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Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
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The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
Blog - Practical...
Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Earth is pretty cool and...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Earth is pretty cool and all, but many of its most magnificent features make it tough for us to get around. When the topography is too wet, steep, treacherous, or prone to disaster, sometimes the only way...
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Why I ditched Google Analytics and Mixpanel for PostHog By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, ...
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By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, Reciprocal.dev , to really understand the value of…
The Marginalian
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder "Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the...
a year ago
Astral Codex Ten
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4 months ago
The Convivial...
Embrace Your Crookedness The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13
a year ago
The personal website...
Engagement is an antimetric The attention economy is booming. While advertising, e-commerce, and social media are dominated by...
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The attention economy is booming. While advertising, e-commerce, and social media are dominated by monopolies, the market for our attention is flush with competition. New movie studios, VR platforms, streaming services, and merchandisable cinematic universes are launched every...
The Rational Walk
Just Hold the Goddamn Stock! Charlie Munger's solution to estate planning at Berkshire was simple: Just Hold the Goddamn Stock!...
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Charlie Munger's solution to estate planning at Berkshire was simple: Just Hold the Goddamn Stock! Unfortunately, his advice is not easy to follow.
Birchtree
+ I’m a season 1 sorta guy Yes, this is about Severance, but it's really about more than Severance.
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sack Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!
Applied Cartography
Letters to a Young Bartender Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly...
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Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly consumptive hobby that in some small part defines their twenties and – God willing — their enduring adulthood. Some choose sourdough; many choose barbecue; I chose mixology. (A...
Computer Things
The Juggler's Curse I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1...
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I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1 I've gotten to the point where I can almost consistently do a five-ball cascade, which I thought was the cutoff to being a "good juggler". "Thought" because I now know a "good...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Daylight confusion week Time is a river. A violent current of events. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Here we are again:...
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Time is a river. A violent current of events. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week. Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today. But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for us remoties, that means next week’s...
Passing Time
Reasons Not to Burn Coal That Have Nothing to Do with Climate Change You don't need to talk about CO2 to have reasons to stop using coal for electricity generation
over a year ago
Citation Needed
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
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My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
macwright.com
Recently November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow...
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November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow takes over. Reading I finally finished Barbarian Days. I think it took over a month to get through it - kept losing momentum by taking a few days off from reading during a trip. It...
Old Structures...
A Survivor From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
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From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
Mazdak
Can Quantum Break Crypto? Trump to Rescue TikTok? Tech in Defence ... Google’s Quantum Breakthrough: Should Crypto Be Worried?
6 months ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Music in 2024 The last few years have been great for discovering even more artists, and the revivals and reunions...
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The last few years have been great for discovering even more artists, and the revivals and reunions of some of them have produced music that is fresh, with new takes and, even better, genre-bending and blending. Here are the albums and songs that were a definite hell yes for me...
Old Structures...
Not Extremely Enough The New York Times recently published “An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods” and...
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The New York Times recently published “An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods” and an accompanying “Extremely Detailed Guide to the Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods.” They are not information about the neighborhoods themselves, but rather...
AI Snake Oil
AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing). A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Why do many web developers hate jQuery? Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an...
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :) When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
Diaries of Note
Diana forgot to steer Few people witnessed the tumultuous events of mid-20th century Britain quite like Duff Cooper, a...
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Few people witnessed the tumultuous events of mid-20th century Britain quite like Duff Cooper, a charismatic politician whose life was as colourful as it was influential. Born in 1890, he was known as a steadfast politician who famously resigned from his government post over the...
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book Tour! Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks everyone! Sorry to nag about this, but well, it's the culmination of 4 years of work. I hope to see some of you! Today's News: Here are links to the individual events: Strand...
Mark Manson
5 Life-Changing Levels of Not Giving a Fuck Every day, hundreds of millions of people suffer from giving too many fucks. They spend their lives...
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people suffer from giving too many fucks. They spend their lives imprisoned by meaningless anxiety and unnecessary concerns. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this article, I'm going to walk you through the five levels of non-fuck-giving,...
UX Collective
A case for slow growth Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Medieval Battles Marked by Stunning Underdog Victories Medieval battles were brutal, blood-soaked grind. Clever tactics and strong leadership often...
