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Wuthering...
Books I read, and desks I saw, in July - hoping he might tell me, / tell me what the waves don't... Right, July, July, so long ago.  I was on the road a little bit, making literary pilgrimages. ...
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5 months ago
Right, July, July, so long ago.  I was on the road a little bit, making literary pilgrimages.  Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for example, to Herman Melville’s Arrowhead: On this spot, not at this exact desk but in front of this exact window, Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick,...
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
a year ago
99% Invisible
You Are What You Watch [EPISODE] What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense because the average American spends 2 hours and 51 minutes watching movies and TV each day. That’s a whopping 19 percent of our waking hours. Walt Hickey is a data journalist and...
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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5 months ago
The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles  —  but Dennis, an...
Cheese and Biscuits
Toba, St James It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
The Works in...
The Maintenance Race was just the beginning A new book from Stewart Brand, serialized on Works in Progress
a year ago
The Marginalian
A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism "Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their...
a year ago
Mazdak
CPP vs OAS: Understanding Canada's Core Retirement Benefits 🇨🇦 Canada's retirement income system consists of two major public pension programs: the Canada Pension...
2 months ago
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Canada's retirement income system consists of two major public pension programs: the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS).
Wait But Why
The Big and the Small I have a surprise for you. The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. ...
a year ago
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a year ago
In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. The post Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Getting an Unread Badge Count For the Docked Gmail Web App in macOS If you didn’t know already, you can now turn webpages into “apps” on your Mac. I’ve done this for a...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you didn’t know already, you can now turn webpages into “apps” on your Mac. I’ve done this for a few apps already and it works great. I get system-level notifications, unread badge counts, and more! Except for Gmail. With Gmail I get notifications but I don’t get application...
Josh Thompson
How to be an awesome belayer For the next few posts I am going to geek out on sport climbing. If you’re not a climber (or a sport...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the next few posts I am going to geek out on sport climbing. If you’re not a climber (or a sport climber), these are not for you. All of this information is in the context of sport climbing on trustworthy protection - not trad climbing! How to belay when your climber is in...
TokyoDev
If You Want To Hire Great Engineers, Let Engineers Do The Hiring Hiring great engineers is not just about evaluating technical skills. It’s about finding passionate...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Hiring great engineers is not just about evaluating technical skills. It’s about finding passionate individuals who align with your mission. It’s about building a team that can turn your vision into reality. To make this happen, a solid interview process is your best tool....
High Signal
Michael's app makes your phone dumb Michael Tigas is the founder of Dumb Phone, an app that makes your smart phone into a minimal...
4 months ago
The Changelog
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
Mind Mine
just show up stop postponing the act
2 days ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#32) The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area "progressives", and cancer detection
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches undefined
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Clientside Webmentions How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
Willem Pennings
ClockSquared improvements My ClockSquared project has a long history – it goes all the way back to 2015, when it was simply...
a year ago
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a year ago
My ClockSquared project has a long history – it goes all the way back to 2015, when it was simply called the “Birthday word clock”. I haven’t spent much time on the project in recent years, but I’ve upgraded the internals a while ago and finally felt like writing a post about it....
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
The personal website...
Responsive roadmaps Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins: The map of reality is not reality. Even...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins: The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent. The same is true for product roadmaps. Understanding and applying Parrish’s mental model is...
diamond geezer
with a 9 on the end Birthdays are often great, but a birthday with a 9 on the end can give cause to ponder as the end of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Birthdays are often great, but a birthday with a 9 on the end can give cause to ponder as the end of another decade grows uncomfortably close. So I thought I'd look back at my previous birthdays ending in 9, the moments I found myself on final approach to another decade's end,...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #206 The Trust Deficit, EU Regulations, Medicare Advantage scams, Munger soldiered on, The cult of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Trust Deficit, EU Regulations, Medicare Advantage scams, Munger soldiered on, The cult of Silicon Valley, Self-esteem and outer scorecards, MMT's founder is worried about deficits
Coffee with an...
Remember your training At times, a client may request a curve. Stay calm. Remember your training. Calmly explain that that...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
At times, a client may request a curve. Stay calm. Remember your training. Calmly explain that that would conflict with the design vocabulary. Remind the client that rectilinear forms are a sign of strength, firmness, commodity, and yes, delight. Stay strong. At times, the client...
Math Is Still...
Can Information Escape a Black Hole? Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions....
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the black hole information paradox and how it has propelled modern physics. The post Can...
IEEE Spectrum
The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Watching movies and TV series that use digital visual effects to create fantastical worlds lets people escape reality for a few hours. Thanks to advancements in computer-generated technology used to produce films and shows, those worlds are highly realistic. In many cases, it can...
