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Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
a month ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Excursions With Afar and Atlas Ocean Voyages
7 months ago
Stat Significant
How Are Hit Songs Rediscovered Decades Later? A Statistical Analysis How does music undergo a cultural revival long after its original release?
4 months ago
Julia Evans
Building a custom site for zine feedback Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta readers! about how I’d started using beta readers. The basic strategy for getting feedback there was to email people a PDF and ask for feedback. This was kind of inefficient, and so over the...
Retail Design Blog
Top Impression Bakery, Central Park Located in the unique Central Park neighbourhood, known for its harmony with the natural...
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7 months ago
Located in the unique Central Park neighbourhood, known for its harmony with the natural environment, Top Impression Bakery has seamlessly...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Noble Unconsciousness Is in Him' A reader asks if I have any heroes. “I’m guessing Samuel Johnson is one,” she writes, and that’s...
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5 months ago
A reader asks if I have any heroes. “I’m guessing Samuel Johnson is one,” she writes, and that’s correct. “I think people are too cynical to have heroes today,” she continues. “They’re embarrassed to say someone is a hero. Nobody’s good enough. Everybody wants to look for failure...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
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2 weeks ago
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with which we mark the beginning of the winter season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere.  It’s interesting to note that the planets Venus and Jupiter do not have seasons like the...
NeuroLogica Blog
Controlling the Narrative with AI There is an ongoing battle in our society to control the narrative, to influence the flow of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
There is an ongoing battle in our society to control the narrative, to influence the flow of information, and thereby move the needle on what people think and how they behave. This is nothing new, but the mechanisms for controlling the narrative are evolving as our communication...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 July 05 - September 30 Relative Dormancy Star Trek: TNG will always be my measure of a tablet. We’re still not...
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3 months ago
Relative Dormancy Star Trek: TNG will always be my measure of a tablet. We’re still not there yet. Paid a visit to the Field Museum in Chicago. Vibe.
Val Sopi
A change in how I share my open finances and a new self–imposed public challenge <p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in...
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a year ago
<p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in which I talked about embarking on a journey to financial freedom. Specifically speaking — I took out a personal loan so I could focus on solely building products. </p><p> With that...
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 2, Mountains “I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In...
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10 months ago
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life...
Devmoh
The Fall of Stack Overflow, Explained Stack Overflow's decline is partly self-imposed, but also somewhat out if its control.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Determining your app's base directory in Node.js Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd think in Node. Here's a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app's root directory. Add this somewhere towards the start of your main app...
Joel Gascoigne
Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Royal Parks of London
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The Anti-Todo List * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks from my todo list. Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my day just as much as those I have
Rest of World -...
Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban Google says it takes the problem seriously, but over a dozen loan apps remain available in the...
11 months ago
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Decreased 0.1% in November Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP)...
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2 weeks ago
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) moved down 0.1 percent in November after declining 0.4 percent in October. In November, manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, boosted by a 3.5 percent increase in the index for motor...
Castles in the Sky
Corporate Bloodsuckers Fiction | Magical Realism Short Story #3
a year ago
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack undefined
7 months ago
Old Vintage...
The Fossil Wrist PDA becomes a tiny Gopher client (with Overbite Palm 0.3) I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all...
a year ago
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a year ago
I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all about Palm devices on the Internet. It turns out there's a reason for that, and we're going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the...
TokyoDev
Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
Seth's Blog
Infamy We’ve gotten so hung up on famous that it’s easy to forget that there are two kinds of renown. Being...
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5 months ago
We’ve gotten so hung up on famous that it’s easy to forget that there are two kinds of renown. Being known for lowering the standards of discourse, cheating, or whining is a choice, but why would you trade your reputation to become infamous?
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Computer Things
Planning vs Model Checking New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph project. The post is about Picat and more specifically, planner programming. Planning very roughly is: You provide a start state, a set of goals, and a set of state transitions...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in...
a year ago
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a year ago
SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in California. The client asked the designers to create a kitchen garden and an outdoor gathering space for her large family to celebrate birthdays and holidays. One area of the yard was...
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War? undefined
4 months ago
Archinect - Features
Happy National Volunteer Week! Here's a resource guide for architects and designers looking... This week, from April 21–27, is officially National Volunteer Week in the United States. To...
