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ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt? One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
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a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use. When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well... I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too. So, here's my software...
Astral Codex Ten
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3 days ago
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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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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
over a year ago
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Never Write Down His Teachings? undefined
10 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
over a year ago
HTMHell
Boosting testing efficiency: how semantic HTML transforms End-to-End testing by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human interaction but also the efficiency of software systems. For instance, when users fill out forms with clear labels and accessible input fields, this reduces errors and ensures...
Tom Blomfield
Don't write tests - The Hidden Cost of TDD I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments startup called GoCardless where we test religiously. We’re not dogmatic about whether the tests come first or not, but code doesn’t get deployed without full unit & acceptance tests....
devonzuegel.com
OWD #3: Disney World & other underworlds Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In this episode, the Bertauds and I discuss methods of sanitation and waste management from around the world, and how these hidden systems shape our cities. RSS · Apple Podcasts ·...
Irrational...
Notes on Tidy First? Tidy First? by Kent Beck captures the spirit of Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design while...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tidy First? by Kent Beck captures the spirit of Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design while also recognizing the inherent tensions of developing software within a team and business. You can also read it in about two hours. Recommended! A Philosophy of Software Design by...
Mark Manson
Everyone Is Mostly the Same… (And Why This Is Good News) I started my first blog in 2007. By 2011, writing and publishing online was my full-time job. By...
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over a year ago
I started my first blog in 2007. By 2011, writing and publishing online was my full-time job. By 2013, that writing was being read by over a million people each month. And while the exact number has fluctuated over the years, that still remains true. Early on in my career, as you...
Archinect - Features
'You Need to Use AI Much More Than You Think to Get Unique Results From It'; A Conversation... Studying Alexis Christodoulou’s work, including his highly popular Instagram portfolio, one would...
a year ago
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a year ago
Studying Alexis Christodoulou’s work, including his highly popular Instagram portfolio, one would expect his images to be the product of decades of education, training, and practice at the top of the field. The fact that Christodoulou is a self-taught artist of ten years,...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #168 Charles F. Feeney's philanthropy, Howard Marks makes the case for credit, Spin-offs, Birkenstock's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Charles F. Feeney's philanthropy, Howard Marks makes the case for credit, Spin-offs, Birkenstock's IPO, Costco's clothing, Todd Combs interview, Equifax, and more ...
A Beautiful Site
How to get faster and better help from support It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's tempting to take out your frustrations on the support person answering your email, but don't send out a message raging about their incompetence. Don't tell them how their product sucks or doesn't work the way you expect it to. Don't TYPE IN ALL CAPS to make sure they...
IEEE Spectrum
Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search...
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2 months ago
The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The sensor measures shaking and shifting in continental plates that will eventually unleash...
Christopher Butler
What We Do When We See What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same...
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What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same thing? Visual Intelligence, a wonderful book about seeing and clarity, Amy Herman begins with the story of Derreck Kayongo. Kayongo had just stepped into the shower in his hotel room...
The Wandering...
Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 1 Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric design guru, give a talk online at an Islamic art conference, and I noticed that behind him they were projecting an interesting pattern on the scrim. I froze the video and grabbed a...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Otherwise do something else” I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in your stomach and feel nauseous for years…
Weighty Thoughts
Most AI startups are doomed Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Word Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on...
7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Unsolved Disappearances From History undefined
11 months ago
Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
2 months ago
Londonist
Where To Dine And Drink In An Igloo Or Snow Globe In London This Winter Book riverside igloos and rooftop domes.
a year ago
Archinect - Features
How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably...
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As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses...
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:...
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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...
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984 31 unblogged things I did in December 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
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31 unblogged things I did in December 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 31 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and December featured one week...
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Social Anxiety: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
diamond geezer
Watch AcquaintanceWatch #28July Wochabinupto? Blog visitors: 0 Blog comments: 0 Blog content: Hours out:...
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AcquaintanceWatch #28July Wochabinupto? Blog visitors: 0 Blog comments: 0 Blog content: Hours out: 0 Nights out: 0 Alcohol intake: 0 Becks Tea intake: 0 Trains used: 0 Steps walked: 0 Mystery count: 0 comments if(postComments['231203823120386'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
The Honest Broker
A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative...
