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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clusivity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created. Today's News: Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
Seth's Blog
Jevons paradox is not surprising When a resource can be used more efficiently, we end up using more of the thing, not less. So, when...
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When a resource can be used more efficiently, we end up using more of the thing, not less. So, when cars get better gas mileage, people drive more, and consumption can actually go up. When AI learns to write computer code, the demand for programmers goes up, because more...
Construction Physics
Airport Reading List The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed...
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The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed below. As usual, these are listed roughly in order of how useful I found them. And because “useful” isn’t the same as “actually interesting to read” I’ve marked the books that are...
Retail Design Blog
Good Morning Sunshine bakery design by studio SAY The design of the cafe was carefully curated to reflect the brand’s values and create a warm,...
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The design of the cafe was carefully curated to reflect the brand’s values and create a warm, inviting atmosphere. Natural...
blag
Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
ramencraft restaurant by SOA architekti Quite similar to coffee, ramen has gained an extensive global reach, becoming even a culinary...
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6 months ago
Quite similar to coffee, ramen has gained an extensive global reach, becoming even a culinary routine in the lifestyle of...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
detreville
Newsletter 1: What's next? This is the first in a series of newsletters covering this blog
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy undefined
10 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Softening Our Inner Critic Find nourishment in the weeds
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Large Windows Give This Home A Lantern-Like Appearance At Night Swatt | Miers Architects has shared photos of a house they designed in the town of Atherton,...
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Swatt | Miers Architects has shared photos of a house they designed in the town of Atherton, California, that replaces an earlier mid-century structure that the family had owned for many years. The home, with its white exterior, has an abundance of windows, allowing the home to...
Engineers Need Art
Offline Advocate Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of...
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Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind.
xkcd.com
March Madness
a year ago
Old Structures...
Why People Cared This is remarkable, in a way: in a city full of apartment houses, the New York Sun newspaper felt...
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This is remarkable, in a way: in a city full of apartment houses, the New York Sun newspaper felt that a complex of mid-rise buildings in Queens was worthy of note: I can think of two reasons off the top of my head, one related to housing and the other related to general...
Tech + Economics +...
Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability....
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11 months ago
We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability. With tools like ChatGPT, anyone can conjure up rewritten Wikipedia articles, essays, code, poetry, and more with just a few prompts. This "democratisation" of content creation...
99% Invisible
Devolutionary Design [EPISODE] It’s hard to overstate just how important record album art was to music in the days before people...
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a year ago
It’s hard to overstate just how important record album art was to music in the days before people downloaded everything. Visuals were a key part of one’s experience with a record or tape or CD. The design of the album cover created a first impression of what was to come. Album...
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Everyone wants to be connected But we hesitate to be the connector. Everyone wants to be trusted, but we hesitate to trust. And...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
But we hesitate to be the connector. Everyone wants to be trusted, but we hesitate to trust. And everyone wants to be respected, but we often fail to offer our respect. What an opportunity.
nanoscale views
Guide to faculty searches, 2024 edition As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing...
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As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing about more condensed matter and nano science soon.   In the meantime, I realized that I have not re-posted or updated my primer on how tenure-track faculty searches work in physics...
Seth's Blog
The opposite of insubordination “Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
“Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to the letter, you’re insubordinate. Not subordinate. Complete subordination might have been the goal in an industrial setting. But now, it’s dangerous, expensive and inefficent....
David Heinemeier...
Basecamp turns 20 On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve...
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10 months ago
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction) Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j....
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j. License: All Rights Reserved. Now Wait for Last Year (1975). Cover art by Chris Foss. [More info on ISFDB] Roslyn Gothic arguably saw its most extensive and iconic use on the...
TheCollector
10 Strange Old Currencies Throughout Time undefined
a month ago
Christopher Butler
The Big Picture When your clients are persuaded by your point of view and expertise, they will not care what tools...
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When your clients are persuaded by your point of view and expertise, they will not care what tools you use or what processes you follow. They will only care that you deliver on your promise of getting them from Point (A) to Point (B). If your clients become prescriptive of...
Arduino Blog
CapibaraZero: a student’s journey in reinventing hacking tools with Arduino Inventive, open-source, and cost-effective – these words perfectly describe CapibaraZero, a...
