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a year ago

A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The sender was offended that my friend had written a post about a concept she’s been developing for nearly a decade. Of course, no idea is unique, and the posted idea sort of rhymed...

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David Crawshaw

2015-12-04 www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html

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2015-12-04

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html

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Blog - Practical...

Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the most common...

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Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the most common attributes folks imagine when they think of trains is the clickety-clack sound they make as they roll down the tracks. The thing is, most trains don’t make that sound anymore. Or really,...

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Liz Denys

Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than...

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Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...

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Castles in the Sky

Castles in the Sky 28 "Smorgasbord!"

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Castles in the Sky 28

from Castles in the Sky [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

"Smorgasbord!"

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The Convivial...

Whose Time? Which Temporality? The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 4

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Whose Time? Which Temporality?

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

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The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 4

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General Robots

So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent? I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the...

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So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent?

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so...

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The Marginalian

The Science of What Made You You, with a Dazzling Poem Read by David Byrne "Look at the clever things we have made out of a few building blocks — O fabulous continuum."

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The Science of What Made You You, with a Dazzling Poem Read by David Byrne

8 months ago

"Look at the clever things we have made out of a few building blocks — O fabulous continuum."

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Birchtree

Who pays tariffs Lee Morris of Fstoppers on how tariffs impact him, as someone who wants to make his stuff in the...

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Who pays tariffs

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

a month ago

Lee Morris of Fstoppers on how tariffs impact him, as someone who wants to make his stuff in the US: This is a really good breakdown of how tariffs impact small businesses and why they aren't a great tool for getting manufacturing to come back to America (at

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Quantum Frontiers

The rain in Portugal My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last...

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The rain in Portugal

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last July: Aveiro, Portugal. Having studied Spanish, I pronounced the name as Ah-VEH-roh, with a v partway to a hard b. … Continue reading →

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watchTowr Labs

Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623) We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators...

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Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago

We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators using a zero-day exploit in Cleo MFT software - namely, LexiCom, VLTransfer, and Harmony - applications that many large enterprises rely on to share files securely. Cleo have a...

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Nat Eliason's...

How to Build Your Own Software with AI (No Experience Necessary) By popular demand...

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How to Build Your Own Software with AI (No Experience Necessary)

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

5 months ago

By popular demand...

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AFAR Media - Travel...

4 Kessler Collection Hotels with Art in the Southern U.S.

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4 Kessler Collection Hotels with Art in the Southern U.S.

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

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The Works in...

Issue 12: Houston, we have a solution Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria...

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Issue 12: Houston, we have a solution

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria vaccine.

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Sometimes It Works...

Announcing Ensemble Announcing Ensemble Bringing your Composer dependencies together Keeping you informed about...

over a year ago

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Announcing Ensemble

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Announcing Ensemble Bringing your Composer dependencies together Keeping you informed about outdated packages Security Vulnerabilities Bringing it all together How it works Requirements A note on security It’s not just apps, you know… Automated alerting ¶Announcing...

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The Pragmatic...

The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight....

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight. How did it play out, and what are the next steps for startups?

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Josh Thompson

How to Ask Questions of Experts To Gain More than Just Answers Recently, I co-led a session at Turing with Regis Boudinot, a Turing grad who works at GitLab. We...

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How to Ask Questions of Experts To Gain More than Just Answers

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago

Recently, I co-led a session at Turing with Regis Boudinot, a Turing grad who works at GitLab. We discussed two things: asking good questions having a good workflow After the session, I promised an overview of what we discussed. Here’s that overview for “Asking good questions”....

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Ognjen Regoje •...

Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a...

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Remote job sites need a "Timezone overlap" filter

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

There are plenty of remote jobs out there, but nearly all require you to be be “within n hours” of a timezone. (n often seems to be 2). But I have not come across a remote job site that has a filter that supports this. Most allow you to choose your timezone and then filter jobs...

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Old Structures...

Travelog: Cleveland Bridge While I was in England last week, I briefly visited the city of Bath. There’s a lot to look at...

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Travelog: Cleveland Bridge

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

While I was in England last week, I briefly visited the city of Bath. There’s a lot to look at there, but let me start with the Cleveland Bridge over the River Avon. The top view is a little boring except for the non-structural toll houses, little Greek temples over the walkways,...

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Seth's Blog

Trouble in the grey zone In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators...

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Trouble in the grey zone

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In many creative industries, there’s a similar pattern. When the stakes are very low, most creators produce things that are fairly banal and ordinary. Part of that is the law of large numbers, but it’s mostly our personal cultural resistance to leaning too far into weird stuff....

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On Life and Lisp

Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...

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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...

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Molson Hart's Blog -...

Why We Shouldn’t “Buy the Dip” “Buying the dip” is buy stocks whenever there is a short-term decline in stock prices, under the...

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Why We Shouldn’t “Buy the Dip”

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago

“Buying the dip” is buy stocks whenever there is a short-term decline in stock prices, under the assumption that asset prices will quickly revert, enabling you to make money. This article explains why a government-driven culture of “buying the dip” can be damaging to you and...

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Seth's Blog

Avoiding food waste confusion Everybody eats That’s the biggest problem. While plenty of people drive or play pickleball, eating...

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Avoiding food waste confusion

over a year ago

Everybody eats That’s the biggest problem. While plenty of people drive or play pickleball, eating is particularly widespread. Seven billion people multiplies into a big number… Creating the food we eat has significant climate impact. Some of the factors, in unranked order: Even...

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The Ruffian

Notes on Radiohead The weirdest success story in pop

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Notes on Radiohead

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

The weirdest success story in pop

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Many Worlds

Many Worlds Archive is Available I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS...

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Many Worlds Archive is Available

from Many Worlds [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for almost eight years. But the run came to an end in October. Now an archive of the more than 400 columns is easily available at...

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Josh Thompson

The Complete Guide to Rails Performance: basic setup You know the feeling. You are excited to start a guide or a tutorial. You buy it, crack it open, and...

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The Complete Guide to Rails Performance: basic setup

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago

You know the feeling. You are excited to start a guide or a tutorial. You buy it, crack it open, and start working through the environment setup. Then… something goes wrong. Next thing you know, you’ve spent two three too many hours debugging random crap, and you’re not even done...

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Drew Ex Machina

First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959 Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken...

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First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago

Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection […]

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Common Edge

How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...

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How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.

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Retail Design Blog

Shamobo by Gutsulyak.Studio A lifestyle brand, Shamobo, introduces a series of bowling-shaped stainless-steel thermal efficient...

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Shamobo by Gutsulyak.Studio

11 months ago

A lifestyle brand, Shamobo, introduces a series of bowling-shaped stainless-steel thermal efficient bottles that keep beverages cold or hot for...

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fast.ai

AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...

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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment

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a year ago

Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways

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FIRE v London

August ’24: From triumph to tragedy Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...

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August ’24: From triumph to tragedy

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

9 months ago

Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...

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The personal website...

Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring Tokyo. Until the last few days of 2018, I had never been...

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Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring Tokyo. Until the last few days of 2018, I had never been to Tokyo — or, for that matter, any city as large as Tokyo. And while I have many many great memories of the city, I’m particularly eager to share my impressions of the Tokyo...

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Open Culture

Solving a 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle: How a Cambridge Student Cracked an Ancient Sanskrit Code If you find yourself grappling with an intellectual problem that’s gone unsolved for millennia, try...

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Solving a 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle: How a Cambridge Student Cracked an Ancient Sanskrit Code

9 months ago

If you find yourself grappling with an intellectual problem that’s gone unsolved for millennia, try taking a few months off and spending them on activities like swimming and meditating. That very strategy worked for a Cambridge PhD student named Rishi Rajpopat, who, after a...

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Drew Ex Machina

Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe...

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Webb’s First Glimpse of Jupiter, Its Moons & Rings

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]

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Old Structures...

Small Trusses For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student...

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Small Trusses

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6 months ago

For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student competition run by the Preservation Engineering Technical Committee. This year, In Montreal, was no exception. This year, I had no role in the competition, which frees me to say...

