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Vadim Kravcenko
Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
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In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until […] The post Security at Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Who Won the Siege of Vicksburg? undefined
7 months ago
Blog - Practical...
Is the World Really Running Out of Sand? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer...
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3 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer right away, it’s no; or at least, my goal with this video is to convince you that the world is not running out of sand. But if it were that simple, I wouldn’t be here (right?) and...
Unfiltered by Tim...
How to Build an Online Empire by Yourself (Without Any Hacks) Let's cut the cr*p
3 weeks ago
Louwrentius
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
Open Culture
Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884) One of the busiest, most in-demand artists of the 19th century, Gustave Doré made his name...
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One of the busiest, most in-demand artists of the 19th century, Gustave Doré made his name illustrating works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante. In the 1860s, he created one of the most memorable and popular illustrated editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote,...
The Ruffian
The Story Behind the Greatest Guitar Solo in Rock History The Dark Energies Behind Prince's Moment of Genius
3 months ago
TokyoDev
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on...
a year ago
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a year ago
I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook), and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline and size over time: 1.
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar – But No More Above, the entrance to a nightclub in the comic book “Powers.” Below, courtesy of Except that, as of...
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a year ago
Above, the entrance to a nightclub in the comic book “Powers.” Below, courtesy of Except that, as of this past summer, the Hotel Pennsylvania is gone. It was arguably the last of the grand railroad hotels left in New York, and it was no longer a grand railroad hotel since that...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use? undefined
2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Good Job Games Offices by Jeyan Ülkü Architects Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful...
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Good Job Games is a mobile gaming technology company characterized by a predominantly youthful workforce. Right from the beginning we...
Londonist
Those Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides Through London Parks Are Back For Winter The mane event.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Specialty If you look closely, that stereotypical New England mill building, photographed yesterday in...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you look closely, that stereotypical New England mill building, photographed yesterday in Pawtucket, has a sign reading “H. A. Briggs & Co. Cotton Waste.” I’ve heard of a lot of things you can do with cotton, but “cotton waste” was a new one for me. It apparently means scraps...
journal – Winnie Lim
sharing my protocol as a moderately covid cautious person There may be a misconception that all covid cautious people are the same, but it is pretty wide...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
There may be a misconception that all covid cautious people are the same, but it is pretty wide spectrum. Some covid cautious people may frown upon my behaviour because I still travel...
History Today Feed
Queen Victoria’s Stalker Queen Victoria’s Stalker j.hoare Thu, 01/11/2024 - 09:45
11 months ago
Ian Betteridge
When dealing with Musk, Labour needs to understand the world has changed There are plenty of objections to preventing Elon Musk from donating to Reform. The first is it’s...
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There are plenty of objections to preventing Elon Musk from donating to Reform. The first is it’s politically motivated. A party shouldn’t (the theory goes) use its power in government specifically to target another party. Of course, Labour could do this in a way which prevented...
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation! Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...
Maps Mania
Tracking Russia's 'Dark' Shadow Ships
3 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Moment Before the Germans Will Arrive' A Jewish friend writes: “The distraction of the war and its repercussions around the world is making...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Jewish friend writes: “The distraction of the war and its repercussions around the world is making concentration on other things difficult.  . . . I wish I could tune the news out. But the stakes for the future of Israel and of Jewish life generally are too great for me to be...
diamond geezer
Blogged September 30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5...
a year ago
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a year ago
30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5 years, i.e. I've done 60 of them, so to still be getting 50 comments on the latest one is quite something, thanks. Sat 2: I broke the news that tube platform tickets were being...
Paul Graham: Essays
It's Charisma, Stupid
over a year ago
Identity Designed
Pets at Home Designed by Nomad, London.
a year ago
The Architectural...
Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
a year ago
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a year ago
Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
Londonist
Four Westminster Gas Street Lamps Get Protected Status Victory for campaigners preserving London's lambent heritage.
10 months ago
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Sydney Railway Layout, c. 1940 Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights, this is quite an extraordinary find. Long-time readers may have seen the 1939 version of this diagram (and the digital recreation that I made). Here’s the thing: the general...
Probably...
Probably the Book Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is available, I will post it here. In the meantime, you can read the slides, if you don’t mind spoilers. For people at the conference who don’t know me, this might be a good time to...
High Signal
$30k a month from a bootstrapped B2C company Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing...
7 months ago
Aaron's Essays
There Are No (Absolute) Red Flags in Venture Capital Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let’s accept, for the purposes of this essay, that founders and venture capitalists are engaged in a simple trade. Founders sell business risk for the cash they need to take bigger risks; venture capitalists buy that risk hoping it will one day transmute into reward. Each side...
TheCollector
12 Most Important Achievements in the Space Race undefined
a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Class action employment suits Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google has agreed to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees. Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and stressful thing. But while the $118M headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the lawyers'...
