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Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch. I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
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over a year ago
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Quantum Frontiers
What geckos have to do with quantum computing When my brother and I were little, we sometimes played video games on weekend mornings, before our...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
When my brother and I were little, we sometimes played video games on weekend mornings, before our parents woke up. We owned a 3DO console, which ran the game Gex. Gex is named after its main character, a gecko. Stepping … Continue reading →
Flashbak
East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914 Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
Irrational...
Lessons not worth learning. A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Stumped with URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a new Web card, WebCard prompts for a URL to store in the card. I wrote the predicate WCD.ValidURLP to do some minimal validation and make sure the input resembles a URL. For...
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process undefined
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Free Will Vs Determinism
2 months ago
Noahpinion
7 Reasons Democrats Should Be Optimistic About Their Chances in 2026 and 2028 A guest post by Wally Nowinski.
a month ago
Paul Graham: Essays
General and Surprising
over a year ago
The Elysian
Idea Labs! An open thread for collaborative worldbuilding Let's brainstorm the future together.
9 months ago
Anarchy Unfolds
3 Pieces for Rethinking Identity Politics Mental health, neurodivergence, orientation, and the path ahead
a month ago
Open Culture
The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the curb and into the path of a car. She was pulled back to safety by none other than the magnate Condé Nast, founder of the eponymous publishing company. Not long thereafter, Miller,...
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Merit Interactive Headquarters by LYCS Architecture LYCS Architecture designed Merit Interactive Headquarters in Hangzhou, integrating architecture,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
LYCS Architecture designed Merit Interactive Headquarters in Hangzhou, integrating architecture, exhibition design, and a marine-inspired theme for a dynamic and...
Joel Gascoigne
Plan or build? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse Nowlin [https://twitter.com/MrJNowlin] a few days ago, a great founder who’s really hustling. We spent some time discussing his idea and I shared some of my experiences with...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
What sort of bicycle? While it’s likely that you own a bike, you probably don’t have a front-wheel recumbent bicycle in...
a year ago
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a year ago
While it’s likely that you own a bike, you probably don’t have a front-wheel recumbent bicycle in your garage. Even though it’s more efficient, more comfortable and often faster. How did that happen? In 1933, a twenty-year old speed record was broken by a racer on a recumbent...
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0 has been released
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Dramatic Upward-Sloping Roof Covers This Rural Home Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they have designed...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they have designed in Winthrop, Washington, perched atop a steep river bank. The home’s design includes an upward-sloping roof form that motions toward the river and shelters an outdoor room....
TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The industry behind the industry behind AI It’s outsourcing all the way down.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The great Hochstapler Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
The American Scholar
“The Last Words of My English Grandmother” Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on The American Scholar.
Bits about Money
The Bond villain compliance strategy Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out for Binance and its CEO. Spoiler: poorly.
Flashbak
Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87) American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
American sculptor Tom Otterness (born. 1952) was an organisers of Art Direct, a mail-order art catalog published by Collaborative Projects (Colab) and Printed Matter, Inc. for Christmas 1982. Colab sought cultural activism that was purely artist driven. In addition to creating...
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic undefined
7 months ago
Platformer
Bluesky's big moment A new Twitter clone is surging in popularity. Could it have legs?
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Ring of Rain
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Multiverse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The reverse middle finger in the last panel is the...
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
A Discussion about Biological Sex At CSICON this year I gave talk about topics over which skeptics have and continue to disagree with...
a month ago
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a month ago
At CSICON this year I gave talk about topics over which skeptics have and continue to disagree with each other. My core theme was that these are the topics we absolutely should be discussing with each other, especially at skeptical conferences. Nothing should be taboo or too...
Seth's Blog
The reluctant spammer “I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to get the word out.” “I don’t want to send an email to every one of our previous donors every three days until they unsubscribe, but our work is so important, it has to be […]
Londonist
Metro Memory: The Addictive Tube Game You're Going To Be Playing All Week "Just five more minutes..."