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Inventive, open-source, and cost-effective – these words perfectly describe CapibaraZero, a multifunctional security and hacking tool developed by young innovator Andrea Canale. Inspired by the popular Flipper Zero, a portable device used to interact with digital systems, Canale...
Paul Graham: Essays
Novelty and Heresy
over a year ago
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
over a year ago
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Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
Rest of World -...
The IITs remain undefeated They took up seven out of the top 10 slots in a recent government ranking.
a year ago
Society's Backend
What it's Like to Work in AI and Advice from 10 AI Professionals I asked 10 AI professionals 4 questions about their work in AI and the qualifications required for...
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Robot John Searle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am posting this from a train and can't make...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am posting this from a train and can't make edits, so you'lll just have to dealll with the extra L. Today's News: Jazzed to have been read and found convincing by Tyler Cowen.
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties undefined
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”? undefined
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
A New Brewery in Yobuko Wants to Revive the Former Whaling Town Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of...
a year ago
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Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of North-Western Kyushu, is named after the migratory path that whales swam. Beginning in the 1700s, Yobuko prospered as a whaling town, birthing the idiom, a single whale flourishes...
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal? undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926 Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
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3 weeks ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926       Arthur...
Computer Ads from...
American Heart Association A PSA and an Ad
a month ago
Explorations of an...
Potrero de Yala - Dippers, Red-faced Guans And More Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we...
a year ago
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a year ago
Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we slowly drove in along the entrance road, keeping an eye out for guans. We found quite a few guans on and around the road but none were our hoped-for Red-faced Guans; they were all...
CONTEMPORIST
Wood Screens Wrap Around This Home To Create Shade And Privacy Koichi Takada Architects has completed a new home in Sydney, Australia, whose design was inspired by...
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Koichi Takada Architects has completed a new home in Sydney, Australia, whose design was inspired by palm fronds, specifically the way the leaves provide dappled light and shelter to the fruit its tree bears. Applying the same principles, the home was cocooned with symmetrical...
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites undefined
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Are we human? Or are we reCAPTCHA? ---
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Tripgeo Cities
4 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Is it possible to be an introverted entrepreneur? A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A tweet by Remy Sharp sparked my thoughts about being an introvert and starting a company. I don't hate human beings, but I do tend to keep to myself. How has this impacted my ability to run a successful business? Launching a product is hard # If you don't have a good network,...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here...
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
3 months ago
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I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2024 Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite...
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Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite Japanese festival, Jimi Halloween, is on full display. Mundane Halloween, as we coined it back in 2018, is when people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained....
Noahpinion
Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war In which I try to be Gandalf instead of Cassandra.
8 months ago
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
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After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
diamond geezer
Another Islington post Thanks for your suggestions for another Islington-based post. Allow me to sort-of tackle what some...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thanks for your suggestions for another Islington-based post. Allow me to sort-of tackle what some of you asked. How about a walk around the gardens and squares of Islington? Please can you explore Thornhill Square? I've walked around it a few times, and wondered what it would...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's true though. Today's News:
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
How to make volunteer-driven open source projects successful Success can come in many ways. But many aspire to have a big user base: it’s nice if your open...
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 7 - April 12 Dreaming of secret worlds, minidiscs, buildings, portals. Do we all dream of a secret world — a...
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Dreaming of secret worlds, minidiscs, buildings, portals. Do we all dream of a secret world — a secret garden, a portal, Shangri La, an entrance to a heaven on earth? ^ actual sizes! ^ yours, truly
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 059: In̶f̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Microsoft AI March 22, 2023.
9 months ago
The Honest Broker
I Receive a Letter from a High School Student I share this dispatch from 11th grade in its entirety
8 months ago
TheCollector
Consumerism in Pop Art: Was It Celebrated or Criticized? undefined
a month ago
Londonist
The Shard Is Lighting Up With The St George's Cross For The Lionesses Turns out The Shard is an England supporter.
a year ago
Londonist
Ever Noticed These Decorative Panels At Guy's Hospital? Three scenes of hospital life.
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Lorenzo Davitti Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10...
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7 months ago
Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10 years. I work mainly on abstract art, and I am especially interested in the possibilities that printmaking offers when experimenting with colour, shapes and textures.   Describe your...
Maps Mania
The History of Latin America
a year ago
TheCollector
Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland undefined
9 months ago
Working Theorys
Word Association Fame The new attention playbooks will be full of old plays.