4 months ago
Maps Mania
135,000 Years of Changing Sea Levels
a year ago
The Tao Of Wealth
The Bird In The Golden Cage A boy buys a bird and they are having a conversation: The boy says, “My dear bird, you live with me....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A boy buys a bird and they are having a conversation: The boy says, “My dear bird, you live with me. I shall give you very nice fruits. I shall talk with you,” and so many things. But the bird says, “No, I want to go away. I want to go away.” The boy replies,Continue reading "The...
Spoon & Tamago
MUJI Fans Can Now Rent this Countryside MUJI Kominka MUJI’s new rentable townhouse in Kamogawa MUJI, everyone’s favorite Japanese lifestyle retailer, has...
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a year ago
MUJI’s new rentable townhouse in Kamogawa MUJI, everyone’s favorite Japanese lifestyle retailer, has been in the homebuilding business for over 15 years. But in a new initiative they’re calling MUJI Base, the company has begun restorring, renovating and renting countryside...
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line A very peculiar line.
a year ago
Both Are True
Being an idiot and writing your newsletter - an interview I did for Creator Spotlight + my brand deal with an indie shoe company called ADIDAS
a month ago
balajis.com
Global Crypto Regulation: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a...
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Is the iPhone OS a threat to our freedom? There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full control over your device. You can only install or run software that is approved by Apple. This is something that is unprecedented. All major platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X do...
Willem's Blog
Riding with a power meter on your bike In this post I describe my experience with installing the 4iiii Precision Powermeter on my road...
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Na colusão
over a year ago
Cartogrammar
The rain on terrain If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...
Nat Eliason's...
30-Day First Draft: Week 2.5 Report & Lessons 70,117 Words Later
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after...
over a year ago
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Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after pieces of Craigslist: Startups that have…
The American Scholar
The Patron Subjects Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings? The...
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Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings? The post The Patron Subjects appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Chichen Itza? undefined
5 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910 Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
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a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews ‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews j.hoare Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
The Ethics of Epicureanism vs The Ethics of Stoicism undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 London Museums You Should Visit undefined
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NeuroLogica Blog
Anxiety Biomarkers Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical...
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Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical entities we are dealing with are complex and mostly subjective. Diagnoses are perhaps best understood as clinical constructs – a way of identifying and understanding a mental...
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Mazdak
The Psychology of Investing: 5 Critical Traps That Can Destroy Your Wealth The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising...
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The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising portfolios into cautionary tales.
Trying to Understand...
The Sense Of An Ending. But right back where we started from.
4 months ago
Scott DeLong
Weeks 48-52: My Final Update It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My...
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It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My Final Update appeared first on Scott DeLong.
TheCollector
Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction undefined
5 months ago
Mazdak
2024: A Roadmap for AI's Next Big Step 2023 was a whirlwind year for artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT wowed us with its ability to...
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2023 was a whirlwind year for artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT wowed us with its ability to generate human-quality text, while chipmaker Nvidia pushed the boundaries of what's possible with graphics processing units (GPUs). But amidst the hype, there were also concerns about...
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 3 Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog...
a month ago
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
The Modern House
A lower-ground floor flat that glows from within
8 months ago
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Working The Reverse 9 to 5 Having weird sleeping hours is working out... very well for me.
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #42: An Elizabeth Line extension, some mad planning law nonsense, and the world's most... Your regular round-up of interesting links
a month ago
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
over a year ago
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
4 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
I designed a Christmas gift I love the idea of charity donations as gifts, but I find they lack something. I don’t know about...
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I love the idea of charity donations as gifts, but I find they lack something. I don’t know about you,...
sancho.dev
query-json: jq written in Reason
over a year ago
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read undefined
a year ago
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
6 months ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2023 — Overview A high level overview of third quarter results and year-to-date repurchase activity.
a year ago
The Modern House
How David Roy and Angel Perez carve out space for playtime and parties in their flexible Hackney...
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to...
over a year ago
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In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires. These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish), and they are a crucial part of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Master Etcher of Human Portraits' In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen...
