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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Apply Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hope the socks and sandals don't make this NSFW for...
6 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Having a shit blog has made me feel abundant From Giacometti’s sketch book
3 months ago
latest projects -...
Motorised Camera Slider [Hardware] Simple smooth motor mod
5 months ago
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
Commoncog
A Most Unlikely Master of Capital Allocation If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.
Vadim Kravcenko
✍️ Being an Amateur When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not be useful. […] The post ✍️ Being an Amateur appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Wuthering...
Philoctetes by Sophocles - Let me suffer what I must suffer Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in a mood of reconciliation and healing.  Literal healing.  Philoctetes possesses the bow of Hercules.  Either the bow, or Philoctetes himself, or both – prophecies are ambiguous...
Drew Ex Machina
Accurate Characterization of 3D Winds Using Stereographic Observations from the Hurricane Hunter... The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The teams at Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) and Canada Weather Analytics (CWA), where this author is the Chief Scientist, had the honor of having our abstract […]
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our...
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Domestic work in Vietnam: The 5-star butler who naps on the steps She cooks, cleans, and has a key. But she also naps in stairwells and eats in hallways.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024 Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
6 months ago
The Elysian
Free speech in the age of social media A discussion about misinformation, echo chambers, media spin, social trolling, and how we can create...
a week ago
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a week ago
A discussion about misinformation, echo chambers, media spin, social trolling, and how we can create something better.
Nelson's Weblog
Obsidian Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote, Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
Noahpinion
Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Square Packing
a year ago
Herbert Lui
A place and its magic When my partner and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii earlier this year, a driver told us about how...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
When my partner and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii earlier this year, a driver told us about how the island had lost its magic to him. After he spent a couple of years there, he naturally stopped noticing the beauty of the island. He felt wistful about this, and while his...
Seth's Blog
Inverting the vex Life can be irritating. And sometimes, we can make a choice. The thing that’s vexing you: is it a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Life can be irritating. And sometimes, we can make a choice. The thing that’s vexing you: is it a situation or a problem? Problems have solutions. If we care enough, we can find a way to solve a problem, but it might cost more money, require more effort or involve more risk than...
37signals Dev
Speeding up mobile development with Turbo Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever....
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
over a year ago
The American Scholar
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths The...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths The post The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend appeared first on The American Scholar.
Grow With Less
How to Get Interviewed (Even If You Are Not Well-Known in Your Niche) When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you interview experts on your blog in the hope that they will then share your interview and link to it. But doing the opposite also works. If you have interesting hobbies or any kind of...
Dominik Sobe's...
What a roller coaster ride
over a year ago
The Modern House
Living well, together: a breathtaking mews house that is a calm, creative sanctuary for four
a month ago
diamond geezer
Still hanging around Yesterday was one of this blog's 20 busiest days, not because everyone's really interested in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday was one of this blog's 20 busiest days, not because everyone's really interested in National Trust properties but because an old post hit an international news aggregator. My post about Crossrail timewasting ended up on hckr news under the headline "25% of the 13 minute...
mtlynch.io
Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This book was thoroughly underwhelming. Dozens of people have recommended it to me in the past couple of years, and I don’t understand the hype. It has some insightful ideas, but they’re buried under questionable advice and poor writing.
The Works in...
The asbestos times How asbestos saved cities, before we realized its risks
11 months ago
Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
AFAR Media - Travel...
You Can See the 2024 Solar Eclipse During This 22-Day Cruise
a year ago
Tech and Tea
Remote work and sick days a double-edged sword
a year ago
On Test Automation
I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
TheCollector
What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire? undefined
a year ago
FIRE v London
Aug ’23: … A belated write-up of the month of August. Thinking back a month, two stories pop out for me. One...
a year ago
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a year ago
A belated write-up of the month of August. Thinking back a month, two stories pop out for me. One was the death of Russian mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin – a larger-than-life modern day warlord, responsible for the ‘little green men’ at the start of the Russian/Ukraine war in 2014,...
diamond geezer
Free Parking FREE  🚗  PARKING         As my tour of London's Monopoly board reaches the halfway...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
FREE  🚗  PARKING         As my tour of London's Monopoly board reaches the halfway point, halfway through the year, let's go in hunt of Free Parking. Parking in central London is difficult, deliberately so, and generally not free. Yellow lines are everywhere, invisible...
