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The changing face of protest Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the...
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9 months ago
Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.
Irrational...
Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
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a year ago
A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
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a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in...
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a year ago
On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in the first release of ChatGPT from November 30. After the December 15th update of ChatGPT, I replicated my analysis and it appeared as if the political bias had been partially...
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know undefined
4 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Permissions and projects in PostHog, explained So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So, you’ve installed your snippet and started tracking data in PostHog. What’s next? Before forging ahead into the heady world of insights…
TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910? undefined
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Liverpool Street LIVERPOOL   STREET STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets LIVERPOOL STREET STATION Group:...
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LIVERPOOL   STREET STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets LIVERPOOL STREET STATION Group: British Railways Purchase price: £200 Rent: £25 Annual passengers: 95 million Borough: City of London Postcode: EC2 busiest station in the UK, a great contrast to mere Marylebone and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
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a year ago
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
Platformer
Elon Musk's creep show Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's...
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Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's disturbing spiral accelerates
The American Scholar
“The Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley appeared...
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4 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley appeared first on The American Scholar.
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert ‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert   Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Rest of World -...
How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare...
a year ago
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a year ago
By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Now, they want more.
Stoic Simple
The Most Powerful Lesson To Be Learned From Stoicism by Michael McGill There are a lot of powerful lessons to be learned from the ancient philosophy of...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Michael McGill There are a lot of powerful lessons to be learned from the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Stoicism gives us ways of thinking to help us to be mentally stronger. It teaches us mental frameworks that allow us to live more tranquil lives. But there's one lesson...
CONTEMPORIST
Glamping Tents Designed By Architects Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they designed for the Costa del Sol Glamping Village in Spain. Each tent’s structure is made entirely of laminated pine wood, with a volume formed from three porticoes that support the...
This Space
39 Books: 2022 "Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the...
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6 months ago
"Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the universe." This line from Paul Stubbs' remarkable essay collection The Return to Silence is not an epigram to Marjorie Perloff's Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics, but it might have...
mtlynch.io
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The Goal is an attempt to reevaluate business management from first principles. The book explains...
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over a year ago
The Goal is an attempt to reevaluate business management from first principles. The book explains Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, which states that in any business, the sole determinant of output is the bottleneck resource. To grow, a business has to identify its bottlenecks...
The Wandering...
Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84 Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of...
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11 months ago
Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of WW1, teams of American military surveyors produced these as they went around France mapping the grave sites of fallen soldiers. On this plat we can see a number of bearings and...
Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Summer Reading List Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a summer must is a good book. The Archinect team has curated a list of reading essentials to explore.  Below is a collection of books organized into five categories – New Releases,...
Simply Explained
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Grow With Less
Is Your Article's Date Destroying Your Rankings? Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking. This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date. This article will show you how to find...
The Modern House
How to reduce carbon emissions at home
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Curiosity to Inquire Into All Things' “Concupiscence of experience, boundless curiosity to set our foot everywhere, to enter...
a month ago
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a month ago
“Concupiscence of experience, boundless curiosity to set our foot everywhere, to enter every possible situation. Montaigne.”  I could have signed my name to that when I was twenty. I wanted to visit every country in the world, even the most dangerous. I made plans to move to...
Rest of World -...
How a Ugandan startup wound up in Mexico Assak's unexpected entry into Mexico bodes well for international investment.
a year ago
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On undefined
3 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
Misunderstanding bigness IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three cases, there’s plenty of evidence that they would have been better off if they had simply broken themselves up. Microsoft is still recovering and IBM never will. One computer...
Map of the Week
Planning for the Next Eclipse Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or maybe you missed it because life got in the way or you couldn't justify the time and expense of travel. Or, maybe you're like me and foolishly traveled to Rochester, New York where...
Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either. This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
diamond geezer
Basingstoke Gadabout: BASINGSTOKE Basingstoke is a large town in north Hampshire, roughly halfway along the M3...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Gadabout: BASINGSTOKE Basingstoke is a large town in north Hampshire, roughly halfway along the M3 motorway. It's simultaneously ancient and modern, a traditional market town selected by the London County Council for substantial postwar expansion which saw its population increase...
Londonist
Guess What Our Most-Read Article Of 2023 Was... You love Christmas and the tube - but what was numero uno?
12 months ago
Musings on Markets
Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside. During the course of the year, investors also...
David Heinemeier...
Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
7 months ago
AVC
Leading From The Heart I have watched so many leaders over the years in my various roles as lead investor, board member,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have watched so many leaders over the years in my various roles as lead investor, board member, board chair, investor, and advisor. And one thing I have learned from this front-row seat is that leading from the heart is very powerful. A leader can be the most brilliant product...
Paul Graham: Essays
What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?
over a year ago
Open Culture
Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the nineteen-forties, he constituted something of a cultural phenomenon unto himself. He “started recording sounds and voices in the 1880s when he was still a child” in his native Germany,...
Blog posts of...
Managing people 🤯 I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia undefined
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Fixing URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When creating a new card, the function WCD.AskURL brings up a dialog and loops prompting for a URL to go with the card until the input is valid. After the fix the input dialog looks like...
The Ruffian
'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult Not If You're On The Left Anyway
4 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders. "With mix-blend-mode finally gaining wide browser-support, we now have access to many of most common...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"With mix-blend-mode finally gaining wide browser-support, we now have access to many of most common shading techniques in CSS. With some choice images and a bit of careful layering it’s possible to build some surprisingly high-quality effects without the need for introducing any...
Seth's Blog
Practical empathy (vs. telepathy) “If I were you…” or, more commonly, “if you were me.” Management has never been easy, but as the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
“If I were you…” or, more commonly, “if you were me.” Management has never been easy, but as the world becomes more complex, it gets more difficult. We’d like to imagine that the person (or AI bot, or freelancer, or firm) that we hired has enough drive, insight and common sense...
xkcd.com
Broken Model
6 months ago
TheCollector
Is Calligraphy Considered Art? undefined
7 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
a year ago
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a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Bangalore's Disappearing Lakes In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In an area of pronounced water scarcity high on the Deccan plateau, at an altitude removed from river-water and of water extraction from the ground, despite being historically nourished by monsoons, Bangalore's current population faces deep inequities of access to water which are...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Advice on Blogging In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently? I gave my answer, but I wanted to expand on it. These kinds of questions are interesting to me. As readers, I think the answer we’re...
Liz Denys
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
Maps Mania
The Map to the White House
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
diamond geezer
Mayoral hustings In precisely two weeks' time Londoners get their chance to vote for a new Mayor. They won't, they'll...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In precisely two weeks' time Londoners get their chance to vote for a new Mayor. They won't, they'll vote for the old Mayor because Sadiq Khan is so far ahead in the polls he's effectively unstoppable. But we do know the 12 people who won't replace him, most of whom are destined...
diamond geezer
Langley Vale WW1 Centenary Wood Yesterday a 12 mile walk from Redhill to Epsom morphed abruptly into a 13 mile walk from Redhill to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Yesterday a 12 mile walk from Redhill to Epsom morphed abruptly into a 13 mile walk from Redhill to Leatherhead. And so I found myself blundering unexpectedly through Langley Vale, England's WW1 Centenary Wood. a mile to the south of Epsom racecourse. It's one of four Centenary...
Engineers Need Art
Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
samwho.dev
Dude, where's my main?
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Art and Culture Destinations in Kansas City
a year ago
TheCollector
What Can History and Archaeology Tell Us About the Druids? undefined
5 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Sloth was not the right answer Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what...
a month ago
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a month ago
Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what you’ve got here is a totally safe question. There are no “right” or “wrong” animals and no need to worry about any consequences. Let your heart soar! At school recently, I had seen...
diamond geezer
Wildlife & Wellbeing Trail #10001 ✅ Places Footpath 47, the desolate estuarine footpath at Barking Riverside. In good news...
a year ago
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a year ago
#10001 ✅ Places Footpath 47, the desolate estuarine footpath at Barking Riverside. In good news it's still there and ten thousand flats haven't yet encroached close enough to wreck it. But that day draws closer, and a couple of recent changes are a hint that local developers are...
Classical Wisdom
Important Notification New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
Explorations of an...
Heading East Into The Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese) stretches across the southeastern coastal region...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese) stretches across the southeastern coastal region of Brazil, reaching inland as far as southeastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. In broad terms, the Atlantic Forest is formed and continues to be maintained by...
The American Scholar
“Hymn” by A. R. Ammons Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American Scholar.
Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
diamond geezer
Rejigging the Bow Roundabout (this is the first post written on my new laptop) (Windows 11 remains very unfamiliar - a lot's...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
(this is the first post written on my new laptop) (Windows 11 remains very unfamiliar - a lot's changed since 7!) I'm still trying to work out what's going on with the imminent roadworks at the Bow Roundabout. I keep checking the Causeway one.network map where everything's...
