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Steve Blank
Lean Meets Wicked Problems This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College...
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This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where...
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 3: You make what you measure Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user...
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over a year ago
Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of users. You’ll be delighted when it goes up and disappointed when it goes down. Pretty soon you’ll...
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths undefined
3 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
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In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
Map of the Week
The Possible Collapse of Oceanic Circulation This map, via Down to Earth shows the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC...
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This map, via Down to Earth shows the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is like a "heat conveyor belt". It moderates temperatures on the planet by moving warmer air to northern latitudes while returning cooler air to the tropics. It has already slowed...
Matt Mullenweg
GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
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A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized? Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
3 months ago
Kagi Blog
Summarize anything with the Universal Summarizer Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).
History Today Feed
‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review ‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review JamesHoare Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
2 weeks ago
The Honest Broker
Open Mic Day: Tells Us About Your Favorite Movies, Music, Books, Etc. of 2024 Share your best picks!
a month ago
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City undefined
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Travel & Moving to a New Home: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Maps Mania
The National Stereotypes Maps - Part Two
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
What I have been up to lately
a year ago
Old Structures...
Little, Yet Big That’s 65 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, an 1851 wood-frame house that had fallen on hard times....
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That’s 65 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, an 1851 wood-frame house that had fallen on hard times. People at the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation have been trying for a very long time to get the building repaired and re-occupied – the best way to ensure an old building’s...
Joel Gascoigne
The exercise habit * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I opened my MacBook Air, switched to the...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
A not so gentle intro to web3 Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
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Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
Retail Design Blog
Zhoushan Summer Hotel Phase II by MAT Office The Zhoushan Summer Hotel was completed five years ago. The strategy of adding balconies and...
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5 months ago
The Zhoushan Summer Hotel was completed five years ago. The strategy of adding balconies and changing the facades at that...
The Works in...
How to start an advance market commitment A practical guide from the founders of Frontier
6 months ago
HTMHell
Do you know color-scheme? Do you know of color-scheme yet? If not, I bet you still think you do. It will certainly look...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do you know of color-scheme yet? If not, I bet you still think you do. It will certainly look familiar, as prefers-color-scheme has been around for longer and is clearly related. You're in good company if it's new to you - the State of CSS 2022 results just came in, and 73% of...
The Rational Walk
The Year in Review Growth in 2023, top articles, and plans for the future
a year ago
xkcd.com
Ferris Wheels
4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Autobiographical Paintings by Frida Kahlo undefined
3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Hearts of Palm by HUMANO STUDIO A series of boxes for dietary pasta made out of palms’ inner core.
3 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
Paik Jong Won …is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of...
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…is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of branches mainly in korea with some splattered all over the world. I first knew of him...
The Honest Broker
How Musicians Invented the Antihero In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of Hollywood protagonists
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 of The Best Dude Ranches to Visit in Arizona
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
TheCollector
Who Is Kiki Smith? undefined
2 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in...
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Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in Greater London, England, that included new outdoor stairs with built-in planters. The client contacted the architects to renovate the lower ground floor of the house due to severe damp...
The Modern House
Our guide to North Norfolk: spectacular wildlife, unspoiled beaches and stargazing
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theodicy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is highly appreciated. Today's News:
The Marginalian
How Emotions Are Made "Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world."
10 months ago
One from Nippon
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again. Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation. There
Passing Time
Full of Eternity Home is a place where you have never been.
a year ago
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
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2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Finding a mystery IAM access key Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download some objects from S3, and it wasn’t working – it was giving a “permission denied” error. I wanted to inspect the permissions, but first I had to find where this IAM key came...
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need – Part 1 This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better...
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This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I asked ChatGPT to complete the sentence given the phrase: “I chose that bank for”. It completed the sentences sensibly. Here are the four sentences it generated: In...
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Extension Made Space For A New Kitchen And Dining Area AR Design Studio has shared photos of a project they completed that included a new contemporary...
