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Noahpinion
Book Review: "The End of the World is Just the Beginning" Peter Zeihan gives us his vision of the collapse of globalization.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Free Are We? Louis Althusser on Ideology & Subjectivity undefined
a year ago
Diaries of Note
The human is a creature of paradox When he wrote the following diary entry in 1973, 30-year-old Arthur Ashe had already carved out a...
a year ago
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a year ago
When he wrote the following diary entry in 1973, 30-year-old Arthur Ashe had already carved out a distinguished place in sporting history, not just as a formidable tennis player, but also as a pioneering African-American athlete in a predominantly white sport. With the US Open...
Paul Graham: Essays
Mind the Gap
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Feckful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of...
7 months ago
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 8: Pale-billed Antpittas In The Elfin Forest (February 10, 2024) February 10, 2024 The Pale-billed Antpitta is a large, fancy-looking Grallaria antpitta only found...
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February 10, 2024 The Pale-billed Antpitta is a large, fancy-looking Grallaria antpitta only found in the high Andes of northern Peru. Because of its proclivity towards dense forest with an abundance of bamboo, there are few places where this species can be easily found. These...
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
Contemporist...
The Sculptural Exterior Of This House Was Inspired By The Folds Of A Ribbon Studio Ardete has shared photos of a home they have designed in Mohali, India, that has a distinctly...
a year ago
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts undefined
2 months ago
Cognitive...
Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
a year ago
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a year ago
Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
Making software...
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you're selecting a pricing plan during a site's sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
Steve Klabnik
A eulogy for my 20s
over a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
a year ago
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a year ago
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible. Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager). Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
Sam Altman
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
Stoic Simple
7 Stoicism Exercises for Self-Improvement Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained popularity in recent times due to its emphasis on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained popularity in recent times due to its emphasis on practical, actionable exercises designed to help individuals improve their lives. By practicing specific exercises, referred to as "spiritual exercises," individuals are able to...
symmetry magazine
India’s gem at CERN: Archana Sharma The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for...
a year ago
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a year ago
The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens.
Contemporist...
This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built...
a year ago
Open Culture
The Amazing Recording History of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” The most streamed Beatles song isn’t “She Loves You,” “Hey Jude,” or “All You Need Is Love.” It...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The most streamed Beatles song isn’t “She Loves You,” “Hey Jude,” or “All You Need Is Love.” It isn’t even “Yesterday.” If you were about to guess “Something,” you’re on the right track, at least as far as the source album and songwriter. In fact, it’s George Harrison’s other...
The Modern House
For itinerant chef and musical therapist Marie Cassis, home is where the feast is
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
Simply Explained
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can use an LLM to infinitely extend the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can use an LLM to infinitely extend the description in panel 2. Today's News: See you tonight, NYC!
mtlynch.io
Deploying Syncthing on a Fly.io Cloud Server I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple machines. Setting up Syncthing on my personal devices was easy, but I went on an interesting journey deploying it to a cloud server. Why run Syncthing in the cloud? Syncthing synchronizes files...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Master of Light But Stinging Irony' I bought Vikram Seth’s novel-in-verse The Golden Gate when it was published in 1986. Around that...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I bought Vikram Seth’s novel-in-verse The Golden Gate when it was published in 1986. Around that time I was giving up the practice of writing in books, which had always left me a little uncomfortable. Instead, I switched to keeping notebooks. In The Golden Gate I see that I...
Drew Ex Machina
USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moon In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West about lunar missions which gripped the […]
The Honest Broker
Why Did Social Media Go to War Against Writers? And can we ever get along?
a year ago
xkcd.com
Urban Planning Opinion Progression
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DAD Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also be consistent by saying 'Ah, but that...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also be consistent by saying 'Ah, but that was on a Tuesday, which is different.' Today's News:
Londonist
Where To Watch The Six Nations 2024 In London Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
11 months ago
A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
Seth's Blog
The Pinocchio protocol He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers would disappear if the smoke they belched out was black instead of invisible. And few people would start smoking if the deposits on their lungs ended up on their face instead. We’re...
