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Damn Interesting
A Taste of Italy In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian...
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In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover from the Holy Roman Empire) and the other for unification. At the time, Europe’s boot was a curious conglomeration of separate states, not all of which got along....
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
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Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Aaand we're back in quarantine PCR test of one of the children in our oldests’ daycare group was positive. Keeping our youngest at...
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PCR test of one of the children in our oldests’ daycare group was positive. Keeping our youngest at home too,...
A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
a month ago
Archinect - Features
Happy National Volunteer Week! Here's a resource guide for architects and designers looking... This week, from April 21–27, is officially National Volunteer Week in the United States. To...
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This week, from April 21–27, is officially National Volunteer Week in the United States. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Archinect has curated a handy guide of resources for architects looking to donate their time and skills to various causes that will ultimately lead to...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 23-29 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 of The Best Dude Ranches to Visit in Arizona
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
What Is an Electronic Sackbut? If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you,...
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If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research...
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
The American Scholar
“Spring” by J. R. Solonche Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Spring” by J. R. Solonche appeared first on The American...
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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Spring” by J. R. Solonche appeared first on The American Scholar.
MMapped blog
ckBTC internals: event log
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
over a year ago
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This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
Seeking Wisdom
How a Machine Learns How a fly helped Descartes to invent the Cartesian plane René Descartes (1596 – 1650), the famous...
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How a fly helped Descartes to invent the Cartesian plane René Descartes (1596 – 1650), the famous philosopher and mathematician, was lying in his bed, eyes fixed on a fly on the ceiling. As he pondered how to accurately describe the fly’s position, Descartes visualized the...
Moneyness
Bitcoin as a tool of U.S. economic statecraft Riot Platform's Rockdale, Texas facility, North America’s largest Bitcoin mining farm by developed...
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4 months ago
Riot Platform's Rockdale, Texas facility, North America’s largest Bitcoin mining farm by developed capacity [source] Can a network that has been marketed as being resistant to government power be harnessed by the U.S. administrative state in order to attain its foreign policy...
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word. Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer → One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
8 months ago
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One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons. Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin undefined
8 months ago
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation… A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life" A story from the comments section
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ancient times Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as if summer storm had rainbowed the world, yet passed over your home as you dwelt in twilight and sorrow. Today's News:
TheCollector
Songhai Empire: The Rise & Fall of Africa’s Biggest Empire undefined
a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Private-ish GitHub repos This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public...
a year ago
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a year ago
This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. – GitHub’s “We updated our RSA SSH host key” blog, 2023-03-23 Once you git push, nothing is private. Private info in git only stays private on your laptop. But once...
TheCollector
Edward Colston Statue to be Lastingly Installed in Bristol Museum undefined
10 months ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7 In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
a year ago
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When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
This Space
39 Books: 1985 The first novel I read was Twice Shy by Dick Francis, reportedly the Queen Mother's favourite...
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8 months ago
The first novel I read was Twice Shy by Dick Francis, reportedly the Queen Mother's favourite novelist (which tells you all you need to know about the intellectual energies of British Royal Family). It was the hardback edition below and tells the story of an Olympic champion...
Steve Blank
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
a year ago
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
TheCollector
Medieval Necropolis Unearthed at Bulgarian Bus Station undefined
8 months ago
Archinect - Features
'Architect' is a Protected Title. What About 'Architectural?' Our Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series continues with an examination of exceptions and nuances...
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4 months ago
Our Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series continues with an examination of exceptions and nuances related to the protection of the title 'architect' in the United States. In particular, we ask how architect-adjacent titles such as 'architectural designer,' 'architectural intern,'...
Making software...
February 2022 Update February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
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February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
Rest of World -...
How this startup bounced back from a crisis ThriveAgric fell into a crisis when the pandemic hit. Three years later, it has found its way back...
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I understand how you feel. I […] The post Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The History of the...
The Gift of Code In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
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3 months ago
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
Julia Evans
Inside .git Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is. I added some extra notes too. First, here’s the image. It’s a ~15 word explanation of each part of your .git directory. . You can git clone...
Rest of World -...
Why Amazon isn’t the Amazon of Latin America The paradox of e-commerce
a year ago
Maps Mania
Animal Migration Tracking
2 months ago
Noahpinion
2023 is when the empires strike back Cold War 2 won't be decided by the opening moves.
a year ago
The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Artists Learn About Anatomy During the Renaissance? undefined
3 months ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️ .title {text-wrap:balance;} Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
.title {text-wrap:balance;} Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and screwdriver The laptop industry is a tragedy. Meanwhile, Framework built something different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect users. Framework is a rare company worth...