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Infinite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science. Today's News: Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
TheCollector
How Divisionism Shaped Modern Painting and Art History undefined
a week ago
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
a month ago
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a month ago
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
Ben Borgers
Hash Tables [explained for anyone]
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making Films and Making Websites I recently listened to an episode of the Scriptnoes podcast interviewing Christopher Nolan, director...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I recently listened to an episode of the Scriptnoes podcast interviewing Christopher Nolan, director of films such as The Dark Knight, Inception, and Oppenheimer. Generally, it’s fascinating look at the creative process. More specifically, I couldn’t help but see the parallels...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Threat of Technology In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I try to imagine both the utopian and dystopian versions of the future, brought about by technology, either individually or collectively. This topic has come up multiple times recently...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Audley, Mayfair I ended up in the Audley, newly refurbished and reimagined gastropub in Mayfair, rather by accident...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I ended up in the Audley, newly refurbished and reimagined gastropub in Mayfair, rather by accident on Saturday, and I'm afraid I didn't set out with my usual forensic (ha!) bloggery attitude to proceedings. I wasn't planning on having lunch out at all, but walking down Mount St...
Dreams of Space -...
Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age (1963) After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age.  Even if there...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age.  Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy...
Retail Design Blog
glo flagship store by ZIKZAK Architects In Odessa, a flagship glo™ store with a conceptual interior based on the company’s updated brand...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In Odessa, a flagship glo™ store with a conceptual interior based on the company’s updated brand book has opened. The...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.9 We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features…
Rozado’s Visual...
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Special Edition - WoW | Out-Of-Pocket World Of Warcraft vs. COVID-19
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 March 2024 Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
9 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #198 Thoughts on risk, Berkshire recap, Graham's first investment, Marks on debt, Electricity demand, How...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Thoughts on risk, Berkshire recap, Graham's first investment, Marks on debt, Electricity demand, How to spend your days, AI and productivity
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty? undefined
7 months ago
Nelson's Weblog
Passkey authenticators for consumers (May 2023) After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a...
a year ago
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a year ago
After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a consumer. Here’s what I learned. If you want to try it yourself, passkeys.io is a nice demo server. Passkeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for...
diamond geezer
Living on an airfield London contains a lot of former airfields. Hornchurch. This was formerly RAF Hornchurch, a large...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
London contains a lot of former airfields. Hornchurch. This was formerly RAF Hornchurch, a large airfield in the Ingrebourne valley which played a vital role in defending the eastern side of the capital from German bombers. It first came into service in 1915 when it was known...
Math Is Still...
Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge. The post Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture undefined
7 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Different topologies for an org chart, wrong answers only Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the tree, probably the CEO. And then everything comes down from there hierarchically. It doesn't have to be that way, though! We can imagine other topologies for companies which would...
mtlynch.io
Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5 I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs....
a year ago
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a year ago
I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs. He made it sound so easy, so I decided to try it out. One of my longtime hobby projects is WanderJest, a site for finding live comedy. One of the challenges of that site is that the...
Open Culture
Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists Ask aloud whether reality is real, and you’re liable to be regarded as never truly having left the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Ask aloud whether reality is real, and you’re liable to be regarded as never truly having left the freshman dorm. But that question has received, and continues to receive, consideration from actual scientists. The Big Think video above assembles seven of them to explain how they...
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983 In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
Oxide Computer...
Hubris and Humility When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for example, that we wanted to have a true hardware root of trust and that we wanted to revisit the traditional BMC. We knew, too, that we would have our own system software on each...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #48: The most important week of Labour government so far? Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird...
2 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Olympics Special
4 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Collapsars and Gravitational Waves The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that people like to spread around. Gravitational waves have opened up an entirely new type of astronomy, a way to explore the universe through very subtle ripples in spacetime produce by...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 20 Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is even harder than I expected. I’m evaluating platforms for paying international contractors. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how...
Confessions of a...
A Selective Survey of Efficient Speculative Decoding Techniques for LLM Inference What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
2 months ago
Map of the Week
Maps and Views at the British Library The British Library contains over 4.5 million maps, atlases, globes, and digital models dating back...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The British Library contains over 4.5 million maps, atlases, globes, and digital models dating back to medieval times. A small sample of these are displayed on the walls in a section called "Maps & Views". Here are some mediocre pictures I took with links (where I can find them)...
Arduino Blog
This device prevents garage door security breaches Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house. Traditional systems are notorious for their susceptibility to replay attacks, but even more sophisticated modern garage door openers and those that lack remote functionality entirely...
