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A Smart Bear
Why I feel like a fraud (Impostor Syndrome) Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause,...
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Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
diamond geezer
Unblogged May 31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican...
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31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican is dark and almost empty apart from 20 scant full-frontal paintings. I completely missed the subtext ("The exhibition highlights how The Curve’s shape reflects the Arabic letter...
RhysTranter.com
A New Role at St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over...
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I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over the last two years I have been looking for a secure full-time job that would allow me to draw on my teaching skills and experience, while also offering an opportunity to serve my...
Quantum Frontiers
Sculpting quantum steampunk In 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and...
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In 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and got married outside the Harvard Faculty Club (because nobody was around to shoo us away). Equally unexpectedly, I received an invitation to collaborate … Continue reading →
The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Arrives at the Washington Post And updates on seven other recent articles at The Honest Broker
a year ago
TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate undefined
11 months ago
diamond geezer
The news from Barking and Dagenham Yesterday I went to the Becontree estate to take some photos of its churches. Then I added those...
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Yesterday I went to the Becontree estate to take some photos of its churches. Then I added those photos to yesterday's post about churches on estates. I didn't add this photo, even though it was my favourite. This is St Cedd's in Becontree. It has a lovely postwar copper roof...
TheCollector
5 Deadliest Sword Designs undefined
a year ago
The Modern House
A Californian-inspired 1970s home hidden under the trees in Kent
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why TV Lost
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
We Have Entered the Self-Loathing Stage of the Internet Or why web platforms keep changing their names like criminals in the Witness Protection Program
a year ago
The Marginalian
An Ecology of Intimacies At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of...
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At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of interdependent growth, undergirded by a mycelial web of trust and tenderness. One is profoundly changed by it and yet becomes more purely oneself as projections give way to...
Seth's Blog
Dreams, plans and contradictions Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen....
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Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
diamond geezer
Kempton Park One Stop Beyond: Kempton Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
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One Stop Beyond: Kempton Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Kempton Park, one stop beyond Hampton on the Shepperton line, a station which exists solely because of the...
TheCollector
Hunter Biden Did Know Who Acquired His Art undefined
11 months ago
Escaping Flatland
On shortcuts and longcuts There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they...
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There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon! oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
a year ago
TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt undefined
2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Ortensia restaurant by Chris Shao Studio A Japanese chef and a Chinese pastry chef dare to do French-Japanese cuisine (in Paris and now...
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A Japanese chef and a Chinese pastry chef dare to do French-Japanese cuisine (in Paris and now China). Opening a...
A Weekly Dose of...
From the Mouths of Architects I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts...
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I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts written by architects, much of it in the vein of theory — to gravitating to them. Now I find myself opting to read interviews, be they online or in printed matter, over other...
Common Edge
Brutalism in the Nation’s Capital A National Building Museum exhibition surveys notable concrete architecture in D.C. and presents...
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A National Building Museum exhibition surveys notable concrete architecture in D.C. and presents possible future uses.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#14) Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP...
a year ago
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a year ago
Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP numbers, phonics, and Russian nationalism
Spoon & Tamago
Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings of Metallic Objects by Kohei Ohmori Something must have come over me, says Kohei Ohmori, reflecting on the 280 hours or roughly 5 months...
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Something must have come over me, says Kohei Ohmori, reflecting on the 280 hours or roughly 5 months spent drawing a hyper realistic composition of a metallic bolt and nut using just pencils. The 30-year old artist, who has publicly discussed his struggles with OCD (obsessive...
Max Rozen
Understanding useState's initial value If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first....
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over a year ago
If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.
TheCollector
Who Were the Allied Powers? undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off JamesHoare Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
3 months ago
Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, fairy tale and realism - Not so wonderful, really, is it? I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a...
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I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a party.  I will rejoin the party planning momentarily. The Story of the Stone is a massive domestic novel about an extended family.  The main plot is the teenage love triangle, but...
Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
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7 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
Notes on software...
HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from...