9 months ago
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05 Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring...
5 months ago
Birchtree
All the games I played in 2024, reviewed I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies of the year post with something similar for games. I’m not going to rank these, but I’ll give a few words on each one
The Modern House
Two sisters share the story of their remarkable Patrick Gwynne-designed family home
a year ago
Old Structures...
Sideways One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault...
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One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault extends from the sidewalk (its roof) down two floors or about 25 feet, and was built around 1895. Since reinforced-concrete was still in its infancy then, it was not used for foundation...
Seth's Blog
Normalizing selfishness Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly steal stuff, because speaking up about it won’t help their cause. Sometimes, though, some people seek to change the culture in a way that celebrates taking. “I own this jetski and I...
abdz.do - Have you...
Digitalized - futuristic illustrations Digitalized - futuristic illustrations abduzeedo0216—23 We have...
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Digitalized - futuristic illustrations abduzeedo0216—23 We have posted projects from RETOKA, but we’re always amazed with the work they produce, exploring where digital art meets futuristic design! This innovative studio has recently unveiled a...
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Diagram of Victorian Ferry Routes, 2024 by Bushland Maps Submitted by Bushland Maps, who say: Ferries are a bit of a forgotten mode of transport in...
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Submitted by Bushland Maps, who say: Ferries are a bit of a forgotten mode of transport in Melbourne. With no integration into the fare system or journey planners, and with overarching public transport body PTV only “overseeing” three of the routes (which doesn’t have any...
The Modern House
Grand Designs at 25: six Modern House homes that started life on the much-loved homebuilding TV show Grand Designs first aired in 1999 when television schedules were awash with dubious interiors...
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Grand Designs first aired in 1999 when television schedules were awash with dubious interiors programming. From the start, it was distinctly different. With just one project per episode, it allowed the viewer to become fully involved, immersed and invested. Thought-provoking and...
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
Posts on Nikita...
EuroRust 2024 I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
I had the pleasure to speak at EuroRust this year! This was my third and final talk about elfo, an actor system written in Rust. As I’m no longer an active contributor to elfo, it feels a bit bittersweet to finish last thing related to the project. I wish maintainers of elfo well...
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
Anecdotal Evidence
'Thoughts Wait Here for Future Readers' In Another Beauty (trans. Clare Cavanagh, 2000), the late Adam Zagajewski revisits his alma mater,...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Another Beauty (trans. Clare Cavanagh, 2000), the late Adam Zagajewski revisits his alma mater, the Jagiellonka Library in Kraków, and calls it a “botanical garden of ideas,” a metaphor worthy of the librarian Borges. I briefly visited the Jagiellonka, as it’s known, in 2012...
Louwrentius
Benchmarking storage with Fio and generating charts of the results Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of options to create a storage benchmark that would best reflect your needs. Fio allows you to assess if your storage solution is up to its task and how much headroom it has. Fio outputs...
Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
a year ago
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background Contextualizing Beehive
4 months ago
Common Edge
In Marseille’s Cours Julien, Street Art Creates Dynamic Context Submitting to this area’s urban rhythm reveals the power of public art to define a place.
a month ago
lcamtuf’s thing
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them more.
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
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I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
Rest of World -...
Samsung knowingly exposed workers to highly toxic chemicals, whistleblower claims In Vietnam, a key production base, a former safety officer alleges the factory also dumped chemicals...
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Two - Stabilization In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is...
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over a year ago
In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is part two of a three-part series about how I resurrected ingredient-phrase-tagger, a library that uses machine learning to parse cooking ingredients (e.g., “2 cups milk”) into...
diamond geezer
Bourneview London has eight public footpath level crossings, and today I'm going to walk you across another of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
London has eight public footpath level crossings, and today I'm going to walk you across another of them. Bourneview (CR8 5AD) Kenley in the London borough of Croydon, a couple of miles southeast of Purley. Two railway lines wend down this dry chalk valley but we want the line...
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review ‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review j.hoare Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
11 months ago
Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
Retail Design Blog
POPSOCKETS Pop up Store As a temporary pop-up space, under the current situation of the venue and budget constraints, we...
a week ago
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a week ago
As a temporary pop-up space, under the current situation of the venue and budget constraints, we hope to create a...
