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Is Google Analytics HIPAA compliant? HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how...
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HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how individuals and organizations are required to secure…
NeuroLogica Blog
Coaching with Empathy The show Ted Lasso is about to wrap up its final season. I am one of the many people who really...
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The show Ted Lasso is about to wrap up its final season. I am one of the many people who really enjoy the show, which turns on a group of likable people helping each other through various life challenges with care and empathy. Lasso is an American college football coach who was...
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Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
a year ago
99% Invisible
The Ripple Effect [EPISODE] In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city...
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In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city or town. They ripple outward, cascading into the surrounding area, as the survivors are forced to go looking for new places to live. This is the story of what happened after the...
devonzuegel.com
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a...
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July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and...
TheCollector
7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa undefined
7 months ago
Common Edge
How AI Can Help Us End Design Education Anachronisms Let’s use the power of technology to actually improve architectural learning.
9 months ago
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
Londonist
International Women's Day And Women's History Month 2024 Events In London Guided walks, talks, exhibitions and more - all celebrating women.
10 months ago
Diaries of Note
To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this...
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Born in Norfolk in 1752, Frances Burney was fifteen when she began to keep a journal, and this entry, in which she identifies her audience, was the first she ever wrote. For 72 years she continued, by which time she was a famous novelist—most notably as the author of Evelina, or...
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If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world...
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Bus of the day 197 Bus Route Of The Day 197: Croydon to Peckham Quadrant: London southeast Length of journey: 10 miles,...
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Bus Route Of The Day 197: Croydon to Peckham Quadrant: London southeast Length of journey: 10 miles, 65 minutes Because it's 19th July I've been out riding the 197, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. My apologies for the repetition. Threepenny Bit building, stopping not...
The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
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TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in the US Where You’ll Travel Back in Time undefined
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journal – Winnie Lim
the compression of our experiences My partner and I were both born in the early 1980s which is quite fortunate for our relationship...
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My partner and I were both born in the early 1980s which is quite fortunate for our relationship because we can talk about some shared experiences we have had while growing up....
Wuthering...
Ovid's Metamorhpses, Canto 6 - the sexual assaults - Because the lewdness of the Gods was so blazed... Back to Ovid. First, I have just begun Paul Barolsky’s Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art...
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Back to Ovid. First, I have just begun Paul Barolsky’s Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Boticelli to Picasso (2014), a work of art history about Ovid written in the spirit of Ovid.  The book is of the highest interest, and is a long way from the catalogue of...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
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This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot...
2 months ago
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
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In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
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Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
David Heinemeier...
Celebrating a million copies of REWORK It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
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It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
Noahpinion
The New 1970s The U.S. is a confused, unsettled nation. But green shoots are quietly sprouting.
a year ago
This Space
"When now?" Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on...
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Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and have appeared multiple times in newspaper Books of the Year choices and on prize shortlists, and one that even won a prize. I wanted to see...
Seth's Blog
Stopping a runaway train It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The...
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It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The better strategy is to not sign up for trains that are likely to run away. The first principle of risk reduction is to figure out if you can stop it later. If you can’t, […]
diamond geezer
The Count 2024 For twenty-one consecutive Februaries on diamond geezer I've kept myself busy by counting things....
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For twenty-one consecutive Februaries on diamond geezer I've kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts, to be precise, in a stats-tastic 28-day feature called The Count. You therefore won't be surprised to hear that I intend to do exactly the same again this year....
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 18-24 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
a month ago
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites undefined
11 months ago
Old Structures...
All In A Name I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too...
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I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too small to house a modern government. The first solution dreamed up in the late 1800s was to replace City Hall with a much larger building. For various reasons – including expense, a...
Making software...
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle? undefined
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TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History undefined
10 months ago
Seth's Blog
Finding a more useful umwelt Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious...
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Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
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Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
History Today Feed
The First Anglo-Burmese War The First Anglo-Burmese War JamesHoare Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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Sam Altman
The Virus Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to...
