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Retail Design Blog
Mad Organics by 327 creative studio Mad Organics bars make organic, plant-based snacking tasty, fun, and approachable for the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Mad Organics bars make organic, plant-based snacking tasty, fun, and approachable for the health-conscious. With no mysterious components, their short...
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
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a year ago
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews the Head Honchos of Silicon Graphics (1989) Ed McCracken and Jim Clark talk about their hardware and the future of 3D
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Tudors Celebrate Christmas? undefined
6 days ago
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert ‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert   Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Math Is Still...
The Year in Math Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of mathematical delight and discovery. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Potable Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If repetition over time has led to the veneration...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If repetition over time has led to the veneration of a particular alcoholic beverage in a sacred context TAKE A DRIIIIIIIINK Today's News:
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
mtlynch.io
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of topics that the average person might otherwise find inaccessible. His exploration into the causes of airline crashes was especially fascinating. While it provides a nice collection of...
Rest of World -...
What comes after the blockchain? A new crop of fintech startups are tackling blockchain-inspired problems without the blockchain.
a year ago
McMansion Hell
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually. Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial...
a year ago
TheCollector
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism undefined
5 months ago
Common Edge
Hope and Squalor: Venezuelan Refugees at Chicago Police Stations Nearly 3000 people are living in tents and inside police facilities.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Why Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, this is not my best comic, this is THE best...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, this is not my best comic, this is THE best comic. Today's News: Thanks geeks of Austin for coming to see me!
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for around two years now and I often find...
nanoscale views
Meetings this week This week is the 2023 DOE experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting - in the past I’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
This week is the 2023 DOE experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting - in the past I’ve written up highlights of these here (2021), here (2019), here (2017), here (2015), and here (2013).  This year, I am going to have to present remotely, however, because I am giving a...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell R410 network card not supported For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is no safe solution to get Debian Lenny working with the on-board Broadcom network cards. A fairly recent kernel is required. Basically, you will have to install back-ported kernels,...
Math Is Still...
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. The post Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maggie Appleton
Epistemic Disclosure
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
New Year, New Theme: 100 Things Happy New Year, Everyone! 2009 was great in many ways; I drove a submarine (yeah quite literally), I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happy New Year, Everyone! 2009 was great in many ways; I drove a submarine (yeah quite literally), I released 6 experimental games and recently I discovered the completely amazing game Evil Genius but lets try to make 2010 even better! So let’s forget our small mishaps (yes I’m...
tomcritchlow.com
Building an Interactive Blog Map I love a good diagram. So a while back I made a “blog map” for my website homepage that looked a bit...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love a good diagram. So a while back I made a “blog map” for my website homepage that looked a bit like this:
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
TheCollector
6 Appalachian Folk Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
diamond geezer
20 questions hide and seek I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there from 10am to 11am. I shall have Squeezy Pig with me. Your questions go in this comments box. comments if(postComments['89451144195511'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
The Marginalian
Coleridge on the Paradox of Friendship and Romantic Love On sympathy, reciprocity, and satisfying the fulness of our nature.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
6 days ago
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
balajis.com
Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
7 months ago
Steve Klabnik
2012: year in review
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spidey Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We are assuming for the sake of argument that all...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We are assuming for the sake of argument that all bits of human are equivalent, which is basically correct. Today's News:
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico undefined
7 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Stack Exchange Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier investors USV, Bezos Expeditions, Spark…
Math Is Still...
In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning...
a year ago
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a year ago
Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be — and about the galaxy we live in today. The post In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
Bus stops served by the most buses Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of being the 4th. As usual it had nothing to do with something I'd just written, just thousands of people piling onto an old post which just happened to answer a question someone had...
GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.
2 months ago
Blog System/5
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy...
a year ago
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a year ago
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you can unlock and add your keys to the agent once and, from then on, any SSH client such as ssh(1) can interact with the keys without...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Grounded in the Deep Tradition of English Poesy' When I’m told someone, somewhere has started a new poetry journal, a little piece of me dies. Just...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When I’m told someone, somewhere has started a new poetry journal, a little piece of me dies. Just what we’ve been waiting for: more precious self-revelations, strident politics and lineated prose. Nice to know the world can still surprise us. An Australian, Clarence Caddell, has...