History Today Feed
Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain j.hoare Tue, 01/16/2024 - 09:57
11 months ago
balajis.com
The Balaji Chat A forum for balajis.com subscribers.
a year ago
The Marginalian
Little Black Hole: A Tender Cosmic Fable About How to Live with Loss Right this minute, people are making plans, making promises and poems, while at the center of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Right this minute, people are making plans, making promises and poems, while at the center of our galaxy a black hole with the mass of four billion suns screams its open-mouth kiss of oblivion. Someday it will swallow every atom that ever touched us and every datum we ever...
ntietz.com blog
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
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5 months ago
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
99% Invisible
The Known Unknown [EPISODE] How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans...
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How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans were fond of honoring them with an empty sarcophagus. After the Civil War, the Union buried 2,111 soldiers in a mass grave in Arlington that they purposely built in the middle of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Victorians Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but Dickens' corpus is basically 14,000 pages of talking shit. Today's News:
Both Are True
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS) writing is the new sex
2 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
over a year ago
tonsky.me
Podcast: Nikitonsky про современные редакторы кода @ Тысяча фичей Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает...
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2 months ago
Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает позиции? Популярность Zed, минимализм SublimeText, гибкость Emacs и многое другое в новом выпуске.
Castles in the Sky
The map is clear but the road is bumpy. Castles in the Sky | October 27 - November 2, 2024
a month ago
Common Edge
I’m A New Yorker, Not a NIMBY Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down...
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Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down and hidden from public scrutiny.
diamond geezer
An A-Z of London post offices I wanted to buy a dozen stamps. For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wanted to buy a dozen stamps. For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post offices, which is awkward because the Post Office's branch finder doesn't do lists, only "closest to"s. Thankfully this is a problem other people also have, and volunteers at...
TheCollector
How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice undefined
11 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Navel Gaze? Omphaloskepsis...and What is a Hero?
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims undefined
a year ago
The Great Discontent...
Carly Ayres Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
over a year ago
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Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now According to your website, “Carly Ayres is a writer using language and...
ToughSF
How to Live on Other Planets: Uranus The weirdest of the planets. A blue giant, resting on its side. Could we find a home in...
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over a year ago
The weirdest of the planets. A blue giant, resting on its side. Could we find a home in the Uranian system? Description Uranus is the fourth-largest planet and the first ‘ice giant’. It orbits between 18.3 and 20.1 AU from the Sun, making it four times more distant than...
Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
Castles in the Sky
Beyond Cliché and Pretense: From the Canon to Constellations The Importance of the new type of Artist
9 months ago
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.1% to 3.3% Range From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 3Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up a tenth to...
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From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 3Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up a tenth to 3.0% q/q saar. Additionally, our 4Q US GDP tracker was unchanged at 2.1% q/q saar. [Dec 13th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We left our Q4 GDP tracking and domestic final...
Arduino Blog
Marble art madness from a marvelous machine Marbles are underrated. They’re very round, roll well, tend to be pretty shiny, and come in all...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Marbles are underrated. They’re very round, roll well, tend to be pretty shiny, and come in all sorts of neat colors. That last characteristic makes them suitable for artwork, like orbicular pixels. In his most ambitious project to date, Engineezy took advantage of those...
Tony Finch's blog
against /tmp I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp...
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2 months ago
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I...
Dr Alun Withey
Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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over a year ago
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
diamond geezer
Zoë's Mayoral transport policies As the Mayoral election approaches, all sorts of parties are announcing all sorts of policies on all...
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8 months ago
As the Mayoral election approaches, all sorts of parties are announcing all sorts of policies on all sorts of things. manifesto to be released, that of Green Party candidate Zoë Garbett, a 134-page monster which was launched yesterday. And because transport is one of the areas...
Maps Mania
Where is the Cheapest McDonalds?
a year ago
Beautiful Public...
Aerial Glacier Photographs A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40...
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A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40 years with a 63-pound WW II surveillance camera.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Brave Respect the Brave' In observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I had never read...
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6 months ago
In observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I had never read before, “To E.S. Salomon” (Black Beetles in Amber, 1892). Here is the memorably pertinent third stanza:  “The brave respect the brave. The brave Respect the dead; but you -- you...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams undefined
a month ago
Tony Dinh's...
