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TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men undefined
2 months ago
Math Is Still...
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells...
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As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life. The post Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity first...
Noahpinion
How China's "debt traps" actually work Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
a year ago
Citation Needed
25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried "The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious...
8 months ago
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"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
journal – Winnie Lim
from creativity to activity I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt...
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I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt particularly creative as a child and I hated art classes so when that...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google’s feature creep Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most...
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over a year ago
Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most cluttered: I don’t use any of…
Noahpinion
Why rabbits? Towards a better, floofier world.
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
a year ago
Math Is Still...
To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the...
a year ago
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Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. The post To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past...
Daniel Miessler
Your Experience is Your Creativity Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something...
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Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something that you have to open yourself to—that you have to allow in. But creativity is more like an inner forge of your past, perspectives, and passions. It’s not something you let in; it’s...
Seth's Blog
In and out Lots of organizations (and individuals) have plans and processes for getting the word out. In fact,...
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a year ago
Lots of organizations (and individuals) have plans and processes for getting the word out. In fact, we spend trillions of dollars doing so. Do you have a plan for getting the word in? Is it simply random chance that some ideas get to you and your team, that cultural and technical...
PostHog's RSS Feed
When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
a year ago
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A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
The Elysian
Your alternatives to democracy Entries to the March writing prompt.
8 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
a year ago
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One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
Stephen Diehl
The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban
over a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 1991 One the first books I found in a bookshop* upon moving to Brighton was Rosalind Belben's novel Is...
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One the first books I found in a bookshop* upon moving to Brighton was Rosalind Belben's novel Is Beauty Good. I had seen it two years earlier chosen in a newspaper books of the year listing alongside Jacques Roubaud's Le Grand Incendie de Londres and Thomas Bernhard's Old...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Two eras of the internet: pull and push The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad...
over a year ago
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The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it easier to…
Old Structures...
Fireworks The various amusement parks at Coney Island used to have spectacles as well as rides and ordinary...
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The various amusement parks at Coney Island used to have spectacles as well as rides and ordinary shows. From 1885, a fireworks show at Manhattan beach called The Last Days of Pompeii: Happy Independence Day.
Paul Graham: Essays
Five Questions about Language Design
over a year ago
On the Arts
The Vertical Beauty of Hong Kong An Interview with Photographer Romain Jacquet Lagrèze
a year ago
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years? undefined
a year ago
Ink & Switch
03 · Dynamic history Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created...
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Version control with dynamic history combines the best of auto-saving tools with manually-created milestones.
Raptitude.com
How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve...
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Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve got a good paper map. As you walk, you scan the territory around you for landmarks. You see some large-scale details: hills, rock formations, and gullies. Also some minute ones:...
TheCollector
10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas undefined
3 days ago
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place? undefined
5 months ago
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty (This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part...
over a year ago
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(This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 if you’re new here) In this entry, we’ll look at the interfaces that are used to control the behavior of the “termios” box sitting between the master and slave pty. The behaviors...
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe." Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA? undefined
10 months ago
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 2 This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sodding Good and Touching Was the Poem' Kingsley Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father published his...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Kingsley Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father published his first and finest novel, Lucky Jim. Three days later, Philip Larkin completed “Born Yesterday” (The Less Deceived, 1955) and dedicated it to the little girl:  “Tightly-folded bud, I...
Rest of World -...
TikTok follow-up Lemon8 is flopping in the U.S. Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers...
a year ago
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Doing presentations virtually A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when working in a distributed organization. Since then, I’ve tried many hacks for how to integrate Keynote presentations into this environment. I used some fancy software that was...
History Today Feed
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King? Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King? JamesHoare Mon, 06/17/2024 - 11:11
6 months ago
Christopher Butler
Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a...
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7 months ago
Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a list of links on it. There were many of these, some freely accessible, and others within the first walled-gardens of America Online, Prodigy, and so on. But the most famous one is...
Rest of World -...
Why Amazon isn’t the Amazon of Latin America The paradox of e-commerce
a year ago
Founder's blog
Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story...
a year ago
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a year ago
For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out. TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping"....