A Beautiful Site
Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. Last week, I soft launched Surreal CMS 7. This new version is a complete rebuild from scratch using Node.js + Vue.js. I worked on this new...
elementary Blog
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements. Mail The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, November 2023 A ~monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in...
a year ago
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a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests. All emphasis in bold in the quotes below was added by me. Books Finished Lynn White, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962). Last time I talked about the...
Seth's Blog
What’s new at purple.space? There are now 1,000 of us in this online community that’s not a social network. Proudly a millionth...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are now 1,000 of us in this online community that’s not a social network. Proudly a millionth the size of some other online experiences. It includes the original Creative’s Workshop, with hundreds of people working through it, side by side. And just added, access to the...
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric undefined
8 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #219 Roth IRA Conversions, Net-Nets, Margin of Safety, SpaceX's Triumph, The Dystopia of Smartphones, Sam...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Roth IRA Conversions, Net-Nets, Margin of Safety, SpaceX's Triumph, The Dystopia of Smartphones, Sam Zell, UK Bargains, Gregorys Coffee, Free Speech Under Assault, Dopamine and Addiction
Diaries of Note
Our lovely Annex Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam, her world...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam, her world contracting to a few small rooms behind a bookcase in her father’s office building. Three days later, she wrote the following entry in her diary and described the “secret annex” in...
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 2: Early March through April (Brazil) March On March 4, Laura and I landed in São Paulo. It was our first time in Brazil. Even though we...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
March On March 4, Laura and I landed in São Paulo. It was our first time in Brazil. Even though we had planned to spend much of the next two months exploring Brazil, the country is so large that we could only see a small portion of it. We restricted our route to only include...
Society's Backend
A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
2 months ago
Data Boutique
Urgency Factor: Why Timing is as Critical as Cost The Issues of Planning Web Data Projects
a year ago
Old Structures...
Not Quite Qualifying One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of Skyscrapers in America was that the issues discussed apply to buildings outside the specific boundaries of my research. My research was specifically on buildings ten stories and...
The DESK Magazine
How to build your secret repertoire As a creative, your repertoire is your secret weapon.
5 months ago
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth undefined
10 months ago
The American Scholar
Indiana Absurd Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection The post Indiana Absurd...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection The post Indiana Absurd appeared first on The American Scholar.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Duncan Tattersall I’m an artist and maker from southern Scotland, designing and hand printing bespoke textiles for...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I’m an artist and maker from southern Scotland, designing and hand printing bespoke textiles for interiors. My work focuses on the relationship between pattern & place; all of my designs are inspired by a particular location and aim to interpret the story of their surroundings....
Flashbak
Vintage T-Shirt Slogans To Offend And Amuse When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
When we first hailed the glorious 1970s T-Shirt, you wrote in wanting to know if those iron-on-transfers were still available, like the ones sold in magazines that told us to Nuke the Whales. Retro is all the rage, as is what when Malcolm McLaren was repackaging Chucky Berry on a...
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 6 Guns Under The Table Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
a week ago
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a week ago
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since the last update of this – in that time I read my children all of Green Mars...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kept Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle on the shoes is perfect. Today's News: Stretch goals are being revealed faster than I had expected and I should've planned more!!
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ultimate Guide for Solo Travelers: Exploring This Beach Destination
6 months ago
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.
Internal Tech Emails
"[Steve Ballmer] thinks we ought to admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner" Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d that we are setting expectations too high on Windows 98. He thinks we ought to come out and admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner.
Cheese and Biscuits
Bouchon Racine, Farringdon Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas...
a year ago
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a year ago
Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas besides will, given long enough, find themselves fading in and out of favour. There was a time, within living memory, when French cuisine was considered the gold standard of...
xkcd.com
Good and Bad Ideas
7 months ago
Charles Chen
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
a year ago
Math Is Still...
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. The post ‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Roots of...
The American Information Revolution in Global Perspective In “What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?” I reviewed The British Industrial...
a year ago
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a year ago
In “What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?” I reviewed The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen. In brief, Allen’s explanation for the Industrial Revolution is that Britain had high wages and cheap energy, which meant it was...