Gwern.net Newsletter
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
TypingMind is live It's my first product launch of the year!
a year ago
High Signal
$200k from selling Google Sheets tutorials Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over...
a year ago
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a year ago
Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over the past three years. Think 'Miss Excel' but he's a beardy guy who doesn't dance in his videos. In this interview Andrew shares his marketing wins,
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius j.hoare Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Val Sopi
On using time <p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
a year ago
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<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I&nbsp;used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door —&nbsp;but I would get to...
A Beautiful Site
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frank Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately afraid that somewhere I'd amnesia-stolen this script. Today's News:
alexwlchan
How I name my computers I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the...
a month ago
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a month ago
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it. I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine. There’s one hard part of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Review Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You get scared to do 4 stars because then they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You get scared to do 4 stars because then they inquire how they can improve service. Today's News:
TheCollector
Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla? undefined
3 months ago
The Forney Flyer
Recent Stuff A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control structures Chapter 5: Arrays Chapter 6: Functions Chapter 7: Structs Chapter 8: Classes and Objects Chapter 9: Methods Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 11: Some advanced...
computers are bad
2023-12-23 ITT Technical Institute Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is a bit of an odd one. For the greatest part of the 20th century, telephony in the United States was largely a monopoly of AT&T and its many affiliates. This wasn't always the case,...
The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love "All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
10 months ago
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...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
Maps Mania
New Worldwide Open Map Data
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Greater Los Angeles I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a heartbeat. There are three great cities in the United States: there’s Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – in that order. I love Boston; I even love Denver; I like Miami; I think...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
The Elysian
Could AI make us wise? An alternative to the internet making us stupid.
8 months ago
Simply Explained
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Good Enough
The Element of Surprise Good Enough happens to be a remote team. This isn't from some strongly-held belief that remote is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Good Enough happens to be a remote team. This isn't from some strongly-held belief that remote is best, but rather as a side effect of how we all happened to meet each other. We met remotely, we did not end up all moving into some commune, and so to work together we must work...
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist undefined
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git 2024-09-20 I recently began the process of setting...
3 months ago
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Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git 2024-09-20 I recently began the process of setting up my self-hosted1 cgit server as my main code forge. Updating repos via cgit on NearlyFreeSpeech on its own has been simple enough, but it lacked the “wow-factor” of having some...
Moneyness
Memecoins are the point Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very...
a month ago
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a month ago
Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known as cypherpunks, creating a new technology know as a blockchain. Blockchains are databases, but decentralized. Advertised as being...
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
a year ago
GitButler
The New Era of Town Hall Chat We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and more importantly, why.
Tony Finch's blog
Resurrected link log After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page, https://dotat.at/:/, my link log is shared via: an Atom feed https://dotat.at/:/feed.atom the fediverse https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf Dreamwidth...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bang Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds start inventing reasons for all of this. Today's News: Psst - I'm told Bea Wolf will be highly discounted on Amazon tomorrow and the next day. Stay tuned.
essay – snarfed.org
Breakfast tour Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still felt cooped up now and then, and I dearly missed going new places and seeing new things. On another note, I really, really like breakfast. Like, a lot. So naturally, I put these...
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Otherwise, as Apolitical as Possible" “If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort of common sense becomes as rare as humility by the hour. It’s the time of year when we start filling the recycling bin with unsolicited, unread campaign literature. This season’s favored...
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works undefined
a year ago
Calculated Risk
4th Look at Local Housing Markets in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in November A brief excerpt: The NAR is scheduled to release November Existing Home sales tomorrow, Thursday, December 19th at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for 3.97 million SAAR, up from 3.96...
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
diamond geezer
Substacks For those who like writing online, the blogging platform of choice continues to evolve. Substack,...
a week ago
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a week ago
For those who like writing online, the blogging platform of choice continues to evolve. Substack, founded in 2017, which has been picking up more and more top writers of late. I have no intention of jumping ship, let's make that clear at the start, but I thought I'd take a...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34 keyboard layout A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Broomfield and Denver Weekend I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and...
a month ago
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a month ago
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and before that England, and then I’m heading right back out the door again. This should do it for awhile though; I need some rest. But this trip was a little different because I was there...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Five Best Hotels in Switzerland
a year ago
Electronics etc…
HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
blag
Now This is a /now page. Work I work at Turso Database. Learning Rust and C.
9 months ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 11: Learning is best when multiplayer As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time here. One of the standout themes is how much I've learned through struggling with other people. In particular, this learning together has make some difficult topics approachable,...
Notes on software...
Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Howto get the hard disk size under Linux? A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine: server:~# fdisk -l 2>...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine: server:~# fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | grep Disk | grep -v identifier Disk /dev/sda: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes Disk /dev/sdb: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB, 1000123400192...
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957 This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
Retail Design Blog
Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records Offices by HofmanDujardin HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing a music-driven, immersive environment that reflects the...
Seth's Blog
Evenly distributed For the first time, the only time, everyone on Earth was in the same boat at the same time. We’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the first time, the only time, everyone on Earth was in the same boat at the same time. We’ve long been divided by privilege, by caste, by accidents of birth or by organized hierarchies. Sure, there have been events that struck us all at once. Landing on the moon caused us...
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions undefined
11 months ago
Londonist
International Women's Day And Women's History Month 2024 Events In London Guided walks, talks, exhibitions and more - all celebrating women.
10 months ago
Math Is Still...
Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem...
a year ago
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a year ago
Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information. The post Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TokyoDev
What if We Had a Party, but the Entertainment was a Conference: Tokyu RubyKaigi 14 Recap [Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in Tokyo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the event, the last Ruby conference I went to was [RubyKaigi](/articles/rubykaigi-2023-recap), but since this event attracted a similar...
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Stat Significant
Quantifying 'The Kevin Bacon Game': A Statistical Exploration of Hollywood’s Most Connected Actors Examining 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' and its statistical underpinnings.
2 months ago
High Signal
How to make a $200k a year business - Mike Cardona interview Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in automation content and consulting
Tech + Economics +...
How to quit capitalism. Let's start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Let's start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a philosophical and ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, and perception of humanity. It's a behemoth that thrives on relentless growth, often at a devastating cost....
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Baby VS Intimacy A comic about intimate moments. View on my website
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Understanding the Theology of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Works undefined
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Five bright things to do and see this July July is here: the sun is shining and the air is hot – and so are our top picks of things to do and...
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July is here: the sun is shining and the air is hot – and so are our top picks of things to do and see this month, from an exhibition on an emerging artist exploring light and space to a food and art extravaganza celebrating […]
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Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
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During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
Joel Gascoigne
How my co-founder and I structure ourselves as CEO and COO * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two years of Buffer we didn’t use C-level titles [https://soundcloud.com/joelgascoigne/thoughts-on-cxo-titles-in]. In February last year it started to make much more sense for me to...
Both Are True
hello from the other side a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Marmosets Call Each Other By Name Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has...
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Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has only been identified in a few other species, dolphins, elephants, and some parrots. Interestingly, it has never been documented in our closest relatives, non-human primates – that...
Identity Designed
The Other House Designed by DesignStudio, London.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California has spawned many pioneering computer technologies...
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The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California has spawned many pioneering computer technologies including the Alto—the first personal computer to use a graphical user interface—and the first laser printer. The PARC facility also is known for the invention of Ethernet, a...
The Beauty of...
Riding the Steel Breeze (Port Talbot Parkway, Neath Port Talbot, UK) Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status...
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Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status thrust upon them. Such is the explanation for an arrival at Port Talbot Parkway being such a strange experience. As passengers step out of their trains they find themselves...
Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965 We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
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We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
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10 helpful tips for architecture students going back to school School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term....
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School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term. Whether you're a fresh undergraduate student embarking on your first year of architecture school or you're a returning student about to continue another rigorous year of learning,...
Maps Mania
Cryptic Cross World
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quote Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context. Today's News: Right here.
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It Looked Familiar: Anachronistic The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in...
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The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in mid-air, I guess: The location is instantly recognizable: the building on the far left with the single dormer is the Washington Life Insurance Building at 141 Broadway, the...
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From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
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If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Anecdotal Evidence
'Where Silence Suddenly Erupts in Speech' Zbigniew Herbert visited Western Europe for the first time in 1958-59: France, then England, Italy,...
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Zbigniew Herbert visited Western Europe for the first time in 1958-59: France, then England, Italy, France again and back to Poland. His budget was tight but Herbert was no hedonistic tourist. Nor was he a stuffy academic or critic. The essays in Barbarian in the Garden (1962;...
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain JamesHoare Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:37
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Is This The Oldest Surviving Poster On The Tube Network? The Otrivine gnome is not to be sniffed at.
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Aristotle — How to live a good life 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
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2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
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Array 1.11.0 Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many...
