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Classical Wisdom
Empedocles The Philosopher God?
a year ago
Maps Mania
Scrambled Maps for Mobile
2 months ago
mtlynch.io
Recovery Month Highlights Is It Keto’s revenue doubled to $82.44 with zero effort on my part. My task journaling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s revenue doubled to $82.44 with zero effort on my part. My task journaling app is almost ready for publication. I’ve begun setting up meetings with potential customers about my next project ideas. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I gave up on Is It...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
  Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
Last Place Comics
Grandpa Grover The post Grandpa Grover appeared first on Last Place Comics.
a month ago
Computer Ads from...
American Heart Association A PSA and an Ad
a month ago
Math Is Still...
Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain...
a year ago
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a year ago
In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems. The post Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Kat Snyder
Visual Attention in Virtual Reality When designing interfaces that use visual attention, we must remember that our brains do not shoot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When designing interfaces that use visual attention, we must remember that our brains do not shoot and store perfect photos of the world...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 14-20 August 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #5 Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday 30th...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday 30th September. This did not happen. But they are now underway and - spoilers - it's bad news for local road users. Monday 7th October Tuesday 8th October 10 years ago. However as a...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #199 Daily Journal reduces leverage, iPad Pro vs. MacBooks, Independent platforms, Berkshire Hathaway's...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Daily Journal reduces leverage, iPad Pro vs. MacBooks, Independent platforms, Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, A long run perspective, the parent-therapy trap
TheCollector
Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed? undefined
a year ago
Wuthering...
Let's read Ovid's Metamorphoses! And perhaps more. Who would like to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE) with me?  We have had some discussion of this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Who would like to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE) with me?  We have had some discussion of this good idea, and I feel I am up to it now.  Up to writing about it. Metamorphoses is a compendium of Greek myths that feature transformation, which turns out to be hundreds of pages...
mtlynch.io
About Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in Computer Science. He has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google and as a security engineer at NCC Group. Michael is available for weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and...
Beautiful Public...
Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview undefined
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
a year ago
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a year ago
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
David Heinemeier...
Beautiful motivations Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A thin sheen of flashy marketing design covering up for a rotten or deficient product. Something that looks good from afar, but reveals itself to be a disappointing imitation up...
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 355.5 ...
a month ago
SatPost by Trung...
OpenAI, Humane and Apple's Shadow The future of consumer AI hardware is coming into focus. Who will win?
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Wiring Dread it. Run from it. Wiring arrives all the same. It’s time for the part of my VORON build that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dread it. Run from it. Wiring arrives all the same. It’s time for the part of my VORON build that I’ve been dreading: the wiring. It’s scary because I really have no clue what I’m doing, and mistakes can be very costly and time-consuming. I’ve taken my time to double- and...
Laetitia@Work
Should seniority be a criterion for pay? Laetitia@Work #74
3 months ago
mtlynch.io
Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap" Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a...
a month ago
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a month ago
Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a free talk near my town the next morning. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns, one of my favorite books of the last few years. So, my wife and I attended the talk and enjoyed it. The...
nanoscale views
Scientific publishing - where are we going? I think it's safe to say that anyone involved in scientific publishing will tell you that it's a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I think it's safe to say that anyone involved in scientific publishing will tell you that it's a mess and the trends are worrisome.  This week, this news release/article came out about this preprint which shows a number of the issues.  In brief (not all of this is in the...
The Roots of...
Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any dramatic tragedy. The pandemic made them look prescient for warning about global catastrophic risks, including biosafety. A masterful book launch put them on the cover of TIME....
Open Culture
Watch Hardware Wars, the Original Star Wars Parody, in HD (1978) This past May, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson set off waves of social-media discourse with “The...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This past May, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson set off waves of social-media discourse with “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel,” a four-hour-long video critique of Disney’s hugely expensive, now-shuttered Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser in Orlando, Florida. Having gone...
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties undefined
a month ago
The Marginalian
Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Our Your Own Heart There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of the heart graver than making another our higher power. This may seem inevitable — because to love is always to see the divine in each other, because all love is a yearning for the...
Christopher Butler
Being Normal There’s a theory of Being Online that online isn’t merely a technological thing — access to a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
There’s a theory of Being Online that online isn’t merely a technological thing — access to a signal, say, like a telephone line — but a modality. A form; a way. And being, of course, is just being. Early internet users have trouble with this theory because we remember using...
Product Identity
The Dumbification of our smart screens Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber
5 months ago
The Roots of...
