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The Mirror Fusion Test Facility A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to...
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A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today undefined
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
A month of the Vision Pro The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it matter?
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Past Is Alive and Stirring With Objects' Published in the January 1821 issue of London Magazine are thematically linked essays by two...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Published in the January 1821 issue of London Magazine are thematically linked essays by two friends, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt: “New Year’s Eve” and “On the Past and Future,” respectively. Lamb’s is better known, and I'm aware of several readers who, like me, read it...
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous...
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Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, FENDI...
Rest of World -...
China fights for an edge on semiconductors The gallium problem could become everyone’s problem
a year ago
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most? undefined
2 weeks ago
Construction Physics
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial...
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It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
Diaries of Note
I bowed to the will of the gods and descended Dame Barbara Hepworth was a trailblazing force in 20th-century British sculpture who profoundly...
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Dame Barbara Hepworth was a trailblazing force in 20th-century British sculpture who profoundly impacted modern art with her dedication to form, space, and abstraction. Born in Yorkshire in 1903, she endured a heart-wrenching tragedy in February 1953, when her son Paul, an RAF...
CommitStrip
The right tool for the right job at the right time?
over a year ago
Working Theorys
The Idea That Won't Go Away | Theory No. 24 In a battle of new and old ideas, which one wins?
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Was Jesus a Con Artist? Let me start out by saying that I think the answer to that question is no – but this requires lots...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Let me start out by saying that I think the answer to that question is no – but this requires lots of clarification. This was, however, the discussion here, while although poorly informed, does raise some interesting questions. This is a Tik Tok video of a popular podcast which...
xkcd.com
Water Filtration
3 months ago
Open Culture
Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the... Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and...
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3 months ago
Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and you’ll swear you’ve been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again. That’s because you have been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again: once recorded or...
The Changelog
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I eventually ran one, though in my small town there were few callers. Some time back, I downloaded a copy of Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary. You might know Jason Scott from textfiles.com and...
Applied Cartography
Finding null JSON values in Postgres Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the Django ORM into SQL to do weird things, the syntax strikes me as confusing and arcane. As such, when I need to do esoteric things it takes me longer time than I'd like, and in hopes...
Construction Physics
The Story of Titanium The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By...
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The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's...
Londonist
Direct Trains From London To Paris Were A Thing In 1936 These trains went over, rather than under, the water.
11 months ago
TokyoDev
A Proposal for the Translation of RubyKaigi [RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby Kaigi](http://sapporo.rubykaigi.org/2012/en/) have been providing realtime translation services. The way this has worked is that volunteers listen to the speakers presentation, and simultaneously translate it to...
./techtipsy
TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting...
a year ago
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A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting two, and here’s why. This post is not sponsored. Removable batteries Let’s start with the feature that I appreciate the most: removable batteries! The TOMO M4 accepts up to 4...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleddy Problems Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed the flame of Gornak with the flesh of man. Today's News:
PostHog's RSS Feed
Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Raise Money
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
How a bored NYU graduate captured the absurdity of Chinese diaspora life Meet the creator behind @dongbeicantbefuckedwith — a private meme stash turned viral Instagram...
a year ago
Londonist
UEFA Euro 2024 Screenings: Where To Watch Matches In London 3 x 🦁 + 👕 = ⚽
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Repost: Someone has to run the fabs Egalitarianism is important but we neglect STEM education at our peril
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Artist’s Books? (With Key Examples) undefined
10 months ago
The Convivial...
The Thing That Is Silence The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 14
11 months ago
Maps Mania
The End of the Rainforest
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends) My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
a year ago
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Familiar Yet Not I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the 1940s tax photos of every building in the city that can be found with a much less nice interface at the city archive website. My way of testing a site like this is to look at locations...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Nothing Makes a Man More Reverent' I have never thought of reading as a “hobby.” I put the word in quotes because I sense a patronizing...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I have never thought of reading as a “hobby.” I put the word in quotes because I sense a patronizing tinge to the word. A hobby is a lesser pastime than a job, something frivolous, a “leisure activity” that most people in the past couldn’t afford because they had to earn a...
The American Scholar
Set in Seclusion The post Set in Seclusion appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
Alex MacCaw
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
Steve Klabnik
Trouble with Diaspora
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between...
a year ago
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The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces, new research suggests. The post Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
Chelsea In Bloom 2024: Giant Floral Caterpillar To Take Over Sloane Square Free flower festival returns... with a foodie theme.
