jimpudar

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.

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.

Dan Boneh's (Stanford) Cryptography I on Coursera.

Excellent course; he is a fantastic teacher.

I'm also wondering this. I've seen plenty of hate for systemd, but I've never personally run into any issues with it.

What Linux distros don't include Perl by default? I certainly haven't come across any...

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 things that you should upgrade first in your kitchen, right up there with your chef's knife.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Take a look at OpenBSD as well. I've had nothing but stability and fantastic documentation since switching over.

All good suggestions except Adderall. Don't start using drugs to get by in your career lest you make it a short one.

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 purposes as it is today.

Reading the design philosophy was a life changing experience for me. It's really incredible how much we take this incredible system for granted.

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&list=PLnKJHZhW_B...

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 if you look around!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope#X-Y_mode

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.

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 code, but coming from mostly Java/APEX it was a difficult experience.

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 large Salesforce APEX project, it took me a few weeks to contribute and a couple of months to gain fluency. APEX is pretty much a subset of Java (with minor differences) so there was a lot less to learn there.

Some people would disagree with you...

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened

Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.

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, network packet analysis, even database access.

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 happening "on the bare metal".

Take a look at pi-hole with a VPN for remote use. It works great.

Partial git commits is a feature I have wished existed more than once. Looking forward to trying them out.

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 --progress. --partial keeps partially transferred files in the event something goes wrong, and --progress shows you the progress of the transfer.

You will probably want to use -r for recursing into your directory structure.

man man

man apropos

man proc (on Linux)

man builtin

man info

If you want to read high quality man pages, OpenBSD is best.

Even better, replace pfsense with PF running on OpenBSD. Pi-Hole is awesome though, can't recommend it enough.

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 using an AMD chip which I had lying around. You're probably right that it uses a bit more power than necessary.

I was thinking about getting something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Micro-Appliance-Gigabit-Bare... which uses 10W. It should be easy to install *BSD on something similar.