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Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?) My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact. Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
Maps Mania
Who are Your Neighbors Donating to?
a month ago
Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In Forest Gate: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Bars And Pubs Forest food!
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
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The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
Blog System/5
EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
5 months ago
Both Are True
we switched from a crib to a toddler bed on sleep transitions
9 months ago
Math Is Still...
How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger The topologist Danny Calegari discusses the inevitability of disappointment in math, and how to...
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The topologist Danny Calegari discusses the inevitability of disappointment in math, and how to learn from it. The post How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Anecdotal Evidence
'In Itself and Forever Shipwreck' I’ve just finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in...
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I’ve just finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in two issues of The New Yorker in 1979 and as a book the following year. I read it in the magazine and I’ve since read the book – Maxwell’s finest, written when he was seventy years...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Otherwise, as Apolitical as Possible" “If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort...
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“If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort of common sense becomes as rare as humility by the hour. It’s the time of year when we start filling the recycling bin with unsolicited, unread campaign literature. This season’s favored...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #163 Corporate taxes, Berkshire's clean energy investments, Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk, ESPN's...
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Corporate taxes, Berkshire's clean energy investments, Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk, ESPN's future, Nvidia, AI, Interpreting medical studies, Why Doomberg left Twitter, Jimmy Buffett, and more...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
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React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Anita Klein Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy. Describe your printmaking process. I...
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Hi, I am a painter and printmaker working in London and Italy. Describe your printmaking process. I use almost all printmaking processes and choose between techniques depending on the type of mark that suits the picture I want to make. At the moment I am mostly working in...
Archinect - Features
Quilian Riano at Pratt: 'Believing in the Power of an Architectural Education' for the Next... Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future...
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Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future of architectural education. This series not only delves into the unique programming of each school but also uncovers the philosophies and approaches that define their educational...
Flashbak
Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842 The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.   “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s.   “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
The Marginalian
How to Be Animal: An Antidote to Our Self-Expatriation from Nature How to embrace our inheritance as "a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be...
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How to embrace our inheritance as "a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back into the enigmatic physics of the universe."
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 30 October-5 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
How Chinese e-commerce fuels counterfeit fashion in Nigeria “Fake originals” make their way from sites like AliExpress and DHgate to a market in Lagos.
a year ago
Wait But Why
10 Thoughts From the Fourth Trimester 1 baby, many thoughts The post 10 Thoughts From the Fourth Trimester appeared first on Wait But Why.
a year ago
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels? undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse? undefined
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital "How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The...
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"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can…
macwright.com
Bandcamp wrapped I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me. Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Walking Guide to Pasadena's Hidden Gems
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AFAR Media - Travel...
How a Delayed Flight Can Still Arrive on Time
a year ago
Rest of World -...
It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a...
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main img { border: 1px solid var(--fg); width: 100%; } The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a working MX-style mechanical keyboard switch, but 4x larger in every dimension. I realised at the weekend that the Big Switch should fit nicely in a simple Lego enclosure. Because an...
Seth's Blog
The first person “I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so...
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“I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so good. But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, is it “he” or “she” or “they” or “it”? Because anything that is an “it” shouldn’t be able to say “I”. We […]
Adventures In...
Add Multiple Maps to One Layout Of course Alaska and Hawaii are glorious places, beloved by all for their lovely inhabitants and...
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Of course Alaska and Hawaii are glorious places, beloved by all for their lovely inhabitants and majestic natural environs. It would be an error of omission should they not appear in a map of the United States, but it would also be a shame to shoe-horn them in looking sad with an...
Blog posts of...
#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be...
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Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression) Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Smooth Shadow "Make a smooth css shadow "
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Lindt Premium Collection by Derek&Eric Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent...
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Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent chocolate, elevating technical skill to...
Maps Mania
How to Avoid a Train Wreck
a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Exorcist movie titles Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved. License: All Rights Reserved. The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name. The story focuses...
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
a year ago
Identity Designed
Monkey Baa Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What if online business model innovation is slowing down? There is a widely held assumption that new business models will continue to emerge online – that...
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There is a widely held assumption that new business models will continue to emerge online – that statements like “how will Twitter ever make…
Left To Write
Stoicism: The Philosophy I Use To Guide Me Through Life Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person —...