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Wuthering...

Thales, the first philosopher - what is philosophy, anyways? He [Thales of Miletus] held that the original substance of all things is water, and that the world...

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Thales, the first philosopher - what is philosophy, anyways?

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago

He [Thales of Miletus] held that the original substance of all things is water, and that the world is animate and full of deities. They say he discovered the seasons of the year, and divided the day into 365 days. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, p. 12,...

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Calculated Risk

Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 2.7% Year-over-year From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 22 February The U.S. hotel industry reported mixed...

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Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 2.7% Year-over-year

3 months ago

From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 22 February The U.S. hotel industry reported mixed year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 22 February. ... 16-22 February 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024): Occupancy: 60.3%...

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Liz Denys

It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...

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It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...

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Arduino Blog

Arduino IDE 2.3.3: discover new support for shared spaces and more! We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live! What’s in the new version This...

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Arduino IDE 2.3.3: discover new support for shared spaces and more!

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago

We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live! What’s in the new version This new release is packed with improvements, including one feature we’re particularly proud of: support for shared spaces in Arduino Cloud. If you have a Cloud Business plan or School...

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macwright.com

Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...

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Open charter companies and relicensing

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...

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Overcoming Bias

Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction,...

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Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago

Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key norms and values have actually changed greatly over time, and not always in obviously good ways.

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Computer Things

Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about...

a year ago

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Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about ESE and foolishly decided to update my talk to cover studies on DDD, so I'm going to be spending a lot of time doing research. Newsletters for the next few weeks may be light. The...

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David Heinemeier...

Linux as the new developer default at 37signals For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support,...

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Linux as the new developer default at 37signals

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like...

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Open Culture

The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP) This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost...

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The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP)

7 months ago

This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost immediately the tributes poured in, most recognizing that Lesh wasn’t your ordinary bassist. As Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times, Phil Lesh held songs “aloft.” His “bass lines...

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Seth's Blog

Childish or childlike? Childlike involves wonder. It’s the ability to see the world with fresh eyes and create magic....

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Childish or childlike?

a year ago

Childlike involves wonder. It’s the ability to see the world with fresh eyes and create magic. Childish, on the other hand, is living as if there are no consequences. Over time, we’ve gotten very good at meauring the long and short-term consequences of our actions. And good at...

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Unpacked

The EU's war on behavioral advertising Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...

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The EU's war on behavioral advertising

from Unpacked [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.

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symmetry magazine

Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history...

a year ago

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Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research

from symmetry magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

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I Have No Idea What...

A New Project: Remote Rocketship 🚀 In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now...

over a year ago

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A New Project: Remote Rocketship 🚀

from I Have No Idea What I'm Doing [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now landed on Remote Rocketship, a job board for remote roles. In this post, I’ll talk about how I got there, what I’ve been up to and how I’m thinking about moving forward.

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Eric Bailey

GitHub’s updated Commits page and the interactive list component GitHub has updated the page template used to list Commits on a repository. Central to this...

5 months ago

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GitHub’s updated Commits page and the interactive list component

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 months ago

GitHub has updated the page template used to list Commits on a repository. Central to this experience is an interactive list component that I was responsible for architecting. This work was done alongside input from James Scholes, whose guidance was instrumental to the effort’s...

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This Space

Notes from overground Seventeen years ago my copy of Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land was delayed in the post and...

a year ago

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Notes from overground

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago

Seventeen years ago my copy of Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land was delayed in the post and arrived long after the novel had been reviewed in all the big newspapers so, instead of riding the wave of publication, I was dragged under by its backwash. I had to answer a question...

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Yale e360

What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...

a year ago

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What would a web app canary look like?

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...

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Arduino Blog

Using Arduino with gaming It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related...

7 months ago

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Using Arduino with gaming

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago

It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related projects. Both activities tend to attract people with a love for problem-solving, technology, and getting immersed in one challenging activity for hours at a time. The result is...

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Steve Klabnik

How to be an open source gardener

over a year ago

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How to be an open source gardener

over a year ago

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Wuthering...

Jon Fosse's Septology - art "can only say something while keeping silent about what it actually... Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter...

6 months ago

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Jon Fosse's Septology - art "can only say something while keeping silent about what it actually wants to say"

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago

Jon Fosse’s Septology (2019-21) is a long stream-of-consciousness novel about a Norwegian painter trying to understand one of his paintings. Each of the novel’s seven sections begins with Asle looking at the painting: AND I SEE MYSELF STANDING and looking at the picture...

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NeuroLogica Blog

AI – Is It Time to Panic? I’m really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential...

over a year ago

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AI – Is It Time to Panic?

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

I’m really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential as powerful tools. I am also concerned about unintended consequences. As with any really powerful tool, there is the potential for abuse and also disruption. But I also think that...

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Jonas Hietala

Where's Teddy? So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it...

over a year ago

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Where's Teddy?

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it is. Made in about seven days (more likely eight) and I thought it became quite cool. Where’s Teddy? How to Play Your mission is to find teddy and his teddybear friends. The...

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Retail Design Blog

Loong Noodles by Design Next Agency Design Next Agency reveals the vibrant interior of Loong Noodles, a Manhattan restaurant inspired by...

a month ago

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Loong Noodles by Design Next Agency

a month ago

Design Next Agency reveals the vibrant interior of Loong Noodles, a Manhattan restaurant inspired by St. Marks with a fusion...

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The Works in...

Notes on Progress: Selective breeding and chicken welfare We've bred larger and larger chickens. Now can we breed happier ones?

over a year ago

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Notes on Progress: Selective breeding and chicken welfare

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

We've bred larger and larger chickens. Now can we breed happier ones?

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RhysTranter.com

“This is what we are about”: The Romero Prayer A beautiful prayer about vocation by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, often attributed to St Óscar...

a year ago

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“This is what we are about”: The Romero Prayer

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

A beautiful prayer about vocation by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, often attributed to St Óscar Romero

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sancho.dev

Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune

5 months ago

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Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune

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5 months ago

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Old Structures...

Masonry Against The Sky Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West...

a year ago

13

Masonry Against The Sky

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West Street, with the turn-of-the-century (and somewhat scarred) brick and terra cotta of 17 Battery Place in the background, and with some cumulus clouds (I think…the naming system always...

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Stephen Wolfram...

What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine...

9 months ago

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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago

The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost...

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Solving the decision...

an event bus for ai agents it is very professional yes

3 months ago

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an event bus for ai agents

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago

it is very professional yes

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The Marginalian

Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023 Hindsight is our finest instrument for discerning the patterns of our lives. To look back on a year...

a year ago

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Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023

a year ago

Hindsight is our finest instrument for discerning the patterns of our lives. To look back on a year of reading, a year of writing, is to discover a secret map of the mind, revealing the landscape of living — after all, how we spend our thoughts is how we spend our lives. In...

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Cremieux Recueil

Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what...

2 months ago

21

Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago

What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what papers actually show, and sometimes result are just made up

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Archinect - Features

Five Ways Architects Charge Fees, and Five Tips to Consider In the architectural profession, some argue, financial management often takes a backseat to creative...

4 months ago

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Five Ways Architects Charge Fees, and Five Tips to Consider

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago

In the architectural profession, some argue, financial management often takes a backseat to creative pursuits, leaving firms vulnerable to cash flow challenges and unsustainable business practices. Concerns about profitability, rising costs, and the perceived value of the...

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The Architectural...

Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a...

11 months ago

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Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade

from The Architectural Uprising [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago

We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a significant building on Madrid’s famous Gran Vía. This competition focuses on number 19, the Court of Contentious-Administrative No. 10 headquarters, originally built in 1921 and...

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Classical Wisdom

Weekend Roundup Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...

a year ago

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Weekend Roundup

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago

Sappho, Latin Literature, and more...

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Articles

Do you even want to be "a bootstrapper?"

over a year ago

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Do you even want to be "a bootstrapper?"

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

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Grant Slatton

Every Man his own API A sociotechnological trend

6 months ago

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Every Man his own API

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago

A sociotechnological trend

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Noahpinion

Energy Bell: The sketch of an idea How can we get America back to the forefront of energy research?