Flashbak
Elliott Erwitt: A Brilliant Photographer Who Took Great Snapshots “The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt  ...
a year ago
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a year ago
“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera” – Elliott Erwitt   Elliott Erwitt died at his home in New York City on 29 November 2023. He leaves us with remarkable archive of fabulous photographs of the great and good, the many places he visited over...
Sean Carroll
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve...
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a year ago
This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field theory, the error bar, gauge...
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
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pro Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt. Today's News:
Blog - Practical...
How Railroad Crossings Work [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you’ve ever ridden a bike,...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you’ve ever ridden a bike, driven a car, or operated pretty much any other vehicle on earth, there’s a fact you’ve probably taken for granted: you can see farther than it takes to stop. Within the span...
diamond geezer
Borough visitor websites Some London boroughs like to have a web presence that draws tourists in, should anyone be...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Some London boroughs like to have a web presence that draws tourists in, should anyone be interested, or highlights places of interest for the benefit of local residents. These websites attempt to reinforce the idea that a borough has history, or culture, or some sort of life,...
Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
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over a year ago
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952) Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space! Clyne,...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Escheresque I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going...
a month ago
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a month ago
I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going to have a movie-style trailer consisting of a single photo: That’s roof framing at the Hopewell Furnace, an early-1800s ironworks in Pennsylvania. (Note that this is a...
samwho.dev
Practical Problems with Auto-Increment In this post I'm going to demonstrate 2 reasons I will be avoiding auto-increment fields in Postgres...
a year ago
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In this post I'm going to demonstrate 2 reasons I will be avoiding auto-increment fields in Postgres and MySQL in future. I'm going to prefer using UUID fields unless I have a very good reason not to. › MySQL <8.0 auto-increment ID re-use If you're running an older version of...
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After asking about the origin of online handles, I heard back from a number of folks and loved the stories. It’s fascinating to see an online name like “Apple Annie”, read the origin story, and see this wonderful, multi-faceted human being with a rich history behind the...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Sort Of Obvious The fact that Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is from Jersey City is integral to her character. As a teen,...
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Handprinted - Blog
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Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool. These lines create a burr that holds ink, meaning that the print reveals the drawing. Drypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you...
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Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for 37signals. We got going again in Miami, then hopped to Amsterdam, and most recently we went to New Orleans. Next we're going to Barcelona in the fall. Would you have guessed that...
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I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
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Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing. The post New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
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Bananas are (slightly) radioactive. The banana equivalent dose (BED) is a measurement of radiation. It’s definitely not enough to hurt you. When we think about risk, the BED is a useful way to find perspective. Is the exposure this new thing will cause on the order of a banana?...
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With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
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Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic without admitting it. It surprised me, since the traits of HSPs as I know it seem to be the...
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In September 2024, the U.S. Federal Reserve cut the target range of interest rates for the first time in four years. The move was long anticipated by AEC commentators, who hoped that the lower cost of borrowing would begin to pull the sector out of a two-year stagnation in...
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Criticism is a fact of life. Whether it is constructive feedback from a colleague or harsh words from a rival, criticism can be painful and humbling. Dealing with criticism in a healthy and productive way is essential to personal and professional growth. This is where Stoicism...
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A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
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This article gives a phenomenological definition of what a picture is. The post What is a picture? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Common Edge
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Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and telephone operating companies sold as private lines. One of the interesting properties of private line systems is that they can be ordered as four-wire. Internally, the telephone network...
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Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What
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“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in polarized light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on November 27, 2012. I've processed the original monochrome image to approximate the color of the area at the time.” — Jason...
ntietz.com blog
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Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
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These white and intricate forms appear to be the work of mother nature, sculpted over hundreds and thousands of years. Instead, they’re the work of Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki, who painstakingly shapes and assembles each prick and piece by hand. And in doing so, she’s...
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The Marginalian
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“That best fact, the Moon,” Margaret Fuller called it. “No one ever gets tired of the moon,” Walt Whitman wrote down the Atlantic coast from her, exulting: Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, [the moon] commends herself to the matter-of-fact people by her...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Test names should be sentences Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves....
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Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
Inverted Passion
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Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
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Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
High Signal
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Noah Bragg is the founder of Potion, a website builder based on Notion. It lets you simply publish a website straight from Notion without any coding skills! Noah has done a great job growing Potion to $6k MRR. I interviewed him about how he created Potion, his best marketing...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on incumbents Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that...