Developing a technology with safety in mind If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? It occurred to me that the...
a year ago
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a year ago
If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? It occurred to me that the Wright Brothers’ approach to inventing the airplane might make a good case study. The catastrophic risk for them, of course, was dying in a crash. This is exactly what happened...
Steve Klabnik
Your startup is not a platform
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
Q3 GDP Growth Revised up to 3.1% Annual Rate From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), Corporate Profits (Revised Estimate), and GDP...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), Corporate Profits (Revised Estimate), and GDP by Industry, Third Quarter 2024 Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the third quarter of 2024, according to the "third" estimate...
TheCollector
Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will? undefined
a year ago
Londonist
This North American City Is Basically A Big Old Copy-And-Paste Of London Copy our homework much, folks?
11 months ago
Louwrentius
My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
Quantum Frontiers
Colliding the familiar and the anti-familiar at CERN toise me at CERN was a box of chocolates. CERN is a multinational particle-physics collaboration....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
toise me at CERN was a box of chocolates. CERN is a multinational particle-physics collaboration. Based in Geneva, CERN is famous for having “the world’s largest and most powerful accelerator,” according to its website. So a physicist will take for … Continue reading →
A Weekly Dose of...
2023 in Architecture Books, So Far Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family...
a year ago
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a year ago
Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. This post, appearing on a Friday instead of its regular Monday, does not mean regular weekly posts will resume, as I'll be dealing with said...
Alice GG
Learning Dutch online in 2023 Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level. While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
Math Is Still...
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its...
a year ago
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a year ago
There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants. The post Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
Maps Mania
The 46 States of America & Each State Flower
6 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
a year ago
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a year ago
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
Sean Carroll
Energy Conservation and Non-Conservation in Quantum Mechanics Conservation of energy is a somewhat sacred principle in physics, though it can be tricky in certain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Conservation of energy is a somewhat sacred principle in physics, though it can be tricky in certain circumstances, such as an expanding universe. Quantum mechanics is another context in which energy conservation is a subtle thing — so much so that it’s still worth writing papers...
Seth's Blog
The sad compromise of “sponsored results” Google made a fortune and honed sponsored search results into an art form. The theory is that people...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Google made a fortune and honed sponsored search results into an art form. The theory is that people who want the traffic the most will pay for the clicks, and of course, if the advertisers don’t have something you ultimately want, they’ll just waste their money. Let the market...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The myth of the overnight success Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. Pinterest is…
Prolost
Slugline 2 From the Slugline Blog: Slugline 2 is a new app that replaces the old Slugline for Mac. It has a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From the Slugline Blog: Slugline 2 is a new app that replaces the old Slugline for Mac. It has a slick new UI, which includes a lovely dark mode. Big new features include: a drag-and-drop outline, an awesome new timeline, color-coded notes, Final Draft import/export, and Live...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
But actually good 2024 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket I know, enough predictions. But these are good!
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
A decade of discontent is coming. The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
symmetry magazine
From inventor to entrepreneur Creating a startup to commercialize technology developed during research is a risky road for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Creating a startup to commercialize technology developed during research is a risky road for physicists and engineers, but the help of experts can improve their chances.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Art and Practice of Reading Aloud to Others' A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells me that since the start of the COVID-19...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A longtime reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells me that since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown he has been reading books aloud to his wife, most recently The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis. His list of more than a dozen titles includes Moby-Dick (“our overall...
Making software...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: February 2024 Clocks, consumerism and centurions.
11 months ago
Steve Klabnik
What's next for SemVer
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why I ditched Google Analytics and Mixpanel for PostHog By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, Reciprocal.dev , to really understand the value of…
TheCollector
Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President undefined
a year ago
McMansion Hell
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
Seth's Blog
Eight marketing maxims
a year ago
Rest of World -...
This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
a year ago
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a year ago
Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
Londonist
Inside London's New Women's Museum Head east for London's latest cultural offering.
9 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Zeus Eyewear by studio LETTAR Glasses are among the most delicate and functional items we wear, possessing structural and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Glasses are among the most delicate and functional items we wear, possessing structural and mechanical characteristics. They serve a functional...
symmetry magazine
India’s gem at CERN: Archana Sharma The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for...
a year ago
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a year ago
The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens.
Artificial Ignorance
YC is now 80% AI startups (S24) Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
2 months ago
Open Culture
Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake... F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years...
a month ago
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a month ago
F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years ago. For about ten of those years, Robert Eggers has been trying to remake it. He wouldn’t be the first: Werner Herzog cast Klaus Kinski as the blood-sucking aristocrat at the...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest(). // Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element // that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the // <body>...