11 months ago

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Energy Bell: The sketch of an idea

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

11 months ago

How can we get America back to the forefront of energy research?

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Business Brainstorms

💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🙈 Innovation Fallacy

8 months ago

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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago

🙈 Innovation Fallacy

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Ben Borgers

Brief: AI-summarized news

over a year ago

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Brief: AI-summarized news

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over a year ago

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Not Boring by Packy...

Chaos is a Ladder Vertical Integrators: Part V

a month ago

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Chaos is a Ladder

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

a month ago

Vertical Integrators: Part V

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David Heinemeier...

Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...

a year ago

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Is greed really seasonal?

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...

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Odds and Ends of...

Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...

3 months ago

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Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London?

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago

Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.

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CONTEMPORIST

A Cafe Design That Draws Inspiration From The Flowers That Naturally Grow On-Site Architecture firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Curvy Dining, a modern sculptural cafe...

3 months ago

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A Cafe Design That Draws Inspiration From The Flowers That Naturally Grow On-Site

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 months ago

Architecture firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Curvy Dining, a modern sculptural cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, whose design draws inspiration from the shape of flowers that naturally grow on the site. The delicate white dining cafe emerges within an industrial...

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The Honest Broker

How I Identify Heroes & Villains in the Music Business Or in publishing, movies, visual arts, and other creative idioms

a month ago

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How I Identify Heroes & Villains in the Music Business

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago

Or in publishing, movies, visual arts, and other creative idioms

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The Roots of...

What is progress? In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another...

a year ago

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What is progress?

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview. The most basic meaning of “progress” is simply advancement along a path, or more generally from one state to another that is considered more...

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Seth's Blog

Did you see it in the theater? We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales...

a year ago

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Did you see it in the theater?

a year ago

We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales were newsstand sales, even though the profit came from subscriptions and most people simply visited the website. Book publishers and editors seem to focus on selling copies on paper,...

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Stephen Diehl

The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban

over a year ago

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The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

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Seth's Blog

Culture, care and typography I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a...

over a year ago

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Culture, care and typography

over a year ago

I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...

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Irrational...

Trying Tailscale. Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...

over a year ago

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Trying Tailscale.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...

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Ink & Switch

Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin] Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...

over a year ago

5

Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin]

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.

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This Space

Twentieth anniversary post On this day in 2004, I posted the first entry on this blog. In recent years many posts have...

8 months ago

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Twentieth anniversary post

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

8 months ago

On this day in 2004, I posted the first entry on this blog. In recent years many posts have reflected on the past and present of literary blogging (there is no future) so I will not go over that waste land again except to wish more had followed the example of This Space. One of...

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Adrian Hanft, III:...

Racing Shadows and Dodging Doldrums When I get down, one of the things that pulls my head back above water is running. If snow blocks me...

over a year ago

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Racing Shadows and Dodging Doldrums

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago

When I get down, one of the things that pulls my head back above water is running. If snow blocks me from the trails, the cabin fever sucks the life out of me.

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Coffee with an...

Design Paths Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...

a year ago

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Design Paths

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were a handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This isn’t that:

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Blog -...

Book Review - Shots from the Hip In the fields of Taoism, herbalism, and Chinese culture, Daniel Reid is a legendary author who has...

over a year ago

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Book Review - Shots from the Hip

from Blog - Anchorpointexpeditions.com [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago

In the fields of Taoism, herbalism, and Chinese culture, Daniel Reid is a legendary author who has written books that have changed the course of lives. His most recent publication is a two-book memoir entitled Shots from the Hip, a colourful account of his many exotic...

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Commoncog

A Most Unlikely Master of Capital Allocation If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in...

a year ago

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A Most Unlikely Master of Capital Allocation

a year ago

If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.

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Ryan Mulligan

Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid A post about the layout you're looking at right now The previous structure of this page layout was...

over a year ago

18

Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

A post about the layout you're looking at right now The previous structure of this page layout was virtually the same, the foundation of it expertly defined in the article Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid by Josh Comeau. It's a technique I've used on many projects. I've even...

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Arduino Blog

An engineer’s journey to bring the ultimate TMJ pain relief tool to market To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward...

8 months ago

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An engineer’s journey to bring the ultimate TMJ pain relief tool to market

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago

To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward processes; you come up with a killer idea, do the engineering work to cobble together a working prototype, have a truckload of units manufactured, and then sell those to turn a profit....

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Don't Worry About...

AI #103: Show Me the Money The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build...

3 months ago

30

AI #103: Show Me the Money

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago

The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build upon the promise of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, the French and Americans did their best to actively destroy what hope remained, transforming the event into a push for a mix of...

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The American Scholar

“The Overture” The post “The Overture” appeared first on The American Scholar.

a month ago

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“The Overture”

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago

The post “The Overture” appeared first on The American Scholar.

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Joshua Smith

Liberated X Based on Liberated X Bookshop and Shoe Repairs, Flinders Street, Melbourne. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale...

over a year ago

4

Liberated X

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

Based on Liberated X Bookshop and Shoe Repairs, Flinders Street, Melbourne. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct. Created for VOLTA Art Fair, New York City, March 2017. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB...

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Escaping Flatland

Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process The context is smarter than you.

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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process

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10 months ago

The context is smarter than you.

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eye Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was either that or Jai Ganticpenis. Today's News:

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eye

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a year ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was either that or Jai Ganticpenis. Today's News:

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General Robots

Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8. Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable...

over a year ago

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Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean

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over a year ago

So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8. Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable global state, how to log everything, and how to write robot code that doesn't make you gouge your eyes out when you look at it three days later.

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Contemporist...

A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently...

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A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently completed in San Francisco, California, that involved updating a historic Victorian-era home.

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The Diff

We Still Have No Idea Whether Passive Investing is a Meaningful Risk Plus! Complements and Strategy; Privacy, Competition, and Scale; Platforms and Ownership; KYC;...

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We Still Have No Idea Whether Passive Investing is a Meaningful Risk

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago

Plus! Complements and Strategy; Privacy, Competition, and Scale; Platforms and Ownership; KYC; Tariff Man

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99% Invisible

Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is [EPISODE] This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location...

a year ago

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Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is [EPISODE]

a year ago

This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location guides to the design features and interesting spots in cities he loves. Roman moved to Athens, Georgia, to pursue a PhD in plant genetics, but dropped out and got into the local music...

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sancho.dev

query-json: jq written in Reason

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query-json: jq written in Reason

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IEEE Spectrum

Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...

3 months ago

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Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains

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3 months ago

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 inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...

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Sam Altman

US Digital Currency I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...

over a year ago

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US Digital Currency

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago

I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far). There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror. ...

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Seth's Blog

Learning in August What better time? An hour a day for a month and you can learn a skill you’ll have forever. Beach...

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Learning in August

10 months ago

What better time? An hour a day for a month and you can learn a skill you’ll have forever. Beach reads are a fine way to chill out, but a month spent to learn a skill is a fine way to take advantage of a quiet time. My brand new course on Strategy is now […]

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Open Culture

Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Disney Collaboration 57 Years in the Making In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a...

7 months ago

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Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Disney Collaboration 57 Years in the Making

7 months ago

In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, decided to work together on a...

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Jorge Arango

Humanities Crash Course: Week 1 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...

5 months ago

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Humanities Crash Course: Week 1

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5 months ago

I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 1. Readings Following Gioia’s plan, I read six of Plato’s dialogues: Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Books I and VII of The Republic. I used the beautiful edition published (for free)...

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Seth's Blog

Project ownership (equity and equity) Since the days of Atari and Apple, the culture of Silicon Valley has been based on the idea of...

2 months ago

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Project ownership (equity and equity)

2 months ago

Since the days of Atari and Apple, the culture of Silicon Valley has been based on the idea of programmers and early employees owning equity in the startups they took a chance on. The media is always happy to write about folks who took a shot on stock options and did very well...