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Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…
Seth's Blog
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Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said of his career, “This is not stuff you can read in a book,” he said. “This is stuff that you have to experience.” I think it’s also useful to flip it around. There are things you will have trouble experiencing until you read...
HTMHell
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Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
The Modern House
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With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets heralding that spring is in full swing, it finally feels like we’re properly coming out of hibernation. And where better to admire the return of the rays than […]
Stephen Wolfram...
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ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
Flashbak
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch   Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
TheCollector
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markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
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over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
The Marginalian
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred "Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by...
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"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth."
Probably...
What does “strength” mean? Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. corr_trend What does “strength” mean?¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. I am currently doing a uni assignment...
CONTEMPORIST
A White Palette Helps Connect This Heritage Home With Its New Addition Dalecki Design has shared photos of a home they remodeled in Subiaco, Australia, which includes a...
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Dalecki Design has shared photos of a home they remodeled in Subiaco, Australia, which includes a contemporary rear addition and a white color palette throughout. The heritage character of the original house and the bright but calm feeling of the new addition are harmoniously...
A Beautiful Site
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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...
Probably...
Zipf’s Law Elements of Data Science is in print now, available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. To...
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Elements of Data Science is in print now, available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. To celebrate, I’ll post some excerpts here, starting with one of my favorite examples, Zipf’s Law. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In almost any...
Dominik Sobe's...
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Daniel Marino
How I Manage Projects As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there...
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over a year ago
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to manage projects, I do think there are some methods that can yield better results. I’m hardly an expert in this area, but I’d like to share some of the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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I recently listened to an episode of the Scriptnoes podcast interviewing Christopher Nolan, director of films such as The Dark Knight, Inception, and Oppenheimer. Generally, it’s fascinating look at the creative process. More specifically, I couldn’t help but see the parallels...
Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
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In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
TheCollector
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Seth's Blog
If they know, they should tell us Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both...
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Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both sides. Cigarette companies knew a great deal about the addictions they were causing and the illnesses that resulted. If the public had known, they would have made different...
TheCollector
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David Heinemeier...
The tech layoffs continue A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta,...
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A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
Archinect - Features
When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field...
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In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field and beyond, many are pondering what changes may be on the horizon in the discipline, if any. For Stanislas Chaillou, AI’s dissemination in architecture may refocus the profession’s...
Matt Mullenweg
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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle.
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Attitude follows behaviour Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who...
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Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who you feel should be. It’s true, if at any time you feel your skill is inadequate, it likely is. But that just means you know what you don’t
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My 40-liter backpack travel guide
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Diaries of Note
She cured me of the disease of night fear Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies...
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Dawn Powell was a master of incisive, sharp-witted prose that dissected the intricacies and follies of the human experience. Born in Ohio in 1896, she moved to New York City in her early twenties and quickly became an active member of the literary scene, writing novels, plays,...
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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...
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Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we...
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a year ago
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
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Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
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Pakistan’s China-style firewall is rattling its tech industry Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor...
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Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, said service providers.
TheCollector
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I Used to Be Impressed by People Who Had a Lot of Money — But Now I’m Impressed by People Who Have... Being told what to do is the adult daycare 99% of people live in.
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"You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light."
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choose your own adventure In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
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In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone. Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity? The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I swear, we're working on that stupid t-shirt design. Info in a day or two. Today's News:
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Kofan Coffee Shop epitomizes the essence of third-wave coffee culture nestled in the heart of Kremenchuk. Our establishment is meticulously...
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How autonomous vehicle simulation works When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
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When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
Passing Time
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
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over a year ago
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last...
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over a year ago
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last two weeks have been difficult for me because of life happening. Week 7 was hard because I had some travel to help my parents, and that just takes me out of my routine and is...
mtlynch.io
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (Part One) For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different...
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For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different apartments and one house. They’re family home videos from my childhood. After 600+ hours of work, I finally digitized and organized them well enough to throw away the original tapes....
Diaries of Note
You’d think I would be happy all the time Nikki Sixx was twenty-two when he co-founded Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band destined to become one...
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a year ago
Nikki Sixx was twenty-two when he co-founded Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band destined to become one of the most successful music acts in history. As the band’s bassist and principal songwriter, Sixx played a key role in developing their iconic rebellious persona, his escalating...