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AR Design Studio has shared photos of a project they completed that included a new contemporary single-storey extension for a private residence. Mature trees surround the site to the north and east, and tall lush hedges to the south and west perimeter of the property that provide...
Maggie Appleton
Folk Interfaces
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases...
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Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. The post Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting first appeared on Quanta Magazine
swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024) I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
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Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
over a year ago
balajis.com
The Network State Book A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
over a year ago
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A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein...
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#1 💡 While alcohol is becoming less and less nicotine is having a comeback. Even Einstein reportedly believed that Nicotine contributed to a calm and objective judgment. But while there are thousands of “premium” options when it comes to consuming alcohol, all Nicotine...
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How to measure product engagement Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
Maps Mania
The Cyclotron
10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Always Singular, and Never Trite or Vulgar' “He was never seen to be transported with Mirth, or dejected with Sadness; always Chearful, but...
a year ago
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“He was never seen to be transported with Mirth, or dejected with Sadness; always Chearful, but rarely Merry, at any sensible Rate, seldom heard to break a Jest; and when he did, he would be apt to blush at the Levity of it: His Gravity was Natural and without Affectation.”  The...
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center This is Part III in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World...
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This is Part III in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, and Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center
Transit Maps
Submission – Historical Map: Duluth Transit Authority, 1982 Submitted by Darryl, who says: Going through old boxes in my basement, I came across this 1982 opus...
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Submitted by Darryl, who says: Going through old boxes in my basement, I came across this 1982 opus from the Duluth Transit Authority. I may be biased because it’s the first transit map I ever saw, but I think it’s amazing, capturing the way the city nestles into the topography,...
Old Structures...
Probably Not What The Artist Intended 75 Broad Street, diagonally across the street from our office, was built in 1928 and almost...
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75 Broad Street, diagonally across the street from our office, was built in 1928 and almost immediately bought by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation for use as the company headquarters. Like a lot of New York Telephone buildings of that era, the interior was a...
Grow With Less
Don't Trust Keyword Difficulty Scores (Do This Instead) Keyword difficulty or SEO difficulty is the likelihood of ranking for a keyword. And the way most...
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over a year ago
Keyword difficulty or SEO difficulty is the likelihood of ranking for a keyword. And the way most bloggers estimate it is dangerous. They use SEO tools like Ahrefs, Keysearch, or SEMrush and rely on their keyword difficulty scores to tell how easy ranking for a keyword should...
Castles in the Sky
23 Highlights from 2023 A new video, two viral essays, a weekend in London, friends, family, a toddler, and much more!
11 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
CUDA is Still a Giant Moat for NVIDIA Despite everyone’s focus on hardware, the software of AI is what protects NVIDIA
9 months ago
Probably...
How Many Books? If you like this article, you can read more about this kind of Bayesian analysis in Think Bayes....
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If you like this article, you can read more about this kind of Bayesian analysis in Think Bayes. Recently I found a copy of Probably Overthinking It at a local bookstore and posted a picture on Twitter. Aubrey Clayton replied with this question: It’s a great question with what...
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Learned to Love Books' “Though most of the teachers followed Erasmus in seeking to make learning palatable, Montaigne...
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3 months ago
“Though most of the teachers followed Erasmus in seeking to make learning palatable, Montaigne considers himself fortunate to have avoided getting 'nothing out of school but a hatred of books, as do nearly all our noblemen,’” writes Donald Frame in his 1965 biography of the...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#38) WW2 production; "Neopopulism"; fake science; desire modification; deregulation ideas
6 months ago
Irrational...
Executive translation. One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their...
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India undefined
a month ago
Citation Needed
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be...
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10 months ago
What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be proliferating on the web? The number one thing you can do is learn to edit, and I will walk you through how to get started in only 30 minutes.
Dominik Sobe's...