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8 months ago
This week, from April 21–27, is officially National Volunteer Week in the United States. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Archinect has curated a handy guide of resources for architects looking to donate their time and skills to various causes that will ultimately lead to...
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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
over a year ago
Neil Madden
Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the episode with Colm MacCárthaigh about a bunch of topics around TLS. It’s a great episode that touches a lot of subjects I’m interested in, so go ahead and listen to it if you...
Math Is Still...
How Will We Know We’re Not Alone? The first planet beyond our solar system was identified just 30 years ago. Since then, thousands...
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2 weeks ago
The first planet beyond our solar system was identified just 30 years ago. Since then, thousands have been found and characterized. As we look for more, exoplanet experts are also probing for signs of alien biospheres hundreds of light-years away. In this episode, co-host Janna...
Passing Time
An Ode to Manchester Wall A 19th-century bridge's contribution to climbing culture
8 months ago
Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975) History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He...
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5 months ago
History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He inspires short, witty popular videos like YouTuber Joe Scott’s “The Man Who Saw The Future,” and the ongoing legacy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), who note that “Fuller’s...
escape the algorithm
Should this be a map or 500 maps? 500 priests, cartographic n00bism, and the limits of scale
6 months ago
Dan Slimmon
Outliers carry information. Don’t leave them on the table Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how incredibly influential this talk has been on my career. Gosh what a great talk! You should watch it. If you operate a complex system, like a SaaS app, you probably have a dashboard...
Retail Design Blog
SKIN boutique by PAULO MERLINI architects Located in Saldanha, on the ground floor of a residential building, this two-storey commercial space...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Located in Saldanha, on the ground floor of a residential building, this two-storey commercial space was characterized by a relatively...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Do U.S. Citizens Need a Passport to Go to Mexico?
a year ago
Mazdak
Finance News Roundup - Wednesday, 29th November 😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire...
a year ago
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a year ago
😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a close associate of Warren Buffett, has passed away at the age of 97. Munger was known for his wit, wisdom, and contrarian investment style.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 07
7 months ago
Notes on software...
What makes a great technical blog I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely about non-corporate tech blogs. So this post is too. I'll have to make another list for favorite corporate tech blogs. In short, they: Tackle hard and confusing topics Show working...
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Unofficial VS Code Snippets for AWS Amplify making my own vs code snippets helpers for working with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism? undefined
3 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
Why Gregory Bateson Matters Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
2 weeks ago
Ben Borgers
Waking up Early
over a year ago
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2023 Days 3 9 Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts listed. Day 3 - Polygons This is not exactly a hand made map, more having fun with cutting boards. My wife gave me the Pennsylvania board a few years ago and I used it in the 2021...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Indie Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Greatest votey panel of my life. Today's News:
5 months ago
TheCollector
Cardinal Wolsey: A Life In 9 Artworks undefined
a year ago
Louwrentius
Please use ZFS with ECC Memory In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs. Why ZFS? Many people...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Pendo Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables...
a year ago
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a year ago
Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables users to add in tool-tips and in-app messages. It…
Map of the Week
Bad News For Local News Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It...
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2 months ago
Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It highlights the dire state of print journalism with maps to illustrate the problems. This one highlights counties that are on the watch list to become news deserts. News deserts...
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft Greg, Here is a review of the terms we last discussed, as well as some issues I have encountered....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Greg, Here is a review of the terms we last discussed, as well as some issues I have encountered. Please ping me to let me know that you received this email.
Christopher Butler
Maintaining an Attention Axis The Y-Axis is a Designer’s Best Friend Attention is the Product of Focus Attention is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Y-Axis is a Designer’s Best Friend Attention is the Product of Focus Attention is the product of focus. It is what we give information — our observation, concentration, and consideration — when we are able to maintain focus. That means that attention is not just a...
mtlynch.io
Notes from PyGotham 2019 Overview This past weekend, PyGotham invited me to speak at their annual conference in Manhattan. In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overview This past weekend, PyGotham invited me to speak at their annual conference in Manhattan. In an effort to maximize the benefit I get from the event, I’ve prepared notes that capture what I learned by attending. I’m sharing them in hopes that it might be interesting or...
