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Old Vintage...
See Jane 128 by Arktronics run (featuring Magic Desk, 3-Plus-1 and the Thomson MO5) "Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." Commodore 128DCR is the...
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"Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." Commodore 128DCR is the best 8-bit computer Commodore ever made: built-in 1571 disk drive, burst mode serial, detachable keyboard, 2MHz operation, separate 40 and 80 column video, CP/M option, a powerful...
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader April 23, 1962 I am having fun sending out an issue of My Weekly Reader every week to you. This week is the April...
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I am having fun sending out an issue of My Weekly Reader every week to you. This week is the April 23, 1962 issue and "Flying wings." Just for fun, here is your "silent reading quiz." Try not to make any noise while you read and see how you do.
Charlie Becker
I was selected for a $100,000 O'Shaughnessy Ventures Fellowship to empower used bookstores with AI. CBL #94 | Big Update on Life & Work
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II,...
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This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II, III) look at the iconic opening battle scene from the film Gladiator (2000). Last time, we brought the sequence up through the infantry advance, observing that the tactics of the...
SatPost by Trung...
Booking: The $170B+ A/B Testing Machine How A/B testing turned two Priceline acquisitions (totalling $294m) into the world's most valuable...
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How A/B testing turned two Priceline acquisitions (totalling $294m) into the world's most valuable travel company ($170B+ market cap).
Passing Time
A Rivalry Plucked From Fiction Nadal, Federer and the (D)Joker
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Weighty Thoughts
🚗 From Simulation to Street—Self-Driving Cars 💨 Inside the challenges and breakthroughs of autonomous vehicles with Brandon Basso
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Chris Grossack's...
How to Explicitly Compute Charts for a Levelset Submanifold While doing a computation with my friend Shane the other day, we realized we needed to explicitly...
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While doing a computation with my friend Shane the other day, we realized we needed to explicitly compute a local chart near the identity of $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$. It took us longer than I’d like to admit to figure out how to do this (especially since it’s so geometrically...
Citation Needed
Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and...
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The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and shady crypto billionaire Justin Sun cozies up even closer to the Trump family
charity.wtf
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February...
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This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the...
latest projects -...
Turbine Transport Transformer [Concept] Transforming turbine transport
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Construction Physics
Batteries Are Making the Electrical Grid More Reliable To operate reliably, the US electrical grid needs to balance supply and demand: to make sure, at any...
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To operate reliably, the US electrical grid needs to balance supply and demand: to make sure, at any given moment, that the amount of electricity demanded by homes, businesses, and factories is equal to the amount being supplied by nuclear reactors, gas turbines, and other types...
Commoncog
You’re Always Selling to a Situation, Not an ICP One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is...
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One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is this idea of selling into situations, not selling to ideal customer profiles. It’s what the pros do anyway.
computers are bad
2025-06-19 hydronuclear testing Some time ago, via a certain orange website, I came across a report about a mission to recover...
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Some time ago, via a certain orange website, I came across a report about a mission to recover nuclear material from a former Soviet test site. I don't know what you're doing here, go read that instead. But it brought up a topic that I have only known very little about:...
Handprinted - Blog
How Much Detail on Exposed Screens? When designing artwork for exposed screens it can be very difficult to figure out what level of...
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When designing artwork for exposed screens it can be very difficult to figure out what level of detail you can include. Different mesh counts will be able to handle different levels of detail. The mesh number relates to how many threads there are per cm of mesh: 32T has 32...
Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Dive Into Miami With Germane Barnes of Studio Barnes Traveling to Miami soon, but not sure what's really worth exploring? Today's Archinect City Guide is...
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Traveling to Miami soon, but not sure what's really worth exploring? Today's Archinect City Guide is hosted by Germane Barnes, award-winning founder of research and design practice Studio Barnes. Besides receiving Harvard GSD's 2021 Wheelwright Prize, a 2021-22 Rome Prize, a 2022...
Arduino Blog
Elevate your IoT with ultra-wideband: Meet Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield! We are proud to announce two groundbreaking additions to the Arduino Pro portfolio: the Arduino...
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We are proud to announce two groundbreaking additions to the Arduino Pro portfolio: the Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield, developed in partnership with Truesense. These advanced tools leverage ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to redefine precision tracking, indoor...
Artificial Ignorance
Inside Pulley's AI-Native Engineering Team Lessons from a year of daily AI coding at a fast-growing startup (and why "Cursor wrote it" is not a...
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Map of the Week
Three Part World Via Newsweek - The current tyrants governments of the United States, Russia and China may be wishing...
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Via Newsweek - The current tyrants governments of the United States, Russia and China may be wishing for a three superpower world where spheres of influence are carved up among them.   You can hover to identify the countries.  Apparently the southern hemisphere does not rate...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Wet Labs Shouldn’t Be Boring (for young scientists) | Out-Of-Pocket This is the first touchpoint for science, we should make it more enticing
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Trying to Understand...
