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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Radiology, Residency, and Physician Tools with Henry Li | Out-Of-Pocket What's actually happening in the hospital?
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3 This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we made something people want It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
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over a year ago
It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
Seth's Blog
When the future finds us The future never arrives, of course, but it has a powerful force that’s impossible to avoid. We can...
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a year ago
The future never arrives, of course, but it has a powerful force that’s impossible to avoid. We can see it as a threshold, a doorway toward something new. Or we can fight it as an unwanted change, and discover that it has traction, tenacity and leverage. We can influence the...
Open Culture
How a Steady Supply of Coffee Helped the Union Win the U.S. Civil War Americans doing “e‑mail jobs” and working in the “laptop class” tend to make much of the quantity of...
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Americans doing “e‑mail jobs” and working in the “laptop class” tend to make much of the quantity of coffee they require to keep going, or even to get started. In that sense alone, they have something in common with Civil War soldiers. “Union soldiers were given 36 pounds of...
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints undefined
4 months ago
Flashbak
The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958 Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th...
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Letters are beautiful. From specimens of chromatic woodtype to the groovy letter people and 16th Century writing templates typography and calligraphy turn visual language into something beautiful. Beginning in the early 20th Century, the Ludlow Typograph Company (1906 to late...
TheCollector
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid undefined
a month ago
Words and Buttons...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
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Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview https://youtu.be/xHCIPz5tGYI Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand...
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https://youtu.be/xHCIPz5tGYI Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many...
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains? undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism undefined
11 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
Seth's Blog
Thoughts on audiobooks I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
Rest of World -...
The Ghanaian founder challenging Google Paul Azunre welcomes Big Tech making AI tools in African languages: “It is good to have some...
9 months ago
macwright.com
Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some frontend libraries, like CodeMirror, have UIs like autocompletion, tools, or popovers, that are triggered by typing text or hovering your mouse cursor, and disappear when that...
99% Invisible
The Infernal Machine [EPISODE] For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in...
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For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in one place and set it on fire. But then in the 1800s one scientist named Alfred Nobel dedicated himself to taming the incredibly volatile substance that was nitroglycerine.  After...
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 1: Relaxed Birding In The Countryside Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America and the only one that is entirely situated...
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Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America and the only one that is entirely situated south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Uruguay was first settled by hunter-gatherers around 13,000 years ago, while the predominate tribe when Europeans arrived was the Charrúa people....
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Rahel Stephanie
a year ago
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #05: Brandy Zadrozny [EPISODE] This is the fifth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This is the fifth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Brandy Zadrozny, a senior reporter for NBC News who covers misinformation,...
xkcd.com
Love Songs
a year ago
Maps Mania
2023 Spanish Election
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
On Hiatus Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related...
a year ago
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a year ago
Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related newsletter are going on hiatus indefinitely due to a family emergency.
Jonas Hietala
Early Christmas Present School is almost over and it’s almost time to travel back up to Övertorneå. This year me and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
School is almost over and it’s almost time to travel back up to Övertorneå. This year me and Veronica opened our Christmas presents a bit early - we’re impatient like that. I got one of the best presents yet I think! A Raspberry Pi! Just look at this bad boy! She got some...
The Modern House
A mid-century marvel in Stafford that stands the test of time
a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
Maggie Appleton
Assumed Audiences
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
Outlines are IA When you create an outline, you are arranging ideas in relation to one another: a heading is a big...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you create an outline, you are arranging ideas in relation to one another: a heading is a big idea, a sub-heading is a smaller one related to it, a bulleted list is a group of even smaller ideas, and so on. Every indent suggests a sense of zooming in — of getting more...
Seth's Blog
The long walk Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood....
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3 weeks ago
Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood. You’ll notice things you might have missed in a car. Before starting a business, spend a few shifts working the cash register at a similar establishment. And before going into...
Old Structures...
Slow, But Faster Than Original My in-home team for rebuilding Notre Dame – LEGO Notre Dame – has fallen behind schedule. As of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My in-home team for rebuilding Notre Dame – LEGO Notre Dame – has fallen behind schedule. As of today, we’re about up to where the Parisians were in 1200 or so. From a month ago, construction of the nave walls: and the forest of nave columns: From yesterday, the nave walls and...
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks...
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a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many people throughout history,...
Rest of World -...
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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a year ago
TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Accident Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours spent yanking her cheeks, but the variations in pace from time to time. Today's News:
Notes on software...
RFCs and asynchronous-first culture I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't communicate well enough, even with folks I had a good connection with. It took me a number of mistaken deliveries to get the message. Sketches and mockups Designers solve this by...
IEEE Spectrum
Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might...
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Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might just see unchangeable reality. For one 5-year-old, the problem was simple: She liked to have her tummy rubbed as she fell asleep. But her mom, exhausted from working two jobs, often...