Seth's Blog
If they know, they should tell us Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both...
a month ago
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a month ago
Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both sides. Cigarette companies knew a great deal about the addictions they were causing and the illnesses that resulted. If the public had known, they would have made different...
Ben Borgers
Software Seems Resilient
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Giving the blog a facelift When I rewrote the blog in Rust I tried not to touch any of the styling, but some things annoyed...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I rewrote the blog in Rust I tried not to touch any of the styling, but some things annoyed me: It wasn’t pretty (even ugly in some parts). No dark mode support. Some elements were broken, for instance images or code blocks overlapping the header when it was floating to the...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I posted some new animations I've posted a couple of new animated cartoons about microwaves, cuddling, and wombats. View on my...
a year ago
Maps Mania
Slim City
9 months ago
History Today Feed
Britons Caught in the French Revolution Britons Caught in the French Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
9 months ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan undefined
6 months ago
Ben Borgers
Pictures as Memories
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Riding with Omata One If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely special: it indicates your speed, distance, ascent and time ridden using mechanical hands!
CONTEMPORIST
A Rusty Exterior For A Home In A Rustic Setting CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in...
a year ago
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a year ago
CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in Jackson, Wyoming, that has a weathered steel exterior. Located in a dappled Aspen grove, the home incorporates slow-weathering materials such as oxidized steel and cedar, allowing it to...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
How I replaced doom scrolling with productive media routines The best way to stop a bad habit is to replace it with a new one. Or in my case,...
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Giving Billy Bass the arti-fish-al intelligence he always deserved If you were unlucky enough to visit a big box retail store or goofy uncle’s home around the turn of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
If you were unlucky enough to visit a big box retail store or goofy uncle’s home around the turn of the century, you would have undoubtedly come across a Big Mouth Billy Bass. That’s an animatronic fish that wiggles on a plaque while older, very licensable hit songs play. But...
The Modern House
Green Series #4: how to make your home breathable and thermal-bridge free For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of...
a month ago
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a month ago
For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of experts how to make our homes breathable – and to explain thermal bridging … Because the Passivhaus ideal is all about incredible insulation and airtight construction,...
TheCollector
What Was the Ancient Greek Pankration? undefined
11 months ago
Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024 Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
Christian Selig
Using PHPickerViewController Images in a Memory-Efficient Way PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers now have a fully-fledged photo picker that we can just use, rather than having to spend a bunch of our time creating our own (much like SFSafariViewController did for developers and...
Classical Wisdom
Dido: Queen of Carthage Doomed Lover of Ancient Myth
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.5.0 Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This week's highlights include a new website, multiple…
Articles - Alex...
Magpie marketing We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We believe we work in turbulent times. A quick skim of the industry press and you’ll learn that ecommerce is upending retail. Social media is uprooting advertising. Private labels are replacing brands. Advertising is dying. And TV is dead. We believe change is the new...
Making software...
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it's relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
nanoscale views
The difficult need for creativity on demand Thoughts at the end of another busy year…. Good science is a creative enterprise.  Some stereotypes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thoughts at the end of another busy year…. Good science is a creative enterprise.  Some stereotypes paint most scientists as toiling away, so deeply constrained by logic that they function more like automatons grinding out the next incremental advance in a steady if slow march of...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
Londonist
The Gingerbread City 2023: London's Tastiest Exhibition Returns For Christmas Buildings made of biscuits, decorated with icing and sweets.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Rain Tree Became The Centerpiece Of This Home’s Design Guz Architects has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Singapore, that was conceived as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Guz Architects has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Singapore, that was conceived as a multigenerational family house arranged around a large garden and an old rain tree which was protected and preserved. The architects included passive cooling measures, which were...
Louwrentius
Convert dos file to linux format wit vim If you have some file that has been saved on a (Win)do(w)s host you may notice that all lines end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you have some file that has been saved on a (Win)do(w)s host you may notice that all lines end with ^M. To fix this, you can use the tool dos2unix. If however this tool is not at your disposal, you may have a problem. If vim is available, you do not have a problem: The trick...
Making software...
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
Old Structures...
Not Gone – Not Yet There From a 1924 aerial survey of New York City, a funny-looking blob: Looking down on a building is one...
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a month ago
From a 1924 aerial survey of New York City, a funny-looking blob: Looking down on a building is one of the most difficult ways to recognize it. Fortunately, the late-afternoon shadow helps: That’s the Woolworth Building’s silhouette. Our office building was constructed in 1932,...
Left To Write
№ 65: How To Call Someone A Dumbass Without Calling Them A Dumbass It's not what you say but what you hear - Copywriting & Obliquity - The court jester
a year ago
elementary Blog
OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Handle Anxiety? Practicing the Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Nicomachean Ethics? undefined
10 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Summary of manuscript “Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A...