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Medieval battles were brutal, blood-soaked grind. Clever tactics and strong leadership often mattered, yet true upsets happened only when the weaker side found an edge. Whether better weapons, better tactics, knowledge of the terrain, or an unbreakable esprit de corps. The...
Seth's Blog
Paying attention to attention There are people and organizations that are working overtime to redirect and manipulate your...
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There are people and organizations that are working overtime to redirect and manipulate your attention. The question is: Are they more aware and careful in how you spend your attention than you are? The act of focusing on what we focus on pays enormous dividends.
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Caprock Adventures worth the silence The post Caprock appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
Mazdak
Google's AI Search Tool: A Traffic Nightmare for Publishers? AI Threatens to Shake Up the News Landscape.
a year ago
Devmoh
3 key tips for maximum impact, and the myth of the "lazy" Big Tech Engineer On forums with startup-heavy presences, it’s a common occurrence to sing about the downfall of FAANG...
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On forums with startup-heavy presences, it’s a common occurrence to sing about the downfall of FAANG and the uselessness of Big Tech for an engineer’s career. This specific tweet went viral recently and I wanted to do a little deep dive on the underlying implications of it:
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination? Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
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Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Common Edge
Technology’s Siren Song How to lure an architect onto the rocks.
9 months ago
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
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Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
Rest of World -...
Mexican shoppers say Shein and Temu’s delivery partner is stealing their stuff Former employees at third-party logistics company J&T Express say the high volume of packages from...
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Former employees at third-party logistics company J&T Express say the high volume of packages from the two Chinese companies has become unmanageable.
Internal Tech Emails
Barry Diller: Facebook is trying to "steal" Tinder's cofounder Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder...
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Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder could be replicated by them. I’d like to avoid that, though I don’t know that FB itself makes it that much more likely to succeed than anyone else.
Applied Cartography
Order, Tailwind, DRY (Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating...
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(Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Buttondown's admin UI away from the autogenerated Django admin and into some more bespoke components. Take, for instance, this rather...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Love and Death
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
What makes me a designer? This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my...
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This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts on the suicidal mind [tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
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[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
Joel Gascoigne
The next step in Buffer’s social media journey Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets. So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
Koos Looijesteijn
Why side projects fail
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting... The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it...
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The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing is the best instrument I have for metabolizing my experience and clarifying my own...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Imports Under The Hood In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or...
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In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between the code that you’re writing and the...
symmetry magazine
Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history...
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To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.
Matt Mullenweg
Those Other Lawsuits It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited...
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It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit....
Archinect - Features
‘We Have To Get Much Better at Speaking To Wider and Wider Audiences:’ A Conversation With... In February 2024, Brett Steele took up the position of Dean of the University of Southern California...
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In February 2024, Brett Steele took up the position of Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Since then, Steele has been busy capitalizing on the opportunities and responsibilities that come with leading a Los Angeles design school in a city known...
Seth's Blog
What are the defaults? Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the...
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Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the constraints that led to the default are long gone. They might be perpetuating bad choices, injustice or sub-optimal outputs. The best way to fix something is to look at what we assume...
./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
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The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880 Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
brr
Engineering for Slow Internet How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Hey Koos, do you still recommend WordPress?
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Alpine Charms and Traditions of Bregenzerwald
a year ago
Mazdak
The Rise of Nvidia and the Fall of Intel For 25 years, Intel held a coveted spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a testament to its...
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For 25 years, Intel held a coveted spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a testament to its influence in the tech world.
Open Culture
Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline... More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated...
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More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated Freedom River. And while it shows signs of age, the animated film, a parable about the role of immigration, race, and wealth in America, still resonates today. Actually, given the...
Epic Web Dev
The Drawbacks of Bundling All CSS Files Together (tip) Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate...
a year ago
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Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate style sheets for better control and performance.
Retail Design Blog
Hoapham Mid-Autumn Packaging Design 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival is not only an occasion for people to gather and enjoy delicious mooncakes, but...
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Mid-Autumn Festival is not only an occasion for people to gather and enjoy delicious mooncakes, but also a moment to...