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Last week, I had a Zoom call with someone from Daniel Vassallo’s Small Bets community. The person — let’s call him B — was leaving a cushy tech job and wanted to give the whole solopreneur thing a try. So given my background, B wanted insights into how I deal with uncertainty.
Noahpinion
Why skilled immigration (usually) benefits both countries When to worry about brain drain, and when not to worry.
a year ago
Ink & Switch
08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
9 months ago
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba     Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
Tony Dinh's...
Late promotion update Hi everyone!
2 weeks ago
Retail Design Blog
Aesop boutique by Sher Maker At long last, Aesop has landed in Bangkok, opening a standalone boutique in achingly fashionable...
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At long last, Aesop has landed in Bangkok, opening a standalone boutique in achingly fashionable Thonglor, a fast-evolving neighbourhood known...
The Modern House
Photographer Finn Beales and arts director Clare Purcell on how light and the landscape inspired...
a year ago
History Today Feed
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars JamesHoare Thu, 02/01/2024 - 09:58
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Bits about Money
Demystifying financial leverage Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for...
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Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
Making software...
Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
Tech + Economics +...
WeWork files for bankruptcy amid office market downturn. On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”....
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On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”. “It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,” ...
The Roots of...
The American Information Revolution in Global Perspective In “What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?” I reviewed The British Industrial...
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In “What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?” I reviewed The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen. In brief, Allen’s explanation for the Industrial Revolution is that Britain had high wages and cheap energy, which meant it was...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wolf Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately they didn't have quantitative finance...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately they didn't have quantitative finance yet, so he was just a serial killer. Today's News:
SatPost by Trung...
6 thoughts on "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style...
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Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style and Big Tech beefs (Bill Gates, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos).
PostHog's RSS Feed
When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
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A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
Tech + Economics +...
Elon Musk’s childishness knows no bounds. Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the...
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Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves."Don't advertise... If somebody did try to blackmail me with...
Rest of World -...
Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban Google says it takes the problem seriously, but over a dozen loan apps remain available in the...
11 months ago
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How to start a growth team (as an engineer) Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at ...
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Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
A Beautiful Site
Swapping variables with JavaScript Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I...
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Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I told you there was an easier way to do this with JavaScript? Traditional method # The goal is to swap the values of a and b. The textbook method for doing this looks something like...
David Perell
Punctuation is Music If you want to improve your writing, match your punctuation to the mood. Punctuation is to writing...
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If you want to improve your writing, match your punctuation to the mood. Punctuation is to writing as music is to movies. In The Joker, the renowned composer Hildur Guðnadóttir used the cello in the opening scenes to create empathy with the protagonist. But then, as The Joker’s...
Diaries of Note
The Luminous Man As Deputy Director-General of MI5 from 1940 to 1952, Guy Liddell was one of the its key figures...
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As Deputy Director-General of MI5 from 1940 to 1952, Guy Liddell was one of the its key figures during a pivotal time that included World War II and the early years of the Cold War. Known for his role in elaborate counter-espionage schemes including the famous “Double Cross...
Open Culture
James Joyce Picked Drunken Fights, Then Hid Behind Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway seemed to feud with most of the prominent male artists of his time, from Wallace...
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Ernest Hemingway seemed to feud with most of the prominent male artists of his time, from Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot to F. Scott Fitzgerald. He had a “very strange relationship” with Orson Welles—the two came to blows at least once—and he reportedly slapped Max Eastman in the...
Retail Design Blog
FOGO E ÁGUA at ALEA RESORT FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted...
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FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted from a brine...
Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin...
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For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin for a few days. We went snow tubing at Beech Mountain while we were there, one of the many ski resorts in the area. As is common on vacations, I spent way too much time thinking...
Jibran’s Perspective
Deploying Ruby on Rails to AWS with Kamal As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback...
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As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback collection SaaS. The app is built in Ruby on Rails and given all the nice things I’ve heard about Kamal; I decided to use it for deploying the app. The experience has been phenomenal;...
Seth's Blog
Two kinds of salad A useful metaphor for freelancers and small businesses. Every good restaurant should have two...
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A useful metaphor for freelancers and small businesses. Every good restaurant should have two different salads on the menu. The boring salad is the regular kind. It’s there for people who know that they want a reliable, repeatable, unremarkable salad. It’s the safe part of a safe...