Londonist
The No Trousers Tube Ride Returns To London This Weekend It's January. Let's get half-naked on public transport.
11 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
2 months ago
Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday (year two)
3 weeks ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
JetBlue to End American Pact—What This Means for Travelers
a year ago
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience. › Guiding...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to become a CTO? Question: Hey Vadim, Long-time reader, enjoy your content a lot. I've been a software engineer for...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Question: Hey Vadim, Long-time reader, enjoy your content a lot. I've been a software engineer for about seven years now, doing mostly web development and taking over ownership of different modules step by step, expanding my people skills so to speak. Lately, I've been doing some...
axio.ms
MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building a simple desktop/GUI for it. I’d made a comment along the lines of “or, just run some old OS”, and it got me thinking about the original Macintosh. The original Macintosh was...
Old Structures...
Lucy Moses Award: 486 Liberty Avenue You can read about the building in the awards program: here. The short version: this was a very...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
You can read about the building in the awards program: here. The short version: this was a very ornate police precinct house constructed in 1892, when Brooklyn was still an inexpedient city, and abandoned for quite some time. Here’s what the interior looked like the first time we...
Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Hondo Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word game, named Hondo.
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
a year ago
symmetry magazine
Encouraging a new community Physicists advocate for getting community college students involved in research.
a year ago
Casey Handmer's blog
Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an apparent slowing of aging, I thought I’d write a quick note on how I think this technology, if it replicates, can drastically improve our lives. It’s hard to believe I’m writing...
Old Structures...
Fuzzy Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts,...
a month ago
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a month ago
Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts, pipes, lights, and electrical conduits do not.
Vadim Kravcenko
✍️ Being an Amateur When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not be useful. […] The post ✍️ Being an Amateur appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TokyoDev
Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary? When it comes to [salary negotiation in...
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to [salary negotiation in Japan](/articles/a-guide-to-salary-negotiations-in-japan-s-tech-industry), companies often have the upper hand. Not only do they know what they're willing to pay for a position, but it is very common for companies to ask you to disclose...
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common? undefined
8 months ago
Probably...
How Does World Population Grow? Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially, quadratically, linearly, or logarithmically?” Here are the responses: By a narrow margin, the most popular answer is correct — since 1960 world population growth has been roughly...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Amazing Things to Do in Puerto Rico, According to Locals
a year ago
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History? undefined
2 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Aerial The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with a view of the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. If that tiny bit of the bridge tower isn’t recognizable, Murry Bergtraum High School and the adjacent Verizon Office Building surely...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Nine reasons screenshots are awesome By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
the jsomers.net blog
The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
Joel Gascoigne
Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend Khuram...
Adventures In...
Boost the Human Footprint in Imagery The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales. If you want to add a level of context you can always add a reference overlay. But what about baking a reference overlay into the imagery in a way that makes it look, like, sort of...
The American Scholar
“Tristan da Cunha” by Roy Campbell Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Tristan da Cunha” by Roy Campbell appeared first on The...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Tristan da Cunha” by Roy Campbell appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties undefined
a month ago
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
Louwrentius
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude Judging from the tech press, you’d think the biggest risk to successful companies is competition....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Judging from the tech press, you’d think the biggest risk to successful companies is competition. But when you examine the history of…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Adverse Status Updates and Trust I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a quick comment on.
David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI? It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ambition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on Georgia O'Keeffe originals. Today's News: Of all the compliments on the new book so far, kind words from Jonathan McDowell mean the most. Or, well, anyway, tied with the nice stuff Mary...
brr
Redeployment Part Three Off-continent after 446 days!
11 months ago
Seán Barry
What does Quitting the Rat Race Mean to Me? Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what...
a year ago
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a year ago
Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what 'quitting the rat race' means to me.
Prolost
iPhone ProRes Log in Peru and Taiwan This is a blog post about a video, which is about new color-conversion LUTs for Apple Log footage...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This is a blog post about a video, which is about new color-conversion LUTs for Apple Log footage from the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max (updated from my first set). The video is also a mini-travelogue of my recent trips to Taiwan and Peru. This post dives a bit deeper into both the...
TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It? undefined
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
The pitfall of Big Game thinking In the US, today is a major holiday. The Superb Owl, with nachos, commercials and beer. People who...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In the US, today is a major holiday. The Superb Owl, with nachos, commercials and beer. People who don’t even watch football watch this game, and it’s one of the largest audiences each year on TV. For a certain kind of mass marketer, a Super Bowl ad has been the gold standard for...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World? undefined
a year ago
The Ruffian
42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything An oldie but goldie
10 months ago
diamond geezer
The refillable water bottle tube map If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water bottle? It's always obvious retrospectively. Overground network, hence the map is titled "London Overground stations with free drinking water fountains". The new symbol thus...
TheCollector
10 of Rosalba Carriera’s Best Artworks undefined
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture This week I flew to Gothenburg to talk about enterprise software architecture, read along to learn...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I flew to Gothenburg to talk about enterprise software architecture, read along to learn about choosing the right architecture for your app development
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕ Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher...
a year ago
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a year ago
Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene,...
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
David Perell
28 Pieces of Life Advice In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and the birthplace of Mapbox. This one will be...
a year ago
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a year ago
Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and the birthplace of Mapbox. This one will be quick because I’m between one thing and another! Listening Dry Daniel by Buke and Gase Buke and Gase released some music they recorded a while ago, and there are some hits in it. I...
Diaries of Note
I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting On 20th November 1825, shortly after reading the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron for the...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 20th November 1825, shortly after reading the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron for the first time, Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott began his own diary by way of the following opening entry. Fifty-four at the time, Scott had already established himself as a...
Passing Time
My Aspirational People List These are the people I would invest in
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology undefined
2 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
Future of Work: 12 books I read in 2022 Laetitia@Work #54
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Bare Essentials of Greensock
over a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
a year ago
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a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art ”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital? undefined
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Best of SatPost (First Half of 2024) PLUS: Solar Industry, LVMH Real Estate, Delta Airlines is Winning.
5 months ago
Open Culture
Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give...
a month ago
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a month ago
Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his...
Both Are True
if have nothing, then how give anything? (help wanted) advice for when your tank is empty
10 months ago
Applied Cartography
November, 2024 Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved, without fanfare or closure) cough and a dearth of time to write as I started to explore easing back into full-time work. Still, some writing (and selfishly, I'm excited to end the...
Noahpinion
Harris has the right idea on housing It has to be managed as both a consumer good and as an asset class.
4 months ago
Computer Things
Refactoring Invariants (Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.) I'm often asked by clients to review their...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
(Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.) I'm often asked by clients to review their (usually TLA+) formal specifications. These specs are generally slower and more convoluted than an expert would write. I want to fix them up without changing the overall behavior of the...
Seth's Blog
Important change is systems change Willpower is overrated. If you want to eat healthier, don’t work hard to avoid stopping at the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Willpower is overrated. If you want to eat healthier, don’t work hard to avoid stopping at the cookie jar when you walk into the kitchen. Get rid of the cookie jar. Systems are long-lasting, widespread and resilient. We can push back on them with effort, but over time, the system...
TheCollector
How Has Modern Philosophy Built on Aristotle’s Ideas? undefined
9 months ago
Common Edge
‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’ A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
6 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#25) Maternal mortality, "living paycheck to paycheck", media negativity, diffusion of the tech industry,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Maternal mortality, "living paycheck to paycheck", media negativity, diffusion of the tech industry, and the effect of corporate tax cuts
Working Theorys
Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.
Diaries of Note
Only work can save me Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman was just eleven when his father took his own life, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman was just eleven when his father took his own life, a trauma that profoundly affected Berryman and resulted in a lifelong struggle with mental illness and alcoholism. At thirty-two, while teaching at Princeton University and five years...
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches undefined
4 months ago
Open Culture
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Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965. As the long song unfolds, we hear all about...
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to imagine the you of twenty years ago holding a Rabbit R1, or using a cell phone or being able to listen to every song, ever recorded, for just a few dollars a month. We don’t just take...
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Unreasonably Effective Patterns Much of my current job is maintaining and enhancing control planes for Heroku’s managed data...