TheCollector
Cappadocia’s Hidden Cities and Rock-Cut Churches undefined
3 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Fukutake Tres is an Art Space Dedicated to the Fukutake Family, the Visionary Force Behind the... Over the past three decades, Soichiro Fukutake, the former chairman of Tokyo-based education firm...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Over the past three decades, Soichiro Fukutake, the former chairman of Tokyo-based education firm Benesse Holdings, and his family have spent $250 million of their fortune to transform Naoshima and roughly a dozen neighboring islands in the Seto Inland Sea into a global art...
Rest of World -...
Rest of World’s 2024 reading guide Global tech leaders share 12 books to add to your must-read pile.
6 months ago
HTMHell
#11 The trigram for heaven Bad code <span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span> Issues and how to fix them A screen reader may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span> Issues and how to fix them A screen reader may announce this as trigram for heaven menu, because ☰ is the unicode character for the trigram for heaven. The purpose of the icon is decorative, it should be hidden from screen...
nanoscale views
Fiber optics + a different approach to fab Two very brief items of interest: This article is a nice popular discussion of the history of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Two very brief items of interest: This article is a nice popular discussion of the history of fiber optics and the remarkable progress it's made for telecommunications.  If you're interested in a more expansive but very accessible take on this, I highly recommend City of...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Contemporist...
The Large Arch Window In Front Of This Cafe Offers A Glimpse Of The Creative Interior Anatomy Architecture + Atelier has shared photos of a cafe they designed in Ayutthaya, Thailand,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anatomy Architecture + Atelier has shared photos of a cafe they designed in Ayutthaya, Thailand, that incorporates a collection of windows to create a welcoming arch shape on its facade.
Posts on Made of...
New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
Mazdak
2024: The Year the Economy Wins? As we turn the page to 2024, we're met with a cautiously optimistic economic forecast, suggesting a...
a year ago
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a year ago
As we turn the page to 2024, we're met with a cautiously optimistic economic forecast, suggesting a potential shift towards a more balanced and stable environment. While challenges and uncertainties remain, let's explore the key trends and strategic insights that can guide us...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic Q&A: can virtue justify evil? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org.]...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org.] V. writes: My question is: can Stoic virtues be used as excuses to conduct evil deeds? I’m asking this question for several reasons. First, in the current political climate, the...
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City undefined
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Thoughts on Israel’s 9/11 On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered a terrorist attack that took an estimated 1,200 lives, the vast...
a year ago
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a year ago
On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered a terrorist attack that took an estimated 1,200 lives, the vast majority of whom were civilians.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
xkcd.com
Greenhouse Effect
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.) I share updates on ten recent articles
a month ago
The Honest Broker
Why Recording Studios Are Unplugging From the Internet And other recent articles of interest
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Update on Quantum Computers There has been a lot of quantum computer news since I last wrote about the topic. But this is still...
a year ago
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a year ago
There has been a lot of quantum computer news since I last wrote about the topic. But this is still a technology that is slowly advancing in the background, while actual applications have been limited. There is a threshold effect at play – at some point, quantum computers will be...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Karma Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out. Today's News:
The Modern House
A hotel with staying power overlooking the Atlantic in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Old Structures...
So It Begins LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer helper. I approve of the reinforced seams in the flat-plane base: Building the stone-tile floor before we’ve completed the base. Very edgy. Clever foundation for the apse. LEGO...
Math Is Still...
Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire...
a year ago
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a year ago
Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills. The post Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Both Are True
well this is embarrassing when you're madsad about the caviar problems
6 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Shitcan the Sass' George Turberville writes in his epilogue to Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567): “I write...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
George Turberville writes in his epilogue to Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567): “I write but of familiar stuffe because my stile is lowe.” Today we call him a master of the “plain style,” the opposite of ornate poeticizing, along with his contemporaries George...
The Modern House
Our guide to Twickenham: architectural splendour and riverside walks in south-west London
11 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954) So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
Stephen Diehl
Sunsetting "What I Wish I Knew"
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
Spoon & Tamago
Oyane-san Blending Tradition with Modern Technology In Shikokumura Welcome to Oyane-san, affectionately known as "Honorable Roof," standing proudly at the foot of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Welcome to Oyane-san, affectionately known as "Honorable Roof," standing proudly at the foot of Mount Yashima on Shikoku Island. Related posts: Buddhist Monks are Getting All the Love Now Open: The New Oita Prefectural Art Museum Designed by Shigeru Ban SANAA’s New Sublime River...