Moneyness
UK's core payments settlement system fails... again. Some thoughts As they increasingly forsake cash, regular folks are making dozens of digital payments every month....
a year ago
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a year ago
As they increasingly forsake cash, regular folks are making dozens of digital payments every month. What they don't realize is how this growing reliance on digital payments increasingly yokes their commercial lives to the fate of a single piece of infrastructure: their central...
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...
5 months ago
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5 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 […]
Old Structures...
The Slab Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and economics of real estate there. Some of the causes are rational, like the size of rowhouses being related to the wealth of a neighborhood; some are not, like the high stoops used in New...
Josh Thompson
Full Copy of 'The Atlanta Zone Plan' from 1922 A Warning and a Request In a moment, you will read the full text of a 1922 marketing pamphlet. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A Warning and a Request In a moment, you will read the full text of a 1922 marketing pamphlet. This document is an important thread to understanding some very large political problems facing the world today, specifically housing, affordability, the growing wealth gap, and...
Maps Mania
A Year of Wildfires
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Not a Hotel: A Unique Timeshare Concept Redefining Luxury Travel All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a...
a year ago
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All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a hotel.” That’s the tagline for ‘Not A Hotel,’ a real estate start-up founded by Shinji Hamazu. The company challenges the traditional hotel model by treating it as a timeshare and...
Open Culture
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Perform a Rollicking Cover of the Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song (1996) ?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Originally written by Sonny Curtis and released in 1970, “Love Is All...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Originally written by Sonny Curtis and released in 1970, “Love Is All Around”–otherwise known as the Mary Tyler Moore theme song–has been covered by many acts: Sammy Davis Jr, Hüsker Dü, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, to name a few. After releasing a studio...
The Marginalian
War, Peace, and Possible Futures: George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote... "War is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the...
11 months ago
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#37) The U.S. as trade war leader; Russia/China infowar; Biden and inflation; Yglesias on industrial...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The U.S. as trade war leader; Russia/China infowar; Biden and inflation; Yglesias on industrial policy; How to get immigrants to the Rust Belt; How to lose money
Tinloof - Blog
Figma for developers: all you need to know If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This quick read highlights some of the goodies that I personally use to speed up my workflow. A word of caution
Open Culture
Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917) Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the middle of every major event. Even before, as Prime Minister, he steeled the resolve of his people and faced down the Third Reich juggernaut; even before he loudly warned of the...
Noahpinion
Biden is right that we need to raise taxes But his plan needs a lot of work.
8 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Lotte Cinema Suwon: A Creative Cinema Hub Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Lotte Cinema Suwon: Redefining the Cinema Experience The cinema’s first impression captivates with color-changing lights and patterned glass, setting a...
TheCollector
The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture? undefined
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Climate, Justice, and Collaboration in Academia: A Conversation with Tyler School of Art and... At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an academic culture grounded in collaboration. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture, Wingert-Playdon is engaged in a mission of encouraging cross-disciplinary...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Inferring intent on mobile devices [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt said that while the Google Instant predictive search technology helps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Google CEO Eric] Schmidt said that while the Google Instant predictive search technology helps shave an average of 2 seconds off users…
AFAR Media - Travel...
Myrtle Beach’s Sensory-Friendly Hotels, Spots, Restaurants
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed The efficient market hypothesis is a widely taught financial theory that states, roughly, that under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The efficient market hypothesis is a widely taught financial theory that states, roughly, that under certain generally-held conditions…
AI Snake Oil
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
Antoine Mayerowitz
A Journey Into Shaders
a year ago
Mazdak
Buffett's $325 Billion Warning Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway,...
a month ago
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a month ago
Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's company, is sitting on a record $325 billion in cash after selling off major chunks of Apple and Bank of America stock.
Old Structures...
Bragging Combined With Public Service I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker,...
a month ago
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a month ago
I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois and not just because I wrote on chapter of it. Marci Uihlein, the editor, an architect and engineer, and a professor of architecture at...
Wuthering...
Books I Read in June 2023 If only I had the will to write something.  But I can read. PHILOSOPHY Fragments or Sayings or...
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If only I had the will to write something.  But I can read. PHILOSOPHY Fragments or Sayings or Tall Tales (4th C. BCE), Diogenes the Cynic, tr. Guy Davenport Cynics (2008), William Desmond - for an entry in a series aimed at students, surprisingly well written.  It helps that...
Max Rozen
The Definitive Guide to Commonly Used Words in React Do some words in React have you scratching your head? Ref? Stateless component? Let's learn some...
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Google Updates Satellite Imagery of Ukraine
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive introduction to iterative algorithms An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit condition problem on an oversimplified linear system solver.
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Quarantine Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m not aware of...
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Asimov on Fame, Fortune, and Creative Breakthrough Part 2 of an Analysis of Isaac Asimov’s Long Lost Letter on Creativity
over a year ago
Seldo.com
Shoes
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past couple of years, and I don’t understand the hype. It has some insightful ideas, but they’re buried under questionable advice and poor writing.