Farza's Newsletter
me and the beatles just ate some waffles in tokyo I've raised $12M for my company + hired amazing people -- and until very recently, whenever anyone...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I've raised $12M for my company + hired amazing people -- and until very recently, whenever anyone would ask me my 10-year plan I would flat out say "I have no idea".
Open Culture
Bringing Tsarist Russia to Life: Vivid Color Images from 1905–1915 History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective memory. If we’re pointing fingers, we might point at educational systems that fail to educate, or at huge historical blind spots in mass media. Maybe another reason the recent past...
TheCollector
Jane Seymour: The Wife King Henry Loved Most? undefined
a year ago
The Modern House
A concrete apartment with credentials by Regent’s Canal, north London
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive... The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work?...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological...
sbensu
Twitter's Sith and Jedi In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can reach. But when they lean into hate, they lose their soul to it. Twitter offers the same bargain as the Force.
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
Important problems Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower, resources and coordination. Some problems have simple solutions, while others are complex in what it takes to move forward. The trivial problems are fun. They’re simple to solve and...
Maps Mania
The Riskiest Places to Live in America
5 months ago
Applied Cartography
Order, Tailwind, DRY (Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating...
a week ago
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a week ago
(Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Buttondown's admin UI away from the autogenerated Django admin and into some more bespoke components. Take, for instance, this rather...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023 The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Banksy’s Real Identity? (5 Scenarios) undefined
a year ago
Josh Thompson
An Open Letter about Golden 2022-06-15 Update I wrote this document the first time in a very small number of minutes, three...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
2022-06-15 Update I wrote this document the first time in a very small number of minutes, three weeks ago, on my way out the door on a particularly busy day. I follow “write it now”. I’ve gotten to discuss this letter with a few different people, because I mentioned it in email....
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022. That year I wrote...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022. That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point. It has accelerated since then. At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
nanoscale views
Items of interest A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week: There is long been an interest in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week: There is long been an interest in purely electronic cooling techniques (no moving parts!) that would work at cryogenic temperatures.  You're familiar with ordinary evaporative cooling - that's what helps cool down...
The Modern House
TV presenter Will Best's space-smart Hackney home for three
7 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams,...
a year ago
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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...
Old Structures...
The Slab Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and economics of real estate there. Some of the causes are rational, like the size of rowhouses being related to the wealth of a neighborhood; some are not, like the high stoops used in New...
balajis.com
America's $175 Trillion Problem The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Compared to what? Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re...
a month ago
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a month ago
Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re almost always relative. How does this compare to what I was expecting? How does it compare to what others like me are experiencing? How does it compare to yesterday? When we change...
Making software...
Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 047: NYT v. OpenAI Friday, December 29.
12 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Using robots.txt to discover hidden content I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
Mazdak
Apple Intelligence is FINALLY HERE! 🤯 What You NEED to Know! 🧠 Join us as we explore Apple's groundbreaking AI platform:
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job...
a year ago
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a year ago
Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job consisting of hundreds of quick, repetitive tasks.
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know undefined
6 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
a year ago
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a year ago
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans? undefined
a month ago
Vadim Kravcenko
⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms, SLA stands […] The post ⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
Stephen Wolfram...
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
a year ago
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a year ago
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
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A Smart Bear
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
Musings on Markets
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This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. To illustrate the heat that buybacks evoke, consider two stories in the last two weeks where...
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The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync. The post New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
Identity Designed
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Ride-hailing drivers in Nigeria are suffering after government triples fuel prices Uber and Bolt drivers say the fuel subsidy removal has put them at risk of losing their livelihoods.
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The best-known and still unchallenged refutation of the Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley’s theory of subjective idealism – he called it “immaterialism” -- is recounted by James Boswell on August 6, 1763:  “After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time...
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Learning from powering my personal devices using nothing but self generated electricity using a solar panel and power banks.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to everyone who came to Scrawl Books for Bea Wolf! Today's News: Praise from Neil Gaiman was nice and all, but have you tried kid-turned-down-youtube-for-your-book?
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
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I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
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Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do it. Ha, I love it! It got me thinking: I’d love to hear more folks’ “wisdom from the family tree”. Stuff like Chris shared, “My grandpa used to say…” I immediately had a few family...