Willem's Blog
Why Apple Silicon is a big deal Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets. Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case. I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
Londonist
Celebrate The Bicentenary Of This Great Gothic Revival Architect G E Street tours, talks and more.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry The government and internet service providers blame each other for the blackout amid massive...
5 months ago
Louwrentius
The iPad will be the death of Flash So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most debated drawbacks is that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most debated drawbacks is that it lacks support for Adobe Flash. The iPhone does not support Flash either, and since the iPad is based on the iPhone OS, this should not come as a surprise. Now many people see...
diamond geezer
Tube map gaps It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse...
a month ago
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a month ago
It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse chronological order 11 months Dec 2023  A Little Slice of Paradise ← Brent Cross West 7 months May 2023  Come Out, Come Out 6 months Nov 2022  Routes/Roots ← Bond Street 6...
This Space
39 Books: 2000 In 1998 my friend John Harris mentioned that he was travelling to the US so I asked if he could pick...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In 1998 my friend John Harris mentioned that he was travelling to the US so I asked if he could pick up a copy of the new translation of Peter Handke's My Year in the No-man's Bay, not available over here. He was the first to tell me about this new website called Amazon. This is...
Londonist
10 Big Shows To Book For 2024 It's a good time to be a Studio Ghibli fan.
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Issue With The COVID Bailout | Out-Of-Pocket A WHOLE NEW WORLD, A NEW PANDEMIC POINT OF VIEW
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Smile Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is you can't NOT do this. Today's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is you can't NOT do this. Today's News: Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday!
Louwrentius
The downside of 120 Mbit broadband internet My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of providging 120 Mbit downstream and 10 Mbit upstream, for an affordable price. In a way this is mind boggling. Most people have 100 Mbit home networks that are not capable of handling...
A Smart Bear
Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and" Luck always plays a role in startups, but there are ways to better capture upside and mitigate...
7 months ago
Damn Interesting
Giving the Bird the Bird We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore. The new owner keeps doing awful stuff. If you...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore. The new owner keeps doing awful stuff. If you have enjoyed our mostly-daily curated links via the aforementioned collapsing service, we invite you to bookmark our curated links page, or follow us a number of other ways. Rather...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspiracy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch? Today's News:
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 September 2023 Comedy, podcasts, fashion exhibitions, Open House and the Great River Race.
a year ago
The American Scholar
A Toothsome Tale Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites The post A Toothsome...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites The post A Toothsome Tale appeared first on The American Scholar.
This Space
Wall by Jen Craig “This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a...
a year ago
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a year ago
“This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a long time” – Talking Big "... combines exactitude and vagueness, immediacy and distance, to approximate how scatty, worm-like human thought might be represented on the page" – The...
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024 Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
CommitStrip
No documentation
over a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
a month ago
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a month ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
The DESK Magazine
My anti-New Year’s resolutions I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick with them.
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano undefined
3 months ago
Notes on software...
Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Dustin Curtis
Building new worlds Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism, by Aaron Bastani: To say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliché. We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages,...
TheCollector
Why Did the Oracle of Delphi Call Socrates the Wisest Man? undefined
a year ago
sbensu
Risk-takers decide faster Unsurprising connection between risk and speed.
a month ago
Tech + Economics +...
Elon Musk’s childishness knows no bounds. Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves."Don't advertise... If somebody did try to blackmail me with...
Seth's Blog
The empathy of useful feedback When a friend shows you work in progress, your best contribution is to imagine the point of view and...
a year ago
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a year ago
When a friend shows you work in progress, your best contribution is to imagine the point of view and preferences of the person it is being created for. “I don’t like it,” isn’t useful, because it’s not for you. “I could imagine that someone who wants x, y or z would be looking...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable) Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
How to Be a Stoic
Were the ancient Stoics feminist? Should the modern ones be? The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the conclusion of a detailed analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and feminism published in a paper by Scott Aikin and Emily McGill-Rutherford in Symposion, 1, 1 (2014): 9-22....
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World ...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Working on a virtualenv without magic
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
a month ago
Handprinted - Blog
Designing a Repeat Block by Hand Visualising what your design will look like when printed can be the hardest thing about designing a...
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Visualising what your design will look like when printed can be the hardest thing about designing a repeat pattern. We have a good method for sketching out your initial design to see how it will work when it has been printed. For this project, we will be using a mounted lino...
diamond geezer
Unblogged October 31 unblogged things I did in October Sun 1: If you're putting together a 'Joyridden Cars Smashed...
