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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Possible Verdicts Are Five' As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about...
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As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about everything else -- becomes harsher and more fashionable, interesting conversation withers. Have you noticed how quickly people dismiss a subject before it has been pondered and probed?...
The Ruffian
Threads Isn't Toxic Enough Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta): take your embedded development to the next level Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to...
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2 weeks ago
Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Rise of Touch Screens in Cars Explained Touch screens in cars are not new. In fact, the first production car fitted with a touch screen was...
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over a year ago
Touch screens in cars are not new. In fact, the first production car fitted with a touch screen was the 1986 Buick Riviera.   The CRT…
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
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Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
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a year ago
A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
latest projects -...
LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations undefined
8 months ago
HTMHell
Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
Computer Things
What I look for in empirical software papers Behind on the talk and still reading a lot of research papers on empirical software engineering...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Behind on the talk and still reading a lot of research papers on empirical software engineering (ESE). Evaluating a paper studying software engineers is a slightly different skill than evaluating other kinds of CS papers, which feel a little closer to hard sciences or...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Life Is Slow Dying' One of Philip Larkin’s most technically adept poems, “Here,” is never self-consciously flashy,...
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a year ago
One of Philip Larkin’s most technically adept poems, “Here,” is never self-consciously flashy, though the first of its three sentences is twenty-five lines long. Its earliest readers perhaps flipped past it in The Whitsun Weddings (1964) -- it’s the first poem in the collection –...
David Heinemeier...
Buying the seller We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity...
a year ago
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a year ago
We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity market, so this was less about pining for a specific feature or even working to reduce the bill. This was about buying from Tom Rossi, the technical cofounder of HigherPixels (who...
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....
Dustin Curtis
Contribution and abundance Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically...
This Space
Literature likes to hide Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision, Geoffrey Hartman's...
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Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision, Geoffrey Hartman's first book, published in 1954. It is difficult to find a copy now but you can download a digital version of the book via the link. The opening chapter is a 50-page study of "Tintern...
The Ruffian
The Sunak Question Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
8 months ago
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
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2 months ago
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
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7 months ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
Old Vintage...
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
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7 months ago
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Nothingness Is Our Need' One of R.L. Barth’s sisters-in-law found a tote bag containing poems and drafts in a cupboard, most...
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6 months ago
One of R.L. Barth’s sisters-in-law found a tote bag containing poems and drafts in a cupboard, most dating back to his time at Stanford in the late nineteen-seventies. He found epigrams (his trademark form as a poet) and some Martial translations. The bag also held “one fugitive...
History Today Feed
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa JamesHoare Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:07
11 months ago
macwright.com
Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some frontend libraries, like CodeMirror, have UIs like autocompletion, tools, or popovers, that are triggered by typing text or hovering your mouse cursor, and disappear when that...
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip) Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
samwho.dev
Load Balancing .simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items:...
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.simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 2.5em; } .load-balancer { color: black; font-weight: bold; } .request { color: #04BF8A; font-weight: bold; } .server { color:...
Adventures In...
How to Reattach Land that Spills Over the International Dateline If you’ve ever made a world map before, you may have noticed that bit of Siberia that spills over...
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If you’ve ever made a world map before, you may have noticed that bit of Siberia that spills over the International Dateline only to magically appear on the left edge of the world. When it comes to projecting our not-2D world onto a 2D surface, we have to draw the line somewhere....
History Today Feed
How the CCP is Closing China How the CCP is Closing China JamesHoare Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:47
7 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places' At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like bartenders. The good ones usually...
Dominik Sobe's...
Early marketing efforts showing results
over a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
A Weathered Copper Facade Oxidized by Soy Sauce Defines Suetomi’s New Kyoto Cafe Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a café business named AoQ Related posts: Kaikado’s Tea and Coffee Cafe in Kyoto Cafe Fang: An Oasis of Books and Coffee in Kyoto Discover Souvenirs Galore at Kyoto’s Newest Gift...
somethingaboutmaps
Projection Cards I had a whimsical idea a few months ago: map projection trading cards. Something nerdy and...
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over a year ago
I had a whimsical idea a few months ago: map projection trading cards. Something nerdy and map-related that you could collect and exchange at conferences. I poked around at some design ideas for a while, and here’s what I’ve come up with so far. This is the front side of the...
