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The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
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A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
Seth's Blog
Important problems Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower,...
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a month ago
Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower, resources and coordination. Some problems have simple solutions, while others are complex in what it takes to move forward. The trivial problems are fun. They’re simple to solve and...
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario
over a year ago
Making software...
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it's a half-way decent copy...
The Honest Broker
Crisis in the Culture: An Update I revisit past predictions
6 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Hard startups, importance of founder-led sales, Netflix for written content Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I wish I could pay per newspaper article, with only...
Kat Snyder
No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably...
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When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are...
The Modern House
Step Outside: six top-tier terraces in London homes for sale With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets...
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a year ago
With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets heralding that spring is in full swing, it finally feels like we’re properly coming out of hibernation. And where better to admire the return of the rays than […]
macwright.com
Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been...
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a year ago
One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been a slow, silly process in which I celebrate when a single pixel lights up on the device. I’m not even writing firmware or code that runs “on the device” - that’s a stretch goal for...
Londonist
TfL Moves To A Bigger Lost Property Office The network's only getting bigger, after all.
a year ago
The Elysian
Your ideas for improving capitalism A collection of responses to my writing prompt.
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture? undefined
3 months ago
Beautiful Public...
Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has...
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The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
Alice GG
Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900. Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
Jonas Hietala
Moving to FastMail About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some...
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About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some reason I settled on eumx which I used since then. Yesterday I got an email saying the recurring billing could not be renewed as I had my old credit card registered and it got me...
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
Map of the Week
Thirty Day Map Challenge 2023-Days 17-23 Another week of 30 Day Map Challenge Maps… Day 17 - Flow Probably the intention here was to have...
a year ago
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Another week of 30 Day Map Challenge Maps… Day 17 - Flow Probably the intention here was to have people make maps of the flow of surface water or air or traffic but I decided to make a flow chart instead. A vaguely interesting look at the trip home I had to make many times as...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A General Effect of Pleasing Impression' Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of which roughly coincided with the arrival of...
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Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of which roughly coincided with the arrival of Anecdotal Evidence in 2006, literary memes were far more popular. Some were trivial parlor games, a way for certain readers to safely show off without having ever opened a book....
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
3 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
Game design and strategy (Bongo part 3) What’s it for? Making something fun is a good place to start if you’re building a casual word game...
a month ago
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What’s it for? Making something fun is a good place to start if you’re building a casual word game like Bongo. But it’s not enough. Lots of things are fun, for a while, but that doesn’t meant that they’re worth the investment of time and money it takes to build them. From the...
Irrational...
Poking around OpenAI. I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing...
a year ago
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a year ago
I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing so. I was particularly curious about the usecase of using embeddings to supplement user prompts with additional, relevant data (e.g. supply the current status of their recent...
Paul Graham: Essays
Good and Bad Procrastination
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Don’t rush …but hurry. The words matter. Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
…but hurry. The words matter. Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk. But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous.
mtlynch.io
Delete the Timestamps from your Static Blog I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I...
a month ago
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I build this blog using Hugo, a popular static site generator. The way Hugo works is that when I create a new blog post, Hugo generates a default template that looks like this: --- title: "My New Post" date: 2024-11-16T20:33:09-04:00 --- The boilerplate for the post contains a...
Londonist
Greek Things To Do In London: Cuisine, Culture, History And More As picked by experts.
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
I thought I should have vomited For three unhappy years, starting in August of 1835 when she was just nineteen, Charlotte Brontë...
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For three unhappy years, starting in August of 1835 when she was just nineteen, Charlotte Brontë served as a teacher in the Yorkshire town of Mirfield at Roe Head—the same school where she had been a pupil just a few years earlier. With Jane Eyre a decade away, Brontë’s only...
One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
6 months ago
David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
NeuroLogica Blog
Understanding Jumbo Phage Viruses Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet...