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Liz Denys

Liz rides the subway on May 12, 2016: women's financial planning Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...

over a year ago

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Liz rides the subway on May 12, 2016: women's financial planning

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today's ride home from choir practice: Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck launched Ellevest yesterday. Ellevest differs from other investment platforms...

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TheCollector

Top 10 Museums of Cusco, Peru In the high Andes Mountains of Peru lies Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire. It’s a...

3 weeks ago

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Top 10 Museums of Cusco, Peru

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3 weeks ago

In the high Andes Mountains of Peru lies Cusco, the former capital of the Inca Empire. It’s a popular destination for trekkers looking to visit monuments such as Machu Picchu. It’s also a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city preserves its cultural legacy in dozens of...

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Himanshu Mishra |...

आंसुओं के बिंब से छलकती हुई दुनिया, देखी थी मैंने एक बार …

over a year ago

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आंसुओं के बिंब से छलकती हुई दुनिया, देखी थी मैंने एक बार

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

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Twelve Mile Circle –...

Kaiserslautern I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short...

a year ago

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Kaiserslautern

a year ago

I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short visit. However I went there for work as I do occasionally, and I had no choice. So that’s what I did. I landed in Frankfurt on Monday, drove down to Kaiserslautern, stayed through...

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John Reynolds -...

at☉m at☉m

a year ago

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at☉m

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a year ago

at☉m

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davidyat.es

The many (bad) interfaces of Substack

a year ago

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The many (bad) interfaces of Substack

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a year ago

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Commoncog

Strong at Capital, Bad at Everything Else Two examples of operators who were strong on the capital side of the business expertise triad, but...

a year ago

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Strong at Capital, Bad at Everything Else

a year ago

Two examples of operators who were strong on the capital side of the business expertise triad, but weak in just about everything else.

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bt RSS Feed

Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn’t something developers have a need to do very...

over a year ago

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Using Multiple CSS Background Images

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn’t something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...

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journal – Winnie Lim

2024: one pull up One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the...

a year ago

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2024: one pull up

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

One of my biggest goals last year was to run 10km – for me it is not just a distance goal for the sake of having a distance goal, but rather cultivating...

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The personal website...

We'll fix it later I recently read a fantastic essay by Alexis Lloyd titled “Design process for the messy in-between.”...

over a year ago

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We'll fix it later

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

I recently read a fantastic essay by Alexis Lloyd titled “Design process for the messy in-between.” Towards the end of the essay, Alexis suggests that not everything has to be perfect the first time: Constraints mean that we almost always have to pick things that aren’t going to...

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The Elysian

One year of my work, printed The Elysian Volume II is here.

7 months ago

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One year of my work, printed

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7 months ago

The Elysian Volume II is here.

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TheCollector

What Is the History of Belief Bias in Cognitive Psychology? Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they...

5 days ago

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What Is the History of Belief Bias in Cognitive Psychology?

5 days ago

Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they sound, rather than how logical they are. As a result, we may accept believable yet logically invalid claims, and reject unbelievable yet logically valid ones. As one of the earliest...

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Handprinted - Blog

Collagraph Printing Collagraphy is a really versatile printing process in which a textured plate is inked up and put...

a year ago

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Collagraph Printing

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago

Collagraphy is a really versatile printing process in which a textured plate is inked up and put through a press. Different textures hold varying amounts of ink and print different tones. Anything with a low relief texture can be stuck down and used: wallpaper, leaves, fabrics,...

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Common Edge

How Architects Deal With Demolished Designs Buildings don’t belong to architects, but to the culture that created them.

a year ago

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How Architects Deal With Demolished Designs

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

Buildings don’t belong to architects, but to the culture that created them.

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bt RSS Feed

Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...

over a year ago

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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of “security” or “easier platform management”. This approach forces...

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Noahpinion

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#11) "Bullshit jobs", racial depolarization, the YIMBY-union alliance, China's last boosters, Biden's...

a year ago

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At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#11)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago

"Bullshit jobs", racial depolarization, the YIMBY-union alliance, China's last boosters, Biden's foreign policy, low-carbon steel, and Javier Milei

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Vladimir Klepov as a...

Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...

over a year ago

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Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...

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Flashbak

Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits “I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...

10 months ago

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Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits

10 months ago

“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922 Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...

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ribbonfarm

Arbitrariness Costs I’ve long held that civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary....

a year ago

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Arbitrariness Costs

from ribbonfarm [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago

I’ve long held that civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary. The incomprehensible can be scary but the arbitrary tends to be merely exhausting. Unless the stakes are high, such as in paperwork around taxes or passports and visas. Then the...

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Computer Things

The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...

a month ago

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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago

Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...

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TheCollector

Walking Around Vienna: Pro Tips to Understand the City and Its History A walled-in city up until the late 19th century, Vienna has expanded over the last two-plus...

a month ago

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Walking Around Vienna: Pro Tips to Understand the City and Its History

a month ago

A walled-in city up until the late 19th century, Vienna has expanded over the last two-plus centuries to include 23 “districts” and to incorporate a variety of foreign influences into its architecture. Historical figures like Mozart, Beethoven, and Freud have their roots here, as...

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Seth's Blog

After the emergency If we need to wait until after the short-term emergency is settled, it’s unlikely we’re ever going...

12 months ago

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After the emergency

12 months ago

If we need to wait until after the short-term emergency is settled, it’s unlikely we’re ever going to get to work on the long-term important work. Of course, we want to do “everything we can” when an emergency strikes. But the standard for that has always involved tradeoffs....

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Ed Zitron's Where's...

Lost In The Future Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last...

6 months ago

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Lost In The Future

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 months ago

Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&

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Quantum Frontiers

Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...

10 months ago

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Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago

A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →

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Retail Design Blog

Barnes & Thornburg LLP Offices by ASD|SKY ASD|SKY designed Barnes & Thornburg’s modern 36,000 square-foot Atlanta office with a focus on...

a month ago

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP Offices by ASD|SKY

a month ago

ASD|SKY designed Barnes & Thornburg’s modern 36,000 square-foot Atlanta office with a focus on inner-office collaboration, utilizing unique lighting fixtures,...

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AFAR Media - Travel...

5 Excursions With Afar and Atlas Ocean Voyages

12 months ago

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5 Excursions With Afar and Atlas Ocean Voyages

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

12 months ago

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Contraption Co.

Internal tools of Find AI Technical presentation at an AI meetup

8 months ago

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Internal tools of Find AI

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8 months ago

Technical presentation at an AI meetup

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macwright.com

Bandcamp wrapped I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside...

6 months ago

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Bandcamp wrapped

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago

I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me. Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired...

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Retail Design Blog

BNZ Offices by Studio Pacific Architecture BNZ Place in Wellington features a design focusing on navigation, landform, and seascape, with...

a month ago

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BNZ Offices by Studio Pacific Architecture

a month ago

BNZ Place in Wellington features a design focusing on navigation, landform, and seascape, with sustainable Southland beech timber elements creating...

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Calculated Risk

Q2 GDP Tracking: Around 2% Plenty of data next week! Note that the Blue Chip consensus is wide - and currently around 1%. The...

3 weeks ago

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Q2 GDP Tracking: Around 2%

3 weeks ago

Plenty of data next week! Note that the Blue Chip consensus is wide - and currently around 1%. The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2025 is 2.3 percent on May 8, up from 2.2 percent on May 6. After this...

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Trying to Understand...

A Swan-song For Europe It didn't have to be this way.

2 months ago

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A Swan-song For Europe

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago

It didn't have to be this way.

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On the Arts

What is the Demoscene? An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form

a year ago

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What is the Demoscene?

from On the Arts [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago

An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form

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The Honest Broker

What's Happening to Students? Here's the latest news from the zombie wars

2 months ago

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What's Happening to Students?

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2 months ago

Here's the latest news from the zombie wars

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ritual Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd...

5 months ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ritual

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

5 months ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd be awesome. Today's News:

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The Roots of...

Do we get better or worse at adapting to change? Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes...

over a year ago

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Do we get better or worse at adapting to change?