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a year ago
31 unblogged things I did in October Sun 1: If you're putting together a 'Joyridden Cars Smashed Into Bus Shelters' Calendar, this is the ideal photo for November. Mon 2: I've been enjoying the podcast Uncharted with Hannah Fry in which the BBC's go-to mathematician tells...
Stories by Andrej...
AlphaGo, in context
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
St. Nicholas The Saint behind Santa
3 days ago
The Modern House
Tim Little: the owner of Grenson footwear on his journey from Adidas ad man to sole trader For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and...
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For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and zagging his way through the worlds of marketing, advertising and, latterly, shoes – now sits at the head of Grenson, the traditional cordwainers that have been handcrafting […]
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Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2 This is the second episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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This is the second episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget Why do we film concerts?
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024 In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
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a week ago
In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
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...
The Honest Broker
Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie I just care about the theme song
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times? undefined
6 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Tomohiro Inaba Invites Viewers to Complete the Story of His Sculptures “To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who...
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“To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who creates sculptures that engage the viewer through their own imagination. Depending on your point of view, Inaba’s works look like they’re either disintegrating into mid-air or or...
Blog System/5
The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
12 months ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
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4 months ago
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR undefined
4 months ago
The American Scholar
Martha Foley’s Granddaughters What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett The...
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What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett The post Martha Foley’s Granddaughters appeared first on The American Scholar.
Diaries of Note
 How utterly mad it all is Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was...
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a year ago
Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was profound. Raised amid the racial turbulence of 1930s Chicago, she channelled her experiences into A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play that earned her three distinctions: the...
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973) “Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955     …...
Common Edge
Why Gardening Should Be Our Metaphor for Local Development If your town isn’t cultivating its own economic growth, then it’s being mined for someone else’s...
2 weeks ago
The Roots of...
Can submarines swim? Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and...
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Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting? Usually in fiction, if the AI says something factually incorrect or illogical, that is a deep portent of something very wrong: the AI is sick, or turning...
The Marginalian
Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders "Into the space ship, Granny."
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "speed and strategy" One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major...
a year ago
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a year ago
One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major product areas we're working on. I've tried to summarize some of the key ones here.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive explanation of marching cubes and dual contouring Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how...
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over a year ago
Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how they work, what are their differences, similarities, and limitations.
Math Is Still...
Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining...
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Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining many online security protocols. Now a researcher has shown how to do it even faster. The post Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring first appeared on...
Handprinted - Blog
Batik on Paper Batik is a fun, dynamic way of creating bold and beautiful designs on cloth but did you know batik...
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Batik is a fun, dynamic way of creating bold and beautiful designs on cloth but did you know batik can be made on paper too? We used some Tej Prakrtika paper (as well as testing some others) to create a colourful, abstract batik.  You'll find lots more batik projects here. Begin...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Till Love and Fame to Nothingness Do Sink' Dr. Johnson thought the first aim of biography was utilitarian: “I esteem biography, as giving us...
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Dr. Johnson thought the first aim of biography was utilitarian: “I esteem biography, as giving us what comes near to ourselves, what we can turn to use.” The reader reads the life of another, reflects on it and applies the lessons he deduces to himself. In the early pages of his...
Identity Designed
Mountainview Brewing Designed by Memory, Salt Spring Island.
a month ago
The Modern House
How artists Amy Dennis and Neville Rae built a home in which their family and practices could grow...
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers as Fuel The press release for a recent study declares: “New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The press release for a recent study declares: “New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of the future.” But don’t get excited – the optimism is more than a bit gratuitous. I have written about hydrogen fuel before, and the reasons I am not optimistic about hydrogen as a...
Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
A Weekly Dose of...
On Awards When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and...
a year ago
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a year ago
When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Although the Pritzker has long...
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Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem There’s a saying in artificial intelligence circles that techniques like machine learning (and NLP)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a saying in artificial intelligence circles that techniques like machine learning (and NLP) can very quickly get you, say, 80% of…
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
Open Culture
The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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a week ago
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Left To Write
Why I Write Five weeks ago, I had pledged to go on a writing journey to write my truth with Foster.co....
a year ago
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a year ago
Five weeks ago, I had pledged to go on a writing journey to write my truth with Foster.co. Admittedly, I wasn’t too involved in many of the Season 2 workshops. However, the few I did attend left a significant impact on how I approached the writing process. As a result, here is my...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Celebrate Cicero!
11 months ago
anderegg.ca
Jet Lag: The Game: The Game Some fun news today from the creators of Jet Lag: The Game. They officially announced the next...
a month ago
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a month ago
Some fun news today from the creators of Jet Lag: The Game. They officially announced the next season, and also a “home version” of the game. I’ve written about Jet Lag: The Game before, so you might want to start there if you don’t know what I’m talking about. On the latest...