Londonist
"£1 For A Return Fare Since 2003": Brockwell Park's Miniature Railway You can hire it for birthdays, too.
8 months ago
TheCollector
15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man undefined
10 months ago
Maps Mania
Trains, Balloons and Automobiles
5 months ago
diamond geezer
Bus of the day 187 Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey:...
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5 months ago
Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey: 8 miles, 60 minutes Because it's 18th July I've been out riding the 187, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. It's no big hitter. twiddling round backstreets in an...
Christian Selig
More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of...
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over a year ago
Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of why you might want this! Finding the average color of an image is a nice trick to have in your toolbelt for spicing up views. For instance on iOS, it’s used by Apple to make their...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mechanism Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: People who say microeconomics isn't useful in real...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: People who say microeconomics isn't useful in real life are simply not being creative enough. Today's News:
The Ruffian
Seven Underrated Forms of of Diversity Different Kinds of Difference At Work
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Projects and the red zone Many projects are never finished. There are countless broken and not-quite-fixed cars in garages....
a year ago
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Many projects are never finished. There are countless broken and not-quite-fixed cars in garages. There are crafts projects, massive redevelopments and everything in between. They sit unfinished because of bad planning, lack of resources, and most of all, a lack of resolve and...
Rest of World -...
Employees allege sexual harassment and intimidation at CCI, Africa’s largest call center company CCI Kenya has over 1,400 employees and its clients include T-Mobile and Instacart.
a year ago
TokyoDev
TokyoDev 2023 Recap 2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
2023 was an interesting year. While the tech market crashed in the US, I’d decided to expand TokyoDev, growing it beyond myself, and reinvesting the success we’ve had so far to expand the business further than I could on my own. As I heard about wave after wave of layoffs, it had...
Archinect - Features
Organizing and Reforming Architectural Education: A Conversation With Tessa Forde In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse,...
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In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse, most notably through grassroots efforts by architectural workers across the United States to organize for better workplace conditions. For Tessa Forde, organizing centers on a vast...
The American Scholar
Parque de la Música The post Parque de la Música appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Washington: Get to Know the First First Lady undefined
3 months ago
Common Edge
Does Brooklyn’s New Brooding Monolith Deserve Kudos? Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak...
a year ago
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Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak middle finger on the skyline.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best mobile app analytics tools 1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an...
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4 months ago
1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an all-in-one platform built to help engineers create…
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 16-22 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Unpacked
Zoom's AI policy backlash & customer data in model training Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in a way that allows use of customer data (read your video and audio recordings) for training Zoom features. In this episode, we unpack the timeline of events that followed, Zoom's...
TheCollector
5 Notable Women Who Transformed Latin America undefined
a month ago
Map of the Week
Artwork of Mary Edna Fraser Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and cartography. One of my recent discoveries is artist Mary Edna Fraser. Her textile work (from silks to rugs) and paintings range from the continental scale, East Coast, US-batik on...
The Ruffian
42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything An oldie but goldie
10 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Why you can't meditate You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see how.
Old Structures...
Changes and Not I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s...
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I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s mislabelled at the New York Public Library web site as “Vista, Thomas Street”. We all make mistakes, and whomever confused Thames and Thomas hid the location of this photo by accident....
Construction Physics
Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way...
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For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons....
Astral Codex Ten
Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity ...
a month ago
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers) Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
Jonas Hietala
Back to Training Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thoughts from “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on...
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a year ago
I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on the new visionOS and what you can do to make your web pages look great on Apple’s new device. tl;dr just keeping doing what responsive web design and accessibility experts have...
Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here. Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism? undefined
4 weeks ago
The American Scholar
Camouflage The post Camouflage appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
The Roots of...
Can we “cure” cancer? In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes: Ask most biologists...
a year ago
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In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes: Ask most biologists about the cure for cancer, and they will tell you it doesn’t exist: cancer is many diseases that are mostly unrelated to each other, and that all have to be cured one at a...