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes “an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.” The idea that technological change might accelerate to a pace faster than we can keep up with is a common concern. Almost three...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Date and Time with a Static Site Generator Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts...

over a year ago

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Date and Time with a Static Site Generator

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published? For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...

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Flashbak

Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...

a year ago

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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work

a year ago

Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...

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Explorations of an...

Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 4: The Chiricahuas September 3, 2024 It was another beautiful day in paradise, and all of us were up early to watch the...

8 months ago

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Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 4: The Chiricahuas

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago

September 3, 2024 It was another beautiful day in paradise, and all of us were up early to watch the sun rise over the desert. The active bird feeders gave us something to study while we drank our coffee and ate our egg sandwiches that Nikki had crafted for us. Black-throated...

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xkcd.com

Hatchery

10 months ago

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Hatchery

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10 months ago

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Nat Eliason's...

The Scariest Day of My Life What the hell am I supposed to do?

11 months ago

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The Scariest Day of My Life

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago

What the hell am I supposed to do?

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HTMHell

ARIA Live Regions by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and...

a year ago

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ARIA Live Regions

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and attributes that makes web page elements accessible to users who require assistive technology, like screen readers, when native HTML alone is not enough. One of these sets of roles...

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Atoms vs Bits

Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...

6 months ago

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Mr. UFOs Go to Washington

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago

On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...

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tomcritchlow.com

Clients Have a Surprising Amount of Detail There’s a wonderful blog post called “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” which talks about...

over a year ago

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Clients Have a Surprising Amount of Detail

from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

There’s a wonderful blog post called “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” which talks about how interesting the world is and how much depth there is to every concept. Here’s a quote about boiling water:

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Both Are True

bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh) a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander

7 months ago

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bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh)

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

7 months ago

a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander

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Open Culture

Watch the Earliest-Known Charles Dickens Film: The Death of Poor Joe A little over a decade ago, a curator at the British Film Institute (BFI) discovered the oldest...

11 months ago

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Watch the Earliest-Known Charles Dickens Film: The Death of Poor Joe

11 months ago

A little over a decade ago, a curator at the British Film Institute (BFI) discovered the oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character, “The Death of Poor Joe.” The silent film, directed by George Albert Smith in 1900, brings to life Dickens’ character Jo, the...

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The Forney Flyer

South Sudan Photo Archives Here's some shots from South Sudan from the archives. These first three shots were taken just a few...

over a year ago

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South Sudan Photo Archives

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago

Here's some shots from South Sudan from the archives. These first three shots were taken just a few months ago, when I flew a Caravan load of medicines up to a remote health clinic in South Sudan. This is the only clinic that offers actual medicine and medical treatment in that...

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devonzuegel.com

Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...

over a year ago

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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago

I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...

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Retail Design Blog

Jaramagos BIO by Al Margen THE ART OF MAKING ECOLOGICAL EVOO Behind every product there is a story to tell, there is passion,...

8 months ago

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Jaramagos BIO by Al Margen

8 months ago

THE ART OF MAKING ECOLOGICAL EVOO Behind every product there is a story to tell, there is passion, there is...

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Steve Klabnik

Trolling is a art

over a year ago

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Trolling is a art

over a year ago

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Flashbak

12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983 In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...

7 months ago

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12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983

7 months ago

In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...

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Construction Physics

What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs? For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating...

10 months ago

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What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10 months ago

For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating America’s telephone infrastructure. It manufactured the phones and electrical equipment, laid hundreds of millions of miles of wire across the country, and built and operated the...

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TheCollector

Is the Sign of Jonah a Contradiction in the Bible? The Gospel of Matthew refers to the sign of Jonah on two occasions and the Gospel of Luke, once...

a month ago

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Is the Sign of Jonah a Contradiction in the Bible?

a month ago

The Gospel of Matthew refers to the sign of Jonah on two occasions and the Gospel of Luke, once (Matthew 12:39-41; Matthew 16:4; Luke 11:29-30). Matthew 12:39-41 specifies a detail that the other two do not. In the minds of many, this detail results in a contradiction in the...

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The Honest Broker

40 Observations on Public Discourse What we have here is a failure to communicate

a month ago

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40 Observations on Public Discourse

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago

What we have here is a failure to communicate

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Marine Madness

Fear factor: How sensationalised shark documentaries undermine conservation efforts Experts explain why misleading documentaries about sharks can be problematic. When Brendon Sing...

over a year ago

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Fear factor: How sensationalised shark documentaries undermine conservation efforts

from Marine Madness [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

Experts explain why misleading documentaries about sharks can be problematic. When Brendon Sing first encountered sharks he was as a young boy behind the safety of aquarium glass in his native South Africa. Like many children of his generation, Brendon’s limited knowledge about...

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TokyoDev

How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...

7 months ago

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How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago

“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...

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Daily Stoic

What Does It Mean To Be Wealthy? “These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.”...

a year ago

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What Does It Mean To Be Wealthy?

from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

“These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.” — Seneca We all know those people who have lots of money, and yet, they are miserable. On the flip side, we all know people who live happy and fulfilled lives despite not having...

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David Heinemeier...

The Year on Linux I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or...

2 months ago

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The Year on Linux

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago

I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...

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The American Scholar

Three Poems The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.

9 months ago

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Three Poems

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

9 months ago

The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.

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Louwrentius

Why I do not use ZFS as a file system for my NAS Many people have asked me why I do not use ZFS for my NAS storage box. This is a good question and I...

over a year ago

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Why I do not use ZFS as a file system for my NAS

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

Many people have asked me why I do not use ZFS for my NAS storage box. This is a good question and I have multpile reasons why I do not use ZFS and probably never will. ** A lot has changed since this article was first published. I do now recommend using ZFS. I've also based my...

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Seth's Blog

Nihil hic deest This page intentionally left blank has a long history. I thought it was an IBM thing from the 1960s,...

over a year ago

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Nihil hic deest

over a year ago

This page intentionally left blank has a long history. I thought it was an IBM thing from the 1960s, but I was off by a thousand or more years. There are good reasons for a page to be blank. Folding signatures, printing processes, having chapters start on the right or the left…...

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Moneyness

Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock? Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A...

4 months ago

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Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

from Moneyness [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago

Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain influence over Donald Trump would like to pay him a giant bribe, but doing so directly is prohibited by all sort of laws. Luckily, Trump has just...

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99% Invisible

RoboUmp [EPISODE] In the major leagues, there are four umpires on the field — one behind each base, and one behind...

over a year ago

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RoboUmp [EPISODE]

over a year ago

In the major leagues, there are four umpires on the field — one behind each base, and one behind home plate, who has arguably the most important job, calling balls and strikes. A strike is basically any hittable pitch — something over the plate, between the batter’s chest and his...

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Classical Wisdom

What makes a good friend? 'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?

a year ago

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What makes a good friend?

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago

'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?

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Open Culture

Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life...

a month ago

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Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary

a month ago

This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life could have been like before it. The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which premiered in April of 1975, has inspired similar reflection among comedy...

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Retail Design Blog

PIMS café by KIDZ PIMS is a tea salon inspired by China‘s contemporary tea-based drink craze. Founded in 2019 by...

3 months ago

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PIMS café by KIDZ

3 months ago

PIMS is a tea salon inspired by China‘s contemporary tea-based drink craze. Founded in 2019 by entrepreneurs Artur Shusteriovas and...

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Yale e360

Building a digital vigil for those we've lost This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is...

a year ago

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Building a digital vigil for those we've lost

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...

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SOCKS

“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like...

a year ago

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“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago

George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like sequences of drawings, often accompanied by written text in the form of short poems. His works blend mundane objects and settings with surreal plots and visual associations, resulting...

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NeuroLogica Blog

Evolution and Copy-Paste Errors Evolution deniers (I know there is a spectrum, but generally speaking) are terrible scientists and...

a year ago

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Evolution and Copy-Paste Errors

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

Evolution deniers (I know there is a spectrum, but generally speaking) are terrible scientists and logicians. The obvious reason is because they are committing the primary mortal sin of pseudoscience – working backwards from a desired conclusion rather than following evidence and...