Maps Mania
The Best Price Comparison Maps
10 months ago
Christopher Butler
sketchbook – 2024 March 9 - March 16 Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything...
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Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything is. We are doing solar this year! The back is better than the front.
Platformer
Twitter’s risky plan to save its ads business Agree to personalize your ads — or else
over a year ago
TheCollector
Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated undefined
a year ago
Home on Erik...
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
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I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Louwrentius
Firewire: the forgotten security risk The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still arround. It is not...
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The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still arround. It is not that prevalent, cheap computers lack Firewire, but they often have a PCMCIA slot. The thing is this: Firewire allows direct access to all RAM of your computer. An attacker...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Open source is eating SaaS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B...
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B SaaS companies look and feel traditional. Here's…
Londonist
Grown-Up Events To Take Your Baby To In London Baby-friendly events, designed with adults in mind.
a year ago
Map of the Week
Parking Lot Map The Parking Lot Map is a project of the Parking Reform Project, an organization dedicated to climate...
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The Parking Lot Map is a project of the Parking Reform Project, an organization dedicated to climate action, safer streets and housing affordability. The map explores how much land in the central area of the major cities of the United States is dedicated to parking. On average...
Words and Buttons...
Interactive mnemonics for dot and cross vector products Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D...
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Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D thing you do: graphics, printing, physical simulation, — as soon as you want anything beyond what your framework provides, you have to do some vector magic, and these are your...
ntietz.com blog
Avoid multitasking to write better code Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
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over a year ago
Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks? In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
nanoscale views
Wind-up nanotechnology When I was a kid, I used to take allowance money and occasionally buy rubber-band-powered balsa wood...
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When I was a kid, I used to take allowance money and occasionally buy rubber-band-powered balsa wood airplanes at a local store.  Maybe you've seen these.  You wind up the rubber band, which stretches the elastomer and stores energy in the elastic strain of the polymer, as in...
Folklore.org:...
Folon Early Mac art from Jean-Michel Folon
a year ago
Maps Mania
Global Sentiment Towards Israel & Palestine
a year ago
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side “I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs breach a threshold Open Source models get more powerful, and an AI system scores silver in Maths Olympiad
4 months ago
Both Are True
Love myself? Knowing what I know? A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
5 months ago
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Quest For The Bulwer's Pheasant The Bulwer's Pheasant was one of the first birds to grab hold of my attention when I first flipped...
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The Bulwer's Pheasant was one of the first birds to grab hold of my attention when I first flipped through the pages of my Borneo field guide many years ago. This pheasant of Bornean hill forest is nearly unbelievable-looking (the male, that is). He has a deep maroon chest and a...
African History...
The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898) a revolution with a contested legacy.
a year ago
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring undefined
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
Retail Design Blog
Neptune Energy Offices by Parella Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting...
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Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting the company’s culture with open areas, communal spaces,...
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist undefined
a year ago
SOCKS
The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale... Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
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Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Earth
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TheCollector
10 Must-Read Magical Realist Novels undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places' At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or...
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At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like bartenders. The good ones usually...
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know undefined
a year ago
Citation Needed
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x" Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
11 months ago
General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
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What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
Left To Write
Who Am I? Hello new subscribers and what to expect from me
a year ago
Farza's Newsletter
tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on...
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Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on Zip, which is what I want! And, all the other time is spent on either watching anime or running lol. In terms of running, been running 4-5 miles per day, 6 days a week pretty...
Londonist
Week Of January Tube Strikes Set To Cause Severe Disruption Happy New Year!
11 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
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Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Self Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The next smbc kickstarter will be for...
11 months ago
Oykun
Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
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We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful Guest Tutors in 2022, exploring a variety of printmaking techniques. Take a look at this selection of work produced by students throughout the year:   Life Drawing - Mono Screen...
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How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December 2019, the City of...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December 2019, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida experienced a series of catastrophic ruptures in a critical wastewater transmission line, releasing raw sewage into local waterways and neighborhoods....
FIRE v London
Feeling broke My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is...
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My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is captured in my monthly portfolio updates, I thought it was worth recording some of my emotions while they are still fresh. Two years ago Turning the clock back, my financial...
The Marginalian
Delight Between Science and Magic: Euler’s Disk and the Sound of the Singularity One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik...
