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Steve Blank
The U.S. Led the World in Science and Technology and Just Gave It Up Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
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Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. With the cutbacks of U.S. government support and the Chinese investing heavily for the...
Irrational...
How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020) One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term...
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One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term and short-term problems. Your software might be struggling to scale with ramping user load while also knowing that you have a series of meaningful security vulnerabilities that...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Quick Hinge Health S-1 Thoughts | Out-Of-Pocket This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
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Stat Significant
When Do Viewers Get Hooked on a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis When do TV viewers become committed fans?
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The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2025, including The Lessons of...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2025, including The Lessons of History, American Journey, the works of Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and more.
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: The Stories We Tell Ourselves How to reframe the stories that hold you back at work
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
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Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
macwright.com
Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
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I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Frankie Brown I’m an illustrator and printmaker based in Portsmouth, Hampshire. I’m inspired by nostalgic...
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I’m an illustrator and printmaker based in Portsmouth, Hampshire. I’m inspired by nostalgic storybooks and I love to create whimsical hand-printed illustrations. I used to work part-time at Handprinted, but in November 2024 I decided to give being a full-time artist a try! It’s...
Res Obscura
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet...
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One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Ognjen Regoje •...
Optimizing images for the blog JPG images convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 85% simple-captcha.jpeg...
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JPG images convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 85% simple-captcha.jpeg result.jpg PNG images pngquant simple-captcha.png Optimizing images for the blog was originally published by Ognjen Regoje at Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io on April 03, 2025.
The Perry Bible...
Blocked The post Blocked appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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Trying to Understand...
Being Non-Transactional. Beyond "What's in it for me?"
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Map of the Week
Wall Street Before the Wall This bird-eye diagram of lower Manhattan appeared in a Harpers Magazine article from 1908 titled...
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This bird-eye diagram of lower Manhattan appeared in a Harpers Magazine article from 1908 titled “The Story of a Street.”  In 1844 the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam ordered the town’s citizens to construct a cattle guard at the north end of the settlement to keep the cattle...
Ralph Ammer
Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine! A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid...
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A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid the turmoil of life, riddled with wickedness and pain, he would insist that our world is good.  And all our success is built on this belief. Note: Before we start, let’s get one...
Global Inequality...
Do you want to be a synonym? I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots...
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I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
Moneyness
Why sanctions didn’t stop Russia's Garantex from using stablecoins Stablecoins, a new type of financial institution, are unique in two ways. First, they use...
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Stablecoins, a new type of financial institution, are unique in two ways. First, they use decentralized databases like Ethereum and Tron to run their platforms. Secondly, and more important for the purposes of this article, they grant access to almost anyone, no questions...
Both Are True
HOW DO I BECOME A SUPERSTAR AND LIFE AS A SUBSTACK WHISPERER GROWTH GENIUS A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
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Computer Things
[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
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My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
Escaping Flatland
Take a part of the world that you love and give it your care Edward Weston, Armco Steel, Ohio, 1922
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Blog - Practical...
Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Even though it’s a favorite...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Even though it’s a favorite vacation destination, the beach is surprisingly dangerous. Consider the lifeguard: There aren’t that many recreational activities in our lives that have explicit staff whose only job...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel...
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Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her...
Uncharted...
What Are My Politics? And my unrefined thoughts on US politics
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Arduino Blog
Forgot your safe combination? This Arduino-controlled autodialer can crack it for you Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great...
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Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great when you need to protect something, but it is a real problem when you forget the combination to your safe or when a safe’s combination becomes lost to history. In such situations,...
watchTowr Labs
XSS To RCE By Abusing Custom File Handlers - Kentico Xperience CMS (CVE-2025-2748) We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures...
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We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures in Kentico’s Xperience CMS. Due to it’s wide usage, the type of solution, and the types of enterprises using this solution
Old Vintage...
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think...
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Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The story is true. Only the names are redacted to protect the guilty. My first job out of college was a database programmer, even though my...
