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Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

Copilot Metrics Dashboard (Power BI Version)

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for deploying the Copilot Metrics Dashboard in your environment.

Setup Instructions

To use this report, ensure you have Power BI Desktop installed or access to the Power BI online service.

This report supports Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise products, utilizing the GitHub Copilot User Management and Metrics APIs. The Copilot Metrics API became generally available on October 30th, 2024. For more information, read here.

Discord Timestamps

Discord timestamps can be useful for specifying a date/time across multiple users time zones. They work with the Unix Timestamp format and can be posted by regular users as well as bots and applications.

The Epoch Unix Time Stamp Converter is a good way to quickly generate a timestamp. For the examples below I will be using the Time Stamp of 1543392060, which represents November 28th, 2018 at 09:01:00 hours for my local time zone (GMT+0100 Central European Standard Time).

Formatting

Style	Input	Output (12-hour clock)	Output (24-hour clock)
Default	`<t:1543392060>`	November 28, 2018 9:01 AM	28 November 2018 09:01

Setting favorite/suggest less keyboard shortcuts in Apple Music for Mac

Apple seems to have dropped the ball on binding these fairly important actions to native shortcut keys while also supplying them for a mountain of things most people don't carte about. This gist will show you how to correct that.

Tested on Apple Music 1.4.2.83 on MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1

What you'll need

Automator
System Settings

Suggest Less and Next Track

Markdown Text 101

Want to inject some flavor into your everyday text chat? You're in luck! Discord uses Markdown, a simple plain text formatting system that'll help you make your sentences stand out. Here's how to do it! Just add a few characters before & after your desired text to change your text! I'll show you some examples...

What this guide covers:

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# Usage:
	# ./make_certs.sh test.example.com
	#
	# The required input to make_certs.sh is the path to your pfx file without the .pfx prefix
	#
	# test.example.com.key
	# test.example.com.crt (includes ca-certs)

	savestring = "insert Base64 junk here";

	saving=true;
	document.getElementById('button_save').style.background='#888';
	statusdiv.innerHTML='Saving the painting';
	(SaveObj=new XMLHttpRequest()).open('POST', 'includes/ajax_dsipaint_save.php', true);
	SaveObj.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
	SaveObj.send ('data='+savestring);
	SaveObj.onreadystatechange=function(){
	if(SaveObj.readyState==4){

	# download release from github: https://github.com/monostream/tifig/releases and install at ~/tools/tifig
	# then run these commands in the folder (just to keep things simple we normalize the file extension case before proceeding).

	for f in *.HEIC; do mv "$f" "`echo $f \| sed s/.HEIC/.heic/`"; done
	for file in *.heic; do echo "~/tools/tifig -v -p $file ${file/%.heic/.jpg}"; done

	<form>
	<div class="svgContainer">
	<div>
	<svg class="mySVG" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 200 200">
	<defs>
	<circle id="armMaskPath" cx="100" cy="100" r="100"/>
	</defs>
	<clipPath id="armMask">
	<use xlink:href="#armMaskPath" overflow="visible"/>
	</clipPath>

	# place in /etc/systemd/system/whatever.service and install with `systemd install whatever.service`
	# note that if you change this file you will need to run `systemctl daemon-reload` to get systemd to notice
	[Unit]
	Description=A good service description

	# After networking because we need that
	After=network.target

	[Service]