Both Are True
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The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
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Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
Aaron's Essays
Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on...
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I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on 3/24: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qgghYDq4QxCiW9REOOrbmw It would be challenging to name all the fundraising mistakes that founders make during the many demo days...
Calculated Risk
NAHB: Builder Confidence Unchanged in December The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 46,...
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 46, unchanged from 46 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good. Builder sentiment held steady to end the year as high home...
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
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a year ago
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Tom Blomfield
Monzo growth I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and...
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over a year ago
I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven’t been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought I’d write out my thoughts in a longer piece so I can feel less bad about giving...
Infinite Scroll
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Making money with a product: A myth? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that. First, a coffee shop conversation I
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nanoscale views
The 2022 Welch Conference The last couple of weeks have been very full.   One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference...
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over a year ago
The last couple of weeks have been very full.   One event was the annual Welch Foundation conference (program here).  The program chair for this one was W. E. Moerner, expert (and Nobel Laureate) on single-molecule spectroscopy, and it was really a great meeting.  I'm not just...
Paul Graham: Essays
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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.
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective? Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Jason Crawford
Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? Scott Alexander is my favorite blogger. I’d like to recommend him to more people, but it’s hard to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Scott Alexander is my favorite blogger. I’d like to recommend him to more people, but it’s hard to know where to start, since he’s written over 1,500 posts. A little while ago a friend asked me to make a list of my favorite pieces of his. So, here is a beginner’s guide to the...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get an 13-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s...
The Ruffian
Len vs Glenn How Leonard Bernstein turned a crisis into a productive disagreement
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Where Was Game of Thrones Filmed? 11 Locations You Can Visit
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Old Structures...
A Survivor From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
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From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
CONTEMPORIST
Fluted Concrete Walls Cut By Continuous Window Openings Define This Villa NOMO STUDIO has shared photos of a modern home they’ve designed in Menorca, Spain, that features a...
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a year ago
NOMO STUDIO has shared photos of a modern home they’ve designed in Menorca, Spain, that features a textured facade of fluted concrete walls. The fluted concrete walls are sliced by continuous window openings creating a combination of horizontal stripes that alternate between...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Amuse and Gratify Her Own Self' In her first collection, A Good Time Was Had By All (1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already...
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a year ago
In her first collection, A Good Time Was Had By All (1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already suggesting themes that would go on preoccupying her:   “All things pass Love and mankind is grass”.   In scripture, grass is the default metaphor for the transience of life. In the...
TheCollector
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Rest of World -...
The slow decline of Meta’s Trusted Partner program Who trusts the trusted partners?
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mtlynch.io
How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the...
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over a year ago
When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the code is just as important to the review as the person who reads it. There’s scarcely any guidance on preparing your code for review, so authors often screw up this process out of...
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Open Culture
Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera... A heads up on a deal: Between today and June 23, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its...
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A heads up on a deal: Between today and June 23, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive...
HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
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over a year ago
Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
History Today Feed
Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon JamesHoare Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Seth's Blog
Holding on for dear life That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip...
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9 months ago
That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip can save the hero. In our modern world, we often end up holding on to ideas, to grievances or to our view of the world. Ironically, the harder we hold on to the things we’re hiding...
Archinect - Features
How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably...
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5 months ago
As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses...
Londonist
The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington Warning: article could lead to serious house envy.
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History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield undefined
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933) The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
Steve Klabnik
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The Marginalian
Make Yourself a Seer: The Teenage Arthur Rimbaud on How to Be a Poet and a Prophet of Possibility "The day of a single universal language will dawn!... This language will be of the soul, for the...
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a year ago
"The day of a single universal language will dawn!... This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything, scents, sounds, colors, one thought mounting another."
Blog posts of...
How I think about Code Management You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or...
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over a year ago
You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didn’t care about code quality. H...
This Space
39 Books: 2017 The list of books piles up, thirty-three now, and I'm reading fewer and fewer novels. Not through...
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7 months ago
The list of books piles up, thirty-three now, and I'm reading fewer and fewer novels. Not through choice, but so little of what's new appeals. Instead, this year I read and reread books like Peter Handke's To Duration and Once Again for Thucydides, both of which escape helpful...