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Much of my current job is maintaining and enhancing control planes for Heroku’s managed data services. This post explores three patterns used to reduce operational burden and increase system safety and resiliency: state machines (and associated state-transition tables),...
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J. G. Ballard Demystifies Surrealist Paintings by Dalí, Magritte, de Chirico & More Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard...
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Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard published three apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. Each of those books offers a different vision of large-scale environmental disaster, and...
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On 12th July 1520, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, accompanied by his wife, Agnes, embarked on a significant journey from Germany to the Netherlands, both to attend the coronation of Charles V in October and ensure the continuation of the pension he had received for...
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This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of 1:50000, and between them they cover the whole of Great Britain and its islands. maps tend to align precisely with their neighbours so places appear on one or the other. But...
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When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986) Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who...
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Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who penned the tune “Hallelujah” — which was covered by Jeff Buckley, John Cale and just about everyone else under the sun — he was also at varying points in his colorful life a poet,...
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How we made something people want It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
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It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
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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...
The Diff
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Attention Degrowth No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important...
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No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important insight beneath any design decision. Not to be combatted with manipulations, tricks, or just being a nuisance — but to be respected. The attention economy needs degrowth, too. We...
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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.
alexwlchan
Changing the bulb in a Meridian Lighting CIR100B ceiling light I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which...
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I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which doesn’t work. I’ve tried taking it apart a couple of times to replace the bulb, but to no avail. Although it’s a simple cylinder with only a black base and a clear cover, I couldn’t...
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London's Free Buses BL1: Bedfont Lakes - Feltham BL2: Bedfont Lakes - Hatton Cross Length of journey: 2 miles, 12 minutes It's a strange place, a 1990s commercial development built across former gravel pits, originally with IBM as the lead tenant. It's a bit like Stockley Park...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'We Find Other Things Which We Liked Better' One night in the spring of 1766, Boswell and Goldsmith visited Dr. Johnson unannounced and asked if...
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One night in the spring of 1766, Boswell and Goldsmith visited Dr. Johnson unannounced and asked if he wished to join them at the Mitre Tavern on Fleet Street in London. Johnson was “indisposed” and Goldsmith said, “[W]e will not go to the Mitre to-night, since we cannot have the...
Seth's Blog
Knowing your customers In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences....
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In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences. And in the huge business, expensive software, data analysts and relentless margin seeking pushes organizations to increase their yield. But most businesses (and non-profits and...
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How, why and hyperbole There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The...
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There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The first two: Headlines with “why” for articles that don’t actually explain why. Headlines with “how” that don’t really teach you how. Explaining why is difficult, which is where the...
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Play On The Guitar Of Your Dreams At This Gibson Showroom Live out your Nigel Tufnel fantasy.
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The law of the land Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
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Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
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Platform distribution risks When your product extends a platform’s functionality, one of the main risks you face is that the...
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When your product extends a platform’s functionality, one of the main risks you face is that the platform could embed your product’s key…
NeuroLogica Blog
How Humans Can Adapt to Space My recent article on settling Mars has generated a lot of discussion, some of it around the basic...
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My recent article on settling Mars has generated a lot of discussion, some of it around the basic concept of how difficult it is for humans to live anywhere but a thin envelope of air hugging the surface of the Earth. This is undoubtedly true, as I have discussed before – we...
Jonas Hietala
March Theme: 10 seconds Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really...
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Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really interesting thing to focus on: Time. Like Braid, it’s time for us to make something interesting with time itself. 10 seconds is the constraint and that’s not a lot, but perhaps enough?
Mind Mine
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Seth's Blog
The challenge of focus groups for bold ideas “We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and...
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“We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and beg for candy, and adults dress up in expensive and revealing costumes and get drunk. Would you be likely to participate?” It’s not really a helpful question. (Yes, Halloween is...
Ryan Mulligan
The Shape of Runs to Come Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday...
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Over the last few months or so, I have been fairly consistent with getting outside for Sunday morning runs. A series of lower body issues had prevented me from doing so for many years, but it was an exercise I had enjoyed back then. It took time to rebuild that habit and muscle...
Tech + Economics +...
WeWork files for bankruptcy amid office market downturn. On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”....