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On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view the video here: Then yesterday Automattic filed its legal responses to the spurious lawfare from WP Engine, Silver Lake, and Quinn Emanuel. It’s a bit long, but if you have time...
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October I was only home from Peru for a week when it was time to leave on the next adventure. While Laura jetted off to Scotland to attend a friend's wedding, I flew to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, located on the island of Borneo to lead a tour for Worldwide Quest. I really enjoyed...
African History...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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“Among the lessons we’ve learned during these past few difficult years of pandemic, climate crisis and political discord is that beauty and nature matter more than ever, and that if our homes are to be sanctuaries from an often harsh outside world, then we should fill them with...
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A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District: Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull But she wasn't...
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Last month I made the courageous promise that I would eat an AirPod if a 9to5Mac writer's prediction that "[b]efore the end of the year, I have no doubt Apple’s AI features—especially what’s coming in 18.2—will become
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Moneyness
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I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it got a wider airing when it popped up in a Coinbase marketing piece from earlier this year. Now, arch-crypto hater Nouriel Roubini has undergone a...
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Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repressed writer Gustav von Aschenbach, when his supposedly objective appreciation of a young boy’s beauty becomes sexual obsession. This is how BBC Radio 4's In Our Time sets up a discussion of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice...
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In the 1950s, it was fashionable to drop Freud’s name — often as not in pseudo-intellectual sex jokes. Freud’s preoccupations had as much to do with his fame as the actual practice of psychotherapy, and it was assumed — and still is to a great degree — that Freud had “won” the...
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The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable internet-of-things button. It’s got built-in wifi, an onboard battery and best of all, a $4.99 price tag. How It Works The actual “hacking” of dash buttons has really nothing to do with the...
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Dear friends, there is a tale, The oak one day said to the reed: You have good reason to curse nature — A simple sparrow for you is a heavy burden. The slightest wind that by chance Makes the face of the water ripple Forces you to lower your head. However my own forehead, Not...
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Highlights TinyPilot had its highest-revenue month ever. One of TinyPilot’s competitors raised $800k almost overnight. I’m working with a design firm to improve TinyPilot’s brand and website. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s...
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There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
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Two upcoming events that may be of interest to you (please pass on to others who may like them): The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State Presents: A non-technical, 6-week class with Professor Andrew Fraknoi Einstein without Tears Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:30...
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A few weeks ago, I jumped into a new job as the head of a design team at a startup called SimpleHealth. One of my first tasks is to kick off a big brand update. Full creative control, clear product/market fit, a long timeline — this is going to be a breeze. Right? Only, I asked...
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In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to make in 2024 when zero-interest rate policy is only a fond memory. Instead, we’re seeing a number of companies designed for rapid expansion learning to adapt to a world that...
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https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a psychologist from the 1940s with a fascinating background. He studied with Freud's contemporaries in Vienna, worked with mentally ill patients, participated in the Polish resistance during...
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...
mtlynch.io
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Recently, when I’m having trouble sleeping, I look for software to fuzz test. Earlier this week, I thought back to Fady Othman’s post “Meta Bug Bounty — Fuzzing ’netconsd’ for fun and profit.” It’s a good tutorial about fuzzing code exhaustively. Like most fuzzing blog posts, I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits for a long time now, and...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this article, we'll take a tour of color formats in CSS, and see which option will...
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Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
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First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
IEEE Spectrum
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“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Londonist
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I've decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
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Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you know about 2 important things I’m working on that are time-sensitive! 1. DevUtils Black Friday Deal: 30% OFF Once a year, I run a promotion for DevUtils on Black Friday and Cyber...
Londonist
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I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore,...
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Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore, that has a very strong monochromatic aesthetic. The interior strikes a balance of light and dark, which is evident throughout, like in the living room, where a white couch with a...
Escaping Flatland
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Seth's Blog
Belief is contagious Placebos work and placebos spread. We’re wired to believe something, but the specifics of what we...
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Placebos work and placebos spread. We’re wired to believe something, but the specifics of what we believe often come from other people. When there were a limited number of channels, mainstream ideas were the focus of our conversations, because the mainstream was all that was...