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Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet we know comparatively little about them. But in recent years phage research has taken off with renewed interest. This is partly driven by the availability of CRISPR-based tools for...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Clinical Pharmacists, Generative AI, and InpharmD | Out-Of-Pocket Going under the hood of a generative AI product
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Bread-Inspired Facade Was Designed For A Manufacturer Of Bakery Machines Romulo Neto Architects LDA has designed a modern building for a company that produces bakery and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Romulo Neto Architects LDA has designed a modern building for a company that produces bakery and pastry machines. Inspired by the company’s principal activity of creating machines that produce dough for bread and pastries, the architects designed a facade that’s reminiscent of...
Steve Klabnik
Ouroboros
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to...
2 months ago
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Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rabbit Holed Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her...
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Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her assistance clarifying details related to GAMA and finding company documents related to Rabbit and Cyber Manufacture.    In November 2021, a company called Cyber Manufacture Co raised $6...
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play. But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Years of Jesus The Lost Years of Jesus j.hoare Wed, 11/29/2023 - 09:48
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spot On Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio. Today's News:
AFAR Media - Travel...
Seven Ways to Vacation in The Rocky Mountains
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous...
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Little over two years after first setting up shop in Madrid, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, FENDI...
TheCollector
Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites undefined
4 months ago
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution Scandals of the Glorious Revolution JamesHoare Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Circle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone. Today's News:
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say? In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable...
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In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable margin was for a firm operating in the retail business. In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Making software...
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But...
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over a year ago
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But I've come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries? undefined
9 months ago
Mazdak
Binance CEO Steps Down and Pleads Guilty as Part of $4.3 Billion Settlement Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful...
a year ago
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Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful player in the industry. This deal puts an end to a years-long investigation into Binance. The deal: CZ agreed to pay $50 million in fines and is prohibited from operating or managing...
Artificial Ignorance
Distributing the future A reminder that things take time.
6 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Top Local Spots to Eat, Shop, & Après Ski in Park City, Utah
4 days ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Earthfoam nostalgic and fresh design for new organic and fair-trade sleep brand Earthfoam nostalgic and fresh design for new organic and fair-trade sleep brand ...
a year ago
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Earthfoam nostalgic and fresh design for new organic and fair-trade sleep brand abduzeedo0201—23 Earthfoam is a new organic and fair-trade sleep brand with an end-to-end sustainable supply chain. Having launched in November 2022 with the...
Arduino Blog
This unique wall sconce welcomes you home with warm light Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home...
a week ago
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Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home just isn’t as inviting as it seems like it should be? While it may not work miracles, some nice and welcoming lighting can make a big difference. That’s why Lauren Palazzi made this...
The Modern House
Come On In: our collection in Open House Festival 2023 gives you access to some of London’s best...
a year ago
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
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When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
11 months ago
UX Collective
A love letter about change Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a week ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse? undefined
4 months ago
Making software...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
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over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
AI Snake Oil
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
over a year ago
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Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
mtlynch.io
Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates. There are several convenience apps I would run if it were easy to run them constantly. But...
bt RSS Feed
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
swyx's site RSS Feed
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain 10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.23.0 In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is...
over a year ago
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In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is live - amazing work from PostHoggers Cory, Lottie…
Londonist
Non ULEZ Compliant Car? TfL Wants You To Give It To Ukraine Help Ukraine, the environment - and get paid!
9 months ago
balajis.com
Too Fake to Tell US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Making Plans
a year ago
High Signal
Making $10k a month from a French learning app Most founders dream of making $10,000 in monthly revenue. One founder who has made that dream a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most founders dream of making $10,000 in monthly revenue. One founder who has made that dream a reality is Benjamin Houy
TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated? undefined
8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready? Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
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Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
Code Of Honor
The StarCraft path-finding hack Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...
Maps Mania
The History of Latin America
a year ago
Christopher Butler
A Pep Talk for those Who Work Bullshit Jobs How do you know if what you do is actually meaningful? do I work a bullshit job? Perhaps you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How do you know if what you do is actually meaningful? do I work a bullshit job? Perhaps you have already answered this question for yourself and are satisfied with the answer. You may want to read on still. My purpose is not to convince you that your job is or isn’t...