Seth's Blog
The Cliffs Notes paradox For a decade, Cliffs Notes were the bestselling section of the bookstore. They were a simple way for...
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a year ago
For a decade, Cliffs Notes were the bestselling section of the bookstore. They were a simple way for any high school student to get insight, examples and answers about the books they were assigned and read (or didn’t read). When Cliffs published a list of their thirty bestselling...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024 Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
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a month ago
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
Eukaryote Writes...
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic hazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Well Educated and Glad of the Fact' “[A] literary man or woman is someone who is not only steeped in literature but has made this...
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“[A] literary man or woman is someone who is not only steeped in literature but has made this immersion into literature part of his or her own life, so that the experience of books has been integral with the experience of life and therefore strongly influences his or her general...
abdz.do - Have you...
Brand identity and digital design system for Doconomy Brand identity and digital design system for Doconomy abduzeedo0426—23 ...
a year ago
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Brand identity and digital design system for Doconomy abduzeedo0426—23 Brand identity and digital design are two crucial elements for any business looking to make an impact in today's marketplace. That's why Swedish design duo Gustav Nordebrink...
Seth's Blog
The thing about Hobson People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial...
a year ago
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a year ago
People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial London, he rented horses. And every customer was allowed to take the horse closest to the door. Hobson’s choice is no choice at all. Of course, this system meant that the horses were...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s Next in Computing? The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles....
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over a year ago
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing…
Diaries of Note
The Boy Jones In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for...
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In his journal on 25th March 1841, banker and renowned dandy Thomas Raikes wrote of someone who for three years had been fascinating Londoners. Known to most as ‘The Boy Jones,’ Edward Jones was a teenager who had repeatedly managed to break into Buckingham Palace, and on three...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Kotkin, Luttwak, Poker, DRW, PCs, Statistics, AI, Hamilton
a week ago
Maps Mania
The D-Day Memorial Map
8 months ago
Londonist
At A Glance: What's Happening With London's Transport In 2024 New trains! New stations! Major closures!
11 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Same Stop Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
a year ago
Letters of Note
Please don’t let anyone Americanise it! Born in Cambridge in 1952, Douglas Adams was best known for creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Born in Cambridge in 1952, Douglas Adams was best known for creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a wildly successful project that began in 1978 as a science-fiction comedy radio series and eventually evolved to become something much larger, in many formats and in many...
The Marginalian
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain "Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see, and...
TheCollector
Was the Neolithic Revolution Really a Revolution? undefined
10 months ago
diamond geezer
Ruby Tuesday Drive As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. And there are ten more where that came...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. And there are ten more where that came from. Dartford not far from the QE2 Bridge. We're in Dartford because that's where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up, met and went on to form the Rolling Stones. And we're here...
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 365 | China’s Decline, MicrosoftAI, Creativity Ratio… 🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
a year ago
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a year ago
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS NYC Surveillance Amnesty International has revealed new research showing that the NYPD has over 15,000 cameras that can do...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
Construction Physics
The Influence of Bell Labs We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a...
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We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a generator of new technology.
TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/02 Creative Computing Mag Time for some humor
6 months ago
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932) Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Content Distribution How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three minutes, knead the dough for 15 minutes, bake for 30 minutes, and so on. A timer is a necessity for cooking and baking, but there is no reason you need to use your phone or a...
xkcd.com
Factorial Numbers
a year ago
The Changelog
Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Actually Read the Dictionary' In one of the news weeklies long ago I read that Dr. Oliver Sacks enjoyed reading the Oxford English...
a year ago
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a year ago
In one of the news weeklies long ago I read that Dr. Oliver Sacks enjoyed reading the Oxford English Dictionary. Was this mere bravado, another instance of Sacks polishing his image as a lovable, learned eccentric? Or, like his friend W.H. Auden, was he gleaning the dictionary...
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
7 months ago
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Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
Seth's Blog
The leaping curve The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations...
a year ago
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a year ago
The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations (and people) work their way up it, one step at a time (it’s the black line in the graph below). But there’s rarely a continuous learning curve. Instead, it’s often interrupted by...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Den Helder City Hall by Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten At the former Royal Naval Shipyard Willemsoord, Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten...
a week ago
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a week ago
At the former Royal Naval Shipyard Willemsoord, Office Winhov and Van Hoogevest Architecten repurposed two historic buildings – a neoclassical...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover a Different Side of Puerto Rico
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a list of links on it. There were many of these, some freely accessible, and others within the first walled-gardens of America Online, Prodigy, and so on. But the most famous one is...
Essays - Benedict...
ChatGPT and the Imagenet moment The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step...
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over a year ago
The wave of enthusiasm around generative networks feels like another Imagenet moment - a step change in what ‘AI’ can do that could generalise far beyond the cool demos. What can it create, and where are the humans in the loop?
TheCollector
Antinous: The Tragic Life of Emperor Hadrian’s Lover undefined
a year ago
Beautiful Public...