TheCollector
Did the Ramones Invent Punk? undefined
a year ago
Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World
over a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Sue Brown Paper Lithography Book Review Our good friend Sue Brown has recently released her new book Paper Lithography! In this step-by-step...
a year ago
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Our good friend Sue Brown has recently released her new book Paper Lithography! In this step-by-step guide Sue takes us through the process of making paper lithography prints using the humble photocopy as your plate. Paper lithography is a quick and straightforward process that...
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (for React) (tip)
3 months ago
Gwern.net Newsletter
Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
over a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some crypto x healthcare ideas | Out-Of-Pocket Decentralized EMRs, Insurance DAOs, and Drug Picking Models
a year ago
TheCollector
3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect undefined
6 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Getting Out on a High Note Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Quentin Tarantino show the psychological power of walking away at...
a year ago
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions undefined
11 months ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
7 months ago
Musings on Markets
Country Risk: A July 2023 Update! I have looked at country risk, in all its dimensions, towards the middle of each year, for the last...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have looked at country risk, in all its dimensions, towards the middle of each year, for the last decade, for many reasons. One is curiosity, as political and economic crises roll through regions of the world, roiling long-held beliefs about safe and risky countries. The other...
Dr Alun Withey
Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel. I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
Construction Physics
What makes housing so expensive? Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage...
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Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage will be our largest monthly expense. In the post-pandemic home-buying boom, the median sale price of a new home peaked at almost $500,000 dollars, just under
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
over a year ago
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We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
cdixon.org RSS Feed
It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment… Today, Wikipedia is widely considered an invaluable resource. There are occasional errors and...
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Free Fallin'
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
a week ago
Rest of World -...
In Southeast Asia, Ramadan is an online shopping bonanza An e-commerce battle brews between Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop with the continued rise of...
8 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Digital vs analog error correction The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure I understood it. I figured others might find it interesting, too. ~ ~ ~ Digital signal processing corrects for errors better than its analog counterpart. This is one of the...
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women? undefined
7 months ago
Maps Mania
The Butterfly Superhighway
a month ago
High Signal
Making a living from no-code Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of...
6 months ago
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Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of Build the Keyword
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Rest of World -...
Jumia Food’s shutdown left hundreds of drivers jobless, unable to withdraw earnings Former gig drivers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda are still feeling the pinch after Jumia Food...
8 months ago
symmetry magazine
IceCube and NANOGrav open new windows onto the universe New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use...
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New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use different forms of messengers to study the cosmos.
The Modern House
Modest living meets modernist design in the Isokon Building in Hampstead
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
./techtipsy
VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming...
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I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming PC. However, during the next couple of months I kept hitting small bumps along the road. Most of these were quite straightforward to fix, but there is one that finally convinced me to go...
Diaries of Note
War raises the tone of life In August of 1950, shortly after receiving the distinguished Strega Prize for his literary...
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In August of 1950, shortly after receiving the distinguished Strega Prize for his literary contributions, Italian novelist, poet, and translator Cesare Pavese tragically ended his life. He was just forty-one. Among his personal effects was found a deeply introspective diary that...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Craft Is Perfected Attention' The campiness can get a little thick when the poet/publisher/photographer Jonathan Williams...
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a year ago
The campiness can get a little thick when the poet/publisher/photographer Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) is in the neighborhood, but he’s always festive, the sort of fellow you could hire to turn around tedious parties or staff meetings. A reader says she is enjoying Williams’...
Seth's Blog
Making change happen One way to do it is to get people to want what you want. The other way is to help them get what they...
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One way to do it is to get people to want what you want. The other way is to help them get what they want in a way that gets you what you want. They’re not the same. Changing what someone wants is very different from helping them see the story and the path that […]
Diaries of Note
Art is local On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his...
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On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
brr
McMurdo's Automated Teller Machines Cash, in Antarctica!
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
CONTEMPORIST
Steel, Wood, And Stone Are On Display Inside This Hillside Home Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles,...
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Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles, California, that’s nestled on a hillside overlooking the sprawling city. Due to the home being in an area prone to earthquakes, the structural elements are bigger and bolder. There are...
The American Scholar
Jane Skafte The language of trees The post Jane Skafte appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
diamond geezer
Random borough 2 Twenty years ago today I brought you my very first Random Borough report from the London borough of...
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9 months ago
Twenty years ago today I brought you my very first Random Borough report from the London borough of Merton. But it was fairly brief - most of my posts were back then - so two decades on I'm having another go to do Merton justice. Yesterday somewhere sporty and somewhere pretty,...