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Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
Max Rozen
Understanding useState's initial value If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first....
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If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.
diamond geezer
The circular tube map Is there no limit to the number of tube map variants? It prioritises the Circle line whose...
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Is there no limit to the number of tube map variants? It prioritises the Circle line whose traditional loop has been manipulated into a perfect circle, but it distorts the hell out of all the other tube lines. Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus are on opposite sides of the...
Construction Physics
Born Sleeping A personal post about the loss of our son
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.3.0 Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and...
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Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
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A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
Seth's Blog
The Pizza Principle Good pizza is rare, even though the method to create it is well known. Any efforts to make it more...
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Good pizza is rare, even though the method to create it is well known. Any efforts to make it more convenient, cheaper or easier will almost always make it worse. If you think this post is about pizza, I’m afraid that we’re already stuck.
Louwrentius
The iPad will be the death of Flash So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most debated drawbacks is that...
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So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most debated drawbacks is that it lacks support for Adobe Flash. The iPhone does not support Flash either, and since the iPad is based on the iPhone OS, this should not come as a surprise. Now many people see...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ian Burke Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and...
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Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and grew up in Redcar before studying Fine Art at Newcastle University. Having completed a Master's at Goldsmith's College, London he established a career in teaching art.  Ian now...
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth? And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Twelve days until the first worldwide strategy meetup There are now 280 cities being organized. You can find the list and all the details by clicking...
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There are now 280 cities being organized. You can find the list and all the details by clicking here. It’s free, and it works better when you become a part of it. Find the others. Connect, inspire and lead. It’s a great excuse to organize some friends and colleagues and have a...
TheCollector
Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights undefined
4 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Inside the New Delta Sky Club Lounge at NY’s JFK Airport
a year ago
Open Culture
What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
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One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, placed prominently in a shot of George C. Scott in the war room, is a binder with a spine labeled “WORLD TARGETS IN MEGADEATHS.” A megadeath, writes Eric...
Jonas Hietala
addwatch: resource exhausted While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message: site:...
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While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message: site: addWatch: resource exhausted (No space left on device) At first I tried to clear /tmp but, so clearly the device did have some space left. After a bit of googling I found a solution...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Practical Eschatology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will...
a year ago
Wuthering...
The Bacchae by Euripides - O gods, I see the greatest grief there is. Reading Euripides chronologically, it would be fair to think that however ingenious and inventive...
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Reading Euripides chronologically, it would be fair to think that however ingenious and inventive Euripides was, he did not write a play quite at the level of Agamemnon or Oedipus the King, at least until his brief exile in Macedon, where he wrote The Bacchae just before his...
Unpacked
Instacart IPO: Race against market saturation The company's journey to IPO is impressive but long-term upside hinges on the success of its...
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The company's journey to IPO is impressive but long-term upside hinges on the success of its long-term bets like ads and the enterprise platform
Atoms vs Bits
Keyword Conversations No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
a month ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2023 Results — Manufacturing, Service, and Retailing A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on...
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A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on results in Q3 2023 as well as a longer term view.
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The Perfect Restaurant This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
RhysTranter.com
“When you seek from almost nothing”: Arvo Pärt’s Musical Diaries In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer...
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In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer discusses the significance of his personal diaries to the formation and development of his music.
Retail Design Blog
FENDI pop-up store As Spain‘s top luxury resort where tycoons and royalty reside or fly in a few times a year to...
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As Spain‘s top luxury resort where tycoons and royalty reside or fly in a few times a year to frolic...
RhysTranter.com
These are some of the things that we see on our walks.
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prevent Character Assassination? Corruption in the Ancient World
9 months ago
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A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static a survey of new documentation/static site generators
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
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Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
Seth's Blog
As slow as possible A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss...
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A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss it, the next one is in two years. We’re used to the rapid increase in speed in just about everything around us. Absolutely positively overnight is mostly too slow for many industries...
