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Rest of World -...
Scammers are cashing in on Worldcoin’s chaotic Kenya launch Without a cash withdrawal option, Kenyans are turning to the country’s informal crypto economy — and...
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Without a cash withdrawal option, Kenyans are turning to the country’s informal crypto economy — and some are losing their coins in the process.
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed undefined
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Subject: Airbnb
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Personnel update This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt...
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3 months ago
This is inspired by receiving a "personnel update" when a friend was fired many years ago. It felt coldly impersonal for such a deeply personal event, so I imagined what it would be like if the same approach were taken to other deeply personal events. * * * Subject: Personnel...
SatPost by Trung...
How does Michelin Guide's business work? The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
Christopher Butler
Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate...
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a year ago
I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate place elsewhere. It is a digital container that is at least 15 years old at this point. I’ve carried it from machine to machine. Every now and then I go back through it to see if...
Rest of World -...
At home with Asia’s shopping influencers In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful Rails World Vibes I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more. I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
Willem's Blog
One year of cycling GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
over a year ago
Irrational...
Writing an engineering strategy. Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want...
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
6 months ago
Maps Mania
Racial Profiling in Redlining Maps
a year ago
Old Vintage...
A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wales, Australia. A friend of the family had an "old Commodore" in their house and asked if I wanted it. Stupid question, yeah? The...
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights? 'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
3 weeks ago
Old Structures...
Obvious In Restrospect The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually...
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The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually served, through a combination of horse-drawn street cars and heavy rail, from lower Manhattan to Chatham, New York, not far south of Albany. The portion in Manhattan south of 23rd...
Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
Rest of World -...
Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its chance to become a world leader, backing local and international firms.
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
mtlynch.io
Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property. Months later, you arrive at the grand...
Seth's Blog
Writing your book I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and their generosity in the form of books. A good book will change the reader, but it makes an even bigger impact on the author. Here’s a classic episode of Akimbo. Book publishing...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Newsy A dying world from a horror comic called “Epitaphs from the Abyss”: What’s that on the right? The...
a month ago
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a month ago
A dying world from a horror comic called “Epitaphs from the Abyss”: What’s that on the right? The New York Times Building as seen from Times Square (from the north) in 1908:
Notes on software...
Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be infrequent to manifest....
a year ago
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a year ago
How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be infrequent to manifest. Fault injection is a formal-sounding term that just means: trying to explicitly trigger errors in the hopes of discovering bad logic, typically during automated tests. Jepsen and ChaosMonkey...
Maps Mania
Mapping Russian Military Facilities in Crimea
a year ago
diamond geezer
Carpenders Park One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
a month ago
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a month ago
One Stop Beyond: Carpenders 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 Carpenders Park, one stop beyond Hatch End on what will next week be the Lioness line. For positioning purposes...
TheCollector
What Was the Third Council of Constantinople? undefined
a month ago
Archinect - Features
How To Create an Elevator Pitch for Your Architecture Portfolio When Job Searching Your architecture portfolio is one of your most powerful tools when searching for a new career...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Your architecture portfolio is one of your most powerful tools when searching for a new career opportunity. Whether describing your work at a networking event or presenting your previous projects in an interview setting, the ability to clearly and succinctly pitch your portfolio...
NeuroLogica Blog
Checkup on Climate Change There is good evidence that if you want to lose weight, you need to weigh yourself at least weekly....
a year ago
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a year ago
There is good evidence that if you want to lose weight, you need to weigh yourself at least weekly. You need the constant feedback of the scale to adjust your behavior. This is a good general principle – having outcome feedback to measure the effect of what you are doing so you...
Bits about Money
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” In Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong, our reporters found lots of people were eager to take the...
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987) “I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
Londonist
TfL Releases Treasure Trove Of Historic Tube Maps, Photos And More The transport motherlode via Google Arts & Culture.
10 months ago
Grow With Less
Is Your Article's Date Destroying Your Rankings? Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking. This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date. This article will show you how to find...