Aaron's Essays
Bad Terms Every startup fundraising process is influenced by the balance of power between the founder and the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every startup fundraising process is influenced by the balance of power between the founder and the investor. When the founder has a company that is doing incredibly well, and is being chased by lots of investors, the founder has more leverage. When the founder is inexperienced,...
Neil Madden
I still don’t really get “hash shucking” If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet. These cheat sheets are generally pretty good, and the password storage one is particularly good. The editors do a great job of keeping it up to...
Luxagraf:...
Family After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
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After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 4 and wrap-up Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in...
9 months ago
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Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in which my student spoke as did some collaborators.  It was a pretty interesting collection of contributed talks.   The work that's been done on spin transport in multiferroic...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 2 (Atlanta Revisited) I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that...
a year ago
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a year ago
I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that I’d explored just four months prior. That wasn’t a coincidence. I enjoyed the area so much that I wanted the whole family to experience it too. So it made perfect sense to fly...
Seth's Blog
Non-professional writers Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these essential tasks to trained professionals. But many job descriptions carry the unstated addendum, “and write.” Write memos, proposals, and even instruction manuals. The local supermarket is...
The Modern House
A mid-century gem among the treetops on the Dulwich Estate in Crystal Palace
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Celtic “Cult of the Head”? undefined
10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places' At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like bartenders. The good ones usually...
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
nanoscale views
Bob Curl - it is possible to be successful and also a good person I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl, who died this past...
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over a year ago
I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl, who died this past summer, and it was a really nice event.  I met Bob almost immediately upon my arrival at Rice back in 2000 (though I’d heard about him from my thesis advisor, who’d met him at the Nobel...
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram …Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
TheCollector
Logos vs Chaos: The Book of Genesis vs Other Ancient Creation Myths undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline? Why Do Religions Decline? JamesHoare Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
In-Depth Review of the Six Senses Rome Resort
a year ago
diamond geezer
Cheam Charter Fair Every year on May 15th the people of Cheam hold a charter fair. Also much of the above may not be...
7 months ago
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Every year on May 15th the people of Cheam hold a charter fair. Also much of the above may not be true. Firstly there is no evidence that Henry III granted a charter to Cheam in 1259 or in any other year. Tradition says he did but no historical records exist to confirm this,...
FIRE v London
From ISA $millionaire to £millionaire The best tax break in the UK is the ISA tax-free savings regime. Each UK tax-resident adult can put...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The best tax break in the UK is the ISA tax-free savings regime. Each UK tax-resident adult can put £20k per year into an ISA account – use it for a wide range of investing activities – and not even have to report on what happens in those accounts, let alone pay tax on them.…...
Kagi Blog
New features in the Orion Browser *Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing...
a year ago
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a year ago
*Orion beta 0.99.124* has just landed ( https://browser.kagi.com/#download_sec ) and is bringing over 160 new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making this our most significant release ever.
The Modern House
Nick Hill’s no frills approach to materials recasts a 1930s house in south-east London as a...
9 months ago
99% Invisible
The Country of the Blind [EPISODE] We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway...
a year ago
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a year ago
We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but...
Citation Needed
Fighting for our web A talk from XOXO
2 months ago
Stoic Simple
7 Stoicism Exercises for Self-Improvement Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained popularity in recent times due to its emphasis on...
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Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained popularity in recent times due to its emphasis on practical, actionable exercises designed to help individuals improve their lives. By practicing specific exercises, referred to as "spiritual exercises," individuals are able to...
The Marginalian
After Love: Maxine Kumin’s Stunning Poem About Eros as a Portal to Unselfing It is one of the hardest things in life — discerning where we end and the rest of the world begins,...