Cremieux Recueil
Fertility Policy For Rich Countries A brief proposal to fix Social Security and grow the population
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Commoncog
How to Become an Asian Tycoon Every Asian tycoon becomes a tycoon in the exact same way. Learning to see this core pattern is half...
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Every Asian tycoon becomes a tycoon in the exact same way. Learning to see this core pattern is half the battle.
Mind Mine
how good will you let it get? loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
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MMapped blog
Static types are for perfectionists
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Ploum.net
Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk! Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk! For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a...
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Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk! For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a command-line gemini and web browser. Offpunk.net While my initial goal was to browse the Geminisphere offline, the mission has slowly morphed into cleaning and unenshitiffying the modern...
Asterisk
The Future of American Foreign Aid USAID has been slashed, and it is unclear what shape its predecessor will take. How might American...
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USAID has been slashed, and it is unclear what shape its predecessor will take. How might American foreign assistance be restructured to maintain critical functions? And how should we think about its future?
The Scholar's Stage
The Eight Tribes of Trump and China LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
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LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump...
lcamtuf’s thing
Electricity and the speed of light If it's all just electromagnetic waves, why is electricity in a conductor moving slower than visible...
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The Codist
What Is Software Quality? Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
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Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it? This is the longest single blog post I have ever written. I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
oftwominds-Charles...
Why the Global Recession Will be Deeper and Longer Than Pundits Anticipate The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two...
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The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two decades of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization anticipate. While everyone focuses on conflicts between nations, few look at the problems shared by nations. Richard...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Cafe In South Korea That’s Inspired By A Walk In Nature Architect-K has shared photos of MIGIUI, a modern cafe and various social spaces that lies within...
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Architect-K has shared photos of MIGIUI, a modern cafe and various social spaces that lies within the hanok village of Ulju-gun, South Korea. The building was designed to blend seamlessly into this natural setting, and was inspired by a forest path. Major tree species, rocks, and...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer...
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Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of software underneath: microcode. With microcode, instead of building the processor's control circuitry from complex logic gates, the control...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2025 The Ware from last month is the main board from a Lego Duplo Steam Train. As predicted, this was a...
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The Ware from last month is the main board from a Lego Duplo Steam Train. As predicted, this was a much easier one to guess. Congrats to MJS for naming it (with a margin of just half an hour ahead of Will), email me for your prize! And again, thanks to spida for contributing yet...
Never Met a Science
The Political Institution of Mortality The Democratic incumbent was too old to run for re-election.
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Scarlet Ink
Why You Should Give Feedback — And How to Deliver It Without the Awkward Crying The why and how to write feedback for others.
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Common Edge
What Would It Mean to Be An “AI First” Architecture Firm? It’s not about applying the technology to established processes, but creating entirely new paths...
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Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
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UX Collective
UX or PX? Why naming matters Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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History Today Feed
‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review ‘Buddhism’ by Donald S. Lopez Jr. review JamesHoare Mon, 03/31/2025 - 08:57
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes In the above illustration, little Ninj is going through a first-aid kit, looking through our supplies to see what needs to be topped off and what is...
Paul Cudenec
Communism and industrial imperialism I have written before about how the “communist” revolution in the USSR was a scheme cooked up by the...
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I have written before about how the “communist” revolution in the USSR was a scheme cooked up by the global criminocrats to impose on the Russian people their long-term authoritarian-industrial agenda of dispossession and enslavement.
Naz Hamid
Forty-Seven I turned another year older. A collection of small moments and choices that let me be me. One...
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I turned another year older. A collection of small moments and choices that let me be me. One guidepost for each year I've been alive — some I've practiced for decades, and a few new ones. Feel out the day and go where your energy wants you to. Your energy is precious. Don’t let...
Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 375 ...
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Krebs on Security
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to...
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In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government...
Quantum Frontiers
How writing a popular-science book led to a Nature Physics paper Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research....
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Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research. Nature Physics published my favorite illustration of the answer this January. Here’s the story behind the paper. In late 2020, I was sitting by … Continue reading →
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Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what...
