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25. How to deploy a docker based lambda function to compile latex on fly. Currently it compiles tufte class pretty well.

I did the very same thing 2 weeks ago! Out of curiosity, were you using the lambci image as a starting point?

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31. I just learned how to make soap in Dwarf Fortress.

32 (and just learned about Competitive Analysis) but I wanted to say that learning how to make stuff in Dwarf Fortress is always rewarding in a very deep sense. I have no idea why, but every new mechanic mastered seems to multiply the possibilities of fun (and dwarf fortress 'fun' also)

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Not to get emotionally involved with a product that could be turned off at any time. And that just because a business is more popular and better technically than it's competitors doesn't mean it doesn't have problems behind the scenes. And on a related note, if you don't have something downloaded to your own hard drive, you don't really own it.

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24. Why nuclear weapons produce a double flash. I'd read that was a signature of a nuclear detonation (Clancy novels, sue me) but not why. Turns out it's because the shock wave is hot enough in the early stages of the explosion to become opaque, blocking light from escaping. As it expands, the shock wave cools and becomes transparent again, letting the light from the fireball inside escape.

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41 - learning to trade options on the stock market.

Can anyone recommend a path to learning about investing?

Buy after a crash when market low. Sell before crash when market high. Rinse and repeat.
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