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Seth's Blog
For customers vs to customers In the life of every enterprise, the moment arises when a choice has to be made: Are you here for...
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a year ago
In the life of every enterprise, the moment arises when a choice has to be made: Are you here for your customers, to give them what they seek, or are you trying to do something to your customers, to squeeze out extra income? This doesn’t mean that the only path is to keep...
Common Edge
The Creative Power Produced by Embracing Paradox There is a keen sense of insight that comes from being in the in-between spaces of a largely binary...
a year ago
TheCollector
History of the Automobile: How Did We Get to Electric Vehicles? undefined
11 months ago
Noahpinion
America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
3 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
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over a year ago
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain. Adding a virtual host # Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #03: David Sims [EPISODE] This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. Blank Check podcast co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims is our book club guest. On today’s show, Elliott Kalan, Roman Mars, and David...
Vitalik Buterin's...
How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?
7 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 3) A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog component in React. The component achieves the following requirements: A reusable component API: we should be able to easily use our accessible modal anywhere and populate it with...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Bridges in the World? undefined
11 months ago
Last Place Comics
Low Battery The post Low Battery appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
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::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
5 (or More?) of Jack the Ripper’s Victims undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution? undefined
2 months ago
Londonist
5 Amazing Places To Eat Asian Food In Central London As chosen by chef Jeff Tan.
10 months ago
Ben Borgers
Schmooze
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
Seth's Blog
The challenge of focus groups for bold ideas “We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and beg for candy, and adults dress up in expensive and revealing costumes and get drunk. Would you be likely to participate?” It’s not really a helpful question. (Yes, Halloween is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
over a year ago
Commoncog
How to Become Data Driven The answer, like most things from Statistical Process Control, is more surprising and more obvious...
a year ago
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a year ago
The answer, like most things from Statistical Process Control, is more surprising and more obvious than you might think.
Escaping Flatland
A summary of what I wrote in 2024 A man sets out to draw the world.
a week ago
Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3 From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
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From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 3: Hunter Canyon to Portal September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used to this view. View from Beatty's Guest Ranch - Miller Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona This was our final morning in this region; we had plans to make the long drive eastwards...
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
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When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
Common Edge
NCARB’s Michael Armstrong on Pathways to Architectural Practice “If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a...
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3 months ago
“If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a fresh look at everything.”
TheCollector
Archaeologists Find Ptolemaic Temple Pylon in Egypt undefined
4 weeks ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS developers.
Computer Things
Why Not Comments Logic For Programmers v0.3 Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a...
3 months ago
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Logic For Programmers v0.3 Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a nice-looking book. You can see some of the differences between v2 and v3 here. Why Not Comments Code is written in a structured machine language, comments are written in an...
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for… Go This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by Christopher Clark and Amos Storkey was forwarded to me by Michael Eickenberg. It's about using convolutional neural networks to play Go.
journal – Winnie Lim
sharing my protocol as a moderately covid cautious person There may be a misconception that all covid cautious people are the same, but it is pretty wide...
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4 months ago
There may be a misconception that all covid cautious people are the same, but it is pretty wide spectrum. Some covid cautious people may frown upon my behaviour because I still travel...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont? undefined
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerve Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And don't even start in on liquor-cake. Today's...
4 months ago
Map of the Week
Thirty Day Map Challenge 2023-Days 17-23 Another week of 30 Day Map Challenge Maps… Day 17 - Flow Probably the intention here was to have...
a year ago
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a year ago
Another week of 30 Day Map Challenge Maps… Day 17 - Flow Probably the intention here was to have people make maps of the flow of surface water or air or traffic but I decided to make a flow chart instead. A vaguely interesting look at the trip home I had to make many times as...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon and email — TY kind people). Many folks pointed me to h-feed microformats which, in hindsight, I’m surprised I didn’t think of as I already implement the h-entry format on my...
Maps Mania
The Map of 52,000 Books
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Hesiod’s Works and Days One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it...
7 months ago
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One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it was 2,700 years ago.