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There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what you're looking for, but it's not intuitive for me, so I do forget. It's that shadowing a variable can sometimes give you an UnboundLocalError! It happened to me last week while working...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Work is Life Too 10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some...
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10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some pizza. The place was too loud but you…
On Test Automation
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
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A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed. Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
Daniel Marino
Making an Escape Room with only HTML and CSS Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This...
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Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This isn’t my first JavaScript-free web game, but HTML and CSS have evolved significantly since my previous attempts, with newer additions allowing for more complex selectors and native...
mtlynch.io
My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing...
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For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobody wants to buy it, so I ran a one-month pre-order sale on Kickstarter. I...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
In defense of ruthless managers There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are...
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There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…
The Elysian
It’s time for Thomas Jefferson's village-states His small, democratic communities would revive and defend our republic.
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nanoscale views
Science updates - brief items Here are a couple of neat papers that I came across in the last week.  (Planning to write something...
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Here are a couple of neat papers that I came across in the last week.  (Planning to write something about multiferroics as well, once I have a bit of time.) The idea of directly extracting useful energy from the rotation of the earth sounds like something out of an H. G. Wells...
The Map is Mostly...
creatures of temperament It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
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davidyat.es
Adventures in pixel space
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The Honest Broker
What Happened to the Celebrities? Something has changed in the culture
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the...
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Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns white...
GeoCurrents
Mapping Continents Based on Continental Crust As the previous GeoCurrents post argued, the division of the terrestrial world into a handful of...
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As the previous GeoCurrents post argued, the division of the terrestrial world into a handful of continents derives in part from the division of the Earth’s crust into tectonic plates. But there is another geological factor equally pertinent to the concept of “continent.” It...
African History...
Africans in ancient Greece and Cyprus Africans were already present on the European mainland by the time Herodotus —the so called father...
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Africans were already present on the European mainland by the time Herodotus —the so called father of history— wrote his monumental work, The Histories.
The Intimate Mirror
Love's Inevitable Gravity The Sacred Archaeology of Desire
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One Useful Thing
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation When Language Models Learn to See and Create
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SOCKS
Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in...
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The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in southern Tunisia and certain areas of Libya and associated with Berber populations. In more recent times, they have also been used as dwellings. They consist of barrel-vaulted rooms...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 13: The Qur’an This week, I sampled one of the world’s great spiritual texts: the Qur’an. I also read poems by Rumi...
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This week, I sampled one of the world’s great spiritual texts: the Qur’an. I also read poems by Rumi and saw a movie that led me to question my understanding of both. Readings As with many other people in the West, my understanding of Islam mostly comes from the news — often, in...
Odds and Ends of...
How the government can raise taxes – and get away with it It's time to treat Trump like the crisis he is
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Noahpinion
The latest episode of Mad King Trump How long before businesses get fed up?
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journal – Winnie Lim
ringfencing my self I remember reading somewhere that just few decades ago we lived in small communities, unconnected by...
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I remember reading somewhere that just few decades ago we lived in small communities, unconnected by the internet. We would only need to cope with the happenings of this small community, and...
Tony Finch's blog
syntax highlighting with tree-sitter I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I...
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I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I learned, with some complaining. static site generator markdown ingestion highlighting incompatible?! highlight names class names styling code results future...
A Smart Bear
How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with...
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Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with downsides, and using an appropriate decision framework.
Chris Grossack's...
Some Doodles I'm Proud of -- The Capping Algorithm for Embedded Graphs This will be a really quick one! Over the last two weeks I’ve been finishing up a big project to...
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This will be a really quick one! Over the last two weeks I’ve been finishing up a big project to make DOIs for all the papers published in TAC, and my code takes a while to run. So while testing I would hit “go” and have like 10 minutes to kill… which means it’s time to start...
Wuthering...
Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance - Both the two great forces pouring forth from the... Last summer I read John Cowper Powys’s novel Wolf Solent (1929) and recently I read A Glastonbury...