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Rest of World -...

Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI...

3 months ago

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Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

3 months ago

Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI initiatives, and lead to a new golden age for science.

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Applied Cartography

Applied Cartography × Indie Rails Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and...

8 months ago

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Applied Cartography × Indie Rails

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago

Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and arcane differences between various Markdown parsers (including why I hate Slack.) They were particularly kind and gracious given that the amount of production-quality Rails I've...

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Max Rozen

How do you use variables in the HTML webpack outputs? Looking to inject variables from CI into the HTML your webpack build outputs? It's relatively simple...

over a year ago

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How do you use variables in the HTML webpack outputs?

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

Looking to inject variables from CI into the HTML your webpack build outputs? It's relatively simple to do.

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Val Sopi

My 2 lessons when it comes to pricing a Saas product <p>I was listening to two founders on Twitter Spaces talking about both ends of the spectrum when it...

over a year ago

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My 2 lessons when it comes to pricing a Saas product

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

<p>I was listening to two founders on Twitter Spaces talking about both ends of the spectrum when it came charging for their Saas. One wanted to charge (and they are), the other one didn't care about it so much (for now). Then a discussion about the founder of <a...

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Rest of World -...

A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.

11 months ago

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A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

11 months ago

Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.

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PostHog's RSS Feed

Array 1.33.0 Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity...

over a year ago

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Array 1.33.0

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity Cloud support for ClickHouse, configuring your instance from the PostHog UI and 290+ improvements/fixes.

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Quanta Magazine

An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves...

a year ago

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An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The post An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The Wandering...

Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920,...

over a year ago

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Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago

The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920, Henry Thompson, an Alberta newspaperman, began interviewing 87-year-old Peter Erasmus, who lived near him in the area of Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Erasmus, who had been born in 1833 in...

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Old Structures...

Finding Something Nice To Say Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should...

6 months ago

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Finding Something Nice To Say

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6 months ago

Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should be stockier than tension members because, while the gross stresses are the same (force divided by cross-sectional area), compression members may buckle and tension members will not....

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Trying to Understand...

A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record One I bought fifty years ago.

a year ago

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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago

One I bought fifty years ago.

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TheCollector

What Did Einstein Say About Capitalism? Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is...

2 months ago

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What Did Einstein Say About Capitalism?

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago

Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is immortalized in the public imagination through a single, elegant equation: E = mc². His theories of relativity, his wild grey hair, and his outstretched tongue define his image. However, far...

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Herbert Lui

Rereading past work One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found...

4 months ago

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Rereading past work

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago

One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found myself reading again lately: On creative work: On going direct: The post Rereading past work appeared first on Herbert Lui.

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Out-of-Pocket Blog

How Value-Based Care Contracting Works with Accorded | Out-Of-Pocket With calculators and contracts you can see yourself

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How Value-Based Care Contracting Works with Accorded | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago

With calculators and contracts you can see yourself

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Abort Retry Fail

The History of Commodore, Part 1 Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET

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The History of Commodore, Part 1

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a year ago

Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET

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Making software...

My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...

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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers

over a year ago

My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn't the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...

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The personal website...

My favorite job interview question I like job interviews. I participated in a lot of job interviews in 2017. I interviewed extensively...

over a year ago

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My favorite job interview question

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

I like job interviews. I participated in a lot of job interviews in 2017. I interviewed extensively before starting at SoundCloud, and then again on my way to my current position at The Wall Street Journal. Sometimes, interviews are full of fascinating cultural signals. Most...

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Blog - Practical...

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3 This is the third episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

This is the third episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.

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Fonts In Use – Blog...

März book covers, 1969–1987 Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights...

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März book covers, 1969–1987

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights Reserved. März Texte 1, 1969. Compilation of texts by Bazon Brock, Peter O. Chotjewitz, William S. Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Uve Schmidt, Hermann Nitsch, and others. Among German...

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Articles

Just f*cking do it

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Just f*cking do it

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Londonist

Londonist: Time Machine Opens Its Archive For Easter "It's so damned good!"

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Londonist: Time Machine Opens Its Archive For Easter

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a year ago

"It's so damned good!"

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History Today Feed

Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste JamesHoare Wed, 03/19/2025 - 09:01

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Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste

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2 months ago

Brahmins: The Origins of India’s Priestly Caste JamesHoare Wed, 03/19/2025 - 09:01

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AFAR Media - Travel...

Discover the Artistic Side of Aspen: A Guide for Culture Lovers

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Discover the Artistic Side of Aspen: A Guide for Culture Lovers

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a year ago

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Yale e360

Growing Risk of 'Thirstwaves' as the Planet Warms The atmosphere is getting thirstier. A new study finds that warming is leading to more frequent...

a month ago

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Growing Risk of 'Thirstwaves' as the Planet Warms

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago

The atmosphere is getting thirstier. A new study finds that warming is leading to more frequent bouts of hot, dry weather that cause soils to lose large volumes of water to evaporation. Read more on E360 →

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./techtipsy

Cool links This is an unsorted list of links that I find to be cool. slow roads sit back, relax and let the AI...

over a year ago

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Cool links

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over a year ago

This is an unsorted list of links that I find to be cool. slow roads sit back, relax and let the AI do all the driving or don’t, I’m not your dad

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Quanta Magazine

The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite...

a year ago

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The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes

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a year ago

In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite harmonies — and clues to the Earth’s interior. The post The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Christopher Butler

object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1 This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI...

over a year ago

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object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI magazine in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was the sort of magazine that thoroughly suited my interests but was often a bit over my head and clearly not meant for a kid to read....

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Seth's Blog

Later or now? When we feel like doing something selfish, indulgent, hurtful or short-term, we can simply decide to...

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Later or now?

a year ago

When we feel like doing something selfish, indulgent, hurtful or short-term, we can simply decide to do it later. And when it occurs to us that we might be able to make a useful contribution or do something important, perhaps we could do it now.

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Diaries of Note

We simply dread the moon Hallie Eustace Miles was a writer and restaurateur who, along with her sportsman husband Eustace...

a year ago

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We simply dread the moon

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a year ago

Hallie Eustace Miles was a writer and restaurateur who, along with her sportsman husband Eustace Hamilton Miles, opened a vegetarian restaurant in 1906, shortly after their marriage. The Eustace Miles Restaurant became an iconic meeting place in Edwardian London, drawing a wide...

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Calculated Risk

Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.3% Below 2022 Peak; Price-to-rent index is 8.1% below 2022 peak Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.3% Below...

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Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.3% Below 2022 Peak; Price-to-rent index is 8.1% below 2022 peak

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.3% Below 2022 Peak It has been over 18 years since the housing bubble peak. In the October Case-Shiller house price index released earlier this week, the seasonally adjusted National Index...

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Andrew Fraknoi –...

An Eclipse of the Sun Coming to N. America April 8th A rare eclipse of the Sun will be visible all over North America on April 8th. The post An Eclipse...

a year ago

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An Eclipse of the Sun Coming to N. America April 8th

a year ago

A rare eclipse of the Sun will be visible all over North America on April 8th. The post An Eclipse of the Sun Coming to N. America April 8th appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.

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PostHog's RSS Feed

We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...

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We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media

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9 months ago

PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…

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Jonas Hietala

Incomplete game coming up Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done -...

over a year ago

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Incomplete game coming up

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done - seriously. I spent far too many hours, even days, figuring out in my mind how the game should be and I started off going for nothing less than just that. But it turned out to be a lot...

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Construction Physics

The Long Road to Fiber Optics Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...

8 months ago

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The Long Road to Fiber Optics

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago

Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our world.

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journal – Winnie Lim

being creative is not just about making things I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my...

a year ago

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being creative is not just about making things

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my various life stages. For a long time it was tied to my identity...

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swyx's site RSS Feed

Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...

a year ago

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Searching for The Early Founder Cadence

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...

