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Retail Design Blog
FOGO E ÁGUA at ALEA RESORT FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted...
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FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted from a brine...
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come? All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The Tale of Two Phones Notes on trying to break my smartphone addiction: by having a "Cocaine Phone" and a "Kale Phone".
a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem undefined
3 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Out-Of-Pocket’s 2025 Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket I’m like 50% right every year, I just never know which 50%
a week ago
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs undefined
a year ago
Good Enough
The Space Between Us Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical...
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a year ago
Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical office. I've been working remotely for more than ten years, and overall I really like it. I love the flexibility it affords, being more present with our families, and that my...
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
TheCollector
Medieval Ethiopia: The Origins of the Solomonic Dynasty undefined
a month ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC.  This is sometimes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC.  This is sometimes interpreted as arguing that NYC is a…
Christian Selig
Juno 1.1 If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was such a cool feeling to release an app on day one of the Apple Vision Pro’s launch, and having people be so excited about it and have such great feedback made it that much better....
A Weekly Dose of...
On the Future of Cities The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of...
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a year ago
The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together: Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies by Jonathan Barnett, published by Routledge, June 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop) Renewing the Dream: The...
Home on Erik...
I'm featured in Mashable This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik...
over a year ago
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This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll x GiveDirectly Read to the end for an AI cokehead
2 weeks ago
A Beautiful Site
On Buttons and Links I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it. Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component. — Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021 At face value, I understand why...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface...
a year ago
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a year ago
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it and took photos. This chip is very unusual: instead of a silicon substrate, the chip is formed on a base of sapphire, with silicon and metal...
Londonist
Brixton Academy Is Reopening In April First gigs announced since December 2022.
9 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
Open Culture
Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give...
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a month ago
Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 January 2024 Last-chance exhibitions, comedy, ice hockey, and bottomless fondue.
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 081: Creative differences August 23, 2024.
4 months ago
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon JamesHoare Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
11 months ago
The American Scholar
“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Snake” by D. H. Lawrence appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Snake” by D. H. Lawrence appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials undefined
a year ago
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
Retail Design Blog
Furnish & Shade Furnish & Shade, located in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, is a 6,500 sq. ft. retail space designed by OSA...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Furnish & Shade, located in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, is a 6,500 sq. ft. retail space designed by OSA Studio,...
Contemporist...
A Modern Farmhouse By The Sea In New Zealand New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse...
a year ago
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a year ago
New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse they completed that's been designed like a collection of linked farm outbuildings.
xkcd.com
Supernova
11 months ago
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Julia Evans
Some notes on nix flakes I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now. For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now. For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring flakes, but everyone keeps saying that flakes are great and the best way to use nix, so I decided to try to figure out what the deal is with them. I found it very hard to find simple...
TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece? undefined
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
We probably can’t buy our way out of it That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line...
a year ago
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a year ago
That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line up, the market takes care of itself. On the other hand, seatbelts would never have happened if they weren’t required. But pizza grew to dominate our diets with no centralized...
Making software...
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I've recently been playing around with using Windows...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I've recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as "optimized" as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient World’s Greatest War
2 months ago
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR undefined
4 months ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023 The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget` by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Significant Post-Impressionists? undefined
8 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Life of Plato
8 months ago
Eukaryote Writes...
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at...
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This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
Daniel Marino
Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
TheCollector
How Did King Tut Die? (5 Theories) undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
Pixel View
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Other People’s Perception Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Every once in a while, something slightly out of the ordinary reminds me of how our work looks to people not in the AEC world. Yesterday morning I was walking up Thames Street from Trinity to Broadway and took this photo: That block of Thames is a great illustration of why the...
Diaries of Note
God help our poor planet in the grip of this madness! World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star...
a year ago
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a year ago
World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star of a series of children’s books first published in 1945 that has since been translated into dozens of languages and enjoyed by millions. But before Pippi captured the imaginations...
Rest of World -...
How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in...
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Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in a regularly updated tracker.
Blog - Practical...
Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] We talk about a lot of big...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] We talk about a lot of big structures on this channel. But, it takes a lot of big tools to build the roads, dams, sewage lift stations, and every other part of the constructed environment. To me, there’s almost...
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York undefined
7 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
symmetry magazine
New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter and the structure of our universe.