Remains of the Day
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Instance Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later he deletes this simulation of his girlfriend...
a month ago
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later he deletes this simulation of his girlfriend simulating her breaking up with him. Today's News:
The Map is Mostly...
Efforts and Goals and Joy There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
NeuroLogica Blog
Artificial Diamond Boom The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us...
a year ago
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a year ago
The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us something about a post-scarcity world. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. However, it like to form with other elements and therefore it was very difficulty to...
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays? undefined
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #6 The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more drilling. The queues were at their worst on Wednesday when an additional set of roadworks temporarily afflicted Tredegar Road, at one point stretching over three quarters of a mile along...
Old Structures...
This Time, The Famous One Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post called “No, Not The Famous One.” Guess what? On a site visit to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post called “No, Not The Famous One.” Guess what? On a site visit to Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, I noticed a lot of nice cast-iron storefronts in the old shopping streets. Given that iron wasn’t a major industry there in the nineteenth...
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum undefined
6 months ago
The Codist
Good Programmers Can Be Anyone, But Not Everyone In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no single type of person is good at programming. I've seen young people who could do amazing work and those without a clue. I've seen programmers
Maps Mania
The D-Day Map Room
5 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content”...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content” sites) are being under-allocated…
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World undefined
7 months ago
Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World
over a year ago
99% Invisible
A Whale-Oiled Machine [EPISODE] In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be found in New Bedford, MA. All this slaughter wasn’t to feed hungry people with whale meat. It was about all the...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life undefined
7 months ago
Open Culture
Watch Fantasmagorie, the World’s First Animated Cartoon (1908) Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to putting last night’s dream into words: I was dressed as a clown and then I was in a theater, except I was also hiding under this lady’s hat, and the guy behind us was plucking out...
xkcd.com
Professional Oaths
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 2 Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up...
a year ago
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a year ago
Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up automatically on the Yoto player. I just wanted to add that what makes it special is that it feels like a voicemail from a friend. Listening to it gives me (and I presume, my...
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
The personal website...
How to take your team's creative pulse “Could we explore other options?” If you’ve been to a design review, you’ve probably heard this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Could we explore other options?” If you’ve been to a design review, you’ve probably heard this question. When I hear it, my heart breaks. It says that our team is out of alignment: the work I’m sharing isn’t meeting everyone’s expectations. I’d like to share a workshop that I...
Essays - Benedict...
The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
Noahpinion
In which British writers scold America on trade If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them?
7 months ago
Lars Lofgren
CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes Marketplace went to...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for June 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of June. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added propeller maintenance, Maple Bay, Telegraph Cove,...
HTMHell
The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account by Jason Cranford Teague Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024 Note: HTML standards are developed...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Jason Cranford Teague Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024 Note: HTML standards are developed first in browsers, so the version might have already became the de facto standard before the official standard document is released. The story so far: In the beginning Tim...
Seth's Blog
The Pizza Principle Good pizza is rare, even though the method to create it is well known. Any efforts to make it more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Good pizza is rare, even though the method to create it is well known. Any efforts to make it more convenient, cheaper or easier will almost always make it worse. If you think this post is about pizza, I’m afraid that we’re already stuck.
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast! Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
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Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
HTMHell
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by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I. As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
The Rational Walk
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Last time, I dug into using Apache Benchmark to do performance testing on a page that requires authentication to access. Today, we’ll figure out how to use siege to visit many unique URLs on our page, and to get benchmarks on that process. I’ll next figure out performance...
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The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks after Elon Musk bought the company. Managers will have 20+ reports and are expected to code at least 20% of the time.
TheCollector
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
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How the CCP is Closing China How the CCP is Closing China JamesHoare Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
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Note: Google was kind enough to invite me to give a short talk at their Zeitgeist conference earlier this week. It was a really interesting…
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From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles, installations, and strategies of surrender, Brian Eno’s work occupies a rare space in this world with an imprint as deep as it is wide. For the Roxy Music founder, art is the kind of...
Patterns in Humanity
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The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. ...
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These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental. The post The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The leaping curve The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations...
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The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations (and people) work their way up it, one step at a time (it’s the black line in the graph below). But there’s rarely a continuous learning curve. Instead, it’s often interrupted by...
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Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
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Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
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Math Is Still...
What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. (Pt 2) If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is?...
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If plaques of amyloid protein in the brain aren’t the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease, what is? Researchers investigating alternative possibilities have faced resistance from the biomedical establishment for decades, but intriguing theories about the role of defects in protein...