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Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many bugfixes. It's all in this PostHog update. If you're…
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
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Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
Steve Klabnik
A eulogy for my 20s
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My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
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If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
Mazdak
Google and the Canadian Government Reach a Deal on Online News Act The Government of Canada and Google have reached a deal on the Online News Act (C-18), just three...
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The Government of Canada and Google have reached a deal on the Online News Act (C-18), just three weeks before the act is scheduled to come into effect. The deal will see Google continue to show Canadian news on its platforms in exchange for annual payments to Canadian news...
Diaries of Note
Today was truly, absolutely the worst day ever in Sarajevo In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions...
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In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions among the region’s ethnic groups escalated into the devastating Bosnian War. It wasn’t long before the city of Sarajevo found itself under siege. Amidst the chaos, a courageous young...
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Travelogue: Central & Eastern Europe 17 thoughts from a trip to Munich, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Dubrovnik
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Model facts, not your problem domain
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Res Obscura
Res Obscura is now on Substack Three years late, but historians are always late
a year ago
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families undefined
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Take A Tour Of The Magnificent Palace Of Westminster This Autumn Ahead of the State Opening in November.
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The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology undefined
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After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor...
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We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor isn't a replacement system I secondarily acquired, nor is it a Ship of Theseus Frankenstein rebuild. This is my actual first computer, in its original case, on its original...
NeuroLogica Blog
Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers as Fuel The press release for a recent study declares: “New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of...
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The press release for a recent study declares: “New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of the future.” But don’t get excited – the optimism is more than a bit gratuitous. I have written about hydrogen fuel before, and the reasons I am not optimistic about hydrogen as a...
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The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
over a year ago
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Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” In Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong, our reporters found lots of people were eager to take the...
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Applied Cartography
November, 2024 Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved,...
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Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved, without fanfare or closure) cough and a dearth of time to write as I started to explore easing back into full-time work. Still, some writing (and selfishly, I'm excited to end the...
A Weekly Dose of...
On Guidebooks A portion of the paperback wrapper of A Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C., published by...
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A portion of the paperback wrapper of A Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C., published by the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1965.  Are guidebooks still a valid and useful subgenre of architecture books? Do architects...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 September 2023 Exhibitions, festivals, workshops, talks, cabaret, comedy... phew!
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Maps Mania
Your Daily Map Trivia Game
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Kind of Things I Love' At the end of her Friday post on Orson Welles and his Chimes at Midnight, Di Nguyen at the Little...
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At the end of her Friday post on Orson Welles and his Chimes at Midnight, Di Nguyen at the Little White Attic appends a bookish cri de coeur, one I have echoed many times:  “I increasingly feel at odds with modern culture,” she begins. “I’m indifferent to contemporary music,...
Retail Design Blog
JUICETIN Café by KSOUL Studio Located on Ngo Gia Tu Street, Juicetin is designed in an industrial style inspired by old post...
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Located on Ngo Gia Tu Street, Juicetin is designed in an industrial style inspired by old post offices. From the...
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“PCs are going to be like trucks” Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you...
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Steve Jobs in 2010: When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more…
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 27 Next Big Steps
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
The Worry Gap: why women worry so much more Laetitia@Work #62
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts Medieval Icelandic Feasts j.hoare Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:00
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Keeping your sites fast with regular performance tests You pride yourself on delivering fast websites to your clients, but do the websites stay fast as the...
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You pride yourself on delivering fast websites to your clients, but do the websites stay fast as the months go by?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This time that's your excuse for yelling about...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This time that's your excuse for yelling about giant scrotum, but what about all the other times? Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
A Calming Interior Was Designed For This Home In Spain Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a...
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Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a calm material palette. Large windows were integrated into the homes’ design so that the surrounding nature and the gardens could be seen from within the home. In the garden,...
Civic Hax
That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls and emails from the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor. The work there - and its associated frustration - sent me down a path of sending requests throughout the US to both learn...
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My Masterclass on Better Storytelling 2 Years in 2 Hours
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The tradeoff between open and closed When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions...
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When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions need to be made. First, what exactly is…
Irrational...
Writing an engineering strategy. Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick...
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Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want...
Vadim Kravcenko
🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
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You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […] The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
NeuroLogica Blog
Reading The Mind with fMRI and AI This is pretty exciting neuroscience news – Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from...
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This is pretty exciting neuroscience news – Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings. What this means is that researchers have been able to, sort of, decode the words that subjects were thinking of simply by reading their fMRI scan. They...