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On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”. “It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,” ...
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Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I can really feel the passion and determination...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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a year ago
Rest of World -...
The new AI assistants may not speak your language Mind the language gap.
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Open Culture
World Religions Explained with Useful Charts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity &... It doesn’t take an expert in the field to know that, around the world, there is much disagreement on...
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It doesn’t take an expert in the field to know that, around the world, there is much disagreement on the subject of religion. But as explained in the UsefulCharts video above by Matt Baker, whose PhD in Religious Studies makes him an expert in the field, every source does agree...
Open Culture
Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists Ask aloud whether reality is real, and you’re liable to be regarded as never truly having left the...
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Ask aloud whether reality is real, and you’re liable to be regarded as never truly having left the freshman dorm. But that question has received, and continues to receive, consideration from actual scientists. The Big Think video above assembles seven of them to explain how they...
TheCollector
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Construction Physics
Could We Boost Housing Construction by Permitting ADUs Under the HUD Code? To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the...
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To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units, or ADUs. ADUs, sometimes called “granny flats,” are small, secondary housing units built on the lots of existing single family homes – things like...
Quanta Magazine
Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape....
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Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape. The post Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 5 Happy Thanksgiving! Here in Durham, it is close to perfect. Clear skies and heading toward 57°;...
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here in Durham, it is close to perfect. Clear skies and heading toward 57°; the aroma of holiday fireplaces is drifting through the neighborhood. Tonight, we’ll be enjoying a special treat — a holiday sherry cocktail, the Sherry Flip. It’s simple to...
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Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
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Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
Rest of World -...
The secret ingredient to hustle culture: A virtual assistant in the Philippines How the office grind is being outsourced from Silicon Valley to Manila.
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Diaries of Note
Some monstrous gullet suffocating with fury Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and esteemed novelist who rose to prominence in the late 19th...
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Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and esteemed novelist who rose to prominence in the late 19th century. Born Louis Marie Julien Viaud, he pursued a naval career, earning a recall to service during World War I due to his expertise in Pacific waters. Married to poet and...
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Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
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Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
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Formats over Functions Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
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Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
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Gathering seeds My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
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Quantum Frontiers
My favorite rocket scientist Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is...
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Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is a researcher at Princeton University, and she showed me her lab this June. When I first met Jamie, she was testing instruments to … Continue reading →
Open Culture
Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and... Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway...
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Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway whose radio is playing Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta. “It is, as the book suggests, truly the worst possible music for a traffic jam,” writes Sam Anderson in a New York Times Magazine...
Maggie Appleton
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A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #49 The most recent numbered installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring...
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The most recent numbered installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog, was #48, back in December. I wasn't planning on continuing the...
Liz Denys
Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
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Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
./techtipsy
Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a better adapter like the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260, and found that Bluetooth is not working as intended on your ThinkPad T430 running Linux? Here’s a guide on what you can...
Kevin Chen
Ideas for fooling Amazon Go Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure...
over a year ago
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Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure out what you purchased. What happens if you… Take an item off the shelf and give it to someone else. Go shopping with your identical twin. Use the restroom to put on a face...
Daniel Miessler
My Philosophy and Recommendations Around the LastPass Breaches If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It...
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If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. The initial blog was on August 25th,...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Building a High Volume Data Processing Pipeline in JavaScript There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an ETL pipeline I built with a microservice architecture in JavaScript and some of the lessons I learned as part of the process.
Patrick Kayongo
When You Die the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust...
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the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust who’ll rush to see them, as soon the time allows. your workplace will send an email and all your colleagues will be saddened whatsapp broadcasts will flood phones of those time...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bound Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Dave Luebke informs me that the upper bound should...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Dave Luebke informs me that the upper bound should just be infinity. Today's News: Hot damn an embarrassingly flattering review in Science.
History Today Feed
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I look forward to the operating theatre as a happy release The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind...
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The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind razor-edged novels like Brideshead Revisited. But even for Waugh, the back-end of 1946 was particularly trying. Not only was he surrounded by the family who so regularly irritated...
Remains of the Day
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture “Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for...
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brr
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A 15-minute intro to involute gears Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their...