Retail Design Blog
Courtyard by Marriott by STUDIO SHOO The new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. The hotel is...
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4 months ago
The new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. The hotel is located on Teryan Street 5,...
CONTEMPORIST
This Modern Home Was Designed Around A Split-Trunk Oak Tree A Parallel Architecture has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Austin, Texas, that’s...
a month ago
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a month ago
A Parallel Architecture has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Austin, Texas, that’s designed around a split-trunk live oak, which has stood guard over the center of the tight lot for decades. The home’s exterior features concrete, wood, and large windows, with some...
37signals Dev
Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “your time is up” edition This week… But first, an announcement! TLDR: Over the holidays, I will be migrating this site from...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
This week… But first, an announcement! TLDR: Over the holidays, I will be migrating this site from WordPress.com to Ghost. This may mean a little disruption, but I’ll try to keep it to a minimum. Why am I doing this? I’ve been a paying customer of WordPress.com for my site...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Kindness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic philosophy that has recently sprung up that implies that Stoicism cares more about overcoming our feelings than it does about showing kindness to others. The truth is that a true Stoic...
FIRE v London
My 20 year property returns I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But my net worth includes an important asset class – property – that I don’t normally track, but which I have held in some form for over 20 years. So, this post takes a look at how my…...
Josh Thompson
Workflow for developers (AKA My current tools) I’m a huge fan of “a good workflow”. Makes you think better. This is still under construction, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m a huge fan of “a good workflow”. Makes you think better. This is still under construction, but I’m fleshing out all the tools, tidbits, and other things that serve me well every day as I build my skills as a developer. It will always be a work in progress, but will hopefully...
Londonist
The West End's Atmospheric Alleys: A Self-Guided Tour 10 of London's most characterful alleys.
a year ago
Josh Thompson
Letter to Two Climbers (Part 2) Hello again, it’s me! We met climbing a few days ago. I wrote you a letter, but didn’t want to leave...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello again, it’s me! We met climbing a few days ago. I wrote you a letter, but didn’t want to leave it on such a pessimistic note. First, I commend you both for getting out there. You both invested a lot in making that weekend happen. You acquired the correct tools, and spent...
Max Rozen
Understanding Integration Testing in React Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and there are new best practices. Let's learn them!
Maps Mania
Geotripper - the Traveling Salesman Game
a month ago
Retail Design Blog
Ghyston Offices by Interaction Interaction collaborated with Ghyston in Bristol to design a modern, flexible office space that...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Interaction collaborated with Ghyston in Bristol to design a modern, flexible office space that reflects their empowering culture, featuring inclusive,...
TheCollector
What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest? undefined
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway) Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Many people ask why I became a theoretical physicist. The answer runs through philosophy—which I thought, for years, I’d left behind in college. My formal relationship with philosophy originated with Mr. Bohrer. My high school classified him as a religion … Continue reading →
Drew Ex Machina
NASA’s Explorer 18: The First Interplanetary Monitoring Platform Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Among the greatest scientific achievements of the opening years of the Space Age was the characterization of Earth’s magnetic field and the discovery of what became […]
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Examples of Great URL Design Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take...
TheCollector
Alive! The Incredible Story of Hugh Glass undefined
8 months ago
bt RSS Feed
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
a year ago
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a year ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you’re wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” in a vector...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a “subspace design” in a vector space. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more out there. The post Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space first appeared on Quanta...
Louwrentius
Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet? Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts. It is easy to pick on Microsoft and I do respect what they have accomplished, however, it may not come as a surprise that they did it all wrong with RDP in terms of security. By...
Ben Borgers
Formulaic Classes
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Essential Greeks
a week ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
diamond geezer
The Royal Mail Experiment Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long thought it suspicious that I go days without post then a whole batch arrives together, and that bills seem to arrive long after they were posted. But without evidence all this is...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Research papers and the patient perspective | Out-Of-Pocket we can make improvements with some better studies
a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it. I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so many times from Twitter to Bluesky that I’m exhausted. But let me be clear. It's perfectly okay to use the block function on any and every single platform. Block whoever you...
