated approximately $60,000 in stripe revenue.

I would try to reduce costs in those Heroku workers... $175/month seems steep.

Hi! I run Cushion. Moving off Heroku is definitely high on my to-do list. So far, since I'm a solo dev, I've taken the mindset of paying for convenience services that would allow me to spend more time working on the app. Now, I'm getting into the phase where I can start reducing these costs and transition to a system that doesn’t induce fear when I need to add another server. Right now, I have two web workers and two background job workers. The one background job handles integrations with other services, so I wanted to keep that separate from other jobs, like delayed emails, downloading backups, etc.

Thanks so much for sharing this, I will probably use it as an example for a book about hosting costs that I'm trying to finish for far too long.

By the way, your use of Heroku makes total sense given that you're basically alone, I hope that the lock-in won't be too difficult to overcome when moving away from it.

I just thought to leave here a link to a sample chapter from the book:

https://www.hostingforappdevelopers.com/read.html

Thanks for the reply. I think you're doing great. Keeping your focus on the core components of your product is probably the best thing you are doing for your business.

I also want to say that your site has a great design. Are you doing that yourself or would you mind sharing the service you're using?

Thanks! I do all the design, too. I went to school for design and I've been coding all my life—it's a useful balance.

May I humbly suggest ikura.co for your web-workers? Less $516.75.

The same thing that prevents so many developers from using Docker: it's not a drop-in miraculous infrastructure simplifier.

It may pay off for certain organisations, but it currently a quite a rabbit-hole, with a constantly changing landscape, complexities of its own, etc.

Or ditch the fancy pants fonts with less effort.

It says they are spending $74.40/month on Heroku workers.

Thank you for noticing this. The $175/month came from the intercom services. Given that support is likely his main selling point, I think $175 is perfectly fine for the added functionality.