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Last summer I read John Cowper Powys’s novel Wolf Solent (1929) and recently I read A Glastonbury Romance (1932), not his first novels but the first that anyone noticed.  Wolf Solent is a plump 600 pages, and Glastonbury a monstrous 1,100.  Powys was 56 when the first was...
Robert Caro
The Power Broker Book Club The “99% Invisible Breakdown” podcast spent a year reading The Power Broker with guests Conan...
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The “99% Invisible Breakdown” podcast spent a year reading The Power Broker with guests Conan O’Brien, Robert Caro, and others.
The Marginalian
Walt Whitman on Owning Your Life At the bottom of the abyss between us is the hard fact that to be a person, a particular person, is...
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At the bottom of the abyss between us is the hard fact that to be a person, a particular person, is so profoundly different from what any other person can suppose. This is why one of the hardest learnings in life is that you cannot love — or scold, or coax, or palter — anyone out...
Construction Physics
Reading List 03/29/25 US bridges at risk of ship collisions, Airbus testing an unducted fan, an earthquake in Myanmar,...
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US bridges at risk of ship collisions, Airbus testing an unducted fan, an earthquake in Myanmar, China’s undersea cable cutter, and more.
Wrong Side of...
Tolerance and terror Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Seven
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The Ruffian
What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
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Vitalik Buterin's...
We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
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Infinite Scroll
How the Internet Changed Gen Z Humor "Soup Time", says Standing Frog
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Computer Ads from...
Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
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A Collection of...
Gap Week: March 28, 2025 Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a...
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Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a week because I am off to a conference this week, the annual meeting of the Society for Military History, this year in Mobile, Alabama! I’m set to talk about how Roman military...
Flashbak
Sex In A Japanese Love Hotel “These venues have a very ‘talkative’ quality visually – they‘re expressive in design, reflecting...
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“These venues have a very ‘talkative’ quality visually – they‘re expressive in design, reflecting aspects of local culture, values, and even fantasies” – François Prost, Love Hotels     There are about 37,000 Love Hotels in Japan. Sex on the clock in a rented room is big business...
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Watch this 3D-Printed Robot Escape Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome...
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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
Citation Needed
Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions...
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As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profit
Raptitude.com
How to Start Doing the Things You Daydream About I forget who pointed this out, but Netflix has a subtle feature where it periodically tries to...
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I forget who pointed this out, but Netflix has a subtle feature where it periodically tries to inspire you to get off the couch and live the life you really want. Whenever an episode of the show you’re watching ends, and the next is queueing up, there’s a moment in which the...
Herbert Lui
Contentions: Apple TV’s billion dollar loss There’s a possibility that Apple is losing over $1 billion per year on Apple TV. The so-called...
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There’s a possibility that Apple is losing over $1 billion per year on Apple TV. The so-called “loss” is plausible, it’s also a rather ordinarily-sized expense considering Apple’s relatively high scale other marketing expenses. Consider this: Another report suggests that Apple...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Scotland’s Best Eco-Luxury Hotels and Sustainable Adventures
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The Diff
IP Protection in the Era of Fast Copying and Watermark Removal Plus! Data and Outsourcing CoreWeave Fraud Realignment Local AI
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Math Is Still...
The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated. Now, we...
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Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated. Now, we can use “pseudorandomness” instead. The post The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro March 28, 2025.
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Don't Worry About...
Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.
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Classical Wisdom
The Bohemian Philosophy From Socrates to Mick Jagger
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Birchtree
The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article...
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Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article today from yet another person pining for a mythical Snow Leopard-style MacOS release. While I sympathize with the intent of their argument, it is largely fictional and, as
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bean Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Shouting BLOOOOOOOD is similarly...
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David Heinemeier...
Singularity & Serenity The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ...
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The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ large, and leads to rapid, unpredictable change. The intellectual seed of this concept was planted back in the '50s by early computer pioneer John von Neumann. So it’s been here...
Calculated Risk
Personal Income increased 0.8% in February; Spending increased 0.4% The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for February: Personal income increased...