My 2020 Annual Review
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The List of N Things
over a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960) To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
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a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus. Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
David Heinemeier...
Finding The Last Editor Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever...
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9 months ago
Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on their system? They'll make it work. Using a different framework or language every few years? No problem. I envy that level of versatility, but I've come to accept it just...
TheCollector
Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power? undefined
3 months ago
Light from Space
The Space Lobster Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus...
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Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus shows a complex pattern of Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen-III regions. It's quite far south in the sky at a declination of −34° 20′ and here in Tucson it barely
The Turn Signal RSS...
An in-depth look at the UX Design of the Porsche Taycan Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car...
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over a year ago
Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car company with specs that challenge Tesla's…
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom. Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Old Structures...
The True Form I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I thought I had posted this map before, but apparently not. John Montresor was an engineer in the British army, who was in North America from the French and Indian War until about halfway through the American Revolution. He created this map in 1775, showing the city of New York,...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
Maggie Appleton
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?
over a year ago
Old Structures...
A Depressing Follow-Up Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will...
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5 months ago
Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will be gone forever. And if that happens, the world won’t end but it will be poorer for the loss.” Neither a use nor the money was found and as of September 12 this coming fall, the […]
Rest of World -...
The World’s Last Internet Cafes For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
FOMC Statement: 25bp Rate Cut Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. FOMC...
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Fed Chair Powell press conference video here or on YouTube here, starting at 2:30 PM ET. FOMC Statement: lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent. In considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments to the...
David Heinemeier...
Dare to connect a server to the internet The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
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10 months ago
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
Making software...
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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over a year ago
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
Probably...
Estimation with Small Samples Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. gauss_bayes Estimation with Small Samples¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. Hey, so imagine I only have 6...
Contemporist...
Giant 'Woven' Fabric Graces The Window Of This Flagship Store Architecture firm LAAB has shared photos the Cozey flagship retail store they designed in Toronto,...
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Architecture firm LAAB has shared photos the Cozey flagship retail store they designed in Toronto, Canada, that includes an eye-catching window showcase.
blag
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
over a year ago
TheCollector
Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent? undefined
a month ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Reconductoring our Electrical Grid Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in the energy sector, mainly involved in new solar projects. This is not surprising as Texas is second only to California in solar installation. I asked him if he is experiencing a...
Christopher Butler
The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. As of last year, half of the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. As of last year, half of the internet’s traffic came from bots. This is a headline that has been repeated many times because it sounds important, but without much in the way of helpful context, it doesn’t carry much...
Common Edge
The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation? undefined
5 months ago
Christian Selig
Choosing a travel pack is hard I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines...
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I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines losing your stuff. Outside of requiring a bit more planning, what’s not to love? Turns out this is a beloved product category with a passionate community behind it, and as a result...
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.
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really? Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
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Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
Good Enough
TIL: Overriding Permalink Generation in FriendlyId FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails applications. In Pika we're using it to help with generating permalinks for blog posts and pages as well as slugs for tags. When a customer wrote in with a request to modify the behavior of...
Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
More From Liberia I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly...
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I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly after I landed at a remote location one day, our other aircraft, piloted by Ulrich Müeller, also landed (below) at the same airstrip. I was about to load up two medical patients...
Open Culture
Mark Twain & Helen Keller’s Special Friendship: He Treated Me Not as a Freak, But as a Person... Sometimes it can seem as though the more we think we know a historical figure, the less we actually...
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4 months ago
Sometimes it can seem as though the more we think we know a historical figure, the less we actually do. Helen Keller? We’ve all seen (or think we’ve seen) some version of The Miracle Worker, right?—even if we haven’t actually read Keller’s autobiography. And Mark Twain? He can...
Louwrentius
Improving web application security by implementing database security Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement defense-in-depth security in web applications. 99.9% of applications use a single database account, with root-like privileges. Easiest for the developer of course, and the database is just a...