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In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen poets and friends were asked to contribute to a symposium published a day earlier in the New York Times Book Review. All but Robert Frost contributed. Amy Lowell wrote: “A realist,...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
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2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana undefined
10 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer Musing about how Twitter can enhance your Internet reading experience
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The top reason we haven’t sold our startup We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along our journey so far. When I mention this to people, a key question that often comes up is “how did you decide not to sell?”. The earliest offer we had for Buffer was
TheCollector
Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous? undefined
5 months ago
Stoic Simple
What Does it Mean to be a Stoic? Using Christianity to Explain Stoicism by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a quasi-parallel to help answer this question. What does it mean to be a Christian? I think the base-line of the faith is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.  In Stoicism that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Strategy Turns What got you here won't get you there.
over a year ago
the jsomers.net blog
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit? undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
Welcome To Your New Gardening Zone
7 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Local Testing on an iPhone Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know undefined
a year ago
The Elysian
Mondragon as the new City-State This cooperative could be its own country.
3 months ago
Noahpinion
The elemental foe Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
over a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know undefined
a month ago
Unpacked
The EU's war on behavioral advertising Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Frustration Loop I've been engaged in an ongoing war with spammers. Because Bear is free-to-use it's naturally the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been engaged in an ongoing war with spammers. Because Bear is free-to-use it's naturally the target of backlink farmers, credit card phishers, illegal drug sellers, online casino advertisers, and crypto shillers. I won't go into too much detail on the causes. I've written...
TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections undefined
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Build internal tools with YAML YAML is terrible, because a wrong indentation (was it spaces or tabs?) can break your application....
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over a year ago
YAML is terrible, because a wrong indentation (was it spaces or tabs?) can break your application. That aside, this looks very useful for many projects.
Musings on Markets
Fed up with Fed Talk? Fact-checking Central Banking Fairy Tales! The big story on Wednesday, September 18, was that the Federal Reserve’s open market committee...
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The big story on Wednesday, September 18, was that the Federal Reserve’s open market committee finally got around to “cutting rates”, and doing so by more than expected. This action, much debated and discussed during all of 2024, was greeted as "big" news, and market...
xkcd.com
Network Configuration
6 months ago
samwho.dev
Dude, where's my main?
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Garden Path Sentence
a year ago
Max Countryman
Publish Your Drafts When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
a year ago
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a year ago
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Die on It Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot learns to nod its head and keep...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot learns to nod its head and keep the truth inside. Today's News:
Common Edge
Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture? It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
10 months ago
Construction Physics
What Progress Has There Been In Industrial Robots? Long-term, I’m optimistic about robots and automation solving construction’s stagnant cost and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Long-term, I’m optimistic about robots and automation solving construction’s stagnant cost and productivity problem. Even if nothing else works, if you can build a cheap machine capable of doing everything a human can do, that would greatly reduce labor costs, which are a large...
Common Edge
What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to...
3 months ago
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Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
Folklore.org:...
What Hath Woz Wrought The first product I developed for Apple
a year ago
Tech and Tea
Expectations, planning, and suffering Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
6 months ago
computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 1: Relaxed Birding In The Countryside Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America and the only one that is entirely situated...
a year ago
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a year ago
Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America and the only one that is entirely situated south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Uruguay was first settled by hunter-gatherers around 13,000 years ago, while the predominate tribe when Europeans arrived was the Charrúa people....
TheCollector
The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures undefined
10 months ago
macwright.com
What editors do things use? Apps that use CodeMirror Obsidian Repl.it Val Town …more on the CodeMirror site Apps that use...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Apps that use CodeMirror Obsidian Repl.it Val Town …more on the CodeMirror site Apps that use Monaco StackBlitz CodeSandbox Deno Deploy Cloudflare Workers
Classical Wisdom
On Seneca: Anger, Fear, and Sadness Event News
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
7 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Dramatic Wood Ceilings Are Found Throughout This House Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal, that uses wood and copper throughout its design. The home’s exterior has a copper-clad roof and matching copper siding, while the exposed timber structure connects with the rest...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Shaping Tombs in Words' At KaboomBooks a man about my age was standing in front of the “S” shelves in fiction. I routinely...
a year ago
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a year ago
At KaboomBooks a man about my age was standing in front of the “S” shelves in fiction. I routinely stop there hoping to find hardback copies of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novels to replace my disintegrating paperbacks. On a nearby step-ladder I noticed a stack of such Singer titles...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Culmination of Contemporary Economism' For half a century my brother earned his living making picture frames, some of which were themselves...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
For half a century my brother earned his living making picture frames, some of which were themselves works of art. In later years he relied more on accounts with hotel chains and the glass office buildings in downtown Cleveland. Frames for these corporate accounts he called...