My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose detection using PoseNet.
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...
Working Theorys
The 20/20 Workweek | Theory No. 26 The 40-hour, 80-hour, and 4-hour workweek are out. What comes next?
11 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts after the 2024 US election Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I...
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Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manually add content to read it later
6 months ago
bunnie's blog
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a mandatory Microsoft account. I can’t concisely explain why being forced to create an account bothers me so much, but generally when a vendor tries this hard to get you to do something,...
xkcd.com
Effect Size
a year ago
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works undefined
2 weeks ago
Beautiful Public...
The GOES-16 Weather Satellite Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is...
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Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention.
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
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over a year ago
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
Londonist
Thanksgiving In London 2023: Celebrate At American Restaurants, Special Meals And Thanksgiving... Get booking for 23 November.
a year ago
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World undefined
11 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
Familiar Spirits The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...
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The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
Seth's Blog
Celebrating the thousand with a special package [Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
[Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally. Not from the creator to the audience as much as from one person to another. It’s easy to misunderstand the insight of Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans. Decades ago he argued that the...
CONTEMPORIST
Glamping Tents Designed By Architects Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
How We Determine What to Believe as True Psychologists have been studying a very basic cognitive function that appears to be of increasing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Psychologists have been studying a very basic cognitive function that appears to be of increasing importance – how do we choose what to believe as true or false? We live in a world awash in information, and access to essentially the world’s store of knowledge is now a trivial...
xkcd.com
Chasing
7 months ago
TheCollector
Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas undefined
a year ago
Mazdak
The Elon Musk Empire In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and critical industries as Elon Musk. His companies, spanning transportation, communication, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, stand as testaments to his audacious vision and...
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerve Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And don't even start in on liquor-cake. Today's...
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair "To despair over oneself, in despair to want to be rid of oneself, is the formula for all despair."
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
12 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rachel Snowdon Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator who has been based in West Devon since 2009.   Describe your printmaking process. Having recently introduced more colour into my designs, multi-block lino printing is probably...
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country. A book review from the future.
5 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How to integrate into an EMR and why Epic won with Brendan Keeler | Out-Of-Pocket everything you need to know about EMRs, healthcare data standards, and integrations
a year ago
African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns... The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The Ruffian
Rattle Bag History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
a year ago
Oykun
1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
a year ago
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a year ago
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone. If I've based the advice purely on
Maps Mania
The most mis-mapped US states
9 months ago
Map of the Week
An Appreciation of Ordnance Survey Maps I spent some time in May at the British Library randomly looking at atlases and maps, some of which...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I spent some time in May at the British Library randomly looking at atlases and maps, some of which will be featured here in upcoming weeks. They have a huge collection of Ordnance Survey atlas books of 1:1056 scale (1 inch = 88 feet) map sheets. While these maps are primarily...
Probably...
Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in...
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a week ago
I’ve written before about changes in marriage patterns in the U.S., and it’s one of the examples in Chapter 13 of the new third edition of Think Stats. My analysis uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Today they released the most recent data, from surveys...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bluster (New Style) Invokes the Public Good' I write about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand that...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand that research can be costly and professors don’t work for the love of it, but money has become the barometer of worth. Small grants can be ignored regardless of the intrinsic worth of the...
Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
a year ago
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a year ago
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
TheCollector
6 Demons in Tibetan Buddhism undefined
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Any visitor to the hospital is free to barge into his room In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Chicago witnessed the rise of Al Capone, a notorious mob boss...
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In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Chicago witnessed the rise of Al Capone, a notorious mob boss who, despite running a vast and fearsome criminal enterprise for many years, evaded conviction until 1931 when he was finally indicted and convicted for tax evasion. Released from...
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Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way. Everything is visceral to them, and they carry this visceral interiority everywhere.
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For the last thirty years, the easiest shortcut has been convenience. If a marketer or a politician or an institution wants to gain acceptance, make it convenient. Tim Wu has pointed out that we’ll trade almost anything to save a few moments of hassle or thought. But that doesn’t...
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Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in Phuket, Thailand, that blends design and traditional artisanal craftsmanship.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson] Around 2 years ago I...
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does anyone know how to inherit wealth? been reading a ton about it and am fairly sure it's the path for me
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Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of 2025. Why are you buying a house? To make money. I see this as an opportunity in a space that many friends and family consider a safe, high-return bet (if done right). When...