Mark Manson
The 5 Levels of Understanding Yourself Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the self. We'll be exploring the concept of self at five different levels, from simple explanations to brain-melting ideas that'll leave you questioning your very existence. Ready? Let's do...
Londonist
TfL Is Closing Five Tube Lines This Weekend Planning on taking the tube this Saturday? Check before you travel!
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Regulatory hacks A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up front, and the players follow the rules…
TheCollector
6 Unsolved Murder Mysteries Involving Historical Figures undefined
9 months ago
Hixie's Natural Log
The Future is Flutter Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and open standards is that the product and the employer are orthogonal. I've had three employers in my career, and in all three cases when I left my employer I continued my job. With...
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Notes on "Growing a Language" Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility and collaboration
Seth's Blog
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There are two easy ways to tell: First, if you have a script or a highlighted goal in mind, you’re pitching. You’re simply asking questions to create connection, tension or forward motion. Second, if you’re willing to learn and change your point of view as a result of the...
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Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
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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...
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In the US, today is a major holiday. The Superb Owl, with nachos, commercials and beer. People who don’t even watch football watch this game, and it’s one of the largest audiences each year on TV. For a certain kind of mass marketer, a Super Bowl ad has been the gold standard for...
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I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s on, the cleaning probably will; the content generally ranges from idiotic (here’s my name – isn’t it impressive?) to puerile (pictures of genitalia being the most common); and it’s...
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Romulo Neto Architects LDA has designed a modern building for a company that produces bakery and pastry machines. Inspired by the company’s principal activity of creating machines that produce dough for bread and pastries, the architects designed a facade that’s reminiscent of...
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It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
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Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his books, "12 Rules for Life" and "12 More Rules for Life." I've had the pleasure of chatting with him on his podcast and even got some F-bombs out of him. But what really stuck with me...
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Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
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I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init] [update]) because I have a self-imposed deadline of mid-July, backed up by a $1000 toxx clause. Here's where I currently am: 1: The book is now 14k words. About 4k are "basics", covering...
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I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?” There’s been lots of words written about it, but no actual recordings of the moment. I remembered I had saved this 90 second, 26 year-old audio file because this is when I knew we had...
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A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
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First, the Carson, Pirie, Scott Store in Chicago, as it appeared in the past: In my opinion – and many other people’s opinions – it’s one of Louis Sullian’s most amazing designs. Here’s a close-up of the corner entrance as it appears today (actually yesterday, after I finished my...
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I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know: Alain & Marie-Agnes Bertaud. This project is an extension of their book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. With its focus on economic theory, you might not realize that...
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During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call for maps that represented “Community,” to be completed in 24 hours. Along with the call for maps, GC offered and organized free online talks, which included various and interesting...
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Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
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The Story Can Be Oversimplified The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective...
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The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective on an emotional level, and are easier to tell. So we often tell them. For example, Wikipedia (my go-to source for oversimplified explanations) states that the 1916 New York zoning...
Blog - Bitfield...
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Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
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Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
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a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a model has existed in Japan in which subsidized housing supports manga artists who are early in their career and have not yet established an audience. One of the earliest was the...
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There is an interesting disconnect in our culture recently. About 90% of people claim that they verify information they encounter in the news and on social media, and 96% of Americans say that we need to limit the spread of misinformation online. And yet, the spread of...
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Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
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Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
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The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details: The built-in...
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APS March Meeting 2024, Day 4 and wrap-up Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in...
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Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in which my student spoke as did some collaborators.  It was a pretty interesting collection of contributed talks.   The work that's been done on spin transport in multiferroic...
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“The words poetic and fatuous ought not to be synonyms; and to encounter a mind which is against mock society, mock poetry, mock justice, mock spirituality—against  any form of enslavement—is a benefit.”  Marianne Moore could be a soft touch when it came to reviewing. She could...
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Paternity Leave: Month 4 Highlights I found ways to procrastinate writing my book. I had fun fuzz testing open-source...