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With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
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WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
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Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and you’ll swear you’ve been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again. That’s because you have been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again: once recorded or...
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Atlas in a Day Challenge: A Global, Real-time Collaboration On Saturday, October 5, 2019, more than 50 guerrilla cartographers gathered, in person and online,...
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On Saturday, October 5, 2019, more than 50 guerrilla cartographers gathered, in person and online, to collaborate in producing an atlas in a single day on the theme of migration. While researching and designing an entire atlas on a complex theme in the span of 24 hours is indeed...
The Modern House
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Daniel Marino
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
Wuthering...
But the Moon rescues others as they swim from below - a glance at the essays and dialogues of... The great ragged Greek philosophy readalong ends with Plutarch, famous for his extraordinary...
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The great ragged Greek philosophy readalong ends with Plutarch, famous for his extraordinary Parallel Lives but also the innovative author of a large mass of essays and dialogues which picked up the title Moralia (late 1st C.) along the way.  Plutarch was hardly an original...
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The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
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The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
diamond geezer
London's cheapest visitor attraction Visiting attractions in Greenwich keeps getting inexorably more expensive. And not just because...
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Visiting attractions in Greenwich keeps getting inexorably more expensive. And not just because admission prices have increased but because buildings that used to be free to enter started charging money. Royal Greenwich Observatory had free admission between 2001 and 2011, then...
Map of the Week
New Sweden New Sweden was the first European colony in the Delaware Valley, established in 1638. It was a short...
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New Sweden was the first European colony in the Delaware Valley, established in 1638. It was a short lived colony meant to be Sweden's answer to the New Netherland colony (now New York).  via Wikipedia  "Nya Sverige" or "Niew Sweden" was originally proposed by Peter Minuit,...
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Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
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Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That uni-foursome is, to be clear, entirely for procreation. Today's News:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
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I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone needs...
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Epic Web Dev
Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
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Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America undefined
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The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
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Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
Rest of World -...
The deepfake election nightmare hasn’t happened. Singapore still wants to ban them Following South Korea’s lead, Singapore intends to ban deepfakes ahead of upcoming elections,...
4 months ago
A Beautiful Site
I should have been asking my users this from the start Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users...
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Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users don't tell you? It seems obvious, but here is something I should have been asking my users from the start. Getting the right feedback is critical # When someone signs up for my...
diamond geezer
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Bus Route Of The Day 197: Croydon to Peckham Quadrant: London southeast Length of journey: 10 miles, 65 minutes Because it's 19th July I've been out riding the 197, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. My apologies for the repetition. Threepenny Bit building, stopping not...
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The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I...
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If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I followed. One of the main reasons…
Noahpinion
Why has U.S. manufacturing productivity stagnated for over a decade? A few hypotheses about a very disturbing trend.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Signs His Name in Sparks' By trade my father was an ironworker for the City of Cleveland’s Municipal Light, always called...
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By trade my father was an ironworker for the City of Cleveland’s Municipal Light, always called “Muny Light." At home he was a welder, specializing in wrought-iron railings. His aesthetic sense could be summarized in a single word: big. Or heavy. Everything he built was...
Flashbak
Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972 For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
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For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Startups, stop treating engineers like a different species Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs –...
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Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs – treat engineers like a fundamentally different type of…
Val Sopi
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<p>blogstatic had another above $1K month.</p> <p>$1,208.38 to be exact.</p> <p>This was the third +$1K month overall, since <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-chance">rebranding</a> back in 2022.</p> <figure><img...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Notes on software...
What makes a great technical blog I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely...
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I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely about non-corporate tech blogs. So this post is too. I'll have to make another list for favorite corporate tech blogs. In short, they: Tackle hard and confusing topics Show working...
Christian Selig
The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
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I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Tramways in Gdańsk, Poland by Arsen Mosiichuk, 2024 Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a...
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Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a transit map of Gdańsk trams. I am very interested what Transit Maps think about this. Transit Maps says: Overall, this is very solid and clean work – very much in the style of...
Maps Mania
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The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your...
Ben Borgers
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We’re All Content Creators for Machines Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
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Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
Math Is Still...
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly...
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A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species. The post A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Simply Explained
Tuya IR Hub: control Daikin AC (Home Assistant + ESPHome) The release of ESPHome v1.15 brought better support for infrared climate control. This was enough to...
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The release of ESPHome v1.15 brought better support for infrared climate control. This was enough to finally make my YTF IR Hub useable. Here's how I flashed ESPHome onto it and how I configured it for my Daikin AC and Home Assistant.