Seth's Blog
Cheating at golf Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone who cheats at a friendly game of golf when nothing much is at stake–how can you possibly trust them with something important? And yet, organizations and individuals “cheat at golf” all the time. They put clever clauses in the fine print. Spam a media list. Conceal the...
Adventures In...
The Bounding Box Podcast The one where I chat with Rene Rubalcava about the importance of unstructured data-play, the risk of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The one where I chat with Rene Rubalcava about the importance of unstructured data-play, the risk of metrics becoming the goal, where to find inspiration, brewing chaos into professional development, and loving our neighbors!
Londonist
Rumble In The Jungle Rematch Arrives In London Take your place ringside in this limited-run immersive show.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Painted Drop Shadows Around The Windows Create An Interesting Effect On This Building Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old, three-storey brick building in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighborhood. A unique design feature not often seen on the exterior of a building, are the painted drop shadows surrounding...
The Marginalian
Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives "Human lives... are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Human lives... are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence... into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life."
Math Is Still...
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never...
a year ago
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In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines. The post Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
Noahpinion
Why has U.S. manufacturing productivity stagnated for over a decade? A few hypotheses about a very disturbing trend.
6 months ago
Common Edge
Finding Inspiration in Histories of Indian Families With Powerful Architectural Legacies The stories found in Architectural Inheritance and Evolution in India rekindled the fire for the...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Direct questions worth answering For everyone on the team… Do you care enough to do great work? Can we agree on what great work looks...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For everyone on the team… Do you care enough to do great work? Can we agree on what great work looks like? When the world changes, do we have a process to redefine great work? Do you have the tools you need to reach your goals? How could we create a system where great work […]
The personal website...
Design APIs: the evolution of design systems Design systems enable designers and developers to quickly create quality software on a massive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Design systems enable designers and developers to quickly create quality software on a massive scale. As the needs of software-driven businesses grow even larger, design systems are evolving — they are beginning to look and work like APIs. In software development, “API” stands...
Maps Mania
Explore the World with Shadows
a year ago
Making software...
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery undefined
5 months ago
Drew Ex Machina
Memories of Project RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites) 1991 – 2004 During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure...
a year ago
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a year ago
During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure to work on was the joint US/Russian Federation (RF) […]
Rest of World -...
The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Mali’s schools RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster? undefined
3 months ago
The Modern House
Our Guide to Oxford: cinnamon buns, honey-hued domes and small plates in the 'city of dreaming...
7 months ago
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW) These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
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a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ticket Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You got a dirty mind. Today's News:
ntietz.com blog
What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
Applied Cartography
Finding null JSON values in Postgres Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the Django ORM into SQL to do weird things, the syntax strikes me as confusing and arcane. As such, when I need to do esoteric things it takes me longer time than I'd like, and in hopes...
xkcd.com
Extinction Mechanisms
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft execs on Apple's music store We were smoked.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Toba, St James It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
mtlynch.io
Installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS Core I always run into issues installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS core. I fix them, and then I forget a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
I always run into issues installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS core. I fix them, and then I forget a few months later, so these are just my notes to myself of how to install Jellyfin on TrueNAS core. Instructions Install based on these...
Rozado’s Visual...
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Use Local Technology Services On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the Sekunjalo Group of Companies should remain open after closure by some banks, and imminent closure by others. The reason the various banks were closing the accounts of Sekunjalo was...
xkcd.com
Perseids Pronunciation
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
getopt() but smaller The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically...
a month ago
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a month ago
The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically simple command line argument parser. Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse, and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and values and...
computers are bad
2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of...
5 months ago
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So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
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Glue work considered harmful “Glue work” is an concept Tanya Reilly came up with in 2019. The idea is that there’s a large amount...
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“Glue work” is an concept Tanya Reilly came up with in 2019. The idea is that there’s a large amount of unglamorous work that every team…
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Born in the Brazilian town of Sacramento in 1914, Carolina Maria de Jesus was unemployed and pregnant when she moved to the favela of Canindé, São Paulo in 1947. There, living with her children in a wooden shack and working as a scrap collector, she faced seemingly insurmountable...
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Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return to the home in which she was born, a Georgian house abreast the Meridian Line in Greenwich. Listen to this deeply personal conversation on our podcast, Homing […]
Arduino Blog
Explore underwater with this Arduino-controlled DIY ROV Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the...
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Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the ocean? But a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which is the kind of robot you’d use for such an adventure, isn’t exactly the kind of thing you’ll find on the shelf at your local...
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Month 3 of Daily Art Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'We Take Measure of the Loss' The youngest poet included by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Fields in Quest for Reality: An Anthology of...