The Rational Walk
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Mazdak
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The wealthy have a secret weapon when it comes to taxes: the "buy, borrow, die" strategy. This strategy allows them to avoid capital gains taxes, interest payments, and estate taxes. Here's how it works: Buy assets and hold them. This could be anything from real estate to stocks...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I opened my MacBook Air, switched to the...
TheCollector
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
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A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
xkcd.com
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From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story.
bunnie's blog
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IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
This Space
Favourite books 2021 If such things matter, and they don't, my book of the year is Peter Holm Jensen’s The Moment. As I...
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If such things matter, and they don't, my book of the year is Peter Holm Jensen’s The Moment. As I wrote in April, it’s one in which the writer seeks “a modest, self-effacing place within the intersection of time and eternity” and can be read again and again for this reason, as...
Map of the Week
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There is an entire web site dedicated to #MapsintheWild - also a social media hashtag. On a recent trip to Nova Scotia, I found some very nice examples, including last week's post. Here are a few more.  There are many memorials throughout the province to the Acadians who were...
Contemporist...
This Wood Watchtower Is Also A Home For Bats NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also...
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NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also doubles as a shelter for bats.
TheCollector
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macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
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My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
TheCollector
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How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters...
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Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters still feel today like roles she was born to play. Perhaps the same could have been true of the part of Anne Frank, had she not refused to take it up. When Anne’s father Otto Frank...
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Hot Spots: six homes that come alive in summer Summer has arrived – and so too has that familiar desire to escape, decamp and generally disappear...
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Summer has arrived – and so too has that familiar desire to escape, decamp and generally disappear somewhere (anywhere) that isn’t inside the same four walls. In reality, however, so many of our most cherished hot-weather memories are of time spent at home, stealing moments […]
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OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
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The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok undefined
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The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
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As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
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New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast
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Issue 12: Houston, we have a solution Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria...
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On Path Independence
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
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On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines. jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
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Before + After – An Apartment Transformed With A New Interior FCstudio has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that...
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FCstudio has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that transformed the space into a contemporary and open interior. The design plan included removing walls and creating integrated spaces, like in the living room, which was once a smaller...
TheCollector
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Retail Design Blog
Bershka flagship store by Castel Estudio Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with...
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Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with on-trend streetwear styles. In Spain, its...
Josh Comeau's blog
Making Sense of React Server Components This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official...
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This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial,...
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On the Nature of Time The Computational View of Time Time is a central feature of human experience. But what actually is...
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The Computational View of Time Time is a central feature of human experience. But what actually is it? In traditional scientific accounts it’s often represented as some kind of coordinate much like space (though a coordinate that for some reason is always systematically...
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Does meditation experience improve success with the jhanas? Jhanas – a series of altered mental states that are accessed via concentration – are often described...
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Jhanas – a series of altered mental states that are accessed via concentration – are often described as an “advanced meditation practice,” a phrase that suggests that one must be a skilled meditator to access them: just as only a skilled outdoorsman would embark upon an...
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The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture... The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
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The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
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The positive case for Joe Biden It's not just about being anti-Trump.
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diamond geezer
Walking on Canada Water It's now quicker to walk from Canada Water station to the big Tesco. This is because British Land...
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It's now quicker to walk from Canada Water station to the big Tesco. This is because British Land are trying to sell flats. swooshy timber boardwalk has just opened and it's red. Very red. It starts from the dock edge by the library and ends at the far end of what used to be...
History Today Feed
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Brick Is The Material Of Choice For This New Home Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in...
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Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in Phuket, Thailand, that blends design and traditional artisanal craftsmanship.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Design and art In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too...
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In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too concerned...
NeuroLogica Blog
World Events and the Conspiracy Instinct By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate...
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By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate Trump at a rally. While it has only been a few days, preliminary investigation has found that 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, using a AR style rifle purchased legally by his...
Maps Mania
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Berkshire's Q3 earnings, Munger on retailing, SBF's strange philosophy, Rob Henderson on reading, Howard Marks on a full return world, Morgan Housel on writing that sells, Cities on Mars
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Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
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The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
Retail Design Blog
Horsley Bridge Partners Offices by Huntsman Architectural Group Huntsman Architectural Group designed a modern and collaborative workspace in a 1920’s Art Deco...
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Huntsman Architectural Group designed a modern and collaborative workspace in a 1920’s Art Deco tower for Horsley Bridge in San...