Map of the Week
Indigenous Map of Southern Ontario Christi Belcourt is a Metis artist who "indigenized" the regional maps and surveys of Albert Salter...
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Christi Belcourt is a Metis artist who "indigenized" the regional maps and surveys of Albert Salter into a map called "Good Land".  One side of the map has the English text that most people are familiar with, while the other side uses indigenous place names and commentary....
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0 I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
a year ago
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a year ago
I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
Seth's Blog
Dreams and roadblocks The first step is to imagine what the people you serve want and care about it. The second is to...
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The first step is to imagine what the people you serve want and care about it. The second is to figure out why they don’t have it yet. If you can help people get to where they seek to go, when they’re ready to get there, the stuff called marketing gets significantly easier.
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women undefined
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Non-fatal errors Most of our errors are in this category. Yesterday, The New York Times sent this newsletter to a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Most of our errors are in this category. Yesterday, The New York Times sent this newsletter to a million people or so: I’m sure it wasn’t the best part of the day (or the week) for whoever messed up, but I also know that it had little impact on anything that matters. Being...
Trying to Understand...
This Changes Everything! Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
10 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Shunn The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts to publishers. It was created by author William Shunn and is widely used in the publishing industry. Here is a brief demonstration of a tool I wrote to facilitate generating...
xkcd.com
Air Handler
a year ago
The Honest Broker
All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear Or how I learned to stop worrying about those godawful playlists
7 months ago
Math Is Still...
Sparse Networks Come to the Aid of Big Physics A novel type of neural network is helping physicists with the daunting challenge of data analysis. ...
a year ago
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A novel type of neural network is helping physicists with the daunting challenge of data analysis. The post Sparse Networks Come to the Aid of Big Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 6 best free and open-source A/B testing tools Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your...
a year ago
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Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design…
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
over a year ago
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I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy Futurism I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
Maps Mania
Guess Where You Are
2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'This Refined, White-Sheeted Torture' My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin lymphoma at age forty-eight. Out in the hall I spoke with three oncologists  after they had yet again examined my brother. I asked the question no one had yet asked: How much time does...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hold Up Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: From this angle you can't see the Habsburg...
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Can’t wait The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges...
a year ago
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a year ago
The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges can’t wait. Today is a good day to remember that better is possible, and that we shouldn’t wait for the problem to become easy or fade away. Better begins with each of us, but it...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Strategy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll...
a week ago
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a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll stop being offputting. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
Culture, care and typography I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a...
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I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.33.0 Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity Cloud support for ClickHouse, configuring your instance from the PostHog UI and 290+ improvements/fixes.
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side? undefined
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Protocol and language
over a year ago
Luxagraf:...
St. Andrews Leaving Fort Pickens made me a little sad. We've spent so much time here over the years its started...
a year ago
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a year ago
Leaving Fort Pickens made me a little sad. We've spent so much time here over the years its started to feel like one of our many homes. But there are time limits. We can't stay any more this season, and with our current plans we probably won't be back for several years. I'll miss...
Math Is Still...
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup. The post Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Willem's Blog
Visiting an international hackers conference This month I attended Global AppSec Amsterdam, an international conference for hackers and security...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I attended Global AppSec Amsterdam, an international conference for hackers and security specialists. Read along for some of the highlights.
Calculated Risk
Friday: Personal Income & Outlays Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for November. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the PCE price index to increase 0.2%, and...
TheCollector
Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk undefined
8 months ago
The Modern House
Kitchen tips and kimchi pancakes with Jesse Jenkins, founder of Another Day in Paradise
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Cruising for Classical Music in LA A section from Dana Gioia's new book
a month ago
Steve Klabnik
2013: year in review
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
4 months ago
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence undefined
6 months ago
Made by Ollin
A Video History of Self-Driving Cars
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE? undefined
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
Paul Cudenec
The stench of the system: propaganda Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass...
a month ago
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a month ago
Something is smelling decidedly ‘off’ in today’s world, with nauseating levels of corruption, mass murder, lies, hypocrisy and repression.
This Space
Twentieth anniversary post On this day in 2004, I posted the first entry on this blog.  In recent years many posts have...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
On this day in 2004, I posted the first entry on this blog.  In recent years many posts have reflected on the past and present of literary blogging (there is no future) so I will not go over that waste land again except to wish more had followed the example of This Space. One of...