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Tree House With Two Rooms Architecture firm Studio MEMM has designed a tree house for their clients that could be used by both...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture firm Studio MEMM has designed a tree house for their clients that could be used by both children and adults. Located in the middle of the Brazilian forest, the design of the treehouse was inspired by the geometries of the surrounding sycamore leaf structures...
Identity Designed
Freetree Designed by How&How, Lisbon and London.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
OpenSea slashes NFT marketplace staff by 50% OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the...
a year ago
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a year ago
OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. The company would not ...
Seth's Blog
Knowing the territory There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a problem. That’s what agents, agencies and organizers do. The hard part isn’t in finding people who will value true on-the-ground expertise. The hard part is actually earning it and...
diamond geezer
Unblogged November 30 unblogged things I did in November Wed 1: I went to peripheral Hadley Wood and walked the length...
a year ago
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a year ago
30 unblogged things I did in November Wed 1: I went to peripheral Hadley Wood and walked the length of peripheral Waggon Road, having climbed the peripheral footpath over the tunnel portal. In the process I spent 30 seconds in Hertfordshire, which it turns out is the last time I...
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists? undefined
8 months ago
Arduino Blog
Patrol the pool with this Arduino Nano-powered DIY RC submarine There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other...
4 months ago
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There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other vehicles. Maybe that reflects our natural fears and phobias, or maybe it is a result of our curiosity about the mysterious depths. Maybe it is simply that most of us will never get the...
TheCollector
What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director? undefined
9 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
Seth's Blog
Customer traction is the hard part A new business is complicated. It involves weaving together suppliers, partners, customers,...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new business is complicated. It involves weaving together suppliers, partners, customers, processes, technology, leases, employees, logos, capital and more. Along the way, it’s easy to get distracted, but focusing on the hard parts is a useful way to move forward. You could...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not the Head But the Seat' My late friend David Myers  taught me the useful German and Yiddish word imported into English,...
a year ago
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a year ago
My late friend David Myers  taught me the useful German and Yiddish word imported into English, sitzfleisch. The etymology is straightforward: sitzen (“to sit”) + Fleisch (“flesh”). In other words, what we sit on -- the buttocks, ass or derriere. Metaphorically, the OED tells us,...
Trying to Understand...
Honesty: What's In It For Me? First, do lots of harm.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism undefined
a year ago
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “stoically facing the end times” edition 1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a...
a month ago
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a month ago
1. When is AI coding not AI coding? You might have heard something about how Google now creates a quarter of its code using AI. But as with most things concerning everyone’s favourite hot tech, the devil is in the details. And the details, according to this poster on Hacker News,...
Astral Codex Ten
The Innocent And The Beautiful Have No Enemy But Time ...
a week ago
Atoms vs Bits
Regrets List / Things I Did Good List Noticing the patterns of your personal life-lessons
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Deeper dive on cross-L2 reading for wallets and other use cases
a year ago
./techtipsy
Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
Liz Denys
My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
Londonist
An Airport In Hyde Park? It Could Have Happened 1920s proposal envisaged a VERY central aerodrome.
a year ago
Commoncog
Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it....
a year ago
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a year ago
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
over a year ago
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
HTMHell
HTMHAIL by Léonie Watson Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... Can you give me the HTML for an...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
by Léonie Watson Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please? It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing...
Maps Mania
The Virtual Tour Maker
a year ago
Unpacked
Regulating AI: The case for a mechanisms-based approach Targeting specific mechanisms mitigates AI risks more effectively, is easier to get consensus on,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Targeting specific mechanisms mitigates AI risks more effectively, is easier to get consensus on, and avoids unintended consequences of brute force approaches
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques? undefined
2 weeks ago
diamond geezer
Canary Wharf 25 Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today is Canary Wharf station's 25th birthday. Not the DLR station (that's 33) nor the Crossrail station (that's 2) but the Jubilee line station which opened mid-afternoon on Friday 17th September 1999. The relentless commercialisation of Canary Wharf station "Twenty banks of...
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism undefined
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Philosophy and its Influence on Literature Throughout History Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of life that encourages individuals to be virtuous, rational, and in control of their emotions. Stoicism has been an important part of literature throughout the ages, with many authors...
ntietz.com blog
Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change. Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with...
Probably...
Reject Math Supremacy The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool...
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The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is...
TheCollector
The Liberation of Dachau, the First Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany undefined
a year ago
diamond geezer
How deep is Crossrail? In the last week TfL have refused to answer two freedom of Information requests both asking the same...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In the last week TfL have refused to answer two freedom of Information requests both asking the same thing. How deep are Crossrail stations? geology student at UCL attempting to complete an air quality project and the other just wanted a data dump. I am looking for the platform...