Commoncog
The 2022 Commoncog Recap This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of Commoncog's best ideas, and a preview of several upcoming experiments.
computers are bad
2024-09-26 the GE switched services network We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to large private line systems like the four-wire private-line national warning system. Let's continue to build on the concept of the private line into large corporate systems. In principle, a...
History Today Feed
‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review ‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review JamesHoare Tue, 02/13/2024 - 08:20
10 months ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
abdz.do - Have you...
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams,...
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a year ago
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams, the renowned paint and coatings company, has recently released its latest marketing campaign, and it is a true feast for the eyes. Directed by ECD Jayson Whitmore, these spots are a...
Birchtree
How Flight Simulator helped my flying anxiety (members post) It turns out video games really can impact how you view the world.
4 weeks ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS the full text of my State of JS writeup!
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Autocomplete with nvim-cmp Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I must assume most programmers—use all the time. It’s not as crucial for writing blog posts as when you’re coding but it’s still easy to come up with examples of how autocomplete...
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959 Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing. Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unspeakable Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The only awkward part is how it happens every 30...
11 months ago
fast.ai
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
a year ago
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a year ago
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
Damn Interesting
Lofty Ambitions One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named Maurice Wilson clutched the stick of his tiny, open air biplane and watched his fuel gauge dwindle. He had only learned to fly two months earlier, but inexperience was not his...
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Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
The Elysian
Can we create a wise & enlightened citizenry? We'll need to address cognitive biases if we want to reach Plato's ideal.
8 months ago
TheCollector
Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Road to the 1860 Election undefined
3 months ago
Diaries of Note
Baseball is not without its charms Born in New Jersey in 1939, Jim Bouton spent six years pitching for the New York Yankees in a career...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in New Jersey in 1939, Jim Bouton spent six years pitching for the New York Yankees in a career that spanned the sixties and seventies. However, it is for his diary that Bouton is now widely remembered—an amusing and candid record of the 1969 season that disrupted the...
Diaries of Note
Today was truly, absolutely the worst day ever in Sarajevo In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions...
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In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions among the region’s ethnic groups escalated into the devastating Bosnian War. It wasn’t long before the city of Sarajevo found itself under siege. Amidst the chaos, a courageous young...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II? undefined
a year ago
Throwable
How To Estimate An Engineering Project (Or Really Any Project) There is apparently a cabal of engineers who want you to know that estimating is impossible. Don't...
a year ago
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
Londonist
10 Times That Fictional London Has Slipped Into Our Universe Glitches in the matrix.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Cyber security: 5 easy tips to protect your server against hackers These 5 practical cyber security measures will improve the safety of server, website and data.
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave undefined
6 months ago
AI Snake Oil
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
Cheese and Biscuits
Restaurant of the Year 2022 - The Bridge Arms, Canterbury Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has slowed down a bit. Where I used to try and do 6 or 7 posts a month, and with that obviously stopping completely while there was nothing open to review, I have since found that 2...
Maps Mania
Mapping Train Connections
4 months ago
TheCollector
James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust undefined
5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Deliveroo Offices by Oktra Oktra redesigned Deliveroo’s office space at The River Building in London to integrate two floors,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Oktra redesigned Deliveroo’s office space at The River Building in London to integrate two floors, increase meeting rooms, and create...
alexwlchan
*Spy for Spy*, at Riverside Studios Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a romance story with a clever narrative twist – it’s being told in the wrong order. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the show is split into six scenes from the Molly and Sarah’s...
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
Good Enough
Issue 0: Collector's Item 1. Oh, hello. We didn’t see you there. How are you doing? You’ve somehow ended up with a collector’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
1. Oh, hello. We didn’t see you there. How are you doing? You’ve somehow ended up with a collector’s item in your hands: the very first Good Enough Newsletter. This is the beginning of what we (Barry Hess & Shawn Liu) hope to be a years-long series of communiqués with our rabid...
TheCollector
Why Do the Rastafari Believe That Haile Selassie Was a God? undefined
10 months ago
Irrational...
Running your engineering onboarding program. Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up. Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers, so that’s what they say out loud, but they...