1,000 Photos of Dolphin Fins Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat...
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Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat propellers leave their marks, imprinting a story of close escapes and cheating death.
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #2 Roadworks are supposed to have started at the Bow Roundabout but they haven't yet, indeed it's...
3 months ago
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Roadworks are supposed to have started at the Bow Roundabout but they haven't yet, indeed it's possible they've actually been put back by two weeks. This is somewhat peeving given substantial bus mitigation has already taken place - five routes have had their frequency...
Math Is Still...
An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves...
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Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The post An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Global Inequality...
Marx Truncated A review of Shlomo Avineri’s “Karl Marx”
6 months ago
TheCollector
Which President Was the Only One to Resign from Office? undefined
2 months ago
Diaries of Note
God, living is enormous! When she wrote the following entry in her journal and imagined fleeing college to venture into the...
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When she wrote the following entry in her journal and imagined fleeing college to venture into the unknown, Susan Sontag was a precocious sixteen-year-old studying English at the University of California, Berkeley. By the end of the year she had indeed left—not on a bus to an...
Liz Denys
Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
11 months ago
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When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
bt RSS Feed
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
TokyoDev
Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary? When it comes to [salary negotiation in...
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to [salary negotiation in Japan](/articles/a-guide-to-salary-negotiations-in-japan-s-tech-industry), companies often have the upper hand. Not only do they know what they're willing to pay for a position, but it is very common for companies to ask you to disclose...
Old Structures...
Sketches by a Master This sketch sheet by Cass Gilbert, dated February 3, 1912, is titled “Institutional structures by...
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11 months ago
This sketch sheet by Cass Gilbert, dated February 3, 1912, is titled “Institutional structures by Gilbert” in the Library of Congress, although it has both public and commercial buildings. Gilbert’s description at the bottom is better: “These buildings are now in the office in...
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters undefined
2 months ago
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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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...
Joel Gascoigne
Questioning and adjusting our goals * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In addition to making things systematic, I...
The Honest Broker
12 Predictions on the Future of Song Investing Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
a year ago
Making software...
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I've become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
Maggie Appleton
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 23.4% YoY What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For November, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 26.2% YoY, but still down 21.5% compared to the 2017 to...
Moneyness
Your finances are being snooped on. Here's how We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we're being snooped on by two groups, corporations and the government. This post will focus on how the government snoops on our transactions,...
TheCollector
The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages undefined
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Wagoneer My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved. As we've slowed...
a year ago
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My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved. As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
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I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
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Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
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YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021 Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits...
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Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits as of July 2021. "Um… what?" I know, I know. You…
The American Scholar
The Patron Subjects Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings? The...
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Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings? The post The Patron Subjects appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Reality as reassurance Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. Credit card debt is an...
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Culture makes it tempting (and easy) to insulate ourselves from reality. Credit card debt is an invisible burden, until it’s not. Ignoring the changes in our climate makes our days easier, but not our years. We can avoid the bank balance, not work on the annual budget and ignore...
Seth's Blog
The 2 x 4 lessons You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two...
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You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two inches by four inches in size. And the bucket is about two feet deep. The first lesson is simple: Put the board on the floor and have a colleague walk from one end to the other....
Londonist
RAF Hornchurch: Visit The Fascinating Museum Of This East London Airfield Zeppelins, Guinea Pigs and the Great Escape.
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Advice Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
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Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad. Some advice is expert - your...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns Near Amsterdam That Are as Pretty undefined
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Home on Erik...
Fermat's principle I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's...
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I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's principle. And suddenly something came back to me that I've been trying to suppress for many years – how I never understood why there's anything fundamental about the principal of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Nothing Given Us to Keep Is Lost' Howard Nemerov reminded me not of Walden Pond in Concord but of a smaller, less storied pond at the...
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Howard Nemerov reminded me not of Walden Pond in Concord but of a smaller, less storied pond at the opposite end of Massachusetts, near Lee in the Berkshires. I was there to interview Paul Metcalf (1917-99) and his wife Nancy for my newspaper in the summer of 1988. Paul was a...
Making software...
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
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CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
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Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and...
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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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practicing creativity while in recovery Prior to getting covid I revolved my life around getting healthier: exercising, recovering from...
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Prior to getting covid I revolved my life around getting healthier: exercising, recovering from exercise, cooking. Now I am just focused on getting back to my baseline, which till now I am...
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts on the suicidal mind [tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
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[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
diamond geezer
Marlborough Street MARLBOROUGH STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets MARLBOROUGH STREET Colour group:...
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MARLBOROUGH STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets MARLBOROUGH STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 300m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Great Marlborough Street. To understand why, remember that the orange set of properties were originally all...
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Some recent papers of interest A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely: This paper in...