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Why Tailwind CSS Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
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5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Classical Wisdom
Philosophy and Children Event: THIS Saturday
9 months ago
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland undefined
9 months ago
Damn Interesting
Fifteen Years Forsaken Editor’s Note: This article contains quotations from contemporaneous accounts which might be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Editor’s Note: This article contains quotations from contemporaneous accounts which might be offensive for today’s readers. The moon was new on the night of 31 July 1761, and the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean uniformly black. But Captain Jean de Lafargue of the French cargo...
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In-depth: PostHog vs FullStory PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they...
a year ago
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a year ago
PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they different? Here’s the short answer. PostHog is an all…
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build a community around your SaaS This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Map of the Week
The Ferraris Atlas of Belgium While I was at the British Library in May, I spent much time admiring and puzzling over this...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
While I was at the British Library in May, I spent much time admiring and puzzling over this atlas. The Ferraris maps of the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) were created by Count (and cartographer) Joseph de Ferraris in the 1770's. He was commissioned by Austrian empress...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Night Time Sky Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what...
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6 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. When I was a kid, my Dad used to take us outside to look for what he called “UFOs”. It’d take a moment, but after enough searching we’d eventually spot one. One night, all of us kids were outside with our uncle. We saw a star-like light moving in...
TheCollector
The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness undefined
a week ago
Diaries of Note
Humility Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was travelling crashed, ending the lives of all its passengers. Born in 1905, Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Smooth Shadow "Make a smooth css shadow "
a year ago
Beautiful Public...
Vehicle Crash Test Films from the 1970's and 1980s Deep in the public archives of the NHTSA, there are thousands of films of some classic (and some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Deep in the public archives of the NHTSA, there are thousands of films of some classic (and some ugly) 70’s and 80’s cars being smashed into smithereens.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Appear to the Public to be Some Sort of Miracle' On Christmas Eve 1890, Chekhov writes to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin:  “I believe in both...
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4 months ago
On Christmas Eve 1890, Chekhov writes to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin:  “I believe in both [Robert] Koch and spermine, and I praise the Lord. Kochines, spermines, etc. all appear to the public to be some sort of miracle that has sprung unexpectedly from someone’s head like...
nanoscale views
The need for energy-efficient computing Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen the essential data in this figure several times over the last few months, and it has convinced me that the need for energy-efficient computing hardware is genuinely pressing.  This...
The Marginalian
The Paradox of Free Will The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
a year ago
Maps Mania
Trees are Moving North
a year ago
Maps Mania
Anime Pilgrimage Maps
3 months ago
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
The Modern House
A radical rural development in Herefordshire with community at its core
a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell JamesHoare Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
Open Culture
How Editing Saved Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & Made It a Classic “In our salad days, we are ripe for a particular movie that will linger, deathlessly, long after the...
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4 months ago
“In our salad days, we are ripe for a particular movie that will linger, deathlessly, long after the greenness has gone,” writes the New Yorker’s Anthony Lane in a recent piece on movies in the eighties. “When a friend turned to me after the first twenty minutes of Ferris...
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen? undefined
5 months ago
diamond geezer
24 things to see in SE24 Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 24 (because N tops out at N22). Come with...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 24 (because N tops out at N22). Come with me to Herne Hill SE24. 24 things to see in SE24 1) Visit Brockwell Park finest parks perfectly plonked on a small hill with commanding views across much of central London. It...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 28-29 October 2023 London's newest exhibitions, plus Halloween events, rugby screenings and more.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Certificate of Naturalization' In our basement was a gray file cabinet we were forbidden to touch. Naturally I opened it and in one...
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3 months ago
In our basement was a gray file cabinet we were forbidden to touch. Naturally I opened it and in one of the drawers I found an old leather wallet containing the ID cards of a stranger with the surname Kurpiewski. Who is this? Why is the name so similar to ours? I couldn’t ask...
xkcd.com
Summer Solstice
a year ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 26 February-3 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
alexwlchan
Some small accessibility fixes I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides for a new exhibition at work. I like to think my site is already pretty accessible – I put alt text on my images and I use semantic HTML – but I did find a few rough edges to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.12.0 Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes. This week's PostHog array has it all. If you're…
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,...
diamond geezer
Ten ways to solve London's housing crisis Ten ways to solve London's housing crisis 1) Pave over golf courses golf courses in London covering...
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a week ago
Ten ways to solve London's housing crisis 1) Pave over golf courses golf courses in London covering approximately 3% of the capital by area, a ridiculously wasteful proportion. A lot of fairways are also very close to existing railway stations so could swiftly become a key part...