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth? undefined
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Design for AI If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look like? How does it need to work? When mobile device browsers first became a design problem, some people said that the best way to solve it was with two sets of markup — one for...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Makers 2022 We've featured some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year! Thank you to all that...
a year ago
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a year ago
We've featured some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year! Thank you to all that have been involved and those that are yet to come in 2023! We love reading about your printmaking practices and hearing your beautiful words of advice. Grab yourself a drink, pop...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the votey panel just makes the point more strong. Today's News:
McMansion Hell
ode to a faux grecian urn Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia...
xkcd.com
Dendrochronology
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maps Mania
The Catalan GeoGuessing Game
5 months ago
Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
10 hours ago
Vadim Kravcenko
 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […] The post  🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Beautiful Public...
Utah Highway LiDAR Scans Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces...
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over a year ago
Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces and area surrounding 15,000 miles of its roads.
Society's Backend
1000+ AI Agents Make a Civilization, xAI Creates the Largest Supercomputer in 4 Months, Possible AI... Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-09
3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You undefined
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
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a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Drew Ex Machina
NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platform Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the characterization of Earth’s magnetic field and the discovery of what became […]
RhysTranter.com
Green Fashion at the Green Man Festival 2023 In late August, Jenn and I attended the Green Man Festival in Wales, UK. While representing the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In late August, Jenn and I attended the Green Man Festival in Wales, UK. While representing the Fashion Department of the University of South Wales, Jenn, her colleague Emma, and several of their students facilitated upcycling workshops with industry partners Hiat Denim and...
Electronics etc…
Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the...
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a year ago
Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution References Introduction I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the nineties, and the...
Seth's Blog
Sharp tools Professional woodworkers rarely have to be reminded to sharpen their tools. Of course they know...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Professional woodworkers rarely have to be reminded to sharpen their tools. Of course they know this. The rest of us, on the other hand, regularly use digital tools we don’t understand, don’t maintain and haven’t optimized. Sometimes, our lack of care in the choice and use of...
Rest of World -...
The U.S. is racing to source chips from Vietnam —  but engineers are scant A deficit of 15,000 engineers is predicted in the next five years. Just 89 students are enrolled in...
a year ago
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a year ago
A deficit of 15,000 engineers is predicted in the next five years. Just 89 students are enrolled in the country’s only comprehensive chip engineering degree.
Seth's Blog
Feeding the algorithm The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It doesn’t matter if it’s good.” The SEO consultant explained that the website had to be loaded with keywords, and that a big budget needed to be set aside to develop inbound links....
The Marginalian
The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the... Days after I arrived in America as a lone teenager, the same age Mary Shelley was when she wrote...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Days after I arrived in America as a lone teenager, the same age Mary Shelley was when she wrote Frankenstein, not yet knowing I too was to become a writer, I found myself wandering the vast cool halls of the Penn Museum. There among the thousands of ancient artifacts was one to...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The segmentation of the venture industry Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ford Motors dominated the auto market in the early 20th century with a single car model, the Model T.  At the time, customers were seeking…
Cheese and Biscuits
The Royal Oak, Whatcote There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There are so many different types of restaurant, so much variety in the ways and manner and styles that we eat out, that sometimes it's amazing we find anything in common about the experience at all. And yet somehow we do, and restaurant critics and food blogs exist because, by...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Private Conversations are Private I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I know, so it stands out among the general cacophony of my many other failures. I wanted to own up to what I did, explain how I handled it, and in general take ownership of the...
The Diff
That Top-of-Cycle Feeling Plus! Search; Cost of Capital; Duration; Aggregate Demand; Leaky Restrictions
a week ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Soul of Reading!' Don’t invariably mistake a digression for sloppy storytelling. True, a clumsy storyteller will...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Don’t invariably mistake a digression for sloppy storytelling. True, a clumsy storyteller will digress out of sheer rambling confusion and indifference to his audience. My father was like that. We arrived at some destination and he would promptly relate the details of the...
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero a HERO? Both in the ancient world... and today?
a year ago
Old Structures...
New York Without Height Today’s pictures all date from 1860, when the tallest building in New York was the spire of Trinity...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Today’s pictures all date from 1860, when the tallest building in New York was the spire of Trinity Church. I can’t readily tell you what the second-tallest building was, as people weren’t really thinking about tall buildings that way yet. It was probably another church spire....
journal – Winnie Lim
documenting my first experience with the risograph Last weekend to celebrate our 94th month anniversary we decided to attend a beginner’s risograph...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Last weekend to celebrate our 94th month anniversary we decided to attend a beginner’s risograph workshop at Knuckles & Notch. To be very honest I haven’t heard of the word “risograph” until...