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It is one of the hardest things in life — discerning where we end and the rest of the world begins, negotiating the permeable boundary between self and other, all the while longing for its dissolution, longing to be set free from the prison of ourselves. That is why we cherish...
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I’ve been spending quite some time lately playing around with RNN’s for collaborative filtering. RNN’s are models that predict a sequence of something. The beauty is that this something can be anything really – as long as you can design an output gate with a proper loss function,...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged 26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have...
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The new economy According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To...
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According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To Zynga’s Virtual Goods.”  I wanted to try to…
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The teaser trailer for my Exploding Kittens Netflix series just dropped! After four years of work, I am finally sharing one minute of glorious footage! View on my website
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Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to document the steps I took to run Mistral’s 7B-Instruct-v0.2 model on a Mac for anyone else interested in playing around with it. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this 7B Instruct...
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Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English as Journey to the End of Night.  That “end of night” is death.  The existence of death makes everything hateful and nullifies the value of anything else.  I gotta say that the...
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High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms. In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
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Born in 1907 in the Australian city of Wangaratta, Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was a surgeon and soldier known for his humanitarian work during WWII. Captured by Japanese forces in 1942, he was sent to work on the deadly Thai-Burma Railway where, as a senior medical officer,...
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A poignant definition of civilization is all the conveniences, courtesies, standards, insulation and tools that we hardly notice now but that we would miss if they were gone.
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If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2. I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
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If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have minimized your time and effort. On the other hand, if you’re looking for buy-in and commitment so you can through the hard part, do it last. People are terrible at ignoring sunk costs, and...
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How to make this map of a melting glacier I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a...
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I’ve been to Columbia Glacier, just west of Valdez, Alaska, three times. The first was as a youngster in 1984, the second in 1987, and the final time in 2000. Each time, the ride by boat to the terminal edge of the ice where it calves into Prince William Sound, took a bit longer....
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Community resources are easy to take for granted. Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we miss only when they’re gone. Invisible things are easy to ignore. I was stunned to see a sign in Connecticut that listed the names of dozens of highway workers who had been killed...
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They Won't Wait: A Warning for Slow Websites 2019-06-25 Your website is probably slow. I'm not trying to make you feel bad or dismiss all the hard work you've put into your project. Heck, performance might have been a core value of the design. But websites can always be...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
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I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of Expertise” by Gary Klein and Robert Hoffman. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it when you have a chance. Klein and Hoffman discuss the ability of experts to “see what is not...
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Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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A rarely imaged target as it is very dim. This image took me over 50h of total exposure time. Total exposure time: 52h 40' Image resolution: 4,490 × 4,552px (0.96″/px) Shot from my driveway near Tucson, AZ in late 2023 Telescope: William Optics RedCat
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There is absolutely nothing unique about a masonry flat arch serving as a window head, but it’s relatively rare on steel-frame buildings like this 1920s apartment house on the Upper East Side. There are two tip-offs that it’s a real arch and not just a cleverly-hidden lintel:...
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Before HTML5, working with arbitrary data sucked. To keep things valid, you had to stuff things into rel or class attributes. Some developers even created their own custom attributes. Boy, was it a mess. But that all changed with the introduction of HTML5 custom data attributes....
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I am a printmaker and illustrator from Northern Ireland, living and working in Edinburgh. I studied History of Art at University but have reverted back to creating art rather than talking or writing about it! As a self-taught printmaker, there is quite a lot of trial and error...
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The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford side, both under and beside the flyover. A third lane is already substantially carved out at the end of Stratford High Street. Below we see a broad curve where grey concrete block...
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The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with a view of the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. If that tiny bit of the bridge tower isn’t recognizable, Murry Bergtraum High School and the adjacent Verizon Office Building surely...
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It’s easy to mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or naively unprofessional, a mask worn to conceal the shark within, especially among literary types. Of course, critics are born to be severe, nobody’s pal. How many critics can you name whose...
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Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not having to make lunch and dinner every day is such a relief, and if you do slip up food with grandma or Veronica’s parents is only a phone call away. I watched TV, played...