Computer Ads from...
ProHance Technologies' Power Mouse Even A Totally Souped up PC Is A Dog Without PowerMouse
3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did King James I Attempt to Take Over the Church of Scotland? undefined
3 days ago
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
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As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
Mazdak
Tesla's Trump Card: How a Presidency Could Fuel a Trillion-Dollar Boom What happens when a polarizing president and an electric vehicle giant collide?
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flawed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This could be the greatest school play of all time...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This could be the greatest school play of all time if anyone out there had the guts to do it. Today's News:
TheCollector
Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War undefined
3 weeks ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Never Has a Man Deserved a Reputation Less' My middle son, a Marine Corps officer at Quantico, asked last week if I would interested in “working...
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My middle son, a Marine Corps officer at Quantico, asked last week if I would interested in “working through Wittgenstein” with him. Of course, so we met online on Sunday for ninety minutes and read propositions 1 and 2 of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I first read the book...
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
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Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
The Honest Broker
The Most Powerful Sound in the World Is Just One Syllable And it comes from you
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
The Zoom stretch There are a lot of structural reasons why in-person meetings don’t involve a break every 12 minutes....
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There are a lot of structural reasons why in-person meetings don’t involve a break every 12 minutes. It takes too long to stop and start. But those rules don’t apply to Zoom. Screens off! Stand up. We’ll be back in 60 seconds. If it’s not worth coming back, the meeting should...
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
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Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Contemporist...
An Extension To This 1933 Home Creates A New Kitchen And Outdoor Terrace Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in...
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Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in Seattle, Washington, that was originally designed and built in 1933 by Norwegian boat captain Ole E. Nelson.
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
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I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
The Modern House
The Modern House: a potted history Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as...
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Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as the UK’s leading design-led estate agency. How did we get here? Today, co-founders Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill were asked this very question on BBC Radio 4’s Gap […]
The Modern House
Sumayya Vally: the South African architect on how growing up in a township defined her sense of... Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she...
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Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she became the youngest architect to receive the prestigious annual summer pavilion commission at the Serpentine Gallery in London. A slew of accolades and honoraries followed and […]
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
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Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
Home on Erik...
Home
over a year ago
The Convivial...
"Lonely Surfaces" (Audio Version) Listen now (21 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 20 (supplement)
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'You Have to Read the Words' “Tolstoy was so much better than any other writer who ever lived that you couldn’t even remotely...
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“Tolstoy was so much better than any other writer who ever lived that you couldn’t even remotely compare anyone to him.”  I first read War and Peace in the eighth grade in a paperback abridgement. I remember reading it in science class, half-heartedly hiding the book behind the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday, long after the robots have won, they will...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday, long after the robots have won, they will find this comic and not laugh because that is not a thing they do. Today's News:
Val Sopi
Punctuality Above All <p>Here's a quick rundown about the article. For more read on below.</p> <iframe width="400"...
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<p>Here's a quick rundown about the article. For more read on below.</p> <iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qn_jAtoDieY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <p>//</p> <p>There are these two small restaurants close to one another...
Arduino Blog
You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
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We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 ...
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Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 The leading beer brand in Ecuador, Pilsener, has a history of over 110 years and is a significant part of the AB InBev portfolio in the region. Known for its association...
Open Culture
Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period” Image via Wikimedia Commons “The great Tao fades away.” So begins one translation of the Tao Te...
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Image via Wikimedia Commons “The great Tao fades away.” So begins one translation of the Tao Te Ching’s 18th Chapter. The sentence captures the frustration that comes with a lost epiphany. Whether it’s a profound realization when you just wake up, or moment of clarity in the...
The Modern House
<strong>How to grow a green garden: from creating compost to planting produce</strong>
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Planning the next steps for WebCard <![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm...
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<![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm satisfied with what the system does. Since WebCard is nearly feature complete it's a good time to chart the next steps for wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project. Aside from some...