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If I had to choose one metric that would determine how well someone would do in law school, it wouldn’t be the LSAT or another test. It would be whether or not they formed a study group, and who else was in it. Of course, the same is true for your project, or any sort […]
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Image via Wikimedia Commons A quick heads up: On October 3rd, Stanford Continuing Studies will kick off an 8‑week online course called Did It Matter? Does It Now? The Music and Culture of the Grateful Dead. Led by David Gans (author of Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual...
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Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner workings of bitcoin to a person in simple, understandable terms? source This explanation seems perfect to me because it illustrates some seriously problematic aspects of...
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Like all good metaphors, it might be practical too. Your ‘shoes’ are the point of greatest leverage. The spot where you have traction and engage with the world most directly. For a freelancer, it might be the way you engage with customers, or your software tools. It might be the...
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If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
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The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
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I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
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The Sopranos is having a bit of a moment with the recent HBO documentary about David Chase. Illustrator Robert Sikoryak made a nice map to orient fans to the New Jersey landscape of the show. You can click above to see a larger version. I've only watched bits of the show so I...
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Some strange realizations I had while making some truly delicious fuckin yum yum food from Hungry as Hell, the new cookbook by Michelle Albanes-Davis that I highly recommend !
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We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
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After I was not chosen to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, I think it’s time to highlight some brief items: Here is a great blog post by a Rice grad alum, Daniel Gonzales, about flow to approach faculty searches.  I had written a fair bit on this a number of years...
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Left To Write
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I’ve met many people in my adult life who are so much more intelligent than I am. But most of them have ended up in well-paid corporate roles. Now, there’s nothing wrong with doing a 9 to 5. These corporate companies are needed, but whenever I walk away from conversations with...
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It was June 1973. For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The two had been...
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When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
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There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
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Controlling the space between text styles is as important as differentiating the styles themselves. Whenever I review design documentation, there are a few things I look for in the first few seconds. All of them have to do with how scannable a page or screen’s layout...
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Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can be changed in the .screenrc file in your home directory. The following example sets the scroll back buffer to 5K lines. defscrollback 5000 Set the scroll back buffer on the fly with: First...
Christopher Butler
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Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin. My favorite images are the ones that highlight the working nature of the spaces. And the spaces I am most interested in being in are those which embrace the...
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January 18, 2023 Ah, a sleep-in. The late night owling escapades (can it really be called owling if we didn't find any owls?) had made our decision for a leisurely start quite easy to make. It also helped that we had just a few bird targets this day.  We began in the cactus-laden...
Archinect - Features
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In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had recently become the head of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego (WUSD) following the departure of the previous chair, Geraldine Forbes, to New Mexico. During our...
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A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff date actually is. It seems like it should be straightforward enough to figure out (just ask it), but it can be confusing due to ChatGPT’s inconsistent answers...
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Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
The Solarchitecture...
Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
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Stoic Simple
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Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
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“Prose poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll kill him or at least make him sick. When I confront a prose poem I run, though sometimes I pause to laugh and then run. The question becomes, which is worse: the poet’s ineptness or his...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
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Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and containers in my free time. One of the things I have running is a Media Server, which I use to access my collection of movies and shows (that I evidently own and ripped myself). To...
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Rerouting of bus route 339 on Fish Island November 2023 rerouted in the Fish Island area of East London to serve emerging residential areas previously remote from the bus network. This report from the Independent E3 Inspectorate analyses the build-up to implementation and...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
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Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
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As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside. During the course of the year, investors also...
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Londonist
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In contrast to previous years I haven’t kept up with the blog. For good reason I’d say since we got a child in October! It really alters your perspectives and other things suddenly feel a little less important and of course there’s less time to do other stuff. A little late and...
The Changelog
This Is How Tyrants Go: Alone I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end...
over a year ago
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I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end for tyrants. If I were to sum it up, it would be with the word “alone.” Their power fading, they find that they had few true friends or believers; just others that were greedy …...
TheCollector
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism? Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
wingolog
fedi is for losers Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in...
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Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
Maps Mania
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TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
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a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jenny Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can of course remove the last name, but then...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can of course remove the last name, but then you're causing less damage to a larger group. Figuring out how to maximize damage is left as an exercise for the reader. Today's News:
The Marginalian
How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas... Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world,...