Seth's Blog
Fooling ourselves It’s tempting to believe that we’re not easy to fool. Not by a magician, a politician or a banker....
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It’s tempting to believe that we’re not easy to fool. Not by a magician, a politician or a banker. Other folks might be easily duped by a spammer or a hustler, but not us. And yet, no one fools you more than you. When you look in the mirror, do you see what others see, […]
Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate increased Year-over-year From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 7 December The U.S. hotel industry reported positive...
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From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 7 December The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year performance comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 7 December. ... Occupancy: 59.0% (+0.5%) emphasis added The following graph shows the seasonal...
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity? undefined
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981 In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
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In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
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A Complete Renovation Was Given To This 1980s Plaster Clad House Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand,...
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Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand, that they renovated to bring it up to today’s standards. The house needed a re-design inside and out, with the clients requesting a contemporary design. The clients also wanted a...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Parenting & Children: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Maps Mania
The Meteor Shower Map
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the end of your week (#16) Michael Lewis and SBF, how to win Cold War 2, American manufacturing, Target and shoplifting, and...
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Places to Visit in Asheville that Cater to Dogs
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Archinect - Features
AI Bias and Digital Colonialism; A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of...
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Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of emotions among its audience. There is wonder and intrigue at her reinterpretation of centuries-old Middle Eastern stories, images, and artifacts. There is introspection on our...
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The Six Platonic Solids
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TheCollector
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Open Culture
How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered...
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Much has been written about the loss of color in the twenty-first century. Our environments offered practically every color known to man not so very long ago — and in certain eras, granted, it got to be a bit much. But now, everything seems to have retreated to a narrow palette...
Old Structures...
Got Very Big, Very Fast Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway...
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Yesterday, I mentioned two department stores in New York, the 1846 A. T. Stewart Store at Broadway and Chambers Street that was the first real department store in the US, and the 1896 Siegel-Cooper Store at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street that was for a time the largest store in the...
diamond geezer
New year, new niggles My 2020 niggle arrived during lockdown. It started small. It wasn't much of a niggle to start with,...
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My 2020 niggle arrived during lockdown. It started small. It wasn't much of a niggle to start with, it just came on. They say it happens to most people so I shouldn't have been surprised. It was still a bit of a shock though. The first inkling was several years ago. It's got more...
The Modern House
Bright Sparks: five light-filled homes for sale The magic of natural light is not to be underestimated: it can lift our spirits, improve our...
a year ago
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The magic of natural light is not to be underestimated: it can lift our spirits, improve our circadian rhythms, inspire us to learn and make our plants happy. But that’s not all: when it comes to our homes, it can transform a space entirely, elevating […]
Anecdotal Evidence
'Painstakingly Logical and Precise' A thought that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right:  “In the course of a reading...
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A thought that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right:  “In the course of a reading life, one often stumbles on excellent prose writers never before encountered; such discoveries, however, are less likely in poetry. First-rate poetry is a more manageable quantity....
computers are bad
2023-04-20 different kinds of differential On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by...
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On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt." Of course the headline doesn't actually say this, but it does seem to imply that there has been some kind of failure of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Ready for Testing It was six years ago that I first wrote about NASA’s X-59 QueSST project, contracted to Lockheed...
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It was six years ago that I first wrote about NASA’s X-59 QueSST project, contracted to Lockheed Martin. Now the plane has finally been built and is ready for testing. At the time it was reported that NASA “had a design” for a quiet supersonic jet, one that would not create a...
Seth's Blog
Kazoo lessons Knowledge and technique used to be closely guarded secrets. Admission to the guild was reserved for...
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Knowledge and technique used to be closely guarded secrets. Admission to the guild was reserved for a few, and crafts like typesetting, plumbing and medicine were off limits to most folks. One of the reasons for the explosion in productivity and innovation in the last century is...
Daniel Miessler
My Philosophy and Recommendations Around the LastPass Breaches If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It...
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If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. The initial blog was on August 25th,...
Cognitive...
Uncensored Models I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Technology predictions For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past...
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over a year ago
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what…
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare? undefined
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Irrational...
Management
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Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
TheCollector
Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends undefined
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Alex Meub
Recreating the Windows BSOD I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I...