Diaries of Note
He has quite a husky voice and is a great mimic By the late 1860s, Charles Dickens had transcended the realm of mere literary fame to become a...
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By the late 1860s, Charles Dickens had transcended the realm of mere literary fame to become a theatrical sensation with his public reading tours. These performances, hundreds of which he staged during the final decade of his life, showcased his extraordinary talent for vocal...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring undefined
a month ago
Retail Design Blog
Entain Offices by Oktra Oktra transformed Entain’s two-floor office in London into a top-tier workspace, focusing on...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Oktra transformed Entain’s two-floor office in London into a top-tier workspace, focusing on sustainable design elements, sports integration, and biophilic...
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
over a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
Memories of Project RAMOS (Russian American Observation Satellites) 1991 – 2004 During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure...
a year ago
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a year ago
During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure to work on was the joint US/Russian Federation (RF) […]
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology? undefined
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
"[Steve Ballmer] thinks we ought to admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner" Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d that we are setting expectations too high on Windows 98. He thinks we ought to come out and admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner.
Retail Design Blog
Serenity Coffee by Hollóka Graphic Design Studio In designing the packaging, the goal was to create something practical and aesthetically pleasing....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In designing the packaging, the goal was to create something practical and aesthetically pleasing. The packaging features wavy elements previously...
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen? undefined
6 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic And other updates in April 2023
a year ago
Common Edge
How to Be a Better Architect Than Me My recent talk to high school seniors.
a year ago
Irrational...
Playing with Streamlit and LLMs. Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against their internal usecases. I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail" I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
a year ago
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I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
Retail Design Blog
Tiana Factory by Hooold Design The core goal of the Tiana Cake project is to transform an abandoned office space into an efficient...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The core goal of the Tiana Cake project is to transform an abandoned office space into an efficient baking factory....
TheCollector
Rare Exhibition of Roman Marbles Heads to North America undefined
a week ago
Sean Carroll
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. (We’ve previously given thanks for the...
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This year we give thanks for Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field theory, the error bar, gauge symmetry, Landauer’s Principle, the...
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 4: Indonesia and Ecuador September The island of Sulawesi must be on the bucket list for any naturalist with a strong...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
September The island of Sulawesi must be on the bucket list for any naturalist with a strong interest in biogeography. Though Borneo is situated only a few hundred kilometers to the west, and the Moluccas are not far to the east, the species composition of Sulawesi is...
detreville
But why "detreville"? (But why not?)
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” In Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong, our reporters found lots of people were eager to take the...
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
Probably...
Estimation with Small Samples Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. gauss_bayes Estimation with Small Samples¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. Hey, so imagine I only have 6...
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast? This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me for the recording of the session.
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
TheCollector
The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear? undefined
6 months ago
Notes on software...
Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp specifically), I tried to get a simple (but realistic) web app running. After four days and a patch to ABCL I got something working. The code I had in mind would look something like...
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review ‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review JamesHoare Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
8 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Ploussard, Battersea As much as I complained on these pages that all the exciting new restaurants were opening up not...
a year ago
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a year ago
As much as I complained on these pages that all the exciting new restaurants were opening up not handily close to where I live in SW11, but in far-flung places like Dalston or Shoreditch or Highgate, part of me still hoped that something would eventually come along to prove me...
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day undefined
4 days ago
Wuthering...
Many of Plato's early Socratic dialogues - It was quite lovely. I’ve been enjoying Plato’s dialogues recently.  I’d read some of them before, at university or...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been enjoying Plato’s dialogues recently.  I’d read some of them before, at university or during my last Greek phase 25 years ago, and this time I hope to read almost all of them. I will make some notes on them in a few posts.  Give them a tag if nothing else, and make some...
The personal website...
A brief guide to design feedback Design feedback is one of the challenges I return to over and over again. It never seems to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Design feedback is one of the challenges I return to over and over again. It never seems to get easier, no matter how many times I practice or how many different tactics and frameworks I try. Recently, I did my first rounds of feedback with a new team. Once again, I was nervous....
