Thank you for your valuable comment! As an autodidact I do buy books on various fields that interest me and I'm always looking for comments such as yours that can give me more information about the main texts in that field and what they cover well or what another book covers better. So this is very helpful!

How many Blurays are we talking about?

Can't reply to the other poster, but I have 4K HDR Blu-ray copies from discs I found in the street too, which are more in the 60GB ballpark.

In what kind of "streets" you guys are hanging around?

500 TB/25 GB = 20.000

if some have more than one layer it could fewer but that's the order of magnitude

If each Bluray is 2 hours long, that's 4.5 years of nonstop watching.

Just parallelize watching.

I have 50 agents watching blurays for me 24/7

Tokendealers love that.

Thanks for all your efforts on pikuma.com, huge fan here.

Can you share what kind of ideas you're mulling for the direction of the site?

Thanks for the kind words. I still want to record "Operating Systems" and "Algorithms & Data Structures" to finally complete the core CS areas. It's missing Networking but I don't know much about that topic anyways. I also wanted to continue the retro programming with at least one 68K machine (maybe the Mega Drive) plus a MS-DOS x86 course too. Also, I wanted to teach 3D game physics, either as a new course or adding more chapters to the existing 2D physics course.

Hopefully, I'll decide on what to tackle soon.

I had no idea about any of this! Thank you for sharing this!

A light weight journaling of your learnings as you go along would probably be real beneficial to many (such as myself who has zero knowledge on the subject of DAWs and creating music effects for games). And since you said it’s very challenging maybe writing about it in small bite-sized learnings might make the process easier? Going from “I must learn all this stuff!!” to “let’s see what audio gems we pick up in our adventure today”.

Good point w/ journaling and maybe even preparing stuff to share. Right now it feels like trying to eat a whale whole. …That’s the beauty of doing something in a new (to me) domain though. Even if I don’t share, the practice of formulating how I would explain to someone is beneficial.

Come on, somebody at Adobe spill the beans. Who was responsible for this debacle?

Since you’re already done creating your hardware product instead of thinking of a new product to follow up with, I would suggest a new business model: there are probably a non-zero number of people on HN that have a vision about making a hardware product. You can offer your services so the don’t have to learn all these lessons the hard way!

I agree. In fact you should make a (YouTube?) video showing the slide rule and how to use it and your grandfather’s history to preserve this bit of history for your family and family’s future descendants.

this is gold!

“Click to keep avoiding work …”

quite an interesting list of books for 2025. I’ll have to get some of these to read. Especially the Information theory one above and the one you mentioned in your review.