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Quantum Frontiers
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...
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On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for … Continue reading →
Seth's Blog
Student coach Big football at colleges in the US costs more than $5 billion a year. And none of these programs has...
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Big football at colleges in the US costs more than $5 billion a year. And none of these programs has a student acting as a coach. The same analysis, at a much smaller scale, applies to school theater directors and producers, conductors of the jazz band or orchestra and even the...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin undefined
a year ago
Londonist
One Of The First Victorians Born Was Called 'Hyde Park' Apparently.
a year ago
Open Culture
Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San...
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In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San Francisco, California. Little did he know that he’d wind up playing drums for the band that night — that his name would end up etched in the annals of rock ’n’ roll. The Who came to...
Passing Time
Aridity Incarnate The American West, Fiction, and Water
2 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Stack Exchange Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier...
over a year ago
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Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier investors USV, Bezos Expeditions, Spark…
This Space
The end of literature, part three On the evening of December 12th, 2019 a numbed grief descended over the land, and has lain there...
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On the evening of December 12th, 2019 a numbed grief descended over the land, and has lain there ever since. At that time a mild alternative to barbarism was being put to death. Back in 2015 when, against all odds, a lifelong socialist and campaigner against racism and...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
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This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
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Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
A Smart Bear
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to...
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Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
Noahpinion
The Democrats' new sunny vibes Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
4 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Watching movies with subtitles on A comic about watching movies with subtitles. View on my website
over a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Switching From C++ to Rust Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
Old Structures...
Different Types of Commercial Use From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted...
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From 1880, a view of Broadway looking north from Morris Street to Trinity Church. Given how deserted it is, it’s either early in the morning on a weekend or a holiday. Wm. M Fleiss & Co, on the left, is at 47 Broadway. Broadway is lined with office and loft buildings which are...
Citation Needed
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be...
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What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be proliferating on the web? The number one thing you can do is learn to edit, and I will walk you through how to get started in only 30 minutes.
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow? undefined
a month ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Death to the Forum Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It...
over a year ago
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Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It was mainly a test to see if I could do it and I’m really proud of my styling of it but it’s deader than in a grave, which isn’t really surprising, and it bothered me that I didn’t...
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures undefined
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
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Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
2 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
a year ago
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Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
Spoon & Tamago
Director Ryota Nakano to be Special Guest at Japan Society’s Family Portrait: Japanese Family in... this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan...
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10 months ago
this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society are proud to announce the eighth installment of the ACA Cinema Project film series, Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux. The series examines the shifting dynamics and...
Max Rozen
The books I read in 2018 A list of books I read in 2018
over a year ago
Flashbak
Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles “My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
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“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'” – Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death     Kurt Vonnegut liked to draw. Other writers, notably J.R.R....
Retail Design Blog
Li-Ning Group Offices by Shapers The renovation of Shenzhen office building by Shapers for Li-Ning Group integrates bright colors and...
3 months ago
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The renovation of Shenzhen office building by Shapers for Li-Ning Group integrates bright colors and local textures, focusing on employee...
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
a year ago
computers are bad
2024-11-23 cablesoft As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful...
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As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful teletext services in the UK and Europe. "Teletext" is sometimes a confusing term because of its apparent relation to telecom-industry technologies like the teletypewriter and...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Things I’m watching in healthcare 2023 | Out-Of-Pocket it's been a weird year
9 months ago
Evan Jones -...
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
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You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
Londonist
Big Improvement In London's Roadside Pollution, Says Report NO2 levels plummet, but more to be done.
9 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Starbucks' Digital Dilemna The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of...
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The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of control and hurting the brand's "premium" vibe.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Word "Hacker"
over a year ago
Louwrentius
71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
over a year ago
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This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
over a year ago
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How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
Push to Prod
Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so...
3 weeks ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
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by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes....
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Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The post Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph first appeared on Quanta Magazine
swyx's site RSS Feed
Workshopping Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Why Are the Olympics So Expensive? Olympic host cities take on enormous financial risks in hopes of economic and cultural rewards....
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Olympic host cities take on enormous financial risks in hopes of economic and cultural rewards. Tokyo 1964 was the ultimate triumph, but Paris 2024 may find it harder to justify the expense.
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon? undefined
9 months ago
Confessions of a...
Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!...
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The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!  In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program.  The paper was...
