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Orthostatic hypotension, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and other related issues are not always (and usually not) B12 deficiency. These issues are downstream of a number of causes.

Have you logged into Brex? I didn't receive an email, but got a notification in the website.

Would've been interesting to see Sun collide with Alan Kay at Apple

I think people, by nature, tend to bucket others into a set of a few archetypes because it is easier to process the world this way. Most of it is out of ignorance - humans are always trying to conceptualize their lives in ways that can be understood, manipulated, and talked about.

It is a shame that companies are passed up because they don't fit perfectly into one of a few categories. This is partially why research institutions and research-based companies are often overlooked or micromanaged.

Unrelated, but love that I can infer how you pronounce SQL by the title of this post

What about the one-user, commercial shop? Seems like commercial is minimum 10 users, but personal/developer is more expensive per user. Does a one man shop need to pay $250 for commercial use, or $75?

Go through the MyFirstMillion podcasts for indiehacker-like ideas that could make you fairly wealthy. There are a ton, and like others have pointed out, it seems what you are working on is very specific, very technical, and very context dependent (Rust, PostgreSQL, etc.).

It doesn't take brilliance (in the realm of ideas) to be financially successful. If you listen to this podcast enough, you'll realize how rich people have gotten doing some of the most low-hanging ideas.

did this idea spark from PG's old talk on new ideas https://youtu.be/R9ITLdmfdLI? One of them is literally "search engine for developers/hackers"

If this is your last internship before some form of graduation, then maybe consider working somewhere you'd be more willing to work full time (if not Meta). Otherwise, seems fine, for reasons others have mentioned below.

I know a number of people outside of software engineering/tech that are going through this. Since COVID, many people have learned (the hard way) that community is important.

Try meetups (even meetup.com). It only takes one person you meet to stick and become a friend, and that's 1000x better than where you started. Keep doing it, go to random meetups and things where there will be other people open to making friends. You don't need to actually be interested in whatever the activity is (though many meetups are at bars), it's just an excuse to meet people, just like college was.

Try standup comedy clubs/shows (the small ones). These people are usually friendly, and people usually stick around to chat afterwards. You can meet people easily this way.

Eventually you or someone you meet will ask to do another activity together (maybe food, maybe golfing, who knows). You could even make it a regular thing over time. This kind of thing builds the sense of community you're looking for.

Wanna feel good tomorrow? Go to a few stores (or similar) and make small talk with some cashiers. Try your best to engage and be nice. You may not meet a friend this way, but you'll connect with others in your community around you, which will certainly help.

Not to mention the false Ivermectin story about poisonous overdoses.

It may increase their willingness to invest and day-trade so they don't have to work.

Love it! Can't wait to see how this evolves over time.

McLuhan speaks in exaggerated language - it's important to not take everything he says too literally, and to instead judge the essence of the ideas.

"The Medium is the Message" because without context (the media), messages are just noise. McLuhan was all about seeing the contexts we live in, how they shape our reality, etc.

Sorta. Code is the medium of encoding a program, but it's just text. One important part about programming is it gives us a new mode to think in terms of. Another is that it gives us power over an entity (the computer) to execute things. The cool thing about Papert's LOGO was that children already knew how to think in terms of left, right, forward, etc. so they could act out their programs in real life before writing them down. This is one step forward, but not enough.

We have to stop looking at computers as machines with mice and keyboards and small screens that we conquer with code and start thinking of them as abstract entities that execute things, and then think of how best to manipulate those entities to do what we want.

"The computer is an instrument whose music is ideas" (Alan Kay) - Can you imagine what music would look like today if all we could do was write it down and hit play? Where's the emotion and playfulness in that?

Learning to program is not necessarily the same as learning to code. If we always think of the two as the same, we'll face the same issues indefinitely.

Interesting! Looks like a GUI list abstraction for a shared filesystem, where everything is a folder and their values are folder names. Makes me wonder what other cool things people could do with Kanban boards that would involve new conceptual models.

For example, a Kanban board where each column is a list of products or a shopping cart, and the final column is a list of purchased items. Moving a product to the final column would purchase the item and not be undoable.