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
11 months ago
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 34 - June 2023 Monthly Wrap-up
a year ago
Val Sopi
The incredible March 2024 <p>March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
<p>March was an absolutely insane month for <a href="https://blogstatic.io/">blogstatic.io</a>. The majority of this spike I can attribute to the <a href="https://blogstatic.io/blog/pricing-2024">price change announcement on March 1st</a> and customers were rushing to lock in...
Passing Time
On For Grantedness Finding secular thankfulness
over a year ago
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell Works Dispute Finally Over? undefined
a year ago
Platformer
How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape our political views Four long-awaited studies paint a muddy picture of social media’s impact on public opinion
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
Calculated Risk
Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and...
a week ago
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a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO A brief excerpt: We will NOT see a surge in foreclosures that would significantly impact house prices (as happened following the housing bubble) for two key reasons: 1) mortgage...
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick? undefined
9 months ago
Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
a week ago
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a week ago
Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Seth's Blog
Hobson’s choice …is no choice at all. The stable owner gets to pick which horse you get. Take it or leave it. Some...
a year ago
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a year ago
…is no choice at all. The stable owner gets to pick which horse you get. Take it or leave it. Some people prefer this. It means that we’re off the hook and not responsible. It relieves us of the emotional labor of choice. Let someone else worry about it… And so we give up our […]
Contemporist...
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Showering at the South Pole Potable water, and not much of it.
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Atoms vs Bits
Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...
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On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...
The Marginalian
The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness "Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender... Only...
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"Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender... Only unconditional surrender leads to real emptiness, and from that place of emptiness I can be prolific and free."
99% Invisible
De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE] Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more...
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Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands...
Platformer
Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Father's Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you. Today's News: This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
Contemporist...
A Glass Wall Separates A Bedroom From The Living Spaces In This Apartment MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living...
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MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living level with a bedroom enclosed behind a glass wall.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
But actually good 2024 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket I know, enough predictions. But these are good!
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Epic Web Dev
Stop Lying to Your Users
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Retail Design Blog
Super Co Coworking Offices by Conexus Studio Conexus Studio designs Super Co in One Holland Village, a novel co-working space adjacent to...
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Conexus Studio designs Super Co in One Holland Village, a novel co-working space adjacent to Superland Preschool, blending work and...
The Ruffian
What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical? Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Hexadecimal Sucks Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan...
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Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan Kaminsky When SSH added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a talk by Dan Kaminsky. As a refresher, randomart looks like this: $ ssh-keygen -lv -f...
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
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TheCollector
10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know undefined
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles...
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Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles (stale IP, original flops) and why "Inside Out 2" could trigger a renaissance.
Both Are True
me saying the titular line in the film Holes (2003) Many have asked to see the footage of my scene in Holes (2003) when I came out in the middle and...
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Many have asked to see the footage of my scene in Holes (2003) when I came out in the middle and said "holes" - here it is
mtlynch.io
Retrofitting Apps for Cloud Storage with Zero Code Changes I recently installed a media sharing app to one of my servers. It was simple to install, but it hid...
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over a year ago
I recently installed a media sharing app to one of my servers. It was simple to install, but it hid a dastardly trap for long-term maintenance. Every time a user uploaded a file, the web app saved it to the local filesystem. If I ever blew away the server and rebuilt it, I’d have...
Left To Write
Stoicism: The Philosophy I Use To Guide Me Through Life Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person —...
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Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person — let’s call him B — was leaving a cushy tech job and wanted to give the whole solopreneur thing a try. So given my background, B wanted insights into how I deal with uncertainty.
Math Is Still...
The Year in Biology Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and...
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Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Outside Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This works great on children too. Today's News:
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #166 The media landscape, Dollar General's meltdown, The written word, Damodaran on Instacart, The human...
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The media landscape, Dollar General's meltdown, The written word, Damodaran on Instacart, The human condition, Herb Kelleher, Merger arbitrage, and more.