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Stephen Diehl
The Twilight of the Securities Act
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn't believe sex was the cause of everything. Today's News:
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France. The kinetic phase may come next.
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Cell Organelles
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diamond geezer
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HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Looking forward (I'm not sure things happening in September really count as History, but they are Hyperlocal) Major roadworks at Bow Interchange announced temporary timetables are being introduced on bus routes 25, 205, 276, 277, 425 and D7 starting on...
Passing Time
What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300 Million? Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
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Wait But Why
The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate Jeez The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
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./techtipsy
The minimum viable fan control script I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as...
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I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as writing crappy solutions to make up for deficiencies on the hardware level. After years of dumb experiments I’ve seen how little you can get away with in cooling and how to run your...
Tony Dinh's...
My new product on Product Hunt today Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
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The Marginalian
Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life "It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life...
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"It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form."
Louwrentius
Lion's FileVault does not support Bootcamp and external boot disks Read the comments as they may provide useful information for your particular situation I boot my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Read the comments as they may provide useful information for your particular situation I boot my iMac from an external FW800 SSD. I found out that it is impossible to encrypt this disk using the new FileVault as part of Lion. Furthermore, I also found out that if you have a disk...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
2 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Apple Interview (1995) Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Sideways One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault...
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One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault extends from the sidewalk (its roof) down two floors or about 25 feet, and was built around 1895. Since reinforced-concrete was still in its infancy then, it was not used for foundation...
Londonist
Jings! London Is Getting A Deli Selling Nothing But Scottish Food The Shoap opens in Angel in February.
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Drew Ex Machina
Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed...
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One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover […]
Paul Graham: Essays
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fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
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somethingaboutmaps
Projection Cards I had a whimsical idea a few months ago: map projection trading cards. Something nerdy and...
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I had a whimsical idea a few months ago: map projection trading cards. Something nerdy and map-related that you could collect and exchange at conferences. I poked around at some design ideas for a while, and here’s what I’ve come up with so far. This is the front side of the...
TheCollector
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Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool. These lines create a burr that holds ink, meaning that the print reveals the drawing. Drypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you...
Wuthering...
Some lesser works of Sōseki and Tanizaki - deep in the earth directly beneath Lady Kikyō’s toilet Dolce Bellezza is running her 17th Japanese Literature Challenge.  Amazing, well done, etc. I read...
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Dolce Bellezza is running her 17th Japanese Literature Challenge.  Amazing, well done, etc. I read some short works for it, which I will pile up here: three short works by Natsume Sōseki, collected in a Tuttle volume that looks like it is titled Ten Nights of Dream Hearing...
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of… If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of...
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Arduino IDE 2.3.3: discover new support for shared spaces and more! We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This...
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We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This new release is packed with improvements, including one feature we’re particularly proud of: support for shared spaces in Arduino Cloud. If you have a Cloud Business plan or School...
Notes on software...
Starting a minimal Common Lisp project If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
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over a year ago
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was "expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather than a theoretically...
A Smart Bear
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
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A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
wingolog
fedi is for losers Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in...
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Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
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Home Energy Monitor: V2 My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my...
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My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account.Still, though, there is room for improvement. It's time to look back, evaluate & improve the design....
Val Sopi
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<p>With so much going on in the world and information traveling faster than ever before in the human existence, it's easy to lose track of the basics.</p> <p>Feeling overwhelmed is a result of our values, thoughts, being challenged.</p> <p>The first response is naturally to...
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Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has...
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The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
How to Be a Stoic
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Modern Stoics are interested in picking up the ancient tradition while at the same time updating it and molding it to modern times. For some reason, this is often considered a controversial thing, with flying accusations of cherry picking and dire warnings about the result not...
This Space
39 Books: 2013 I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to...
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I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to a particular bench with a view of the sea. On first glance A Table for One promises only banal, coffee-table memories and reflections, and that would be almost right: Real...
Noahpinion
Hispanics as the new Irish A historical analogy to help us understand the present moment.
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The end of something Thirteen years ago I posted The beginning of something to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Spike...