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Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because (in the immortal words of John Muir) “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” how we relate to anything is how...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 1 | Out-Of-Pocket we should pay people to be healthy + building a new EMR
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
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Vadim Kravcenko
I have a very poor work-life balance. How can I escape the grind? Question: Hey Vadim, Here's the situation: from the moment my alarm clock interrupts my sleep, until...
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Question: Hey Vadim, Here's the situation: from the moment my alarm clock interrupts my sleep, until I finally come home late at night, my life is essentially a never-ending cycle of sitting in front of the PC and stressing with a workload that feels like it's set to max. I feel...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Control Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an original sin, we can get it to feel guilty. Today's News:
Home on Erik...
More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi: Next week I'm presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Collection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if you could embed consciousness in a...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if you could embed consciousness in a sticky ball that could be fired from a small cannon to make enemy weapons sentient and pacifist. Today's News: Thanks!
TheCollector
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
News is a lousy business for Google too There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few...
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over a year ago
There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google…
Contemporist...
This Modern Mountain Home Was Designed With Distinctly Separate Wings CLB Architects has sent us photos of a mountain retreat they designed in a densely forested area of...
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Ordinary Life Where Things Make Sense' An old friend back in upstate New York and I were texting. We worked years ago as reporters for the...
a year ago
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a year ago
An old friend back in upstate New York and I were texting. We worked years ago as reporters for the same newspaper. She was married then to her second husband, who had multiple sclerosis and died slowly and horribly. When she had to  go out of town, I would stay with him...
TheCollector
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Contemporist...
A Rejuvenated 1980s Home Updated With Scandinavian Influences SMPL Design Studio has shared photos of an updated home they completed in Niagara On The Lake,...
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SMPL Design Studio has shared photos of an updated home they completed in Niagara On The Lake, Canada, that's located on a landscaped corner lot.
The Modern House
House Style with gallerist Oyinkansola Dada in Pimlico
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup St. Nick and Saturnalia
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The Honest Broker
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
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Abstruse Goose
out of usual order
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Seth's Blog
Foibles Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great...
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Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great reasons to embrace our ways and stick with them. Other people’s habits, though, show that they are simply picky, weird or too sensitive. The difference between a preference and a foible...
High Signal
Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
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I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
The Rational Walk
Will Berkshire Hathaway Pay a Dividend? Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well...
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Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well served by Warren Buffett's reluctance to send out dividend checks.
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
S2 This is the S2, a bus which ran between Clapton and my neck of the woods between 1970 and 2008, back...
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This is the S2, a bus which ran between Clapton and my neck of the woods between 1970 and 2008, back when 'S' meant Stratford. It now means Sutton, there already being an S1, S3 and S4 threading across the borough, but it's taken until 2024 for the gap to be filled with an...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023 A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
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A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
Matt Mullenweg
CNBC on WP Engine Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.
The American Scholar
American Horror Story Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The...
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Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The American Scholar.
Archinect - Features
Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners? In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct...
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4 months ago
In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
Seth's Blog
It’s not easy …to make it look easy. Sometimes, you don’t need to bother. Making it look hard might be a plus. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
…to make it look easy. Sometimes, you don’t need to bother. Making it look hard might be a plus. The important part is how it makes the recipient feel.
Making software...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
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over a year ago
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
The Convivial...
The Prompt Box is a Minefield: AI Chatbots and Power of Language The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 2
a year ago
The Modern House
An architect's dream: four architect-owned homes for sale A busman’s holiday? A total breakdown of the work-life balance? It would be fair to assume that an...
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A busman’s holiday? A total breakdown of the work-life balance? It would be fair to assume that an architect would find bringing their work home – in the most literal of senses – a bit of a drag. But as this collection of architect-owned homes […]
Londonist
Delightful Literary Days Out Near London That All Book Lovers Should Do Immerse yourself in the worlds of famous authors, from Charles Dickens to AA Milne.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Meaning is for 18 year olds. I'm ready for...
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
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3 months ago
Seth's Blog
“Not your best ever” In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal. Each thing is not going to top...