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
A Weekly Dose of...
For the Love of (Architecture) Books Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so I put together a list some things I love ❤️ about architecture books...
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Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so I put together a list some things I love ❤️ about architecture books — and just as many things I don't love 💔 about them: 20 pairs in 4 categories. I can't be alone in having these opinions and I might be a bit harsh in my criticisms, but if I...
Neil Madden
CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to...
over a year ago
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The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this being Doctor Who, the card is really made out of a special “psychic paper“, which...
Retail Design Blog
HONOR Flagship Store Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of...
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Where New Tech Retail Experience Meets Historical Neighborhood Revitalization The historic charm of Kuanzhai Alley and the sleek modernity of...
The Changelog
It’s More Important To Recognize What Direction People Are Moving Than Where They Are I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an...
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I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem. You’re advancing car culture and are actively hurting the planet. The only ethical thing to do is ditch your cars and put all your effort into...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
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over a year ago
Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
The Ruffian
The Ad That Radicalised Me Britain's Assisted Dying Debate
3 weeks ago
Common Edge
Buildings, Communities, Cities: Things Fall Apart If the detached house is “The American Dream,” do we need a new dream?
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Do the British Love Tea so Much? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teleporter Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter humor. Today's News: I've spent the last month promoting stuff here, so this is just a reminder to you that it's just me over here and I hate having to promote products. Please...
IEEE Spectrum
35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the...
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Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the vision became a reality. IEEE Life Senior Member Stevo Bozinovski and Members Mihail Sestakov and Dr. Liljana Bozinovska used a student volunteer’s electroencephalogram (EEG)...
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating...
over a year ago
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Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary 2. system calls In this post we'll create a small virtual machine in JavaScript and use it to run a simple C program compiled...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Catch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've been doing experiments on this using the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've been doing experiments on this using the massive spotlight I keep on my penthouse apartment. Today's News:
Chris Grossack's...
A Quick Application of Model Categories Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about model categories in...
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Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about model categories in preparation for the HoTTEST summer school. I learned a TON doing this, but I’ve just today seen a really nice (and somewhat concrete) reason to care about the whole endeavor! I’d love...
TheCollector
Paris Announces Notre Dame Reopening Plus Potential Entry Fee undefined
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Climate Activists Targeted Dinosaur Skeleton at London’s NHM undefined
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Dustin Curtis
Tesla and Storytelling Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
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Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Guard Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really if you can use the automation to increase...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really if you can use the automation to increase productivity, you can just afford better city defenses. Today's News:
Confessions of a...
Invite your friends to read Confessions of a Code Addict Thank you for reading Confessions of a Code Addict — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own...
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Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own experience. A lot of my websites (including this one) are content sites with just a bit of interactivity sprinkled on top, where I prefer writing vanilla JS over using complex...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: Some Thoughts about the Calendar This year February will have an extra day -- we discuss why? The post Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: ...
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10 months ago
This year February will have an extra day -- we discuss why? The post Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: Some Thoughts about the Calendar appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Left To Write
№ 72: The First Wealth Is Health For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around...
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For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around 28 years old, something in my psychology began to change. Perhaps it was inching towards 30 years old. Perhaps it was being tired of constantly feeling anxious. Perhaps it was...
Moneyness
Pricing the anonymity of banknotes Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments...
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Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. This post introduces the idea of trying to price the anonymity component.  To help think about why we might want to price anonymous...
Both Are True
The masks we wear (rom com, act three) A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'For the Ordinary Educated Man' I’ve read most of Robert Conquest’s books – history, poetry, fiction – and here is the sole passage...
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I’ve read most of Robert Conquest’s books – history, poetry, fiction – and here is the sole passage I have almost committed to memory:  “Literature exists for the ordinary educated man, and any literature that actively requires enormous training can be at best of only peripheral...
mtlynch.io
Sia-Minio Integration Postmortem One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems....
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One of the best things I learned from working at Google is the practice of blame-free postmortems. When something goes wrong, you wait until the dust settles, then write a report analyzing what happened. The report explains how the problem occurred and defines concrete steps the...
Cremieux Recueil
Grading the World's Shortest Manifesto It gets an F and the student has earned the death penalty
a week ago
Open Culture
Eno: The New “Generative Documentary” on Brian Eno That’s Never the Same Movie Twice Brian Eno once wrote that “it’s possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say,...