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Highlights I found ways to procrastinate writing my book. I had fun fuzz testing open-source projects. I picked out components for a new high-end desktop computer for software development. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
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The Last Wonder: D.H. Lawrence on Death and the Best Lifelong Preparation for It "Know thyself, and that thou art mortal. But know thyself, denying that thou art mortal."
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A New Bunkhouse Provides Additional Accommodation For A Family's Cabin On An Island SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington...
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SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington State, that provides additional sleeping accommodations for a family's cabin.
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The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum...
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Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. The post The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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In-home beauty service in Pakistan: the woman sweet-talking tough clients Though gig work gives respite from the grind of working in a salon, choosy clients make a...
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Slow, But Faster Than Original My in-home team for rebuilding Notre Dame – LEGO Notre Dame – has fallen behind schedule. As of...
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My in-home team for rebuilding Notre Dame – LEGO Notre Dame – has fallen behind schedule. As of today, we’re about up to where the Parisians were in 1200 or so. From a month ago, construction of the nave walls: and the forest of nave columns: From yesterday, the nave walls and...
NeuroLogica Blog
Rats! What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on...
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What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on this island fat flightless birds who nested on the ground and were a convenient way to restock their ship’s food supply. Within 80 years the dodo went extinct. But hunting was not...
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Six Views on the Future of Architectural Licensure Throughout the Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series, our explorations into U.S. architectural...
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Throughout the Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series, our explorations into U.S. architectural licensure have included a variety of views beyond our editorial team, including ten views on licensure from Archinect readers shared at the midpoint of our series.  Beyond reader...
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2023-09-03 plastic money You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in...
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You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen...
CONTEMPORIST
This Bed Headboard Was Designed With A Fold-Out Desk Laura Ortín Arquitectura has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Murcia,...
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Laura Ortín Arquitectura has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Murcia, Spain that includes a unique design feature in the bedroom. The bedroom, located off of a curved hallway, has dual doorways providing a glimpse of the room inside. Once inside, the...
Spoon & Tamago
The Watermelon Kimono is the Perfect Summer Outfit Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without festivals and watermelon. So if you’re looking to...
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Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without festivals and watermelon. So if you’re looking to refresh your wardrobe with some playful pieces that celebrate the season, as well as festival-appropriate outfits, look no further than the watermelon kimono – a juicy take on a...
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How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
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I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
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I love refactoring. Nothing satisfies me more than untangling spaghetti code to reveal its underlying logic in a clear, intuitive way. I’ve learned that refactoring requires diligence. In my younger and more reckless days, I would rush into a legacy codebase and tear apart the...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In The Matrix, people need a fake paradise, but most humans would do it for about 1 percent of that. Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'Well-known Types of Miracle' It’s grim out there and getting grimmer. Two poems encountered on the same day provided a touch of...
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It’s grim out there and getting grimmer. Two poems encountered on the same day provided a touch of buoyancy. The first was originally written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov on May 6, 1923:  “No, life is no quivering quandary! Here under the moon things are bright and dewy. We are...
The Architectural...
6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead,...
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The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
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Tech + Economics +...
Portfolio careers are the future of work. The traditional idea of sticking to one career path for life, once seen as the golden standard of...
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The traditional idea of sticking to one career path for life, once seen as the golden standard of work success, is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Now, we're moving towards the paradigm of the "portfolio career." Think of a portfolio career like a patchwork quilt of jobs....
The Honest Broker
Why Are Music Fans Throwing Things at Pop Stars? The latest trend in music is injuring your favorite artist
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Good Enough
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1. Weekly Studio Update Hello. We're going to try doing this newsletter thing regularly. The ambitious goal is to write you a lovely letter every week. Aim for the moon, right? But wait, if you aim for the moon, how in this physical world can you possibly hit a star by...