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The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for February: Personal income increased $194.7 billion (0.8 percent at a monthly rate) in February, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI)—personal...
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #137 Mitochondria, Image Generation, Nobels, Vast, Common Sense, AI Lifeguards, Tina He
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NeuroLogica Blog
H&M Will Use Digital Twins The fashion retailer, H&M, has announced that they will start using AI generated digital twins of...
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The fashion retailer, H&M, has announced that they will start using AI generated digital twins of models in some of their advertising. This has sparked another round of discussion about the use of AI to replace artists of various kinds. Regarding the H&M announcement...
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A walk down Victoria Street London’s mid-rise architecture
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Unfiltered by Tim...
The Dark Side of Making Money Online (That Very Few Are Qualified to Write About) Apparently, I helped create a genocide.
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Rest of World -...
U.S. tariffs threaten Mexico’s booming EV sector Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail...
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Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail Mexico's ambitions to become a major EV manufacturing hub.
Maps Mania
The 2025 Australian Election Map
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Seth's Blog
Obvious vs perhaps “Obvious” closes the door to inquiry. “Perhaps” opens it.
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alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development Craft, and here’s the description from the conference website: The big question we want to explore is – how can we keep doing the work we do, when it sustains us, provides meaning...
Marcus on AI
Unwoven How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end
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Retail Design Blog
ThiLa Bistro & Café by 3fconcept A Nostalgic Touch in the Heart of Da Nang – Da Nang is a dynamic, modern city, yet it sits...
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Open Culture
Superman vs. the KKK: Hear the 1946 Superman Radio Show That Weakened the Klan Years ago, back in 2016, we featured a 1950 Superman poster that urged students to defend the...
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Years ago, back in 2016, we featured a 1950 Superman poster that urged students to defend the American way and fight discrimination everywhere. Today, we present another chapter from Superman’s little-known history as a Civil Rights defender. The year is 1946. World War II has...
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Non-folded e-bikes From Monday e-bikes will be banned from TfL services because they pose a fire risk. From next...
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From Monday e-bikes will be banned from TfL services because they pose a fire risk. From next week that won't be allowed and e-bikes will have to stay at street level, protecting passengers from the dangers of potential conflagration. It's bad news for Londoners who've bought...
TheCollector
The Truth About the Electoral College & How Your Vote Matters When US citizens vote in presidential elections every four years, it’s the controversial Electoral...
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When US citizens vote in presidential elections every four years, it’s the controversial Electoral College that determines the winner, not the popular vote. This unique and somewhat convoluted system devised by the Founding Fathers impacts everything from where candidates...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Read During Every Possible Free Moment' A reader asks, “How did you learn to read so fast?” The answer is simple: I didn’t. I have always...
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A reader asks, “How did you learn to read so fast?” The answer is simple: I didn’t. I have always read slowly, often taking notes, which makes it even slower. This frustrated me when I was young, and I briefly contemplated enrolling in one of Evelyn Wood’s...
The American Scholar
The Most Famous Unknown Artist David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight The post The Most Famous Unknown Artist appeared first on...
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David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight The post The Most Famous Unknown Artist appeared first on The American Scholar.
Bryan Braun - Blog
Technology you don’t have to think about “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without...
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead Effective technology takes our most time-consuming tasks and moves them into the background so we can focus on other important...
Christopher Butler
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction. When the iPhone...
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There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction. When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as phone, camera, music player, web browser, and so...
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Terror Bird
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The Changelog
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
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As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
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Talk: Clojure workflow with Sublime Text @ SciCloj A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload...
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A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload and Clojure+. We discuss many usability choices, implementation details, and broader observations and insights regarding Clojure editors and tooling in general.
Overcoming Bias
Turn The Ship Or Leave on Lifeboats To those who see just how much better is a civilized life, one of the most terrifying things one can...
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To those who see just how much better is a civilized life, one of the most terrifying things one can learn from history is that pretty much all past civilizations fell.