Common Edge
What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It? The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
9 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The 40-Year-Old Version There is a path weaving through the seven lakes of Loveland that hugs the western edge of Boyd Lake,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a path weaving through the seven lakes of Loveland that hugs the western edge of Boyd Lake, kisses the tip of Horseshoe, parts the lips of Westerdoll and Heinricy, caresses the Upper and Lower Hoffmans.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
How to use your AirPod Pros to Trigger Flow It’s 2020 and if you are like me you are hoping to spend as much of this year in a flow state as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s 2020 and if you are like me you are hoping to spend as much of this year in a flow state as possible. I am always looking for hacks that allow my to get into the zone faster, stay there longer, and increase my creative output. Here’s a new trick that has been working for me...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite New Podcasts in 2020 An update to my favorite podcasts list with the ones I have found this year
over a year ago
Good Enough
How We Built Quack (Beta) We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any...
a year ago
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a year ago
We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any Markdown text. This software is completely front-end based, and for me personally it was a bit of a challenging puzzle to implement. Thankfully we have genius hackers like Arun...
FIRE v London
July ’23: Markets up, Coutts down It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye scoff, isn’t that much – London is a fairly dry city – drier than Rome and much drier than Sydney). It has been long trousers weather, for the first time in several years. But at...
SatPost by Trung...
Trader Joe's: The Anti-Grocer The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry...
a year ago
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a year ago
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry best-practices (from wages to product to ads).
Dominik Sobe's...
Launching ProductFlair
over a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This August Bank Holiday Weekend In London: 26-28 August 2023 Carnival! Concerts! A food festival! Dog shows!
a year ago
Blog System/5
A CLI text editor? In my Windows? It’s more likely than you think!
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
The Best Things I Read or Watched in April 2024 | Castles in the Sky Links These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you...
8 months ago
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These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you can click the link to take you straight to that part of the article. Cosmographia by M. E. Rothwell “On reaching the age of the TV anti-hero” by Erik Hoel
UX Collective
Why is hiring software so impersonal? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
xkcd.com
Machine
9 months ago
xkcd.com
Types of Solar Eclipse
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Redeem AmEx Membership Rewards Points for Top Value
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are No Millers Any More' I’ve just learned of the suicide of a woman I knew casually a long time ago. Such news is always...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I’ve just learned of the suicide of a woman I knew casually a long time ago. Such news is always unsettling, as though a fundamental law of nature had been violated. Given what we know of the person, and it may be very little, we apply her circumstances to our own and conclude,...
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis undefined
4 months ago
Matt Mazur
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Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to document the steps I took to run Mistral’s 7B-Instruct-v0.2 model on a Mac for anyone else interested in playing around with it. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this 7B Instruct...
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
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I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
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The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed fraud and Uniswap got a Wells notice.
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In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. In fact, the standard practice that most analysts and...
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It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our thoughts and what we believe about them. Or perhaps we can think of this as an intervention. This post is the circle of friends gathered to help us stop hitting ourselves in the...
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NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns, where it will appear in a shorter version. This version still needs a little editing for its new context. Part … Continue reading → The post Location,...
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The following is recounted on  Quora, from a lecture by Stanford professor John Ousterhout (he’s in the Computer Science department): Here’s today’s thought for the weekend.  A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.   [Laughter] So at a mathematical level this is...
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Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my management chain about issues in our organization. My intentions were good, but I alienated my management chain without accomplishing much. I also shared my concerns with my team, which I...
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Materials, when exposed to light, will reflect or absorb certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum that can give valuable information about their chemical or physical compositions. Traditional setups use a single lamp to emit white light before it is split apart into a...
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I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now. For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring flakes, but everyone keeps saying that flakes are great and the best way to use nix, so I decided to try to figure out what the deal is with them. I found it very hard to find simple...
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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools...
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Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I already have tools to take screenshots, and I love them as a way to take quick snapshots and skim the history of a site, but bitmap images aren’t a great archival representation of a website. What...
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I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in Japan](https://medium.com/japonica-publication/tips-for-landing-a-job-in-japan-b1b94315f177), as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
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Cartographers will often exaggerate the natural scale of a mapped feature to help it communicate something of its nature. Some examples are vertical exaggeration of terrain or the very existence of point symbols (cities aren’t actually that big). We embellish for effect. Making a...