On the Arts
The Vertical Beauty of Hong Kong An Interview with Photographer Romain Jacquet Lagrèze
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Fed's Beige Book: "Economic outlook worsened considerably" Fed's Beige Book Economic activity was little changed since the previous report, but uncertainty...
2 months ago
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Fed's Beige Book Economic activity was little changed since the previous report, but uncertainty around international trade policy was pervasive across reports. Just five Districts saw slight growth, three Districts noted activity was relatively unchanged, and the remaining four...
Seth's Blog
The paradox of insular language We often develop slang or codewords to keep the others from understanding what we’re saying. Here’s...
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We often develop slang or codewords to keep the others from understanding what we’re saying. Here’s an example (thanks BK) of the lengths that some are going to be able to take about Chinese politics. Of course, if you come up with a concealed enough code, the people you’re...
Never Met a Science
There's Gold in Them Thar Reels Selling Gold Rushes
8 months ago
Eric Bailey
#WorstWorkWednesday This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a...
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This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a conversation how people don’t share negative things on social media, especially in the context of a professional account. #WorstWorkWednesday, the title of this post, is a hashtag coined...
Trying to Understand...
The Coming Of Neo-Tribalism. Of honour, gangsters, nomadic tribes and of course identity politics.
a year ago
The Prism
10 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled Mental models for discerning truth
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
BlooOOP, blooOOP In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff...
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In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff struck up a correspondence with Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop nestled at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. These letters, filled with Hanff’s...
David Heinemeier...
The open source gift exchange I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The...
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I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
Confessions of a...
Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU
3 months ago
Platformer
The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
over a year ago
Mazdak
Canada's Retail Pulse: Holiday Shopping Season Navigates Mixed Signals Canada's retail landscape is offering a mixed bag of signals heading into the critical holiday...
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Canada's retail landscape is offering a mixed bag of signals heading into the critical holiday season. While October saw a surprising 0.7% increase in retail sales, exceeding economist expectations, concerns linger about the sustainability of this trend in the face of rising...
NeuroLogica Blog
3D Printing Superalloys This is a cool material science development that nicely illustrates recent technological...
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This is a cool material science development that nicely illustrates recent technological advancements. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a superalloy using additive manufacturing (3D printing). That may not sound that impressive at first, but consider the...
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Getting precise about tolerance Tolerance is an engineering term. When the parts of a car are made to a low tolerance, that means...
4 months ago
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Tolerance is an engineering term. When the parts of a car are made to a low tolerance, that means that they fit perfectly. A modern Lexus is a better car than a 1976 Nova because relentless improvement means that the parts are more exact. Tolerance is a design term. When a system...
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.
Retail Design Blog
Lockton offices by Spaceful Lockton engaged Spaceful for a comprehensive workplace design for their new Pacific region HQ in...
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Lockton engaged Spaceful for a comprehensive workplace design for their new Pacific region HQ in Sydney. The space was designed...
High Signal
Black Friday 2023 deals for entrepreneurs Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page...
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Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page contains affiliate links. Courses Grow and Monetize your Newsletter - 60% off Monetize Your Newsletter - 60% off Grow Your Newsletter - 60% off WesBos - Beginner JavaScript -...
Arduino Blog
A gamified approach to therapy and motor skills testing For children who experience certain developmental delays, specific types of physical therapies are...
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For children who experience certain developmental delays, specific types of physical therapies are often employed to assist them in improving their balance and motor skills/coordination. Ivan Hernandez, Juan Diego Zambrano, and Abdelrahman Farag were looking for a way to quantify...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out First let me say I love Google.  I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past...
over a year ago
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First let me say I love Google.  I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past century and continues to give back much…
The Beauty of...
A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK) You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage...
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over a year ago
You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage stamp, possibly with room left over, and that what knowledge I do possess is thanks to my other half’s family being Portsmouth FC supporters; an emotional rollercoaster, it has to be...
Calculated Risk
Q1 GDP Tracking: -0.5% to 1% From BofA: 1Q GDP tracking is down from our recently updated official forecast of 1.5% q/q saar to...
3 months ago
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From BofA: 1Q GDP tracking is down from our recently updated official forecast of 1.5% q/q saar to 1.0% q/q saar. [Mar 28th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We lowered our Q1 GDP tracking estimate by 0.3pp to +1.0% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Mar 27th...