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5 months ago
At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
TheCollector
Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works undefined
6 months ago
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
5 months ago
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
over a year ago
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Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
Max Rozen
On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480 In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Using the Oxide Console
10 months ago
diamond geezer
It's this blog's 22nd birthday It's diamond geezer's 22nd birthday. It's not an especially notable anniversary, not like 21 or...
3 months ago
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It's diamond geezer's 22nd birthday. It's not an especially notable anniversary, not like 21 or 20, but it's still a big number.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Sum of All the Losses' Abraham Lincoln was six feet, four inches tall, making him the tallest of U.S. presidents (LBJ was...
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Abraham Lincoln was six feet, four inches tall, making him the tallest of U.S. presidents (LBJ was half an inch shorter). The crown of his trademark top hat – a stovepipe, it was called -- measured twelve inches in height. Allowing for the silk hat settling on his head, the...
SOCKS
Fragments of an Unknown Civilization: Works by James Lipnickas James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes...
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James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes representing small architectural stages in axonometric projection. Suspended stairwells, excavated blocks, and plinths separated, or all combined are located in deserted...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more...
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#1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more directly your offer is related to one the core b2b “desires”, the easier the sales process. Many offers are only indirectly related to them. A better design might increases...
History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King? Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King? JamesHoare Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
If We Had More Than a Hammer ... We might not be in this mess.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe? undefined
11 months ago
HTMHell
Swallowing camels by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses… Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
Good Enough
Our Favorite Video Games Right Now While everyone at Good Enough is their own kind of nerd, thank you very much, as builders of the web...
a year ago
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a year ago
While everyone at Good Enough is their own kind of nerd, thank you very much, as builders of the web you probably expect that we also play video games. And we do! Well, collectively we do, but not to an unhealthy degree. Usually. I asked the team to share with me what their...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Alien Invasion
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 So simple yet so easy to overlook: Is whatever you’re putting out there actually attracting...
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#1 💡 So simple yet so easy to overlook: Is whatever you’re putting out there actually attracting the kind of people you want to attract? If you focus on metrics alone, you will quickly find yourself with pretty numbers but little value. For example, you can easily
Words and Buttons...
Circles and lines vs. polynomial splines Usually, when you want to make a parametric curve, you should go for a polynomial spline. But...
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over a year ago
Usually, when you want to make a parametric curve, you should go for a polynomial spline. But sometimes, for the reasons mentioned only in the second half of this page to keep you intrigued, you are not satisfied with polynomials. You have to look elsewhere. This page shows you...
The Modern House
Textile designer Pauline Caulfield’s art-filled home and studio in Primrose Hill
a year ago
HTMHell
#14 not my type Bad code <a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a> Issues and how to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a> Issues and how to fix them The type attribute has no effect on the semantics of an <a> element. An anchor may have the type attribute, but the value should be a valid MIME type. Browsers may...
Seth's Blog
Better than Google I haven’t done a Google search in months. Perplexity is more powerful, more pleasant and more...
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I haven’t done a Google search in months. Perplexity is more powerful, more pleasant and more effective. Instead of being corrupted by invasive ads, surveillance and sneaky dark patterns, it presents you with a simple, footnoted explanation of exactly what you’re looking for....
Rest of World -...
Why African startups must invest in tech policy conversations Oswald Osaretin Guobadia discusses the biggest challenge startups face when dealing with government...
a year ago
samwho.dev
Bloom Filters .bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width:...
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.bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 479px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 676px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width:...
diamond geezer
Open House wrap-up Let's finish this for another year. Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One located...
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Let's finish this for another year. Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One located immediately opposite the Whitechapel Gallery and is a repurposing of the former Cass School of Art and Architecture into a modern office block. The overall idea behind the rebuild was...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Fund a Startup
over a year ago
The American Scholar
“Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich appeared first on The American...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich appeared first on The American Scholar.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Hundred-Year Language
over a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Agency and Schooling (and gardening) Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar to some readers, the post is an elaboration of my thinking about agency. I speak a bit more about the problem, and potential solutions. I leave it implicit that I find it this very...