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My title at IFP is "Senior Infrastructure Fellow," which means that in addition to publishing this newsletter, I do work related to infrastructure policy. At a high level, that work is figuring out which things we should be building, and how we can make building those things...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] At around 7PM on the balmy evening of Saturday, December 3, 2022, nearly every electric customer in Moore County, North Carolina was simultaneously plunged into darkness. Amid the confusion, the power utility...
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Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Zestful Month 5: Launched, but Still No Customers
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but Dickens' corpus is basically 14,000 pages of talking shit. Today's News:
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We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting education into two halves — Professional and Civilized — is the only way to think about education clearly. We then outline the evolution of the Liberal Arts, from the ancients to...
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A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and which will never change. It can't be linked to someone else, and it can't change. This is, of course, not true. Email addresses do change. I changed my work email address recently...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. In the six decades since the publication of the original Dune novel in 1965, the science fiction franchise has gone through many different typographic identities. Notable examples...
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Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
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The VC’s Customer I saw Dan Primack assert that the venture capitalist’s customer is their limited partners in this...
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I saw Dan Primack assert that the venture capitalist’s customer is their limited partners in this tweet about the Citizen app, the recap, and their VCs: I DM’d Dan to let him know that is not the right way to think about the venture capital business. Back in 2005, in the early...
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
Open Culture
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If you enjoy modern Japanese animation, you can no doubt name several masterpieces of the form off the top of your head, whether acclaimed series like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop to the work of cinema auteurs like Satoshi Kon and Hayao Miyazaki. What may cross your...
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I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
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Oh, self, they make me so sick! Born in rural Georgia in 1930, Richelene Mitchell faced significant obstacles throughout her life,...
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Born in rural Georgia in 1930, Richelene Mitchell faced significant obstacles throughout her life, from the entrenched racism of the American South to the economic hardships that forced her into public housing and onto welfare. Yet, despite the unyielding challenges she faced as...
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The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to him, this was fished out of a dumpster in Germany, hence “wäre” (and yes, it’s a nonsense word, but I also think it’s cute). We had a little chuckle over the ware’s construction (or...
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At home he’s a tourist: The Moment by Peter Holm Jensen Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday...
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Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday speech, a word or two is usually added to supplement the weedy noun: people say “At this moment in time”, which is when I ask: can a moment be in anything else; a moment in lampposts...
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_Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows](https://css-tricks.com/star-apps-a-new-generation-of-front-end-tooling-for-development-workflows/)_
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Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified... When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque...
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When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music...
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Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a...
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Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
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Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
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Finiteness in Sheaf Topoi The notion of “finiteness” is constructively subtle in ways that can be tricky for people new to...
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The notion of “finiteness” is constructively subtle in ways that can be tricky for people new to the subject to understand. For a while now I’ve wanted to figure out what’s going on with the different versions of “finite” in a way that felt concrete and obvious (I mentioned...
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Which sort of sinecure? Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That...
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Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That sort of foundation can give us peace of mind and open the door to possibility. But, it’s possible that we can turn it into a trap as well. A situation so perfectly created that...
Anecdotal Evidence
'And Then Became a Name Like Others Slain' In a six-word paragraph in “Preliminary,” his brief introduction to Undertones of War, Edmund...
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In a six-word paragraph in “Preliminary,” his brief introduction to Undertones of War, Edmund Blunden articulates the impulse that would drive his poetry for the next half-century: “I must go over it again.” Psychically, there was no Armistice. Whether to purge its memory or...
A Beautiful Site
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Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
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In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
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An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller description: Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
sbensu
Designing for support teams Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from...
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Support agents spend their entire lives using the same software. Their needs are very different from consumer software. Here are some things to keep in mind.
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Interculturality as Shelter Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants...
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Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants experience interculturality in the neighborhood where their school is located. It shows their ways of feeling, walking, and making the city. A neighborhood where nobody...
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It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we unshipped the last remaining Invoke commands and ported them over to just. I think Invoke is a good, cool project, and I wish it well. If you're at the precise intersection of "you have...
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It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has enough insulation from the real world that they can share their dissatisfaction over just about anything. But a complaint unheard gives us no way to improve. In our current medical...
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The "patriarchy", a male-dominated social order with entrenched hierarchies giving power and authority to men over women, is pitched by masculinity influencers and pop social scientists as humanity's natural state. They argue patriarchy represents the primal hard-wiring of...
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It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and they’re doing things that they’ll regret later. And it’s honest when we acknowledge that just about everything is out of our control. We can work to influence it, we can practice...