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The youngest poet included by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Fields in Quest for Reality: An Anthology of Short Poems in English (1969) was M. Scott Momaday, a former Winters graduate student at Stanford who was then thirty-five years old. Winters, who died in 1968, also considered...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
Ink & Switch
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Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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Three Designs, All Invisible The first invisible design hides in plain sight. It is as transparent as a window, allowing the...
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The first invisible design hides in plain sight. It is as transparent as a window, allowing the meaning to shine through. When properly executed, it never draws attention to itself.
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Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
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Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
Asterisk
Growing Up Overnight A look at the past few years of LLM progress.
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One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
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Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Richly, Sometimes Dreamily, Melodic' A friend has given me an unexpected gift: a first American edition of Poems for Children (Henry Holt...
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A friend has given me an unexpected gift: a first American edition of Poems for Children (Henry Holt and Co., 1930), with a printed note before the title page:  “Three hundred copies of ‘Poems for Children’ have been specially printed and bound, and have been signed by the...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10%...
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To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10% better than them or add fun gimmicks on any existing attribute or feature. We will have to offer some new fundamental use case that becomes important to people’s daily lives.
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How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
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RUN TO THE FUTURE store by One Fine Day Studio & Partners Gender-neutral Chinese fashion brand RUN TO THE FUTURE is taking its operations to a higher level by...
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Randomevent store by Zach Architecture Design Aranya is a newly developed cultural resort which in earlier days formed part of the Chinese...
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Aranya is a newly developed cultural resort which in earlier days formed part of the Chinese Communist Party‘s official summer...
nanoscale views
The future of the semiconductor industry, + The Mechanical Universe Three items of interest: This article is a nice review of present semiconductor memory...
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Three items of interest: This article is a nice review of present semiconductor memory technology.  The electron micrographs in Fig. 1 and the scaling history in Fig. 3 are impressive. This article in IEEE Spectrum is a very interesting look at how some people think we will get...
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Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives" My new podcast.
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HogMail #15 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
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As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
Scarlet Ink
A Three Topic Article — Interviewing, Multiple Choice Management, and My Holiday Gift Guide Sometimes you have a single topic, sometimes you have three. Today is a 3-fer.
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NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years in the future. Scene 1 (the party): Our opening scene is a New Jersey houseparty, late college. Four kids lamenting the loss of their childhood. And it’s not just their childhood,...
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Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
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A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
Old Structures...
Changes and Not I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s...
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I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s mislabelled at the New York Public Library web site as “Vista, Thomas Street”. We all make mistakes, and whomever confused Thames and Thomas hid the location of this photo by accident....
diamond geezer
Revised security measures at the National Gallery Last Friday the National Gallery made it harder for visitors to enjoy a look around. Revised...
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Last Friday the National Gallery made it harder for visitors to enjoy a look around. Revised security measures at the National Gallery Walk-through metal detectors have been a fixture here for years, ditto a perfunctory bag check. This did tend to create queues but nothing...
Ben Borgers
How ChatGPT spoiled my semester
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The Honest Broker
Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s? The short answer is no—but these eight horn players came close
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How To Optimize for Change Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the...
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Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.
One Useful Thing
Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
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I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made the 90’s so great? Here’s GPT’s answer: Give a 90’s lover’s view of what made the 90’s awesome. Include everything from parenting, art, entertainment, games, childhood, movies, TV,...
Open Culture
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Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to putting last night’s dream into words: I was dressed as a clown and then I was in a theater, except I was also hiding under this lady’s hat, and the guy behind us was plucking out...
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Data Q&A Today I’m starting a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with...
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Today I’m starting a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. In each installment, I’ll take a question from Reddit’s statistics forum and answer it, using Python code to demonstrate. The first installment is a question about the...
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Apple's M&A Strategy, Explained PLUS: Chick-fil-A, Duolingo, Bitcoin rally.
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Contentful Workplace by toi toi toi creative studio toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was...
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toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was applied to the 8,215 sq.m...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Elasticsearch Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional...
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Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional databases like PostgreSQL for performing tasks over…
Noahpinion
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Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America; corrupt nonprofits
TheCollector
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
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Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
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The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen! The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately...
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The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately liked a lot about it. The keyboard is a big step up over the MacBook Pro, primarily because of the 50% longer key travel. And I love the matte screen and 3:2 aspect ratio. Both feel...
Res Obscura
Kikkuli! Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
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Grey morning Alexandra Feodorovna, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine...
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Alexandra Feodorovna, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine on June 6, 1872. Twenty-two years later, she wed Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and adopted her new name. Her reign as Tsarina was turbulent, marked by her controversial...
Londonist
Can You Set Off Your Own Fireworks In London? DIY whizzbangs, explained.
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 7-8 October 2023 Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
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Maps Mania
The SpaceX Starlink Map
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NeuroLogica Blog
Coal vs Natural Gas In the last 18 years, since 2005, the US has decreased our CO2 emissions due to electricity...