Christopher Butler
From the Desk Of Wouldn’t it be nice if you could actually peer over another designer’s shoulder once in a while and...
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could actually peer over another designer’s shoulder once in a while and see what they actually do? design means different things to different people, as does the title Designer. As much as I prefer the simplicity of Designer to, say, Interaction...
The Convivial...
Lonely Surfaces: On AI-generated Images The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 20
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Neighborhood Guide to Toronto’s Little Jamaica
a year ago
Infinite Scroll
JOB - A theatrical review A Broadway play about Content Moderation
a month ago
Moneyness
Another Indian payments idea: a lightweight portable payments system for catastrophes India is so far ahead of most of the world when it comes to payments technology that when a new...
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India is so far ahead of most of the world when it comes to payments technology that when a new Indian payments idea emerges, we should probably pay attention. In its recent annual report, the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, put forward the idea of a...
Londonist
Greater London To Get First New Borough In 60 Years Live in Berkshire? You might soon be a Londoner!
8 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Announcing the Out-Of-Pocket Job Board! | Out-Of-Pocket Recruiting a ton? Get your healthcare jobs in front of the right people
a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Spark best practices Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and...
over a year ago
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Spark execution model Spark's simplicity makes it all too easy to ignore its execution model, and still manage to write jobs that eventually…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe that's classical at low speeds. Today's News:
Jibran’s Perspective
My buildspace project For the next 6 weeks, I’m taking part in buildspace nights & weekends. It’s a cohort of people that...
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For the next 6 weeks, I’m taking part in buildspace nights & weekends. It’s a cohort of people that participate in a 6-week long “school” where they work towards any idea they have. The goal is to launch a “product” by the end of these 6 weeks, and to gain as much traction as...
Londonist
Places That Closed Down In London In 2024 Rooftop bars, kids' attractions and a beloved market.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening undefined
a month ago
computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
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Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
The Rational Walk
The Digest #203 American Scripture, Prometheus Bound, Herodotus on wealth, Apple intelligence, NetJets, Value...
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American Scripture, Prometheus Bound, Herodotus on wealth, Apple intelligence, NetJets, Value Investor's Club, Nietzsche's world view, Are wrist watches effeminate?, Seinfeld on writing
RhysTranter.com
Visit to Oxford Oratory This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few...
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This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few quiet moments, I had an opportunity to pray at the Oxford Oratory on Woodstock Road
TheCollector
Friedrich Nietzsche: The 13+1 Best Books Of His Philosophical Career undefined
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
Doctor-influencers are going viral in China, provoking authorities Fueled by the pandemic, medical professionals have cashed in on Douyin, dispensing advice and...
a year ago
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
Londonist
The Must-See London Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2024 A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
Beautiful Public...
14,000 Photos of Army Uniforms and Rations from the 70s and 80s An incredible archive of 14,000 photos of Army uniforms, military gear and rations from the 70s and...
a month ago
The Marginalian
Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and... The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.
a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 4 Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue...
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Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue for all of 2019. I interviewed several IT consultants and business owners about what TinyPilot features would be useful to them. I tested several new marketing channels and realized...
Musings on Maps
Fifteen Two-Hundred Pound Bombs Dropping at least fifteen two hundred pound bombs equipped with precision guidance systems–bunker...
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Dropping at least fifteen two hundred pound bombs equipped with precision guidance systems–bunker busters that could penetrate deep underground and flatten built structures–that killed Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and much of his high command follows a terrifying explosion of...
Retail Design Blog
ISSEY MIYAKE shop-in-shop by Moment Inc. Matsuya Ginza department store opened its doors in 1925, an ever since, it has been a fixture in...
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Matsuya Ginza department store opened its doors in 1925, an ever since, it has been a fixture in Tokyo‘s retail...
Common Edge
Making the Case for Sustainable Housing: It’s Time for a New Argument How to undo the tension between affordability and sustainability.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore,...
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Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore, that has a very strong monochromatic aesthetic. The interior strikes a balance of light and dark, which is evident throughout, like in the living room, where a white couch with a...
alexwlchan
Going through my old school papers I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic...
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I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic crates full of paper – exercise books, worksheets, school newsletters – everything I’d accumulated over nearly two decades of education. It was a lot. 🤯 I’m trying to reduce this...
Math Is Still...