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Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
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Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
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These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around hyperlinks and email addresses in $string. PHP code # function parseHyperlinks($string) { // Add tags around all hyperlinks in $string return...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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Conexus Studio designs Super Co in One Holland Village, a novel co-working space adjacent to Superland Preschool, blending work and...
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
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Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
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In Defense of the Midwest As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the...
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As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split:...
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Aesop store by atelier suasua Following outposts in Shanghai and Beijing, Aesop accelerates its retail expansion in mainland...
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Following outposts in Shanghai and Beijing, Aesop accelerates its retail expansion in mainland China, opening another outpost in Hangzhou. The...
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Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in October 2024 1) The five road junctions with the most casualties and collisions over the last three years (specifically the greatest 'casualty harm') are the Redbridge Roundabout, Seven Sisters, Elephant & Castle, the foot of Ilford...
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2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students If you are a parent looking for engaging architecture-focused programs for kids, or a high school...
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If you are a parent looking for engaging architecture-focused programs for kids, or a high school student interested in gaining valuable pre-college experience, take a look below at Archinect's latest highlight of summer architecture programs. For the 2024 season, we have...
Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and...
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I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
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Challenging the Idea of a Bad Map We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of...
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We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of cartographic creativity. I know some of you are already brainstorming about what you might do this year. Each day has a prompt, and you’re encouraged to make a map that day that is based on...
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
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For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always...
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There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always provide value when promoting. […] The post How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
diamond geezer
The best value London sightseeing bus The best value London sightseeing bus It's hard to get an objective opinion. If you head to the...
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The best value London sightseeing bus It's hard to get an objective opinion. If you head to the Visit London website it turns out they have an affiliate deal with Golden Tours and promote them heavily at the top of their list, with two other operators tucked a long way down and...
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Contemporary Spanish painter Carlos Morago depicts realistic interior scenes that are mostly reduced to the bare minimum: light floors and walls and sporadical furniture. Empty corridors and rooms are framed through opened doors and walls while opening on uneventful exteriors...
Patterns in Humanity
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The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a copy in a remaindered shop for £5. Anne Atik got to know Beckett in the late 1950s through the artist Avigdor Arikha, later her husband. Beckett's circle of friends included as...
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These Moons Are Dark and Frozen. So How Can They Have Oceans? The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to have subsurface oceans — tantalizing targets in the...
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The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to have subsurface oceans — tantalizing targets in the search for life beyond Earth. But it’s not clear why these seas exist at all. The post These Moons Are Dark and Frozen. So How Can They Have Oceans? first appeared on...
Wuthering...
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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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Using AI to build the “definitive” Spanish writing tool Abraham López is the CEO of Correcto, an AI-powered grammar tool.
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When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
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<p><em><strong>UPDATE:</strong> This post got such a great response that it inspired me to start playing and building <a href="https://claritask.com">Claritask</a> while documenting it out in the open</em></p> <p>—</p> <p>I'm going to let you in on a great secret.</p> <p>Do you...
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BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in Hawthorn, Australia. One design detail that caught our attention is the home office hidden in plain sight in the dining room behind a wood accent wall. The floor-to-ceiling wood...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“Literariness, as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of formal qualities. What makes a work literary is the ability to be understood and appreciated outside the context of its origin. That is why a literary work, however valuable as a document of its...
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A version of this post previously appeared in War on the Rocks. This version has been updated with suggestions from leaders across the Department of Defense and Venture Capital community. BLUF: In WW II, the U.S. outsourced advanced weapons systems development to civilians. The...
Applied Cartography
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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. There’s a relatively famous line from Bezos, circulated first at YC in ’08 and then more recently by the folks at Acquired (a great pod!): Jeff uses this analogy for AWS. He talks about...
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Seth's Blog
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Collaborating on documents and projects has never been easier, which is why we screw it up so often. Sharing and interacting with intent will save you heartache and wasted time. Some things to consider: Naming: Begin by naming your file with a digit and concept and a date....