TokyoDev
Paid Leave and Vacations in Japan Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Japan has a reputation for being a country of overworked people who never take holidays. While this has been true in the past, the government has been trying to incentivize people to take more vacations and enjoy better work-life balance. Some challenges remain from a cultural...
Raw Thought (from...
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Least Appealing Aspects of Our Species' The twentieth century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The twentieth century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances were extraordinary – antibiotics, insulin, the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Airplanes, television, computers, space exploration. And yet Guy Davenport was not being needlessly morbid when he...
Stoic Simple
The Most Powerful Lesson To Be Learned From Stoicism by Michael McGill There are a lot of powerful lessons to be learned from the ancient philosophy of...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Michael McGill There are a lot of powerful lessons to be learned from the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Stoicism gives us ways of thinking to help us to be mentally stronger. It teaches us mental frameworks that allow us to live more tranquil lives. But there's one lesson...
Letters of Note
Diaries of Note Dear all, On 1st January of this year, after what feels like centuries of preparation, I launched...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dear all, On 1st January of this year, after what feels like centuries of preparation, I launched Diaries of Note, and though incredibly difficult to plan, the premise is simple: every single day, on the Diaries of Note website, I am featuring a single diary entry from history,...
Damn Interesting
Breaking a Bit It’s been a busy summer, and the large shortfall in donations last month has been demoralizing, so...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been a busy summer, and the large shortfall in donations last month has been demoralizing, so we’re taking a week off to rest and recuperate. The curated links section will be (mostly) silent, and behind the scenes we’ll be taking a brief break from our usual researching,...
Construction Physics
Could We Boost Housing Construction by Permitting ADUs Under the HUD Code? To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the...
a year ago
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a year ago
To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units, or ADUs. ADUs, sometimes called “granny flats,” are small, secondary housing units built on the lots of existing single family homes – things like...
Society's Backend
Why Gemini's Struggles Aren't Straightforward And an overview of LLM security issues
9 months ago
Ben Borgers
Current Self and Going to Libraries
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
You should use Helpscout Was digging through old issues of the personal site and found this draft snippet: I was evaluating...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Was digging through old issues of the personal site and found this draft snippet: I was evaluating HelpScout as a potential first step in a series of many, many steps to onboard a dedicated support engineer for Buttondown, and it turns out that the process of adding custom...
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends undefined
a month ago
Seth's Blog
“What’s the catch?” It’s an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s an important question. Lots of opportunities come with one, and going in with your eyes open helps avoid problems later. Two challenges: Sometimes, a really good opportunity doesn’t actually have a catch. And spending a lot of time looking for one keeps us from the work we...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Why you should measure tail latencies The response times of your service can cost you dearly if left unchecked. Even when a small fraction...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The response times of your service can cost you dearly if left unchecked. Even when a small fraction of requests experiences extreme…
Retail Design Blog
Element pop-up store by llLab. The Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui offers an unconventional reflection on curatorial retail...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui offers an unconventional reflection on curatorial retail spaces. By thoughtfully curating the...
Ben Borgers
A Small Life Radius
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
99% Invisible
Towers of Silence [EPISODE] Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely — a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived...
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
Simply Explained
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 25 Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular...
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over a year ago
Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular article of all time I’m exploring ways to preserve more knowledge on my blog I’ve lowered TinyPilot’s prices in an effort to reduce inventory Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
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a month ago
Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
The Honest Broker
Why I Don't Read Reddit And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Raiders Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2...
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
a month ago
Applied Cartography
Improving Django's default pagination performance Buttondown's API calls are very fast, and one of the reasons why is that we've removed every single...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Buttondown's API calls are very fast, and one of the reasons why is that we've removed every single possible database query that we can. The most recent was what looked like a fairly benign COUNT(*) query, coming from the default Django paginator; if you're gonna paginate things,...