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
What are the stakes? How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5 chips, some with $100 chips. Do the high rollers have more fun? Are they more engaged? It’s natural to imagine that bigger swings matter more. That a bigger audience means our...
CONTEMPORIST
This Kitchen Island Was Designed With Built-In Seating C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a...
a year ago
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a year ago
C. Kairouz Architects has shared photos of a renovation and extension project they designed for a home in Melbourne, Australia. One of the design details in the new extension is the kitchen island that doubles as seating for the dining area. The design of the kitchen island has a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Only Little People Frightened By the Long Night' The calendar and tradition assure us that Halloween is October 31 but the voice of the people in our...
a year ago
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a year ago
The calendar and tradition assure us that Halloween is October 31 but the voice of the people in our neighborhood as expressed through the “group chat” I have never looked at moved the celebration to October 29. The reasons are unclear. What this means in practical terms is two...
Data Boutique
The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data Market components to consider when selling pre-scraped datasets
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Regret After Transitioning In my last post I noted that even mentioning general vague support for the LGBTQ community was...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my last post I noted that even mentioning general vague support for the LGBTQ community was enough to trigger very specific feedback, often making erroneous scientific claims. Each claim requires a deep dive and article-length discussion. Even though the discussion that...
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures? undefined
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
Both Are True
the detonator no, i will not 'grieve' my pre-parent self
9 months ago
Diaries of Note
It seemed like a general conflagration In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr was indicted for a second time, for treason. Having once been at the pinnacle of American politics, he was now accused of plotting to carve out his own...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
Seth's Blog
The clamp and the mallet While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder,...
a year ago
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a year ago
While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder, and eventually whacked at it. No luck. Then I got smart and put three clamps around the part, gently turning each one, increasing the pressure, until it simply popped out....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Same Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics. Today's...
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Amazon and Walmart didn’t defeat India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India’s neighborhood kirana...
2 months ago
Castles in the Sky
Notes on Artistry from Jonathan Miller, TV Director for BBC's Shakespeare Seasons 3-4 A long Wikipedia excerpt
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:20
10 months ago
Open Culture
David Bowie Songs Reimagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: Space Oddity, Heroes, Life on Mars & More In the last year, screenwriter Todd Alcott’s hobby has blown up into a legit side career. This Etsy...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In the last year, screenwriter Todd Alcott’s hobby has blown up into a legit side career. This Etsy seller isn’t peddling kombucha SCOBYs, letter pressing new baby announcements, or repurposing old barns for use as cutting boards. No, Alcott’s crafty fortunes fall squarely at the...
Left To Write
A Slight Change In Cadence A small tweak in the essay newsletter for a better creative future
a year ago
Calculated Risk
FOMC Projections Statement here. press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM...
a month ago
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a month ago
Statement here. press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. projections.  Since the last projections were released, economic growth has been above expectations, the unemployment rate is below expectations, and inflation close to expectations (although...
Steve Klabnik
Did you hear? I'm Ruby Mendicant University's first visiting teacher
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
11 months ago
Casey Handmer's blog
SLS is still a national disgrace Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the NASA SLS (Space Launch System), I wrote one. If you’re unfamiliar with the topic, you should read it first.  It is hard to …
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans undefined
11 months ago
FIRE v London
In praise of Berkshire Hathaway I think I first clocked Warren Buffett’s (and Charlie Munger RIP’s) Berkshire Hathaway around the...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
I think I first clocked Warren Buffett’s (and Charlie Munger RIP’s) Berkshire Hathaway around the year 2000. I loved the story. Starting from, as the story was told back then, humble beginnings and a paper round, Warren Buffett (and Charlie – who I will stop mentioning but...
The Marginalian
The Promethean Power of Burnout "Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
"Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on in the same way. Not being able to go on, is always in the end, a creative act, the threshold moment of our transformation."
The American Scholar
“Snow” by Louis MacNeice Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Snow” by Louis MacNeice appeared first on The American...
4 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Death of a Samurai Legend Death of a Samurai Legend JamesHoare Thu, 06/13/2024 - 09:11
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Content Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's time to open the SMBC foodgore channel. Who's...
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - HUGE Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On second thought this comic is way funnier without...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On second thought this comic is way funnier without the caption. Today's News:
Dominik Sobe's...
My 2020 Annual Review
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
我在加密世界的一些个人体验
over a year ago
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead undefined
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
TheCollector
The Real Bjorn Ironside: Ragnar Lodbrok’s Most Famous Son undefined
5 days ago
TheCollector
Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin undefined
3 months ago
Diaries of Note
A greater public calamity could not have occurred On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected death of Princess Charlotte of Wales. The only child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte was admired for her spirited personality...