Spoon & Tamago
Death Fes in Shibuya Asks Visitor to Embrace Their End images courtesy Death Fes April 14th is the unofficial “day of good death” in Japan. The date 4-1-4...
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images courtesy Death Fes April 14th is the unofficial “day of good death” in Japan. The date 4-1-4 can be pronounced yo-i-shi, or good death, making today the perfect day to kick-off the Death Fes, an event aimed at encouraging people to think and talk about their inevitable...
Noahpinion
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap Narrative-driven triumphalism does not make for sound policy.
a year ago
TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art undefined
8 months ago
Noahpinion
The end of the "vibecession"? Maybe people are being irrationally pessimistic. Or maybe it's just all about real wages.
a year ago
Flashbak
One Night At The Empire Roller Disco, Brooklyn NYC – February 1980 On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown...
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On assignment for Forbes magazine on a winter’s night in 1980, Patrick D. Pagnano’s was in Crown Heights to see the skaters at Brooklyn’s Empire Roller Disco. Formerly the Empire Rollerdrome (built 1941), the rink was now all disco. It was where Cher hosted the release party for...
NeuroLogica Blog
Why Do Species Evolve to Get Bigger or Smaller Have you heard of Cope’s Rule or Foster’s Rule? American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first...
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Have you heard of Cope’s Rule or Foster’s Rule? American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first noticed a trend in the fossil record that certain animal lineages tend to get bigger over evolutionary time. Most famously this was noticed in the horse lineage, beginning with small...
Retail Design Blog
Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football...
3 months ago
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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football culture into lifestyle products, including...
Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
Arduino Blog
This desk lamp automatically adjusts its brightness using AI on an Arduino UNO When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today,...
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When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today, you probably assume that they require a massive amount of processing power. And while that is often true, there are machine learning models that can run on the edge — including on...
Louwrentius
Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
Retail Design Blog
Landevenneg by Studio Boam Landevenneg is a small village in Finistère, Brittany. It is famous for its Benedictine abbey and...
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Landevenneg is a small village in Finistère, Brittany. It is famous for its Benedictine abbey and its religious history. Landevenneg...
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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4 weeks ago
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
Sing With Dogs In Church At Battersea's Barking Mad 2023 Carol Concert An un-fur-gettable Christmas event in London.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning...
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Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets. The post Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday the machine will give you everything you...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking. Today's News:
The Honest Broker
How Coffee Became a Joke The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés? undefined
5 months ago
Diaries of Note
The important thing is to keep going Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who...
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Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who published Spender’s first book, Poems, at Faber & Faber in 1933. Spender wrote the following diary entry six years later, a few days after lunching with Eliot and with the world teetering...
David Heinemeier...
Breaking the inertia of mediocrity It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's rarely the terrible decisions, processes, or even people that'll sink your organization. It's the accumulation and inertia of the mediocre ones. Dealing with the truly bad is easy. It's painfully obvious to all that change is required. The danger is imminent. It's much...
Flashbak
The Wild Universe of Fletcher Hanks – The Outsider Comic Book Artist (1939-1941) Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American...
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9 months ago
Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
Castles in the Sky
You are Giants to Me Castles in the Sky #37
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down. This had a few effects. One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests. Another was...
Math Is Still...
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that...
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a year ago
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. The post An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking? undefined
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fix Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ever since twitter got weird people have tried to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ever since twitter got weird people have tried to fix twitter by making twitter. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again. For people who want signed copies,...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again. For people who want signed copies, they will be available via The Strand, as well as HelloComics of Charlottesville and Scrawl bookstore of Reston. Today's News: This is the hardest project I've ever worked on and, I...
Irrational...
Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile. tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary...
a year ago
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a year ago
tl;dr - it’s valuable to update your LinkedIn profile to be a concise, accurate, and current summary of your accomplishment. Spend at most two hours updating it, then ask a friend (ideally a recruiter) for feedback. Incorporate that feedback and don’t think about your profile...
Chris Nicholas
Quick UI: Rotating text mask I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came across an appealing text effect on the Adobe XD home page, and thought I'd recreate it here, and give it a quick colourful retouch.