TheCollector
Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni? undefined
6 months ago
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
Joel Gascoigne
How to get more replies to the emails you send: be specific * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We live in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate." - Seth...
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Two sides of “a big deal” Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many businesses thrive by helping people deal with projects that feel like they have high stakes. A kid’s first haircut, the offsite storage of data backup, an upcoming family reunion, a medical procedure or the inscription on a sentimental piece of jewelry or watch. But, if the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
Rest of World -...
South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch’s sudden exit The streaming giant attributed its departure to high network fees.
10 months ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are...
a year ago
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a year ago
This article is not about deciding whether two floating point numbers are ‘close enough’. There are plenty of resources on this (often subjective) problem. We simply want to know if ${x \leq y.}$ Suppose that you are a programmer, and that you have two numbers. You want to know...
Wanderingspace
OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the...
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The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the near Earth asteroid Bennu after successfully executing a sample touchdown last fall. [LINK] The sampling of of the asteroid’s surface is shown above.
Ben Borgers
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power because in the modern world you need an executive branch that can act rapidly. Today's News:
Transit Maps
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Here’s a beautiful old illustrative map – this is from a prospectus advertising the benefits of settling in San Joaquin County, California in 1910. Part of depicting this as a desirable place to live and do business is showing the multitude of modern railway lines – including...
bt RSS Feed
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
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2023: Year in review Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked...
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Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked on this year. a zine! I published How Integers and Floats Work, which I worked on with Marie. This one started out its life as “how your computer represents things in memory”, but...
TheCollector
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Arsenal title-chasing live blog 16:00 Could still win it. 16:05 Bugger. 16:23 Sigh. 16:43 Aagh. 16:45 Oooh.   17:22 Bugger. 17:53 Ooooooh! 17:54 Sigh. 17:59 Could still win it. 18:00 Didn't.
NeuroLogica Blog
The Speed of Gravity I recently received an e-mail question from an SGU listener about the speed of gravity. They were...
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I recently received an e-mail question from an SGU listener about the speed of gravity. They were questioning a statement they heard by Neil DeGrasse Tyson that if the sun were magically plucked from existence, the Earth would not feel the effects for 8 minutes and 20 seconds –...
Internal Tech Emails
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mtlynch.io
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical...
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I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical products. I didn’t find many business insights, but it was still an engaging and funny story.
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4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America undefined
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A House Built Into The Ground And Covered In Flowers Photography by Architectuurfotograaf – Rob van Esch Architecture firm WillemsenU has shared photos...
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Photography by Architectuurfotograaf – Rob van Esch Architecture firm WillemsenU has shared photos of a home they completed in a meadow in The Netherlands, that has been built into the ground. The home is tucked away in the landscape, surrounded by flowers and trees, and hidden...
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The startup working to teach AI about African history There’s less historical material about Africa for AI to find online. Archivi.ng believes its work...
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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...
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Indices point between elements If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a...
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If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or,...
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“Boston Is A Red City” Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and...
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Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and colors.
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Home Assistant-compatible air quality sensor I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh...
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over a year ago
I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh (outside) air through the house and recoups heat from the air that is exhausted. There is a problem with this system, though. Sometimes, for example when a neighbour lights their wood...
Farza's Newsletter
i got suitcases full of matcha tea don't mess with me punk Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a...
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Got back from Dubai a few days ago. Life has been…intense heh. In just the last 2.5-weeks: We ran a live gameshow I hosted and gave away $100,000, had 225 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in SF, and then the following week had 125 of our graduates fly out for N&W IRL in...
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EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer...
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Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer emulator in SQL. Challenge accepted! This year we will be building an SQL query which will emulate a quantum computer. This query will process quantum assembly, build the circuit, run...
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My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I...
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Last Friday CrowdStrike did something really bad and it destroyed every airport in the world. I didn't bother to learn anything else about it because I was too busy writing my 10k whitepaper about how all the problems were all caused by one simple mistake: not drinking my...