GitButler
GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball" It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases,...
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It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases, adding lots of small features, bug fixes, performance improvements and experiments. Last week we released GitButler 0.13, which is our first release with our new Fearless Rebasing...
Jonas Hietala
Back to Training Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
Londonist
Where To Watch The Rugby World Cup 2023 In London Pubs and bars screening the action.
a year ago
Blog posts of...
ADHD 🧠 I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
Louwrentius
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
This Space
39 Books: 2007 When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I...
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When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I write about a 350-page novel last read 17 years ago without taking several days to reread it? Answer: not at all, so I started reading. What good fortune! How well Hugo Wilcken...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some tips for interacting with the press Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact...
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Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact with the press (by press I mean blogs as…
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
Platformer
Substack's new fundraising pitch Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
a year ago
Beautiful Public...
Highway Photologs Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as...
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Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as 1961. Each year, specially tricked out vans would drive each mile of state road snapping photos to document the status of roadways.
David Heinemeier...
The spells are spent They just don't work any more, those baseless accusations that anyone we disagree with is a racist,...
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They just don't work any more, those baseless accusations that anyone we disagree with is a racist, misogynist, fascist. After being invoked in en masse and in vain for the better part of the past decade, their power to shock and awe is finally gone. All that's left is a weak...
Louwrentius
Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
over a year ago
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Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
Applied Cartography
Consider the data product The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is...
2 months ago
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The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is evergreen: It’s much easier to sell an add-on to an existing ecosystem like a WordPress plugin, a Shopify app, a Heroku add-on – they’re usually small things to build, relatively...
Math Is Still...
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating...
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7 months ago
In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field. The post A Rosetta Stone for...
symmetry magazine
Physics on tour A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected...
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A group called the Big Bang Collective sets up physics discovery stations at rather unexpected venues: music festivals.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Presenting Founder Collective As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a...
over a year ago
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As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a sometimes critic of how the venture capital…
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things...
over a year ago
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
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Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Resilience: How Stoicism Makes Us Resilient When Facing Challenges Life can be incredibly unpredictable, and there are times when it can feel like the entire world is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Life can be incredibly unpredictable, and there are times when it can feel like the entire world is working against us. These are the moments when we need to muster all the resilience we can and face adversity with a sturdy sense of perseverance. Luckily, the philosophy of...
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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2 months ago
NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also doubles as a shelter for bats.
davidyat.es
Syntax highlighting with render hooks
2 months ago
The Gradient
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
NeuroLogica Blog
AI Humor It’s been less than two years (November 2022) since ChatGPT launched. In some ways the new large...
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It’s been less than two years (November 2022) since ChatGPT launched. In some ways the new large language model (LLM) type of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have been on the steep part of the improvement curve. And yet, they are still LLMs with the same limitations. In...
Math Is Still...
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques...
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In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques known as “resurgence” points toward an escape. The post How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
wadertales
Curlew nest survival The Eurasian Curlew is designated as ‘Near-Threatened’ by IUCN/BirdLife. It is Red-listed in the UK,...
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The Eurasian Curlew is designated as ‘Near-Threatened’ by IUCN/BirdLife. It is Red-listed in the UK,  largely due to a rapid decline in breeding numbers. In this context, the fact that there are a few pink squares (indicating increased numbers) on the map showing breeding...
Good Enough
TIL: JavaScript Turbo Stream Requests I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests...
a year ago
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a year ago
I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests were not resulting in turbo_stream rendering getting displayed on my page. I checked my logs to see if the render was happening. I looked for missing <%= tags. Debugged and...
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna The Great Fire of Smyrna JamesHoare Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Chautauqua: an idea embedded in a place I want to tell you about the place I spent summers growing up. It's called Chautauqua Institution,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I want to tell you about the place I spent summers growing up. It's called Chautauqua Institution, and it's one of the most special places in the world — and not just because I spent my childhood there. Chautauqua is special because it is an idea embedded in a place. The place...