IEEE Spectrum
Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly Un-Fakeable To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a...
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To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a printer by vocation, a scientist by avocation, leaned on cleverness, developing measures that are still in use. Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical...
The Honest Broker
How Coffee Became a Joke The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times
7 months ago
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
Charles Chen
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Gratitude: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be...
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a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be one of the most important, positive emotions that the ancient Stoics believed human beings should develop? In fact, it's such an important emotion that it's even been said that the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Once you take money, the clock starts ticking One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that...
over a year ago
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One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that at any moment you get an inside peek at…
Anecdotal Evidence
'If the Nation Is to Be Saved From This Menace' “To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming...
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“To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming a nation of minor poets.”  P.G. Wodehouse is being kind. He wrote “The Alarming Spread of Poetry” in 1916 when the blight was fresh and perhaps still reversible. His Exhibit A is...
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Metal detector for hidden revenue 💰👀🔎 Meet Lasso, an AI-driven sales prospecting tool that'll help you find the B2B prospects your sales...
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Berkshire Hathaway’s 2024 Q&A Session Warren Buffett answered over thirty questions in a five hour marathon session in the first annual...
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Warren Buffett answered over thirty questions in a five hour marathon session in the first annual meeting after Charlie Munger's death.
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
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Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Rest of World -...
In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and...
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Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, with little pushback from authorities or platforms.
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...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Never Relied on His Sensibility Alone' In 1937, Desmond MacCarthy delivered a lecture at Cambridge on Leslie Stephen, author of the...
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In 1937, Desmond MacCarthy delivered a lecture at Cambridge on Leslie Stephen, author of the three-volume Hours in a Library (1874-7) and father of Virginia Woolf. For a century England had specialized in producing formidably well-read, non-academic literary critics. In addition...
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How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
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A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.4% to 3.1% From Goldman: Following this morning’s data, we left our Q4 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at 2.4%...
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From Goldman: Following this morning’s data, we left our Q4 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at 2.4% (quarter-over-quarter annualized) and our Q4 domestic final sales forecast unchanged at +2.3% [Dec 20th estimate] emphasis added And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model...
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Visa and Mastercard are pouring money into Africa From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S....
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From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent.
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Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON path parser Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return...
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Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return only results in a list where the a column is an object that contains a field b that is set to the value 12. What would a filter(jsonPath, equals, listOfObjects) function...
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Shining light on photodiodes Photodiodes are incredibly versatile, but commonly misused and misunderstood.
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Citation Needed
Issue 51 – It's quiet... too quiet It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of crypto disasters... too quiet.
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Seth's Blog
(Free) subscription drive Every four years, give or take, I make a big but cheap ask: Consider subscribing to this blog. If...
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Every four years, give or take, I make a big but cheap ask: Consider subscribing to this blog. If you’re already a subscriber, please ask five colleagues or friends to subscribe. It’s free. You can subscribe by email by putting your email address in the little box. Click below if...
The Marginalian
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"Non"-Profit Hospitals | Out-Of-Pocket "We're investing in ourselves"
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A Forgotten Turner Classic Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games? The...
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Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games? The post A Forgotten Turner Classic appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Caddick Construction sought to establish a new headquarters in Wakefield, marking a significant phase in the company’s growth. The goal...
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Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other inaccuracies. We all use them anyway. How can we ask them better?
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Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so. Arguably the internet already came up...
Birchtree
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From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic Era Today we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality —
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As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is...
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MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is misguided: We decided to assume that the…
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Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images) A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.
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The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually, the universality of the term "DMV" seems to be overstated. A more general term is "motor vehicle administrator," used for example by the American Association of Motor Vehicle...
Noahpinion
Did immigration bring down inflation? I'm highly skeptical of this theory, but it's still quite interesting.
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Calculated Risk
Q3 GDP Growth Revised up to 3.1% Annual Rate From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), Corporate Profits (Revised Estimate), and GDP...