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over a year ago
I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I found the classic DOS system font and was able recreate a pixel-perfect BSOD image using it. You can see a rendering of the classic BSOD in all it’s pixelated glory here and...
TheCollector
When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War? undefined
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the singularity is...
The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
AVC
Flooding I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same storms that did this to West Point did worse...
Left To Write
What Did The Doorman Say To ChatGPT? A few weeks ago, my friend Asad asked me how I was feeling about chatGPT. I’ve talked about it...
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A few weeks ago, my friend Asad asked me how I was feeling about chatGPT. I’ve talked about it before but given how fast the landscape is changing, I want to expand further: How I feel about chatGPT is complicated. The short answer is: From a business and writing point of view,...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip) A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Curving Bridge Leads To The Entertainment Areas Of This Modern Home Openideas Architects has shared photos of a modern project in Ahmedabad, India, that includes two...
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Openideas Architects has shared photos of a modern project in Ahmedabad, India, that includes two homes for multi-generational living, with a curving bridge walkway that connects to outdoor entertaining areas. The bridge, which includes hidden lighting, travels above water...
diamond geezer
On multiple OS maps This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of...
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This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of 1:50000, and between them they cover the whole of Great Britain and its islands. maps tend to align precisely with their neighbours so places appear on one or the other. But...
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
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Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
A Beautiful Site
Exploring the EyeDropper API The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets...
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over a year ago
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets you select a color from anywhere on the screen. Let's dive in and see how it works. To start, we'll add a button that activates the eye dropper. <button type="button">Select a...
Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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over a year ago
We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
balajis.com
The Bitcoin ETF is the spiritual reversal of Executive Order 6102 Back in 1935, they seized the gold. But now, digital gold is back.
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Who’s got the camera? For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and...
a year ago
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a year ago
For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and hearing his talk at one of his last public appearances: I wasn’t there when this photo was taken, so I relied on a Google image search to find it: I compounded Google’s error....
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...
Wrong Side of...
On the Tory Cult of Personality and its Consequences Badenoch will need to denounce Boris
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can...
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2 months ago
George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can make a powerfully cheerful sound, and it’s an instrument both beginners and expert players can learn and easily carry around. As Harrison’s old friend Joe Brown remarked, “You can...
A Beautiful Site
Using the classList API jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
jQuery makes it easy to add, remove, and toggle classes on various elements. It's too bad this stuff wasn't built into JavaScript. But wait — it is now! What your looking for didn't exist until IE10, but it's been in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera for some time now. It's...
Londonist
The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week Merry fizz-mas!
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law? undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Show, and Later Recalls, “I Hated Him More Than Ever”... Had Andy Warhol lived to see the internet–especially social networking–he would have loved it,...
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Had Andy Warhol lived to see the internet–especially social networking–he would have loved it, though it may not have loved him. Though Warhol did see the very beginnings of the PC revolution, and made computer art near the end of his life on a Commodore Amiga 1000, he was mostly...
Common Edge
Architecture With Empathy In An Age of Division and Discord Buildings can be designed to antagonize communities, or serve as welcoming presences.
2 weeks ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often...
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A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often wonder whether to raise money now or wait…
TokyoDev
How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
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The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
the singularity is...
Wokeism There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this. When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got: The first...
Castles in the Sky
I have a new face. Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
4 months ago
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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).
Koos Looijesteijn -...
A not so gentle intro to web3 Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
The Roots of...
Quote quiz answer Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz: The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The...
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a year ago
Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz: The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The quote was taken from his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Here’s a slightly longer, and unaltered, quote: First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in...
Atoms vs Bits
Additive Domains, Multiplicative Domains 1 and 1 and 1 is 3, unless you're multiplying
3 months ago
Mazdak
5 best investments during high interest rates Interest rates are rising, and that means it's time to rethink your investment strategy. When...
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Interest rates are rising, and that means it's time to rethink your investment strategy. When interest rates rise, the value of existing bonds declines, and stocks can become more volatile. However, there are still a number of investments that can perform well in a high interest...
CONTEMPORIST
Chairs For Sitting On Stairs ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more...
2 weeks ago
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ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more comfortable and modular seating solution for these stairs. The chairs complement the distinctive design languages of the Tai Kwun arts and cultural centre’s ancient and contemporary...
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance? undefined
3 months ago