Liz Denys
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
TheCollector
Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum undefined
12 months ago
exist
Spinning Diagrams with CSS
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Is AI Sentient – Revisited This happened sooner than I thought. Last June I wrote about Google employee, Blake Lemoine, who...
a year ago
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a year ago
This happened sooner than I thought. Last June I wrote about Google employee, Blake Lemoine, who claimed that the LaMDA  chatbot he was working on was probably sentient. I didn’t buy it then and I still don’t, but Lemoine is not backing away from his claims. In an interview on H3...
The Modern House
Claire Ptak, founder of Violet bakery, on seasonal cakes and the community spirit of Hackney
a year ago
The Ruffian
How Silicon Valley Hacked the Science of Human Behaviour Revisiting My 2016 Piece on The Phones
8 months ago
Noahpinion
Strategies to secure America's supply chains A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
2 months ago
The Marginalian
Center of the Universe: Non-Speaking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson’s Extraordinary Poem About How to... "Please try to go to hell frequently because you will find the light there."
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend undefined
7 months ago
The American Scholar
“Spring” by J. R. Solonche Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Spring” by J. R. Solonche appeared first on The American...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Spring” by J. R. Solonche appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War undefined
8 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
Max Rozen
Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
All of the to-do apps are great for starting to learn React, but what about real-life? Let's see what real production React apps are like.
Archinect - Features
'The Notion of AI as a Form of Augmentation or Enhancement Is Fascinating to Me'; A... Behnaz Farahi stands at an eclectic intersection between culture and technology. Trained as an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Behnaz Farahi stands at an eclectic intersection between culture and technology. Trained as an architect, with specializations in computational design, interactive technologies, additive manufacturing, and digital fabrication, Farahi asks how emerging technologies can allow us to...
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: Google I read Google's privacy policy for you
a year ago
Don Melton
A metastasis in America America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure. The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
mtlynch.io
Massachusetts Residents Can Sue Online Merchants for Spam Last week, I saw an interesting article on the /r/legaladvice subreddit. An e-commerce business...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Last week, I saw an interesting article on the /r/legaladvice subreddit. An e-commerce business owner was complaining that a customer was suing because the merchant had been sending the customer promotional emails for years that the customer never agreed to. The author deleted...
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
10 months ago
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I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be working fairly well, but I made some dubious decisions when I started out that really didn’t scale. (Like having a single folder for all of my /images/ – of which there are now over...
Stoic Simple
The Stoic’s Guide to Achieving Lasting Contentment Are you tired of constantly searching for happiness? Do you find yourself feeling unsatisfied,...
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Are you tired of constantly searching for happiness? Do you find yourself feeling unsatisfied, regardless of your accomplishments and possessions? If so, you might benefit from adopting the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. In this guide, we will explore the principles of Stoicism...
Vadim Kravcenko
Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day 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 Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
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...
Moneyness
Do bitcoin ETFs conflict with bitcoin's original ethos? Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's...
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11 months ago
Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's original ethos. On the contrary, I think it's a nice snug fit. It would be a misunderstanding of bitcoin's history to assume that it was the idealism of cypherpunk-ism that gave birth to...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #164 Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Howard Marks on intelligent risks, Li Lu's amazing life story, Damodaran on streaming, Thompson on Charter vs. Disney, Taleb's favorite literary works, Buffett's Japanese investments, and more ...
Stoic Simple
The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, is known not only for his military...
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a year ago
Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, is known not only for his military prowess and leadership, but also for his philosophy of stoicism. In this article, we will delve into the life and reign of Marcus Aurelius, explore the principles of stoicism, and...
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2024 Cuteness overload and a light show to kick off a capital year of culture.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Bought or sold? Most things that consumers acquire are bought, not sold. We decide we’re interested in something and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most things that consumers acquire are bought, not sold. We decide we’re interested in something and we go shopping to get it. Potato chips, wedding venues and cars are all purchased by people who set out to get them. Selling is a special sort of marketing. It’s interactive,...
Common Edge
Rice University Builds an Opera Theater It’s time to appreciate one of Allan Greenberg’s best works of architecture.
a year ago
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access! I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications: Property testing Functional correctness and contracts Formal...
