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Indeed a bit of an odd request, but I'm partial to Liz Rice's "Containers from Scratch" talk. Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop.

[0] https://youtu.be/8fi7uSYlOdc

This will be a fun read, thanks!

If you'd prefer to see the same ideas in video form, Liz Rice gave a pretty good prsentation on this same topic in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

A good presentation along similar lines, incidentally by another Liz:

https://youtu.be/8fi7uSYlOdc

>I wish there were a tool that could just record everything [...] if you "know" everything, then notes serve no purpose.

I guess the completeness of your proposed "auto-memorize-everything" solution depends on what style of notes a person writes.

A lot of my notes are annotations or personal commentary that don't exist in the sources of the url text or video.

Here's an example of that type of notes I often take... E.g. I found some links that explain how one can grok "Docker" by going through the learning exercise of re-inventing it from basic os features with homemade scripts. But I wrote my own personal notes (in "##")about the limitations of the explanations in the urls:

  ##  these tutorials explain the verb (runtime) but not noun (artifacts of image file)
  https://github.com/p8952/bocker/blob/master/bocker
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

Because content cannot meta-analyze itself and enumerate all the ideas and concepts that are not embedded in its own text, it means a hypothetical indexing engine that converted the 2 links above to searchable data still would not retrieve the extra meta information I wrote. A lot of good notes are generated from your own brain.

EDIT add to categorize different types of "notes" to aid discussion:

(1) notes as memorization aid such as copying facts: a user writes a note that says "1 inch equals 25.4 millimeters" after seeing it on a webpage or something. So the "universal-record-and-index-everything" would help make these type of notes obsolete because one could just skip writing that note down and just recall it later by searching for "inch to mm conversion" in the digital archive

(2) notes as synthesizing/interpreting/connecting/commenting the content. These type of idiosyncratic notes generated by the user's brain often don't exist on the internet so they cannot be replaced by a universal recording tool.

⬐ sdepablos

Of course the best option is doing BOTH things: indexing the context automatically via a modern personal search engine that accepts all kind of media and does vector / full text and relation indexing, plus the information wroten by the user

Check out this Liz Rice talk on implementing container tech from scratch. Very clear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

Liz Rice has done some awesome on-stage live coding, including a very small container runtime in go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

⬐ markandrewj

She has an O'Reilly video course on building container runtime's in go that is really great as well.

1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xh0ZIEUOE

3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8

5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs

6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak

7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso

⬐ winkeltripel

> 3. Creating containers From Scratch

I read that as "creating containers IN Scratch (a visual game programming language from MiT)." It wasn't as impressive as my expectations, only because my expectations were so very high.

⬐ derangedHorse

James Mickens on JavaScript is hilarious! I've been a huge fan of his ever since I stumbled onto one of his AMAs on Reddit.

⬐ themoat

I just watched the first video. That was so good!

⬐ hessenwolf

What’s the message?

⬐ soobrosa

https://medium.com/@soobrosa/my-humble-james-mickens-shrine-...