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits undefined
8 months ago
Style over Substance
How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
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My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
TheCollector
The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour undefined
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Installing OpenBSD on Linveo KVM VPS 2024-10-21 I recently came across an amazing deal for a VPS on Linveo. For just $15 a year they provide: AMD KVM 1GB 1024 MB RAM 1 CPU Core 25 GB NVMe SSD 2000 GB Bandwidth It’s a pretty great deal and I suggest you look more into it if you’re...
A Beautiful Site
Detecting mobile devices with JavaScript While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the need for knowing whether or not we're dealing with a mobile device arises. For in-depth device checking, you can rely on a complex library such as The MobileESP Project. But for...
Old Structures...
The Public Realm This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department...
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This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department of New York, at Lafayette and White Streets. The fire department facilities were moved elsewhere over 50 years ago, but the building is landmarked and reusable, so it has been...
./techtipsy
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now! Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently...
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Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that during the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a lot of the...
Seth's Blog
Reimagining cities in a few simple questions What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion...
a year ago
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The first nuclear powered vessel was completed in 1959. Since then there have been nuclear powered vessels in the oceans, including many nuclear submarines. The obvious advantage is that is such vessels can stay at see for long periods of time without refueling. These ships use...
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Hindsight is our finest instrument for discerning the patterns of our lives. To look back on a year of reading, a year of writing, is to discover a secret map of the mind, revealing the landscape of living — after all, how we spend our thoughts is how we spend our lives. In...
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For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End of the Road. It was an incomplete idea, but it seems to me we are, culturally, at the end of a metaphor when it comes to The Road. I had the idea that you could trace a thread...
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Why consumerism is good actually “Consumerism” came up in my recent interview with Elle Griffin of The Post. Here’s what I had to say...
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“Consumerism” came up in my recent interview with Elle Griffin of The Post. Here’s what I had to say (off the cuff): I have to admit, I’ve never 100% understood what “consumerism” is, or what it’s supposed to be. I have the general sense of what people are gesturing at, but it...
Seth's Blog
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Not all projects become t-shirt brands, nor should they. The risk is in thinking you’re building one when you’re not. T-shirt worthy brands are a very small subset of the whole. The question is: Would your customers want to wear your logo on a t-shirt? Why? If you’re creating...
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some stuff has been tense, as I have really been pushing them on a few issues, and I am forcing Apple to do a lot of stuff they'd rather not do (using Office as leverage)
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
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The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles “My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death     Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the SMBC store right this second. Today's News:
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If they know, they should tell us Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both...
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Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both sides. Cigarette companies knew a great deal about the addictions they were causing and the illnesses that resulted. If the public had known, they would have made different...
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Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading...
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Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution...
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Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The...
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It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them “too controversial”. Facebook then censored the article about...
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Unblogged May 31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican...
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31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican is dark and almost empty apart from 20 scant full-frontal paintings. I completely missed the subtext ("The exhibition highlights how The Curve’s shape reflects the Arabic letter...
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Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
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Architecture firm ARGDL has shared photos of a home they completed in Tapalpa, Mexico, that’s built using stone, wood, and glass. Local stone was used to generate the main volumes of the home, while the regional pine can be seen in the roof structure as well as the window and...
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note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
The Marginalian
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts,... "The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be...
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"The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that...
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Disorganized thoughts on "Oppenheimer" I saw "Oppenheimer" today.  Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story...
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I saw "Oppenheimer" today.  Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story ends.  Just in case you were wondering, there is no post-credit scene to set up the sequel.  (For the humor-impaired: that was a joke.) The movie was an excellent piece of...
Quantum Frontiers
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Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, which will open in 2025. At a lunch following the ceremony, John Preskill made these remarks. Hello everyone. … Continue...
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A Bittersweet First Blog Income Report The internet is full of success stories and my 6-figures language-learning blog French Together...
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The internet is full of success stories and my 6-figures language-learning blog French Together could be considered one of them But things don’t always go as planned and every business experiences ups and downs. April was definitely in the down category for me and that’s great...