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Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
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I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
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I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
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From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted it is, it’s either early in the morning on a weekend or a holiday. Wm. M Fleiss & Co, on the left, is at 47 Broadway. Broadway is lined with office and loft buildings which are...
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AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
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Many of you may not realize this, but in most parts of the developed world, banks automatically record and report our transactions to law enforcement. The logic behind this is that by giving up our personal data, we get more security, albeit at the cost of 1) losing our privacy,...
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Welcome to the second installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. As we reflect back on June and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot learns to nod its head and keep the truth inside. Today's News:
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Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
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Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was referring to the...
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Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have been searching for. New experiments are springing up to look for these ultra-lightweight phantoms. The post Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of Anne Frank, Endurance, Crime and Punishment, and the Iliad.
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“PCs are going to be like trucks” Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you...
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Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more…
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Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be. I love that...
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Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
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I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
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The shifting status of more data How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell....
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How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell. Either the building falls down or it doesn’t. Either the car starts after you charge the battery or it’s still dead. We can ask easy questions about how long it took or how much it […]
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Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
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Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
The Rational Walk
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I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here: I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type. Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
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Local Testing on an iPhone Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
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Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
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In recent years, tools such as the FlipperZero have become quite popular amongst hobbyists and security professionals alike for their small size and wide array of hacking tools. Inspired by the functionality of the FlipperZero, Project Hub user ‘andreockx’ created a similar...
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wingolog
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Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
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One last book for Norwegian November, Roald Amundsen’s My Life as an Explorer (1927), a memoir covering the polar explorer’s entire career.  It’s a good book, full of adventure. To the explorer, however, adventure is merely an unwelcome interruption of his serious labours. ...
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The Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the Night of the Murdered Poets, and he wasn’t among them. In the final stanza of his poem “About the Jews” (trans. G.S. Smith), dating from the 1950s, Slutsky writes:  “From the war I came back safe So...
David Perell
The Book You Need to Read There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you...
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There is an epidemic of people who bash Christianity but haven’t read the Bible. No matter where you stand on religion, if you don’t know what the Bible actually says, it’s time to change that.   The post The Book You Need to Read appeared first on David Perell.
CONTEMPORIST
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Floisand Studio Architects has designed the remodel of a 1960s home in Seattle, Washington, and transformed it into a modern house for a growing family. This remodel sits on the same basement and foundation as its predecessor, but that’s where the similarities end. Here’s what...
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One of the ways biologists distinguish the animate from the inanimate, and the dead, is motility. Life moves independently, under its own power. Stasis suggests the end of life. Travel is especially prized by those unable to do so, whether confined to bed or a Soviet Bloc regime....
Left To Write
#9 Writemas: What Is Driving You? I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably...
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I had a call with an old poker friend earlier. We both have similar backgrounds; we are reasonably well educated, started poker around the same time, and never felt like we were enough. Both of our poker careers were driven by insecurity. We both had this desire to prove...
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The degradation machine is running Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom...
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Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist and intellectual known for his unwavering commitment to freedom and truth during a period when both were under severe threat. In the midst of World War II, France had become an eerie silhouette of its former self, ruled by a government that had...
Open Culture
Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and... Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway...
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Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway whose radio is playing Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta. “It is, as the book suggests, truly the worst possible music for a traffic jam,” writes Sam Anderson in a New York Times Magazine...
Archinect - Features
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In February 2024, Brett Steele took up the position of Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Since then, Steele has been busy capitalizing on the opportunities and responsibilities that come with leading a Los Angeles design school in a city known...
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People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
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Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Mazdak
More Creators Can Now Make Money on YouTube YouTube Lowers Monetization Requirements for Creators. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Sets Out...
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YouTube Lowers Monetization Requirements for Creators. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Sets Out Vision for the Platform. YouTube Makes It Easier for Small Creators to Earn Money YouTube is lowering the eligibility requirements for creators to make money from their channels....
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Open Culture
Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that...
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If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that cash-intensive society involves the use of thousand-yen bills. Once considered the equivalent of the American ten-spot, the yen’s lately having fallen to its lowest value in decades means that...
Diaries of Note
More of London’s madness! Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his...
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Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his first junior title at the tender age of twelve, initiating a stellar career among the tennis elite. Forbes and his doubles partner, Abe Segal, formed an unstoppable force in the...
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
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Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
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ZYETA‘s design for LinkedIn’s Bengaluru hub focuses on inclusivity, sustainability, and employee well-being, setting a new benchmark in workplace innovation...
Tech and Tea
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Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
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If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
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