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ... But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
a year ago
Opsbros
The past lives again! I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons ago and bring them to the era of the internet.
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome? undefined
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Making Use of Code Coverage (article) Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical applications for modern web app testing
TheCollector
Wuxing: What Are the Five Elements of Chinese Philosophy? undefined
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Founder/market fit An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls…
Scott Jenson
Tactile Controls In A Digital World This article was written by Scott Jenson and Michael DiTullo and published at Core77 in April 2024 A...
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6 months ago
This article was written by Scott Jenson and Michael DiTullo and published at Core77 in April 2024 A few recent tech writers have leaked that the new AirPods case will likely have a touch screen. Other earbud makers have tried this as well but it’s Apple, so people will naturally...
diamond geezer
100 tuts and a sigh 100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the aisle? Why did you set the ringer on your phone to maximum volume? Who rotated the Cyclists Beware sign so traffic can't read it? Why has nobody rotated the sign back to where it...
TheCollector
What Was the Sturmabteilung? undefined
10 months ago
diamond geezer
Open House (2) For Open House Day Two I zipped around the capital and visited seven different and quite varied...
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3 months ago
For Open House Day Two I zipped around the capital and visited seven different and quite varied properties. It was a long day. I therefore don't have the time or energy to write about them all, not right now, so instead I've prioritised selecting some good photos and uploading...
Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2022 Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
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a year ago
Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Open Culture
Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (1969) In 1994, Jerry Beck edited the book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation...
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In 1994, Jerry Beck edited the book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals, which challenged experts to create a ranking of the best short, cel animated cartoons ever made. To no one’s surprise, the experts chose 10 Warner Bros. animations crafted...
Seth's Blog
Leverage is brittle Debt is a financial miracle. If you buy a property for 20% down, with the bank financing the rest,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Debt is a financial miracle. If you buy a property for 20% down, with the bank financing the rest, and it goes up in value by just 10%, your profit is 50%. (I’ll wait while you do the math.) If you have a factory and can buy a machine that increases productivity, the money you...
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
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9 months ago
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering. Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Diaries of Note
The newspapers are having a field day Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir...
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Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir Terry Wogan. A consummate professional, Wogan’s wit, warmth, and engaging personality endeared him to audiences throughout his long and successful career in radio and television....
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of the Wilderness? undefined
a month ago
Atoms vs Bits
Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...
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On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide undefined
11 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer...
a year ago
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a year ago
The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The physician complained that X-ray images of the brain were too grainy and only two-dimensional. Hounsfield...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Cultural Vacation in Monaco
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
over a year ago
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini December 8, 2023.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The color-coded wires Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was like? Neither have I. The Beatles recorded some of their best work there, and I have no idea if it was a rat’s nest of tangled wires, or if each wire was labeled, coded and perfectly...
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition #1 (Aug 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement. Thousands of founders,...
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Hey everyone 👋 Build In Public is no more just a hot trend, it’s a movement. Thousands of founders, creators, and builders are embracing the principles and building in public especially on Twitter. On that note, get ready for a quick community round-up highlighting launches and...
Escaping Flatland
Notes on energy and intelligence becoming cheaper In 2015, I amused myself by training a neural network to generate poems in the style of various...
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In 2015, I amused myself by training a neural network to generate poems in the style of various poets I knew and submitted the results to a fanzine.
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We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
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Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
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Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
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Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it...
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Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer....
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Jargon comes and goes Forty years ago in engineering class, it wasn’t unusual to talk about GIGO or FUBAR. These weren’t...
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Forty years ago in engineering class, it wasn’t unusual to talk about GIGO or FUBAR. These weren’t technical terms, they were mild complaints that signaled insider status and cultural cohesion. In a closed profession, like airplane pilots, the insider jargon lasts for...
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COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific...
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James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing “the shape of an epidemic”. The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep peak before...
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Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
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Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
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The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
Rest of World -...
Amazon needs to be clear about removing items on behalf of authoritarian governments It's too easy to quietly order the removal of pages or products.
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Seth's Blog
Widespread resistance Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid...
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Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in un-delivered talent are all symptoms of resistance. Knowing that it has a name helps us...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published? For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...
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We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
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Ink & Switch
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Dayton, Ohio Part 3 (Museums) Sure, I visited the various Wright Brothers museums, historical sites, and memorials but they...
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Sure, I visited the various Wright Brothers museums, historical sites, and memorials but they weren’t the totality of Dayton’s remarkable legacy. It wasn’t even the reason why we visited. I mentioned the younger kid’s interest in all things aeronautical earlier and it traced back...