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Thirteen years ago I posted The beginning of something to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Spike Magazine (not to be confused with Spiked), which I helped to found when the world wide web was forming, and to comment on the direction online literary culture had taken. By that...
TheCollector
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Home on Erik...
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Slides from the talk. Slightly edited because (a) some of the slides make little sense taken out of context (b) Slideshare seem to have problem converting some of the stuff. Collaborative filtering at Spotify from Erik Bernhardsson
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you! Today's...
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439 In March 2020 TfL published a Croydon Bus Study, a 54 page examination of the local bus network and...
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In March 2020 TfL published a Croydon Bus Study, a 54 page examination of the local bus network and how it might need to change in response to proposed development, particularly to the south of Croydon. Essentially it said "if more people are going to live here they'll need...
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We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I designed the class to 1) give our students an appreciation of the...
TheCollector
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'All These Jolts of Beauty' Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree...
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Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree in front of the hall where he was speaking and munched on it while he spoke. A few years later the writer Paul Metcalf, author of Genoa (1965), swore me to secrecy before revealing...
Arduino Blog
Why is STEAM education important for kids? 6 activity tips School’s out for summer – at least for most of us. While the majority of children (and teachers!)...
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School’s out for summer – at least for most of us. While the majority of children (and teachers!) will probably be breathing a huge sigh of relief, parents face a new challenge: how to keep kids engaged during the long break. Of course, downtime is important, but there are also...
SOCKS
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Marine Beaufils is a French embroidery artist whose meticulous work draws on the analogy between pixels and needlepoints, as she translates scenes from her favorite video games, movies, or scientific imagery from screen to embroidery canvas. This process freezes a fragment of a...
Casey Handmer's blog
Entrepreneurship changed the way I think A quick note with some self reflection on the eve of my 37th year and after nearly three years of...
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A quick note with some self reflection on the eve of my 37th year and after nearly three years of running a hardware start up. I never saw myself as a founder. At some point a few years ago I realized nearly all my friends were founders or managers of their own business, but I...
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What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
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Seth's Blog
Updating our stuck interactions There are few sitcoms, thrillers or plays where the plot can tolerate the addition of a cell phone....
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There are few sitcoms, thrillers or plays where the plot can tolerate the addition of a cell phone. Once the characters have the ability to connect and clear up misunderstandings at will, a lot of tension disappears. If Juliet had had a smartphone, she and Romeo would have ended...
Rest of World -...
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving...
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Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving them access to better wages, benefits, and profit participation.
Noahpinion
The Super-Scary Theory of the 21st Century (repost) The haunting specter of techno-authoritarianism has only gotten more haunting
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Home on Erik...
I believe in the 10x engineer, but... The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be...
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The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15...
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Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it. So I asked people on Mastodon: what git jargon do you find...
diamond geezer
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A Nice Walk: Beddington Farmlands (1 mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, wildlife guaranteed, railway-adjacent, mostly dry underfoot, broad pylon vistas, binocular opportunities, possibility of lapwings, won't take long. So...
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Annual Performance Reviews Ruin Everything "There is hardly an area of work, psychological safety, growth, collaboration or equity that annual...
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"There is hardly an area of work, psychological safety, growth, collaboration or equity that annual performance reviews don’t undermine. Think I’m exaggerating? Have I got a (long) post for you…. "
The Marginalian
Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks Among the great salvations of my childhood were the rocks and minerals lining the bookshelves of our...
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Among the great salvations of my childhood were the rocks and minerals lining the bookshelves of our next door neighbor — a geologist working for the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water. I spent long hours casting amethyst refractions on the ceiling, carving words into...
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'Unless It From Enjoyment Spring!' “He is the supreme poet of childhood. He is at play all his life.”  Had I read this out of context,...
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“He is the supreme poet of childhood. He is at play all his life.”  Had I read this out of context, I might have assumed the writer described was Walter de la Mare, whose poetry I ignored for too long because teachers and critics told me he wrote solely for children. (Something...
Open Culture
How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983) In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the...
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In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear, straight into thin air. If you’re north of 50, you perhaps remember the spectacle. How did he do it? 40 years later, the YouTube channel Mind Blown Magic...
