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TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation undefined
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
Agitating homemade PCBs with ease If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need...
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If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need to turn to chemical etching. Use one of several different techniques to mask the blank PCB’s copper that you want to keep, then toss the whole thing into a bath to dissolve away the...
Confessions of a...
Recording: Six Key Performance Engineering Lessons from 1BRC Last night we did this live session on performance engineering.
3 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
The rain in Portugal My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last...
10 months ago
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My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last July: Aveiro, Portugal. Having studied Spanish, I pronounced the name as Ah-VEH-roh, with a v partway to a hard b. … Continue reading →
Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
The American Scholar
Verde Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew The post Verde appeared first on The American Scholar.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Laying the foundation of WebCard <![CDATA[The initial Interlisp code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project, defines the new type...
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[The initial Interlisp code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project, defines the new type "Web" of NoteCards card. It's the first step for extending NoteCards to visit websites. The main code is in the function WCD.CreateWebCardType, a thin wrapper around the...
Quanta Magazine
Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot...
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Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot about a system’s global structure. The post Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally first appeared on Quanta Magazine
CONTEMPORIST
The Post And Beam Structure Is On Display Around This Home Magarao + Lindenberg Arquitetura has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Rio De...
a year ago
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a year ago
Magarao + Lindenberg Arquitetura has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, that has its post and beam structure on display throughout the interior. The clients wanted a house with personality and practicality, which would be spacious but without...
diamond geezer
Open House (2) For Open House Day Two I zipped around the capital and visited seven different and quite varied...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
For Open House Day Two I zipped around the capital and visited seven different and quite varied properties. It was a long day. I therefore don't have the time or energy to write about them all, not right now, so instead I've prioritised selecting some good photos and uploading...
NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
7 months ago
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One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
xkcd.com
Matter
4 months ago
Astral Codex Ten
Against The Generalized Anti-Caution Argument ...
a month ago
Diaries of Note
In the world, yet not in it Born in Geneva in 1821, Henri-Frédéric Amiel was a poet and philosopher who found little in the way...
a year ago
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Born in Geneva in 1821, Henri-Frédéric Amiel was a poet and philosopher who found little in the way of recognition during his lifetime, perhaps due to the introspective nature that fuelled the journal for which he posthumously found fame. Always reaching for perfection and...
Christopher Butler
Link – David Sleight's personal website stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
stuntbox.com is a beautifully-designed personal website. I especially love the simplicity and readability of his article pages.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Master Etcher of Human Portraits' In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen...
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a year ago
In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen poets and friends were asked to contribute to a symposium published a day earlier in the New York Times Book Review. All but Robert Frost contributed. Amy Lowell wrote: “A realist,...
Platformer
How you want me to cover artificial intelligence Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
2 weeks ago
Quanta Magazine
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness. The post Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness,...
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
8 months ago
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
Seth's Blog
Generosity and fear Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator… And generosity is about others. “How can I help?” Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from...
Arduino Blog
This Arduino-controlled Spin Meister helps spin up the perfect pizza Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher heat that many find more preferable than a conventional kitchen oven. But even a nice gas-powered pizza oven like the Ooni Koda 12 will have some hot spots and cold spots. To get an...
The Ruffian
The Biden Conundrum On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Automating my backups with restic and anacron I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set up. Automating them was something important but was on the back burner, because, well, it never felt very important. Then I lost a few days of work when my SSD died, and it felt more...
Arduino Blog
UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs,...
Seth's Blog
Play fair & work hard Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The...
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7 months ago
Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The meanings of both clauses change over time… Play fair: Work hard: Social media and politics have done a great job of celebrating people who seek selfish shortcuts, simply because it’s...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Losing a Loved One: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Working Theorys
Word Association Fame The new attention playbooks will be full of old plays.
9 months ago
Maps Mania
Learning Countries While Having Fun
a year ago
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...
a year ago
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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...
./techtipsy
DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming setup running. I have one powerful desktop PC, one virtual machine with a GPU attached to it, and client machines that can be used to stream games from. To keep things simple (and...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
a year ago
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a year ago
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
symmetry magazine
SAGE Journey program ignites interest in STEM Three SAGE alumni talk about their experiences with a program meant to broaden gender diversity in...
a year ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs abduzeedo0428—23 ...
a year ago
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Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs abduzeedo0428—23 Hungarian graphic designer KissMiklós has created a stunning series of typography compositions that showcase the beauty of serif fonts, letters and ligatures. While they may...
Rest of World -...
