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acarril / bootable-win-on-mac.md
Created November 18, 2022 17:49
Create a bootable Windows USB using macOS

For some reason, it is surprisingly hard to create a bootable Windows USB using macOS. These are my steps for doing so, which have worked for me in macOS Monterey (12.6.1) for Windows 10 and 11. After following these steps, you should have a bootable Windows USB drive.

1. Download a Windows disc image (i.e. ISO file)

You can download Windows 10 or Windows 11 directly from Microsoft.

2. Identify your USB drive

After plugging the drive to your machine, identify the name of the USB device using diskutil list, which should return an output like the one below. In my case, the correct disk name is disk2.

@swalkinshaw
swalkinshaw / tutorial.md
Last active February 26, 2025 21:15
Designing a GraphQL API

Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM

I was talking to a coworker recently about general techniques that almost always form the core of any effort to write very fast, down-to-the-metal hot path code on the JVM, and they pointed out that there really isn't a particularly good place to go for this information. It occurred to me that, really, I had more or less picked up all of it by word of mouth and experience, and there just aren't any good reference sources on the topic. So… here's my word of mouth.

This is by no means a comprehensive gist. It's also important to understand that the techniques that I outline in here are not 100% absolute either. Performance on the JVM is an incredibly complicated subject, and while there are rules that almost always hold true, the "almost" remains very salient. Also, for many or even most applications, there will be other techniques that I'm not mentioning which will have a greater impact. JMH, Java Flight Recorder, and a good profiler are your very best friend! Mea

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aparrish / understanding-word-vectors.ipynb
Last active April 9, 2025 14:04
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing Electronic Text," a class I teach at ITP. (Python 2.7) Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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aparrish / spacy_intro.ipynb
Last active March 14, 2025 21:43
NLP Concepts with spaCy. Code examples released under CC0 https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/, other text released under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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davisford / Setup MongoDB on localhost as Replica Set
Last active February 15, 2025 11:17
Setup MongoDB replica set on local host with only a single primary
Add the `replication` section to the mongod.conf file:
```
$cat /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
systemLog:
destination: file
path: /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log
logAppend: true
storage:
engine: mmapv1

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

Principles of Adult Behavior

  1. Be patient. No matter what.
  2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
  3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
  4. Expand your sense of the possible.
  5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
  6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
  7. Tolerate ambiguity.
  8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
@hfreire
hfreire / qemu_osx_rpi_raspbian_jessie.sh
Last active February 4, 2025 00:47
How to emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OSX (El Capitan)
# Install QEMU OSX port with ARM support
sudo port install qemu +target_arm
export QEMU=$(which qemu-system-arm)
# Dowload kernel and export location
curl -OL \
https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/blob/master/kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie
export RPI_KERNEL=./kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie
# Download filesystem and export location
@m-ou-se
m-ou-se / clock.scad
Last active December 11, 2016 12:48
3D model for my whiteboard clock
$fs=1;
$fa=1;
servo_l = 24;
servo_w = 13;
servo_h = 21;
bolt_hole_diameter = 4.5;
servo_axis_diameter = 4;