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A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely: This paper in Nature, a collaboration between folks at Ohio University and Argonne, is a neat combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and (synchrotron-enabled) resonant x-ray absorption.  The...
Rest of World -...
Traditional multinationals are making their mark on Latin American tech The region’s conservative corporations are finding different ways to get into technology.
a year ago
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
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Simply explained: Where do programming languages come from? Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the...
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Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the plane to the game consoles. They can do so many things, but how do we tell them what to do? This involves programming, and people writing the program in specific languages made to...
Seth's Blog
Projects and the long haul Rome was built in a day. It wasn’t finished in a day. In fact, it’s still not finished. But the day...
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Rome was built in a day. It wasn’t finished in a day. In fact, it’s still not finished. But the day someone said, “this is Rome,” and announced the project, it was there. Sometimes we get hung up on the beginning, unwilling to start Rome unless we’re sure we can finish it without...
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Some tips for interacting with the press Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact...
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Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact with the press (by press I mean blogs as…
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Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
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This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$ Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to know...
Maps Mania
The Cyclotron
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NeuroLogica Blog
Tong Test for Artificial General Intelligence Most readers are probably familiar with the Turing Test – a concept proposed by early computing...
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Most readers are probably familiar with the Turing Test – a concept proposed by early computing expert Alan Turing in 1950, and originally called “The Imitation Game”. The original paper is enlightening to read. Turing was not trying to answer the question “can machines think”....
Seth's Blog
The rock star conundrum Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the...
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Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the fastest-selling singles of all time. The documentary of the event is just okay, but it’s fascinating in how it shows us just how deep imposter syndrome lies. Only a few stars seemed at all...
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
5 months ago
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The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
a year ago
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Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars JamesHoare Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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The Pragmatic...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
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oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I consulted: San Francisco Chronicle voter guide SPUR endorsements GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
Unpacked
The EU's war on behavioral advertising Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...
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Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dentistry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from revelations about what is to come. Today's News:
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Early marketing efforts showing results
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alexwlchan
Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
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I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
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Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
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Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
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How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
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Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
Londonist
Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
a year ago
balajis.com
The Fiat Crisis This is not a financial crisis. It’s a fiat crisis.
a year ago
TheCollector
Parthenon Marbles or Elgin Marbles? Which Is the Correct Name? undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Treated Us Like Adults' I grew up thinking writers – poets, certainly – were not quite real. None lived in my neighborhood....
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I grew up thinking writers – poets, certainly – were not quite real. None lived in my neighborhood. I never saw writers on television. My parents never talked about them, as they might actors and politicians, who also were unreal. Without thinking too deeply about it, I put...
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call How the kernels implement the fork system call
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Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
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The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users. Mobile applications...
Strange Loop Canon
When we become cogs on motivation and technology
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xkcd.com
Sign Combo
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TheCollector
What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet? undefined
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One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
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Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...
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This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.
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The most surprising tech champions of 2024 From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions...
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From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
Seth's Blog
The MVP and fear The minimum viable product is a powerful way to find out if your solution is going to find a market....
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The minimum viable product is a powerful way to find out if your solution is going to find a market. Bean-to-bar chocolate in the US didn’t happen because someone raised millions of dollars, built a factory and got shelf space at the A&P. It happened because John Scharffenberger...
Noahpinion
America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
2 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
More thoughts consumerization in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket tales from other countries, industries, and more
3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The World's First Computer The Antikythera Mechanism
10 months ago
Noahpinion
Try patriotism A repost, with some updates.
8 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Viz.ai and why workflow > tech | Out-Of-Pocket Also ?? about AI business models
a year ago
xkcd.com
Relative Terms
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
5 months ago
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
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A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
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Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
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When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
Posts on Made of...
Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the...
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This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this...
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
Seth's Blog
What are the stakes? How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5...
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9 months ago
How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5 chips, some with $100 chips. Do the high rollers have more fun? Are they more engaged? It’s natural to imagine that bigger swings matter more. That a bigger audience means our...
Londonist
Wish You Were (Still) Here: Piccadilly's Egyptian Hall London's most beautiful pastiche?
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Not the Metropolitan line extension Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming...
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Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming Mayor chose to ditch the outgoing Mayor's underfunded project. The people of London barely noticed - they had no desperate need to go to west Watford and the money saved went on...
TheCollector
What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave? undefined
8 months ago
The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
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over a year ago
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
TheCollector
Chiaroscuro: The Dramatic Play of Light and Shadow undefined
2 weeks ago
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Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
over a year ago
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that...
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Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely you’d want to know what sorcery makes this possible, right? Well the future is...
Alex MacCaw
Zone of Genius Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a...
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over a year ago
Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a micro level, aligning yourself with the right role is also challenging. What should you delegate? Where should you focus your efforts? I've found the Zone of Genius framework to
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Making software...
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
Seth's Blog
Who pays? Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last...
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Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last three years, the green tech revolution has accelerated dramatically. Countless companies are being created to change how food is grown, people are transported and energy is...