Liz Denys
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
8 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book! Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.
over a year ago
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Problem of Evil: If God Exists, Why Aren’t We All in Heaven? undefined
10 months ago
Math Is Still...
Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining...
a year ago
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a year ago
Shor’s algorithm will enable future quantum computers to factor large numbers quickly, undermining many online security protocols. Now a researcher has shown how to do it even faster. The post Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring first appeared on...
The Marginalian
Doris: A Watercolor Serenade to the Courage of Authenticity and the Art of Connection “There is no insurmountable solitude,” Pablo Neruda asserted in his stirring Nobel Prize acceptance...
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a year ago
“There is no insurmountable solitude,” Pablo Neruda asserted in his stirring Nobel Prize acceptance speech. “All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the...
NeuroLogica Blog
Problems with the Institute Of Noetic Sciences I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Overall the article is very good, and author Maddie Bender was fair and reasonable in how I was quoted. I can’t always take that as a given. No matter how...
The American Scholar
“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright appeared first on The...
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a week ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright appeared first on The American Scholar.
Archinect - Features
Architectural Licensure Is Becoming More Diverse, but Barriers to Equality Remain According to recent data, the demographics of candidates on the path to architectural licensure are...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
According to recent data, the demographics of candidates on the path to architectural licensure are beginning to counter the longstanding underrepresentation of women and people of color in the profession. However, deeper studies of the licensure experience reveal ongoing...
Passing Time
My Experience Posting Satire to the Internet The lesson: I should have known better
over a year ago
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
Wanderingspace
Saturn Family Portrait From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with...
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over a year ago
From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. This is a full-color look at a view that was originally published in...
TheCollector
The Greek Revolution: How Greece Was Freed From the Ottomans undefined
14 hours ago
The Forney Flyer
More From Liberia I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly after I landed at a remote location one day, our other aircraft, piloted by Ulrich Müeller, also landed (below) at the same airstrip. I was about to load up two medical patients...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
a year ago
Londonist
A Map Of Women's History In London From Boudicca to Rachel Whiteread.
9 months ago
Willem's Blog
No, I Won't Build That! Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I Won't Build That!"
xkcd.com
Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Modern House Sits On Top Of Stilts In The Forest Architects Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, and Igor Macedo of Tetro have designed a new home in Nova...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architects Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, and Igor Macedo of Tetro have designed a new home in Nova Lima, Brazil, that’s immersed in lush Atlantic Rainforest nature that includes large leafy trees, foliage, shrubs, birds, and wild animals. The house, white in color and with a unique...
Arduino Blog
Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible! At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners....
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a month ago
At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that the Arduino Alvik robot now officially supports block-based coding! Coding has never been easier thanks to Alvik’s seamless...
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Max Rozen
How do you make relay-compiler run automatically? Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Getting tired of running the relay-compiler every time you change your GraphQL schema/resolvers? There's a plugin in webpack for that!
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
Castles in the Sky
The Power of Being Weird There are a lot of different ways to be an outsider. Nobody really wants to be a misfit or a "noob."...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are a lot of different ways to be an outsider. Nobody really wants to be a misfit or a "noob." But there is wisdom in outsiders. They can be characters who challenge societal norms and reshape our understanding of what it means to belong. There are some people for whom...
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained undefined
9 months ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2018: A year in review It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
David Perell
Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where kids learn through games and simulations. One is Chrisman Frank, the CEO of Synthesis. The other is Ana Lorena Fabrega, who is their Chief Evangelist. Here’s the backstory: A few...
Artificial Ignorance
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
4 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Inside Marie Antoinette’s Reopened Apartment At Versailles
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Reasons to Island-Hop in Hawai‘i
3 months ago
Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship undefined
11 months ago
Notes on software...
The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG? This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
Meta’s long-standing problem with “shaheed” An overdue ruling from the Oversight Board.
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Not the Metropolitan line extension Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming...
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9 months ago
Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming Mayor chose to ditch the outgoing Mayor's underfunded project. The people of London barely noticed - they had no desperate need to go to west Watford and the money saved went on...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
99% Invisible
The Infernal Machine [EPISODE] For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in one place and set it on fire. But then in the 1800s one scientist named Alfred Nobel dedicated himself to taming the incredibly volatile substance that was nitroglycerine.  After...