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Asia is much more important to U.S. interests than the Middle East We need to prioritize, and our priorities should be clear.
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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The...
Flashbak
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One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,”  he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Stoic Simple
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Seneca is one of the most prominent philosophers within the Stoic tradition, known for his contributions to ethical theory and his reflections on human nature. Understanding Seneca's philosophy and applying his teachings can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life. This...
The American Scholar
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CONTEMPORIST
A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore,...
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Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore, that has a very strong monochromatic aesthetic. The interior strikes a balance of light and dark, which is evident throughout, like in the living room, where a white couch with a...
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When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
Londonist
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It's that time of year again when hundreds of London properties open their doors to the public if you know where to look. It's also the time of year that I visit lots of places and write about them, so steel yourself. That said I only visited two yesterday, way out in far-flung...
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This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
Passing Time
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The early bird sees the sunrise I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can...
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I’ve found that you eventually get bored or at least used to every form of material trapping you can buy. Cars, watches, cameras, computers, whatever. It’s not that fancy stuff stops being nice, but it does stop being wow. That’s the essence of the hedonic treadmill. But do you...
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While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the need for knowing whether or not we're dealing with a mobile device arises. For in-depth device checking, you can rely on a complex library such as The MobileESP Project. But for...
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Among the most eagerly awaited results from the early observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is whether or not the seven rocky planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system have atmospheres. The TRAPPIST-1 planets are close to us (40 light-years away), are all solid rather than...
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styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
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Introduction Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at the Kinkerstraat in Amsterdam. I was there to buy a Western Digital Raptor model WD740, with 74 GB of capacity, running at 10,000 RPM. When I bought this drive, we were still in...
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“The world has changed. I see it in the water.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic found in the LOTR...
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The concept of chemical potential is one that seems almost deliberately obscure to many.  I’ve written about this here, and referenced this article.  What you may not realize is that the chemical potential, of water in particular, plays a crucial role in why my banana waffle...
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LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong Kong, that includes both a custom yoga wall and a coffee bar.
Londonist
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The Rational Walk
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The tragic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer encompasses far more than science and politics. It is a cautionary tale of human nature that holds timeless lessons.
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched.  I’m a few days away from quitting it forever.  Pretty much every blog I read tweets…
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As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing about more condensed matter and nano science soon.   In the meantime, I realized that I have not re-posted or updated my primer on how tenure-track faculty searches work in physics...
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Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a four-digit number with digits , and , then will always be a multiple of . For example, and . Mathematically this is uninteresting. The proof is completely trivial. (Such a number is simply , and .) But I...
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It’s a lazy amplifier. “Very” can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended message. Putting it in front of a positive like “charming” or “kind” or “generous” can make it clear that we mean what we said, but more so. But, placed in front of a description...
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The Ruffian
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“We are lucky that English is our language because it’s better than, say, French for poetry. All those millions of words and all those different ways of saying the same, or similar, things. And new words all the time.”  It’s fashionable in some quarters to distrust language, to...
The Marginalian
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This is the great paradox: that human life, lived between the time of starlings and the time of stars, is made meaningful entirely inside the self, but the self is a mirage of the mind, a figment of cohesion that makes the chaos and transience bearable. A few times a lifetime, if...
Math Is Still...
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It’s been known for thousands of years that the primes go on forever, but new proofs give fresh insights into how theorems depend on one another. The post Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
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Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and esteemed novelist who rose to prominence in the late 19th century. Born Louis Marie Julien Viaud, he pursued a naval career, earning a recall to service during World War I due to his expertise in Pacific waters. Married to poet and...
The Tao Of Wealth
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Patalathri, commonly known as Singaperumal Koil is a very famous Narasimha Kshetra situated in Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu. This place houses a beautiful rock-cut Narasimha temple, which is situated on a small hill. The name of the place, ‘Patalathri’ also gives a similar...
