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by jimpudar 8y ago
I love FreeBSD, so I don't think you made a bad choice, but if you ever want to try Ubuntu again go with Lubuntu instead of the Gnome based Ubuntu. It's a far better UX IMHO.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
I have had a Celestron microscope for many years, it has been rock solid. It has a plug in LED light and also a mirror. You need to prepare slides of whatever you're looking at, as the light comes from below.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Dan Boneh's (Stanford) Cryptography I on Coursera. Excellent course; he is a fantastic teacher.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
I'm also wondering this. I've seen plenty of hate for systemd, but I've never personally run into any issues with it.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
What Linux distros don't include Perl by default? I certainly haven't come across any...
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by jimpudar 8y ago
You should try upgrading to a proper mill. Those McCormick grinders just kind of crush the corns into little pieces, a real grinder can produce a powerfully pungent powder that will really knock your socks off. A pepper mill is one of those
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by jimpudar 8y ago
I've never understood this mentality. If you can dump something to the terminal and use tmux search, you could just as easily use `less` which is pretty much purpose built for this.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
This has been my experience as well. Apple seems to have spent a lot of effort in making their software use very little energy. Check out the energy usage of Safari vs Chrome sometime, for example.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
If you are searching for something, you can always do something like this: history | grep 'keyword' | less This is usually more effective for me than C-r.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
All the source files of standardebooks.org books are up on Github, it might be possible to write a script to automatically convert the files to LaTeX.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
True, sometimes it's easy to forget not everyone is comfortable at a command line when you are surrounded by people who are at work.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Take a look at OpenBSD as well. I've had nothing but stability and fantastic documentation since switching over.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
All good suggestions except Adderall. Don't start using drugs to get by in your career lest you make it a short one.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
If you maximize on a 4K monitor and use tmux on a remote server there is a pretty significant amount of latency. I never noticed until I tried alacritty, the difference is astonishing. That being said, iTerm2 is plenty fast enough for my pu
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Reading the design philosophy was a life changing experience for me. It's really incredible how much we take this incredible system for granted.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Hansang Bae, the CTO of Riverbed (Wireshark's corporate sponsor) has a series of videos about using Wireshark. There are some great practical packet analysis tips in these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0QABcTD-xc&am
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by jimpudar 8y ago
This is pretty cool. If you couldn't tell, he is using a dual trace oscilloscope in X-Y Mode [1]. The left audio channel is driving the horizontal deflection. You can usually pick up one of these old analog scopes for under 100 bucks i
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by jimpudar 8y ago
We use Confluence for our Wiki and have draw.io integration. This works really well as all our diagrams are editable by anyone forever. I used to use Visio on Windows and had an excellent experience.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
The application uses Mojolicious magic very heavily and we have a lot of Perl 'wizards' who like to write code that relies on little known language features. Now that I am very comfortable with Perl I enjoy reading that kind of co
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by jimpudar 8y ago
On a massive Perl / Mojolicious project it took me about 2 months to contribute, and 8-10 months to gain a moderate level of fluency. Like others have mentioned, I don't think I will ever fully know the language. On an extremely l
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Some people would disagree with you... https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.
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by jimpudar 8y ago
I'll second this - queuing theory is extremely relevant in all sorts of places. If you haven't studied it, you might not know when the concepts will apply. It's applicable to all sorts of things like event loops, job queues,
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by jimpudar 8y ago
Not exactly a "lesser known" area, but computer architecture and operating systems. No matter what you are doing with computers, no matter what high level language you are using, you will eventually need to understand what is happ
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by jimpudar 9y ago
Take a look at pi-hole with a VPN for remote use. It works great.
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by jimpudar 9y ago
Partial git commits is a feature I have wished existed more than once. Looking forward to trying them out.
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by jimpudar 9y ago
rsync is definitely capable of doing what you want. Check out the man page and use '--dry-run' to see how each command would work. Also, the -P option (at least on the version I have installed) is for enabling both --partial and -
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by jimpudar 9y ago
man man man apropos man proc (on Linux) man builtin man info If you want to read high quality man pages, OpenBSD is best.
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by jimpudar 9y ago
Even better, replace pfsense with PF running on OpenBSD. Pi-Hole is awesome though, can't recommend it enough.
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by jimpudar 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong - I haven't tried it - but it looks like you should be able to run OpenBSD on ARM https://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html I'll check what the energy consumption on my router is. I'm us

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