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Computers that can make commitments Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled...
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Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled by people, either directly in the case…
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“Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the pioneering Dutch garden designer. “It doesn’t have to be there. You’re looking for what will be there.” From a particularly pastoral front garden in Brixton, to a transportive Cornish...
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Every internet success works because the network effect kicked in. There’s no other way for an idea to reliably and economically reach a big enough audience to be sustained. That’s why Super Bowl ads make so little sense in 2024. Ideas that spread win. I wrote a bestseller about...
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“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously for 10+ years, it feels like I can throw any topic on them and they’ll have an interesting idea, or if not an idea so at least...
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Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
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There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995. The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
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It has been a good week for the satisfaction of knowing that a book I recommended has been read and enjoyed. A reader in New York City tells me the title character of V.S. Pritchett’s 1951 novel Mr. Beluncle reminds her of her late father, a man she describes as “feckless.” And...
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It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Here they are: The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: 20% off, for the first year, for annual subscriptions. Claim it here. See more details, and read reviews...
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Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others. The post The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
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Short answer:  enough to get your startup to an accretive milestone plus some fudge factor. “Accretive milestone” is a fancy way of saying…
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NORTHUMBER LAND AVENUE £160   London's Monopoly Streets NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE Colour group: pink Purchase price: £160 Rent: £12 Length: 300m Borough: Westminster Postcode: SW1 Northumberland Avenue is a young street by central London standards, and a grand one at that. Like...
Asterisk
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Do lots of user research, travel to every county in California, iterate constantly, and troubleshoot on Reddit. And maybe take Political Economy of Industrial Societies 100.
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
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Hello! Lots of writing in October (what early parenthood takes away in terms of deep flow, it gives back in terms of twenty-minute pockets of time and thought): On the content front, I wrote about Monster Sanctuary (a delightful JRPG), The Anderson Tapes (a solid late-period Sean...
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Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long thought it suspicious that I go days without post then a whole batch arrives together, and that bills seem to arrive long after they were posted. But without evidence all this is...
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The Green Revolution saved a billion lives, but it left a legacy of homogenous diets and distorted agricultural markets. What impact has this had on global health — and how can we move forward?
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Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life in the trenches and his criticism of the conflict. In 1918, he had already gained recognition for his poetry, with his first collection, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, published...
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In 1998, Juri Nesterov was in Kiev, the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It was a city of hope. In 1991, After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine. In the picture...
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Flashbak
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On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
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The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yours Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any...
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Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any Faster The article describes a phenomenon unique to traffic where cars spread out when they go fast and get more compact when they go slow.
Seth's Blog
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The story is a good one: put some tea bags in a mason jar filled with fresh, cold water. Put it in the sun. Four hours later, smooth and delicious tea is waiting for you. The photons from the sun go through the clear glass and the water, strike the leaves and transfer radiant...
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Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production (25%) and transportation (28%). We talk a lot about transportation and energy, but industrial carbon is a harder nut to crack. Also, the 23% is direct carbon release from industrial...
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Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨ With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
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With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe. SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance The marquee element is an old...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
Renegade Otter
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A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was one of those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
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This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of points to how to make it into a spline.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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A busy morning café. A group of women in their 30s are laughing over lattes. One of them exclaims, "We girls need to do this more often!" Across town, a group of men clink their glasses in a pub, one of them chuckling, "It's always a good time with the boys." Adults...
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It seems like every successful entrepreneur I know at one point or another kicks around the idea of creating an incubator. The appeal is the…
This Space
The enigma for criticism To this day, I can learn only from bad films. The good ones I watch in the same spirit in which I...
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To this day, I can learn only from bad films. The good ones I watch in the same spirit in which I watched when I was a kid. The great ones, even when I see them many times, are just an enigma.  Werner Herzog describes a few "bad films" in his autobiography, all from his...
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Reflecting on 10 years of building Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Today marks ten years since I launched the first version of Buffer. What started as a landing page to gauge interest, and then a very basic product that I worked on alone, has become so much more. Buffer is now a
TheCollector
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On Klein on Construction In the New York Times, Ezra Klein investigated the recent Goolsbee and Syverson paper on...