The chatbot answering modern-day questions about an ancient religion JainGPT answers inquiries ranging from “What is Jainism?” to “What happens after we die?”
2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
MORICO Café by Inrestudio MORICO is a renovation project for a café and restaurant located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
MORICO is a renovation project for a café and restaurant located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City. The...
TheCollector
Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society? undefined
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Hiring for stuck Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs more staff. And they often hire for specific tasks and the skills that go with them. They need a person who will reliably and obediently deliver what they need right now. And...
symmetry magazine
Vera C. Rubin Observatory brings the universe to everyone The Rubin Observatory is making education and outreach a top priority.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China? undefined
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5 I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs....
a year ago
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a year ago
I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs. He made it sound so easy, so I decided to try it out. One of my longtime hobby projects is WanderJest, a site for finding live comedy. One of the challenges of that site is that the...
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher? And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Floor796 "An ever-expanding animation scene depicting the everyday life of the 796th floor of the huge space...
a year ago
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a year ago
"An ever-expanding animation scene depicting the everyday life of the 796th floor of the huge space station "
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Inspired By The Verticality Of Neighboring Victorian Houses NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada, whose design was inspired by the verticality of neighboring Victorian homes. The extruded gable form is a tribute to the architectural motifs of the past while blending it with...
Mazdak
Why 2024 will be the year of the Delivery Drone? For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia where packages pirouette through the air and land at our doorsteps with clockwork precision. But 2024 marks a pivotal juncture, a year where the sci-fi fantasy transforms into a...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 3 Hello from a rainy and cold autumn morning in Durham. We are in the midst of the most magical time...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello from a rainy and cold autumn morning in Durham. We are in the midst of the most magical time of the year. Our enormous old oak is covering everything in a blanket of golden leaves. The meadow is turning purple with the tall Aster that flower in November. I’m getting ready...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
How venting is supposed to feel A comic about venting to others. View on my website
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement? undefined
a year ago
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
a week ago
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a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in November A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to November 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
Astral Codex Ten
Claude Fights Back ...
4 days ago
Noahpinion
How not to be fooled by viral charts Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that definitely for sure has a ferrari you might be worse off because there is information embedded in... Today's News:
Passing Time
27 Things I know
7 months ago
The Rational Walk
Improving Disclosure for Public Companies The Securities and Exchange Commission could improve disclosure and transparency by implementing...
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9 months ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission could improve disclosure and transparency by implementing three simple proposals.
David Perell
How Learning Happens From music, we learn what humanity has always known but schools have forgotten: learning begins with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From music, we learn what humanity has always known but schools have forgotten: learning begins with inspiration. The post How Learning Happens appeared first on David Perell.
Open Culture
When the CIA Studied Psychic Techniques to Alter Human Consciousness & Unlock Time Travel: Discover... By now, it’s widely known that the Central Intelligence Agency ran a decades-long program of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
By now, it’s widely known that the Central Intelligence Agency ran a decades-long program of experiments involving LSD and other psychoactive drugs called MKUltra from the nineteen-fifties to the seventies. As one might suspect, that wasn’t the only research project into the...
Willem's Blog
No, I Won't Build That! Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I Won't Build That!"
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 1 A piece of a patent – Number 574,434 to Herbert Keithley, applied for June 29, 1896 and awarded...
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3 months ago
A piece of a patent – Number 574,434 to Herbert Keithley, applied for June 29, 1896 and awarded January 5, 1897 – titled “Building Construction”: The important context for US construction: the first skeleton-frame buildings, where the exterior walls were supported on a metal...
Quanta Magazine
The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D...
a year ago
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a year ago
By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D materials might self-assemble. The post The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980 On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness? undefined
2 months ago
Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
David Perell
Trevor Bauer: Playing Professional Baseball My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In 2020, he had the lowest Earned Run Average of any pitcher and won the National League Cy Young Award, which goes to the top pitcher in the game. I wanted to interview Trevor not...
mtlynch.io
Join My Six-Week Blogging Course I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News....
6 months ago
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I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News. Sign up by Monday (June 24th) to reserve your slot. Why take a class with me? My blog receives 300k-500k unique readers per year. After Google, Hacker News is the primary way that...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Family-Friendly Vacations on Alabama's Gulf Shores and Orange Beach
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Practical Eschatology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will...