Open Culture
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This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students...
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So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a hefty sum, […] The post Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
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What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
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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...
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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...
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
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This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also be able to have a suit with banal political questions. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men for being weak I wonder if I'm the only one who's being targeted. Today's News:
A Beautiful Site
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Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!
TheCollector
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Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many...
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Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order. While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Addition For An 1830s Brick Farm House Hollaway Studio has shared photos of a modern home addition they have completed for a former...
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Hollaway Studio has shared photos of a modern home addition they have completed for a former farmhouse in Kent, England, that dates back to the 1830s. The original home comprises of formal brick walls, a slate roof, white sash windows with views across the landscape, an original...
Laetitia@Work
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Stoic Simple
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the lives of the ancient Stoic philosophers. While Stoicism teaches that we shouldn't become too attached to people and that we should remember everyone can be taken from us, it also...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
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Sure, I visited the various Wright Brothers museums, historical sites, and memorials but they weren’t the totality of Dayton’s remarkable legacy. It wasn’t even the reason why we visited. I mentioned the younger kid’s interest in all things aeronautical earlier and it traced back...
Uncharted...
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A world with 2 billion people would be decaying, poor, brutal, violent, hopeless. With 100B, it would be rich, beautiful, vibrant, peaceful, hopeful.
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A Dark Wood Exterior Complements The Forest Surrounding This Modern Home Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated, has sent us photos of a new home they completed...
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Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated, has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Calgary, Alberta, that was artfully designed around its relationship with the mature urban forest across the street Stepping inside, we see a minimalist foyer with a bench and...
Rest of World -...
As EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll In the mineral-rich fringes of Indonesia, whose nickel will feed EV giants like Tesla, the deaths of...
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In the mineral-rich fringes of Indonesia, whose nickel will feed EV giants like Tesla, the deaths of miners continue to mount.
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...
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Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE).  Just some of the things I am looking for or enjoying while reading Ovid’s epic of “forms changed / into new bodies.”  (tr. Charles Martin, 2004, p. 15).  Or, per Arthur Golding (1567, p. 3 of the Paul Dry paperback) “Of...
Josh Collinsworth
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It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
TokyoDev
COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially those looking to relocate to Japan from overseas. To help people understand the current situation with regards to IT jobs in Japan, I contacted [every company using...
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I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a quick comment on.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Jell-O Once a Week' On Thursday I slipped my brother some Montaigne without him knowing the source. It...
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On Thursday I slipped my brother some Montaigne without him knowing the source. It wasn’t plagiarism, exactly, and it was paraphrased. It’s a well-known passage from the essay “That to philosophize is to learn to die,” one that always reminds me of Spinoza:  “It is uncertain...
Londonist
A Fantastically Festive Walk Through London's Christmas Lights And Decorations A self-guided tour through lights, shop window displays, ice rinks and more.
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The Marginalian
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Friendship is a lifeline twined of truth and tenderness. That we extend it to each other is benediction enough. To extend it across the barrier of biology and sentience, to another creature endowed with a wholly other consciousness, partakes of the miraculous. Born in England in...
Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
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This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Both Are True
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Anecdotal Evidence
'How It Sounds When Read Out Loud' Our eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem written...
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Our eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem written seventy-five years earlier and picked students to read aloud each of its four, eight-line stanzas. She suggested we pay attention to who is speaking, as the poem is written as a dialogue...
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System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint: first impressions <![CDATA[I'm writing this on my new desktop computer. It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to...
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<![CDATA[I'm writing this on my new desktop computer. It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to migrate from ChromeOS back to Linux: a System76 Merkaat short case mini PC with a 5 GHz 13th gen Intel Core i7 processor, Intel Iris Xe graphics, 32 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 2.5 G...
The Ruffian
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Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become? I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my...
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I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my internet connection at sea. Reading a relatively lightweight site like Google News generally gave me time to get an ice cream cone before the page appeared. Has everyone abandoned...
The Convivial...
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