Luxagraf:...
Halloween in the Outer Banks From Virginia Beach we drifted south, making the short drive down to Oregon Inlet in the Outer...
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From Virginia Beach we drifted south, making the short drive down to Oregon Inlet in the Outer Banks. Our plan was to spend a couple of weeks there, visit friends, get some time at the beach, and then head to Ocracoke for Thanksgiving. It was pretty good plan, but it didn't work...
Christopher Butler
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This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Design as Art, by Bruno Munari Massive Change, by Bruce Mau Grid systems in graphic design, by Josef Müller-Brockmann A New Program for Graphic Design, by David Reinfurt Editing by Design, by Jan V. White A...
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Apple Watch, Musical Chairs at Dollar General, IPOs, Impact Investing, Buffett in 1988, Mapping the human brain, Interviews of Nassim Taleb, Jensen Huang, John and Patrick Collison, and more ...
TheCollector
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Mailbag: What should you do if you report to an underperforming executive? Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming...
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Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming executive. I’ve gotten variants of this question a number of times over the years, and it’s worth digging into a bit: Have you written anything about working in middle management where...
Retail Design Blog
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Iram Boxwala Design Studio in Mumbai designed Luar Beauty’s office as a transformative canvas reflecting brand identity through curved walls,...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
Atoms vs Bits
Anti-Rivalrous Goods the rivalrousness s-curve
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Notes on software...
Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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London's longest countdowns Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was...
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Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was still possible to drive round it five years ago, then massive sequential roadworks intervened and the northwest arm was slowly pedestrianised. Cars now have to negotiate a very...
NeuroLogica Blog
Was Jesus a Con Artist? Let me start out by saying that I think the answer to that question is no – but this requires lots...
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Let me start out by saying that I think the answer to that question is no – but this requires lots of clarification. This was, however, the discussion here, while although poorly informed, does raise some interesting questions. This is a Tik Tok video of a popular podcast which...
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
Platformer
How TikTok failed to make the case for itself After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
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Open Culture
Hannah Arendt Explains the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes–and the Strategies Needed to Combat Them “Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah...
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“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, describing the scene leading up to the prominent Holocaust-organizer’s execution. After drinking half a bottle of wine, turning down the offer of religious assistance, and even...
Math Is Still...
It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone...
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A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove. The post It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: One Accurate, One Not First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy...
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First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy New York apartment house to the street: Second, from a modern Captain America comic, “the City of Manhattan”. Where’s that, Kansas? It’s been “New York” since 1664, “Nieuw...
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
Contemporist...
A Muted Palette Unifies The Interior Of This Remodeled Mid-Century Modern Home Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San...
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Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San Francisco Bay Area, that hadn’t been updated since it was built in 1955.
CONTEMPORIST
This Bed Headboard Was Designed With A Fold-Out Desk Laura Ortín Arquitectura has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Murcia,...
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Laura Ortín Arquitectura has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Murcia, Spain that includes a unique design feature in the bedroom. The bedroom, located off of a curved hallway, has dual doorways providing a glimpse of the room inside. Once inside, the...
TheCollector
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Argentina's macroeconomic situation is even worse up close A guest post by Karl T. Muth
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2024 SAT Data Drop The College Board has just released the latest SAT data. Here's a review.
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Old Structures...
Steel And Hemp From the 1880s, a view of South Street and the East River with the brand-new Brooklyn Bridge in the...
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From the 1880s, a view of South Street and the East River with the brand-new Brooklyn Bridge in the background. The bridge was the first suspension bridge with steel wires in its main cables. Steel rope had been used in ships for some time, but these sailing ships were mostly...
TheCollector
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Judgment Day Has Arrived for the Journalism Business From Upworthy to Buzzfeed, all the click chasing gimmicks have failed—but there is one sure option...
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In Japanese “tewaza” means “hand technique” or “handcraft” and, in this YouTube playlist of 20 short films, various artisanal techniques are explored and demonstrated by Japanese masters in the field. For those who are both obsessed with Japanese art and watching things get made,...
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Amid a surge in violence in Tijuana, ride-hailing apps and authorities implement new safety measures Uber launched a panic button linked to state-run emergency centers to keep drivers and users safe —...
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Bow Roundabout update #11 Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on...
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Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on when you think the start and finish dates are. new sliproad underneath the flyover is nearing completion. This'll carry westbound traffic from the contraflow lane on Stratford High...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Stoicism: Can the Ancient Philosophy Make You a Better Business Owner? I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated...