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
11 months ago
Buck on Software
23 things you should know 1: Management’s true confidence is reflected in how fast they are hiring
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Engineers Need Art
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I have continued on with The Story of the Stone, the 2,500 page 18th century Chinese novel by, or mostly by, Cao Xueqin.  Here I will write about the second volume of the David Hawkes translation, The Crab-flower Club.  Last time, after reading the first fifth of the novel, I...
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Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
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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...
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Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play. And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then spend most of our time hoping someone else will see us and care enough […]
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OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
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At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
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Cloud Distros The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
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Hey all, been a while. Let me tell you a story. 2022 was one of the most challenging years of my life. In 2022 — buildspace raised $10M at a $100M valuation. This company is by far the most valuable, impactful thing I’ve ever worked on. To this day, the company has continued to...
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gemmacope.land is a really cool digital garden. I love the simplicity of the main page — it manages to fit in just about everything in one vertical pane. But the real surprise is on the right side of the page, where Gemma stacks blocks pulled in from her Are.na account. It’s...
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In Another Beauty (trans. Clare Cavanagh, 2000), the late Adam Zagajewski revisits his alma mater, the Jagiellonka Library in Kraków, and calls it a “botanical garden of ideas,” a metaphor worthy of the librarian Borges. I briefly visited the Jagiellonka, as it’s known, in 2012...
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As a teenager I had a period of many years where I stopped reading books completely. I even remember a time where I couldn't imagine reading books at all. After I graduated and started to be interested in business and startups, I realized the immense power and knowledge contained...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986)     Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint. Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it. We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
Coding Horror
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In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Arduino Blog
Ride safer with these DIY bicycle lights Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant...
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Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant afterthought. That makes cycling dangerous and lights can do a lot to make riding safer. That’s why Giovanni Aggiustatutto designed this DIY system that includes headlights, a...
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We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
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React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
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Both Are True
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Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
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This was another early morning start although not as early as some of the others. We wouldn’t need to drive very far anymore now that we’d settled into our temporary home in Lewiston, Idaho for four nights in a row. The Washington Race Sunrise came quickly and we soon found...
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What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust? I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with...
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I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers. Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory. The difference between...
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Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon Convents as a Refuge in Early Modern Lisbon JamesHoare Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:26
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Velocity and possibility The art of project management includes the dance between velocity and possibility. If you describe...
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The art of project management includes the dance between velocity and possibility. If you describe the outcome with specificity and remove as many variables as possible, you’ll get the work done with more speed, higher reliability and less cost. That velocity, though, might...
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Parents turn to AI tablets after China’s tutor crackdown Tech companies iFlytek, Baidu, and BKK are cashing in on parents who fear their child will fall...
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Policing Brixton: An Insider's Account Book reveals what it's like to patrol the streets of Brixton, Clapham and Stockwell.
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The rise and fall of D&D in Japan In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
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In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
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Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
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Forums, Competitions, Challenges: Inspiring Creativity in Robotics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums dedicated to diverse segments of robotics and artificial intelligence will be part of the...
Wuthering...
The elegant, intricate, sour comedies of Terence The great Roman playwright Terence wrote six plays between 166 and 160 BCE, twenty years after the...
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The great Roman playwright Terence wrote six plays between 166 and 160 BCE, twenty years after the death of Plautus.  The story is that he wrote the first one at age nineteen, while enslaved, thus winning his freedom and entry into a world of aristocratic patrons.  Plautus was...
Cheese and Biscuits
Black Salt, Sheen For most restaurants, no matter how lofty their ambitions or discerning the clientele, sheer...
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For most restaurants, no matter how lofty their ambitions or discerning the clientele, sheer practical market forces will be the driving force behind at least one or two dishes, whether it's the chic Northern gastropub reluctantly offering fish and chips and a burger alongside...
Jonas Hietala
Focusing Attention: Study Hacking A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my...
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A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my part. But the past is the past and this week I’m going to be study focused. Not that I need to study, but I really need to rework my study technique. I’ve been going on like a classical...
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10 helpful tips for architecture students going back to school School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term....
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School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term. Whether you're a fresh undergraduate student embarking on your first year of architecture school or you're a returning student about to continue another rigorous year of learning,...
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
Wyncham Stream THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wyncham Stream Chislehurst → Longlands → Blackfen (2½ miles) Eight...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON Wyncham Stream Chislehurst → Longlands → Blackfen (2½ miles) Eight years ago when I walked the River Shuttle, a proper unlost river, I apologised that I wouldn't be walking its tributary the Wyncham Stream. It's only a mile long, I said, and only...
