forty-nine things tagged “todo”
How to Migrate from RaidZ1 to RaidZ2
There is the purposeful degradation of the pool but I don’t know how else one would do it without buying more disks for a separate pool entirely. Author helpfully provides a lot of links to places you can back up your stuff to (with prices!)
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Dr. Axel’s JavaScript Flashcards
He’s also written and published this amazing book.
A $300, Fully-Functional Microscope Design by IBM
Super-cool. I look forward to bookmarking this, telling myself that I’ll finally put Pi Zero to good use, and never doing this 🤘…
A Command-Line Murder Mystery!
By Noah Veltman who appears to have impeccable gums.
An Ingredient Parser using TensorFlow
Really cool stuff. Trained on the New York Times ingredients corpus (large 13.5MB CSV) and turns this ingredients = [ "3 large melons", "5 1/2 cups water", "2 cups flour", ] into this [ { "name": "melons", "unit": None, "qty": 3.0 }, { "name": "water", "unit": "cup…
The Best Things of 2021
The Best Albums: Pitchfork, Rolling Stone The Best Graphic Novels: New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian The Best Movies: New York Times, Empire, The New Yorker I’ll cache and smush these soon.…
The Art of Node
by maxogden
The Art of Node # An introduction to Node.js # This document is intended for readers who know at least a little bit of a couple of things: a scripting language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. If you aren’t a programmer yet then it is probably easier to start by reading JavaScript for…
Parrots, The Universe, and Everything
A lecture at UCSB by Douglas Adams (RIP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc…
The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done
By Michael Dearing. Couldn’t find any video and not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek (like the “48 Laws of Power”.) The distortions are: Personal Exceptionalism “I am special.” Dichotomous Thinking “X is sh*t. Y is genius.” Correct Overgeneralization “I see two dots and draw the right line.” Bl…
“Calling Bullshit” is a free online course that helps you “detect and defuse” Bullshit when you encounter it.
Our learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to: Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet. Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it. Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is b…
How Big is Too Big for JSON?
From over 10 years ago (I’m sorting through my old bookmarks). A single object looks like this: { "ACCTOUNT_NUMBER":"1234567890", "CUSTOMER_NAME":"ACME Products and Services, Inc.", "ADDRESS":"123 Main Street", "CITY":"Albuquerque", "STATE":"NM", "ZIP":"87101-1234" } He te…
Real Programmers Don’t Use PASCAL
by Ed Post, Copyright (c) 1982
Back in the good old days – the “Golden Era” of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called “Real Men” and “Quiche Eaters” in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that…
How to Write a Shell in C
About as ‘essential’ as it gets if you want to appreciate a tool you work with every day. (Cached)…
A Custom “Linux Router, Firewall and IDS Appliance”
The focus of this project is to build a super reliable, durable, and stable network device from tried and tested tech. This is not a project for pushing the limits or testing out flashy new stacks. This affinity for ‘boring’ technology will reflect on most of the choices made here, from the hardwa…
“In The Ocean”
A documentary about the avant garde music in NYC. Features Glass, Reich, Cage, Zappa, and a bunch of dissatisfied viewers in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0NwiTHIhGM…
Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?
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The History of Bushido
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuRW1zkEQpw…
The Thirty Million Line Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk…
“TRUISMS (1978 - 1983)” by Jenny Holzer
Here are her website and Wikipedia page.…
“Quantum computing for the very curious”
by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen…
“Fifth Season” by Will Barnet (1976)
Serigraph for sale at the Davidson Galleries (it’s $550.)…
Build Your Own Lisp.
Learn C and build a basic Lisp #VALUE 😍…