NeuroLogica Blog
Artificial Robotic Muscles By now we have all seen the impressive robot videos, such as the ones from Boston Dynamics, in which...
10 months ago
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By now we have all seen the impressive robot videos, such as the ones from Boston Dynamics, in which robots show incredible flexibility and agility. These are amazing, but I understand they are a bit like trick-shot videos – we are being shown the ones that worked, which may not...
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
over a year ago
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A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all) made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
Seth's Blog
What sort of progress? Nothing stays still. Relative to the rest of the world, even something that’s not moving is...
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Nothing stays still. Relative to the rest of the world, even something that’s not moving is changing. It’s tempting to talk about not making fast enough progress. But it’s far more useful to ask which direction we’re progressing. Often, people will point to the velocity of the...
Ian Betteridge
20241202 Ten Blue Links, the late late late show edition! Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting towards Christmas. Next week: five blue links and a bag of wine gums. 1. RIP ChromeOS (sort of) Odd as it sounds today, when I talk a lot about user privacy and avoiding cloud services,...
Vadim Kravcenko
How do you know when to use which programming language? Hello Alex, Congrats on graduating. So the question you’re asking is very vague, but I’d like to...
a year ago
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Hello Alex, Congrats on graduating. So the question you’re asking is very vague, but I’d like to help you out […] The post How do you know when to use which programming language? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Cremieux Recueil
The Holistic Judgment Conceit Holistic evaluations are for machines, not people
2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Perfect Nothing is perfect… But everything can get better. There’s never enough time… But there’s time...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Nothing is perfect… But everything can get better. There’s never enough time… But there’s time enough to make a difference. Someone will always be opposed to the change we seek to make. And there’s always someone who wants to help. Anything can happen… But something will.
Seth's Blog
After the meteorite When it slams into your house and destroys it, we’re likely to pursue one of two lines of thinking:...
a year ago
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When it slams into your house and destroys it, we’re likely to pursue one of two lines of thinking: –How did I cause this? What choices did I make, what mistakes did I permit, why did I deserve to have this damage, or who can I blame? –Well, that happened, now what should I do?...
Calculated Risk
Wholesale Used Car Prices Increased in January; Up 0.8% Year-over-year From Manheim Consulting today: Wholesale Used-Vehicle Prices Increased in January Wholesale...
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They’re almost always conservative. Whether it’s a governmental body, the strategy group at a big company or the membership panel at the local country club, we can learn a lot by seeing what they approve and when they stall. Of course, each of us know a lot about our offering,...
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You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at 1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good. I don’t have...
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The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in...
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At the heart of San Francisco’s Mission Rock development, The Garden Party by Min Design transforms a bustling pedestrian path into something softer, slower, and more inviting.
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New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
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Johnson, Boswell and friends met for dinner at the Crown and Anchor on April 12, 1776. Among the topics of conversation was the evergreen favorite “whether drinking improved conversation and benevolence.” Sir Joshua Reynolds maintained it did. Johnson replies:   “‘No, Sir: before...
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Following outposts in Shanghai and Beijing, Aesop accelerates its retail expansion in mainland China, opening another outpost in Hangzhou. The...
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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...
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Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people understand. If I tell someone at a party that I’m an IA, they won’t know what I do. It’s a problem: if others don’t understand how we can help, they won’t hire us. The main challenge is...
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I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position on the (controversial?) steps Svelte is taking to move off Typescript in favor of types-via-JSDoc comments. First off, I love how Rich prefaces his comments by basically saying,...
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Architecture and interior design firm GO’C has shared photos of a home they recently completed northwest of Seattle on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. Located on a secluded wooded site, near a small beach town, the home has been designed with dark black brick walls with...
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The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
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Australia’s story stretches back over 60,000 years, beginning with its First Nations peoples and evolving through waves of colonial exploration, gold rushes, wars, and modern nation-building. While major cities reflect this layered past, Queensland in particular holds a distinct...
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We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The bus blew down the road into the Mohawk Valley, to a small town on the shores of the Erie Canal where there was a marina that also had a few campsites. The campground was wedged...
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This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...