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Europe's absent-minded revolution Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', 15 years on
a week ago
TheCollector
Imperial Chinese Porcelain Bring Novelties to Market undefined
a year ago
Making software...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
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over a year ago
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
CONTEMPORIST
A 1970s Four Bedroom Home Renovated For A Couple That Loves To Entertain Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin, Texas, for their clients that wanted a home for entertaining. The transformation involved converting a four-bedroom floor plan into a spacious, open, one bedroom home. A long...
Quanta Magazine
How to Build an Origami Computer Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation. The post How to Build an Origami Computer first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Retail Design Blog
Audemars Piguet office by Studio Banana Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle,...
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a month ago
Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle, blending high-end manufacturing with biophilic design principles...
diamond geezer
Rooms Through TIme The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear celebration of historic middle-class interiors. In 1998 it extended beyond the almshouses into a loopy extension with cafe and gift shop. In 2021 they added a thematic basement, shifted...
Society's Backend
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
12 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
El desproporcionado número de referencias al machismo en los medios de comunicación españoles Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos...
a year ago
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a year ago
Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos internacionales por su alto número de referencias al machismo que triplican a las de cualquier otro país
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs. There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
The Convivial...
What You Get Is the World The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 21
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Hiring Content Writers: A Guide for Small Businesses If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental energy. It’s extremely challenging to write articles or blog posts that readers find engaging, clear, and eloquent. You may have considered hiring a freelance writer, but it’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nature Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot anti-nature SMBC collection. Today's News:
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric “Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
Cremieux Recueil
Preregistration Is No Panacea Stopping scientific cheaters requires setting up systems that can't be gamed
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - BN Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks all! There's also a regular update, so just...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks all! There's also a regular update, so just click back for that. Today's News: You can also click here.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Proof of Stake FAQ
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (Part One) For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different apartments and one house. They’re family home videos from my childhood. After 600+ hours of work, I finally digitized and organized them well enough to throw away the original tapes....
ntietz.com blog
Great management and leadership books for the technical track In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped1. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly understood what the responsibilities are, and there aren't as many resources out there as there are for...
Maggie Appleton
Metaphors We Web By
over a year ago
Damn Interesting
Fifteen Years Forsaken Editor’s Note: This article contains quotations from contemporaneous accounts which might be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Editor’s Note: This article contains quotations from contemporaneous accounts which might be offensive for today’s readers. The moon was new on the night of 31 July 1761, and the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean uniformly black. But Captain Jean de Lafargue of the French cargo...
The Works in...
Issue 14: A peasant surprise Plus: Giving yourself the Zika virus, cut-and-cover railway tunnels, and more reasons to donate your...
10 months ago
Wuthering...
Iphigeneia in Aulis by Euripides - even babies sense the dread of evil to come The final Euripides play is Iphigeneia in Aulis, performed with The Bacchae in 405 BCE.  I normally...
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The final Euripides play is Iphigeneia in Aulis, performed with The Bacchae in 405 BCE.  I normally write “Iphigenia,” but I read the 1978 W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr. translation titled which goes with “Iphigeneia,” so I will switch to that spelling for this post. ...
Maps Mania
Restricting the Right to Protest
a year ago
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #2: Volume Discounts The volume-related pricing system explained
9 months ago
xkcd.com
UFO Evidence
a year ago
Londonist
Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who Lives Where in TV, Books, Games and Movies? New book maps the worlds of fiction.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
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Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full crazy. Test […] The post Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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We have a whole lot to talk about. The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
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Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
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If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way. Where you're going may be challenging, difficult, a real pain in the ass even, but come what may, you should be excited about getting there—both the getting, and the there. That's how you know you're on...
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AI chatbots highight a challenge that is worth understanding. It applies to customer service, bureaucracies and teachers as well… If you ask an AI a question and it’s not confident in the answer, it should say, “I’m not sure.” That could be followed up with, “do you want me to...
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When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit. Viewing permission is straightforward, just view access, but by default, editors have the ability not just to edit the content of the document but also to edit sharing permissions. If...
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OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China A milestone in the militarization of AI.
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I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. We believe you don't need to be a software engineer or security professional to understand how to keep your devices and data safe. In every...
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useEffect's clean-up function can be pretty confusing, especially if you're still trying to think in lifecycle methods. Let's clarify the clean-up function in this article.
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Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
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Handprinted - Blog
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We've recently discovered that you can expose a screen with artwork made by transferring a linocut to inkjet film using a water based ink. Often when we want to convert our relief prints to screen prints, we need to use some kind of digital programming to make this possible. With...
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What if online business model innovation is slowing down? There is a widely held assumption that new business models will continue to emerge online – that...