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In the last 18 years, since 2005, the US has decreased our CO2 emissions due to electricity generation by 32%, 819 million metric tons of CO2 per year. Thirty percent of this decline can be attributed to renewable energy generation. But 65% is attributed to essentially replacing...
Diaries of Note
Hostilities were suspended for the Night On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of...
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On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Yorktown effectively came to an end. Situated in Virginia, Yorktown had been a critical stronghold for the British forces led by General Charles Cornwallis. The American and French...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He’s a Person of Joy, a Fanatic' Unlike my sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music is good,...
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Unlike my sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music is good, that’s what I’m doing, listening. Otherwise, I don’t need a soundtrack for my life. I would find that annoyingly attention-splitting. What I do instead is periodically take a break...
Retail Design Blog
ISPT Spec Suite by Project One Project One designed a progressive work environment in Sydney for ISPT, focusing on optimizing...
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Project One designed a progressive work environment in Sydney for ISPT, focusing on optimizing business operations and creating a visually...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
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TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution undefined
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Epic Web Dev
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Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Archetypical From a graphic novel about art called Naked City: how do you capture the spirit of New York? A...
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From a graphic novel about art called Naked City: how do you capture the spirit of New York? A relentless grid and Old-Law tenements.
Open Culture
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When...
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“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” –Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–90) When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly surprise...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Why Leaders Should Never Back Their Car In The culture of a company is a hard thing to suss out from the outside. When you are thinking about...
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The culture of a company is a hard thing to suss out from the outside. When you are thinking about switching jobs it can be hard to know what you are getting yourself into from interviews alone. Initial meetings are biased by employees who paint rosy pictures of the company in...
Jonas Hietala
Entering Pintos First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having...
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First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
Platformer
Twitter’s risky plan to save its ads business Agree to personalize your ads — or else
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Maps Mania
The Reemergence of Nuclear Power
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Tighter than Scum A mile of scum clung to the edges of the grocery store aisles. Every night the machine that waxed...
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A mile of scum clung to the edges of the grocery store aisles. Every night the machine that waxed the floor spit excess gunk onto the baseboards. Hal Smith pondered the mess from above, perched in a cloud of cigarette smoke, surveying his store from behind mirrored glass.
xkcd.com
Call My Cell
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Interaction Magic -...
Metaphors mold minds Every good design is founded on a great metaphor. How to use metaphors to design more a inclusive...
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Every good design is founded on a great metaphor. How to use metaphors to design more a inclusive future for our cities. My IXDA Interaction 22 conference talk.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 This is an extremely interesting playbook: use an expensive model to generate high quality...
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#1 💡 This is an extremely interesting playbook: use an expensive model to generate high quality training data. Then use this data to fine tune a much cheaper model you can run at scale. Also seems like there’s plenty of opportunity to build consulting/service businesses around...
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
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AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
David Heinemeier...
Imperfections create connections The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a...
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The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the most iconic sports car ever made. This fundamental imperfection is part of how it creates the connection. This is true of mechanical watches...
Computer Things
Why I prefer rST to markdown I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on...
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I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here. This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Calm Anxiety and Bring Peace of Mind Anxiety can be a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While there are...
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Anxiety can be a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While there are countless treatments available, many individuals find relief in ancient philosophies like Stoicism. In this article, we explore Stoicism's teachings and practical techniques for...
TheCollector
An Introduction to the History of LGBTQIA+ Art undefined
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Bugger It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger. Wow it seems like forever since I begun this...
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It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger. Wow it seems like forever since I begun this monthly game business, but it’s only been two months since I first thought about this and here I am having finished my third game. I’ve really come a long way, in the beginning I...
TheCollector
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Retail Design Blog
LUISAVIAROMA store by Claudio Nardi Architects Storied Florentine multi-brand boutique LUISAVIAROMA has crossed the Big Pond to open up shop in New...
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Storied Florentine multi-brand boutique LUISAVIAROMA has crossed the Big Pond to open up shop in New York City. Given the...
Liz Denys
He's not my friend. Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
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Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
Josh Thompson
Migrating my Jekyll site to Netlify Troubleshooting Netilify deploy Ugggh I moved intermediateruby.com to Netlify a few months ago in...
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Troubleshooting Netilify deploy Ugggh I moved intermediateruby.com to Netlify a few months ago in like 10 minutes, so my primary site, josh.works, should take maybe 20, right? I’m a few hours deep. Here’s what I get when Netlify tries to build: I should have done the following...
Louwrentius
Buying a new computer *** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
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*** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
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...
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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...
diamond geezer
Slowing the Bow Roundabout (this is the last post written on my old laptop) temporary timetables on bus routes 25, 205, 276,...
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(this is the last post written on my old laptop) temporary timetables on bus routes 25, 205, 276, 277 and 425 "to help with reliability during roadworks at the Bow Roundabout and displacement of traffic onto local roads". For example buses on route 25 usually run every 7-8...