Seth's Blog
Drama at work A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package...
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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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"There's no way to tell where the border is between measurement and manipulation" Jaron Lanier discussing whether machine learning systems like Netflix recommendations, Facebook's...
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Middle Earth Transit Map Hard to believe that those dumb hobbits risked their lives walking all the way to Mordor when they...
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Hard to believe that those dumb hobbits risked their lives walking all the way to Mordor when they could have just taken the Orange Line.  Oh wait, the tunnel under the mountain is closed  so they would have had to switch to the Red Line at Bree and then made another...
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for...
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How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for one month/year/decade? If it’s safer to face backwards in vehicles, then what is it that’s shared by infants in cars and soldiers on military planes but no one else? Among rock bands...
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An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
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Noahpinion
Where China is beating the world On high-speed rail, EVs, and solar, China is doing truly amazing things.
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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...
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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.
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Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Both Are True
Being enough isn't the fucking point How some toy cars and a bunch of farts helped me transcend the need to be 'enough' // S1E5
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Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
NeuroLogica Blog
Immune Cells to Fight Cancer There is a recent medical advance that you may not have heard about unless you are a healthcare...
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There is a recent medical advance that you may not have heard about unless you are a healthcare professional or encountered it from the patient side – CAR-T cell therapy. A recent study shows the potential for continued incremental advance of this technology, but already it is a...
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I
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Buffett's $325 Billion Warning Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway,...
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Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's company, is sitting on a record $325 billion in cash after selling off major chunks of Apple and Bank of America stock.
TheCollector
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Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running...
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As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running blogofile. At the time of my previous post, I was not able to restore all comments made on my old blog. Thanks to some help from disqcus I fixed an error on my behalf and all old comments...
Arduino Blog
How makers can use AR and VR Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in...
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Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity, with the combined market expected to reach $77 billion by 2025, from just $15.3 billion in 2020. For makers, AR and VR represent exciting opportunities to build new...
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Southern Heat, Part 6 (Houston) The heat really cranked up as we entered Texas, never dropping below a daily high of 100° Fahrenheit...
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The heat really cranked up as we entered Texas, never dropping below a daily high of 100° Fahrenheit (38° Celsius). Here my hybrid working vacation transitioned completely to pure work for a day. That’s where I needed to attend meetings at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
Noahpinion
Harris has the right idea on housing It has to be managed as both a consumer good and as an asset class.
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Quantum Frontiers
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
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At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
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Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
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Good Meteor Shower Coming August 11-12 The Perseid Meteor Shower is one of the best of the year for the untrained observer The post Good...
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The Perseid Meteor Shower is one of the best of the year for the untrained observer The post Good Meteor Shower Coming August 11-12 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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What is 'iota' in Go? iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary...
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iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary values. Let’s find out how to use iota, with this quick tutorial.
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Representation and human history Do shrunken heads belong in a museum?
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diamond geezer
Littlehampton → Shoreham Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it...
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Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it can be a simple stroll along a gentle curving shoreline. The coast of Sussex is mostly the latter which makes it ideal for a good long coastal walk. At the weekend I headed to the...
Birchtree
Somehow, more YouTube gems Yup, we’re doing this again because you all seem to like them an honestly I kinda like making them...
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Yup, we’re doing this again because you all seem to like them an honestly I kinda like making them 😊 I love Answer in Progress, especially Sabrina’s videos, and she gets about as obsessed with anything she’s ever looked at in this episode (and
TheCollector
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Seth's Blog
Fingerprints If a jacket is made by Patagonia or a piece of hardware is made by Teenage Engineering, you can...
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If a jacket is made by Patagonia or a piece of hardware is made by Teenage Engineering, you can probably tell who made it the first time you see it, even without a logo. A painting by Sonia Delaunay doesn’t need to be signed to know who it’s by. On the other hand, AppleTV streams...
Seth's Blog
Celebrating the thousand with a special package [Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally....
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[Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally. Not from the creator to the audience as much as from one person to another. It’s easy to misunderstand the insight of Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans. Decades ago he argued that the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Each Man Can Be Judged By His Favorite Books' This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas...
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This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas Rudd, who quotes her subject: “Each man can be judged by his favorite books.” She adds of the great Spanish thinker and novelist:  “Throughout his long life Unamuno returned to...