Seth's Blog
To be well published Sooner or later, we benefit from being well-published. Publishing has nothing to do with printing....
11 months ago
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Sooner or later, we benefit from being well-published. Publishing has nothing to do with printing. It’s the act of taking risks to bring a new idea to people who want to embrace it. It’s the head of the lab who works behind the scenes to be sure the talented scientist gets a gig...
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Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱 This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
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This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here. iPhone 16 Pro I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would
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This is one of the toughest decisions I've faced recently. This is the entrance to the public conveniences under the Fulham Broadway Retail Centre. I should point out that I'm not in the habit of photographing public conveniences. But the toilets at Fulham were very quiet,...
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Dan Moore is always welcoming to guest authors; he accepted something I wrote: Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (Letters to a New Developer). It ended up on Hacker News with 100 comments. I wrote this back in December 2019, forgot to post here until...
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How embarrassing that I did not write a thing this month, but I promise I had a good excuse.  Posts on Cynicism, Epicureanism, and Stoicism will appear this month, I swear, or at least hope.  My eventual excuse this month will be, I am afraid, even better. Still, I...
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Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she became the youngest architect to receive the prestigious annual summer pavilion commission at the Serpentine Gallery in London. A slew of accolades and honoraries followed and […]
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Melanie Speaks [EPISODE] Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve...
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Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a malignancy rate of 2% per year, does that compound? So after 5 years there’s a 10% chance it will turn malignant? This turns out to be an interesting question, because the answer...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
Math Is Still...
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How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find unusual safeguards in this quiescent cell that may inform research into fertility. The post How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage first appeared on Quanta...
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When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those were long years. Every day, I was tasked with practicing two or three songs six times. During exam season, I would need to practice my exam songs ten times perfectly—which meant that...
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The 2018 iPad Pro Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes. Rather than try to be comprehensive, I...
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Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes. Rather than try to be comprehensive, I focused on what matters most to me: size choice between the 11” and 12.9”, the Smart Keyboard Folio from my perspective as a frequent 10.5” Smart Keyboard user, the new Pencil, and why...
Handprinted - Blog
Hand-Painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric by Sarah Campbell Book... We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no...
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We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no exception. Sarah Campbell's beautifully curated and inspirational book explores the art of painting and making patterns on fabric. Even just flicking through the pages of this book makes...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved. Experimental Jetset designed the original John & Paul & Ringo & George T-shirt (referencing the names of the Beatles) in 2001 for Yoshi Kawasaki at the Japanese apparel company 2K/Gingham. The...
Moneyness
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I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of its new central bank digital currency, Jam-Dex. Jam-Dex is one of only four operational central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the world,...
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One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
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Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving Tornado Cash, a piece of blockchain infrastructure that was sanctioned by the U.S. government last year for providing mixing services to North Korea.  Over the last two weeks...
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After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...
Josh Thompson
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Note: This is an unedited draft of a post from July 5, 2015. Almost exactly one year ago, written after a week in Buenos Aires. Since writing this post, Kristi and I have continued on to more than a year of non-stop travel, though we’re settling down back in Golden, CO in about...
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It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your choice.
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The Rollercoaster Ride of Long-Term Rates: What it Means for You and the Economy Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that...
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Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that had everyone from policymakers to financial analysts glued to their screens? Well, guess what? It's mostly reversed! What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means a sigh of relief...
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Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
The Rational Walk
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Old Structures...
Almost Unrecognizeable Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...
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Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...
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Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
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Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
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A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Posts on Nikita...
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A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very...
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
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I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
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Special Issue 01: Lost in Stagnation Dude, where is my flying car?
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Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
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I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections undefined
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A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. And yes, that sound you hear is the slow deflation of
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Welcome to Unsupervised Learning Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
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Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
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Journal and Links by...
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No one has enough time in the day! The thing about getting older is that it is a process of accumulation, you accumulate people and stuff and responsibilities and moral obligations, and you can only Marie Kondo yourself out of so much of it. My dentist gets on me about flossing...
Steve Klabnik
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
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In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
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over a year ago
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Cheese and Biscuits
Nessa, Soho Looking over the confidently international menu at Nessa the other evening, it occurred to me that...
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Looking over the confidently international menu at Nessa the other evening, it occurred to me that it's been a while since I've had a moan about anywhere being 'inauthentic'. For all the years that we British were insecure about our place in the culinary world, and those years...
Retail Design Blog
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The first store of the Brazilian chocolate brand Chocolat Du Jour in the city of Goiânia introduces a new concept...
ToughSF
Advanced Solar Energy in Space: Part I Solar Thermal Rockets can be efficient and have high performance. However, they remain...