Mazdak
The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover? The AI Invasion: Is humanity on the verge of a digital takeover?
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Society's Backend
Coming soon! Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts...
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Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review ‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G.R. Berridge review JamesHoare Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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The Marginalian
Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read....
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I grew up loving Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. My grandmother read it to me before I could read. I read it to myself as soon as I could. I loved the strangeness of it, and the tenderness. As a child mathematician, I loved knowing that a grown mathematician had written it. But...
NeuroLogica Blog
New Theory Unites Gravity and Quantum Mechanics One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how to unite the two overarching theories of...
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One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how to unite the two overarching theories of physics – quantum mechanics and general relativity. If physicists could somehow unite these two theories, which currently do not play well together, then we might get to a deeper “one...
Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Kingston Upon Thames Or ROYAL Kingston upon Thames, if you insist.
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./techtipsy
Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60 A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member...
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A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member before that, and I started its cleanup by disassembling the whole machine and making sure that it was pristine. However, once I put it all back together, I saw that it was password...
Articles - Alex...
The forecasting fallacy Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the...
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Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the PowerPoint projections of self-proclaimed prophets. In the feeds of forecasters and futurists. To understand the extent of our forecasting fascination, I analysed the websites...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Video Games x Healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket Video games should be our models for engagement
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The personal website...
Research, empathy, simplicity, speed photo by Toa Heftiba Earlier today, I read a thought-provoking tweet from John Maeda: "Salt Fat Acid...
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photo by Toa Heftiba Earlier today, I read a thought-provoking tweet from John Maeda: "Salt Fat Acid Heat" as the perfect set of ingredients for a meal makes me wonder what a similar set of essential ingredients might be for digital products. https://t.co/z1w1PUyQsD — John Maeda...
Moneyness
Are flatcoins a good idea? I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has...
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I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it got a wider airing when it popped up in a Coinbase marketing piece from earlier this year. Now, arch-crypto hater Nouriel Roubini has undergone a...
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61) The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
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Recording: CPython and ELF Essentials for Building a Basic Remote Profiler Yesterday, we did the live session on the internals of remote sampling profilers.
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Thoughts on when to incorporate * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Update: I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Update: I originally posted this article with the title “Incorporate your startup only when you’re forced to” and I had amazing feedback, particularly from Andrew Payne [http://blog.payne.org/]...
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Focusing attention is a skill Where we choose to direct our gaze determines not only what we learn or believe, but how we choose...
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Where we choose to direct our gaze determines not only what we learn or believe, but how we choose to see the world. Typing is a skill. Juggling is a skill. So is project management. It’s easy to overlook the fact that we can get better at what we think about, create and consume....
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Branding & Packaging Design for NAM Coffee Branding & Packaging Design for NAM Coffee AoiroStudio0508—23 ...
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Branding & Packaging Design for NAM Coffee AoiroStudio0508—23 Chochoi Creative, a dynamic branding studio based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and they published a recent collaboration with Nam Coffee, a brand dedicated to bringing Vietnam's...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic and I simply have to accept it. Today's News:
Artificial Ignorance
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The unfairness of life with a baby Breastfeeding realities, new baby life, mental load, and zero sum games.
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Learn Data Analytics & AI with Google, and Fast-Track Your Career ?si=azZbGLEr_9EFWypL We’re living in the age of data and artificial intelligence (AI). Every second,...
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?si=azZbGLEr_9EFWypL We’re living in the age of data and artificial intelligence (AI). Every second, vast amounts of data are being generated, processed, and analyzed. And increasingly AI plays a central role in how that data gets managed. For companies, governments, and...
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Is dark matter the most powerful wave in the universe? Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.  ...
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Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.  Although the motions of galaxies provide evidence that dark matter exists, scientists have yet to directly detect the invisible stuff, or figure out what it could be made...
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What is the IQ of ChatGPT? Making an AI model take an IQ test
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./techtipsy
Quest towards energy efficiency part 1: the water heater While listening to the SelfHosted podcast, one of the hosts brought up their peculiar...
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While listening to the SelfHosted podcast, one of the hosts brought up their peculiar living arrangement multiple times. Essentially, he and his family are living in an RV that runs off of batteries, has solar panels, utilizes Home Assistant for automation, supports multiple...
The Marginalian
Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom "Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against...
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"Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom. Another one, of course, is pain... passion's frequent aftermath."
Seth's Blog
When the sun is shining Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the...
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Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the chores, but to create and innovate. And yet, some days feel more conducive than others. There are moments when it simply flows. When the surf’s up, cancel everything else. Don’t waste...
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Vote2024: Election stats 1a) 2024 election: votes cast Lab 34%Con 24%Ref 14%LD 12%Gr 7%S Oth 1b) 2024 election: seats won Lab 412Con 121LD 72S 9Oth 22 2) 21st century elections: votes...