Blog posts of...
Refactoring larger legacy codebases This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to explain it here a bit more in d...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
TheCollector
What Is the Hill of the Buddha? undefined
a year ago
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
The Marginalian
Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair "To despair over oneself, in despair to want to be rid of oneself, is the formula for all despair."
a year ago
Open Culture
37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos...
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5 months ago
Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos sometimes lasted just a few brief seconds, and sometimes a little while longer. Either way, they became a signature of Hitchcock’s filmmaking, and fans made a sport of seeing whether...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pitch yourself, not your idea There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up with a great idea.  This myth is reflected…
TheCollector
What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle? undefined
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
10 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 7-8 October 2023 Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
a year ago
AVC
What Happened In 2022 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
a year ago
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a year ago
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital...
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Quality Means The Flexibility to Change Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in...
a month ago
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a month ago
Here’s Ben Nadal quoting Dave Farley: I've come to the belief that the only definition of quality in code that makes any sense is our ability to change the code. If it's easy to change, it's high quality; if it's hard to change, it's not. Then Ben comments: I'm sure that some...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND zone transfer performance This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it just sort of happened! Anyway, last week my colleague Petr was doing some benchmarking, and he produced some numbers that seemed too good to be true, so I have re-done the...
davidyat.es
Year X
8 months ago
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
African History...
**a Brief note on Africa's intellectual history plus; the Yoruba intellectual culture ca. 1000-1900.
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit undefined
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Year in Review Growth in 2023, top articles, and plans for the future
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Power-To-X and Climate Change Policy What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy, like wind, solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric, to make hydrogen from water. This process does not release any CO2, just oxygen, and when the hydrogen is burned back with that oxygen...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
To make smarter systems, it’s all about the data As this article by Alex Wright in the New York Times last week reminded me, when the mainstream...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As this article by Alex Wright in the New York Times last week reminded me, when the mainstream press talks about artificial intelligence…
Platformer
YouTube restores Trump Meta explained its Trump decision in full. YouTube went another direction
a year ago
The Marginalian
Jealousy and Its Antidote: Pioneering Psychiatrist Leslie Farber on the Tangled Psychology of Our... "Every jealous person knows jealousy to be a brutally degrading experience and resists with all his...
a year ago
Uncharted...
6 Questions You Asked Yourself about Solar How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will...
a month ago
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a month ago
How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will it birth, how much surface will it take up, where will it appear first?
Maps Mania
Locking Up Louisiana
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
over a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
The creator economy I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here. The “creator economy” popped into our vernacular with surprisingly little moral...
Jonas Hietala
CS:GO AWP Nerf When this man opens his mouth, truth comes out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFnJYJ2buU If I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When this man opens his mouth, truth comes out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFnJYJ2buU If I ever make a game and I want someone to balance it and I had the money, I would hire Thorin.
The American Scholar
A Rebel to Remember Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner The post A Rebel...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner The post A Rebel to Remember appeared first on The American Scholar.
Maps Mania
Mapping the Drift-backing of Refugees
11 months ago
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media. If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
Cartogrammar
Beyond the sea In the northern reaches of Newfoundland, near the town of St. Anthony, is the Fox Point Lighthouse....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the northern reaches of Newfoundland, near the town of St. Anthony, is the Fox Point Lighthouse. I’ve never been there, but I know it has one of the most impressive ocean views in the world. If you face perpendicular to the right bit of rocky coastline there and gaze straight...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The terminal for the 21st century "Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern...
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
In Praise of Boring AI Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
a year ago
./techtipsy
Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
ntietz.com blog
A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while...
a year ago
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a year ago
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while working on my Lox interpreter. It took me a little while to figure out, and it's an instructive situation. Here's a reduced-down version of what I was working on. It's an interpreter,...
Londonist
Londonist Speaks To Aunty Donna About Mayors, Theft... And The Word 'Piccadilly' Comic Aussie surrealists are in town.
a year ago
Common Edge
Four Decades in a House of Your Own Design Reflections on the project that launched a career.
3 months ago
Londonist
When A Tube Train Full Of Passengers Was Abandoned In The Tunnel The stuff of nightmares.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques? undefined
2 weeks ago
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
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4 months ago
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
Rest of World -...