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The post-screen future does not exist. Every day I see a new thinkpiece on “the post-screen future” or “UI-less design” or “the end of the click.” I even used to write things like that. But that’s because I had less experience with human-computer interaction than I have now....
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Researchers are starting to pay closer attention to the widespread damage wrought by agricultural herbicides. Drifting sprays may not kill trees, shrubs, and other nontarget plants outright, but experts believe they are making them vulnerable to insects, fungi, and disease. Read...
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This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II...
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This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan Pashman’s new pasta cookbook. In part two of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about...
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45 45 Squared 12) TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, SE1 Borough of Southwark, 75m×60m garden square fronted by Georgian terraces, although you can't go in the garden unless you're a resident because it's one of those. Trinity Church Square lies just off Borough High Street, and is accessed...
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So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy office building out in the valley? That's cool. By the same odds we'll both be rich, because I'm holding tonight's winning lotto ticket. Your idea probably won't be the next big thing...
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The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and effective non-invasive interfaces that can deliver tiny milliamp currents to the right stimulation location on the head, neck or body. One example of the new players in this field is...
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Mike boastfully reads 100 books per year. He listens to audiobooks at 3x speed whenever he drives and swears he can remember it all. His browser has a plugin that lets him speed up YouTube videos, and for a while, he listened to podcasts on a special app because of its unique...
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I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis, and how to use $(\infty,n)$-categories. This is all in service of some stuff I’m doing with skein algebras (which are part of a “$3+1$ TQFT” often named after Crane–Yetter, but...
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Most people (and the people you choose) Most people want you to make something cheap, write something short, share something funny, and fit...
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Most people want you to make something cheap, write something short, share something funny, and fit in. But the people you serve… they might want something else. The few people you need to thrive in your work might want you to write something they’ll remember for a long time, or...
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You've just gotten over the fact we call them 'Hooks', but how do you stop repeating the same code everywhere? Let's learn about Custom Hooks.
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Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
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If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
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Borneo: Ridiculous Mothing At Trus Madi Entomology Camp When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and...
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When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and in particular, looking for sites to find the Bornean Frogmouth, I read about the Trus Madi Entomology Camp. This piqued my interest, as there is almost nothing I like more than...
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On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
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JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times. This article will show you how to speed up your JavaScript loading.
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The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
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Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases the risk of a drive failure tenfold. So often RAID 5 is used to keep your data up and running if one single disks fails. But disks are so cheap and storage arrays are getting so...
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How an alliance between psychologists and advertisers at the turn of the 20th century taught us how to measure (and monetize) human attention.
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Two-and-a-half centuries after it was first delivered, Patrick Henry’s famous quote, “give me liberty or give me death,” lives on in American culture as a symbol of defiance against British colonial authorities intent on oppressing the 13 colonies. From a speech at the Virginia...
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I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...
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So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was great. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Nine...
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In Defense of Hammers Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
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A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package that also includes imperiousness, skittishness and a fair amount of unpredictable drama. It’s tempting to imagine that CEOs, painters or poets that bring the noise must also have...
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
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Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
Common Edge
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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
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It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
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Another request for a reading list from a young reader. Any reply will be incomplete and risk discouraging aspiring literati. The only infallible inducement to literature is personal pleasure, a notoriously subjective criterion. I love Gibbon and Doughty, and you may find them...
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When you think of Christian mysticism, the obvious probably comes to mind: exorcisms, contact with the beyond, or supernatural powers. But this is just a small part of it. What lies beyond these surface-level phenomena is a world of contemplation, communication with God, divine...
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Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
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The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security Conference on free speech and mass immigration. It did not go over well with many European politicians, some of which immediately proved Vance's point, and labeled the speech "not...
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Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
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That Wes Anderson is perhaps the most assiduous maker of short films today becomes clear when you look closely at his recent work. The four adaptations of “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar” and three other Roald Dahl stories he made for Netflix were presented as a single...
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In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. Read along to find out how I did it.
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Tim O’Reilly poses a question every entrepreneur and investor should consider: are you creating more value for others than you capture for…
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“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful essay on generosity. “You open your safe and find ashes.” I feel this truth deeply, daily — for nearly two decades of offering these writings freely, I have lived by the...