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One afternoon in the late 1980s, sitting in the company cafeteria, aerospace engineer Joseph Bendik found himself so bored that he took a coin out of his pocket and began spinning it atop the table. In a testament to the eternal paradox of boredom and wonder as two sides of the...
Computer Things
Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad...
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Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad. It's time...
The Elysian
Hint #3 I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
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Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2022 Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
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Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Anecdotal Evidence
'If the Nation Is to Be Saved From This Menace' “To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming...
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“To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming a nation of minor poets.”  P.G. Wodehouse is being kind. He wrote “The Alarming Spread of Poetry” in 1916 when the blight was fresh and perhaps still reversible. His Exhibit A is...
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America’s Future It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America...
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It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America is not in decline, I want to believe America is not in decline. If America is in decline, I want to believe America is in decline. So let’s ask, what does the future look like for...
Aaron's Essays
Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn Originally posted on the YC blog,...
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Originally posted on the YC blog, here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-vcs-sometimes-push-companies-to-burn-too-fast/ In Investors and their incentives, I tried to give a broad breakdown of the incentives that drive the major types of startup investors. I want to dig deeper...
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Light comms on the 003 [Hardware] Tiny terrahertz transmissions
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Home on Erik...
Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
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The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
The Honest Broker
A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with... This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
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Tech + Economics +...
The unchecked rise of theocracy will extinguish liberal democracy. As a transgender woman, under any form of populist theocracy, my existence would be illegal. This...
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As a transgender woman, under any form of populist theocracy, my existence would be illegal. This is the reality of governance by faith-based doctrine. And it's a reality that cannot be allowed to spread. Religious freedom is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. Individuals...
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
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LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Gemma Berenguer (Monostereo) My name is Gemma Berenguer and I'm from Barcelona. I'm a printmaker specialising in screen printing,...
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My name is Gemma Berenguer and I'm from Barcelona. I'm a printmaker specialising in screen printing, although I also dabble in etching and block printing as well. I run Monostereo, a screen printing company in Barcelona, which has been operating for 15 years now.  I first...
Retail Design Blog
HONOR Flagship Store Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of...
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Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of Kuanzhai Alley and the sleek modernity of...
diamond geezer
The Ivers Today is Buckinghamshire Day, a celebration of all things Northwest Home Counties, or at least it is...
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Today is Buckinghamshire Day, a celebration of all things Northwest Home Counties, or at least it is if you're a flagpole fetishist or a features writer with a gap to fill. It might sound historic but was actually conjured up in 2015 for no better reason than that on 29th July...
Spoon & Tamago
Tolerance Poster Show Debuts in Japan The Tolerance traveling poster show is a socially driven initiative that asks prominent designers...
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The Tolerance traveling poster show is a socially driven initiative that asks prominent designers from around the world to create artworks with the word Tolerance in their language. The exhibition, which leverages art & design to spread its powerful message of respect for...
Rest of World -...
Our favorite Rest of World photos from 2023 39 photographers, 31 cities, 22 countries. This is what global tech looked like this year.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pig Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where only the highest and lowest quality restaurants will serve you macerated chicken kidneys or whatever. Today's News:
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Happiness is never having to ask for permission If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to...
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If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence. The freedom to make our own choices, good or bad, without ever having to ask anyone for permission. Not from investors, not from naysayers, not from platform gatekeepers. It’s why we’ve built our...
The Marginalian
The Consolations of Chronodiversity: Geologist Turned Psychologist Ruth Allen on the 12 Kinds of... “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her...
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“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to time — we live here suspended between the time of insects and the time of stars, our transient lives...
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is now EmergentMind Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a...
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Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a site to share ChatGPT examples and eventually be the home to educational content to help people learn more about GPT. To my surprise, there were a lot of relevant available .com...
Open Culture
Hannah Arendt Explains the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes–and the Strategies Needed to Combat Them “Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah...
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“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, describing the scene leading up to the prominent Holocaust-organizer’s execution. After drinking half a bottle of wine, turning down the offer of religious assistance, and even...
A Weekly Dose of...
The 'As Found' Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation (Flanders Architecture...
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Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation (Flanders Architecture Institute, 2023) edited by Sofie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas and Bie Plevoets, the companion to the exhibition of the same name at the Flanders Architecture Institute. Read my review...