History Today Feed
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In the late summer and autumn of 1773, Johnson and Boswell visited Scotland, the latter’s birthplace and the butt of many jokes by the former. The journey lasted eighty-three days and both men published books recounting their adventures. Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands...
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Construction Physics
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A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor air quality. Indoor spaces are often poorly ventilated and expose occupants to high levels of contaminants, such as pathogens, particulates, and other pollutants. Because people...
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Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
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Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
CONTEMPORIST
A Large Pergola Helps This Home Seamlessly Blends Indoor And Outdoor Spaces Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared...
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Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor living. This home embodies sustainable living, generating its energy from the sun while...
Atoms vs Bits
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'First' thoughts on git I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git;...
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I suppose it's more than a slight bit incorrect to state that these are my first thoughts on git; I've certainly already been exposed to git in a variety of ways. I'd always been told that my love of graph theory would convert me over to this different type of version control. I...
Moneyness
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Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest to retail customers? We can get an answer by canvassing the range of entities currently offering interest-paying dollar accounts to U.S. retail customers. It pretty much boils...
Business Brainstorms
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! #1 💡 It's cool that smartphones have become all-in-one devices. But at...
TheCollector
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African History...
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With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to...
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By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts. The post With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now first appeared on Quanta Magazine
NeuroLogica Blog
Power-To-X and Climate Change Policy What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy,...
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What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy, like wind, solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric, to make hydrogen from water. This process does not release any CO2, just oxygen, and when the hydrogen is burned back with that oxygen...
Ferd.ca
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2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
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Citation Needed
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nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023 - coming soon I will be attending the 2023 APS March Meeting in Las Vegas this week.  I will do my best to try to...
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I will be attending the 2023 APS March Meeting in Las Vegas this week.  I will do my best to try to report on some highlights daily, though that may be more challenging than usual for me this time around (looming proposal deadline that I suspect all of my condensed matter faculty...
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Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a plunger will temporarily fix it. We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary wall sprayer both controlled by the...
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Notes on Progress: Agglomeration benefits are here to stay Building more homes in the most productive cities could massively boost productivity
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I recently finished reading (actually listening to as it was an audiobook) Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich. tldr; I quite enjoyed the (audio)book. It’s a fascinating look at how a collective group of people can find innovative solutions at the...
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Running Sia on a Synology NAS via Docker Overview Sia is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for buying and selling computer storage space....
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Overview Sia is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for buying and selling computer storage space. If you have extra storage space, Sia allows you to sell it to others who want to store their files on the Sia cloud network. Hosting a Sia server on your personal laptop or...
devonzuegel.com
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I've discovered a group trip format that I really love, and I wanted to share it with others because (a) you might find it fun to host or join something like this in the future and (b) selfishly, I would like more people to organize trips like this so that I can join them! The...
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Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: swallowing all pointer events I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's...
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I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's another. Buttondown has a dropzone component lets folks drag-and-drop items or click on it to get a file-picker. It's used for importing images, archives, CSVs, the works: because it's so...
Math Is Still...
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed After decades of frustration, researchers have finally determined how an airborne scent molecule...
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After decades of frustration, researchers have finally determined how an airborne scent molecule links to a human smell receptor. The post How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for November. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the PCE price index to increase 0.2%, and...
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<![CDATA[I'm examining in depth NoteCards, the hypermedia environment of Medley Interlisp well described in the 1987 paper NoteCards in a Nutshell. To experiment with the NoteCards API I set out to explore the space of possible answers to the question: what if Lisp programs were...
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For the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s inaugural contribution to the Sotheby’s auction, STCKMN was commisioned to lead on the design...
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
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Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
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The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
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Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty thorough job of strapping the corners of this small building in Bath, as well as installing some kind of pinning at the middle of the side wall. It’s not clear which way the floor spans...
Moneyness
Why do sanctioned entities use Tether? Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to...