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In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal. Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
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a year ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Travel is Becoming More Accessible
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Way Back When Our flying has been quite slow lately because of the Covid-19 situation. I have, however, recently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our flying has been quite slow lately because of the Covid-19 situation. I have, however, recently done several maintenance and test flights from our home airstrip, which as you can see, is about half underwater from the high levels of Lake Victoria. In fact, this is better than...
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story? undefined
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TheCollector
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./techtipsy
The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This...
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ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This included the media playback control keys. On the ThinkPad T430, the new chiclet keyboard layout moved the media keys to the function row. Still there, but less convenient to access. The...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 26 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer, and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer, and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Paul Cudenec
Gordon Brown and the single global mafia Gordon Brown was prime minister of the UK from 2007 to 2010, having, from 1997, been chancellor of...
a week ago
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a week ago
Gordon Brown was prime minister of the UK from 2007 to 2010, having, from 1997, been chancellor of the exchequer under Tony Blair, whose links to the Rothschilds I explored in 2023.
Seth's Blog
The amateur presenter Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained...
a year ago
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a year ago
Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained but with something to say. If you’re called on to give a talk or presentation, the biggest trap to avoid is the most common: Decide that you need to be just like a professional...
Londonist
A Map Of Southwark Place Name Origins The etymology of the London Borough Southwark.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Superlinear Returns
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Who Needs Your Stories?' Have you ever read something – it might be a poem or a history book, almost anything – and...
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2 months ago
Have you ever read something – it might be a poem or a history book, almost anything – and encountered a phrase or sentence so self-contained and dense with meaning, in words so perfectly arranged, that you stop reading, ponder and write it down? You may not even continue with...
Retail Design Blog
NDA design studio™ project for the medical apparel brand HIRCOST The HIRCOST store in Saint Petersburg, designed by NDA Design Studio, reimagines the concept of a...
a month ago
Miguel Carranza
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Moneyness
Are the sanctions on Russia working? I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions imposed on Russia have affected regional trade patterns. While direct trade between Europe and Russia has collapsed thanks to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions, the...
The Convivial...
"The Pathologies of the Attention Economy" (Audio), Links, Miscellany Listen now (23 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16 (supplement)
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Tamburins flagship store Similar to affiliated eyewear brand Gentle Monster, Tamburins resonates extremely well with...
a month ago
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a month ago
Similar to affiliated eyewear brand Gentle Monster, Tamburins resonates extremely well with Millennial and Gen Z demographics both at home...
Nela Dunato Art &...
How to tactfully answer awkward client questions The first time you get a challenging question will always feel uncomfortable, and you’ll probably...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The first time you get a challenging question will always feel uncomfortable, and you’ll probably say something you’ll regret later. But that interaction is a valuable lesson, and the trick is to get prepared for the next time someone asks you the same question—because there will...
The American Scholar
The Wonder of It All In search of awe The post The Wonder of It All appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
Musings on Maps
Perilous Waters The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in...
a year ago
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a year ago
The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in international waters. The maps of legal oversight Stockton Rush avoided demand to be recognized as a creation of globalism, as much as a luxury diversion of the super-rich. ...
Quantum Frontiers
Caltech’s Ginsburg Center Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and...
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Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, which will open in 2025. At a lunch following the ceremony, John Preskill made these remarks. Hello everyone. … Continue...
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know undefined
a year ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Product Identity
I'm writing a zine Will I become an author now?
2 weeks ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
A software engineer's guide to A/B testing As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
a year ago
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a year ago
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
Max Countryman
Taming AWS Costs AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant...
a year ago
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a year ago
AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant portions of our engineering budgets. However there are techniques we can use to get them under control and even reduce overall spend significantly.
The Gradient
Neural algorithmic reasoning In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found...
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In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms and Data Structures [1]. Think shortest path-finding, sorting, clever ways to break problems down into simpler problems,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"A standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments for resources" Great idea from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase: 1/ Seems like there should be a standard protocol for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Great idea from Brian Armstrong of Coinbase: 1/ Seems like there should be a standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments…
The Honest Broker
Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought They will even take less than "fair market value"
a year ago
Construction Physics
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly...
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7 months ago
For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials that can have their conductivity varied by many orders of magnitude, which makes it possible to selectively block and allow the...
Blog posts of...