Seth's Blog
Podcasts, international covers and more I just received copies of the new reprints of four of my books in the UK: I’m really pleased at how...
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I just received copies of the new reprints of four of my books in the UK: I’m really pleased at how the books have stayed relevant and also delighted at what a good job the publisher did with the reissues. Also, the Italian version of This is Marketing just went back for its 14th...
Quantum Frontiers
Let gravity do its work One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort...
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One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person. I pressed the elevator’s 4 button, … Continue reading →
NeuroLogica Blog
Big Ring Challenges Cosmological Principle University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a...
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University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a giant arc of galaxy clusters in the distant universe, has now discovered a Big Ring. This (if real) is one of the largest structures in the observable universe at 1.3 billion light...
Arduino Blog
These Shattered Space helmet replicas stay video game accurate using an Arduino Nano Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called...
2 months ago
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Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called “Shattered Space” in which players can don novel weapons and gear to take on the latest challenge. As part of its release, the expansion’s publisher Bethesda reached out to cosplayer...
Dan Slimmon
It’s fine to use names in post-mortems The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be...
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a year ago
The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be healthy and useful. The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is to let us find explanations deeper than human error.
TheCollector
How Did the Opium Wars Impact China? undefined
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I asked if anyone has tried to do RSS with HTML and a good number of people responded (via Mastodon and email — TY kind people). Many folks pointed me to h-feed microformats which, in hindsight, I’m surprised I didn’t think of as I already implement the h-entry format on my...
Londonist
Just How Bad Is The Air Quality On The Tube? A look at particle levels on tube platforms.
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Age of the Moon Revised There are a few interesting stories lurking in this news item, but lets start with the top level – a...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are a few interesting stories lurking in this news item, but lets start with the top level – a new study revises the minimum age of the Moon to 4.46 billion years, 40 million years older than the previous estimate. That in itself is interesting, but not game-changing. It’s...
Damn Interesting
Hunting For Kobyla On a January day in 1964, something remarkable happened: Simon Wiesenthal took the afternoon off. He...
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over a year ago
On a January day in 1964, something remarkable happened: Simon Wiesenthal took the afternoon off. He parked himself at a table on the terrace of Tel Aviv’s Café Roval, soaking up the sunshine as if he wished to bottle it. The friend he’d come to meet was late, but Wiesenthal had...
One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
10 months ago
Seth's Blog
The lazy jugglers The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard. That’s because they understand what the work...
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The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard. That’s because they understand what the work involves, and they don’t confuse effort with results. Some approaches to keep in mind: Focus on the work at hand Don’t take on more than you can handle Establish a spec, and ignore...
Cheese and Biscuits
Kachori, Elephant and Castle There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of...
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a year ago
There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
Posts on Made of...
Lab Notebooking for the Software Engineer A few weeks ago, I wrote that software engineers should keep lab notebooks as they work, in addition...
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A few weeks ago, I wrote that software engineers should keep lab notebooks as they work, in addition to just documenting things after the fact. Today, I’m going to share the techniques that I’ve found useful to try to get in the habit of lab-notebooking my work, even though I...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 062: Data is the new oil April 12, 2024.
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Leave Him Something to Imagine' “I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby’s story, and my own, in a tolerable strait line.”  By the time a persevering reader has reached Book...
Neil Panchal
How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
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When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/. There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
Londonist
10 Times That Fictional London Has Slipped Into Our Universe Glitches in the matrix.
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 7 (South Korea: The DMZ) The Korean War never actually ended. Rather, it froze in place at an armistice line on July 27,...
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The Korean War never actually ended. Rather, it froze in place at an armistice line on July 27, 1953. So there’s a multi-decade ceasefire, a truce, but no agreed-upon resolution of hostilities. A four kilometre wide Demilitarized Zone acts as a buffer between North and South...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Designed As Three Cascading Glass Boxes Efficiency Lab for Architecture has designed a modern home nestled into the steep hillside of the...
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9 months ago
Efficiency Lab for Architecture has designed a modern home nestled into the steep hillside of the Telluride Box Canyon in Colorado. The plan for the home focused on the architectural expression of three cantilevered glass boxes. Each glass box is positioned in a moment of...
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
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The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
Nat Eliason's...
My Masterclass on Better Storytelling 2 Years in 2 Hours
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Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to...
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To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
Familiar Yet Not I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the...
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I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the 1940s tax photos of every building in the city that can be found with a much less nice interface at the city archive website. My way of testing a site like this is to look at locations...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog's new VP focused the company on nailing funnels in his first week Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across...
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Ramping up fast in any senior product role requires understanding as much context as possible across 3 axes (Market, Product and People). I’ll talk…
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
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Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
Retail Design Blog
Aesop store by 0321 Next the opening of a number of standalone stores in Shanghai, and very recently, in Beijing,...