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I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated concepts. So I was pretty surprised when I read Epictetus’ Manual for the first time. The advice in the book was not only understandable but also surprisingly actionable. I have...
Home on Erik...
Domains for sale Contact me at mail at erik bern dot com!
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How to take care of your tribe The other day I read: "If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot." I want to dissect this sentiment...
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In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn: We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
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Tolerance Poster Show Debuts in Japan The Tolerance traveling poster show is a socially driven initiative that asks prominent designers...
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The Tolerance traveling poster show is a socially driven initiative that asks prominent designers from around the world to create artworks with the word Tolerance in their language. The exhibition, which leverages art & design to spread its powerful message of respect for...
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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it’s right about here that there would normally be a gap - Peter Adamson's Classical Philosophy, the... Peter Adamson is an English philosopher with a long-running podcast, History of Philosophy without...
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Peter Adamson is an English philosopher with a long-running podcast, History of Philosophy without Any Gaps.  What can that mean, without any gaps? We’ve finished Aristotle, and it’s right about here that there would normally be a gap.  In an undergraduate philosophy course you...
Seth's Blog
Emotional labor and its consequences Forty years ago, Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote about emotional labor. The work that frontline...
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Forty years ago, Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote about emotional labor. The work that frontline employees had to do (especially women) in managing and expressing emotions as part of their job. She talked about how exhausting it was for flight attendants to show up with a smile,...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Challenge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies. Today's News:
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PCG64 DXSM random number generator Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It...
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Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered, called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about it. (I have...
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Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence
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The landlord and the creative coach The conflict is real. “Jean-Michel [Basquiat] called,” Mr. Warhol wrote in his diary on Sept. 5,...
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The conflict is real. “Jean-Michel [Basquiat] called,” Mr. Warhol wrote in his diary on Sept. 5, 1983. “He’s afraid he’s just going to be a flash in the pan. And I told him not to worry, that he wouldn’t be. But then I got scared because he’s rented our building on Great Jones...
Math Is Still...
‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis. ...
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The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis. The post ‘Sensational’ Proof Delivers New Insights Into Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Invest in your stories My friend Peter started posting at LinkedIn a couple of years ago. He noticed that while people who...
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My friend Peter started posting at LinkedIn a couple of years ago. He noticed that while people who followed him appreciated his advice, what they remembered most were his stories—about how he met his co-founder and started an agency, how they spun out new companies, and his move...
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Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C...
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Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain C’s performance while embracing improvements from the last 30 years of tooling and language design. Zig makes calling into C code easier than any other...
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When Birds Outsmarted the Army: What Was the Emu War? undefined
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Machine Tool Reading List For those interested in reading more about the machine tool industry, the sources I found useful are...
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For those interested in reading more about the machine tool industry, the sources I found useful are listed below. The machine tool industry has been studied quite extensively, if sporadically (lots of sources talk about its decline in the 1980s, fewer ones talk about its...
Anecdotal Evidence
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Judged solely as a liquid asset, the most valuable book I ever held was a history of Argentina borrowed from the public library in Schenectady, N.Y. At home I discovered the previous reader had marked his place with a twenty-dollar bill. I returned the book but not the cash. It...
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion? undefined
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Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do...
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Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
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HogMail #22: Why do companies over-hire?" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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PostHog is now available on Segment! We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a...
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We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a platform that works as an integrated data pipeline to…
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Ideas need handles: the thing about subject lines A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on...
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A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on the phone said that the subject line of the email I sent should be blank. This is really unsettling. Almost like taking the labels off bottles at the supermarket. My email...
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Gadgets and Computers From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
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From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door… I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
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Unpacked
Generative AI and the Future of News - a tale of two worlds Last week, the New York Times reported that Google is testing an AI tool that enables news...
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Last week, the New York Times reported that Google is testing an AI tool that enables news organizations to create content using AI. It is unclear what the exact capabilities of the product are but based on one comment from Google, it helps with tasks like headlines and modifying...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Love of Reading Is Caught, Not Taught' I’ve used “home library” to describe the accumulation of books in our house but it’s starting to...
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I’ve used “home library” to describe the accumulation of books in our house but it’s starting to sound a little pretentious. For now I’ll keep it at “books.” Nadya Williams titles her essay “Home Libraries Will Save Civilization,” which, I understand, is more reader-enticing than...