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Brian Eno once wrote that “it’s possible that our grandchildren will look at us in wonder and say, ‘You mean you used to listen to to exactly the same thing over and over again?’ ” That speculation comes from an essay on what he calls “generative music,” which is automatically...
The American Scholar
The Next New Thing In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The...
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In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The post The Next New Thing appeared first on The American Scholar.
History Today Feed
The Roman Catholic War on Wigs The Roman Catholic War on Wigs JamesHoare Thu, 09/19/2024 - 08:00
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Open Culture
Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period” Image via Wikimedia Commons “The great Tao fades away.” So begins one translation of the Tao Te...
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Image via Wikimedia Commons “The great Tao fades away.” So begins one translation of the Tao Te Ching’s 18th Chapter. The sentence captures the frustration that comes with a lost epiphany. Whether it’s a profound realization when you just wake up, or moment of clarity in the...
Spoon & Tamago
Pioneering Japan’s Zero-Energy Hospitality, ‘ITOMACHI HOTEL 0’ Ito-Machi, launched in 2020, is an urban development in Saijo, featuring a master plan by the...
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Ito-Machi, launched in 2020, is an urban development in Saijo, featuring a master plan by the esteemed Kengo Kuma Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Related posts: Stay in Artist Designed Hotel Rooms at the Park Hotel Tokyo Hotel NUTS by Upsetters Architects Kamikatsu in...
Miguel Carranza
Books I read in 2020 Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
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Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
TheCollector
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Strange Loop Canon
Slouching Towards Utopia by Brad DeLong
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Identity Designed
Ashton Designed by LG2, Quebec.
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bunnie's blog
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
8 months ago
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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
Open Culture
The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For...
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Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For Americans, it can come as a shock to hear that such familiar dishes as chop suey and General Tso’s chicken are unknown in China itself. By the same token, almost every country in...
Aaron's Essays
Investors and their incentives It is incredibly important to understand the incentives of investors when you are raising money....
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over a year ago
It is incredibly important to understand the incentives of investors when you are raising money. This used to be fairly easy - you raised money from Venture Capitalists who wanted to see a big return on their investment. The best of these investors were incredibly focused on...
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
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Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
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After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
The Modern House
Nigel Slater: the food writer opens the door to his fascinating home life At the (surprising) age of “almost 70”, Nigel Slater is “off-the-scale happy.” As our co-founder...
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Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
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Pretty late into my run yesterday I went into a meditative-like zone where my breathing was slow and even, my legs were going at a consistent rhythm, and I found myself thinking:...
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The story of the initial offering of Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock is an excellent example of Warren Buffett's unconventional approach toward his business partners.
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Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
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An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
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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.
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science. Today's News: Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
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The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or your whole life experience. Every text. Every Slack. Every journal entry. Every blog post. Everything you’ve said or written publicly. All your logs. All your documentation. Turn...
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Up until recently, culture has been thought of as a primarily human characteristic. However, recent studies shine a light on the fact that non-human animals including Cetaceans (dolphins and whales), may also possess it. They live in tightly-knit social communities, exhibit...
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Here on Halloween of 2024, we have a greater variety of scary stories — and arguably, a much scarier variety of scarier stories — to choose from than ever before. But whatever their relevance to the specific lives we may live and the specific dreads we may feel today, how many...
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The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
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In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
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One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the extent that they afford companies the agency and comfort to engage in long-term activities: Monopolists can think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In...
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The screenshot here is our company Trello board, where we manage our product roadmap. We are extremely lucky in that our thousands of happy customers give us a steady stream of suggestions for new features and improvements, which we used to just throw on this board. However,...
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Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate trauma, remember them deeply like they are etched into my bones helpless as...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve always found it interesting to think about co-founder relationships. I’ve been in a few myself, some which were not completely successful and then more recently working with Leo for the last...
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs.   Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical Society – University of the Philippines Diliman (JPGS-UPD), the Save San Roque Alliance, Kadamay – San Roque, and most especially the urban poor residents of San Roque. The...
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Dag Hammarskjöld was en route to negotiate peace in Congo when, in 1961, the plane in which he was travelling crashed, ending the lives of all its passengers. Born in 1905, Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United...
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“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What happens when you get to the end of things?” four-year-old Johnny in Ohio asks his mother from the bathtub while Whitman’s borrowed atoms are becoming young grass in a...