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From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), Corporate Profits (Revised Estimate), and GDP by Industry, Third Quarter 2024 Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the third quarter of 2024, according to the "third" estimate...
Atoms vs Bits
Developing An Intuition For Georgism WIRED published our weird ramblings on Land; here's the even weirder ramblings.
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
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My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
Londonist
A Christmas Carol - London Locations Mapped Book and film locations - and plenty more!
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'First' thoughts on git I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
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I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control. I...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
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This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
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somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
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Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
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Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
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The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing...
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This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.
Blog posts of...
How i make investment decisions 🏝 The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps...
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The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.
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Agency problems “Agency problems” are what economists call situations where a person’s interests diverge from his or...
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“Agency problems” are what economists call situations where a person’s interests diverge from his or her firm’s interests. Large companies…
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Wish That He’d Arrived Much Sooner' I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s...
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a year ago
I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s consider each part of the epithet. “Brilliant”? Without question. He wrote three incontestably good poems but Coleridge is an early specimen of the “public intellectual,” bristling...
diamond geezer
Open House (4) Yesterday's Open House tally was eight. • The pricey building where I carried on climbing past the...
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a year ago
Yesterday's Open House tally was eight. • The pricey building where I carried on climbing past the last public room and accidentally ended up in an attic space where a private group were celebrating something, so retreated rapidly. Let's do five of those in more detail (not...
TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art undefined
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
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99% Invisible
You Are What You Watch [EPISODE] What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense...
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What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense because the average American spends 2 hours and 51 minutes watching movies and TV each day. That’s a whopping 19 percent of our waking hours. Walt Hickey is a data journalist and...
Unpacked
Highlights: First Quarter of Unpacked Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things continue. This post is a bird’s eye view of the seventeen articles published on Unpacked in the past quarter.
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
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Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
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Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
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Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
A Beautiful Site
Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
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over a year ago
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa.  There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production. #...
Irrational...
How to plan as an engineering executive. Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question...
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Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an oft heard perspective that planning is some sort of business curse word. Even when...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Science Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly geometry's pretty dicey, as are numbers...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly geometry's pretty dicey, as are numbers larger than 1. Today's News: Thanks for a great launch day, all. I'll be in conversation with Randall Munroe tonight in NYC if you wanna say hi!
Old Structures...
Sequencing In Detailing That’s an illustration from a 1913 article called “Engineering Design Of The Woolworth Building”...
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That’s an illustration from a 1913 article called “Engineering Design Of The Woolworth Building” from The American Architect. That’s the design of the most heavily-loaded columns in the building, below the tower. To put it in perspective, that built-up column, composed of plates...
TheCollector
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Willem's Blog
The best keyboard for iPad While everybody is raving about the Magic Keyboard there is something to be said for the...
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While everybody is raving about the Magic Keyboard there is something to be said for the "mouse-less" Smart Keyboard Folio. Read along for a detailed analyses based on actual iPad use.
Open Culture
Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes...
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As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes mainly, of course, to A Christmas Carol, and even more so to its many adaptations, most of which draw inspiration from not just its text but also its illustrations. That 1843 novella...
ntietz.com blog
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when...
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a year ago
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint. Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it. We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place? undefined
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How Did Caligula Rise to Power in the Roman Empire? undefined
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Bits about Money
Money laundering and AML compliance A brief overview of what money laundering is, what financial institutions do about it, and why.
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Damn Interesting
The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda Warren “Doc” Bayley was a man of the people. When he and his wife Judy opened their Las Vegas resort...
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Warren “Doc” Bayley was a man of the people. When he and his wife Judy opened their Las Vegas resort in 1956, Bayley had no plans to compete with the flashier, corporate casinos at the center of the Strip. Instead, the Hacienda Hotel catered to families, as well as to locals who...
Confessions of a...
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous...
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Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous Multithreading and see what’s really going on inside.
the singularity is...
The Soul ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
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ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room. I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex the whole album is bangers...