Identity Designed
The Bond Designed by Common Curiosity, Birmingham, London.
a year ago
Open Culture
Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977) These days, references to seventies television increasingly require prefatory explanation. Who under...
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5 months ago
These days, references to seventies television increasingly require prefatory explanation. Who under the age of 60 recalls, for example, the cultural phenomenon that was Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, an absurdist satire so faithful to the soap-opera form it parodied that it aired...
abdz.do - Have you...
Pixel Art Delight: art direction and illustrations for Foxbat Five Pixel Art Delight: art direction and illustrations for Foxbat Five ...
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a year ago
Pixel Art Delight: art direction and illustrations for Foxbat Five abduzeedo0509—23 Renowned artist Margarita Solianova has embarked on a creative journey, shaping the visual identity of the indie arcade game, Foxbat Five. Solianova's...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
Maps Mania
Halloween's Most Haunted Places
a year ago
The Gradient
Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
The American Scholar
Aging Out Many of us do not go gentle into that good night The post Aging Out appeared first on The American...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night The post Aging Out appeared first on The American Scholar.
Stephen Wolfram...
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
diamond geezer
Southwark 25 Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The...
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a month ago
Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The platforms are much like many of the others on the Jubilee line extension, but the concourse between them is unique. Step through and you enter a long cylindrical space on two...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn? undefined
3 months ago
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
a year ago
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Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
AI Snake Oil
Three Ideas for Regulating Generative AI Policy input to the federal government from a Stanford-Princeton team
a year ago
Notes on software...
Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
9 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Pledge to Triple Nuclear by 2050 It’s interesting that there isn’t much discussion about this in the mainstream media, but the Biden...
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It’s interesting that there isn’t much discussion about this in the mainstream media, but the Biden administration recently pledged to triple US nuclear power capacity by 2050. At COP28 last year the US was among 25 signatories who also pledged to triple world nuclear power...
Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s “Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project     Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
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I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
Map of the Week
Indigenous Map of Southern Ontario Christi Belcourt is a Metis artist who "indigenized" the regional maps and surveys of Albert Salter...
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Christi Belcourt is a Metis artist who "indigenized" the regional maps and surveys of Albert Salter into a map called "Good Land".  One side of the map has the English text that most people are familiar with, while the other side uses indigenous place names and commentary....
mtlynch.io
Projects TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to...
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TinyPilot (2020 - present) TinyPilot is a small, inexpensive device that gives you remote access to servers before they even boot. Refactoring English (2021) Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers is my upcoming book that teaches developers practical tips...
Diaries of Note
We are like helpless animals Born in Paris in 1920, Benoîte Groult was nineteen when her beloved city fell under Nazi occupation...
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Born in Paris in 1920, Benoîte Groult was nineteen when her beloved city fell under Nazi occupation and the repressive rule of the Vichy regime. Throughout the war, she and her younger sister Flora kept a diary, chronicling the increasing constraints and daily indignities imposed...
Herbert Lui
Disorientation When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to...
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2 weeks ago
When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to make some mistakes. You’ll get in the wrong line at the airport. Queue on the wrong side of the escalator. Realize you’ve unintentionally broken etiquette or convention of some sort....
Paul Graham: Essays
See Randomness
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Construction Physics
The Influence of Bell Labs We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a...
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We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a generator of new technology.
Math Is Still...
What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now...
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Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of...
The DESK Magazine
When good is no longer good enough It wasn’t long ago I’d see a 3D rendering or piece of highly detailed art and feel blown away.
a year ago
nanoscale views
A few quick highlights It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to...
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It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the morning sessions of the DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting (pdf of agenda here).  A few quick highlights that I thought were...
Anecdotal Evidence
'About As Approachable As a Porcupine' The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television....
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The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television. No commercials, no dependency on internet whims, no bills to pay. That’s where I do most of my reading (best lighting in the house). From the couch I watch the show in the garden. Butterflies,...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard <![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system. It can...