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Solar Thermal Rockets can be efficient and have high performance. However, they remain temperature-limited to an exhaust velocity of 12km/s. How do we surpass this limit? The limits NASA's Suntower concept. Solar Thermal Rockets have been shown to have great potential if...
A Beautiful Site
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over a year ago
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
Spoon & Tamago
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Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most recognized brand name in the modeling industry, recently opened a new flagship facility in the Shimbashi Toranomon area of Tokyo. Dubbed the Tamiya Plamodel Factory, the shiny new...
Internal Tech Emails
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From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google
Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581 In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
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In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism and Free Will: What Do Stoics Believe About Choices? Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for thousands of years. It was first developed in...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for thousands of years. It was first developed in ancient Greece and has since spread throughout the world. One of the core principles of Stoicism is the concept of free will. Understanding this concept is vital to understanding the...
Artificial Ignorance
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Ludum Dare 29 Entry After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally...
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After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to...
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To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Classical Wisdom
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Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
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The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release. I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
diamond geezer
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The Pragmatic...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
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The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
Rest of World -...
PETA is building robot elephants for Hindu temples For centuries, elephants have been captured to live in temples. Animal rights groups say replacing...
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For centuries, elephants have been captured to live in temples. Animal rights groups say replacing them with robots will minimize animal cruelty and risks to humans.
Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
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Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Liz Denys
Dinosaur pie! I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago....
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I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago. Naturally, I decided to make an apple pie because he likes apple pie and because I can make a mean apple pie with fresh ground cinnamon and a small amount of pre-cooking the apples on the...
Common Edge
Is Mass Timber the Key Element in a Low Carbon Future? A new book highlights the promise—and lingering challenges—of this important material.
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Seth's Blog
Customer traction is the hard part A new business is complicated. It involves weaving together suppliers, partners, customers,...
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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...
Scott Jenson
The future needs files For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone desktop era. Sure, they...
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over a year ago
For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone desktop era. Sure, they “work” but, they’re mostly there because, you know, ancient history. I’ve discussed this issue for the last 2 years and I usually get some version of “get over it grandpa”.  I’m...
Rest of World -...
Sierra Leone’s first lady hopes going viral on TikTok will secure Saturday’s elections Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife,...
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Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife, Fatima, is dancing to a crowd of over 200,000 on TikTok to drum up votes.
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a...
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Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root. 1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
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Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops President Kuo Zhang tells Rest of World in an exclusive interview that the company is bullish about...
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Simply Explained
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50% Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
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Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
Diaries of Note
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In September of 1939, English housewife Nella Last began keeping a diary that would span 30 years, ultimately producing one of the longest diaries in the English language at more than 12 million words. Born Nellie Lord in 1890, she was a voluntary participant in the Mass...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 17 – Optimization Optimizing a home is a years-long process. Hello from the corner of our home. The sun is...
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Optimizing a home is a years-long process. Hello from the corner of our home. The sun is setting on what has been a rainy but lovely day. We had a brief visit from some friends; my daughter spent a couple of hours learning pottery from our neighbor, who is a master potter;...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI for Neuroforecasting I’ve been following AI (artificial intelligence) news very closely, including all the controversies...
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I’ve been following AI (artificial intelligence) news very closely, including all the controversies and concerns. I tend to fall on the side of – AI is a powerful tool, we should continue to develop it and use it responsibly. We don’t need to panic, and highly restrictive laws...
sbensu
Industrial macros Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to...
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Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to the database.
Classical Wisdom
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Clay shrinks as it dries and even more as it's fired, so it's useful to have a way to estimate the final size of in-progress work - especially if you're making multiples or trying to fit pieces together. One way to do this is with shrinkage rulers. I figured I'd design my own...
TheCollector
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Computer Things
Hyperproperties I wrote about hyperproperties on my blog four years ago, but now an intriguing client problem got me...
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I wrote about hyperproperties on my blog four years ago, but now an intriguing client problem got me thinking about them again.1 We're using TLA+ to model a system that starts in state A, and under certain complicated conditions P, transitions to state B. They also had a flag f...
Classical Wisdom
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New Podcast: “Traction Heroes” I’m excited to share with you a new podcast: Traction Heroes. The first episode is now up on the...
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Flashbak
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Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
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Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn’t shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone know if there's a case of partial application of law of the sea? Today's News: Come see me! BAHFest London, this Saturday, one night only.
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
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Twitter and third-party Twitter developers I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all...
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I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high.  Apple, Google, Facebook…
The Modern House
Nice Modernism: introducing the friendly face of modernist architecture After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues...