Matt Mullenweg
WPAI Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some...
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Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some very cool products including CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.
Maps Mania
Population Flags
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
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The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
Strange Loop Canon
Progress when benefits are worth tallying the human cost of technological leaps
a year ago
The Roots of...
If you wish to make an apple pie, you must first become dictator of the universe The word “robot” is derived from the Czech robota, which means “serfdom.” It was introduced over a...
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The word “robot” is derived from the Czech robota, which means “serfdom.” It was introduced over a century ago by the Czech play R.U.R., for “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In the play, the smartest and best-educated of the robots leads a slave revolt that wipes out most of...
julian.digital
Media Consumption (Dec 2020) >_ Summary Read 5 books (1164 min, +15% MoM) and 48 long-form articles (+200%) Listened to 639 songs...
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>_ Summary Read 5 books (1164 min, +15% MoM) and 48 long-form articles (+200%) Listened to 639 songs (+43%) and 23 podcasts (1321 min, +148%) Watched 2 movies (232 min, -56%), 8 soccer games (840 min, -15%) and 16 TV episodes (771 min, -25%) Played 3 board games (895 min, +∞%)...
Seth's Blog
A long time is not the same as never It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how...
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It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how long it took to get here. Often, we assume that today’s snapshot is actually the entire movie, but it rarely is.
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
diamond geezer
Extinguishing the 497 This post is about little-used buses on the eastern edge of Havering. If you've never ridden the...
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This post is about little-used buses on the eastern edge of Havering. If you've never ridden the 346, 347 or 497 it may not be for you. least frequent bus (speciality routes excepted), and Geoff's just made a video about it. consultation to tweak/combine/withdraw these three...
Wuthering...
Books I read in December 2023 - No one’s worse than you, she says Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything in the first section except the May...
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Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything in the first section except the May Sarton novel and Eugene O’Neill play, balanced by a complementary pair of Holocaust memoirs. NOVELS, STORIES & A PLAY Ocean of Story, Vol. 1 (11th cent.),  Somadeva, tr. C. H....
Wanderingspace
New View of IO from JUNO! From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on...
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From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on May 16, returning arguably the best imagery of the moon since the Galileo Orbiter around the beginning of this century. Definitely the best since New Horizons in 2006.”
mtlynch.io
Automatically Deploying ClipBucket with Ansible Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or...
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Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or Vimeo. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to deploy ClipBucket to a server using the configuration management tool, Ansible. tl; dr - Just Install ClipBucket I don’t care about...
The American Scholar
Survival Situation The debate over evolution and its discoverer The post Survival Situation appeared first on The...
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The debate over evolution and its discoverer The post Survival Situation appeared first on The American Scholar.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
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a year ago
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
TheCollector
Who Is the Archangel Gabriel? undefined
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The American Scholar
Rap Rap Rap The post Rap Rap Rap appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary undefined
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Passing Time
Reasons Not to Burn Coal That Have Nothing to Do with Climate Change You don't need to talk about CO2 to have reasons to stop using coal for electricity generation
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome undefined
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The Map is Mostly...
Reading Well Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and...
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Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, reading text somehow remains more refined, more seductive. There is a visceral feeling to good reading. Partly this is because...
Open Culture
Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our...
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We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our imagination. These days, this notion tends to refer to artificial intelligence-powered systems that generate visual material from text prompts, like DALL‑E and the many others that...
Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Scrawls With a Lavish Hand Its Signature' “Where the wind listeth, there the sailboats list, / Water is touched with a light case of hives /...
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“Where the wind listeth, there the sailboats list, / Water is touched with a light case of hives / Or wandering gooseflesh.” Carl George is the sort of scientist whose company I most enjoy. He is a generalist, what used to be called a naturalist. Now an emeritus professor of...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell R410 network card not supported For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is no safe solution to get Debian Lenny working with the on-board Broadcom network cards. A fairly recent kernel is required. Basically, you will have to install back-ported kernels,...
TheCollector
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Odysseus in the Underworld Real or Fantasy?
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Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #20: Why do startups fail? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Beautiful Public...
Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos...
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them.
This Space
Atheism of the novel "Here it comes: the information dumping..." From section 237, page 185 of Ellis Sharp's latest...