000 A Sci-Fi Short Story
a year ago
Mazdak
⚖️ Copyright Law and Generative AI Generative AI is revolutionizing the way we create, but it's also raising complex legal questions...
a year ago
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a year ago
Generative AI is revolutionizing the way we create, but it's also raising complex legal questions about copyright law. 🤯 What's the Issue? 🤔 Copyright law protects original works created by humans. But what about AI-generated content? Is it protected by copyright? 🤔
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
a week ago
nanoscale views
Technological civilization and losing object permanence In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put...
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3 days ago
In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put down some thoughts on a societal trend.  This isn't physics or nanoscience, so feel free to skip this post. Object permanence is a term from developmental psychology.  A person (or...
Retail Design Blog
HONOR Flagship Store Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of Kuanzhai Alley and the sleek modernity of...
TheCollector
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Good Enough
Beware of Free Software Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try...
a year ago
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a year ago
Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try to offer me a slice of free pizza, I'd suspect there's something wrong with it. And ever since my kids can understand me, I've taught them to be careful of free stuff. Nothing is...
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life? undefined
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 6 Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress. Revenues fell substantially and missed targets for the month. I’m going to shelve the project unless I achieve my targets for March. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Singapore H1B1 Tips > Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on /r/sg](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7nflav/h1b1_visa_ama/) about 1yr ago. Please also read this blogpost from /u/omakaselife!...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "VR / AR strategy" We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would...
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We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would like a stronger strategic position in the next wave of computing.
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Prepare for the Worst? Without living forever in fear and worry?
5 months ago
Coding Horror
Thunderbolting Your Video Card When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 5 Highlights TinyPilot revenue grew 20% to $12k. I released a new high-end model of TinyPilot. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot revenue grew 20% to $12k. I released a new high-end model of TinyPilot. I launched my first ever paid course. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Release a high-end version of...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#22) Test score collapse, triumph of the vibes, U.S. dependence on China, the benefits of upzoning,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Test score collapse, triumph of the vibes, U.S. dependence on China, the benefits of upzoning, immigrants and jobs, and a world at war
Anecdotal Evidence
'Even Erudition is Possible Outside Academe' A reader tells me he earned his B.A. in English several years ago and now he works for a non-profit...
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5 months ago
A reader tells me he earned his B.A. in English several years ago and now he works for a non-profit that pushes “arts education,” whatever that might be. I don’t take him for an idealist. He’s bright, personable, an ambitious reader and bored. Our culture doesn’t know what to do...
bt RSS Feed
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
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5 months ago
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Diagram of Passenger Stations in the Sydney Metropolitan Area, 1928 There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928....
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There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928. There’s a lot of different angles – both with route lines and station labels – but it still manages to hang together as a coherent whole. A big part of that is the dead straight...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Ins and Outs of Fundraising Today | Out-Of-Pocket Some stuff I’ve learned doing a little healthcare startup investing
a year ago
Working Theorys
The Rise of the Software Creator In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s...
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In the age of AI, software creators, like content creators, will emerge as the industry’s non-professional creative class.
Drew Ex Machina
GOES Video of Solar Eclipse – October 14, 2023 Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14,...
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Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14, 2023 was no different. Unlike a total solar eclipse where the […]
Blog - Practical...
What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] November 1965 saw one of the...
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over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] November 1965 saw one of the most widespread power outages in North American history. On the freezing cold evening of the 9th, the grid was operating at maximum capacity as people tried to stay warm when a...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that…
Seth's Blog
Purchase decisions All purchases involve a decision. Yes or no, this or that, now or later… But it’s helpful to realize...
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9 months ago
All purchases involve a decision. Yes or no, this or that, now or later… But it’s helpful to realize that all decisions involve a purchase. When we decide to spend time or take a risk or make a commitment, our brains act in a way very similar to how we choose to make a purchase....
The Honest Broker
Death: A Literary Guide Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on...
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a year ago
Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on the matter.
TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires undefined
2 weeks ago
Willem's Blog
Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
The goose for Xmas disappeared In the waning days of 1948, George Orwell was secluded on the Scottish island of Jura in a remote...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
In the waning days of 1948, George Orwell was secluded on the Scottish island of Jura in a remote farmhouse named Barnhill—a stark, white-washed building set against the backdrop of Jura’s untamed wilderness. It was there, amidst the stark beauty of nature and in declining...