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Jonas Hietala

Focusing Attention: Drawing In my last post I wrote about some ideas and projects I have and how it’s a little bit too much at a...

over a year ago

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Focusing Attention: Drawing

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago

In my last post I wrote about some ideas and projects I have and how it’s a little bit too much at a time, so now I’m going to try something new here. In the beginning of every week I’ll declare something I’ll be focusing on and then that’s the only thing I should focus on on my...

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cdixon.org RSS Feed

Google’s feature creep Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep. Here was Microsoft Word when it was most...

over a year ago

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Google’s feature creep

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over a year ago

Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep. Here was Microsoft Word when it was most cluttered: I don’t use any of…

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McMansion Hell

In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually. Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial...

over a year ago

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In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago

Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sack Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point...

over a year ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sack

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!

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Retail Design Blog

NUDE STORY store by RMMSH Intro For the store, the brand chose a building dating back to 1870 – A. S. Khomyakov’s profitable...

3 months ago

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NUDE STORY store by RMMSH

3 months ago

Intro For the store, the brand chose a building dating back to 1870 – A. S. Khomyakov’s profitable house at...

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Astral Codex Ten

Hidden Open Thread 372.5 ...

2 months ago

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Hidden Open Thread 372.5

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2 months ago

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elementary Blog

Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...

a year ago

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Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago

As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1! AppCenter As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...

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Tikalon Blog by Dev...

Baseball Mud A manufactured baseball has a smooth surface with very little friction, and this makes it hard for a...

11 months ago

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Baseball Mud

from Tikalon Blog by Dev Gualtieri [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago

A manufactured baseball has a smooth surface with very little friction, and this makes it hard for a baseball pitcher to throw with great accuracy. Pitchers in the early days of baseball enhanced the friction by several ad hoc techniques that included rubbing with tobacco juice...

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Quanta Magazine

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help...

a year ago

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets. The post Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism first...

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Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Date Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We could make it even more informative by adding...

5 months ago

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Date

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5 months ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We could make it even more informative by adding location and season. Today's News: Another year?

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Max Rozen

Understanding useState's initial value If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first....

over a year ago

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Understanding useState's initial value

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago

If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.

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cdixon.org RSS Feed

Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS? The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing....

over a year ago

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Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS?

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago

The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing. Andrew Weissman had a very reasonable…

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TheCollector

Frieze New York Starts Strong With $3 Million Jeff Koons Sale Frieze New York 2025 opened its doors to collectors, museum leaders, artists, and other VIP guests...

4 weeks ago

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Frieze New York Starts Strong With $3 Million Jeff Koons Sale

4 weeks ago

Frieze New York 2025 opened its doors to collectors, museum leaders, artists, and other VIP guests on Wednesday, May 7. The thirteenth edition of the famed contemporary art fair brings together 67 exhibitors from over 25 countries at The Shed in New York City’s Hudson Yards...

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Londonist

The Lost Trees Of London The biggest and best trees that are no more.

a year ago

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The Lost Trees Of London

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a year ago

The biggest and best trees that are no more.

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Rest of World -...

A step counter, but for your prayers At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people...

8 months ago

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A step counter, but for your prayers

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago

At least 20 apps exist to help Muslims track their dhikrs, a form of Islamic worship in which people repeat prayers and holy phrases.

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Oykun

Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...

a year ago

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Why Visual Design Matters

from Oykun [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago

Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...

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Out-of-Pocket Blog

How To Self-Publish A Children's Book and How Much You Can Expect To Make | Out-Of-Pocket spoiler: you will make very little lol

a year ago

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How To Self-Publish A Children's Book and How Much You Can Expect To Make | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago

spoiler: you will make very little lol

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Daniel Bourke

The subtle shade of the clouds Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too...

a year ago

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The subtle shade of the clouds

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too late. Not the farm garlic though. They’ve had practice. Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more. Tens of thousands of cloves. Garlic is the biggest harvest of

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Ben Borgers

“you have a lack of deadlines”

over a year ago

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“you have a lack of deadlines”

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over a year ago

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Seth's Blog

Software done well There are a few tools I use regularly that make me smile, because the craftspeople who made them...

11 months ago

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Software done well

11 months ago

There are a few tools I use regularly that make me smile, because the craftspeople who made them decided to build something with extra magic and care. By using and paying for well crafted software, we often get far more than we pay for… Ecamm is the tool I use for all my online...

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Toni Lijic

Homage to My Last Name How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind

7 months ago

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Homage to My Last Name

from Toni Lijic [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago

How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind

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Working Theorys

24 Working Theorys for 2024 Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators,...

a year ago

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24 Working Theorys for 2024

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a year ago

Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators, and lifestyle

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swyx's site RSS Feed

You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:

a year ago

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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox

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a year ago

If you fit one of these criteria:

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The Diff

Where do AI Agents Get Deployed First? Plus! IP; Bull Markets; Run on the Fund; Moderating Moderation; Paraphrasing Bundling

6 months ago

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Where do AI Agents Get Deployed First?

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago

Plus! IP; Bull Markets; Run on the Fund; Moderating Moderation; Paraphrasing Bundling

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journal – Winnie Lim

100 days of post-covid infection: state of mind, health & writing It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally...

a year ago

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100 days of post-covid infection: state of mind, health & writing

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago

It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally in my morning pages. If I do develop long covid it would be...

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AFAR Media - Travel...

Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions

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Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

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Rest of World -...

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in...

3 days ago

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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

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3 days ago

A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

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Christian Selig

Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...

8 months ago

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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

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8 months ago

For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...

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cdixon.org RSS Feed

Getting a job in venture capital Getting a job in venture capital is extremely hard. There are a lot of really smart, well...

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Getting a job in venture capital

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over a year ago

Getting a job in venture capital is extremely hard. There are a lot of really smart, well qualified, eager people who want to work in VC…

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The Marginalian

The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression "This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary."

a year ago

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The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression

a year ago

"This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary."

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Sam Altman

Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...

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Quora

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over a year ago

I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other. So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora. Quora is doing extremely well. They now...

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Commoncog

Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators?...

3 months ago

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Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates

3 months ago

How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.

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Calculated Risk

Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.2% in February The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger...

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Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.2% in February

a month ago

The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger image. On a year-over-year basis, the median CPI rose 3.5% (down slightly unrounded from 3.5% YoY in February), the trimmed-mean CPI rose 3.0% (down from 3.1%), and the CPI less food...

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Simply Explained

How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...

over a year ago

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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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over a year ago

In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!

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One Useful Thing

My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)

over a year ago

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My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far.

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(Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)

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Commoncog

Speedrunning the Skill of Demand How to get better, faster at the skill of uncovering demand, which underpins the skill domains of...

2 months ago

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Speedrunning the Skill of Demand

2 months ago

How to get better, faster at the skill of uncovering demand, which underpins the skill domains of sales, marketing, and product.

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Casey Handmer's blog

Part 6 Guns Under The Table Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...

5 months ago

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Part 6 Guns Under The Table

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5 months ago

Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since the last update of this – in that time I read my children all of Green Mars...

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Out-of-Pocket Blog

The Obstacles To Value-Based Care | Out-Of-Pocket taking on risk is easier said than done

a year ago

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The Obstacles To Value-Based Care | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago

taking on risk is easier said than done

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lcamtuf’s thing

Against the hydraulic analogy The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.

5 months ago

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Against the hydraulic analogy

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5 months ago

The most popular tool for teaching electronics makes the trade harder to learn.

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The Marginalian

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity "The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."

a year ago

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

a year ago

"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."

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A Beautiful Site

Detecting mobile devices with JavaScript While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the...

over a year ago

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Detecting mobile devices with JavaScript

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over a year ago

While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the need for knowing whether or not we're dealing with a mobile device arises. For in-depth device checking, you can rely on a complex library such as The MobileESP Project. But for...

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csvbase blog

From Shell to Excel - with a little bit of HTTPS Write once, read everywhere

9 months ago

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From Shell to Excel - with a little bit of HTTPS

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9 months ago

Write once, read everywhere

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Rest of World -...

Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.

a year ago

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Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India

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a year ago

Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.

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Odds and Ends of...

The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable For the love of god, ask the computer people if your plan might actually work first.