NeuroLogica Blog
Washington Post on Past Lives Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of...
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Generally speaking the mainstream media does a terrible job of reporting anything in the realm of pseudoscience or the paranormal. The Washington Post’s recent article on children who apparently remember their past lives is no exception. Journalists generally don’t have the...
The Honest Broker
Why You Should Skip My Articles and Go Straight to the Comments Here are some highlights from yesterday's open mic anarchy thread
a year ago
Math Is Still...
The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent...
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The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near. The post The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
The seduction of “why” It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why...
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It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why something happens. Even kids, asking their parents. Why is easy to sell. Why is hard to deliver. Consultants make a good living explaining the why. And media companies try to. But...
Ryan Mulligan
Web Components for Password Input Enhancements So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the...
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So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was a set of custom elements that provide extra functionality and information about...
TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained undefined
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Epic Web Dev
Contribute an Epic Stack Example (tip) How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
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Seth's Blog
The commonweal Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of...
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Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of Signficance. If you have a chance to post a review, that would be great. And you can find the podcasts here. The first step in making things better is talking about it.
The Great Discontent...
Giorgia Lupi Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
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Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Can you speak a little bit about where you grew up and how that place...
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Some thoughts on SEO “SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
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“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.”  I don’t like…
TheCollector
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Retail Design Blog
Singapore Symphony Group Offices by adm Design & Build The Singapore Symphony Group’s office design by adm Design & Build draws inspiration from the...
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The Singapore Symphony Group’s office design by adm Design & Build draws inspiration from the orchestra’s music, featuring soft curves,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pull Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A single tear twinkled in the twink's eyes. Today's...
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Noahpinion
Interview: Sarah C. Paine A scholar of the 20th century explains the conflicts of the 21st.
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diamond geezer
Carpenders Park One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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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. ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024,...
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Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
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Light from Space
The Fossil Footprint Nebula A rarely imaged target as it is very dim. This image took me over 50h of total exposure time. Total...
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A rarely imaged target as it is very dim. This image took me over 50h of total exposure time. Total exposure time: 52h 40' Image resolution: 4,490 × 4,552px (0.96″/px) Shot from my driveway near Tucson, AZ in late 2023 Telescope: William Optics RedCat
TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start? undefined
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 2 (Oahu: Beyond Waikiki) I didn’t spend all of my limited time strictly within the confines of Waikiki Beach and downtown...
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I didn’t spend all of my limited time strictly within the confines of Waikiki Beach and downtown Honolulu. Whether work-related or during precious spare time I did explore more of southeastern Oahu than I had on my previous trip. Unfortunately I couldn’t linger much and truly...
Rest of World -...
Cricket, influencers, layoffs: Alibaba’s risky bet in Pakistan Since its acquisition by the Chinese giant, e-commerce site Daraz has been experimenting to reach...
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Since its acquisition by the Chinese giant, e-commerce site Daraz has been experimenting to reach new buyers amid an economic crisis.
Ralph Ammer
How to draw ideas Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process...
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Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for a new flower pot. 1. Study: Fill your mind To prepare for our ideation we first draw what we want...
Jonas Hietala
Beebop The Island Hopper It’s here! The stuff of dreams, an entry for the epic Ludum Dare 17 has been made! For those who...
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It’s here! The stuff of dreams, an entry for the epic Ludum Dare 17 has been made! For those who don’t know it’s a 48 hour game making competition which actually is pretty silly. Even more silly is my two hours of commitment yesterday but late this night at about 03:05 I am now,...
TheCollector
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TheCollector
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Astral Codex Ten
Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity ...
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Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sonnet Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the corn is *very* sweet. Today's News:
TheCollector
The DAM Rejects Return Request from Native Alaskan Tribes undefined
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A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
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I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
Stephen Diehl
Yes, Crypto is ALL a Scam
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
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My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
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Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
Cartogrammar
The rain on terrain If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one...
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If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...
Londonist
Mesmerising Shots Of London From Above At Christmas Ding dong merrily on (very) high.
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Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my...
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Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my article on why I went back to a ThinkPad T430 in 2022. Or that other time when I got a new HP laptop for testing and got so frustrated that I wrote about it. Well, today I’m writing...
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Londonist
London's New Women's Museum Opens This March Launching on International Women's Day.