10 months ago
Oykun
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo More details and reviews on Amazon This book has a different, more human approach to management and...
a year ago
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a year ago
More details and reviews on Amazon This book has a different, more human approach to management and leadership, unlike most books that are usually written by top-level CEOs. Julie's journey from IC role to Manager is more relatable, at least to me. 3 premises I got from the
Liz Denys
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
TheCollector
6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute undefined
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in August 2022 Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
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Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
CONTEMPORIST
How A 1940s House Was Renovated Into A Modern Home Architecture firm Wittman Estes has transformed an original house built in the 1940s, located on the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Architecture firm Wittman Estes has transformed an original house built in the 1940s, located on the eastern shore of Hood Canal near the Bangor submarine base in Washington State. Due to the complex constraints of the shoreline exemption, the architects kept to the existing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'So Many Delicate Aphorisms of Human Nature' “We should hesitate to name any writings which would afford so large and so various a selection of...
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“We should hesitate to name any writings which would afford so large and so various a selection of detached passages complete in themselves. . . . We should be at a loss to name the writer of English prose who is his superior, or, setting Shakespeare aside, the writer of English...
journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
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Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Harbinger of a Song Greater Still' “I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me till the early hours of the morning. The tears often ran down his face as he read, without the slightest apparent consciousness of them on his part. The pathos and grandeur of these...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 6-12 November 2023 The very best chunks of Londonist from the past week.
a year ago
Articles - Alex...
Big questions for big data Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different article for every 100 people on earth. There are also 18 million videos on the topic. At 5 minutes each, it would take 170 years to watch them all. Then there’s the one million...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
Folklore.org:...
Folon Early Mac art from Jean-Michel Folon
a year ago
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this August August has arrived – and come rain or shine we’ve plenty on the agenda this month. From an Italian...
a year ago
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a year ago
August has arrived – and come rain or shine we’ve plenty on the agenda this month. From an Italian menu that will transport you to the Mediterranean coast to an exhibition celebrating contemporary African photography, here are five shows, suppers and soirees not to be […]
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI implementation! I chose to use an existing library, midir, to connect to devices and receive messages. But the reason I was interested in this not-yet-announced project is because I...
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
a month ago
Computer Ads from...
Ampere WS-1 A cool Japanese clamtop
9 months ago
computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
Diaries of Note
CORONACION DAY On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles...
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On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles II was crowned king, heralding the restoration of the monarchy and the end of political turmoil. The Abbey was resplendently adorned in reds that day, and the finest of garments...
Good Enough
TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective expertise is in making products and services for the web. And like everyone else, our use of the web has shifted from our desktops and laptops to our phones. As we’re creating and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Aristotle's Politics
3 months ago
diamond geezer
Canteenlessness I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of businessfolk buying lunch. They were flocking to nearby shops, mainly specialist food outlets, for a calorific haul to tide them over into the afternoon. You could tell it was peak...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Related But Detached' I’ve seen Hamlet on the stage only once, in 1971. The prince was played by Dame Judith Anderson,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I’ve seen Hamlet on the stage only once, in 1971. The prince was played by Dame Judith Anderson, unconvincing in her early seventies. Wrong sex, wrong age, wrong play – a stillborn theatrical stunt. My reaction was perhaps the worst that staged Shakespeare can inspire – boredom...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I’m Tickled to Death When They Call Me Comic' Like porkchops, fame is highly perishable. Writers once read by millions – think of James Michener...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Like porkchops, fame is highly perishable. Writers once read by millions – think of James Michener and, at a far more accomplished level, James Gould Cozzens – have evaporated from literary memory. Newspaper writing and journalism in general are especially biodegradable. Who...
Joel Gascoigne
Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here's why * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
5 days ago
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Retail Design Blog
AI and Robotics Ventures Offices by YAAF DESIGN YAAF DESIGN created a comfortable, collaborative office space for AI and Robotics Ventures in...
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YAAF DESIGN created a comfortable, collaborative office space for AI and Robotics Ventures in Bangkok emphasizing productivity, well-being, employee satisfaction,...
The American Scholar
Ideology as Anatomy How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist? undefined
5 months ago
History Today Feed
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:17
4 months ago
Castles in the Sky
Notes Worth Saving #1 From the launch of Notes in April 2023 until December 2023
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Calque Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT...