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
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As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sciences Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The arts of course existed before Aristotle was...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The arts of course existed before Aristotle was wrong about them. Today's News:
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?” undefined
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Students of Stoicism: Using Stoic Philosophy in Teaching & Education In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well...
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In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well academically, often at the cost of their emotional and mental well-being. As a result, many students struggle with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem, which can impact their...
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies? And how does it reflect on us?
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#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
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Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
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Starting Exploration of Scroll-driven Animations in CSS CSS Scroll-driven Animations has recently made its debut on the main stage in the latest versions of...
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CSS Scroll-driven Animations has recently made its debut on the main stage in the latest versions of Chrome and Edge. Before this module became available, linking an element's animation to a scroll position was only possible through JavaScript. I've been (and still am) a huge fan...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Whole Hog Barbecu'd!' I was surprised to see that Alexander Pope was familiar with the most popular cuisine served in...
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I was surprised to see that Alexander Pope was familiar with the most popular cuisine served in Texas: barbecue. You’ll find his reference in “The Second Satire in the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased”: “Oldfield, with more than Harpy throat endu’d, Cries, ‘send me, Gods! a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Intensely Cultivated and Painstakingly Honest' In the brief foreword to her first prose collection, Predilections (1955), Marianne Moore writes as...
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In the brief foreword to her first prose collection, Predilections (1955), Marianne Moore writes as good an apologia for her manner of writing, among others, as I’ve ever encountered: “Silence is more eloquent than speech – a truism; but sometimes something that someone...
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ undefined
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Rest of World -...
Chinese startups supported by Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with police Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided...
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Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided policing or censorship tools to Chinese law enforcement.
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 1: Getting Unexpected Extrovert Energy The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm...
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The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm planning to write a blog post each week about my experience at RC. They'll vary, but it'll probably be a mixture of what I did and my feelings about everything. There won't be too...
TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists undefined
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Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste? undefined
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AVC
Subscribing To AVC For many years, there were three ways to subscribe to AVC: 1/ Email – Get new posts delivered to...
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For many years, there were three ways to subscribe to AVC: 1/ Email – Get new posts delivered to your inbox 2/ RSS – Get new posts delivered to your RSS reader 3/ X – Follow AVC on X X revoked the API access that I was using to autopost three or four months ago. […]
FIRE v London
Mar ’23: Harvesting tax losses March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in...
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March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in the French Alps (finally) having great conditions – sadly too late for me to enjoy. Further north, it’s been a month of big change in Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon, the...
Lennart Koopmann
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
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In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie titles Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved. “Rankin/Bass present” is lettering based on Weiß-Initialen Serie II, or Weiss Initials Series II, with the alternate forms for A and E, rendered bolder, with rough contours and a bouncing...
One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
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I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
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9 Best Things of 2023 My favourite book, film, podcast, meme, investment and more for the year.
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore) undefined
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David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
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A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
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Naming your startup The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
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The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on.   Naming is so important and…
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Embracing AI I could only avoid AI in my startup for so long before I actually found a use for it… How I used...
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I could only avoid AI in my startup for so long before I actually found a use for it… How I used ChatGPT to make the life of my support team easier.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they just have their bots engage in a debate while they go get ice cream. Today's News:
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A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
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Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
TheCollector
The Eritrean War of Independence: How Eritrea Won its Freedom undefined
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Open Culture
Watch a Japanese Artisan Hand-Craft a Cello in 6 Months Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a...
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Cellists unwilling to settle for any but the finest instrument must, sooner or later, make a pilgrimage to Cremona — or rather, to the Cremonas. One is, of course, the city in Lombardy that was home to numerous pioneering master luthiers, up to and including Antonio Stradivari....
Home on Erik...
Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
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If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
diamond geezer
50 posts I won't be writing 50 posts I won't be writing • January's fried chicken launches (except that's actually 51, so I...
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50 posts I won't be writing • January's fried chicken launches (except that's actually 51, so I will be writing one of them... here later) Retracing Terry and June Happy Ever After evolved into Terry and June in 1979, for copyright reasons. Both featured Terry Scott and June...
The American Scholar
Double Exposure On our first memories The post Double Exposure appeared first on The American Scholar.
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abdz.do - Have you...
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Y2K Aesthetics Art Series by Anatolii Babii AoiroStudio0124—23 Anatolii Babii is a digital artist whose series we are featuring, is heavily influenced by the nostalgia of the Y2K era. His latest series titled "Y2K Aesthetics" is a collection of...