Latin Americans’ social feeds are being flooded with AI-generated ads Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.
a year ago
Contemporist...
A Monochromatic Interior Sets The Vibe Inside This Retail Store Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece, that has a monochromatic interior to catch the eye of people walking past.
Londonist
Fourth Plinth - Shortlist For 2026 And 2028 Sculptures Is Revealed Ice cream vans, sweet potatoes and slime.
10 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Next Step in Space Travel The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space...
a year ago
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a year ago
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced they are developing their own commercial space capsule. This will be used initially for cargo, but then eventually for crew as well. They anticipate a maiden voyage in 2028. I think this is a positive development. It seems we are...
Londonist
Review: V&A Shows Tropical Modernism Was So Much More Than An Architectural Movement Politics, people, environment - all rolled into beautiful buildings.
9 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Turning leftover PC parts into a decent gaming PC Introduction About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a dual-core Intel Pentium G3220 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a crappy Codegen 400W power supply and a 60GB SSD. I added an Nvidia GTX 1050 and just like that, a budget gaming PC was born. My...
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for… Go This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by Christopher Clark and Amos Storkey was forwarded to me by Michael Eickenberg. It's about using convolutional neural networks to play Go.
xkcd.com
Banana Prices
10 months ago
Commoncog
The Amazon Weekly Business Review Everything you need to know about the Amazon Weekly Business Review: how it works, why it works, and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Everything you need to know about the Amazon Weekly Business Review: how it works, why it works, and how it helps Amazon win.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Perpetual Fountain of Fun' “It was not only in the best company he uttered his best things. He was a perpetual fountain of fun;...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
“It was not only in the best company he uttered his best things. He was a perpetual fountain of fun; an improvisatore, who raised upon some shrewd comment wild edifices of exaggeration. His talk ascended from rational wit to buffoonery; yet his towerings never daunted others. He...
journal – Winnie Lim
urgency A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens of people to be injured. The night the news broke out I commented to my partner...
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions undefined
10 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI." Kevin Kelly thinks artificial intelligence is finally ready deliver on its promise: The AI on the...
over a year ago
Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
a year ago
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a year ago
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Help Improve Your Daily Life If you're looking for a practical philosophy that emphasizes personal growth and resilience,...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're looking for a practical philosophy that emphasizes personal growth and resilience, Stoicism is a great place to start. By incorporating Stoic principles into your daily routine, you can learn to navigate the ups and downs of life with greater ease and clarity....
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak? undefined
a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
Failure to Launch: The First Moon Race 1958-60 While it has been a few months since I have published a new post on the Drew Ex Machina website,...
a year ago
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a year ago
While it has been a few months since I have published a new post on the Drew Ex Machina website, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t […]
Stephen Wolfram...
LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—both available immediately on desktop and cloud. It’s only been 196 days since we released Version 13.2, but there’s a lot that’s new, not least a whole...
Spoon & Tamago
Tomohiro Inaba Invites Viewers to Complete the Story of His Sculptures “To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who...
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4 months ago
“To the promised land” (2024) | installation view at YukikoMizutani Tomohiro Inaba is an artist who creates sculptures that engage the viewer through their own imagination. Depending on your point of view, Inaba’s works look like they’re either disintegrating into mid-air or or...
Making software...
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Liz Denys
The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit the Pyramids? undefined
5 months ago
Passing Time
Overthrowing Overstimulation Making time to do nothing doesn’t have to be in pursuit of the profound
over a year ago
The Convivial...
Re-sourcing the Mind The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No.
4 months ago
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins? undefined
a year ago
fast.ai
My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
over a year ago
The Works in...
Degrowth and the monkey's paw Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was...
a year ago
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Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was very popular among my colleagues about what was wrong with society and how to fix it. The idea was that people and governments needed to stop seeing economic growth as a good thing,...
David Heinemeier...
House rules in Fortnite We play a lot of Fortnite at our house. It's a great game for teaching kids cooperative discipline,...
a month ago
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a month ago
We play a lot of Fortnite at our house. It's a great game for teaching kids cooperative discipline, and in a remarkably wholesome setting to boot (no blood, cartoon styling). I've had no qualms involving all three of our boys from an early age in the family squad, including our...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature? undefined
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Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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The Pros and Cons of Buying Real Estate Through a Corporation in Canada This article explores the advantages and disadvantages of using a corporation to purchase real...