3 weeks ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
a year ago
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a year ago
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Standup Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed this thing where people say AI...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed this thing where people say AI will never be as good as Shakespeare, but then nobody mentions that none of us are as good as Shakespeare? Today's News:
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 17 [EPISODE] It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s mini-stories season! Gather the kids around the fire...
a year ago
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s mini-stories season! Gather the kids around the fire because We have a year-end mix of short stories about a rogue architect, spooky kitchens, a hundred year old music streaming service, and the crazy way the French tried to make...
Tech + Economics +...
The curse of the Sisyphean read-later list Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm talking about - that growing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm talking about - that growing list of articles, videos, and podcasts we swear we'll get to eventually. It's like we're building our own little museum of cool stuff we'll explore 'one day.' When are you...
swyx's site RSS Feed
#HeyForGood Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
Stephen Diehl
FPTs: Pure Fungibility on the Blockchain
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
Christopher Butler
Link – Linsey Rendell's personal website linseyrendell.com is a really nice website. I just love the overall look and simplicity of what...
11 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 March 2024 Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
9 months ago
Contemporist...
Wood Houses Appear Through The Tops Of The Trees At This Nature-Focused Resort Stilt Studios has shared photos of a newly completed project called the Treehouse Villa, which is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stilt Studios has shared photos of a newly completed project called the Treehouse Villa, which is located in Grün Resort Uluwatu, a family-run nature-focused luxury boutique resort in Bali.
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
Daniel Marino
Why I Still Prefer to Prototype Using Code There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are several design apps available at a product designers disposal, and I’ve used several of them over the years. I think these days, most everyone is using Figma, but whatever app you’re using—most of them typically have some sort of prototyping feature. Typically they have...
Christopher Butler
Persuasion Good design requires persuasion. might be persuasive on its own; the notion that a thing “just...
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a year ago
Good design requires persuasion. might be persuasive on its own; the notion that a thing “just works” implies that its function, however novel, is an intuitive leap from its form. This is what Apple is known for. Apple products are renowned for their simplicity, which is what...
Maps Mania
More Medieval Murder Maps!
a year ago
The Works in...
The Maintenance Race was just the beginning A new book from Stewart Brand, serialized on Works in Progress
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Nature and Hiking Adventures in the Cayman Islands
8 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
2022 Healthcare Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket Nikstradamus strikes again
a year ago
TheCollector
Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being? undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art... The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of his work and persona in the years leading up to it. He became a vogue artist of the eighties in part because he could be taken as an unfiltered voice...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Data Management for PostHog PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in PostHog Cloud, and hundreds of self-hosted users reached…
The Modern House
Architects Mariia Pashenko and Koen Schaballie on the radical reinvention of their Victorian home in...
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping out the tribes of climate Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
Open Culture
Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera... A heads-up on a deal: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its...
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A heads-up on a deal: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
The Modern House
The Green Series #2: how to control heat and draught-proof your home Triple glazing and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems come as standard in a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Triple glazing and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems come as standard in a Passivhaus home, sealing the interior against the elements and radically reducing your reliance on conventional heating. For the second in our series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs...
Old Structures...
Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere...
6 months ago
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That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere else. I’m at the 8th International Congress on Construction History this week, where I hope to learn a lot about past design and construction practice. I have certainly learned much...
Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
over a year ago
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Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
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Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms of daily life. And while their existence can be taken for granted, their many forms and colors add to the uniqueness of each neighborhood they traverse. Capturing the scenery of...
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Despite Camberwell's increasing reputation for all kinds (and all budgets) of great food, it still seemed unlikely that this bare-bones pub, just opposite the Walworth bus depot and furnished, as far as I could tell, with tables and chairs nicked from the local secondary school,...
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JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
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The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some simple uncertainty estimates. I have data like this: <th> Total spend </th> <th> Transactions </th> Channel A <td> 2292.
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As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are helping them pay respects from afar.
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On July 5th, 1852 (168 years ago today) Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to 500–600 people in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, New York. The speech, preceded by a reading of the...
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Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with mathematical proofs, some of the most elegant foods you can prepare in a ramekin are the simplest. Enter the shirred egg. Don't be intimidated by the word "shirred"; it's just the...
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Sometimes I’ll talk about something I like online and people will express shock that I can use a product that has such a clear downside. I’ve gotten people ask how I can use Things since it doesn’t have shared task lists. More recently I
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let’s build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
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This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
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Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books with keywords to better filter and find them. The tags I use move from general terms like "architecture" (the most) and "fiction" (the least) to specific terms that reflect a high...