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<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system. It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
TheCollector
Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings undefined
9 months ago
The Modern House
Artist Grace Watts on creating a serene gallery-like living space in Bethnal Green
a year ago
Bits about Money
The Bond villain compliance strategy Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out...
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Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out for Binance and its CEO. Spoiler: poorly.
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology undefined
2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Twitter of Inconsequent Vitality' This week I will interview a professor of chemical engineering who is retiring after forty-four...
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This week I will interview a professor of chemical engineering who is retiring after forty-four years on the faculty. He came to the university straight from earning his Ph.D. He’s neither flashy nor hungry for publicity, and I was surprised he agreed to speak with me. He has a...
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests undefined
a year ago
Fatih Arslan
A month in Munich We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of...
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3 months ago
We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of photos. Here is how it went.
Commoncog
The Deming Paradox: Operationally Rigorous Companies Aren't Very Nice Places to Work Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same...
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Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Law Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a complete theory of law, no exceptions,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a complete theory of law, no exceptions, don't email me. Today's News:
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four categories of Bitcoin-related projects New Bitcoin-related software projects are launching every day. From what I can tell these projects...
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New Bitcoin-related software projects are launching every day. From what I can tell these projects fall into four main categories: Bitcoin…
Daniel Miessler
The UL Boost Protocol This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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Archinect - Features
'AI Could Be Seen as a Culture of Death in Its Darkest Sense'; A Conversation with Genevieve... Genevieve Goffman does not create art about artificial intelligence; at least, not yet. The New...
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Genevieve Goffman does not create art about artificial intelligence; at least, not yet. The New York-based artist has instead grounded her acclaimed work in fantasy and narrative world-building, often through the medium of evocative and ornate 3D printed sculptures derived from...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell S300 H200 and H700 RAID controllers update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these...
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update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these controllers. However, which controllers are supported is not clear. Also, we may have to wait for quite some time before squeeze will be released. Just a quick note: it seems that the...
IEEE Spectrum
False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a...
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a year ago
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The...
Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
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Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars. an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Top 10 Museums to Visit in Madrid undefined
4 months ago
Raw Thought (from...
Confront reality
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Sign Combo
a year ago
Light from Space
Vaporwave Crescent Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters...
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Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters (those with only a few nanometers of bandpass) one can limit the sensor capturing only very specific wavelengths of light, namely the emissions of certain gasses (basically,...
History Today Feed
An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women JamesHoare Sun, 05/19/2024 - 00:00
7 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Joining Ought
over a year ago
Open Culture
Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music...
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MTV stands for Music Television, and when the network launched in 1981, its almost entirely music video-based programming was true to its name. Within a decade, however, its mandate had widened to the point that it had become the natural home for practically any exciting...
Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
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In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 20 Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is...
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Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is even harder than I expected. I’m evaluating platforms for paying international contractors. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 26 The Power of Meeting Weirdos
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows? And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
a month ago
Passing Time
Hemiphytophilia A journal entry about a house plant
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
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The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
diamond geezer
One Stop Beyond But what are the first stations beyond the Greater London boundary? Herts Moor Park...
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But what are the first stations beyond the Greater London boundary? Herts Moor Park z6/7 Carpenders Park z7 Herts Elstree and Borehamwood z6 Potters Bar Herts Cuffley Theobalds Grove z7 Waltham Cross z7 Essex Buckhurst Hill z5 Roding Valley z4 Grange Hill...
Paul Cudenec
Truth, essence, knowledge and light Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after all, you do not really care what they think of you.
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven: The Technicals A technical overview of how I'm applying the methods and ideas of the Becoming Data Driven in...
a year ago
Old Structures...
Tracing The Load Path Yet another view of the roof trusses at Moynihan Station, built when it was a mail-handling facility...
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Yet another view of the roof trusses at Moynihan Station, built when it was a mail-handling facility to allow for a big open floor for sorting machinery. The roof truss is at the upper right; one of the main columns is below it, two side trusses, supporting the edges of the...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Perfect Match Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple...
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Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple facade of the New York Stock Exchange, with the Wilks Building immediately to its right and Federal Hall, with George Washington standing out front, on the far right. I don’t know...
Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap? Part I Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate...
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Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate of unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
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
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best New Restaurants in Toronto
7 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? View on my website
3 months ago
Probably...
Smoking Causes Cancer In the preface of Probably Overthinking It, I wrote: Sometimes interpreting data is easy. For...
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In the preface of Probably Overthinking It, I wrote: Sometimes interpreting data is easy. For example, one of the reasons we know that smoking causes lung cancer is that when only 20% of the population smoked, 80% of people with lung cancer were smokers. If you are a doctor who...
Diaries of Note
Why me? Famous for the autobiographical monologues he performed on stage, American actor and writer Spalding...
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a year ago
Famous for the autobiographical monologues he performed on stage, American actor and writer Spalding Gray turned his life into riveting art, his unique shows, such as the acclaimed Swimming to Cambodia, providing a compelling insight into his personal experiences. In 2001, while...
Seth's Blog
Survivor bias and the mistake of stability An asteroid has never destroyed the Earth, therefore an asteroid never will. This brand has been...
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a year ago
An asteroid has never destroyed the Earth, therefore an asteroid never will. This brand has been involved in scandals before, and it has always come back stronger, so there’s nothing to worry about. There have been technology changes before, but we’ve always managed to find...
The Modern House
The beauty of life in the heart of the Barbican
a year ago
Both Are True
the essay formerly known as romcom (act two) Rom and Com are perfect for each other, but the universe has other plans
9 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
What are Executive Off-Sites Good For? A blessed Q4 be upon you. And you as well.
over a year ago
GitButler
Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
2 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How much is “too much” when it comes to overpromising as a startup? | Out-Of-Pocket navigating the gray area
a year ago
Bits about Money
Guys what is wrong with ACATS Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the...
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Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many...
a year ago
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a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order. While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
The American Scholar
Anchoring Shards of Memory We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both The post Anchoring Shards of...
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We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both The post Anchoring Shards of Memory appeared first on The American Scholar.
Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75 In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
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In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
diamond geezer
Why did they say that? This post is about announcements I’ve heard on TfL services recently. The announcements split into...
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9 months ago
This post is about announcements I’ve heard on TfL services recently. The announcements split into two groups. a) Why did they say that? b) Why did they say that now? Why did they say that? "Customers using the escalators are advised to carry pets at all times" [Whitechapel...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Oculus I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the...
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over a year ago
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the future. The best ones were: the Apple II…
Londonist
The Ghosts Of Oxford Street: The Ultimate London Christmas Film? Part musical, part 'secrets of', part who-knows-what.
a year ago
Mazdak
The Rollercoaster Ride of Long-Term Rates: What it Means for You and the Economy Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that had everyone from policymakers to financial analysts glued to their screens? Well, guess what? It's mostly reversed! What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means a sigh of relief...
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() small string performance I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for...
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I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for all the great comments and discussion! One aspect that needed more work was examining the performance for small strings. The previous blog post had a graph for strings up to about...
TheCollector
Who Is the Most Famous Centaur? undefined
a year ago
brr
South Pole Water Infrastructure Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
6 months ago
Made by Ollin
Game Emulation via Neural Network
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
MAM Competence Center by INNOCAD Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with...
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Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with the intention of...
SatPost by Trung...
The Concorde Jet vs. Boeing 747 PLUS: The Matrix's 25th Anniversary.
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Self Provisioning Runtime Improvements in DX in both programming languages and cloud infrastructure will eventually converge...
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over a year ago
Improvements in DX in both programming languages and cloud infrastructure will eventually converge in a single paradigm, where you truly "just write business logic" and the platform mostly figures out the rest.
Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Clinic Buildouts | Out-Of-Pocket Has software changed what's necessary in the clinic?
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Frontend filters & backend SQL - A chat with Eric Duong, Sam Winslow, James Greenhill, and Buddy... By: Engineering @ PostHog Eric: I'll just do it on my computer, upload it, and then toss it later....
over a year ago
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel undefined
8 months ago
nanoscale views
Items for discussion, including google's latest quantum computing result As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in...