Flashbak
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
Classical Wisdom
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Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and avoid falling into a high tax bracket.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
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I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication. For a while I was fixated on Magic Links, then I built a few prototypes of authentication using a combination of token passing and TOTP. And finally, I built a storage-less password...
The Modern House
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somenice
Procedural “Trees” using Blender Geometry Nodes I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using...
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over a year ago
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with Blender Geometry and Shader Nodes.Specifically here using Instances on Points. I started with a 60 x 60 grid of curves, made into spirals and animated with a Noise texture. This ended up creating 8.3 Million faces and took 12 hours to...
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Ian's Blog
All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
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over a year ago
The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
Making software...
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some...
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a year ago
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
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Grab bag of random thoughts. A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
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A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then into this new role. This isn’t really a job...
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...
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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...
The Rational Walk
Negative Lollapalooza Effects Sharing ideas can have benefits but there are also psychological risks. This article applies lessons...
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Sharing ideas can have benefits but there are also psychological risks. This article applies lessons from Charlie Munger's psychology of human misjudgment to investing.
99% Invisible
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE] Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
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Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
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over a year ago
Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
Map of the Week
The Inequalities of Climate Change There was much talk, if not much action, at the recent COP27 conference about wealthier countries...
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a year ago
There was much talk, if not much action, at the recent COP27 conference about wealthier countries compensating poorer ones for the impacts of climate change. The poorer countries see the largest impacts, while contributing the least to the problem. This map illustrates the...
Londonist
How London Underground Became The Coolest Brand In The World From the first roundel to moquette trainers.
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blag
Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
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Weekend Roundup Battle of the Historians
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
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over a year ago
PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
The Marginalian
Endling: A Poem I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone —...
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10 months ago
I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone — padlocked and boarded off, closed for good, a long chain of habit suddenly severed. We know that entropy drags everything toward dissolution, that life is a vector pointed at loss, but...
The Marginalian
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships "Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the...
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5 months ago
"Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility."
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chipmunks Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like...
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Wrestling with the scammers Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash I guess one of the downsides of the rising popularity and profile of...
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over a year ago
Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash I guess one of the downsides of the rising popularity and profile of our HR startup is that it attracts the lowest online lifeforms to try and see if they can make illicit profit from it. We have been getting the occasional trial user signing up...
balajis.com
The Balaji Newsletter A single place for all updates at balajis.com
a year ago
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in September 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024 1) The average e-scooter hire trip...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024 1) The average e-scooter hire trip lasts 16 minutes, is 1½ miles long and is undertaken at 6½ mph. 2) TfL plan to replace the Lodge Avenue flyover on the A13 with a like-for-like replacement, with construction starting...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Medea: Monster or Misunderstood?
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Contemporist...
Before & After - The Complete Renovation Of A Small Loft Apartment New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a...
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New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a renovation project they completed of a small 500-square-foot (46 sqm) loft apartment.
Noahpinion
Can unions and industrial policy coexist? They had better learn how to, and quickly.
a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
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over a year ago
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
diamond geezer
Revisiting Northwall Road Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned...
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11 months ago
Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned up. • When an American website got excited about the location of pylons in London they linked to something I'd written 4 days earlier. That was my 3rd best ever day. American website...
Rest of World -...
Chinese startups supported by Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with police Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided...
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Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided policing or censorship tools to Chinese law enforcement.
Charles Chen
On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
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blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3 Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Oxygen As A Technosignature This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in...
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This is one of the biggest thought experiments in science today – as we look for life elsewhere in the universe, what should we be looking for, exactly? Other stellar systems are too far away to examine directly, and even our most powerful telescopes can only resolve points of...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some More 2025 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket OOP readers always have some interesting ones
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Google unveils Gemini CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product...
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CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
Common Edge
Living in the Face of Fear: The Heterotopic Hope of the Maggie’s Centers The UK cancer centers are an incredible legacy for its co-founder, Maggie Keswick Jencks.