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This article explores the advantages and disadvantages of using a corporation to purchase real estate in Canada. It's important to note that this strategy is generally more complex and may not be suitable for everyone. When Owning Real Estate Personally Might Be Better
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Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
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Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
The Modern House
Scene Stealers: seven rural homes with spectacular surroundings We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild...
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We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild swimming, enjoying a glass of red by a cosy log fire… But if that’s never been quite enough to inspire you to take the plunge, the homes […]
NeuroLogica Blog
AI – Is It Time to Panic? I’m really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential...
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I’m really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential as powerful tools. I am also concerned about unintended consequences. As with any really powerful tool, there is the potential for abuse and also disruption. But I also think that...
Spoon & Tamago
Download Over 30 Butterfly Designs by Meiji-Era Artist Yuho Tanaka Yuho Tanaka (田中幽峰) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman active in Kyoto during the late-1800s....
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Yuho Tanaka (田中幽峰) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman active in Kyoto during the late-1800s. At the height of his career in the 1890s he created numerous graphic patterns inspired by butterflies that were eventually compiled into a book titled hyaku-cho-zuan, or One...
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events So you're in the know...
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Christopher Butler
Periodical 15 All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short...
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All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short documentary about artist and engineer Peter Vogel this morning. I learned about him from flipping through an old issue of OMNI from the early 80s which reviewed a gallery showing...
On the Arts
On the Arts: A Three Month Review And a Thank You to Subscribers
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TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know undefined
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunger Circuitry One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature...
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One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature of being alive – maintaining homeostatic equilibrium both internally and externally. Homeostatic systems usually involve multiple feedback loops that maintain some physiological...
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Fixing and enhancing the WebCard card constructor <![CDATA[I fixed a bug in the initial code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project. An infinite...
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<![CDATA[I fixed a bug in the initial code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project. An infinite loop in the constructor of the Web card type caused a stack overflow that aborted Medley. The Web constructor was supposed to call the constructor of the parent card type Text. But...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 September 2023 A vintage sale, a David Bowie club night, and a wealth of festivals to kickstart September.
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samwho.dev
Move Your Bugs to the Left We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping...
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We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
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Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
Adventures In...
Reimagining a classic Cheysson thematic map There is no one right way to make a map. Especially data-heavy thematic maps. In that spirit my...
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There is no one right way to make a map. Especially data-heavy thematic maps. In that spirit my friend and colleague Ken Field recently challenged Sarah Bell and I to each re-imagine a few wonderful classic maps. This is a tall order, but I found some comfort and encouragement...
Spoon & Tamago
150-Year Old Florist in Yanaka Blossoms with a New Cafe all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has...
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all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyo’s Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including...
journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
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Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
General Robots
Coming soon This is General Robots.
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Arduino Blog
RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
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We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India undefined
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Common Edge
The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Cumberland Parkway Time Zone Crossing Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are...
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Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are easily recognizable landmarks. So you simply cross the state line and you change your watch. No big deal. Unfortunately Time Zones cut right through the middle of some states, like...
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"Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal" Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic...
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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with…
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A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire A Christmas to Save the Byzantine Empire JamesHoare Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:07
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TheCollector
A History of Speakeasies in the USA: In the Spirit of Secrecy undefined
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The Global Birdspotting Map
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A Beautiful Site
Better Buttons with color-mix() and Custom Properties Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically....
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Let's build a button that accepts one color and calculates its hover and focus states automatically. For this experiment, we'll use CSS Custom Properties, color-mix(), and OKLCH to ensure that tints and shades are perceptually uniform. To keep things simple, we'll follow today's...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Found Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you're having trouble, he's roughly in the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you're having trouble, he's roughly in the middle of the page. Today's News:
The American Scholar
Queen of the Night Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark The post Queen of the Night appeared...
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Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark The post Queen of the Night appeared first on The American Scholar.
Vitalik Buterin's...
What I would love to see in a wallet
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Did The FDA Mess Up With Aduhelm? | Out-Of-Pocket what if it incentivizes actually good drugs?
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Seth's Blog
The 500 ways There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require...
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There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require a blood oath or even much inconvenience. “I’m thrilled that you’re contributing.” “Can’t wait to see how this turns out.” “I know someone who really needs to hear about this.” “Go...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Fixing URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When...