What Is the Nature of Consciousness? Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as...
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Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in understanding this elusive phenomenon. The post What Is the Nature of...
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered undefined
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Everyman Stratford International Stratford has a new cinema. Everyman and can be found in the highrise nomansland that separates...
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Stratford has a new cinema. Everyman and can be found in the highrise nomansland that separates Westfield from the Olympic Park, now officially known as Stratford Cross. It's housed in a brushed metal box tucked beneath 20 floors of Grade A office space. It has three screens,...
Liz Denys
Bauhaus spoon rest, 2024 Bauhaus design / negative space / boundaries that are clear on paper
6 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum...
a year ago
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Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure our digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. The post The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Anecdotal Evidence
'Greatness Is Difficult' “It is dangerous to admire a great man for his sins: we may too easily adopt his sins for our own...
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“It is dangerous to admire a great man for his sins: we may too easily adopt his sins for our own out of admiration for his genius; and when the inevitable reaction occurs, the great man’s reputation is likely to suffer unduly.”  Among writers, Dr. Johnson is the first fallible...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Failed Personal Site Redesign Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build...
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Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build it, and then you hate it, and then you have to decide whether to ship it anyway or keep what you have As you can probably guess from the title[1], I decided to keep what I have and...
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
a year ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best undefined
8 months ago
Casey Handmer's blog
Powering the Mars base This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The...
a month ago
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a month ago
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A growing Mars base has a prodigious need for power. I’ve previously written two posts on...
Citation Needed
Issue 45 – I'm the director now Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker...
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Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.
Arduino Blog
It’s silver, it’s green, it’s the Batteryrunner! An Arduino-powered, fully custom electric car Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully...
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Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully electric, Arduino-powered car that’s as innovative as it is sustainable. Called the Batteryrunner, this vehicle is designed with a focus on environmental impact, simplicity, and custom...
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Beyond the Language of the Living' “After someone dies I find it hard to delete their contact from my phone. It feels cruel somehow, as...
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3 months ago
“After someone dies I find it hard to delete their contact from my phone. It feels cruel somehow, as if it was a final obliteration.”  I didn’t know others felt this way, and dismissed it as my indulgence in sentimentality. Rabbi David Wolpe’s admission comes as reassurance. I...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World? undefined
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant I share a shameful incident from my student days
6 months ago
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
nanoscale views
The need for energy-efficient computing Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing fraction of the world's energy capacity. I've seen the essential data in this figure several times over the last few months, and it has convinced me that the need for energy-efficient computing hardware is genuinely pressing.  This...
The Forney Flyer
More From Liberia I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly...
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over a year ago
I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly after I landed at a remote location one day, our other aircraft, piloted by Ulrich Müeller, also landed (below) at the same airstrip. I was about to load up two medical patients...
Society's Backend
What Apple Intelligence Means for You "We think you're gonna LOVE it"
6 months ago
Open Culture
The Page That Changed Comics Forever: Discover the Innovative 1950s Comic Book That Almost Went... If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll...
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5 months ago
If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll be familiar with the seal of the Comics Code Authority. I remember seeing it stamped onto the upper-right corner of issues of titles from The Amazing Spider-Man to reprints of Carl...
The DESK Magazine
The difference between creative & uncreative people When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to...
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a year ago
When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to capture it, share it or both.
Contemporist...
A Modern Farmhouse By The Sea In New Zealand New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse...
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New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse they completed that's been designed like a collection of linked farm outbuildings.
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History? Kashmir: Prisoner of History? JamesHoare Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
5 days ago
Articles - Chris...
Moved to tears 20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was the payoff. It was...
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20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was the payoff. It was cause for celebration. But first, I wept.
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
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a month ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Liz Denys
Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!) Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut....
a year ago
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Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
Common Edge
How the Global Business Class Has Transformed the Home They’re bringing the aesthetics and lifestyle expectations of the hospitality industry into their...
2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Upload (short story) My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
8 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield j.hoare Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Vietnam’s made-to-measure fashion brands are thriving in the TikTok era As shoppers sour on Chinese fast fashion, more sustainable Vietnamese brands — loved by K-pop...
6 months ago
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As shoppers sour on Chinese fast fashion, more sustainable Vietnamese brands — loved by K-pop artists and Western celebrities alike — are booming online.
Commoncog
Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do...
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