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Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to participate in the global payments ecosystem. In this post I want to explore in more depth how Tether is being used to dodge sanctions. I'm going to avoid drawing on the Hamas...
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In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
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What I’ve been reading, March 2023 A new monthly feature, let me know what you think. Books Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works (2020)....
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A new monthly feature, let me know what you think. Books Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works (2020). About halfway through, lots of interesting case studies, very readable. Vaclav Smil, Creating the Twentieth Century (2005). I read the first chapter; saving the rest of it for when...
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Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three...
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It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three minutes, knead the dough for 15 minutes, bake for 30 minutes, and so on. A timer is a necessity for cooking and baking, but there is no reason you need to use your phone or a...
Posts on Nikita...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
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Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
Quantum Frontiers
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Imagine a billiard ball bouncing around on a pool table. High-school level physics enables us to predict its motion until the end of time using simple equations for energy and momentum conservation, as long as you know the initial conditions … Continue reading →
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New Course: The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching...
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In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries of Modern Physics:Time, and The Higgs Boson and Beyond. Now I’m happy to announce a new one, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics....
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Getting to 19,000 monthly clicks: Everything I've learned about SEO as a beginner It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship....
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It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship. I’m super excited to announce that it’s reached $2,000 MRR! 🥳 You may recall from the last post that I mentioned that the only sustainable channel to grow the website is SEO and...
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by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
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Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with mathematical proofs, some of the most elegant foods you can prepare in a ramekin are the simplest. Enter the shirred egg. Don't be intimidated by the word "shirred"; it's just the...
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First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
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Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
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I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you write a paper against that paper you're -2, which is why negative even Erdos numbers are more prized. Today's News: Whew! Still traveling but trying to keep my update schedule sorta OK.
nanoscale views
Brief items - light-driven diamagnetism, nuclear recoil, spin transport in VO2 Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion...
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Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion to political madness), but here are three papers (two from others and a self-indulgent plug for our work) you might find interesting. There has been a lot of work in recent...
Castles in the Sky
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Kafka's great fire The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September...
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The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September 1912: This story, The Judgment, I wrote at one sitting during the night of the 22nd-23rd, from ten o'clock at night to six o'clock in the morning. I was hardly able to pull my legs...
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Another decade I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a...
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I recently turned 30. When the decade began in 2010, I was still 20, a professional poker player, a college dropout, and deeply unhappy. What did I believe I’d be doing a decade later? I don’t think I knew, only that I definitely wouldn’t be playing poker anymore. I’d be doing...
This Space
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This year I read Robert Antelme's The Human Race for the first time. I was nonplussed. The strange title, closer to popular sociology than memoir, should have been a warning. This was not quite the horror story one imagines of memoirs from those who survived Nazi concentration...
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LIL Milan is a fresh new pure gold jewels brand with an essential and elegant style.The project aims to create...
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Bond Villain When Powell devalued bonds, he destroyed the economy.
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Christian Selig
Qi2 is kinda underwhelming Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication...
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Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication with the device, allowing for better efficiency due to better thermal management and charging Easily view the charge percentage of the external battery when first attaching it, and...
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules
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drawing & painting as a form of meditation I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since...
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I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since then I’ve been trying to do it more regularly, hoping to incorporate it as a...
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
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ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
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I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
Matt Blewitt
Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that...
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A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL &...
Oykun
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield More details and reviews on Amazon Interesting take on creative minds and struggles. It is almost...
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More details and reviews on Amazon Interesting take on creative minds and struggles. It is almost like a religious book, the author talks about Muses, Angels, how God has created us for a specific purpose equipped with genes/soul to achieve that purpose and how we are destined to...
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
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Notes on Progress: A winter's tale Melting snow can make the season easier
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Alkonost mead by Sofya Khmeleva “Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The...
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“Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The design of the jar is...
Rest of World -...
Bangladesh has millions of e-rickshaws. They’re finally becoming legal Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined...
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Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel Part II Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization...