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I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking for: Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with,...
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If I had to choose one metric that would determine how well someone would do in law school, it wouldn’t be the LSAT or another test. It would be whether or not they formed a study group, and who else was in it. Of course, the same is true for your project, or any sort […]
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In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met.  In attendance at the dinner at his house were: 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Doug Emhoff 3) Katy Perry 4) Orlando Bloom 5) Kate Hudson
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake...
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Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured…
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I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare. To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps: right-click on the BDMV file choose 'show packet contents' go to...
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Science fiction writers, who have to think deeply about the possible nature of future technology, often invent new sci-fi materials in order to make their future technology seem plausible. They seem to understand the critical role that material science plays in advancing...
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I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions were some variation of, “Is there such a thing as being exposed to too much pain?” or “Are there situations where pain and struggle aren’t helpful but only hurtful?” or “What...
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I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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You are awake. You think and you feel. But what is it that is doing all this thinking and feeling? We call it “consciousness” and over 100 years ago the philosopher Edmund Husserl made a bold attempt to uncover its secrets. Subjective experience is private The thing is:...
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Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
Cheese and Biscuits
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For better or worse, every moment spent eating out in London is an education, and on a warm Tuesday evening last week I went to Knightsbridge to learn about Nanyang cuisine. It has a somewhat fluid definition, as these things often do, but generally refers to food from SE China...
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Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Poem Becomes Molten with Activity' I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is...
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I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is new, such collections are like well-stocked cafeterias. You push your tray down the line and sample what looks good. Once seated, if a friend recommends a dish you avoided, you can...
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Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever they're needed. Queues are spontaneously occurring phenomena, just like a waterfall or a thunderstorm.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm slightly regretting not having this as the twist ending to a comedic novel. Gimme a few years. Today's News: One week until BEA WOLF DAY!
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At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives The post Reborn in the City of Light appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Modern House
Five joyful things to do this June And just like that, it’s June: summer is here and – come rain or shine – our disposition will be...
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And just like that, it’s June: summer is here and – come rain or shine – our disposition will be thoroughly sunny, thanks to all the delightful things in our diaries. From an exhibition making a splash (and getting us in the mood for sun-soaked […]
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AmpliBox - a Self Hosted File Storage App with AWS Amplify A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS
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First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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Signal and noise If the signal is very weak and the noise is large, it’s easy to imagine that there’s no signal at...
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If the signal is very weak and the noise is large, it’s easy to imagine that there’s no signal at all. AI and computers can be used as lenses now, which means we can strip away the noise and see things that we certainly didn’t expect. Dina Katabi at MIT can point a radio antenna...
Home on Erik...
Software Engineers and Automation Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has...
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Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what's next? Switchboard operator, a long time ago What about software engineers?
Rest of World -...
The fastest-growing shopping app in the world Meesho is taking on Amazon and Walmart with its focuse on cheaper goods for small-town consumers.
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Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to...
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This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to about the details of pipes, signals, and certain system calls – and the solution is still elusive. For some time now, I have been using NNCP to back up my files. These backups are...
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A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The American Scholar.
Contemporist...
Lighting Is Used To Create A Warm Glowing Atmosphere For This Restaurant FUNUN LAB has shared photos of a Japanese-inspired restaurant they designed in Beijing, China, that...
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FUNUN LAB has shared photos of a Japanese-inspired restaurant they designed in Beijing, China, that includes a variety of lighting that helps create a unique interior.
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What is failure for you? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I realised over the holiday period is that my definition of failure in a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before. In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...
Flashbak
Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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The Katerra Team Rides Again: ONX Homes Regular readers of Construction Physics know that I formerly worked for the construction startup...
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Regular readers of Construction Physics know that I formerly worked for the construction startup Katerra, which raised several billion dollars in venture capital in the hopes of revolutionizing the construction industry, and then went bankrupt. In fact, it was my experiences at...
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Elad Blog
The False Narrative Around Theranos One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying...
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One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying into part of the defense's narrative that "Theranos was just acting like every Silicon Valley startup". This is of course blatantly false, but it is being adopted as some form of...
Mazdak
The Weight-Loss Gold Rush A Race to Develop Blockbuster Obesity Drugs
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Table Stakes This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
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This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
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How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
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Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote. For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files. Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
Flashbak
Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History “At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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'Buttonhole Strangers on the Street' Dedicated readers have to be optimists. When we return to a book already read and enjoyed, often...