3 months ago

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The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable

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3 months ago

For the love of god, ask the computer people if your plan might actually work first.

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David Heinemeier...

HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone! Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the...

2 weeks ago

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HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone!

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago

Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the defining moments of my career. It was the kind of test that calls you to account for what you believe and asks what you're willing to risk to see it through. Well, we risked...

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David Perell

The Paradoxes of Modern Life The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the...

over a year ago

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The Paradoxes of Modern Life

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over a year ago

The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read. The Paradox of Writing: Great writing looks effortless. But because the ideas are so clear, casual readers don’t appreciate how much time it took to...

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A Beautiful Site

Business cards VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...

over a year ago

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Business cards

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over a year ago

VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them. I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...

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Dreams of Space -...

Judy Space Puzzles (1970s) Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles! I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...

6 months ago

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Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago

Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles! I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back. These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...

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Society's Backend:...

LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24

10 months ago

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LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and More

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10 months ago

Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24

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swyx's site RSS Feed

$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...

over a year ago

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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail

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over a year ago

*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*

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fast.ai

AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...

over a year ago

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AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago

In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.

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The American Scholar

Acting Out One tortuous journey from stage to screen The post Acting Out appeared first on The American...

a year ago

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Acting Out

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a year ago

One tortuous journey from stage to screen The post Acting Out appeared first on The American Scholar.

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Daniel Marino

My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...

over a year ago

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My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred

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over a year ago

I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...

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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...

@levelsio and survivorship bias Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...

over a year ago

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@levelsio and survivorship bias

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit. Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...

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Steve Klabnik

Redcarpet is awesome

over a year ago

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Redcarpet is awesome

over a year ago

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Vladimir Klepov as a...

Make useRef lazy — 4 ways I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState /...

over a year ago

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Make useRef lazy — 4 ways

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState / useReducer / useMemo). useRef({ x: 0, y: 0 }) creates an object { x: 0, y: 0 } on every render, but only uses it when mounting — it subsequent renders it's thrown away. With useState,...

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The Works in...

Introducing Gentle Density A new series from Works in Progress

over a year ago

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Introducing Gentle Density

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over a year ago

A new series from Works in Progress

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Diaries of Note

A decaying mass of flesh and bone Remembered chiefly for his short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hamlin Garland earned praise...

a year ago

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A decaying mass of flesh and bone

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a year ago

Remembered chiefly for his short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hamlin Garland earned praise for his vivid portrayals of Midwestern life, and for finding the profound in the mundane. Born in Wisconsin in 1860, it was in 1898 that Garland began to keep a daily diary in...

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Calculated Risk

Housing Dec 23rd Weekly Update: Inventory down 2.2% Week-over-week, Up 26.3% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.2% week-over-week. Inventory is now...

5 months ago

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Housing Dec 23rd Weekly Update: Inventory down 2.2% Week-over-week, Up 26.3% Year-over-year

5 months ago

Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.2% week-over-week. Inventory is now 9.7% below the peak for the year (9 weeks ago). Inventory will continue to decline seasonally until early next year and probably bottom in January or February. The first graph...

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Rest of World -...

Kenya’s solution to teacher shortage: Embrace AI Kenyan teachers and edtech companies say AI tools help save time, but without widespread internet...

a month ago

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Kenya’s solution to teacher shortage: Embrace AI

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a month ago

Kenyan teachers and edtech companies say AI tools help save time, but without widespread internet connectivity, the impact is uneven.

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Remains of the Day

TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...

over a year ago

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TikTok and the Sorting Hat

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over a year ago

I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...

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Birchtree

Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻 This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...

5 months ago

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Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻

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5 months ago

This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here. MacBook Pro The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as

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Melting Asphalt

2015 Meta Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I...

over a year ago

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2015 Meta

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago

Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I published a paltry six full essays this year. Don't get me wrong: I'm proud of them. But still, six. It would be… Read more ›

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This Space

At home he’s a tourist: The Moment by Peter Holm Jensen Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday...

over a year ago

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At home he’s a tourist: The Moment by Peter Holm Jensen

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over a year ago

Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday speech, a word or two is usually added to supplement the weedy noun: people say “At this moment in time”, which is when I ask: can a moment be in anything else; a moment in lampposts...

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The Turn Signal RSS...

The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only...

over a year ago

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The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago

Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…

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Carl Barenbrug RSS...

In / Out 2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance...

6 months ago

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In / Out

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago

2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance climbing single session training days swimming saving self-care selling investing uniform long hair house + techno sound design Out comparison shyness dishes in sink trends (especially...

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Rest of World -...

How this startup bounced back from a crisis ThriveAgric fell into a crisis when the pandemic hit. Three years later, it has found its way back...

a year ago

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How this startup bounced back from a crisis

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a year ago

ThriveAgric fell into a crisis when the pandemic hit. Three years later, it has found its way back up.

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Steve Klabnik

Ember.js and accessibility

over a year ago

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Ember.js and accessibility

over a year ago

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A Smart Bear

Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be...

over a year ago

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Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway

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over a year ago

Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.

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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...

Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...

over a year ago

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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago

Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...

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Contemporist...

Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in...

5 days ago

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Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5 days ago

Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...

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Noahpinion

Why has American pop culture stagnated? Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.

3 weeks ago

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Why has American pop culture stagnated?

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3 weeks ago

Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.

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Londonist

Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake? How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?

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Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake?

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a year ago

How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?

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Marcus on AI

Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply

4 months ago

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Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek

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4 months ago

DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply

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Good Enough

The Space Between Us Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical...

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The Space Between Us

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a year ago

Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical office. I've been working remotely for more than ten years, and overall I really like it. I love the flexibility it affords, being more present with our families, and that my...

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Steve Klabnik

Using the Oxide Console

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Using the Oxide Console

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Seth's Blog

Regressing to the mean all by yourself “The mean” is the average. Another word for “mediocre.” When an organization gets big enough, by...

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Regressing to the mean all by yourself

a year ago

“The mean” is the average. Another word for “mediocre.” When an organization gets big enough, by definition, it’s the average. When you have enough customers, they represent the population as a whole. If you find yourself seeking to serve the largest possible number of people,...

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Retail Design Blog

ChloeMonique Atelier by Adrian Condina Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of...

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ChloeMonique Atelier by Adrian Condina

6 months ago

Often seen as the more polished of Australia‘s two biggest cities, Melbourne has a wide array of addresses where a...

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Electronics etc…

A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...

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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem

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9 months ago

Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...

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Sometimes It Works...

Simon Shares I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.

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Simon Shares

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a year ago

I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.

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99% Invisible

Changing Stripes Rioters carried many familiar flags during the January 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol...

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Changing Stripes

a month ago

Rioters carried many familiar flags during the January 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol — Confederate, MAGA, as well as some custom-made ones like a flag of Trump looking like Rambo. Except for onlookers who were already familiar with the design, it would have been...

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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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Contentions: Apple TV’s billion dollar loss

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2 months ago

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...

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Working Theorys

Writer-Builders Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man

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Writer-Builders

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a year ago

Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man

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Flashbak

Strangely Familiar: Peter Mitchell Paints The Everyday In Colour Film “I had always believed a photograph could be as powerful as a painting.” – Peter Mitchell Peter...

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Strangely Familiar: Peter Mitchell Paints The Everyday In Colour Film

2 months ago

“I had always believed a photograph could be as powerful as a painting.” – Peter Mitchell Peter Mitchell allows us to imagine the stories between his colour photographer of 1970s and 80s England, particularly the northern city of Leeds he calls home. A self-described “man of...

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bt RSS Feed

Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my...

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Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5

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a year ago

Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my clubs/projects while using my personal laptop (X220 ThinkPad) which is runs OpenBSD. Since I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 I thought it could be helpful for others if I shared my...

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99% Invisible

Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former...

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Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation

6 months ago

For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. If you’ve been listening to 99% Invisible’sPower Broker Breakdown, you’re familiar with the story. The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The...

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TheCollector

What Do Adventists Believe? The Adventist Church has a unique set of beliefs on several doctrines that set them apart from other...

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What Do Adventists Believe?