Blog - Practical...
How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 28, 2022,...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall on the western coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm, bringing enormous volumes of rainfall and extreme winds to the state. Ian was the deadliest hurricane to...
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HTMHell
One day we'll have a fully customisable select Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based...
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Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based custom input components: <selectmenu>. CSS is awesome I realise this calendar is about HTML. And I'll get to that. But first, let me start with CSS. CSS is fantastic, because it has...
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Science fiction is missing a realistic and grounded look at particle beams. We plan to do just that now.   After reading this, you might decide to give particle beams their rightful place alongside lasers as a means of transmitting power, propelling spacecraft or dealing damage...
Saturday Morning...
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Construction Physics
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Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage will be our largest monthly expense. In the post-pandemic home-buying boom, the median sale price of a new home peaked at almost $500,000 dollars, just under
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Hidden In The Forest Appears Like A Stack Of Illuminated Boxes William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s...
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William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s part of a collection of private residences perched on several steeply sloped sites within Forest Park, a 5,000-acre woodland. A simple material palette of dark steel, concrete,...
The Works in...
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Classical Wisdom
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African History...
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
The future of blogging I still frequently post things on social media, even if I prefer blogging. Publishing a blog post...
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I still frequently post things on social media, even if I prefer blogging. Publishing a blog post with preview images,...
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She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain Erin Calipari works to understand how drugs like opioids and cocaine alter learning circuits and...
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Erin Calipari works to understand how drugs like opioids and cocaine alter learning circuits and neurochemistry in one of the country's epicenters of substance use disorder and addiction. The post She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain first appeared...
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The school and my life is trotting along. I’m handling the extra course fine, but instead I’ve left the standard math course behind a bit. Actually more than a bit but hopefully I’ll correct things later. No my life is going along just fine, it almost feels like my life is runing...
The Rational Walk
Soldier On In 1955, Charlie Munger's nine year old son died of leukemia, a disease with a nearly 100% death...
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In 1955, Charlie Munger's nine year old son died of leukemia, a disease with a nearly 100% death rate at the time. How did he overcome his grief and endure in life?
TheCollector
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CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
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You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand, your positioning, and when it's excellent, it is sales.
One Useful Thing
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Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
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Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
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What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'? Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on...
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Left To Write
#8 Writemas: 3 Lessons from Steve Jobs' Biography Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex...
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Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex character with many paradoxes and personal contradictions. For example, he was adopted and struggled with ‘rejection’, yet rejected his own daughter, Lisa Jobs.
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How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its...
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As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
Alex MacCaw
Universality and APIs From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been...
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From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been the key to unlocking human progress.
Moneyness
Who are the money launderers in the Tornado Cash stack? Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing...
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Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, because I find it to be a fascinating tool. With the recent indictment of two people involved in the Tornado Cash "stack" for money laundering, here's another post to add...
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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine...
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The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost...
TheCollector
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Patterns in Humanity
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The Wrong Stuff Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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What I Look for in Podcast Guests People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my...
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People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my best conversations were with people I had never heard of before they were effectively suggested by someone. Suggestions could be made here (in comments below), or on the subreddit, or...
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I like watercolor painting Yep, that’s it: I like painting with watercolors. As a hobby. As a student, I thought hobbies were...
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Yep, that’s it: I like painting with watercolors. As a hobby. As a student, I thought hobbies were lame. Because:...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Making money with a product: A myth? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that. First, a coffee shop conversation I
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Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
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Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it! When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coming Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it. Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else?? Lessons from Borat
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Map of the Week
Taiyoh Pokemon Nation Taiyoh is a fan-made Pokemon nation. It is based on Japan. In fact, the resemblance is so strong...
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Taiyoh is a fan-made Pokemon nation. It is based on Japan. In fact, the resemblance is so strong that I came across these pages when looking for maps of Japan. I will refrain from commenting on Pokemon given my lack of knowledge. However, I like the look and feel of this map....
Noahpinion
No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
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The Elysian
A grassroots political party for the middle The Forward Party, citizen's assemblies, and a creating better independence movement in the US.
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These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
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Noahpinion
Five big trends that have changed in the last few years In which I pay attention to the world so you don't have to.
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CONTEMPORIST
Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of...
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Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of boutique hotel villas in Thailand. The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic...
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Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
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Open Culture
Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away:... Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing every British blues...
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Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing every British blues guitarist to pieces the instant they saw him play. As vocalist Terry Reid tells it, when Hendrix played his first showcase at the Bag O’Nails, arranged by Animals’ bassist Chas...
