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.
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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.
Another related novella by Tolstoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich
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.
When i had started they were available on Lagunita. Looks like the same videos are available on Youtube.
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