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Next the opening of a number of standalone stores in Shanghai, and very recently, in Beijing, Aesop‘s ambitious retail roll-out...
Max Rozen
Methods for styling your React app It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your...
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It can be pretty confusing to pick how to style your React app. This guide attempts to simplify your choice.
Math Is Still...
Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain...
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In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems. The post Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M. undefined
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Seth's Blog
Bitterness is consistent It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If...
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It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If you give it a chance, it will persist. It lacks nuance or surprise. It’s simply a wall you can lean against, whenever you choose. Consistency is all it has to offer, actually.
Londonist
The Grant Museum Of Zoology Is Reopening Very Soon And yes, the jar of moles will still be there.
10 months ago
Aaron's Essays
I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
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Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
TheCollector
3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology undefined
9 months ago
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
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For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
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Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
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Seth's Blog
Learning, connecting, deciding (and amazing) My new short LinkedIn class on project management just launched, and I’ll be discussing it live...
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My new short LinkedIn class on project management just launched, and I’ll be discussing it live today with Amanda Ruud … we’ll be there if you want to bring your questions. Sooner or later, all important work becomes project work. After the extraordinary feedback from her last...
The Marginalian
The Work of Wonder: Phillip Glass on Art, Science, and the Most Important Quality of a Visionary Epoch after epoch, we humans have tried to raise ourselves above other animals with distinctions...
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Epoch after epoch, we humans have tried to raise ourselves above other animals with distinctions that have turned out false — consciousness is not ours alone, nor is grief, nor is play. If there is anything singular about us, it is our capacity to be wonder-smitten by the world...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and...
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The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious...
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live! In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
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In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out! This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
The Codist
Good Programmers Can Be Anyone, But Not Everyone In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no...
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In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no single type of person is good at programming. I've seen young people who could do amazing work and those without a clue. I've seen programmers
Notes on software...
First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after...
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I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after my coworker built bshift, a compiler for a C-like language. BSDScheme is an interpreter for a (currently small subset of) Scheme written in D. It implements a few substantial...
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy” undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Atomists The Origins of Oppenheimer?
a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
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Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow a Person’s Words... or Actions? What should we do with Seneca?
a year ago
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
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A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
The Marginalian
Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for... How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Carpenders Park One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
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One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Carpenders Park, one stop beyond Hatch End on what will next week be the Lioness line. For positioning purposes...
Londonist
Charlie Brown's - The Story Of Limehouse's Incredible 'Pub Museum' An Aladdin's Cave in the East End.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
How to buy a lottery ticket There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking...
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There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking about, the blog post or video that goes viral… it even applies to who gets into a famous college or is selected by the AI screening for a good job. The usual advice is: Fit in....
xkcd.com
Tick Marks
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Diaries of Note
The film had killed me On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language...
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On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language adaptation of the 1757 fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Directing this grand endeavour in his 57th year was poet and artist Jean Cocteau, a multi-talented creative force known for his...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA March 15, 2023.
9 months ago
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
over a year ago
High Signal
$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get...
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Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader? is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Investment Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Slightly worried the wallstreetbets people will not...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Slightly worried the wallstreetbets people will not understand this is a joke. Or, rather, will understand that it's a joke and therefore employ it as a financial plan. Today's News: ONE WEEK
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Have Less Energy to Do Wrong' On his thirtieth birthday – February 22, 1894 – Jules Renard writes in his journal: “Thirty years...
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On his thirtieth birthday – February 22, 1894 – Jules Renard writes in his journal: “Thirty years old! Now I’m convinced I shall not escape death.”  At thirty I was still immortal, blundering through life, plan-less but confident I could transcend mere death. I don’t remember my...
Rest of World -...
How an economic crisis shifted Sri Lanka’s e-commerce industry Rakhil Fernando of Daraz talks about how the company had to shift its focus from lifestyle products...
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
SatPost by Trung...
MicroStrategy's $37B+ Bitcoin Bet How Michael Saylor turned a B2B software company into one of the world's largest owners of Bitcoin.
3 weeks ago
Wanderingspace
Enter Prometheus “Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera...
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“Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera on Cassini on December 6, 2015. Cassini was about 37,400 km from Prometheus when the images were acquired. Part of the F ring is visible in the background at the top.” — Jason Major
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
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::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
99% Invisible
The Known Unknown [EPISODE] How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans...
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How to honor unidentified remains has always been one of the great conundrums of war. The Romans were fond of honoring them with an empty sarcophagus. After the Civil War, the Union buried 2,111 soldiers in a mass grave in Arlington that they purposely built in the middle of...
CONTEMPORIST
Steel, Wood, And Stone Are On Display Inside This Hillside Home Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles,...
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Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles, California, that’s nestled on a hillside overlooking the sprawling city. Due to the home being in an area prone to earthquakes, the structural elements are bigger and bolder. There are...