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To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. The post Tiny Language Models Come of Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The DESK Magazine
The most advanced portfolio system yet: Semplice 6 is here They say it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at a chosen field. We've been building Semplice...
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They say it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at a chosen field. We've been building Semplice for nearly 10 years.
Flashbak
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am. Today's News:
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Guidelines for developing Custom Hooks in React You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code...
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You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code everywhere? Let's learn about Custom Hooks.
The Rational Walk
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Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and avoid falling into a high tax bracket.
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Ah man the mush in my brain is finally letting go and I’m starting to feel this tiny little programming urge again… This time it’s not Haskell or a new experimental game that’s luring me on, no this time it’s me longing to create this fantastic awesome epic RTS game. Sadly it’s a...
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Meta’s long-standing problem with “shaheed” An overdue ruling from the Oversight Board.
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Math Is Still...
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Highly repetitive regions of junk DNA may be the key to a newly discovered mechanism for gene regulation. The post A ‘Lobby’ Where a Molecule Mob Tells Genes What to Do first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards regional specification. You're not just Thai, you're Northern Thai/Isarn. You're either selling Tokyo ramen or Sapporo Miso or Kyoto-style Kaiseki. And if you're Chinese, are you...
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What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
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James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
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Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
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"The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable....
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to…
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It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
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This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Am Entirely Sure That I Like It' On March 27, 1905, Theodore Roosevelt had just started his second term as president of the United...
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On March 27, 1905, Theodore Roosevelt had just started his second term as president of the United States when he wrote a letter to a little-known poet living in Boston:  Dear Mr. Robinson: I have enjoyed your poems especially The Children of the Night so much that I must write to...
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
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I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
Ink & Switch
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Draw-Off For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately...
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For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately lowered. Draw-Off and it exposes more of the riverbed than usual. In order to carry out essential maintenance works on Richmond lock, weirs and sluices, it is necessary to hold up the...
macwright.com
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The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
Christopher Butler
Can a Robot Do a Designer's Job? Automation isn’t as much of a threat as we have been told. The Grid, a so-called website...
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Automation isn’t as much of a threat as we have been told. The Grid, a so-called website creation service “powered by artificial intelligence” that launched through a crowdfunding campaign in 2014. Less than five years later, after selling many memberships and releasing a...
Old Structures...
Repetition Back to my travelogue of the tour of Swiss and German bridges. This is an overall view of the rail...
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Back to my travelogue of the tour of Swiss and German bridges. This is an overall view of the rail viaduct across the Thun River valley at Ossingen, Switzerland. It was completed in 1874, and is still in use, carrying trains over the valley. Most of the sources I found are very...
TheCollector
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Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
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Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
Louwrentius
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
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The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
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<![CDATA[With the last feature of WebCard behind me I proceeded with the next task to wrap up my RetroChallenge 2024 project: documenting the system. Since WebCard enhances NoteCards with only a few simple but significant features a full manual would be overkill. So I added to...
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We gathered on our street and shielded our eyes to behold a spectacle we last saw in 2017 and won’t again — with this clarity, on this part of the planet — until 2045.
History Today Feed
The Prophecies of Merlin The Prophecies of Merlin JamesHoare Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
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Many of you may not realize this, but in most parts of the developed world, banks automatically record and report our transactions to law enforcement. The logic behind this is that by giving up our personal data, we get more security, albeit at the cost of 1) losing our privacy,...
Rest of World -...
Philippine chipmakers are embracing automation — and leaving low-skilled workers behind Hundreds of workers at the Philippine unit of Nexperia threatened to go on strike over layoff fears,...
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Hundreds of workers at the Philippine unit of Nexperia threatened to go on strike over layoff fears, a sign of growing discontent over automation in the industry.
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One Useful Thing
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Math Is Still...
Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary...
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Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary realm. The post Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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There is no question that the meeting venue in Minneapolis is superior in multiple ways to last year's meeting in Las Vegas.  The convention center doesn't feel scarily confining, and it also doesn't smell like a combination of cigarettes and desperation. Here are a few...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: SMBC is the 74-almost funniest webcomic. Today's News: If you were a patreon subscriber, you would be seeing my magnum opus at this very moment.