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction undefined
6 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Intense Enthusiasm for Good Literature' I was reading an interview with X.J. Kennedy when this line touched me unexpectedly: “He was, of all...
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8 months ago
I was reading an interview with X.J. Kennedy when this line touched me unexpectedly: “He was, of all the people I ever met, the one who had the most intense enthusiasm for good literature.” Spoken by another, this might amount to glibly rendered bullshit, the sort of thing junior...
xkcd.com
Perseids Pronunciation
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Split Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No please no emails about how this technically...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No please no emails about how this technically works in canon. Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
England Allows Gene-Edited Crops This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the foreground. The Precision Breeding Act will now allow gene-edited plants to be developed and marketed in England (not Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland). The innovation is that the law...
The Turn Signal RSS...
In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It To illustrate how climate controls have evolved, I'll compare two generations of Mercedes S-Class:...
a year ago
Notes on software...
Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
The DESK Magazine
5 hard truths for young designers Stop reading right now if you’re looking for feel-good advice. This is not going to be that kind of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Stop reading right now if you’re looking for feel-good advice. This is not going to be that kind of article.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to…
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946) The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here  https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/ Here is a biography of the controversial editor: https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean I...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Excellent Judge, Posterity' A reader can sometimes judge the true worth of a writer by the quality of his detractors....
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9 months ago
A reader can sometimes judge the true worth of a writer by the quality of his detractors. Take Dwight Macdonald on James Gould Cozzens. And then consider Arnold Bennett (1867-1931). Today he’s judged a respectable but minor English novelist, something of a documentarian, if he’s...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Love of Reading Is Caught, Not Taught' I’ve used “home library” to describe the accumulation of books in our house but it’s starting to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve used “home library” to describe the accumulation of books in our house but it’s starting to sound a little pretentious. For now I’ll keep it at “books.” Nadya Williams titles her essay “Home Libraries Will Save Civilization,” which, I understand, is more reader-enticing than...
Quantum Frontiers
Sculpting quantum steampunk In 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and...
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a month ago
In 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and got married outside the Harvard Faculty Club (because nobody was around to shoo us away). Equally unexpectedly, I received an invitation to collaborate … Continue reading →
Maps Mania
Dutchify Your Street
a year ago
Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In The Foodie Heaven That Is Brick Lane Kimchi, ribs, clams - or just pork scratchings and a pint.
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
Getting shot hurts On 30th March 1981, as he emerged from a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel and...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 30th March 1981, as he emerged from a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel and headed towards a waiting limousine, U.S. President Ronald Reagan was hit by a bullet from the gun of would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. The President, initially unaware that he had...
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
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a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a plunger will temporarily fix it. We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary wall sprayer both controlled by the...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
Retail Design Blog
Eppendorf Offices by Giant Leap Giant Leap designed Eppendorf’s new office space in Midrand, South Africa, featuring a...
a week ago
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a week ago
Giant Leap designed Eppendorf’s new office space in Midrand, South Africa, featuring a Scandinavian-inspired aesthetic with minimalistic, functional elements and...
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book The Lost Tudor Domesday Book JamesHoare Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Prime Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in places where the background is easy to draw. Today's News: Thanks, geeks! Little reviews are beginning to trickle out into the universe, including this one by Marie Robinette...
The Marginalian
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable about... The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override...
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3 weeks ago
The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as we forget over and over how difficult it is — how nigh impossible — to know what...
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans Romans before the Romans
8 months ago
diamond geezer
30s update This is probably a good day for my annual heatwave update. Dates on which the temperature at...
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This is probably a good day for my annual heatwave update. Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C  JunJulAugSep 2010279/10   201127    2012 2518  2013 13  15/16/17  221  2014 18   2015 122  2016 18/19/202413 201717/18/19/20/216   2018 5/6/7/8 15 23 25/26/272/3...
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election JamesHoare Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
7 months ago
The Marginalian
Sundogs and the Sacred Geometry of Wonder: The Science of the Atmospheric Phenomenon That Inspired... Notes on the eternal dialogue between art and science in our yearning to know reality.
a year ago
Devmoh
Protobufs Explained, and why Google, Apple, and LinkedIn use it over JSON Faster than JSON, clearer than XML, cross-language, type-safe, and backwards compatible.
a year ago
TheCollector
Ukiyo-e Prints of Beautiful Women: What Are Bijin-ga? undefined
5 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 of The Best Dude Ranches to Visit in Arizona
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Matter of Nobody’s Style But Her Own' “It is not only the pianos that have vanished (the sound of the pianos along the streets in spring...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“It is not only the pianos that have vanished (the sound of the pianos along the streets in spring evenings when the windows were opened) but the world in which they sounded, and the young ears they sounded for. I shall never forget how beautiful they were or what they meant to...