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After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues that the canon is ripe for reappraisal. Here, he makes the case for “Nice Modernism” – an altogether gentler strand of architecture that emerged in the 1930s and is typified […]
Retail Design Blog
NIO House | Abu Dhabi: An Immersive Experience in Desert Modernity As NIO’s inaugural presence in the Abu Dhabi market, the design serves as a comprehensive...
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As NIO’s inaugural presence in the Abu Dhabi market, the design serves as a comprehensive introduction to the brand’s philosophy,...
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From fake presidential pardons to AI-generated movie reviews, artificial intelligence is blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved. “Rankin/Bass present” is lettering based on Weiß-Initialen Serie II, or Weiss Initials Series II, with the alternate forms for A and E, rendered bolder, with rough contours and a bouncing...
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Happy Thanksgiving And the menu above provides a goal for dinner.
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Zoom Video Communications in partnership with Unispace and Downstream, created an innovative London office showcasing cutting-edge technology, including a Next-Generation...
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A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
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Should I use Caligo Extender or Opaque White? When mixing shades of ink, we have the choice to dilute the colour with either Opaque White ink or...
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When mixing shades of ink, we have the choice to dilute the colour with either Opaque White ink or Extender. Both of these give us different results so which should we choose? We have performed a few experiments to show the difference between mixing with Opaque White and...
Londonist
That Kiosk Outside The National Portrait Gallery Is About To Reopen As A Cafe From Victorian toilet block, to ticket booth... and now a bougie cafe!
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A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized. Today's News: For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
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Negative Space One of the most important lessons you learn as a student of design is the importance of negative...
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One of the most important lessons you learn as a student of design is the importance of negative space. For every mark you make you are changing the space around it. Artists understand that this negative space is just as important as the mark itself. Visually this is a critical...
Escaping Flatland
On feeling connected generosity is potency
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s) Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ undefined
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Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
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First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […] The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Grounded in the Deep Tradition of English Poesy' When I’m told someone, somewhere has started a new poetry journal, a little piece of me dies. Just...
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When I’m told someone, somewhere has started a new poetry journal, a little piece of me dies. Just what we’ve been waiting for: more precious self-revelations, strident politics and lineated prose. Nice to know the world can still surprise us. An Australian, Clarence Caddell, has...
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ByteDance shuts down its WhatsApp clone in Africa TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing,...
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TikTok’s owner launched LetsChat in 2021, aimed at young Africans and boosted by heavy marketing, but it couldn’t crack WhatsApp’s dominance.
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
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By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 August 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Home on Erik...
The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
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Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
Style over Substance
My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar...
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Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar folding camera sure is bang for buck! The post My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 appeared first on Style over Substance.
CONTEMPORIST
Stone Covers The Exterior And Interior Of This Harbourfront Hideaway SAOTA, TKD Architects, and interior architects ARRCC have shared photos of a new home they completed...
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SAOTA, TKD Architects, and interior architects ARRCC have shared photos of a new home they completed that fronts Sydney Harbour in Australia. Partially hidden from view from the street, the home, which is located in a historical suburb, sits behind a row of plants and a fence...
The Last...
Product Review: Panasonic PT AX200U (Hipsters On Food Stamps Part 3) but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster...
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but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster Gerry get his money's worth from the University of Chicago, either $100k in future income or knowledge?  No. 2. Did society get their money's worth in sending him, i.e. by...
TheCollector
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Language: Why We Hear More Than Words It’s a classic complaint in relationships, especially romantic ones: “She said she was okay with me...
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It’s a classic complaint in relationships, especially romantic ones: “She said she was okay with me forgetting her birthday! Then why is she throwing dishes in the kitchen? Are the two things related? I wish I had a translator for my spouse. What is going on?” The answer: Extreme...
Old Structures...
Expertise In the course of doing research on old buildings, I’ve looked at some non-traditional sources. For...
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In the course of doing research on old buildings, I’ve looked at some non-traditional sources. For example, in trying to find original images of demolished and non-famous buildings, I’ve had some success with magazine ads from tenants. It used to be popular to put a picture of...
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The Market for Takes Solving for the Twitter equilibrium
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The Modern House
Modern Life: six remarkable modernist homes on the market Those modernist architects were on to something. From the 1930s to the 1970s, these design pioneers...
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Those modernist architects were on to something. From the 1930s to the 1970s, these design pioneers showed us a brave new world where form followed function. Out went the fuss and flourishes of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, all ornate stucco and cornicing, and in came […]
Rest of World -...
Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service...
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Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service sold out within weeks of launching in the country.
Seth's Blog
Boring to who? Sometimes, marketers, musicians or speakers dig themselves into a solipsistic rabbit hole. They’ve...
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Sometimes, marketers, musicians or speakers dig themselves into a solipsistic rabbit hole. They’ve heard their stuff before. They think everyone else has too. So they bury the lede, look for new laughs and most of all, try to avoid boring themselves. Which often leads to...