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"Here it comes: the information dumping..." From section 237, page 185 of Ellis Sharp's latest novel, the part that is commentary on his attempt to destroy a commercially successful novel emulating "the style that The Guardian liked and promoted": The narrator is a young...
Moneyness
Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance,...
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Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls. In the...
Diaries of Note
Then, no more English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland lived together for almost 40 years, their...
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English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland lived together for almost 40 years, their partnership both a romantic and literary alliance that formed in 1930. It was in the 1960s that Ackland’s health began to decline, and on 9th November 1969, at their home in...
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
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Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
TheCollector
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The Ruffian
Thirty-One Insights Into Art, Writing and the Creative Process Nuggets from my commonplace book
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jiffy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This whole time we could have been united. Today's...
a year ago
Mazdak
How to Find Great Stocks That Will Make You Money The stock market can be a great way to grow your wealth over time. However, it's important to know...
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The stock market can be a great way to grow your wealth over time. However, it's important to know how to find great stocks that will make you money. In this blog post, I will share five key factors to look for when finding great stocks. Factor 1: Strong Revenue Growth
Computer Ads from...
Two Interviews with Ken Kaplan, One of the Creators of OS-9 Two interview from two different time periods
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TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process undefined
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Map of the Week
The Lost Subways of North America A new book by Jake Berman, The Lost Subways of North America explores the history of unbuilt and...
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A new book by Jake Berman, The Lost Subways of North America explores the history of unbuilt and discontinued transit in 23 cities in the United States and Canada. Mexico is not included because "Mexico's urban history is so unlike that of the United States and Canada."  Cities...
The Marginalian
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are "We are carriers of spirit... into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation."
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macwright.com
How could you make a scalable online geospatial editor? by I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not...
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I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not founding another geo startup anytime soon. I’d love to found another bootstrapped startup eventually, but geospatial is hard. Anyway, geospatial data is big, which does not combine well...
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
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over a year ago
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Kathryn Green I am a textile artist and tutor, specialising in dye and print processes to create organic, layered...
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I am a textile artist and tutor, specialising in dye and print processes to create organic, layered and textural art textile pieces for exhibition, in addition to capsule collections of wearable art and interior accessories.  Having obtained a First-class degree in textiles, I...
The Marginalian
Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V... “What we see from the air is so simple and beautiful,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote after her first...
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“What we see from the air is so simple and beautiful,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote after her first airplane flight, “I cannot help feeling that it would do something wonderful for the human race — rid it of much smallness and pettiness if more people flew.” I am writing this aboard an...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
nanoscale views
Nanopasta, no, really Fig. 1 from the linked paper Here is a light-hearted bit of research that touches on some fun...
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Fig. 1 from the linked paper Here is a light-hearted bit of research that touches on some fun physics.  As you might readily imagine, there is a good deal of interdisciplinary and industrial interest in wanting to create fine fibers out of solution-based materials.  One...
Londonist
An 'Accidentally Wes Anderson' Exhibition Is Coming To West London So. Much. Pastel.
a year ago
Notes on software...
Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021 For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed...
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For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed it's the perfect time to publish. This list is influenced by 1) my perception of the difficulty of the engineering behind the product and 2) the company's educational and OSS...
Seth's Blog
PW 5: Measuring the right thing Last in the series… Most of us were indoctrinated to believe that completing chores is the...
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Last in the series… Most of us were indoctrinated to believe that completing chores is the appropriate measure of productivity. “I did all my homework.” Doing all your homework is a measure for industrial bosses. But what, precisely, did your homework ever do for you? The actual...
Many Worlds
The Moon Rush Is On. Are We on Earth Ready For That? An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon this month and a pioneering Japanese lunar  lander is...
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a year ago
An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon this month and a pioneering Japanese lunar  lander is awaiting an imminent launch.  A Russian craft trying to land in the same area — the southern polar region — recently crashed, as did a private effort by a joint Japanese-United Arab...
The Rational Walk
By diverse means we arrive at the same end Montaigne's Essays: Book 1, Chapter 1
a year ago
Map of the Week
America's First Subway Map The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street,  a...
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The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street,  a chaotic mess of streetcars, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The tunnel was built to route the streetcars underground to ease congestion. Here is a plan of the original subway...