Dominik Sobe's...
Lessons from a “failed” Product Hunt launch
over a year ago
Max Rozen
Lessons from my third year running a SaaS I've run this business for three years now, and I'm only just now starting to *get it*.
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
The Hackety Manifesto
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
bt RSS Feed
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
CONTEMPORIST
White Stained Oak Cabinets Paired With Cool White Marble Creates A Soft Aesthetic Inside This Home Andrea Rodman Interiors has shared photos of a home in Vancouver, Canada, that they completed for...
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a year ago
Andrea Rodman Interiors has shared photos of a home in Vancouver, Canada, that they completed for their clients that wanted a minimalistic interior. Throughout the home, the interior was inspired by Japanese design, its simplicity, and maple wood tones. One area that stood out in...
Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6 Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787? undefined
3 months ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
How do you prepare for the system design interview? I get asked this question a lot. I lost track of people I know that spend all their time brushing up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I get asked this question a lot. I lost track of people I know that spend all their time brushing up on algorithmic puzzles and barely…
David Heinemeier...
Wisdom is not what you know The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe...
a year ago
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a year ago
The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe is full of learned idiots, unable or incapable of following the wisdom they have accumulated. There's no prize for a closet full of axioms or insights, if you leave it all in there,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Greek Travel Experiences for a Luxurious Escape
a month ago
Mind Mine
in defence of pleasure yin, yang
a month ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
Understanding the work - Thoughts on one day with three art events. A few thoughts on a few art events that happened around Boston Feb. 22nd.
over a year ago
Computer Things
How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
99% Invisible
Nuts and Bolts [EPISODE] In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way),...
a year ago
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a year ago
In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the...
bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Rest of World -...
The apps were designed for home security. They’re being used to watch and harass domestic workers Tiger Global-backed MyGate and Google-backed NoBrokerHood are digitizing social biases.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
Old Structures...
Skyscrapers at the IStructE A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New York contribution to that history, at the Institution of Structural Engineers. If you’re in London – as most of you are not – come in person; otherwise, the talk will be available...
diamond geezer
Route 168 London's next dead bus 168: Old Kent Road Tesco to Hampstead Heath Location: inner London Length of...
a year ago
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a year ago
London's next dead bus 168: Old Kent Road Tesco to Hampstead Heath Location: inner London Length of journey: 7 miles, 65 minutes The 168 has been chugging up to Hampstead Heath since 1986, initially from Waterloo, then from Elephant & Castle and most recently from the Old Kent...
samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best undefined
8 months ago
Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure “We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs   It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cooperation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cooperation is when we hurt people...
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Will The West Eat Itself? Yes. It's derivatives all the way down.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art undefined
2 months ago
diamond geezer
21 gun salute It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st...
a year ago
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a year ago
It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st birthday? So I headed to the Tower of London to watch the Honourable Artillery Company bang their big guns, officially to celebrate the first anniversary of the succession of the...
Math Is Still...
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger...
a year ago
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a year ago
Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger ones, offering a new look into the brain’s number system and its connections to memory and mathematics. The post Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Part 2: How To Build Patient Communities | Out-Of-Pocket And my investments in Most Days + Little Otter
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. They didn't know. But they know now.
7 months ago
AI Snake Oil
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges
4 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
a year ago
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a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Reticent Humor' “For nearly twenty years after the publication of The Children of the Night in 1896, poetry...
a year ago
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a year ago
“For nearly twenty years after the publication of The Children of the Night in 1896, poetry comprised the only notable American literature.”  A provocative statement that sends one scrambling for counter-examples, which aren’t difficult to find. Between 1896 and 1916 appeared...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
diamond geezer
Rooms Through TIme The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear...
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5 months ago
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear celebration of historic middle-class interiors. In 1998 it extended beyond the almshouses into a loopy extension with cafe and gift shop. In 2021 they added a thematic basement, shifted...
TheCollector
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9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Of Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use. Today's News:
TheCollector
4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read undefined
10 months ago
There are two types...
With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
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WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
TheCollector
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The Ruffian
Five Myths About Trump Why We Keep Underestimating Him
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TheCollector
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Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...