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There is a widely held assumption that new business models will continue to emerge online – that statements like “how will Twitter ever make…
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#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
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Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
Willem's Blog
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This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
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Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
CONTEMPORIST
Dramatic Wood Ceilings Are Found Throughout This House Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal,...
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Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal, that uses wood and copper throughout its design. The home’s exterior has a copper-clad roof and matching copper siding, while the exposed timber structure connects with the rest...
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AVC
What Happened In 2023 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
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I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. I ended my What Will Happen In...
Articles - Alex...
The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
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The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
Common Edge
To Address Climate Change, Architects Must Tackle Decarbonization Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
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Both Are True
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Louwrentius
Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform...
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Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform storage IO performance benchmarks. FIO does provide a script called "fio_generate_plots" which generates PNG or JPG based charts based on the data generated by FIO. The charts are...
Anecdotal Evidence
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The Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919-2000) -- Gulag survivor, co-founder of Kultura and author of A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II (1951) – has sent me back to Varlam Shalamov and his Kolyma stories. Herling-Grudziński in 1971...
Seth's Blog
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Any fully open system of digital communication will corrode over time. Bad messages will crowd out the good ones. The new normal: Someone finds a database of every residential property, then another of cell phones. An AI is trained to call every homeowner, every day, asking if...
Quanta Magazine
In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning...
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Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be — and about the galaxy we live in today. The post In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Alice GG
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Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level. While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
NeuroLogica Blog
Microbes Aboard the ISS As I have written many times, including in yesterday’s post, people occupying space is hard. The...
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As I have written many times, including in yesterday’s post, people occupying space is hard. The environment of space, or really anywhere not on Earth, is harsh and unforgiving. One of the issues, for example, rarely addressed in science fiction or even discussions of space...
Identity Designed
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Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten...
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This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.
A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
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Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
TheCollector
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My last 2 posts were about things to avoid, so I thought it might be helpful to follow up with something more positive.  Having been part of…
Patterns in Humanity
Man the Hunter Are our stereotypes about hunter-gatherer societies outdated? Seems not.
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Posts on Made of...
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This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll make it any further. However, that’s one more day than I...
Push to Prod
When Things Are Slow, Look for Queues When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of...
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When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of the most common situations.
TheCollector
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Choice Architecture Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of...
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Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this
Artificial Ignorance
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A Smart Bear
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A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
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Stoic Simple
Understanding the Basics of Stoic Philosophy Stoicism is a school of ancient Greek philosophy that aims to teach individuals how to live a good...
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Stoicism is a school of ancient Greek philosophy that aims to teach individuals how to live a good life by focusing on rationality, self-control, and mindfulness. Despite its ancient roots, Stoicism has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years as people look to improve...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Always Singular, and Never Trite or Vulgar' “He was never seen to be transported with Mirth, or dejected with Sadness; always Chearful, but...
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“He was never seen to be transported with Mirth, or dejected with Sadness; always Chearful, but rarely Merry, at any sensible Rate, seldom heard to break a Jest; and when he did, he would be apt to blush at the Levity of it: His Gravity was Natural and without Affectation.”  The...
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For the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s inaugural contribution to the Sotheby’s auction, STCKMN was commisioned to lead on the design...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool. Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
A Curved Green Roof Allows This Winery To Blend Into The Landscape Architecture studio Aleš Fiala has recently completed the design of Gurdau Winery in the Czech...
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Architecture studio Aleš Fiala has recently completed the design of Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic, which includes a unique curved green roof. The building’s location in the open countryside naturally brought with it high demands for architectural and landscape integration....
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
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diamond geezer
Hog Hill and Dog Kennel Hill Things on Hills: Hog Hill and Dog Kennel Hill Where the heck are we? The far side of Redbridge,...
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Things on Hills: Hog Hill and Dog Kennel Hill Where the heck are we? The far side of Redbridge, almost in Havering Be more precise: On the southern edge of Hainault Country Park Nearest tube station: Fairlop, but 1½ miles away so hardly near Nearest bus routes: both the 247 and...
Irrational...
Leadership requires taking some risk. At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles...
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At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles sometimes mean that making progress on a professional initiative requires taking some personal risk. This lesson was hammered into me a decade ago during my time at Uber, where I...
History Today Feed
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essay – snarfed.org
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A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
Old Vintage...
So long, Z80 You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s...
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You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s (PDF), announcing earlier this week that after June 14th you won't be able to buy them anymore (specifically the last-part-standing Z84C00 which comes in various speeds from 6-20 MHz)...
Saturday Morning...
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Seth's Blog
Learning from the Amazon gift card snafu Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake...
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Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake because: We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. First, if you make a mistake by email, fix it. Fix it by email AND fix it on your site. Let everyone who got the wrong […]
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job. If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
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If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work. Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray. Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
TheCollector
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Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead undefined
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Calculated Risk
Ten Economic Questions for 2025 Here is a review of the Ten Economic Questions for 2024. I'll follow up with some thoughts on each...
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Here is a review of the Ten Economic Questions for 2024. I'll follow up with some thoughts on each of these questions. We can assume the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will be extended.  That larger tariffs will be imposed on some imports, and there will be some...
Londonist
7 Places To See Gorgeous Autumn Leaves In London Autumnal walks against a golden backdrop.
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Seth's Blog
Beyond CRM Many marketers spend time with their CRM systems. Expensive cloud-based tools that automate Customer...
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Many marketers spend time with their CRM systems. Expensive cloud-based tools that automate Customer Relationship Management. Maybe customers don’t want to be managed. They probably don’t. It might be more useful to think of our most important work as customer relationship...
Quanta Magazine
The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite...
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In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite harmonies — and clues to the Earth’s interior. The post The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of...
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Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time. The post Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton first appeared on Quanta...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval,...
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Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval, users get a notification email and can use the app.
Civic Hax
That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls and emails from the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor. The work there - and its associated frustration - sent me down a path of sending requests throughout the US to both learn...
Blog posts of...
The unannounced updates to Facebook’s Social Plugins and how to use them! Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They...
over a year 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...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Favourable Enough for a Writer' Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the...
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Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the society of the future – our own favourable enough for a writer. By its absurdities, its injustices, its vices, its stupidities, it nourishes a writer’s observations. The more men...
Seth's Blog
The first person “I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so...
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“I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so good. But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, is it “he” or “she” or “they” or “it”? Because anything that is an “it” shouldn’t be able to say “I”. We […]
Maps Mania
The End of the Rainforest
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Spoon & Tamago
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Takane Elementary School and Takane No.2 Dam | images courtesy Hida Takayama A key strategy to reducing our environmental impact involves integrating principles of a circular economy that prioritizes reuse, recovery, and refurbishment of existing infrastructure and resources. The...
NeuroLogica Blog
Some Thoughts on Aging If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in...
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If either of the two presumptive nominees for the major political parties in the US are elected in November they will be the oldest person ever to be inaugerated as president. What implications does this have? As a neurologist who sees patients every workday of various ages,...
Maps Mania
You Are HERE
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David Heinemeier...
Learning to accept defeat against reality A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing...
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A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing to accept defeat when reality proves them wrong. Armed with an intellect that's at once both too proud to recognize it's own failings and cunningly capable of producing...
The Works in...
Apply to come to Invisible College Our new residential seminar for 18 to 22-year-olds, during August 2024
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diamond geezer
Behind The Red Moon Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of...
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a year ago
Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of the millennium. There's also the giant artwork in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which over the years has been amazing, tedious, thought-provoking, bland, must-see, involving,...
Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer...
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Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer). You can also watch the video on YouTube. The content itself...
Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land Nothing connects.
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Both Are True
hello from the other side a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
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balajis.com
Global Crypto Regulation: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a...
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #7 The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford...
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The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford side, both under and beside the flyover. A third lane is already substantially carved out at the end of Stratford High Street. Below we see a broad curve where grey concrete block...
NeuroLogica Blog
It’s Not Possible – Until Suddenly It Is There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the...
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There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the world is political will. Often politicians and motivational speakers will say something along the lines of, “We can do anything, if we put our minds to it.” While this sounds like...
Noahpinion
Europe is not ready to be a "third superpower" For that, it would need to act as a unified entity, defend itself against Russia, and embrace new...
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TheCollector
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Rest of World -...
Japan’s news app unicorn was ready to take on the US market. Where did it go wrong? Former SmartNews employees point to failed product launches and far-right obsession of former CEO.
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Construction Physics
Book Review: Healthy Buildings Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about...
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a year ago
Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about how buildings affect health. Allen is a former environmental consultant, professor of public health, and director of Harvard’s “Healthy Buildings” program. Macomber is a lecturer...
Steve Blank
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon...
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This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s advisory...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Making Software The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. More manpower !== more innovation. design innovation isn’t generally a question of team size but more about having the resources and freedom to experiment...
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New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold … Continue reading → The post Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There...
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Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.  I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. That...
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You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know: Google has been developing a new…
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In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard problems in computer science: 1) cache invalidation and 2) naming things. Then he unapologetically says the “naming things” problem is solved with LLMs. Here’s Simon: [When asking...
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On June, 25, 1763, Boswell and Dr. Johnson dined at the Mitre Tavern on Fleet Street. The friends had met for the first time just a month earlier at Thomas Davies’ bookshop on Russell Street. Johnson starts the conversation with a dismissal of Thomas Gray (1716-71). In the...
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The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for NYC and the surrounding metro area as it has been for the last twenty years. I am not going to link to the piece because it is behind a paywall but if you want to read […]
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
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Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need) Here’s what I think NYC needs to become a serious, long-term startup hub: Some extremely successful...
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Here’s what I think NYC needs to become a serious, long-term startup hub: Some extremely successful startups. We need PayPals – companies…
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I’ve been enjoying Plato’s dialogues recently.  I’d read some of them before, at university or during my last Greek phase 25 years ago, and this time I hope to read almost all of them. I will make some notes on them in a few posts.  Give them a tag if nothing else, and make some...
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I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.
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At the beginning of the year, I bought a new M2 MacBook Air for ¥220,800 (about 1,500 USD) on Apple Japan’s online store. Thanks to me not bothering to set up Find My, it’s now a worthless brick. To add insult to injury, I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have said brick returned to...
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Via Core77, some excerpts of Clara Mu He’s masters thesis, which propose a way to make wood-frame construction much more amenable to recycling and reuse of materials: here. In short, if you use strapped and ganged lumber sticks rather than special sizes and penetrative...
Anecdotal Evidence
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An entry dated June 15, 1830 in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Table Talk: “[Jonathan, not Taylor] Swift was anima Rabelaisii habitans in sicco,--the soul of Rabelais dwelling in a dry place. Yet Swift was rare.”   Now there’s a metaphor that sticks in the mind – “dwelling in a dry...
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It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It involved countless gallons of water, hours of labor, gallons of fuel. A complex supply chain that ensured you got what you needed, in perfect condition, just as you were ready for it. And...
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Close-up Photographs of Sumo Wrestlers Evoke Mountain Ranges Shrouded in Fog Last month, the 107th High School Kanazawa City Sumo Tournament was held. The event has been held...
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Last month, the 107th High School Kanazawa City Sumo Tournament was held. The event has been held annually for over 100 years and attracts spectators locally but also from across Japan. But for the past 3 years, because of covid restrictions, the event had been held without...
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Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
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The Hegelochus lesson More than 2,000 years ago, an actor in Greece botched a line in a play. In an inflection error, he...
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More than 2,000 years ago, an actor in Greece botched a line in a play. In an inflection error, he said “weasel” when he meant to say “calm sea.” As a result, he was mocked by Sannyrion and then Aristophanes and others. He never worked again. The lesson might be that one innocent...
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The rise and fall of D&D in Japan In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
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In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
Anecdotal Evidence
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R.L. Barth has sent a new epigram, “Baffled,” not overtly related to the Vietnam War:  “I see these hands on the deck railing, but Whose are they? Have they any meaning? What?”   Some readers will understand. The familiar can become strange with age. That’s not always a...
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<![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in traditional file based Common Lisp systems. In a previous post I explained how the residential environment of Medley works, discussed some of its facilities and tools, and...
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You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
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Old Structures...
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The City Hall Station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line – a station that’s been abandoned since 1945 – is probably more popular to use as a backdrop in movies (and comic books) than any other. It’s really not a typical station: it’s much more ornate than most, it only has one...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Lofty Vehicle, High Dudgeon' A friend is studying Greek while reading Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad alongside...
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A friend is studying Greek while reading Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad alongside George Chapman’s version of Homer from the seventeenth century. Like me, she’s a reader not a scholar, and like generations of students and common readers I first encountered Chapman...
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Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple lua, later perl, which announced when a new day9 episode has come. Later I expanded it to search for new manga episodes, but now it’s broken and unfinished. In an attempt to learn...
computers are bad
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I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to...
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The Internet Economy We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook,...
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We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far…
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now...
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Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work. And work, they do. Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
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Technical skills will get you so far in Design. You need to focus on soft skills such as Communication, Time Management if you want to grow and stand out.
ntietz.com blog
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
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Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
Transit Maps
Historical Maps: Private Railways and Extra-urban Tramways of Italy, 1936 I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below –...
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I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below – head to the originating website to view all 20 of them. Enjoy! Source: Stagniweb.it
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles “My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death     Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....