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The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for November: Personal income increased $71.1 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in November, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI), personal...
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Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
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I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a net-positive effect on my life. But now with Elon’s takeover, Twitter is in the hands of a man whose behavior I find reprehensible.
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<p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p> <p>Commit to relaxed focused work in two blocks of 3-hours each.</p> <p>Take a 1-hour break in between.&nbsp;Meditating 11 minutes. Walking the rest.</p> <p>Drink plenty of water. Coffee and...
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Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of over 10 million people (more than London). And yet inevitably until last week I'd never heard of...
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There’s an off chance that futarchy might solve cultural drift, if we could show that it works, then get some big place to adopt it, and also get them to set an outcome metric in conflict with civ collapse.
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Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
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CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
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Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
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New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets. The post Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism first...
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‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones.
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There's nothing worse than feeling stuck. If you've been pushing hard for years, and haven't seen the results you want, it's disheartening.
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Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set...
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Some terminal frustrations A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
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A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that...
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Complete silence Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and...
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Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and work took on a poignant significance following the bombing of Hiroshima. Serving as the director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, he found himself at the epicentre of...
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
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In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
TheCollector
Does the Hebrew Bible Predict the Virgin Birth of Christ? The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke...
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The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke tells the story without referencing any specific passages from Jewish scripture, Matthew quotes several biblical texts and speaks of them as being “fulfilled” in the events...
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Should we assume rational goodwill? There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out...
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There’s often a choice between following the cultural dictates of a given group or seeking out demonstrable facts and the scientific method. Which do you expect most people would choose? Which would you choose? When we revert to a testable analysis of what works, we’re relying on...
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Word Association Fame The new attention playbooks will be full of old plays.
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Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
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Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
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June was busy. I travelled more than usual in June. Partly in the UK – visiting Glasgow, the west country, the south coast and the Isle of Wight; partly overseas – I visited Ibiza for a few days of R&R. Meanwhile, the election campaigns were in full swing. Nigel Farage did his...
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devonzuegel.com
On [there being more than] liberty Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your...
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Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your website I came across these words: Individual liberty is the single most important value that society should uphold. I’m more utilitarian and communitarian now. I still believe we...
Ink & Switch
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Potentially undervalued companies I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies...
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I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies developing them. 90% of the time, my answer is “I don’t know” but it continues to concern me that aspects of technical feasibility are evidently not legible to financial types (and...
Open Culture
Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic... Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason...
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Saturday Night Live began its 50th season last fall, around the same time as the premiere of Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, which dramatizes the program’s 1975 debut. All of this has put fans into something of a retrospective mood, especially if they happen to have been...
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Is China Taking Over US Retail? Yes. Let me explain. Amazon made it easy for Chinese companies to sell their products directly to...
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Yes. Let me explain. Amazon made it easy for Chinese companies to sell their products directly to American consumers. In response, the Chinese, after having hollowed out American manufacturing, have moved up the value chain to do the same thing to American wholesale and retail....
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Hacker, Hack Thyself We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to...
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We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,...
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With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine learning and massive datasets. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with...
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Documents reviewed by Rest of World show several companies backed by U.S. tech giants provided policing or censorship tools to Chinese law enforcement.
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My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the reasons for using it are mostly bullshit. When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of really(8) and userv because one of my...
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DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics Am I mad... or is everyone else?
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They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast chicken in the capital, and then two come along at once. one in Holborn closed (where I would go at least once every couple of weeks back in the day), then Kentish Town, then...
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Perkins&Will designed an office for Galapagos Capital in São Paulo, featuring a circular layout with a central atrium and natural...
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Designer Ana Dahlman has shared photos of a bathroom renovation she completed that included replacing the vanity with a floating L-shaped corner vanity. Before we see the renovated bathroom, here’s what it looked like originally, with cream-colored walls and a small vanity with...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
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I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help someone understand floating point numbers better. To do fewer mistakes, to make things faster, to create better software in general.
The Elysian
Multi-country civilizations are good, actually A vibe shift in favor of annexation would be counterproductive 🌏
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They were struck with terror On the morning of 3rd August 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish town...
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On the morning of 3rd August 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera and embarked on what would become a monumental voyage across the unknown Atlantic, one that would forever alter the course of human history. Steering three...