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Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context. Today's News: Right here.
Josh Collinsworth
A message from the Captain of the S.S. Layoff Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the...
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Indeed, there's plenty to go around, thanks largely to all of you. But the fastest way to make the numbers better is to stop feeding and sheltering people and their families. Nothing personal.
Wanderingspace
Colorized View of Perseverance Landing An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance...
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An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance screaming towards Mars’s surface. The above image was enhanced by Kevin Gill into full color, taking images captured by Perseverance’s Lander Vision System Camera just after the heat...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
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p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
Old Vintage...
After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor...
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We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor isn't a replacement system I secondarily acquired, nor is it a Ship of Theseus Frankenstein rebuild. This is my actual first computer, in its original case, on its original...
The Works in...
Where inflation comes from How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences...
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How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences in how well-off we think we are.
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 4 is the greatest prose I'm capable of. Today's News: Hey geeks, after years of holding out, I'm finally getting engaged with social media. I post a lot of favorite old comics plus news about NEW BOOKS. You can follow me on...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024 The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
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Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are easily recognizable landmarks. So you simply cross the state line and you change your watch. No big deal. Unfortunately Time Zones cut right through the middle of some states, like...
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
The Rational Walk
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Warren Buffett answered over thirty questions in a five hour marathon session in the first annual meeting after Charlie Munger's death.
xkcd.com
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Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Fonts In Use officially launched 10 years ago today, on December 21, 2010. The site, which started as just the Blog before opening up to public contributions in 2012, has grown far beyond our expectations when we...
CONTEMPORIST
Clerestory Windows Add Natural Light Inside This New Addition To An Australian Home Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a...
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Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a typical free-standing timber period home in Australia. The view from the front door shows off the hallway that connects the original home with the new extension. The hallway...
xkcd.com
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toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was applied to the 8,215 sq.m...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
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XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
xkcd.com
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Stellar: A new home for the best freelance creatives abduzeedo0203—23 Businesses are hiring freelancers now more than ever. But in the creative freelance industry, there are no platforms to find high-end, vetted talent. Most of the popular...
Working Theorys
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The Modern House
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How to Be a Stoic
What Would a Stoic Do? Dating “Dating” is a word I was not familiar with before coming to the United States. Especially with the...
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“Dating” is a word I was not familiar with before coming to the United States. Especially with the advent of modern dating apps, it essentially means that you are trying out different people to see who “wins” the alleged honor of being your (next) partner. Except, of course, that...
Posts on Made of...
Configuring dnsmasq with VMware Workstation I love VMware workstation. I keep VMs around for basically every version of every major Linux...
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I love VMware workstation. I keep VMs around for basically every version of every major Linux distribution, and use them heavily for all kinds of kernel testing and development. This post is a quick writeup of my networking setup with VMware Workstation, using dnsmasq to assign...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Richly, Sometimes Dreamily, Melodic' A friend has given me an unexpected gift: a first American edition of Poems for Children (Henry Holt...
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A friend has given me an unexpected gift: a first American edition of Poems for Children (Henry Holt and Co., 1930), with a printed note before the title page:  “Three hundred copies of ‘Poems for Children’ have been specially printed and bound, and have been signed by the...
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
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!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote: This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12...
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Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get an 13-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s...
Open Culture
Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet....
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Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet. “Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned mini castles — 587 of them to be exact,” write Architectural Digest’s Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica...
Flashbak
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name     We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
Math Is Still...
Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species? The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on...
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The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with evolutionary biologist Kevin de Queiroz...
The Universe of...
Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For...
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Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that $$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$ Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes and be taking off your shoes. And let be putting...
Liz Denys
Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site,...
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I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site, or form says "introduce yourself, no pressure," I shrink back. How do I convince myself that other people find who I am or what I do interesting? I found myself asking this question...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Virtual Reality for Mice Scientists have developed virtual reality goggles for mice. Why would they do this? For research....
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