Rest of World -...
How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound.
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Noahpinion
How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
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diamond geezer
The Battle of Barnet The Battle of Barnet, one of the key turning points of the Wars of the Roses, took place on 14th...
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The Battle of Barnet, one of the key turning points of the Wars of the Roses, took place on 14th April 1471. A 553rd anniversary's not particularly major but unfortunately I missed the 550th, as did most of the population of Barnet due to lockdown issues. Also the battle took...
Common Edge
Great American Cities That Teach Architecture Learning about urban planning and design outside the studio.
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The Rational Walk
Wealth vs. Income Early retirees are often misunderstood when it comes to their financial status. Being in a position...
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Early retirees are often misunderstood when it comes to their financial status. Being in a position to deal with "social debt" requires conservatism and a substantial financial reserve.
Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
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Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Embark on island-hopping adventures and explore ancient wineries in Croatia
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Neil Madden
How do you use a bearer URL? In “Towards a standard for bearer token URLs”, I described a URL scheme that can be safely used to...
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In “Towards a standard for bearer token URLs”, I described a URL scheme that can be safely used to incorporate a bearer token (such as an OAuth access token) into a URL. That blog post concentrated on the technical details of how that would work and the security properties of the...
Left To Write
№ 69: What's It Like To Have An Autistic Brother My brother Alan has autism. We are four years apart — I'm the older sibling. My brother is a gentle...
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My brother Alan has autism. We are four years apart — I'm the older sibling. My brother is a gentle soul. Yes, there are times when he can be irrationally angry. But most of the time, he’s so quiet and lost in his own world that it’s difficult to sense out what he’s thinking.
Londonist
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a year ago
Math Is Still...
What Are Sheaves? These metaphorical gardens have become central objects in modern mathematics. The post...
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom. government in central Africa.
a year ago
RhysTranter.com
Vivid Expression From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a...
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From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a gardener in Nazareth
UX Collective
The split decision: IC or manager? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Saturday Morning...
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devonzuegel.com
Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
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over a year ago
Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
Jonas Hietala
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
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My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
Seth's Blog
The last little bit Important hills usually get much steeper at the top. 99% of the training in competitive athletics is...
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Important hills usually get much steeper at the top. 99% of the training in competitive athletics is devoted to the last 1% of performance. A tenth of a second. The same is true for squeezing the last bit of performance out of a car, a grape or a semiconductor. And healthcare,...
Open Culture
Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San...
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In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San Francisco, California. Little did he know that he’d wind up playing drums for the band that night — that his name would end up etched in the annals of rock ’n’ roll. The Who came to...
AFAR Media - Travel...
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 26 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...
The Modern House
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Noahpinion
Why you should not ignore economists They aren't always right, but they almost always have something important to add.
3 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
Contemporist...
A Modern Farmhouse By The Sea In New Zealand New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse...
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New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse they completed that's been designed like a collection of linked farm outbuildings.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
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Array 1.1.0 Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
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Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How to analyze public healthcare datasets (even if you're non-technical) | Out-Of-Pocket Plus: using ChatGPT to analyze datasets?
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journal – Winnie Lim
gyeongju, the city of beautiful tombs Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them...
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Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t...
diamond geezer
Bonfire of the bonfires Time was when bonfires and fireworks were the done thing on 5th November. Be it Jacobeans haranguing...
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a year ago
Time was when bonfires and fireworks were the done thing on 5th November. Be it Jacobeans haranguing Catholics, Victorians burning effigies or Elizabethans lighting Roman Candles, the day has been celebrated for centuries. But it used to be hugely more important.  Monday,...
computers are bad
2023-06-30 calling in the alarm I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But...
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I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But here's something short while I'm temporarily back in the warm embrace of 5G: more about burglar alarms. I recently gave a presentation on this topic and I'll probably record it for...
Math Is Still...
The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials. The post The Cosmos Teems with...
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A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
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The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
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