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Dedicated readers have to be optimists. When we return to a book already read and enjoyed, often decades later, we’re acting on faith, trusting that we and it remain compatible. That’s not always the case, of course. My younger self is not a reliable critic. For too long I was an...
Internal Tech Emails
Apple execs on Facebook On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Steve Jobs wrote: I agree - if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it...
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On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Steve Jobs wrote: I agree - if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it sounds reasonable.
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Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
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I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
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Ambitious People Need Each Other Ambitious people don’t just need peers. They need mentors. They need people who will encourage them...
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Ambitious people don’t just need peers. They need mentors. They need people who will encourage them to pursue hard and meaningful projects.  The post Ambitious People Need Each Other appeared first on David Perell.
Seth's Blog
Willfully uninformed Access to information used to be scarce. We ranked college libraries on how many books they had, and...
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Access to information used to be scarce. We ranked college libraries on how many books they had, and time at the microfilm reader was booked in advance. Today, if there’s something I don’t know, it’s almost certainly because I haven’t cared enough to find out. I don’t understand...
The Tao Of Wealth
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Big weight loss is mostly about the food. Exercise is important to a lesser extent. Do not eat sugar, especially fructose. Aim for less than 3 added teaspoons per day, which is equal to 12 grams ( 1 teaspoon = 4 grams). Remember there are many names for sugar, so watch out when...
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When the words London and underground come together, the first thing that comes to most of our minds, naturally, is the London Underground. But though it may enjoy the honorable distinction of the world’s first railway to run below the streets, the stalwart Tube is hardly the...
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
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Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
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Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large...
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Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large organizations became available to almost anyone…
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Entering Pintos First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having...
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First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
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New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
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Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was there all along. He simply named and explained it. The same is true for planets, continents and obscure species. They’re discovered, not invented. Michelangelo talked about removing all the parts of the marble that weren’t the statue on...
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When I use my virtual reality gear I do practical zero virtual walking – meaning that I don’t have my avatar walk while I am not walking. I general play standing up which means I can move around the space in my office mapped by my VR software – so I am physically walking to...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Standard ( JSON or XML based ) asynchronous web requests are great for lots of applications, but they are crippled because of the same origin policy. You cannot access resources on a domain that is different from the one running your script. So what if you want to host your...
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Architecture and ideas studio CAN, has shared photos of a recently completed home extension they completed for a terrace house in Stoke Newington, London. With an emphasis on natural materials and a unique approach to design, this renovation turns the once disconnected ground...
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One way to do it is to get people to want what you want. The other way is to help them get what they want in a way that gets you what you want. They’re not the same. Changing what someone wants is very different from helping them see the story and the path that […]
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Floundering is flopping around and making little progress. A Dutch word for getting mired and lost. Foundering is what we call it when the ship goes down. It’s an ancient French word based on bottom. Too often, in our desperate attempt to not founder, we flounder. Better, I...
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The future creeps up on us slowly. But when it leaps dramatically, we notice. One spam phone call a day is an irritation. 1,000 of them destroy the utility of the phone. One photographer undercutting our rates is a threat. 1,000 of them means we can’t make a living at it any...
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The Gradient
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This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
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For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around 28 years old, something in my psychology began to change. Perhaps it was inching towards 30 years old. Perhaps it was being tired of constantly feeling anxious. Perhaps it was...
Paul Graham: Essays
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The neighbors had several tall ash trees growing in their backyard behind the garage and the trunks were a favorite perch for Polyphemus and especially cecropia moths. These are large insects, beautifully colored, with “eyes” on their wings. To budding lepidopterists they were...
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The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing Suppose there is a pre-profitable company that is raising venture financing. Simple, classical...
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Suppose there is a pre-profitable company that is raising venture financing. Simple, classical economic models would predict that although…
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A busy morning café. A group of women in their 30s are laughing over lattes. One of them exclaims, "We girls need to do this more often!" Across town, a group of men clink their glasses in a pub, one of them chuckling, "It's always a good time with the boys." Adults...
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SGA designed the 10 Prospect project in Somerville, featuring a lab-ready facility with materials reflecting the area’s industrial history, emphasizing...
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Although once a single entity – and one of the kingdoms that made up the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon Britain – Sussex has been divided into East and West since the late 20th century. With all those years of shared history, it’s no surprise that there’s […]
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We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we're being snooped on by two groups, corporations and the government. This post will focus on how the government snoops on our transactions,...
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After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...