CONTEMPORIST
A Curvy Concrete Cube With Cut Outs For Windows Is The Form Of This New Home Cadence Architects has sent us photos of a new modern home they completed in Krishnagiri, India,...
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Cadence Architects has sent us photos of a new modern home they completed in Krishnagiri, India, that features a cube design with cut-outs. The K-Home, located in a busy residential neighborhood, has strategically scooped-out segments that create dynamic openings that frame the...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34 keyboard layout A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
TheCollector
The Economy & The Vote: How Financial Fluctuations Impact Presidential Races undefined
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MMapped blog
Designing error types in Rust
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness? undefined
2 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The $650m+ Spirit Halloween business Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September,...
a year ago
Data Boutique
Scrape Or Buy? The Zalando Case Study Cost of Web Data in a Real-Life Example
a year ago
alexwlchan
Making the fish shell more forgetful For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool...
a year ago
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a year ago
For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history. As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before. I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
Luxagraf:...
Mobile Bay We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go...
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We maxed out our time at Fort Pickens. After six weeks, it was time to move on. We had planned to go to New Orleans, and then up into the Ozarks, before heading back up to Wisconsin for the summer, but given how mild the winter turned out to be, we decided to press north sooner...
./techtipsy
They make USB-C cables with displays now! I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted...
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I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted USB-C port. This meant that I had a valid reason to get a few extra because I didn’t yet have a stockpile of good USB-C cables. That’s when I found out that there exist cables that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Roaring 2020's Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
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Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
journal – Winnie Lim
experimenting with Obsidian Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the...
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Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the learnings I had from them – read through my personal lenses, layered with the...
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung? undefined
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Oykun
Easy steps to start investing in the stock market Invest in long term, Diversify, Don't stress to time the market, Stay calm ... It is not that...
6 months ago
Flashbak
Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973) As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree.    ...
Steve Blank
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1 Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a...
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Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
Anecdotal Evidence
"A Fury of Self-Deception, Malice, and Conceit' There’s no getting away from the din. Who knew the human voice, individually and in the collective,...
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There’s no getting away from the din. Who knew the human voice, individually and in the collective, could carry on this way? An innocent question or observation prompts a sonic explosion. I’m unable to get that angry and loud so quickly. Perhaps if my family were threatened....
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
Musings on Markets
The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications! As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children...
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As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children are quick to point out my age, and I accept that reality, for the most part. I understand that I am too old to exercise without stretching first or eat a heaping plate of cheese...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Cool Malignity of Othello' “As Shakespeare went on, however, he became interested in why people like evil, not for their own...
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a year ago
“As Shakespeare went on, however, he became interested in why people like evil, not for their own advantage but for its own sake.”  In his lecture on Othello, W.H. Auden understands, as a growing number of our contemporaries do not, that evil is autonomous and self-justifying....
Spoon & Tamago
Demographics Professor Warns that by 2531, Everyone in Japan Will be Named Sato image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press...
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image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By...
Rest of World -...
How Shein and TikTok Shop are trying to shake the ‘Made in China’ reputation Chinese platforms came for global customers. Now they want global sellers.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha? undefined
a year ago
Noahpinion
The dark vision of America Persecuting groups of people to score political points is not OK.
3 months ago
Wuthering...
Menander's Dyskolos - each man would hold a moderate share and be content This week it’s Menander’s Dyskolos, or The Grouch, or The Misanthrope (316 BCE), which may or may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week it’s Menander’s Dyskolos, or The Grouch, or The Misanthrope (316 BCE), which may or may not have inspired the title of Molière’s great play, and nothing more than the title since the play was, like all of Menander’s plays, long lost.  A fairly complete Dyskolos was the...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Stream and personalised content Hotwire and Turbo are great for very quickly and easily adding real-time updating of webpages...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hotwire and Turbo are great for very quickly and easily adding real-time updating of webpages without requiring the browser to reload the whole page. But if the information you want to stream back from your server to the client has anything specific to the current user — like...
Londonist
Rare Chelsea Books: Memories Of A Bookshop On The King's Road "We discouraged visitors from bringing in galettes, to prevent sticky fingers."
a year ago