9 months ago
xkcd.com
March Madness
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History Today Feed
The Value of Wills to Historians The Value of Wills to Historians JamesHoare Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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diamond geezer
It's all downhill from here It's all downhill from here. This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A...
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It's all downhill from here. This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A Conservative party proven long-term incompetent by a sequence of abysmal Prime Ministers, a last minute intervention by Nigel Farage draining support away from the right, the Lib Dems...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 2: Just the Two of Us 0. Everyone Likes a Giveaway Stick around to hear how you can win a fabulous prize by hardly doing...
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0. Everyone Likes a Giveaway Stick around to hear how you can win a fabulous prize by hardly doing anything. Take it away, fellas… 1. Still Positive Did you know that once you acquire COVID-19 your PCR test can be positive for up to 90 days? Did you know that the at-home tests...
TheCollector
Why Is the Symbol of Flowers Associated with Femininity? undefined
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bring Back Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the real afterlife. Today's News:
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99% Invisible
The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE] The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian...
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The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian mall that is almost overwhelmingly colorful.  Brightly painted buildings are topped with sweeping pagoda style roofs, and then accented with fluorescent neon lacing. For decades...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Help You Achieve Personal Growth Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still relevant today. In recent years, stoicism has gained popularity as a tool for personal growth. The principles of stoicism can help us develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do what's right Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with...
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Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with yourself when you know what’s right but you don’t want to do it. It’s often physically more difficult: you’ll have to spend more effort, more time, more money. But it’s so...
Tom Blomfield
Advice Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
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Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad. Some advice is expert - your...
Spoon & Tamago
Keisuke Oka’s Arimaston Building in Tokyo, Made Entirely by Hand all photos by @husky_003 | used with permission Almost 15 years ago, on a tiny plot of land in...
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all photos by @husky_003 | used with permission Almost 15 years ago, on a tiny plot of land in eastern Tokyo, a young architect named Keisuke Oka began to construct a tower of concrete entirely by hand. Located just a short walk from Mita Station, the Arimaston Building (蟻鱒鳶ル) is...
samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
diamond geezer
50 dull lists 50 dull lists UK cities without a railway station: Armagh, Ripon, St Asaph, St Davids,...
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50 dull lists UK cities without a railway station: Armagh, Ripon, St Asaph, St Davids, Wells Commemorative stamps 2024: Spice Girls, Weather forecasting, Vikings, Dinosaurs, 100 years of commemorative stamps, Peppa Pig, Dogs, Red Arrows, Dungeons & Dragons, Tower of London,...
The Honest Broker
Where Do Music Genres Come From? A new section from my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
3 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
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The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
SatPost by Trung...
Lululemon's $50B+ Apparel Innovation Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs...
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Chip Wilson launched the athleisure industry by solving the "camel-toe problem" (via breakthroughs in materials and sewing methods).
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
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There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven: The Technicals A technical overview of how I'm applying the methods and ideas of the Becoming Data Driven in...
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique. Another of my essays in French.
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement? undefined
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Union Pacific...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Union Pacific Railroad’s Austin Subdivision in central Texas. It’s a busy corridor that moves both freight and passengers north and south between Austin and San Antonio… But it’s mostly freight....
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Burst Damage Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in...
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Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense,...
Probably...
The Political Gender Gap is Not Growing In a previous article, I used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to see if there is a growing...
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In a previous article, I used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to see if there is a growing gender gap among young people in political alignment, party affiliation, or political attitudes. So far, the answer is no. Ryan Burge has done a similar analysis with data from...
diamond geezer
339 Rerouting Implementation Assessment Report Rerouting of bus route 339 on Fish Island November 2023 rerouted in the Fish Island area of East...
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Rerouting of bus route 339 on Fish Island November 2023 rerouted in the Fish Island area of East London to serve emerging residential areas previously remote from the bus network. This report from the Independent E3 Inspectorate analyses the build-up to implementation and...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ariana Martin Hi, I’m Ariana - a pattern designer and printmaker from leafy Sheffield. I create joyful patterns...
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Hi, I’m Ariana - a pattern designer and printmaker from leafy Sheffield. I create joyful patterns and illustrations, which are particularly inspired by 20th century design, and I produce my own range of stationery and homewares.     Describe your printmaking process. Screen...