Posts on Made of...
Suggestion time: What should I blog about? I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron...
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I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron Blogger, and I’m not totally enthusiastic about any of the items on my “to blog” list. But, I do enjoy blogging when I actually get into posts, and I’d like to keep updating this blog....
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I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to non-accessibility practitioners, so mainly engineers, designers, project managers, and product folk. The talk is about exploring macOS' Accessibility system preferences. It points out...
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Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2 A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our...
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A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case. I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
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Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a...
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About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of their data, including years of...
A Smart Bear
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The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your own. The same principle applies to competitive strategy.
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At Arduino, we know how precious your time is when you’re building your next big project or experimenting with new ideas. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce a game-changing update to the Cloud Editor Builder — the engine behind compiling your sketches in Arduino Cloud. This...
Atoms vs Bits
Requests for Posts Here are some topics I would like there to be posts about, and which I will probably never get...
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Here are some topics I would like there to be posts about, and which I will probably never get around to writing about. So I want to try something different: if you believe you could write a good post about any of these topics, please reply to this email and
Seth's Blog
Comfortable with the fuzziness Atmospheric conditions on Earth limit visibility on a perfect day to less than 200 miles. Time works...
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Atmospheric conditions on Earth limit visibility on a perfect day to less than 200 miles. Time works the same way. When we’re doing the same thing, in the same way, our perception of what will happen next can feel crystal clear. Plant some apple seeds in your backyard, and you’re...
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99% Invisible
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In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be found in New Bedford, MA. All this slaughter wasn’t to feed hungry people with whale meat. It was about all the...
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The real reason for my multiple majors
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A Beautiful Site
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
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over a year ago
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France. The kinetic phase may come next.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
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Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished up our lab series about pintos. The labs were among the best I’ve had yet and I learned a ton. We didn’t follow the official instructions but we had our own assigmnets....
Matt Mullenweg
Cloudflare Stories There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s...
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There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO,...
Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
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If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there. The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
Articles - Alex...
The forecasting fallacy Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the...
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Marketers are prone to a prediction. You’ll find them in the annual tirade of trend decks. In the PowerPoint projections of self-proclaimed prophets. In the feeds of forecasters and futurists. To understand the extent of our forecasting fascination, I analysed the websites...
Essays - Benedict...
When big tech buys small tech ‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that mean for competition, and...
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‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that mean for competition, and how does this fit into the broader market? How many more Instagrams are there, and how many DAOs?
Birchtree
The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article...
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Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article today from yet another person pining for a mythical Snow Leopard-style MacOS release. While I sympathize with the intent of their argument, it is largely fictional and, as
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James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926) James Joyce had a terrible time with his eyes. When he was six years old he received his first set...
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James Joyce had a terrible time with his eyes. When he was six years old he received his first set of eyeglasses, and, when he was 25, he came down with his first case of iritis, a very painful and potentially blinding inflammation of the colored part of the eye, the iris. A...
Christopher Butler
We Have Five Years Left We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of...
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We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help? We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time,...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: 2023 Round Up! What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put...
a year ago
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a year ago
What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put together a round up for you with all of the wonderful advice our makers have given for creatives at any stage of their creative practice. Pop your feet up, grab yourself a nice...
Seth's Blog
How to buy a lottery ticket There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
There are lots of cultural lotteries around us. The next pop song, the book that everyone is talking about, the blog post or video that goes viral… it even applies to who gets into a famous college or is selected by the AI screening for a good job. The usual advice is: Fit in....
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
Quanta Magazine
An Explorer of Abyssal Depths Looks to Oceans on Other Worlds The marine geochemist Chris German brings decades of experience studying seafloor hydrothermal vents...
over a year ago
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The marine geochemist Chris German brings decades of experience studying seafloor hydrothermal vents to NASA’s preparations for visits to other ocean worlds in our solar system. The post An Explorer of Abyssal Depths Looks to Oceans on Other Worlds first appeared on...
Ryan Hoover's...
Our latest experiment: Weekend Pitch
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn Workers and Peasants we are not.
11 months ago
The Marginalian
From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the...
a year ago
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We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into...
Ryan Hoover's...
The accountability experiment
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
a year ago