Strange Loop Canon
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Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
Londonist
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a year ago
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Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos. A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de...
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A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de generadores. El proyecto se frenó. Mientras tanto, las exportaciones de litio crecen.
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
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When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Evan Jones -...
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
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You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Retail Design Blog
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BOND STREET £320   London's Monopoly Streets BOND STREET Colour group: green Purchase price: £320 Rent: £28 Length: 800m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 penultimate street on the Monopoly board famously doesn't exist, even though it has a station named after it. It's also...
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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon An Ottoman Winter in Toulon JamesHoare Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:30
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The Middle East is hardly the world’s most harmonious region, and it only gets more fractious if you add in South Asia and the Mediterranean. But there’s one thing on which many residents of that wide geographical span can agree: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī. One might at first...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
Mazdak
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Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are cornerstones of Canadian financial planning. Both offer distinct advantages for saving and investing, but exceeding their annual contribution limits can lead to unwanted financial consequences.
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Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
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Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1 This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a...
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over a year ago
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do (approximate) nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
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“A few books, however,” writes Michael Dirda, “become lifelong companions, works we regularly turn to for comfort, solace, inspiration.” The reviewer identifies a slightly different category, “the books we find ourselves crazy about and hope to revisit someday,” as distinguished,...
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This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog.   A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a...
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Flashbak
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
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This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder now. It is also related to a new course at Brilliant.org, Explaining Variation. Suppose you find a correlation of 0.36. How would you characterize it? I posed this question to the...
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A special Senate committee has opened an investigation into these “Misery Acres” that take dollars from people who cannot afford it.
African History...
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My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Saturday Morning...
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In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best", you just need "good enough".
Alex Meub
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Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network. About WiFi Protected Setup WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
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Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development? On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
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journal – Winnie Lim
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I debated for a long time whether to visit Hiroshima since I was already on my way to Osaka from Fukuoka. It would be almost a midway stop, breaking up the original...
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There are still a few bits to work out, but why wait any longer? The latest version of my site is here and it has been rebuilt from the ground up. I'm feeling pretty good about it and invite you all to celebrate the magic with me! ✨ Inspiration While playing Super Mario Wonder, I...
Louwrentius
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The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
AI Snake Oil
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Dan Slimmon
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There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
xkcd.com
Electron Holes
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The complex derivative guys are given AAA ratings then surprised that they still sink. Today's News:
Contemporist...
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ARRCC has shared photos of a remodel they recently completed for a home in Cape Town, South Africa, that retained the original footprint, and received a contemporary update with a new undulating cast in-place concrete roof lined with wood on the inside.
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Abstruse Goose
medium rare
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fast.ai
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Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
TheCollector
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good" - Gretchen Ruben [http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/12/secret-of-adulthood-dont-let-the-perfect-be-the-enemy-of-the-good/] One...
Louwrentius
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Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want to discuss some fundamentals that are true regardless of your particular needs. This will help you better reason about storage and may provide a scaffolding for further learning....
alexwlchan
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In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together. I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs: pairs = { 'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …}, 'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
The Works in...
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Should You Get a Heat Pump? Starting around 1550 and lasting through the 1600s, England had an energy crisis. They were running...
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Starting around 1550 and lasting through the 1600s, England had an energy crisis. They were running out of wood, which was the main source of fuel for residential and commercial heating. England also needed a lot of wood for their massive navy – it took about 2,000 trees to build...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Threat of Technology In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I...
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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...
TheCollector
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macwright.com
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Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use Obsidian as my note-taking...
History Today Feed
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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.
Eukaryote Writes...
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Irrational...
Physics and perception. At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
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At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war. The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby. Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
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Committing to Windows I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows...
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I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows to Linux, sampling text editors like VSCode, neovim, Helix, and Sublime, while surveying PC laptops and desktops. It's been an adventure! But it's time to stop being a tourist....
TheCollector
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
a year ago
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When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...