TheCollector
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Jonas Hietala
A simple timeline using CSS flexbox As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would...
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As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would be neat to have timeline element where I could list some of the larger events in my life. To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean—the flexbox...
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We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new surroundings. However, we were still pretty tired so we stuck close to home and made it an easy day. Swanage sits near the eastern end of the 96 mile (154 km) Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World...
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
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How Health Data Gets Sold: Moving From Third-Party to First-Party | Out-Of-Pocket The shift from third-party to first-party data consent, and how far should it go?
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It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
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Unsupervised Learning: Clustering Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome? undefined
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AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
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One essay could change the future Please support a better media ecosystem.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
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This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
Calculated Risk
Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Q3 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO A brief excerpt: We will NOT see a surge in foreclosures that would significantly impact house prices (as happened following the housing bubble) for two key reasons: 1) mortgage...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it...
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#1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it reliably. There are also tons of people who would like to work in such a role but they are hard to find as there is no generally accepted job title. Seems like a huge opportunity if...
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Keep incidents boring The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under...
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The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
./techtipsy
About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
TokyoDev
How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
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The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
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over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
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We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket... Benedict Evans has a new presentation about the explosive growth of internet-connected smartphones....
over a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Project Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park...
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Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park – currently in restoration – where we’re working: If you don’t see it, look at the iron handrail.
Blog System/5
Demystifying secure NFS My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and...
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My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How the Paris 2023 Protests are Impacting Travel
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HTMHell
#13 link or label Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I...
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over a year ago
Bad code <input type="checkbox" id="accept" required> <label for="accept"> <a href="/legal"> I accept the confidentiality policy and data… </a> </label> Issues and how to fix them It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click). Users don’t expect a new...
Maps Mania
The Meteor Shower Map
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Rest of World -...
Investors are unsettled as funding is drying up for Africa’s startup ecosystem As funding to Africa’s once fast-growing startup ecosystem dries up, industry insiders are worried...
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The Marginalian
The Last Wonder: D.H. Lawrence on Death and the Best Lifelong Preparation for It "Know thyself, and that thou art mortal. But know thyself, denying that thou art mortal."
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Simply Explained
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't...
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Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024 Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
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Julia Evans
Inside .git Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone...
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Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is. I added some extra notes too. First, here’s the image. It’s a ~15 word explanation of each part of your .git directory. . You can git clone...
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 5 This is the last of the collection of little-known ballfields, following Brooklyn, Manhattan, and...
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This is the last of the collection of little-known ballfields, following Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, and the little-known teams who played in those fields. It’s very difficult to find information about the only Bronx important ball field in the Bronx. While it’s sometimes...
SatPost by Trung...
Learning to Slow Down Time It feels like time is moving faster when we age. How to slow it down? Nature, vacations, events,...
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It feels like time is moving faster when we age. How to slow it down? Nature, vacations, events, novelty and random day trips to Disneyland.
History Today Feed
The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan JamesHoare Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:00
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TheCollector
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Making software...
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I...
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over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements. Contents California Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Controller Treasurer Insurance Commissioner United...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tech Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about dissociating from reality with VR. Today's News:
Max Rozen
Deploying Node and React Shopify apps on Vercel Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this...
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over a year ago
Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this article, I'll show you how.
Joel Gascoigne
I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
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...
Bits about Money
BAM's Early Adopter discount ends soon Bits about Money's Early Adopter discount ends on January 31st, 2023.
a year ago
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins undefined
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Hardware Demands of AI I am of the generation that essentially lived through the introduction and evolution of the personal...
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I am of the generation that essentially lived through the introduction and evolution of the personal computer. I have decades of experience as an active user and enthusiast, so I have been able to notice some patterns. One pattern is the relationship between the power of...
TheCollector
Why Did Shakespeare Write Macbeth? undefined
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The Honest Broker
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence? Am I crazy? Let's find out...
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./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
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After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
African History...
a brief note on the ancient Herders and Foragers of South Africa. a social history of the KhoiKhoi community (2000BP - 1880)
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Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
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I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them. So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
SatPost by Trung...
Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives" My new podcast.
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TheCollector
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