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In the New York Times, Ezra Klein investigated the recent Goolsbee and Syverson paper on construction productivity we recently looked at. Klein suggests that the stagnation in construction productivity might be the result of organized special interests increasingly leveraging...
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Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
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Malaysia’s new data centers create thousands of jobs — and worries about power and water shortages Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals...
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Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals bracing for higher real estate costs and resource shortages.
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Finest of Human Creatures' Turnstile One (1948) is a slender anthology of poems, stories, essays and reviews edited by V.S...
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Turnstile One (1948) is a slender anthology of poems, stories, essays and reviews edited by V.S Pritchett and drawn from The New Statesman and Nation. Founded in 1913 by the Webbs and others associated with the Fabian Society, the magazine’s politics were  left-wing and many of...
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Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
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A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
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The SoftBank-backed company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp The Indian eyewear company, Lenskart, is now an Asian giant.
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Classical Wisdom
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I am lucky to work at a place that has a ping pong table in the back. The outcome of epic games hang on one or two points that could bounce in either player's favor. Nearly every game contains a moment where the back and forth battle tips when a well-placed ball is barely...
Stephen Diehl
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You’re a turing student, in the backend program. You know Ruby, you wanna start blogging, but everyone who says go start a blog Seems to also think you have 10 hours (or 20 hours? or 2 hours? how long does this take) to sit around dealing with setting up a personal website. Lets...
Open Culture
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Writing some of my recent posts made me reflect on how far I’ve come with regards to my chronic migraines so far, so I thought it’ll be fun (to nobody except myself)...
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Crunchyroll is trying to turn India into a nation of anime lovers The world’s largest anime streaming service is opening its second local office, working with...
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The world’s largest anime streaming service is opening its second local office, working with Bollywood stars, and adding dozens of shows per quarter.
Jason Crawford
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There are things that kill you instantly, like a bullet to the head or a fall from twenty stories. First aid can’t help you there. There are also things that kill you relatively slowly, like a bacterial infection. If you have even hours to live, you can get to the emergency...
diamond geezer
Park Lane PARK LANE £350   London's Monopoly Streets PARK LANE Colour group: dark blue Purchase price:...
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PARK LANE £350   London's Monopoly Streets PARK LANE Colour group: dark blue Purchase price: £350 Rent: £35 Length: 1200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Park Lane, a seething dual carriageway that somehow retains a luxury cachet. One side is a wall of superior hideaways and...
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
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At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
Wuthering...
Lucretius brings to light in Latin verse the dark discoveries of the Greeks During the Hellenistic period, Epicureanism and Stoicism replaced Plato and Aristotle as the...
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During the Hellenistic period, Epicureanism and Stoicism replaced Plato and Aristotle as the dominant philosophical movements (Plato would make a big comeback; Aristotle would have to wait for the great Arabic philosophers).  Both movements were popular in the Roman Republic as...
Construction Physics
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This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center, and Part III covers the
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Things I learned last year 2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers...
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2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers across our range of products (!) 800% increase in…
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A demostration of fixing a bug from Medley's debugger <![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program. This...
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<![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program. This allows, for example, to correct a bug by inspecting, editing, fixing, and resuming a program that breaks and lands in the debugger because of an error. To gain familiarity with the...
Tinloof - Blog
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This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Kind of Representative Figure of His Era' We gave our sons Hebrew names: Joshua, Michael, David. They roughly translate as “God is...
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We gave our sons Hebrew names: Joshua, Michael, David. They roughly translate as “God is deliverance,” “gift of God” and “beloved,” respectively. We are not Jewish and not linguists but we like plain names rooted in tradition, names with an identifiable history traceable, in this...
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Roadworks are supposed to have started at the Bow Roundabout but they haven't yet, indeed it's possible they've actually been put back by two weeks. This is somewhat peeving given substantial bus mitigation has already taken place - five routes have had their frequency...
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The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
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The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
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There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you could mass produce thousands of the things for...
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Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The Raven (1845), but he never felt that he received the recognition he deserved. In some respects, he was right. He was, after all, paid only nine dollars for the poem, and he struggled...
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Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two decades. Now that I've finally shaken out more bugs, tuned it up and cleaned it off, it's time to let people play with the source...
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"Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal" Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic...
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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with…
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There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson did it years ago, and if he did well fuck him for putting me in this terrible position. Today's News:
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