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Few diarists capture the rhythms of daily life quite like Alan Bennett. Born in Leeds in 1934, it was in the early-1970s that this beloved playwright began to keep a diary, sporadically scribbled on loose sheets of paper that would later be bundled to form twelve months of...
A Beautiful Site
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Nearly a decade ago, I launched my first SaaS application. It was a new take on content management — a hosted CMS that reads/writes directly to a web server and uses class attributes to define content regions. It was a great idea. Such a great idea that it inspired others to do...
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Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6> <h6...
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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...
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Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON path parser Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return...
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Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return only results in a list where the a column is an object that contains a field b that is set to the value 12. What would a filter(jsonPath, equals, listOfObjects) function...
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A Depressing Follow-Up Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will...
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Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will be gone forever. And if that happens, the world won’t end but it will be poorer for the loss.” Neither a use nor the money was found and as of September 12 this coming fall, the […]
fast.ai
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
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Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
Louwrentius
'Tool of the month: iftop - advanced bandwidth monitoring' The utility iftop allows you to monitor bandwidth usage. It is in some sense similar to tools like...
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The utility iftop allows you to monitor bandwidth usage. It is in some sense similar to tools like iptraf, dstat and bwm-ng. Iftop is more special than those. Because iftop lets you monitor the speed of individual TCP / UDP connections. Basically, you will be able to determine...
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Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
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2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
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In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
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Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
abdz.do - Have you...
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Nintendo Gameboy Colour in Blender AoiroStudio0213—23 Matthew Gilbert is a talented 3D artist who is known for his unique and detailed creations. One of his most impressive works is his digital representation of the Nintendo Gameboy Color,...
The Rational Walk
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A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
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If you throw a bucket of water on a small campfire, you’ll succeed in putting it out. Pour a bucketful of sake into one of those little glasses and you’ll waste most of it and ruin the table setting. And try to use a bucket to refill a dried-out lake and not much will happen. […]
Val Sopi
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<p>Coming from <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022">October</a>, November was again another solid month.<a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022"></a></p> <table><tbody><tr><td><b>blogstatic</b></td><td><b>October...
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<p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic" target="_blank">first PH launch</a> (documented&nbsp;<a href="https://valsopi.com/launching-on-product-hunt">here</a>) was in December of 2022, three months after the <a...
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DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming...
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As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming setup running. I have one powerful desktop PC, one virtual machine with a GPU attached to it, and client machines that can be used to stream games from. To keep things simple (and...
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A couple of links + a thought experiment about spin A couple of interesting things to read: As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also...
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A couple of interesting things to read: As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also science, I really liked this news article from Nature about progress in reading scrolls excavated from Herculaneum.  The area around the Bay of Naples was a quite the spot for posh...
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I went to the doctor's a couple of weeks ago, not because I needed to but because I thought I should. "Oh that seems fine," she said, in a wholly reassuring way. "But perhaps we ought to do some checks." On Monday I went back to my doctor's surgery for Check 1. It's always...
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Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
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A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
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Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
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Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
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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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Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
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Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
Paul Cudenec
Video: The Corruption is Real and Sickening I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by...
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I am delighted to be able to share a link to a new 16-minute video that has just been published by Drs Mark and Sam Bailey in New Zealand, based on some of my recent writing.
Jonas Hietala
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
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over a year ago
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
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The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
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Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
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Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
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Coming Up: Einstein without Tears; Religion and Extraterrestrial Life Two upcoming events that may be of interest to you (please pass on to others who may like them): The...
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Two upcoming events that may be of interest to you (please pass on to others who may like them): The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State Presents: A non-technical, 6-week class with Professor Andrew Fraknoi Einstein without Tears Tuesdays from 12:30 to 2:30...
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Is it worth writing about? You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and...
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over a year ago
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and sharing the learning process. Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what is worth writing about. I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks...
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Can we “cure” cancer? In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes: Ask most biologists...
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In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes: Ask most biologists about the cure for cancer, and they will tell you it doesn’t exist: cancer is many diseases that are mostly unrelated to each other, and that all have to be cured one at a...
TokyoDev
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
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I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
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Of Gods and Men (2010): Witnesses to Faith Xavier Beauvois’s 2010 film, Of Gods and Men, begins with this ominous epitaph from the...
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Xavier Beauvois’s 2010 film, Of Gods and Men, begins with this ominous epitaph from the eighty-second psalm. It is to be a portent of the narrative’s themes of death and dignity, explored in conversation with the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.