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Wonderful Rails World Vibes I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
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I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
Christian Selig
My little Apple Vision Pro stand I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s...
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I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s beautiful stands that exist out there, but I was looking for something more compact and vertical so it would take up less room on my desk. So I opened Fusion 360 (which I am still...
Home on Erik...
Spotify's Discovery page The Discovery page, the new start page in Spotify, is finally out to a fairly significant percentage...
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The Discovery page, the new start page in Spotify, is finally out to a fairly significant percentage of all users. Really happy since we have worked on it for the past six months. Here's a screen shot:
xkcd.com
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NeuroLogica Blog
Hunger Circuitry One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature...
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One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature of being alive – maintaining homeostatic equilibrium both internally and externally. Homeostatic systems usually involve multiple feedback loops that maintain some physiological...
Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Factorization Homology? I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the...
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I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the special session on Homotopy Theory and Category Theory in Interaction. The conference was this weekend, and I’m typing this up on my plane ride home. I had a great time, and...
The Marginalian
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the... "We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or...
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"We are never simply seeing what’s 'really there,' stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions."
The Honest Broker
Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next Are you ready? Is anybody ready?
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Old Structures...
Born In The Bronx The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete...
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The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete state given that the Civil War had begun the previous month, but that was a coincidence. The replacement of the original wooden dome had been planned for some time. The old dome was...
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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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...
A Beautiful Site
Surreal CMS acquires PageLime Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management —...
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Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management — a hosted CMS that reads/writes directly to a web server and uses class attributes to define content regions. It was a great idea. Such a great idea that it inspired others to do...
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...
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Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
Retail Design Blog
Monos store by Ste Marie Following last year’s opening of its first store in Vancouver, Canadian luggage brand Monos has...
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Following last year’s opening of its first store in Vancouver, Canadian luggage brand Monos has inaugurated a second retail space...
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The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy, the Most Dangerous Type of Person, and the Unconscious... In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in...
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In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia as a lone teenager from a country thirteen centuries America’s senior, I experienced that wonderful capacity for self-surprise as tears came streaming down my face in a...
Calculated Risk
FOMC Preview: Fed to Cut Rates 25bp Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp...
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Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp lowering the target range to 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 percent.   However, most market participants now expect the FOMC to pause in January and are split on a rate cut at the March...
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VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is...
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Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is that the advent of the internet was the…
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?) I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
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I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
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Embracing Hacker Culture This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Embracing Hacker Culture appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
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'An Interior Convulsion' Too late the other night a friend texted me links to several stand-up routines by the late Jackie...
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Too late the other night a friend texted me links to several stand-up routines by the late Jackie Mason. I clicked on one and the inevitable followed: I went looking for more and soon descended into a privately curated  comedy show with guest stars Don Rickles, Jonathan Winters...
TheCollector
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“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Only one Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair, look out the window, and shake their heads from time to time. Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'Otherwise, as Apolitical as Possible" “If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort...
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“If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort of common sense becomes as rare as humility by the hour. It’s the time of year when we start filling the recycling bin with unsolicited, unread campaign literature. This season’s favored...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 37 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Old Structures...
Partial Success I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the...
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I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the NYPL website is “Grand base ball match for the championship, between the Exclusive and Atlantic Clubs, of Brooklyn…” and the date is given as 1900-1945. (It’s also listed as a...
The Gradient
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
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'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
Contemporist...
Western Red Cedar Gives This Home A Warm Feeling Inside And Out Swatt | Miers Architects has sent us photos of their project, the 'Happy Valley Residence' in...
a year ago
TokyoDev
Recruiting Developers Through Conferences Conferences bring together passionate developers, typically around a specific technology such as a...
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Conferences bring together passionate developers, typically around a specific technology such as a programming language like Ruby. This makes them the perfect place to recruit developers for your company. This article outlines how a company can get the most value out of these...
Old Structures...
Some Good News To Start The Year From Ars Technica, “40% of US electricity is now emissions-free” by John Timmer has a pretty...
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From Ars Technica, “40% of US electricity is now emissions-free” by John Timmer has a pretty self-explanatory headline. The short version: wind and solar have advanced quickly because of decreases in their cost, coal use has dropped, and there’s more storage coming on line to...
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that...
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Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it"). When...
Archinect - Features
'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based... For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and...
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For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Established in 2018 as a collaborative venture after working for large, established firms, the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boop Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost anything as long as it's presented as a scam? Today's News:
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
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Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Rest of World -...
Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
7 months ago
Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
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I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Triangle of Harm
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 29 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Bit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: An interesting future question is whether...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: An interesting future question is whether artificial wombs will displace stork-work or lead to increased prosperity. Today's News:
diamond geezer
Rail & Heritage Loop A Nice Walk?: Rail & Heritage Loop (18 miles) Buro Happold, in association with social enterprise...