Retail Design Blog
Gelato Messina, Mt. Lawley Opened their first store in Western Australia, the sunniest region in Australia with a hot, dry...
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Opened their first store in Western Australia, the sunniest region in Australia with a hot, dry climate. This inspired a...
Old Structures...
On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This...
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For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This piece of the subway system has a slightly odd history. The portion south of and up to 180th Street, at the south end of Bronx Park, was planned as part of the original IRT subway, but...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in...
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SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in California. The client asked the designers to create a kitchen garden and an outdoor gathering space for her large family to celebrate birthdays and holidays. One area of the yard was...
diamond geezer
Route 455 London's next dead bus 455: Wallington to Purley, Old Lodge Lane Location: outer London,...
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London's next dead bus 455: Wallington to Purley, Old Lodge Lane Location: outer London, south Length of journey: 13 miles, 85 minutes The 455, which dies soon, weaves a ridiculously contorted route around the broader outskirts of Croydon. It's particularly wiggly at the...
NeuroLogica Blog
It’s Not Possible – Until Suddenly It Is There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the...
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There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the world is political will. Often politicians and motivational speakers will say something along the lines of, “We can do anything, if we put our minds to it.” While this sounds like...
Retail Design Blog
ZUCZUG Bazaar & Flat by Sò Studio Conveying the brand’s character and narrative and seeking breakthroughs through the use of spatial...
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Conveying the brand’s character and narrative and seeking breakthroughs through the use of spatial design language, the full integration of...
xkcd.com
Like This One
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Open Culture
Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner in an Experimental Film Featuring the... Around here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such thing as too much Orson Welles. In years...
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Around here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such thing as too much Orson Welles. In years past, we gave you Welles narrating Plato’s Cave Allegory and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” and, before that, the Welles-narrated parable Freedom River, and the list goes on. Now, we...
journal – Winnie Lim
some brief thoughts about hanoi Every year during the time of my birthday I would try to travel out of Singapore, even if it is just...
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Every year during the time of my birthday I would try to travel out of Singapore, even if it is just to somewhere an hour’s flight away. When I was much younger...
NeuroLogica Blog
Latest Gallup Creationism Poll Surveys are always tricky because how you ask a question can have a dramatic impact on how people...
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Surveys are always tricky because how you ask a question can have a dramatic impact on how people answer. But it is useful to ask the exact same question over a long period of time, because that can indicate how public attitudes are changing. This is one of the benefits of...
David Heinemeier...
Celebrating a million copies of REWORK It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
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It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
There are two types...
Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east...
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A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east towards a car-free Brooklyn Bridge. Centre Street and Park Row next to the Brooklyn Bridge are reimagined as an extension of City Hall Park. © 2020 … Continue reading → The post Car...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that definitely for sure has a ferrari you might be worse off because there is information embedded in... Today's News:
Many Worlds
After Seven Years Away Exploring an Asteroid, OSIRIS-REx is Landing Soon with Precious Samples Bits of pebbles and dust from the asteriod Bennu that were collected during the long journey of the...
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Bits of pebbles and dust from the asteriod Bennu that were collected during the long journey of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft should be landing in the Utah desert later this month. The delivery will be a first for NASA — its first sample return from an asteroid and one of a very...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity undefined
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Spoon & Tamago
Kirie Artist Lito Celebrates Tanabata with Handcut Leaves Today is Tanabata (七夕, meaning “Evening of the seventh”), a Japanese festival celebrating the...
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Today is Tanabata (七夕, meaning “Evening of the seventh”), a Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh...
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Nov 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Here’s a powerful quote to kick us off into the Thanksgiving week: “Gratitude...
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Hey everyone 👋 Here’s a powerful quote to kick us off into the Thanksgiving week: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” - Melody Beattie I’m grateful for many things this year including my son’s birth
Louwrentius
Solaris is an obsolete platform Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the...
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Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the Solaris operating system is obsolete. Solaris can be considered legacy. Sun was a hardware shop and to sell their hardware, they needed a great operating system. Sun had a great...
ntietz.com blog
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
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People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830) From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
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How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 0.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 13,...
The Rational Walk
Insurance Loss Reserve Estimates The ability to accurately estimate loss reserves is a core competency for any well-run insurance...
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The ability to accurately estimate loss reserves is a core competency for any well-run insurance company. Progressive provides a useful case study in loss reserving practices.
TheCollector
What Is the Myth of the “Struggling Artist” in Literature? undefined
8 months ago
the singularity is...
Cruise NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years...
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NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years in the future. Scene 1 (the party): Our opening scene is a New Jersey houseparty, late college. Four kids lamenting the loss of their childhood. And it’s not just their childhood,...
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 2 (Jurassic Coast) We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new...
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We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new surroundings. However, we were still pretty tired so we stuck close to home and made it an easy day. Swanage sits near the eastern end of the 96 mile (154 km) Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World...