Such Times. And the banalisation of Evil.
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is...
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Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is inefficient and this article describes a better way. The sys/windows way To call a function in a DLL, let’s say kernel32.dll, we must: load the dll into memory with...
99% Invisible
Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of...
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After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest police violence against Black people. And if you look at images from these marches, you will probably start to notice a...
Blog System/5
Lessons along the EndBOX journey How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to...
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How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to expect—in this publication
Musings on Markets
The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip? It is true that most investing lessons are directed at those who invest only in stocks and bonds,...
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It is true that most investing lessons are directed at those who invest only in stocks and bonds, and mostly with long-only strategies. It is also true that in the process, we are ignoring vast swaths of the investment universe, from other asset classes (real estate,...
Blog - Practical...
How Sewage Recycling Works [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Wichita Falls, Texas, went...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Wichita Falls, Texas, went through the worst drought in its history in 2011 and 2012. For two years in a row, the area saw its average annual rainfall roughly cut in half, decimating the levels in the three...
IEEE Spectrum
Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format. But it wasn’t the one the Web started with. In fact, the first...
Machine Learning for...
Weekly ML for SWEs #12: The easiest way to keep up with ML and AI research papers An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-17-25
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Strange Loop Canon
Notes on Japan
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The Marginalian
The Whole of It Because we are creatures made of time, what we call suffering is at bottom a warping of time, a form...
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Because we are creatures made of time, what we call suffering is at bottom a warping of time, a form of living against it and not with it — the pain of loss, aching for what has been and no longer is; the pain of longing, aching for what could be but is not yet and may never be;...
Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished...
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The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 70 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national...
Cheese and Biscuits
Uncle Hon's BBQ, Hackney Wick After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and...
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After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and carriages with malfunctioning air conditioning and all the other things that make moving around this city on a weekend in the summer such an endless joy, it's equally annoying to find that...
The Works in...
The magic of through running By weaving together existing railway lines, some cities can get the best transit in the world
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My horrible Fairphone customer care experience Fairphone has bad customer support. It’s not an issue with the individual customer support agents, I...
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Fairphone has bad customer support. It’s not an issue with the individual customer support agents, I know how difficult their job is1, and I’m sure that they’re trying their best, but it’s a more systematic issue in the organization itself. It’s become so bad...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the...
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Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
AFAR Media - Travel...
There's More to Telluride Than Trails and Ski Lifts
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The Elysian
No, we shouldn't return to the climate of the 18th century Improving the climate is a better goal than trying to fight change.
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Confessions of a...
Making System Calls in x86-64 Assembly Watch now | Privilege levels, syscall conventions, and how assembly code talks to the Linux kernel
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Epic Web Dev
Better Test Setup with Disposable Objects (article) Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using...
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Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using keyword to ensure reliable resource disposal in tests.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Sincerity Wins The War Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a...
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Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what you’d expect. Anyway, it’s $7 a
Quanta Magazine
The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a...
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By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a community susceptible to invasion. The post The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Atoms vs Bits
Hateful Things in 1002 AD When I say The Pillow Book, written by Sei Shōnagon in the late 990s AD, reads like a Tumblr, you...
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When I say The Pillow Book, written by Sei Shōnagon in the late 990s AD, reads like a Tumblr, you might reasonably assume I'm being wry and somewhat exaggerated: "ohhhh, this thing from 1000 years ago is just like things we write today [if you
Flashbak
Melanie’s ‘Average Weekends’ out in Leeds in 1984 In 1984, Melanie turned 18. Margaret Thatcher was prime Minister and the UK was mired by the seismic...
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In 1984, Melanie turned 18. Margaret Thatcher was prime Minister and the UK was mired by the seismic Miners’ Strike (here, here, here and here). Home to Leeds for the Christmas holidays, Melanie’s daughter Victoria Gill was going through her stuff when she spotted two old boxes...
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
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Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
Common Edge
Letter From Los Angeles: The Unsettling Silence of Construction Sites What happens when the people who will rebuild burned-out L.A. are afraid to come to work?
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Both Are True
the cure for shame is... it's definitely hitting certain numbers, metrics, weight goals, etc, RIGHT? - my new essay is out on...
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it's definitely hitting certain numbers, metrics, weight goals, etc, RIGHT? - my new essay is out on Prism!!
Yale e360
As Earth's Magnetic Field Grows Stronger, Oxygen Levels Rise When the magnetic field around the Earth grows stronger, oxygen levels rise. That is the surprising...
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When the magnetic field around the Earth grows stronger, oxygen levels rise. That is the surprising finding of a new study looking at more than half a billion years of planetary history. Read more on E360 →
Retail Design Blog
LAIR Restaurant Bar by RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio A Reinterpretation of the Speakeasy Through Materiality and Spatial Choreography – Renesa...
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A Reinterpretation of the Speakeasy Through Materiality and Spatial Choreography – Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio presents Lair, an immersive...
Rest of World -...
Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost. Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for...
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The Architectural...
I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake,...
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Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
Open Culture
The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village... Image by Mario Casciano via Wikimedia Commons Music is dangerous and powerful, and can be, without...
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Image by Mario Casciano via Wikimedia Commons Music is dangerous and powerful, and can be, without intending to, a political weapon. All authoritarian regimes have understood this, including repressive elements in the U.S. throughout the Cold War. I remember having books handed...
Alice GG
Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
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In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
Maps Mania
When is the sun directly overhead?
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History Today Feed
Europe and the End of Old Java Europe and the End of Old Java JamesHoare Mon, 06/16/2025 - 06:00
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The American Scholar
Stephanie Santana Preserving family history The post Stephanie Santana appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Exoplanet System
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The Honest Broker
Why Is the Washington Post Talking to Substack? And updates on other recent articles
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Becoming an Asshole Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this...
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Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this part in there where he’s talking about a guy who worked for Apple and was known for being ruthless, stopping at nothing to negotiate the best deal for Apple. He was so aggressive yet...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poll Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It absolutely kills me dead when the votey is...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It absolutely kills me dead when the votey is funnier than the daily comic. Today's News:
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.15 - Ask New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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nanoscale views
So you want to build a science/engineering laboratory building A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments: The NSF awarded 500 more graduate...
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A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments: The NSF awarded 500 more graduate fellowships this week, bringing the total for this year up to 1500.  (Apologies for the X link.)  This is still 25% lower than last year's number, and of course far below the original...
Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz From Macedonia to the Moon
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The Ruffian
NEW POD: James Marriott on whether AI will make writers redundant In Which I Put the Case For Optimism
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Noahpinion
Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy This is still the country I grew up in.
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Seth's Blog
The power of a pause The single-most effective way to invest 90 seconds a day is simple (and difficult). 18 times a day,...
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The single-most effective way to invest 90 seconds a day is simple (and difficult). 18 times a day, when you’re about to offer advice, ask a question or blurt out a response, wait five seconds. That pause shifts the way what you say next will be perceived. It also opens the door...
Contemporist...
Wallpaper as Art: Inside Zambaiti’s Latest Nature-Inspired Collection In a world where interior design increasingly leans on narrative and emotion, Zambaiti Contract’s...
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In a world where interior design increasingly leans on narrative and emotion, Zambaiti Contract’s Project – Chapter 2 offers more than just wallpaper, it delivers an immersive visual journey. This second edition of the brand’s signature collection blurs the line between art,...
TheCollector
How Locke and His Heirs Redefined Beauty (Aesthetic Sense) The century that is very important for the development of modern aesthetics was influenced by the...
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The century that is very important for the development of modern aesthetics was influenced by the philosophers of the 17th century. This century is dominated by rationalism and empiricism. The latter begins with the philosophy of John Locke. Then, there is almost no mention of...
diamond geezer
241 to Here East Route 241: Royal Wharf to Hackney Wick (Here East) Location: London east, cross-Newham Length of bus...
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Route 241: Royal Wharf to Hackney Wick (Here East) Location: London east, cross-Newham Length of bus journey: 8 miles, 50 minutes route 241 was extended from Stratford City into the Olympic Park. No fuss was made, no hordes descended. Buses which would normally have terminated...
Eukaryote Writes...
Book review: Air-borne by Carl Zimmer Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a...
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Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a public moment of unambiguously whiffing it.
Anecdotal Evidence
'It Brought Us This Far' Self-knowledge is fine but some things are best left unexamined. “Why do you read so many books?” a...
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Self-knowledge is fine but some things are best left unexamined. “Why do you read so many books?” a reader asks. His assumption, never directly articulated, is that reading is compensation for the absence of something far more important. I suppose people have been facing...
journal – Winnie Lim
playing my own little game My interest in playing board games got reignited after watching some korean tv puzzle shows. After...
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My interest in playing board games got reignited after watching some korean tv puzzle shows. After few days of playing board games my partner was reminded that life is like playing a...
Internal Tech Emails
ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
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Tech and Tea
Making Space When the World Feels Heavy When creating space feels too hard, a little structure and accountability can be the nudge you need.
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Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
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Global Inequality...
Too much or not enough of Ricardo? Review of “Ricardo’s Dream” by Nat Dyer
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Laetitia@Work
Women’s Experience Trap Laetitia@Work #82
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Christopher Butler
The Best Interfaces We Never Built Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. Every piece...
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Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. Every piece of technology is an interface. Though the word has come to be a shorthand for what we see and use on a screen, an interface is anything that connects two or more things together....
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1977/07 Issue of ROM Only two, so read them slowly
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Working Theorys
From "Shadow Artist" to Artist A conversation with Dipa Halder, software engineer turned full-time artist.
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Computer Things
Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet,...
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No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet, which is why this newsletter is both late and short. Solving LinkedIn Queens in SMT The article Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused claims that SAT solvers1 are "criminally...