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<![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When creating a new card, the function WCD.AskURL brings up a dialog and loops prompting for a URL to go with the card until the input is valid. After the fix the input dialog looks like...
Max Rozen
Fetching Data in React with useEffect If you're confused about side-effects and pure functions, it can be hard to understand useEffect....
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If you're confused about side-effects and pure functions, it can be hard to understand useEffect. Let's learn them both, to fetch data with useEffect.
TheCollector
The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists undefined
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Mark Manson
The 5 Levels of Understanding Yourself Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the...
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Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the self. We'll be exploring the concept of self at five different levels, from simple explanations to brain-melting ideas that'll leave you questioning your very existence. Ready? Let's do...
Anecdotal Evidence
'How Much Can Be Accomplished' Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I...
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Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I haven’t lived in the city since 1977. The designation suggests working-class neighborhoods, many of them Slavic. Ethnicity was important, and not usually in the sense of bigotry. I was...
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Setting up super fast Cypress tests on GitHub Actions Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array...
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Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array release posts you know that we prioritize…
NeuroLogica Blog
The Social Media Dilemma Australia is planning a total ban on social media for children under 16 years old. Prime Minister...
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Australia is planning a total ban on social media for children under 16 years old. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese argues that it is the only way to protect vulnerable children from the demonstrable harm that social media can do. This has sparked another round of debates about...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ticket Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You got a dirty mind. Today's News:
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The Great Fire of Smyrna The Great Fire of Smyrna JamesHoare Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
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Good Enough
Beware of Free Software Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try...
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Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try to offer me a slice of free pizza, I'd suspect there's something wrong with it. And ever since my kids can understand me, I've taught them to be careful of free stuff. Nothing is...
AVC
The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
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The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
The Honest Broker
Dana Gioia on Stephen Sondheim An extract from his new book
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Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
Calculated Risk
Friday: No major economic releases scheduled Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • No...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • No major economic releases scheduled.
TheCollector
Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets undefined
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
TheCollector
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (AKA The Shortest War in History) undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
Posts on Made of...
Navigating the Linux Kernel In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way...
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In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way around the Linux kernel. I’m not sure I have much in the way of systematic advice for tracking down the answers to questions about the Linux kernel, but thinking about what I do when...
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Notes on "Growing a Language" Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility...
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Revisiting one of my favorite talks ever, on designing programming languages for user extensibility and collaboration
AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
a month ago
Willem's Blog
Increase traffic to your blog with a RSS feed Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value....
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Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value. Read about the "how" and "why" in this post.
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Will Leave Behind Trenches' “You wouldn’t give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of fortune...
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“You wouldn’t give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of fortune heirs / To the bloody myths of the twentieth city.”  Today is the centenary of Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert. The Anglophone world has been fortunate. Herbert’s poems...
Old Structures...
Peeking Ahead The picture above – an aquatint according to the New York Public Library – was created in 1834, and...
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The picture above – an aquatint according to the New York Public Library – was created in 1834, and shows an active urban setting, with families, men talking business or politics, carriages, and dogs. If you didn’t know the date you’d probably guess the nineteenth century; if you...
The American Scholar
What Do You Want to Know For? The post What Do You Want to Know For? appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
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Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
xkcd.com
Lava Lakes
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Both Are True
what do i do with my life? kill the trolls
9 months ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2019: Lessons learned It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end...
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It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end of year blog post last year so I…
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Unsupervised Learning: Clustering Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
over a year ago
Blog - Practical...
What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] At around 7PM on the balmy...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] At around 7PM on the balmy evening of Saturday, December 3, 2022, nearly every electric customer in Moore County, North Carolina was simultaneously plunged into darkness. Amid the confusion, the power utility...
Working Theorys
Word Association Fame The new attention playbooks will be full of old plays.
9 months ago
The Modern House
Desert modernism meets London stock brick in the strikingly staggered Aperture House
5 months ago
Old Structures...
More Over-Thinking This photograph, taken in May 1959 by Angelo Rizzuto, is titled “View of building construction” on...
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This photograph, taken in May 1959 by Angelo Rizzuto, is titled “View of building construction” on the Library of Congress website. I’m not entirely convinced, although I have to admit that my doubts are based on squinting at the photo and nothing stronger. First, even for a...