Christopher Butler
The Top Ten Design Books This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Design as Art, by Bruno...
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This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Design as Art, by Bruno Munari Massive Change, by Bruce Mau Grid systems in graphic design, by Josef Müller-Brockmann A New Program for Graphic Design, by David Reinfurt Editing by Design, by Jan V. White A...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inversion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of that book. Today's News: I am signing at Telegraph in Charlottesville: Today at 2! If you want a signed copy, this is my only remaining scheduled signing right now so please come...
Seth's Blog
Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction They’re often related. It’s not unusual for someone to have more experience or knowledge than we do....
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They’re often related. It’s not unusual for someone to have more experience or knowledge than we do. If they use that knowledge to their benefit, not ours, they might be manipulating us. If we knew what they knew, we wouldn’t have gone along. This is the difference between a...
Louwrentius
LFS - Linux Firewall Script released I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux...
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I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux Firewall Script. I run a small Linux box as an internet router that doubles as a firewall. The firewall is configured using iptables. In my opinion, iptables is not the easiest tool to...
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900. State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
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If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Soulbound
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Maps Mania
The X-Files of Paranormal Activity
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 22 Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important...
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Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important than I thought to have low-latency insight into developers’ hours. I’m trying paid advertising again for the first time in almost two years. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Willem's Blog
The birth of a child Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
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Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
99% Invisible
The Little Levee That Could [EPISODE] Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme...
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Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weather that is coming their way. But this story is about a place that managed to get the kind of infrastructure that will actually help it survive climate change. How after more than...
Math Is Still...
Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all...
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Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all but invisible. Now physicists have spotted these “demon modes.” The post Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Stoic Simple
Stoicism and the Path to Finding Inner Peace in Your Life In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events,...
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In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events, emotions, and distractions around us. Many of us seek a sense of inner peace, a place of refuge from the chaos of the outside world. While there are many paths to inner peace, one...
Louwrentius
Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer...
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Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer presenting a different set of challenges, requiring different skill sets and technology. So every layer will increase the time and effort to compromise your environment. A...
Seth's Blog
The leap In action movies, there’s a lot of leaping. Brave shifts in which the hero gets from here to there,...
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In action movies, there’s a lot of leaping. Brave shifts in which the hero gets from here to there, all at once. It’s easy to imagine that sudden leaps are how we make our impact. This is blog post #9000 (give or take). When did the leap happen? It wasn’t an external leap. The...
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React Distros Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today...
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Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today and tomorrow
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Atlas in a Day Challenge: A Global, Real-time Collaboration On Saturday, October 5, 2019, more than 50 guerrilla cartographers gathered, in person and online,...
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over a year ago
On Saturday, October 5, 2019, more than 50 guerrilla cartographers gathered, in person and online, to collaborate in producing an atlas in a single day on the theme of migration. While researching and designing an entire atlas on a complex theme in the span of 24 hours is indeed...
Val Sopi
A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and... <p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a...
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<p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold&nbsp;myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i> </p> <p> <i><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp;Towards the end of this article,...
Steve Klabnik
Using buck to build Rust projects
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TheCollector
Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Ancient Anxiety
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diamond geezer
I'll look it up later Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get...
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11 months ago
Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get home. Here are three of this week's serendipitous discoveries. North: Gilpin's Bell Where: Fore Street, Edmonton, N18 What I thought: Hmm, what's that lump of concrete in the...
symmetry magazine
Rap with an undercurrent of particle physics UK musician Consensus spins the big ideas of physics into rap and hip-hop tracks.
a year ago
Neil Madden
CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to...
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over a year ago
The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this being Doctor Who, the card is really made out of a special “psychic paper“, which...
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New year, new calendar We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
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11 months ago
We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉 See, it turns out that lots of people would...
Math Is Still...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
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10 months ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious) Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says...
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Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says a lot about what you want to achieve with it. Do you want to reach the maximum amount of users? Do you want to ensure future versions remain free and open source? Do you want to...
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 4: Cosmic Staggering Tortoises 1. Weekly Studio Update Hello. We're going to try doing this newsletter thing regularly. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
1. Weekly Studio Update Hello. We're going to try doing this newsletter thing regularly. The ambitious goal is to write you a lovely letter every week. Aim for the moon, right? But wait, if you aim for the moon, how in this physical world can you possibly hit a star by...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Un Croissant Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to patreon subscribers' confusing I have...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks to patreon subscribers' confusing I have color-coded the perverts. Today's News:
Working Theorys
Pursuits that can’t scale What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
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Allocation investing and the social premium The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real...
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The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real estate project, etc. – is to base your…
TheCollector
Sigyn: Get to Know Loki’s Mysterious and Dutiful Wife undefined
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The American Scholar
A Poet of the Soil The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity The post A Poet of the Soil appeared first...
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The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity The post A Poet of the Soil appeared first on The American Scholar.