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Maps Mania
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the comics are written just so Corey Mohler will look at his screen, shake his head, and sigh. Today's News:
General Robots
How to Pick a Problem So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually...
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So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I've...
Rest of World -...
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market Some web designers use ChatGPT to code and create basic designs, while salaries for web designers in...
a year ago
Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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over a year ago
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
Londonist
There's A Place Called Bovril Castle In South London And there was once a second one, too.
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Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
9 months ago
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
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For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
Moneyness
Memecoins are the point Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very...
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Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known as cypherpunks, creating a new technology know as a blockchain. Blockchains are databases, but decentralized. Advertised as being...
Londonist
Review: Fantasy: Realms Of The Imagination At The British Library The genre finally gets the exhibition it deserves.
a year ago
Stoic Simple
How to Find Fulfillment in Life with Stoicism In a world that often emphasizes material success and external validation, it can be difficult to...
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In a world that often emphasizes material success and external validation, it can be difficult to find true fulfillment. Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that emphasizes personal virtue, inner resilience, and self-awareness, offers a roadmap for finding inner peace and...
Retail Design Blog
SHANGXIA Tea store The Shangxia tea space located on the ground floor of Oneitc in Shanghai aims to reinterpret...
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The Shangxia tea space located on the ground floor of Oneitc in Shanghai aims to reinterpret traditional Chinese tea spaces...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Start your healthcare company outside of the US | Out-Of-Pocket Gotta start somewhere...else?
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the...
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With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the concepts whose names remind us of object-orientation. We throw constructors, methods and classes out of the window because they seem to smell of bank cubicles, water coolers and...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Trying to Understand...
Useless in Gaza As always, if you don't know what you're doing.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
My first theme: Addictive Gaming In true experimental spirit I’ll now announce the theme for my first game: Addictive Gaming. I won’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In true experimental spirit I’ll now announce the theme for my first game: Addictive Gaming. I won’t be following the lead from the Experimental Gameplay Project’s site but I will follow their three laws (7 days, alone, themes). Puh… my first game! Wish me luck =)
Platformer
Here come the ChatGPT bans Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
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Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
TheCollector
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The personal website...
Optimize for learning Modern software development encourages us to build without learning. Here’s an example: I’m a...
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over a year ago
Modern software development encourages us to build without learning. Here’s an example: I’m a designer. My team expects me to know the right way to design things. But I don’t always know the right way to design things. It’s hard for me to say “I don’t know the right way to design...
Irrational...
How to plan as an engineering executive. Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question...
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a year ago
Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an oft heard perspective that planning is some sort of business curse word. Even when...
One Useful Thing
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The Marginalian
Lichens and the Meaning of Life "We are lichens on a grand scale."
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to split equity fairly between founders? It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity...
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over a year ago
It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity is […] The post How to split equity fairly between founders? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto - Month 10 Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for...
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over a year ago
Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for increasing sales. Is It Keto’s revenue dropped for the month as I redirected resources toward its failing meal plans. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
History Today Feed
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Golden States
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Alex MacCaw
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
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3 months ago
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
Londonist
Holy Immersive Pop-Up! You Can Visit The Batcave At This Free Batman Experience Feat. costumes, props and vehicles from the movies.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Past Is Alive and Stirring With Objects' Published in the January 1821 issue of London Magazine are thematically linked essays by two...
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a year ago
Published in the January 1821 issue of London Magazine are thematically linked essays by two friends, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt: “New Year’s Eve” and “On the Past and Future,” respectively. Lamb’s is better known, and I'm aware of several readers who, like me, read it...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Cherry by Nico Walker (Alfred A. Knopf) Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.janet-hansen.com Janet Hansen. License: All Rights...
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over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.janet-hansen.com Janet Hansen. License: All Rights Reserved. The cover for Nico Walker’s debut novel Cherry was designed by Janet Hansen, senior designer at Alfred A. Knopf, with creative direction from Carol Devine Carson. It was...
mtlynch.io
Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my...
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