The Rational Walk
New Articles Moving to Newsletter Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new...
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Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new articles will be posted on my Substack at newsletter.rationalwalk.com.
Rest of World -...
Meta is training its AI with public Instagram posts. Artists in Latin America can’t opt out Latin America lacks robust data protection laws that would allow Meta users in the region to...
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Retail Design Blog
Li-Ning Group Offices by Shapers The renovation of Shenzhen office building by Shapers for Li-Ning Group integrates bright colors and...
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The renovation of Shenzhen office building by Shapers for Li-Ning Group integrates bright colors and local textures, focusing on employee...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
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Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that...
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In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that have captivated physicists for decades. The work is a step toward crash-proof quantum computers. The post Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts...
xkcd.com
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Seth's Blog
The gap between impossible and normal It keeps getting shorter and shorter. This video couldn’t have been made, at any price, 18 months...
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It keeps getting shorter and shorter. This video couldn’t have been made, at any price, 18 months ago. 18 weeks ago, it would have required a thousand hours of work. Now, here it is. This impossible is going to happen faster and faster and faster.
Old Structures...
Split Personality Live, from Montreal, the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde et Saint Jacques: Putting aside the...
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Live, from Montreal, the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde et Saint Jacques: Putting aside the building’s architectural merit – and there is a great deal – I find this kind of church interesting structurally. We have at least three very different types of structure here. There’s...
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976) Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
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a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic. Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
NeuroLogica Blog
Everything Will Evaporate What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities,...
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What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities, but at present the most likely scenario seems to be that the universe will continue to expand, most mass will eventually find its way into a black hole, and those black holes will...
diamond geezer
Leicester Square LEICESTER SQUARE £260   London's Monopoly Streets LEICESTER SQUARE Colour group: yellow Purchase...
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LEICESTER SQUARE £260   London's Monopoly Streets LEICESTER SQUARE Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £260 Rent: £22 Area: 2 acres Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 And so to the yellows, the 'entertainment' corner of the Monopoly board. One theory has it that their ordered...
A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
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Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
Londonist
One Of The First Victorians Born Was Called 'Hyde Park' Apparently.
a year ago
Commoncog
Commoncog is Off for the Chinese New Year A quick announcement. Happy Year of the Rabbit everyone!
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past undefined
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Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
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Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
Retail Design Blog
KITH store Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third...
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Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third outpost in the Greater...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Poem Becomes Molten with Activity' I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is...
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I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is new, such collections are like well-stocked cafeterias. You push your tray down the line and sample what looks good. Once seated, if a friend recommends a dish you avoided, you can...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 4-10 March 2024 Do cool stuff for under a fiver.
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McMansion Hell
Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I&rsquo;m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing... Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m...
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Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly design columns. In this first one, I’ve done my best to expand on an earlier McMansion Hell post in order to answer the...
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
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In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist undefined
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Londonist
15 Pictures Of London's Beautiful Shopfronts From floating Chinese restaurants to everyone's favourite foliage-smothered boozer.
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Damn Interesting
The Anticipated Future of the Moon When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day...
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When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day was approximately five hours long. During the intervening billions of years, the dragging effect of the moon’s gravity slowed the Earth’s spin to the 24-hour day we now observe....
Blog - Practical...
What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] November 1965 saw one of the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] November 1965 saw one of the most widespread power outages in North American history. On the freezing cold evening of the 9th, the grid was operating at maximum capacity as people tried to stay warm when a...
Raw Thought (from...
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The Marginalian
Sheltering the Heroes Among Us: John Berger on Art as Resistance and Redemption of Justice "The powerful fear art, whatever its form... because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities...
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"The powerful fear art, whatever its form... because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us... becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring."
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 May 11 - May 19 SimPocalypse Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always...
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SimPocalypse Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always preferred the simplicity of its symbolic graphics. I remember when SimCity 2000 came out and, despite all its upgrades, I still played the old version. Same thing for Civilization, and...
The Modern House
Why deli and wine bar Lulu’s is winning the hearts of locals in Herne Hill
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Meta's two assets (Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly...
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(Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly than Meta. I had a Facebook account in high school and college and got rid of it at some point post-graduation, though I'd be hard-pressed to tell you when exactly that was.) It...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Future of (Unpaid) Work If we think of the top inventions that had a positive impact on human society and our quality of...
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If we think of the top inventions that had a positive impact on human society and our quality of life most lists would contain things like the printing press, the wheel, or the computer. One invention that should be on everyone’s list but is easy to overlook is – the washing...