Neil Panchal
Favorite Perfumes A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't...
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A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't include obvious classics such as Polo Green and Aramis. If I were to pick 3 perfumes to wear for life, it would be: Hermes Bel Ami, Chanel Antaeus and Serge
Math Is Still...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black...
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For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black hole is destined to exist. A new proof shows how a cube can help answer the question. The post Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation first...
Archinect - Features
AI, Climate, and Advice for the Next Generation: Watch Our Roundtable with SCI-Arc Program... In November 2024, Archinect brought together four program chairs from the Southern California...
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In November 2024, Archinect brought together four program chairs from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) for a wide-ranging roundtable conversation.  The questions up for debate and discussion were among the most pressing facing the architectural...
diamond geezer
Unblogged January 31 unblogged things I did in January Mon 1: I watched the New Year fireworks from the western edge...
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31 unblogged things I did in January Mon 1: I watched the New Year fireworks from the western edge of Canary Wharf, and they were a bit small and the Shard got in the way but at least I celebrated midnight at the right time, rather than slightly delayed on the telly. Tue 2:...
Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans Romans before the Romans
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Care, Not Control The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 11
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Rhino Dehorning Yesterday in the African bush was great, I saw giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopard turtles,...
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Yesterday in the African bush was great, I saw giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopard turtles, elephants. Today wasn’t great: I witnessed a rhino shot with a tranquilizer from a helicopter, then it was held down, had its horns cut off, and then shaved down. I have some photos and...
The Rational Walk
Musical Chairs at Dollar General Investors were euphoric when Dollar General brought back its former CEO less than a year after his...
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Investors were euphoric when Dollar General brought back its former CEO less than a year after his retirement. A sober look at the situation reveals significant concerns.
Seth's Blog
Simple techniques for complex projects Warm up the machines that take a long time first. Stress test the go/no go parts of the project as...
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Warm up the machines that take a long time first. Stress test the go/no go parts of the project as early as possible. If the cost is low, replace dependent processes with parallel ones. Do the difficult parts when energy is high and the budget hasn’t been depleted. Ship before...
Moneyness
There won't be a Blackrock bitcoin ETF, at least not until Binance bites the dust Back in 2018 I wrote about the controversy over the constant stream of bitcoin ETF denials emanating...
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Back in 2018 I wrote about the controversy over the constant stream of bitcoin ETF denials emanating from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). And my conclusion then was: "further rejections likely." My conclusion in 2023 is the same. Even with Wall Street-giant...
Jonas Hietala
Why make games Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic...
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Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
Josh Thompson
Three Android Apps I Use Every Day (and maybe you'll use them too) I’m not here to talk about Twitter and Instagram, which… I use too much. Lets talk about things that...
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I’m not here to talk about Twitter and Instagram, which… I use too much. Lets talk about things that make my life better, and might do the same for you. (If you’re an iPhone user, just Google for the iOS version of the following tools. They’re all out there) Rewire App:...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
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Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
Archinect - Features
Beaux-Arts to Bauhaus: How Two Schools Shaped Architectural Visualization Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural...
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Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural visualization. Through fostering particular artistic philosophies, drawing techniques, and design ideologies, such institutions shape not only the architects themselves but also the way...
The Marginalian
The Warped Side of Our Universe: A Painted Epic Poem about the Dazzling Science of Spacetime The first English use of the word space to connote the cosmic expanse appears in line 650 of Book I...
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The first English use of the word space to connote the cosmic expanse appears in line 650 of Book I of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost: “Space may produce new Worlds,” he wrote, and grow rife with them. In the centuries since Milton, who lived through the golden dawn of...
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Array 1.29.0 Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
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Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Maps Mania
Google Updates Satellite Imagery of Ukraine
a year ago
Passing Time
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics and the Exploitation Problem In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum...
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In one of my favorite blog posts of all time, Jai writes: The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics says that you can have a particle spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time – until you look at it, at which point it definitely becomes one or the other....
This Space
More and less: Veilchenfeld by Gert Hofmann Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and...
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Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and the first translated by Eric Mace-Tessler. Tom Conaghan at Review31 has given it an appreciative review, recognising that Hofmann's presentation of a civilisation's descent into...
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way How ASEAN Lost its Way JamesHoare Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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For The Encouragement Of Thrift When you spend as much time looking at buildings as I do, it takes something out of the ordinary to...
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a year ago
When you spend as much time looking at buildings as I do, it takes something out of the ordinary to stand out. In this case, I was on Sutphin Boulevard in Queens, on its northernmost leg. That’s the part of Sutphin that most people who have heard of it know: between its northern...