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As we head toward the end of the calendar year, a few items: Google published a new result in Nature a few days ago.  This made a big news splash, including this accompanying press piece from google themselves, this nice article in Quanta, and the always thoughtful blog post by...
Explorations of an...
Argentina! Laura and I landed in Buenos Aires on the morning of January 9, a little bleary-eyed and feeling the...
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a year ago
Laura and I landed in Buenos Aires on the morning of January 9, a little bleary-eyed and feeling the effects from the three flights and two layovers. But we had made it. Nearly six years had passed since I last visited Buenos Aires. It had been the final port of call on my...
Blog posts of...
Getting Old 👴🏼
a year ago
The Great Discontent...
Sofía Gallisá Muriente Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
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Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Can you share a little bit about where and how you grew up and what...
ToughSF
Nuclear Conversion for Starship There has been much discussion about converting the SpaceX Starship to use nuclear propulsion. It...
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There has been much discussion about converting the SpaceX Starship to use nuclear propulsion. It would allow for a great increase in specific impulse and a massive extension of mission capabilities. But is it actually worthwhile? The image above is modified from...
Contemporist...
Before + After - A Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Renovation Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century...
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Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century modern home in San Mateo, California, for a young couple who wanted to update the kitchen, living room, dining room, and family room.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Stack Exchange Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier...
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over a year ago
Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier investors USV, Bezos Expeditions, Spark…
Open Culture
Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero... Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies...
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Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies and many others, passed away in Chicago, at the all-too-early age of 61. In tribute, we’re bringing you this classic 2013 post from our archive.  Journeyman record producer Steve...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 98 Echoes of an Explosion
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 2 is the title of my autobiography. Today's...
a year ago
GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Talks are Up All the Git Merge 2024 talks are up on Youtube. Here is a quick summary of each one.
a month ago
Old Structures...
Comparisons This type of imaginary collection was quite popular at the beginning of the twentieth century....
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This type of imaginary collection was quite popular at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sometimes it was just buildings, like here, sometimes steamships were stood on end to show how big they were. (Note that the biggest steamship in 1908, when the Singer Building was new,...
TheCollector
Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus? undefined
11 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Betavoltaic Batteries In 1964 Isaac Asimov, asked to imagine the world 50 years in the future, wrote: “The appliances of...
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11 months ago
In 1964 Isaac Asimov, asked to imagine the world 50 years in the future, wrote: “The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by-...
Open Culture
Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Sandal with Nails Used for Tread A recreation of the military sandals. (Photo: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation)...
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A recreation of the military sandals. (Photo: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation) Whether you’re putting together a stage play, a film, or a television series, if the story is set in ancient Rome, you know you’re going to have to get a lot of sandals on order. This...
brr
South Pole Topography The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 4 After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in...
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After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in Queens. Despite the modern use of a numbered street system, Queens has street naming that drives outsiders mad, so it is fitting that three of the four old ballparks in the borough...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can see why there'd be an uptick in people...
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can see why there'd be an uptick in people taking 30 pieces of silver in exchange for betrayal. Today's News:
Arduino Blog
Discover #Virgil: history comes to life with Arduino We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino...
2 months ago
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We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino technology with a passion for history, creating a groundbreaking interactive experience for museums.  Using Arduino’s versatile and scalable ecosystem, #Virgil operates completely...
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in...
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Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
journal – Winnie Lim
running 10km, and making life’s calculations I completed my only 2023 resolution this last week by finally running my first 10km in my life. It...
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I completed my only 2023 resolution this last week by finally running my first 10km in my life. It had seemed like an unattainable goal: I was struggling even to finish 5km,...
Seth's Blog
Normalizing selfishness Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Shoplifters lurk in the shadows. They realize that they will have an easier time if they quietly steal stuff, because speaking up about it won’t help their cause. Sometimes, though, some people seek to change the culture in a way that celebrates taking. “I own this jetski and I...
Seth's Blog
Feeding the algorithm The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It...
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