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
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Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
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Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
David Heinemeier...
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Amused Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They'll go outside again later. Today's News:
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The Honest Broker
It's Open Mic Day: Tell Us What You're Doing Here's a chance to pitch your own project
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Atoms vs Bits
The Al Capone Problem Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
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CONTEMPORIST
Steel, Wood, And Stone Are On Display Inside This Hillside Home Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles,...
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Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles, California, that’s nestled on a hillside overlooking the sprawling city. Due to the home being in an area prone to earthquakes, the structural elements are bigger and bolder. There are...
ben-mini
The Inner Game of Tennis I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. Originally published in 1974, the...
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I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. Originally published in 1974, the book explores how the thoughts of an athlete affect their game. It’s lauded as being at the forefront of what we now call “sports psychology”. Although my competitive sports days...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rach Lloyd Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and...
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Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and pride myself on making all of my print-runs and editions in very small numbers, so people can own a unique piece of artwork at an affordable price. I am a multidisciplinary artist,...
Working Theorys
The Generational Business Trap | Theory No. 11 On the varied longevity of businesses & why we shouldn't idolize permanence.
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alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
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over a year ago
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history). This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade. The site looks very different now to how it...
Open Culture
When Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Debated Capitalism Versus Marxism Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in...
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in pursuit of an understanding of industrial society as he knew it in the nineteenth century and what its future evolution held in store. There are good reasons to read his work still...
Posts on Made of...
Git in pictures In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way...
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In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way in which it makes the backend model that is being used to store data the most important element of the tool, and that experts use it by having the complete model in their head,...
The Honest Broker
Tell Us About the Person Who Inspires You Most It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
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TheCollector
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Adventures In...
How to add mist to terrain in ArcGIS Online There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an...
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There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an overall sense of the slope and elevation trends in your view, it showcases meandering river valleys in a charming realism, hilltops peak through with clarity and drama…and it just...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rise from the deep A comic about Twitter. View on my website
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Sunday transport news Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct...
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9 months ago
Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct journey on the Underground is between Epping and West Ruislip on the Central line. It's 54.9km long (34.1 miles), comfortably ahead of Uxbridge to Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line...
Scott Jenson
Assertive Instincts Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light...
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over a year ago
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. Isaac Asimov It all started while on vacation with my wife. We were driving a rental car to a remote location in Washington state. The car had a safety feature that...
Retail Design Blog
Warabi Shoten by Econosys Design Warabi Shoten are known for their signature soft warabi mochi. The texture of warabi mochi inspired...
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Warabi Shoten are known for their signature soft warabi mochi. The texture of warabi mochi inspired the logo, which is...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Won’t You Turn Your Radio Down' Most of the surfaces in the radio station, not counting the DJs and turntables, are plastered with...
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a year ago
Most of the surfaces in the radio station, not counting the DJs and turntables, are plastered with yellow-on-black KTRU bumper stickers. In some cases, students have cut up the stickers and rearranged the letters into the same timeless obscenities we scrawled on the walls of the...
Open Culture
Ray Bradbury Explains Why Literature is the Safety Valve of Civilization (in Which Case We Need More... Ray Bradbury had it all thought out. Behind his captivating works of science fiction, there were...
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Ray Bradbury had it all thought out. Behind his captivating works of science fiction, there were subtle theories about what literature was meant to do. The retro clip above takes you back to the 1970s and it shows Bradbury giving a rather intriguing take on the role of literature...
Londonist
Photos Of The London Tube In The 1940s And Ukraine's Metros In The 2020s Echoes of the Blitz comes to LTM.
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Common Edge
“What Would Jane Jacobs Do?” Is the Wrong Question Proponents of City of Yes are misapplying her ideas (again).
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xkcd.com
The Maritime Approximation
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Slowmad Q&A The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
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The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy? undefined
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A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
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Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements. I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
Casey Handmer's blog
Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an...
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With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an apparent slowing of aging, I thought I’d write a quick note on how I think this technology, if it replicates, can drastically improve our lives. It’s hard to believe I’m writing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Being Vulnerable to History' I read Bernard Malamud’s novel The Fixer when it was published in 1966. Readers often turn...
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I read Bernard Malamud’s novel The Fixer when it was published in 1966. Readers often turn melodramatic when describing the impact a book has had on them – “life-changing,” that sort of thing. Such claims usually can be chalked up to enthusiasm untempered by critical rigor. The...
Willem's Blog
Increase traffic to your blog with a RSS feed Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value....
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Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value. Read about the "how" and "why" in this post.
Maps Mania
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