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A Nice Walk?: Rail & Heritage Loop (18 miles) Buro Happold, in association with social enterprise Footways, have just launched a new circular walking route linking 10 central London rail termini. It's not meant for speedy connections, more for recreational wandering, and ticks...
Louwrentius
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
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over a year ago
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
Stephen Diehl
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Groq, Gemini, and 10x improvements As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When...
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As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When you scale your inputs (users, page views, messages, etc) by 10x, something breaks. Usually, it's something pretty fundamental. And the end result is that you need to replace a...
CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Awards & Competition – Call for Submissions This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...
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This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing thousands of award winners from 139 different design disciplines. Line Series...
Seth's Blog
The thing about decay One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove...
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One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove elements before we can start building new functions. If we simply put effort on top of a shaky foundation, it’ll all be wasted. The best way forward might be to take a few steps...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project <![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in...
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<![CDATA[The end of the work on WebCard marked the completion of my RetroChallenge 2024 project, in time as hoped. I accomplished the initial goal of extending NoteCards to visit websites. This is my Linux desktop after traversing a NoteCards link to a Web card which opened the...
Max Rozen
Methods for styling your React app It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your...
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It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your choice.
Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
Shein’s hottest item in Latin America is its plastic bags The reusable packaging often ends up outliving the garments it once transported.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
over a year ago
TokyoDev
TokyoDev 2023 Recap 2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand...
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2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand TokyoDev, growing it beyond myself, and reinvesting the success we’ve had so far to expand the business further than I could on my own. As I heard about wave after wave of layoffs, it had...
Ben Borgers
Thinking in Silence
over a year ago
TheCollector
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
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CONTEMPORIST
Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
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Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
Seth's Blog
Good businesses solve real problems But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need...
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But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need housing, health care and food. They want delight, belonging and status. When a company shows up in the marketplace with a product or service that people eagerly choose to buy, it’s...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
Steve Blank
How to Flip the Script, Beat China and Russia – And Fix the Broken Department of Defense A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with...
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A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
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....
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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…
Oxide Computer...
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
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Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating...
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The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating point arithmetic: f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b It really does: >>> [f(n) for n in range(10)] [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34] How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
Louwrentius
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
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This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
The Great Discontent...
Britt Reilly Britt Reilly's work lives at the intersection of immersive visual arts, historic architecture and...
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Britt Reilly's work lives at the intersection of immersive visual arts, historic architecture and preservation, and modernist design. Britt is the executive director and collections curator at the Irving & Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and when we...
Londonist
Ticket Alert: Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour Film Is Coming To London Welcome to the Renaissance.
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TheCollector
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Retail Design Blog
Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation Offices by SUBU Design Architecture SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles,...
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SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles, emphasizing luxury and community with a focus on...
The Modern House
A television producer on transforming an old student house into a fine family home in Queen’s Park
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The Honest Broker
Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts? Or how I spent $503,402 on college education
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
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One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of The Lake. The terrace overlooks the fountain from the elevation of the 72nd Street crosstown drive, and has three sets of stairs leading down; the undercroft of the terrace is a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Curse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have gone very well. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Commute Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: AM I RIGHT?! Today's News:
8 months ago
Christopher Butler
Link – Luke Mitchell's personal website interroban.gg is a beautifully-designed personal website.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
MYWAY Coffee by Lucky Brand Creative The concept design idea is inspired by the 3 regions of North – Central – South, these are very...
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The concept design idea is inspired by the 3 regions of North – Central – South, these are very famous...
Josh Thompson
On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool Introduction Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
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Introduction Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts: So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”. I...
Coding Horror
The Rise of the Electric Scooter In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an
Diaries of Note
Left the Beatles On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his diary and in three words noted that he had quit the world’s most popular band. For a week the Beatles had been rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, their efforts captured on...
TheCollector
Cape Town’s Troubled Colonial History undefined
a year ago
computers are bad
2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
99% Invisible
Mini Stories: Volume 18 [EPISODE] Here it is: our second and final set of mini-stories for the season, cooked up in advance of the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Here it is: our second and final set of mini-stories for the season, cooked up in advance of the holidays with finishing touches added after the new year. We’ll be covering upside-down construction, the linguistics of filler and a fire that has been burning for decades. Top-Down...
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Sound Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises. In this article I’ll explain what sound is, how it’s created and propagated. Throughout this presentation you will be hearing different sounds,...
Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
10 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Thoughts on agency If anyone is in the mood for a video call, I would like to get a few of you together on Saturday at...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If anyone is in the mood for a video call, I would like to get a few of you together on Saturday at 6 pm CET (9 am PST). Like last time, I’ll prepare a few questions (probably relating to today’s post since that is top of mind) but mostly we’ll just talk about whatever comes up....
Mazdak
A Guide to 2024 Tax Brackets and Rates (Canada 🇨🇦) Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian taxpayers, understanding the tax code and optimizing their financial position requires careful planning and informed decisions. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge...