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The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Andu Masebo
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Courage to Face Reality Squarely' I’m flying to Cleveland today to see my brother who has been diagnosed with cancer. It has already...
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I’m flying to Cleveland today to see my brother who has been diagnosed with cancer. It has already metastasized and he’s in the Cleveland Clinic, waiting to be admitted to their hospice program. Ken turned sixty-nine in April and is two and a half years younger than me. My...
nanoscale views
Cavities and tuning physics I've written before about cavity quantum electrodynamics.  An electromagnetic cavity - a resonator...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've written before about cavity quantum electrodynamics.  An electromagnetic cavity - a resonator of some kind, like your microwave oven chamber is for microwaves, or like an optical cavity made using nearly perfect mirrors - picks out what electromagnetic modes are allowed...
Alex MacCaw
The AI is coming May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
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over a year ago
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test. In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
Louwrentius
Linux: script that creates table of network interface properties My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an existing linux command for this but I couldn't find it so I quickly wrote my own script (download). This is the output: The only requirement for this script is that you have...
Notes on software...
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
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a year ago
With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
The Modern House
Cover Stories: five new architecture, art and design books for your shelf Inspiration may come in many forms but it’s flighty and hard to find. That said, one place you can...
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9 months ago
Inspiration may come in many forms but it’s flighty and hard to find. That said, one place you can be quite sure to pin it down it is on a bookshelf. And while those at TMH HQ are already groaning, we can’t resist the allure […]
The Turn Signal RSS...
Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
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The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Godcat has a special message for you Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series. View on my...
9 months ago
Maps Mania
Live 2 Years Longer with Better Air Quality
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024 Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
Londonist
Time Travel Back To 17th Century London - With This Royalist Reenactment Along The Mall Commemorating the execution of Charles I.
11 months ago
Common Edge
Social Radicalism Reexamined: The Legacies of Christopher Alexander and Joseph Rykwert What these foreign-born giants of design theory brought to two American universities.
6 months ago
The American Scholar
“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on The American Scholar.
Atoms vs Bits
If Not Could Not Suppose you're hiring for a sales job. In the first interview, the candidate says: "I'm very good at...
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8 months ago
Suppose you're hiring for a sales job. In the first interview, the candidate says: "I'm very good at selling things." Well, that's nice: the job is all about selling things, so someone good at selling things would indeed be a good fit.
Louwrentius
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have almost all features you might want from a SAN, except for official SSD-support. It seems that the new MSA 2040 adds support for SSDs and also provides 4 GB cache per controller...
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know undefined
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
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a month ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
Noahpinion
2023 is when the empires strike back Cold War 2 won't be decided by the opening moves.
a year ago
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
Blog posts of...
Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again! Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...
Christian Selig
Choosing a travel pack is hard I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines...
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I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines losing your stuff. Outside of requiring a bit more planning, what’s not to love? Turns out this is a beloved product category with a passionate community behind it, and as a result...
Contemporist...
A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
Detecting the Secret Cyborgs The AI Trap for Organizations
a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could...
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Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how prokaryotic genomes respond to a small population size. The post The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes first appeared on Quanta...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
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a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
TheCollector
5 of Hildegard of Bingen’s Most Notable Works undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Time for a factory reset. Today's News: Thank you!
a month ago
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650) At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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10 months ago
At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
Both Are True
The ONLY Tip You Need To Become A Great Writer If you are ready to change your life, keep reading.
5 months ago
FIRE v London
In praise of Berkshire Hathaway I think I first clocked Warren Buffett’s (and Charlie Munger RIP’s) Berkshire Hathaway around the...
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I think I first clocked Warren Buffett’s (and Charlie Munger RIP’s) Berkshire Hathaway around the year 2000. I loved the story. Starting from, as the story was told back then, humble beginnings and a paper round, Warren Buffett (and Charlie – who I will stop mentioning but...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The idea maze for AI startups An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An “idea maze” is a map of all the key decisions and tradeoffs that startups in a given space need to make: A good founder is capable of…
devonzuegel.com
Property values should be normalized by acre In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without...
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In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car can drive without considering how much gas it uses to get there. Different properties...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It's Uncanny. The Past Is Not Dead.' “The Ferryman’s Due,” my article about Andrew Rickard and his Obolus Press, is published in the...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
“The Ferryman’s Due,” my article about Andrew Rickard and his Obolus Press, is published in the January 2025 issue of The New Criterion.: “Rickard often encounters such passages, in which the author he is translating seems to speak for him. ‘It’s uncanny. The past is not dead,’...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #194 Poor Charlie's Almanack, Ben Graham, GAAP accounting, John Templeton, AI dystopia, Inflation,...
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9 months ago
Poor Charlie's Almanack, Ben Graham, GAAP accounting, John Templeton, AI dystopia, Inflation, Bloomstran on Berkshire, Intuitive Surgical, The lessons of history
TheCollector
Work Begins on Naples’ New Archaeological Museum undefined
6 months ago
A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
16 hours ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
You Can See the 2024 Solar Eclipse During This 22-Day Cruise
a year ago
Mazdak
The Big News: ChatGPT Pays Up for Content, Ushering in a New Era for Media & AI Get ready for a paradigm shift, folks! News just dropped that OpenAI, the brains behind ChatGPT, has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Get ready for a paradigm shift, folks! News just dropped that OpenAI, the brains behind ChatGPT, has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Axel Springer, the media giant behind Politico and Business Insider. This isn't just any deal, it's a game-changer
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Span Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious....
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious. I wonder if it's incorrect to think of attention span as a single parameter. Maybe we have attention spans for particular sense modalities or even particular activities. Today's...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
3,573 Days On The Road Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.
Maps Mania
Tracking Russia's 'Dark' Shadow Ships
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media – and finding mainland fans. Users have responded enthusiastically to their selfies, food pics, and Father’s Day updates.
a year ago
Flashbak
Painting The Celestial Afterglow after Krakatoa, 1888 On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
On the 27th August 1883, the Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano exploded and the sky changed colour. Lying on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung, Krakatoa was hit by a series of four massive eruptions – the equivalent to 200...
Matt Blewitt
Point and Call It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for. Sleepy, you load up the playbook for when the SplineReticulatorBlocked alert has gone off, and start executing. The Incident Commander (IC) is vaguely aware of what...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and going quick” is: I can burp some npm commands into my terminal, burp some more to setup a deployment pipeline and blam! Website. The time to product demo is so low. But there’s...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy Establishing relationships with new users is the hardest part of growing a startup.  For consumer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Establishing relationships with new users is the hardest part of growing a startup.  For consumer products establishing relationships can…
Seth's Blog
It’s not easy to see time Consider a simple graph of the temperature of the Earth over time. There’s nothing interesting about...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Consider a simple graph of the temperature of the Earth over time. There’s nothing interesting about any frame of this graph. But when we pause for just a few seconds for it to load and render, we can see 150 years unfold and then the truth becomes apparent. The snapshot is a...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
blag
Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
Tech + Economics +...
There is a deep rot at the heart of Australian tech. Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record as saying that I am a man pretending to be a woman. It's an old, outdated, obsolete and uninteresting transphobic trope. In itself, it's almost not worth mentioning. But...
CONTEMPORIST
This Small Shingle Clad Cabin Has An Organic Shape Photography by Peter Markos Markos Design Workshop has shared photos of a small organically shaped...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Photography by Peter Markos Markos Design Workshop has shared photos of a small organically shaped cabin clad in wood shingles they designed, that began as a project during the pandemic, however, they didn’t have any money or land for the project. Peter Markos explains, “My...
NeuroLogica Blog
Reconductoring our Electrical Grid Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in the energy sector, mainly involved in new solar projects. This is not surprising as Texas is second only to California in solar installation. I asked him if he is experiencing a...
Josh Comeau's blog
Magical Rainbow Gradients If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible....
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over a year ago
If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients, using CSS Houdini, CSS variables,...
Old Structures...
180 Years I found myself in Greenport NY for a project and was pleasantly surprised by the presence of the old...
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4 months ago
I found myself in Greenport NY for a project and was pleasantly surprised by the presence of the old train station there. It’s not the current station, which is a bare concrete platform off to the right of the picture, and it’s not the original station, but that’s okay. As you...
TheCollector
What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works undefined
3 months ago
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
diamond geezer
Open House (3) Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star architect where everyone had to wear a name badge in case the over-excitable staff wanted to make conversation, but there was in fact hardly anything to see and I was out of there...
The Honest Broker
The Number of Songs in the World Doubled Yesterday Did you even notice?
a year ago
Both Are True
The "Don't Buy More Shit" Gift Guide A list of zero cost, $0.00 gifts, because "I love you" shouldn't mean "I am so broke again wtf...
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
The LEGO Star Wars Inception LEGO and Star Wars created a $1B+ a year toy monster by combining two iconic brands that appeal to...
8 months ago
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LEGO and Star Wars created a $1B+ a year toy monster by combining two iconic brands that appeal to both children and adults.
Noahpinion
Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper Yes, market-rate!
9 months ago
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
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Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987) “I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
Maggie Appleton
A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019
over a year ago
Ian Betteridge
Weeknote, Sunday 10th November 2024 It’s been a while since I wrote a weeknote, although I’ve kept up with the other kinds of writing...
a month ago
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a month ago
It’s been a while since I wrote a weeknote, although I’ve kept up with the other kinds of writing that I do. But: I work now. I’m working at a small B2B publisher helping them sort out a few things. This was originally going to be an in-and-out job which would take nine months,...
Blog - Practical...
Is the World Really Running Out of Sand? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have to know the answer right away, it’s no; or at least, my goal with this video is to convince you that the world is not running out of sand. But if it were that simple, I wouldn’t be here (right?) and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GDPR-compliant analytics tools The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use...
a year ago
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The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use tools like Google Analytics to track and collect user…
AVC
Sleep I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep...
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I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first […]
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
10 months ago
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
a year ago
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
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over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Arduino Blog
Exploring fungal intelligence with biohybrid robots powered by Arduino At Cornell University, Dr. Anand Kumar Mishra and his team have been conducting groundbreaking...
a month ago
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a month ago
At Cornell University, Dr. Anand Kumar Mishra and his team have been conducting groundbreaking research that brings together the fields of robotics, biology, and engineering. Their recent experiments, published in Science, explore how fungal mycelia can be used to control robots....
Londonist
Where To Volunteer In London At Christmas 2023 Make someone else's Christmas special.
a year ago
Wuthering...
The best books of 2023, in a sense - "Aren't you tired of reading?" Last January seems even more distant than usual at this time of year.  It will likely not...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Last January seems even more distant than usual at this time of year.  It will likely not surprise anyone that 2023 now comes with a strong feeling of Before and After.  So I will indulge in the “facetious and silly” exercise of identifying the best books I read in 2023.  Sorting...
The Universe of...
Loki the comedian Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The Æsir have killed Skaði's father, and owe her compensation. She has been sad since her father died, she says, and demands that the Æsir make her laugh. Loki rubs his hands together...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 19 Refactoring the business entity, thoughts on marketing and building
9 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI." Kevin Kelly thinks artificial intelligence is finally ready deliver on its promise: The AI on the...
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
SimpleImage 3.0 Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
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Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images. Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it. Overview # Here's how it works at a glance: try { // Create a new SimpleImage object $image =...
somethingaboutmaps
Take the 2024 Freelance Mapper Survey Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every...
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Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every two years. We ask people who do freelance mapping work about their fees and other business practices, in order to help bring more transparency to our little niche of the world, and...
Dustin Curtis
Bill Gates is Angry Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past...
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over a year ago
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be...
IEEE Spectrum
The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker How the automatic rice cooker was invented It isn’t often that housewives get credit in the annals...
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How the automatic rice cooker was invented It isn’t often that housewives get credit in the annals of invention, but in the story of the automatic rice cooker, a woman takes center stage. That happened only after the first attempts at electrifying rice cooking, starting in the...
Notes on software...
Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary In this post we'll stumble toward a working emulator for a barebones C program compiled for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll stumble toward a working emulator for a barebones C program compiled for linux/AMD64. The approach will be slightly more so based on observation than by following a spec; a great way to quickly become familiar with a topic, and a bad way to...
Maps Mania
Finding Shade from the City Heat
a year ago
Maps Mania
The 2024 #30DayMapChallenge
2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Such a Touchy, Testy, Pleasant Fellow' One of the curses of a good memory is the inability to forget stupid, hurtful things we said in the...
7 months ago
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One of the curses of a good memory is the inability to forget stupid, hurtful things we said in the past, and sometimes last week. Years ago I wrecked a friendship with a glib remark, a wisecrack that I didn’t even believe but had convinced myself was funny (it was, in fact, but...
The Beauty of...
My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK) A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is the hush of the parkway station between train services, and the station it has just departed from is Worcestershire Parkway. Though one of the best designed parkway stations, and a...
One from Nippon
The Surprising Roots of Japan's Indian Curry It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
11 months ago
Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7 Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
Acquisition #12 - Onsched We've been a little quiet over here as we start rolling out XO 2.0, using outside capital instead of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We've been a little quiet over here as we start rolling out XO 2.0, using outside capital instead of our own cash to acquire larger businesses. It's taken a bit of time from deal #11 to #12. We didn't buy anything for 9
samwho.dev
Memory Allocation .memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top:...
a year ago
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Grow With Less
This 20-Minute On-Page SEO Checklist Could Save Your Rankings What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting...
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What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting blacklisted by Google and seeing all their organic traffic vanish overnight. And a common way this happens is when Google realizes your blog is infected before you do and simply...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Slosh Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me, so we may be OK. Today's News:
diamond geezer
Wembley Brook THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wembley Brook Sudbury → Wembley → Tokyngton (2½ miles) This one's minor...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wembley Brook Sudbury → Wembley → Tokyngton (2½ miles) This one's minor enough that I'd never heard of it before squinting more closely at a map of Wembley. This may be because the brook only spends a mile on the surface and spends the rest of its...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Principle Is Growth' I remember learning as a kid the word dendrology while reading about maple trees (we had seven in...
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I remember learning as a kid the word dendrology while reading about maple trees (we had seven in our front yard – all are gone, one carried away by a tornado) in a field guide: the study of trees. From the Greek for “tree.” A close synonym is silvics, this time from the Latin. I...
The Modern House
How architect Charlie Luxton built a hidden home into a hillside in Oxfordfordshire
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The Marginalian
Stunning 200-Year-Old French Illustrations of Exotic, Endangered, and Extinct Birds From peacocks to penguins, a winged menagerie of wonder.
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Seth's Blog
Putting up the big numbers Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday...
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Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday (or more than the person next to them). You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock...
Math Is Still...
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating...
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In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field. The post A Rosetta Stone for...
TheCollector
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Blog - Bitfield...
Why you can't meditate You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to...
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You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see how.
Seth's Blog
When was the last time you used a compass? How about an astrolabe? Or even a watch? Technology advances, and sooner or later, the old stuff...
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How about an astrolabe? Or even a watch? Technology advances, and sooner or later, the old stuff gets left behind. It’s easy to romanticize some of the classic devices that we built civilization on, and it’s worth remembering that the tech we’re wrestling with now will soon be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
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Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
Patrick Kayongo
Digital Platforms & The Proselytisation of American Civilisation A few months ago, I was on a Microsoft Teams call. As one sometimes does to distract themselves from...
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A few months ago, I was on a Microsoft Teams call. As one sometimes does to distract themselves from looking at their own face, I started clicking buttons around the Teams call window. I found an interesting one directing me to a “Speaker Coach”. Clicking on it, The AITM started...
A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
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I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise. One...
Infinite Scroll
Worst Tweets of 2024 - Dishonorable Mentions All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
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The Forney Flyer
Living up North, Way back When Here's a shot of the little village where we lived for several years. It was nestled on the banks of...
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Here's a shot of the little village where we lived for several years. It was nestled on the banks of the Koyukuk River, just above the Arctic Circle, not too far South of Gates of the Arctic National Park. There were no roads to the village. You could only get there by airplane...
Escaping Flatland
In praise of insular groups Last spring, as we were exploring the coastline of our island, Johanna, the kids, and I crossed a...
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Last spring, as we were exploring the coastline of our island, Johanna, the kids, and I crossed a meadow where two men were artificially inseminating a longhaired cow. We stopped to observe the work. When it was done, one of the men came over to where we stood by the electric...
Epic Web Dev
The Web’s Next Transition Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
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Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
Diaries of Note
A duty, not a pleasure John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after...
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John Fowles was twenty-three when he wrote this journal entry in 1949. Just a few years after spending two years in the military, he was now navigating his final year at Oxford, and as the festive season descended he found himself back at home, enveloped in the annual Christmas...
Spoon & Tamago
The 2023 Spoon & Tamago Gift Guide 2023 felt like a turning point for Japan. After several years of covid-induced seclusion, tourism...
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2023 felt like a turning point for Japan. After several years of covid-induced seclusion, tourism rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. And although just anecdotal, so many people we spoke to who previously had no connection to Japan, were planning trips and honeymoons that it truly...
Stoic Simple
What Does it Mean to be a Stoic? Using Christianity to Explain Stoicism by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a...
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by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a quasi-parallel to help answer this question. What does it mean to be a Christian? I think the base-line of the faith is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.  In Stoicism that...
Rest of World -...
The Northeast Indian YouTubers challenging cultural stereotypes through mukbang Tribes in Northeast India have long been isolated from the rest of the country. Creators are using...
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Tribes in Northeast India have long been isolated from the rest of the country. Creators are using YouTube to challenge the cliches that isolate them.
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Intermediate Forms
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The Marginalian
17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels...
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The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels to me now almost like a different species of consciousness. (It can only be so — if we don’t continually outgrow ourselves, if we don’t wince a little at our former ideas, ideals,...
Weighty Thoughts
The Fall of Data Moats AI actually makes most data moats weaker
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The Honest Broker
Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker' Let me take you on a tour
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Maps Mania
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Toxic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just...
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./techtipsy
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure! There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
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There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future). The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
The Marginalian
The Proper Object of Love: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We...
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One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to understand people — and “understanding is love’s other name.” Even without...
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
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Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
Many Worlds
Getting To Know Rogue Planets In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large...
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In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large and small orbiting around it.   This is hardly surprising since planets are pretty much exclusively illustrated in solar systems and, until the onset of the 21st century, no other...
Arduino Blog
Galco goes Platinum! Welcome our newest SIPP Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce...
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Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce distributor that specializes in providing a wide range of industrial and commercial electrical and electronic products, focusing on maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).  Known for...
Josh Collinsworth
Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it...
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Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
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(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
Common Edge
Capturing America, One State Capitol at a Time A new book celebrates the lost grandeur and optimism of democracy.
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Networking as an introvert CTO There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like...
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There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish […] The post Networking as an introvert CTO appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Smart Bear
The only way to guarantee startup success What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and...
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What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and fulfillment? Or are those found right here, right now.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Robin Mackenzie I am Robin Mackenzie, a Wood Engraver and Lino Cutter based in Dorset.  I create limited edition...
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I am Robin Mackenzie, a Wood Engraver and Lino Cutter based in Dorset.  I create limited edition relief prints using a combination of hand printing and an Albion printing press.  My work explores the British coast and countryside.  Beginning with walks and research trips I seek...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
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The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manage tags
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Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this...
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In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do less of it: names < pointers < labels < bytes Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
Tech and Tea
Feelings on top of feelings feelings we resist and judge ourselves for
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Rest of World -...
The winners of Rest of World’s first photography contest From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the...
a year ago
Nela Dunato Art &...
Why people avoid social media detox (let’s bust those excuses) I truly believe everyone would benefit from taking a long break from social media at least once a...
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I truly believe everyone would benefit from taking a long break from social media at least once a year. In my many articles on this topic I gushed about the benefits of digital media sabbaticals, and my own experiences with increased mindfulness, focus, and productivity. So let’s...
bt RSS Feed
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
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At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On writing regularly It has been a while (perhaps too long) since I’ve written publicly. My notepad is, however, filled...
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It has been a while (perhaps too long) since I’ve written publicly. My notepad is, however, filled with half jotted down ideas, semi-written essays, and the scratchings and sketches of a madman re-learning algebra and Spanish. I once knew a man who lived by the somewhat...
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 15, 2024 Empire State manufacturing survey for December. The...
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Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 15, 2024 Empire State manufacturing survey for December. The consensus is for a reading of 5.8, down from 31.2. Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are mostly unchanged (fair value). WTI futures at $71.12 per...
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America undefined
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diamond geezer
18U 55V 51W On Saturday I proposed that 18U Brondesbury Park NW6 7BT is London's highest lettered house....
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On Saturday I proposed that 18U Brondesbury Park NW6 7BT is London's highest lettered house. Nothing's going to beat a run of houses that goes 18J, 18K, 18L, 18M, 18N, 18P, 18Q, 18R, 18S, 18T, 18U, I thought. Not so. There are in fact over 50 properties in the capital that can...
Seth's Blog
Important problems Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower,...
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Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower, resources and coordination. Some problems have simple solutions, while others are complex in what it takes to move forward. The trivial problems are fun. They’re simple to solve and...
journal – Winnie Lim
generating mini turning points Because of multiple factors my mind seem to be perpetually stuck in an unwanted state of sadness,...
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Because of multiple factors my mind seem to be perpetually stuck in an unwanted state of sadness, fatigue and paralysis. I have learnt that it is possible to break out of this...
Wuthering...
Books finished in March 2023 For some reason I have been putting a monthly account of completed books on Twitter, where it is a...
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For some reason I have been putting a monthly account of completed books on Twitter, where it is a common practice, although mostly with photographs of book stacks.  I am not sure why I have not put the lists here as well.  I guess I am not sure any of this is interesting. Soon,...
diamond geezer
The Hayes diagram TfL are proposing a small change to bus route 350 in Hayes, diverting it to terminate alongside new...
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TfL are proposing a small change to bus route 350 in Hayes, diverting it to terminate alongside new flats on Nestles Avenue rather than outside Asda. It's not a particularly controversial consultation, nor indeed terribly interesting unless you live very locally. this map titled...
Maps Mania
Drowning in Plastic
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Cheese and Biscuits
Lulu's, Herne Hill Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most...
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Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most importantly from my point of view - dramatically improving the quality of food photography on this blog. I'm sure Lulu's would be a lovely, cozy little spot even in the depths of...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
A not so gentle intro to web3 Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
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Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
Max Rozen
Books every developer should read Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should...
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Whether you want to start a career as a developer, or have been a developer for 20 years, you should check out these books.
ntietz.com blog
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!" A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The...
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A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here. Hey Nicole! At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
TheCollector
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The Gradient
What Do LLMs Know About Linguistics? It Depends on How You Ask On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and...
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On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and categorize how specific prompting choices can affect the model's behavior.
Seth's Blog
Out of control It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and...
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It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and they’re doing things that they’ll regret later. And it’s honest when we acknowledge that just about everything is out of our control. We can work to influence it, we can practice...
Open Culture
Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Disney Collaboration 57 Years in the Making In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a...
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In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, decided to work together on a...
TheCollector
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swyx's site RSS Feed
#HeyForGood Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
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Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
Rest of World -...
Uber’s largest vehicle financing partner is an African startup with global ambitions From India to the U.K., UAE, and Thailand, Nigeria-founded Moove is chasing profitability.
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Diaries of Note
Cowslips capriciously colouring meadows in creamy drifts Although not widely acclaimed during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is now...
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Although not widely acclaimed during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is now recognised as one of the most brilliant poets of the Victorian era, celebrated for the masterful use of language, rhythm, and evocative imagery in his poetry. A committed Jesuit priest,...
diamond geezer
I've been to see some art I've been to see some art. Art West: Serpentine Gallery Many's the time I've traipsed to the...
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I've been to see some art. Art West: Serpentine Gallery Many's the time I've traipsed to the middle of Kensington Gardens only to be underwhelmed. Thankfully this time it was well worth the effort. Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States (until 1 September) Yinka did the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Don’t See Other People As Peculiar' For my money, the Canadian short story writer is Mavis Gallant (1922-2014), not Alice Munro, who is...
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For my money, the Canadian short story writer is Mavis Gallant (1922-2014), not Alice Munro, who is too dull to endure. (Joseph Epstein said of her work: “Humor never obtrudes.”) Born in Montreal, Gallant moved to Europe in 1950, hoping to give up journalism and write fiction....
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber? undefined
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Noahpinion
California needs real math education, not gimmicks A guest post by Armand Domalewski.
a year ago
Christopher Butler
From the Desk Of Wouldn’t it be nice if you could actually peer over another designer’s shoulder once in a while and...
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could actually peer over another designer’s shoulder once in a while and see what they actually do? design means different things to different people, as does the title Designer. As much as I prefer the simplicity of Designer to, say, Interaction...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Subliminal git commits Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS...
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Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC. In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”? “Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
David Heinemeier...
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support,...
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For over twenty years, the Mac was the default at 37signals. For designers, programmers, support, and everyone else. That mono culture had some clear advantages, like being able to run Kandji and macOS-specific setup scripts. But it certainly also had its disadvantages, like...
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War? All of us, except the AI startups and VCs—unless a real war breaks out
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Londonist
"Every Year We Do A Free Christmas Day Dinner At Our Wimbledon Pub, For People On Their Own" Almost 200 people come to the Alex on 25 Dec.
a year ago
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. Notable improvements and...
TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In The Matrix, people need a fake paradise, but...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In The Matrix, people need a fake paradise, but most humans would do it for about 1 percent of that. Today's News:
nanoscale views
Dye-sensitized solar cells - an idea whose time has finally come? Dyes are generally small molecules that have electronic transitions with energies corresponding...
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Dyes are generally small molecules that have electronic transitions with energies corresponding to the visible spectrum of light (around 1-3 eV).  Around 35 years ago, the idea was put forward, particularly by Michael Grätzel and Brian O'Regan, to couple dye molecules to...
99% Invisible
Melanie Speaks [EPISODE] Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve...
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Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve been told that you speak like your mom, or that you laugh like your uncle. Maybe you sometimes slip back into an accent that reveals something about your past. Maybe you have a...
The Honest Broker
How to Read Greek Tragedy in a Netflix World If you dare
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Retail Design Blog
Sidewalk Bakehouse and Cafe by Forearch Studios In Lucknow, retro chic meets modern pulse at Sidewalk Bakehouse & Café In the sphere of hospitality,...
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In Lucknow, retro chic meets modern pulse at Sidewalk Bakehouse & Café In the sphere of hospitality, where does the...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty undefined
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Retail Design Blog
RIDET office by RooMoo Design Studio Shanghai RIDET Technology is a pioneering company specializing in developing life sciences...
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Shanghai RIDET Technology is a pioneering company specializing in developing life sciences instruments. RIDET’s office space on the first floor...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 2 (In the Shadow of the Volcano) We landed at Juan Santamaría airport in San José on a Friday afternoon, clearing Immigration and...
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We landed at Juan Santamaría airport in San José on a Friday afternoon, clearing Immigration and Customs nearly effortlessly. Then we got a taste of rush hour traffic riding on the shuttle to retrieve our rental car. Driving conditions became a lot more difficult later in the...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of New Orleans (US Civil War)? undefined
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Luxagraf:...
Autumn Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit...
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Every year for the past couple of years, when September rolls around we start getting ready to hit the road, packing away the paddle boards, washing the bus, and burning through the last of the firewood. Sometime around the middle of the month we say goodbye to friends and head...
Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
symmetry magazine
IceCube and NANOGrav open new windows onto the universe New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use...
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New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use different forms of messengers to study the cosmos.
Anecdotal Evidence
'One Thing Always to Be Guarded Against' “Poetry, geography, moral essays, the divers [sic] subjects of philosophy, travels, natural history,...
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“Poetry, geography, moral essays, the divers [sic] subjects of philosophy, travels, natural history, books on sciences; and, in short, the whole range of book-knowledge is before you; but there is one thing always to be guarded against; and that is, not to admire and applaud...
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From Linear to Logistic – Sigmoid Curve and Log Loss Can we predict the likelihood of heart disease from sleep and exercise? This is my fourth post on my...
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Can we predict the likelihood of heart disease from sleep and exercise? This is my fourth post on my journey to build a toy GPT. I’d recommend checking out my previous posts before diving into this one. Let’s train a model to predict heart disease using sleep and exercise data....
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My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
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If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
The Modern House
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Claudia Donaldson was the photography director at Wallpaper magazine, before becoming editor-in-chief of Nowness, the video platform that revolutionised the way we consume arts and culture. Under her stewardship, it is now considered a go-to source of inspiration and influence,...
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A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
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High Leverage One-on-Ones One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's...
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One-on-ones are an important resource for both managers and individual contributors. However, it's easy to misuse them and squander the opportunity altogether. Let's explore how to get the most of out of these meetings by turning them into high-leverage touchpoints.
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On...
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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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A First Attempt If you’re familiar with a final product, looking at the early ideas can be disconcerting. Things...
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If you’re familiar with a final product, looking at the early ideas can be disconcerting. Things seem familiar but wrong, as can be seen in this 1870s map with a proposal for Morningside Park. The Upper West Side was pretty sparsely populated at that time because of the...
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What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
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PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
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Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 1 | Out-Of-Pocket we should pay people to be healthy + building a new EMR
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The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
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PAON Architects embodies a creative and collaborative work environment within a compact 180-square-meter space, thoughtfully designed to enhance the quality...
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Market Bipolarity: Exuberance versus Exhaustion! As we enter the last quarter of 2023, it has been a roller coaster of a year. We started the year...
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As we enter the last quarter of 2023, it has been a roller coaster of a year. We started the year with significant uncertainty about whether the surge in inflation seen in 2022 would persist as well as about whether the economy was headed into a recession. In the first half of...
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The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
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Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population What is the ideal size of the human population? One common answer is “much smaller.” Paul Ehrlich,...
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What is the ideal size of the human population? One common answer is “much smaller.” Paul Ehrlich, co-author of The Population Bomb (1968), has as recently as 2018 promoted the idea that “the world’s optimum population is less than two billion people,” a reduction of the current...
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See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to...
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Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One event in the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the very...
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As Deputy Director-General of MI5 from 1940 to 1952, Guy Liddell was one of the its key figures during a pivotal time that included World War II and the early years of the Cold War. Known for his role in elaborate counter-espionage schemes including the famous “Double Cross...
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DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now working on developing a magnet-driven silent water propulsion system – the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive. The primary reason is to develop silent military naval craft. Imagine a nuclear submarine with an MHD drive,...
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The digital barback A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready...
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A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready to go. Having someone else do your mise en place can dramatically improve your productivity. And now, with a bit of effort, you can train an AI and a few systems to do it for you....
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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'Linux: monitor a directory for files' Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The...
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Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The inotifywait comand line utility can be used in shell scripts to monitor directories for new files. It can also be used to monitor files for changes. Inotifywait must be installed and is...
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I Hate My Job And I Want To Cry. Tried chopping wood and carrying water?
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Buildings are important People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them...
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People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them Grow old in them Die in them Buildings are important. People decide big things here Decide on small things too Draw conclusions inside Make plans Change plans Change our minds Make...
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Book notes: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the...
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Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the Grain. This isn't a summary of the book. It's mostly for my future self to refer back to (and thus probably missing a lot for someone who hasn't read it), but the tidbits are so...
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Quantum Frontiers
A (quantum) complex legacy: Part deux I didn’t fancy the research suggestion emailed by my PhD advisor. A 2016 email from John Preskill...
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I didn’t fancy the research suggestion emailed by my PhD advisor. A 2016 email from John Preskill led to my publishing a paper about quantum complexity in 2022, as I explained in last month’s blog post. But I didn’t explain … Continue reading →
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How I Defeated An MMO Game Hack Author In the late 2000's, I worked at a niche MMO game company. We had a small team, not a lot of money,...
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In the late 2000's, I worked at a niche MMO game company. We had a small team, not a lot of money, but a loyal audience. It was a game of skill without any of the usual powerups and unreality, and the players enjoyed the challenge. Then, one
Anecdotal Evidence
'Very Close to the Caliber of Mark Twain' I found a 2001 interview with Shelby Foote in The American Enterprise. The author of the three...
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I found a 2001 interview with Shelby Foote in The American Enterprise. The author of the three volumes of The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-1974) was asked by Bill Kauffman about the scarcity of politicians who are today capable of formulating their own coherent let alone eloquent...
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Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
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It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
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Building products from improvised user behaviors For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared...
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For a long time, there were niche communities of “lo-fi” camera enthusiasts: people who shared photos taken on old cameras that had…
Seth's Blog
The page-a-day calendar Time passes. And humans have always kept track. Distribution and technology combined to create a few...
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Time passes. And humans have always kept track. Distribution and technology combined to create a few decades where the tear off daily calendar was nearly ubiquitous (read on for details on my new one, a collaboration with Debbie Millman). First, the industry needed to efficiently...
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
Diaries of Note
This tedious battle against the mountain is almost over At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second...
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At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second and third Americans ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, following an arduous journey that began alongside a formidable team of 17 other Americans, 32 Sherpas, and 909 porters...
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Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens? No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
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No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
Seth's Blog
Patterns and chaos Finding a pattern that explains events that seem like chaos is a breakthrough. It offers us...
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Finding a pattern that explains events that seem like chaos is a breakthrough. It offers us understanding and a lever we can use to make an impact. Sometimes, though, the breakthrough lies in understanding that there is no pattern, simply unpredictable noise. We need effort to...
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023 Most of them are not from 2023
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The Modern House
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The American Scholar
The Wonder of It All In search of awe The post The Wonder of It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Extremities of extremities For today's post I've visited the least extreme points in London's most extreme boroughs. As...
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For today's post I've visited the least extreme points in London's most extreme boroughs. As posts go it's a lot of effort for scant reward. Hillingdon East [map] Borderline with: Ealing Location: Yeading/Southall Specifically: bend on Grand Union towpath Distance from...
On Test Automation
First things first - automate the execution of your tests “Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in...
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“Well, it works on my machine” I’m sure we’ve all heard a developer say that to us at some point in our career, and we all roll our eyes at them in response. It clearly doesn’t work on your machine… We would do well to apply that exact same philosophy of ‘it shouldn’t just run on...
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Forget a U.S. ban — TikTok is thriving in its second-biggest market TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is...
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TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
Applied Cartography
Migrating to Django 5 The total LOC delta to migrate Buttondown from Django 4 to Django 5 was +143, -150. (I was...
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The total LOC delta to migrate Buttondown from Django 4 to Django 5 was +143, -150. (I was incentivized to do so because our search right now is quite slow, and the lowest hanging piece of fruit is to move some of the tsvector generation out of band, and I'd rather do that using...
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
Splitting lines Now that the Overground lines are being separately named, some people are asking whether other TfL...
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Now that the Overground lines are being separately named, some people are asking whether other TfL services should follow suit. n.b. The answer to this question is 'No', but stay with me as we go through the motions. n.b. These days the Circle line shadows the Hammersmith &...
CONTEMPORIST
This Modern Home Is Suspended Over A Creek Fougeron Architecture has shared photos of a home they remodeled that’s suspended between two...
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Fougeron Architecture has shared photos of a home they remodeled that’s suspended between two California hills, and spans a creek, and boasts a waterfall in the backyard. The goal of the project was to reconnect this structure into the environment while best utilizing the...
The Roots of...
Accelerating science through evolvable institutions This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on...
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This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on “Accelerating Science.” We’re here to discuss “accelerating science.” I like to start on topics like this by taking the historical view: When (if ever) has science accelerated in the...
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Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
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PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
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The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 2015, an unusual incident...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 2015, an unusual incident happened on the construction site for a sewage lift station in British Columbia, Canada. WorksafeBC, the provincial health and safety agency, posted a summary of the event on...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics there's SOME chance a duck explodes because you thought about it. Today's News:
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build your SaaS with freelancers? In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools...
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In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools and resources like no-code platforms, […] The post How to build your SaaS with freelancers? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Old Structures...
Examples Illustrated I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
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I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoics should be vegetarian Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy...
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Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in 1975. In truth, utilitarians have been very clear on the subject from the beginning. The...
Unpacked
Apple Watch pulls blood oxygen feature, and how big a deal is the GPT Store really? Listen now | In the second episode of this year, we peel a few layers beneath Apple's decision to...
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Listen now | In the second episode of this year, we peel a few layers beneath Apple's decision to pull the blood oxygen feature after losing a patent battle against Massimo. We then pivot to understanding the GPT Store and our analyses / hot takes on how big a deal this really...
Stephen Diehl
Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound
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A Beautiful Site
How to leave a console greeting for your visitors Since my audience consists primarily of web developers, I decided to try a little experiment the...
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over a year ago
Since my audience consists primarily of web developers, I decided to try a little experiment the other day. I added a console greeting to the site for anyone who decides to look under the hood. Here's how I did it. What the heck is a console greeting? # Some time ago, I saw a...
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
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ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
diamond geezer
The great Banksy cover-up I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it...
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I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it had been rammed with people crowding round the railings, so getting a decent photo was difficult. Day 4 someone chucked white paint over part of the artwork closest to the road and...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Readymade Thermal Obfuscation - A few quick tests with a consumer product. Using the Ikea FREKVENS Raincoat to hide from thermal imaging.
over a year ago
Irrational...
The Engineering Executive's Primer. See on O’Reilly’s website for The Engineering Executive’s Primer. In 2019, I worked with Stripe...
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See on O’Reilly’s website for The Engineering Executive’s Primer. In 2019, I worked with Stripe Press to publish my first book, An Elegant Puzzle, which captured many of the lessons I’d learned as an engineering manager in fast growing Silicon Valley companies. In 2021, I decided...
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How to use Gmail more efficiently I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought...
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I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...
Maps Mania
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On picking side-projects Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
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Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
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The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Fond of Books and Fond of Reading' A friend has loaned me his copy of Maurice Baring’s Have You Anything to Declare? (1936), subtitled...
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A friend has loaned me his copy of Maurice Baring’s Have You Anything to Declare? (1936), subtitled A Note Book with Commentaries. This is the 1950 edition published by William Heinemann and comes with an indecipherable pencil inscription on the front end paper that may be...
Wanderingspace
Saturn Family Portrait From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with...
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From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. This is a full-color look at a view that was originally published in...
nanoscale views
Materials characterization techniques – a brief glossary Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying...
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Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying materials (condensed matter physicists, materials scientists, materials chemists) figure out what they have and understand its properties? That's the puzzle-solving aspect of...
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What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our kid who was watching the house called to tell us about our soaking wet basement carpet. Our ancient boiler was leaking. So we immediately contacted our insurance provider, a water...
The Modern House
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The best spaces are seldom served to you on a silver platter, instead requiring a bit of hard graft to bring out the glimmer. From an incredible volume at the foot of a Barbican tower to ambitious Oxford expansion, we present six doer-uppers ideal for […]
Anecdotal Evidence
'Friends They May Become To-morrow' “New books can have few associations. They may reach us on the best deckle-edged Whatman paper, in...
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“New books can have few associations. They may reach us on the best deckle-edged Whatman paper, in the newest types of famous presses, with backs of embossed vellum, with tasteful tasselled strings,--and yet be no more to us than the constrained and uneasy acquaintances of...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
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5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book Reviewing Alex DeBrie's new the DynamoDB Book
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How to start an advance market commitment A practical guide from the founders of Frontier
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!
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You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
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Old Structures...
Too Perfect Yet another view of lower Broadway, this time from 1908. It’s low resolution and artificially...
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Yet another view of lower Broadway, this time from 1908. It’s low resolution and artificially colored, so it’s really more of an illustration than a photo, but good enough for a postcard. This picture bothers me and it took me a while to realize why. The issue exists for a lot of...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you should wake up every morning and check the integral of happiness over time. Today's News:
Open Culture
Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002) In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs...
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In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs for country outlaws. In 1982, future Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello saw Joe Strummer play with The Clash in Chicago and went on to play angry righteous rock for...
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How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 28, 2022,...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall on the western coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm, bringing enormous volumes of rainfall and extreme winds to the state. Ian was the deadliest hurricane to...
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A Fireplace Divides This Long Living Room Creating A Separate Home Office Area Toronto-based interior design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a living room that they...
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Toronto-based interior design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a living room that they transformed to include a dedicated area for a home office. The long and narrow design of the living room enabled them to divide the space into two separate defined areas, the living room,...
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PyOhio This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
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This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights: Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
TheCollector
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Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
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Rest of World -...
What do platforms actually want out of elections? Nobody seems to know.
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The Forney Flyer
Heading North, Way Back When... As promised, I'm continuing from my previous post about way back when...  After I graduated from...
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As promised, I'm continuing from my previous post about way back when...  After I graduated from University and flight school, we briefly moved to Oregon as we prepared for future, cross-cultural work/ministry. That fall I had the opportunity to go on a short vision trip to a...
TheCollector
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The Elysian
One essay could change the future Please support a better media ecosystem.
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Seth's Blog
Real and apparent risk Roller coasters are one of the safest ways to travel (they end up where they begin, but that’s a...
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Roller coasters are one of the safest ways to travel (they end up where they begin, but that’s a different story). People pay to ride on them because they feel risky, even if they’re not. Air travel is really safe, and the airlines work overtime to reduce the perception of risk...
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Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
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You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you...
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Odds and Ends #43: An awesome drone trial in central London, legalised e-scooters at last, and... And yes, I am on Bluesky.
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Classical Wisdom
The First Stoic Zeno of Citium
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Sherwin-Williams by Laundry Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams,...
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Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams, the renowned paint and coatings company, has recently released its latest marketing campaign, and it is a true feast for the eyes. Directed by ECD Jayson Whitmore, these spots are a...