Calculated Risk
Census: The U.S. population grew by nearly 1.0% between 2023 and 2024 From the Census Bureau: Net International Migration Drives Highest U.S. Population Growth in Decades...
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4 days ago
From the Census Bureau: Net International Migration Drives Highest U.S. Population Growth in Decades The U.S. population grew by nearly 1.0% between 2023 and 2024, according to the new Vintage 2024 population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. As the nation’s...
Maps Mania
US Military Bases Around the World
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The Forney Flyer
Random Shots from the Phone This post features a few random shots from the iPhone. Some are from my very old iPhone 5s, that...
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over a year ago
This post features a few random shots from the iPhone. Some are from my very old iPhone 5s, that recently died. And some are from the refurbished iPhone 8 that replaced it. As a photographer, I don't buy into the concept that phone cameras will ever totally replace 'real'...
ToughSF
Actively Cooled Armor: from Helium to Liquid Tin. We have seen designs for long ranged particle beams and powerful lasers. Could they be the end-all,...
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over a year ago
We have seen designs for long ranged particle beams and powerful lasers. Could they be the end-all, be-all of space warfare? Not if we fend off their destructive power with actively cooled armor. Let's have a look at the different cooling solutions, from high pressure gas to...
Diaries of Note
Now is the time Shortly after writing this diary entry on 3rd December 1988, 21-year-old Jennifer Bonner was wheeled...
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a year ago
Shortly after writing this diary entry on 3rd December 1988, 21-year-old Jennifer Bonner was wheeled into the operating theatre at the University of Minnesota Hospital where her battle-scarred heart, heavy with hope and history, was to be replaced with that of a donor—the hopeful...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Forty years since my traditionally published book <![CDATA[Forty years ago these days, in November of 1983, my book Saturno: nubi, anelli e lune was...
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a year ago
<![CDATA[Forty years ago these days, in November of 1983, my book Saturno: nubi, anelli e lune was released by the small Italian publisher Italy Press. Early that year I had started writing this astronomy book about the planet Saturn. The paperback book "Saturno: nubi, anelli e...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine E. Jean Carroll’s 1993 memoir of Hunter S. Thompson opens like this: I have heard the biographers of...
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E. Jean Carroll’s 1993 memoir of Hunter S. Thompson opens like this: I have heard the biographers of Harry S. Truman, Catherine the Great, etc., etc., say they would give anything if their subjects were alive so they could ask them some questions. I, on the other hand, would give...
TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation undefined
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Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six...
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a year ago
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry. About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls! There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Both Are True
The ONE Amazon Prime Day Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT Read this asap before Bezos & Co delete it !!! Surely I'm in jail by now, please spread the word!!!
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Jonas Hietala
The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small...
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over a year ago
Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small shooter. The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afro Bullet masher - can you keep up with 100 enemies at the screen? Instruction W: up Credits Music: The Last Prophecy - Matthew Le Blanc...
TheCollector
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Platformer
How two insurgents are taking on Twitter Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
a year ago
Math Is Still...
In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark...
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a year ago
Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery. The post In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
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Discover the Best Fall Getaways: 3 American Cities You Must Visit
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Marco.org
Overcast summer update Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low...
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Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
Math Is Still...
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps...
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Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics. The post A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Passing Time
Savoring the Unsavory Making Meaning on Mount Adams
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TheCollector
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Londonist
Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
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Jonas Hietala
Plans for Summer of Code My first summer job is now over, and after a weekend of rest, it is now time to plan for my second...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first summer job is now over, and after a weekend of rest, it is now time to plan for my second summer job: IDA Summer of Code. I will work a month, or 4 weeks, with contributing to rust! The only issue is, I have no idea where to start. I didn’t have a strict plan or a vision...
A Beautiful Site
Flushing DNS cache on macOS Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP...
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over a year ago
Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed Notice that last part — that's why this is the best method. You get an audible "cache flushed" almost instantaneously, and the whole process becomes...
Musings on Markets
META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate...
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over a year ago
In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth...
Damn Interesting
A Trail Gone Cold Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught...
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9 months ago
Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught between continents at the extremities of the map. Remote and comparatively inhospitable, it was settled only as long ago as the 9th century, and has seen little additional in-migration...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Laying myself off from Amazon Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize...
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over a year ago
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental…
TheCollector
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