SatPost by Trung...
Costco's $9B clothes business, explained The retailer has that incredible Kirkland drip and sells more clothes than Lululemon, Ralph Lauren...
a year ago
Anarchy Unfolds
No Futures We don't have to think of the children
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General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Step 4: Profit? About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and...
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About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of...
diamond geezer
Set To Stun The latest exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum is called Set To Stun and is all about designing...
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The latest exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum is called Set To Stun and is all about designing and filming sci-fi in West London. A lot of plastic props and alien beings have been created in the boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, and slightly wider afield, so this is a chance to...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in...
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SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in California. The client asked the designers to create a kitchen garden and an outdoor gathering space for her large family to celebrate birthdays and holidays. One area of the yard was...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
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Res Obscura
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Apple Intelligence is FINALLY HERE! 🤯 What You NEED to Know! 🧠 Join us as we explore Apple's groundbreaking AI platform:
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A Temporary Rooftop Forest Replaces Fukuoka’s Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine During Renovations Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, one of Japan’s most-historically and culturally significant shrines, will...
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Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, one of Japan’s most-historically and culturally significant shrines, will undergo a massive renovation beginning in May of 2023. And for three years the honden main hall will be completely closed off to the roughly 10 million visitors who come to the...
Diaries of Note
Now is the time Shortly after writing this diary entry on 3rd December 1988, 21-year-old Jennifer Bonner was wheeled...
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Shortly after writing this diary entry on 3rd December 1988, 21-year-old Jennifer Bonner was wheeled into the operating theatre at the University of Minnesota Hospital where her battle-scarred heart, heavy with hope and history, was to be replaced with that of a donor—the hopeful...
somenice
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Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
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The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
The Convivial...
Render Unto the Machine The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 12
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Math Is Still...
Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a...
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Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a critical missing piece of the galactic puzzle. The post Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Rational Walk
New Articles Moving to Newsletter Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new...
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Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new articles will be posted on my Substack at newsletter.rationalwalk.com.
CONTEMPORIST
Weathered Steel Covers The Exterior Of This Modern Home In Texas Photography by Casey Dunn Miró Rivera Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in...
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Photography by Casey Dunn Miró Rivera Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Austin, Texas, which overlooks a sweeping lawn shaded by towering native pecan and bald cypress trees. Photography by Casey Dunn The house is comprised of two wings flanking a central...
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Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Coffee Shops Happy International Coffee Day! To celebrate this culturally significant October 1st holiday, we...
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Happy International Coffee Day! To celebrate this culturally significant October 1st holiday, we have picked a few of our favorite examples of coffee and architecture existing in blissful harmony.  So pour yourself another cup of your favorite roast (how about Archinect's very...
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The New Ancient
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Daniel Bourke
The same feeling Starting something new. A business, a relationship, an adventure, a creation. Hell, it doesn’t even...
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Starting something new. A business, a relationship, an adventure, a creation. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be new. Or even the start. Still, the feelings creep in. Am I going to make it? Does she like me? What does he think? Goodness what if I go broke?
Diaries of Note
The virus has displaced me British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s...
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British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s shack perched on the stark yet striking shingle beach of Dungeness, Kent. In 1986, following his diagnosis with HIV, Jarman found solace and creative refuge in this secluded spot—its...
samwho.dev
The dos and don'ts of large, online communities One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's...
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One of the ways I spend my spare time is moderating the Programming Discussions Discord server. It's an online community of almost 20,000 people, focussed around helping people with their programming problems through real-time chat. A frequent mistake I see people make in the...
TheCollector
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The Elysian
Hint #1 I'm publishing a new print collection in three weeks.
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99% Invisible
Model Village [EPISODE] For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by...
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For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by storing them away in unstimulating, medicalized environments. But around the world, a new architectural movement is starting to challenge that old paradigm. Designing environments...
Asterisk
Mysticism & Empiricism The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if...
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The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if you’ve met God. Where did it come from, and what is it really measuring?
Computer Things
Five Unusual Raku Features Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version,...
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Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
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Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to emit LLVM IR as an option instead of...
Maps Mania
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Postmortem: MenuCity Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and...
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over a year ago
Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and constructive feedback guys, it’s like my food doing this (programming is my air and the fun is the water… err). Anyway here’s the postmortem of my latest, and greatest, game. Let’s start...
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Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
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Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold...
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Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs,...
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Would You Put AI Art In Your House? I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I...
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I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
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We puny mortals On 2nd November 1995, NASA released a photograph that would become one of the most iconic images of...
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On 2nd November 1995, NASA released a photograph that would become one of the most iconic images of space ever captured: the Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the gas pillars in the Eagle Nebula, known as the Pillars of Creation. One of the millions of observers that weekend was...