I didn’t feel in danger near the lizards, they were mostly chilling in the sun. I also saw some buffalo, a couple of interesting birds and thousands of bats at sunset. The tour I took had some snorkeling while waiting for sunset, that was also very nice (clown fish, mantis shrimp, sponges, etc)

Yeah, I hired a local tour for Komodo, it wasn’t too expensive and mainly innvolved hiking and looking at wildlife.

I used an app for indonesian, just a simple list of phrases that could be played back ti hear how they sounded

I spent three weeks in 2015 and it was overall a great experience. I went to Jakarta and Yogyakarta in Java, Ubud in Bali, Labuan Bajo in Flores (as I wanted to visit Komodo National Park), and Manado in North Sulawuesi.

It is incredibly beautiful and culturally rich and I found Indonesian people to be very friendly and open to foreigners. Bali did feel a bit touristy but still authentic and interesting. It’s useful to bring a Bahasa Indonesia phrasebook as in some places people do not speak English. I would advice to try and balance natural and cultural sites and to try and visit a few of the islands as they are very different from one another. Flights within the country are relatively cheap.

I got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 6 and still concluded I am stupid, weak, annoying, and unlovable.

I cut old credit cards into tiny hooks and wedges to remove lint, hair, fluff, and whatever else from the charging port because I’m scared of shorting the USB pins with a metal needle.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has some games in their permanent collection: Games in MoMA

Is d/dx x^2 really equal to d/dx (x+x+x+…+x)? Inserting some value for x seems to break that part. Say x=5:

d/dx 5^2=10 and

d/dx (x+x+x+x+x)=d/dx 5x=5

10 ≠ 5

I understand that x^2, (x+x+x+…+x), and x*x are the same. But its equivalent to doing d/dx x*x =x as d/dx n*x=n. Again this results in 2x=x or 2=1.

The mistake is to treat a variable as a constant and deriving in that way. Doing a sum x times means you have an unaccounted variable when you do d/dx (x+x+x+…+x), this is not 1+1+1+…+1 x times. i.e. The rate of change of one of the x is not incorporated into the derivative.

Mexico had a land reform in the first half of the XX century in which land was distributed to agricultural workers, that makes many of the poor have a family member that owns a house or a small plot of land.

Extended family relations also usually result in having someone willing to take you in no matter what condition you’re in. There’s still homeless people but nothing like the US and parts of Europe