African History...
a complete history of Mombasa ca. 600-1895. Journal of African cities: chapter 13
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What's Open In London On Christmas Day 2023? Cafes, pubs and tourist attractions open on 25 December.
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Diaries of Note
The century of Voltaire Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be...
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Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be renowned for his dramatic, emotive works, his use of bold colour and brushwork setting him apart. But his influence extended beyond the canvas, as at the age of twenty-three he...
diamond geezer
The 20 year-old 2016 tube map 20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in...
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20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in 2016. (technically it was 20 years ago last week, but the actual anniversary was election day and we were all otherwise occupied) The map has obviously disappeared from the TfL...
The Marginalian
The Unphotographable: Richard Adams on the Singular Magic of Autumn There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of...
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There is a lovely liminality to autumn — this threshold time between the centripetal exuberance of summer and the season for tending to the inner garden, as Rilke wrote of winter. Autumn is a living metaphor for the necessary losses that shape our human lives: What falls away...
Open Culture
Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies Video essayists don’t normally retire; in most cases, they just drift into inactivity. Hence the...
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Video essayists don’t normally retire; in most cases, they just drift into inactivity. Hence the surprise and even dismay of the internet’s cinephiles when Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos declared the end of their respected channel Every Frame a Painting in 2016. We here at Open...
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Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
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Arduino Blog
Save money by making your own MKR WiFi 1010-powered smart thermostat Go browse your favorite store for a smart thermostat and take a look at the prices. They aren’t...
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Go browse your favorite store for a smart thermostat and take a look at the prices. They aren’t cheap and the more affordable models tend to lock you into proprietary ecosystems. But a decent smart thermostat can save you money on energy costs, so you might want to consider this...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
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JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
TheCollector
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TheCollector
Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire? undefined
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Chris Nicholas
A reactive framework in 40 lines In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines...
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In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines of code).
Simply Explained
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already...
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Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already using Proxmox and if you want to use Unraid as a NAS.
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media undefined
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On The Importance of 15-5 Updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
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We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 August 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Seth's Blog
What to do with firm footing If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with...
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If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with it? One option is to race to the bottom, to chase short-term self-focused outcomes and to see how much we can get away with. (Probably, quite a bit). The other is to take this rare...
David Perell
Ambitious People Need Each Other Ambitious people don’t just need peers. They need mentors. They need people who will encourage them...
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Ambitious people don’t just need peers. They need mentors. They need people who will encourage them to pursue hard and meaningful projects.  The post Ambitious People Need Each Other appeared first on David Perell.
Explorations of an...
Marsh Birding In Ceibas And Otamendi February 18, 2023 Laura and I left Parque Nacional El Palmar and continued south towards Buenos...
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February 18, 2023 Laura and I left Parque Nacional El Palmar and continued south towards Buenos Aires and beyond. We had just five days remaining in our Argentina trip, with ferry tickets purchased that would take us to Uruguay on February 23. At this point in the trip, potential...
Londonist
Ian McKellen Is Back Doing Shakespeare On The London Stage In 2024 Player Kings launches in the spring.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a...
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School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who might not (yet) have the physical attributes necessary to win, or they build huge stadiums, go on long road trips, berate students that make an...
Old Structures...
The Shapes Arise Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project,...
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Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, part of protecting lower Manhattan from the kind of flooding that occurred during Hurricane Sandy. Much of it is relatively straightforward: there’s a big berm being added to the...
diamond geezer
60-odd years of game show debuts 60-odd years of UK game show debuts 1962 University Challenge 1963 Password 1964 Mr and Mrs 1965...
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60-odd years of UK game show debuts 1962 University Challenge 1963 Password 1964 Mr and Mrs 1965 Call My Bluff 1966 It's A Knockout 1967 Ask The Family 1968 Just A Minute 1969 Jokers Wild 1970 A Question of Sport 1971 Sale of the Century 1972 Mastermind 1973 We Are The...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Secrets Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra! Today's News:
Old Structures...
Examples Illustrated I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
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I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
Scott Jenson
Design can be free As consumer devices get ‘smart’, they tend to sprout a large number push buttons. It’s almost cliche...
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As consumer devices get ‘smart’, they tend to sprout a large number push buttons. It’s almost cliche at this point to complain about them. The tiny buttons, hidden modes, and Konami Code interaction encourages mistakes and forces frequent trips to the user manual. Of course, they...