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Seth's Blog
Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a...
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School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who might not (yet) have the physical attributes necessary to win, or they build huge stadiums, go on long road trips, berate students that make an...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05 Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring...
5 months ago
Working Theorys
Before the Crowd Shows Up The arena rewards those who arrive early.
9 months ago
Both Are True
i went mostly offline and then all this happened without the internet, my family steps into it; our wild and crazy offline Friday night
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Greek Travel Experiences for a Luxurious Escape
a month ago
CrimethInc.
Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia : A Deeper Look into the... On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the...
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On the one-hundred-year anniversary of the uprising in Georgia against Soviet annexation, the struggle for independence from Russian rule remains the chief force driving the popular mobilization that has been growing over the past several months. Yet today’s movement points to a...
journal – Winnie Lim
different realities under the same blue sky My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular...
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My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular scene of a kdrama we had just watched. She had thought the lines were full of hope...
There are two types...
Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There are better ways to spend $10 billion than rebuilding the BQE New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change...
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New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold … Continue reading → The post Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There...
The Modern House
Pure 1970s glamour at an iconic modernist house, from sunken sofas to an indoor pool
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Back to the trend line? The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend...
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The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend line, and which penetration?
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
After dating app murders spike in Colombia, Match Group offers to help the police Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local...
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Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local authorities in Colombia to curb attacks against foreigners.
TheCollector
10 Pieces of Legislation Affecting America’s Indigenous People undefined
6 months ago
The Works in...
Issue 13: Deep heat Plus: the cocktail revolution, how war improved European states, and the mathematical basis of the...
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Plus: the cocktail revolution, how war improved European states, and the mathematical basis of the Industrial Revolution
Londonist
Alternative London Tube Map Shows Great Engineers From Bazalgette to modern day pioneers.
a year ago
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
Good Enough
Let's talk about conversations If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've...
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If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've been thinking about conversations. We're a small group making fun software for people, and we like to have conversations with those people; the lovely folks who like our take on...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Components Primer On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
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On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple thought quickly turned into a series of tweets that folks seem to find useful. I've adapted the thread and I'm posting it here for prosperity. Overview # Shadow DOM? Light DOM? Slots?...
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Startups, stop treating engineers like a different species Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs –...
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Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs – treat engineers like a fundamentally different type of…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: (sorry) Today's News:
9 months ago
The Honest Broker
Why Recording Studios Are Unplugging From the Internet And other recent articles of interest
a year 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
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited undefined
12 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle...
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What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle question that physicists are still grappling with, decades into the quantum age. The post The Quest to Quantify Quantumness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI undefined
5 months ago
The Ruffian
Stories are bad for your intelligence How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
a year ago
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent? I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the...
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a year ago
I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
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Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Collection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if you could embed consciousness in a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if you could embed consciousness in a sticky ball that could be fired from a small cannon to make enemy weapons sentient and pacifist. Today's News: Thanks!
Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Him a Favor By Taking His Money' Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story...
a year ago
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a year ago
Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story Books in that city earlier this week. The volumes in the outdoor stalls are priced at $4 each. My friend collects Lionel Trilling and he found a copy of Of This Time, Of That Place...
Paul Graham: Essays
Putting Ideas into Words
over a year ago
diamond geezer
London's longest countdowns Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was...
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Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was still possible to drive round it five years ago, then massive sequential roadworks intervened and the northwest arm was slowly pedestrianised. Cars now have to negotiate a very...
Confessions of a...
Marine science, the environment, and the 2013 Australian election I’ve been a bit reluctant to write about the upcoming election in this blog; after all the point of...
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I’ve been a bit reluctant to write about the upcoming election in this blog; after all the point of this blog has never been about anything political!  However, for better or worse the state of our  environment (including our oceans) are inextricably linked to politics, so here...
Christopher Butler
The Rhythm of Your Screen Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by...
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Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by clients about scrolling. I understand why. Every design comes with assumptions about how much content will be seen by people because the space in which people access our designs is...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Beebop The Island Hopper So I participated in the Ludum Dare for the first time and this is a postmortem of my game Beebop...
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So I participated in the Ludum Dare for the first time and this is a postmortem of my game Beebop The Island Hopper for the theme Islands. About Ludum Dare Ludum Dare is a competition which runs maybe two times a year and the competition is 24 hours long with a specific theme....
TheCollector
Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick? undefined
9 months ago
Christopher Butler
Writing is a Primary Design Tool In an interview with Tracy Francis at McKinsey, Jony Ive had something profound to say about writing...
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In an interview with Tracy Francis at McKinsey, Jony Ive had something profound to say about writing and design: “You’ll often find creatives are obsessed with process and tools. A primary tool for me is that I write an awful lot. I write because I realized at art school that...
Christopher Butler
Year in Review – 2023 At Work Despite challenges that made time seem like a rubber band — the AI panic of Q1, inflation,...
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At Work Despite challenges that made time seem like a rubber band — the AI panic of Q1, inflation, economic contractions, new services and staff growing by more than 30%, all of which kept me very busy at work — the year went by quickly. This is because I’m in my forties and...
Christopher Butler
Friction Can Be Good Something I have noticed as content, software, and product design have attempted to eradicate...
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Something I have noticed as content, software, and product design have attempted to eradicate friction is that friction is not necessarily a bad thing. Friction is a part of everyday life. It comes from the difference between one thing and another — the encounter of two things....
Maps Mania
Virtual Rewind Machines
9 months ago
Flashbak
Käthe Kollwitz Self Portraits “I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time...
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“I have no trouble with the idea of my art serving a purpose. I want to have an impact at a time when people are so baffled, so in need of help.” – Käthe Kollwitz diary entry, December 1922   Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) made over 100 self-portraits of her …...
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW) These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
TheCollector
Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed undefined
2 months ago
Coffee with an...
How to be a better architect Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building...
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Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building well, but don’t let it drive the design. Connect the spaces with nature. Master the use of natural light. Create a balance between public and private spaces. Organize the Floorplan....
Making software...
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
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Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
TheCollector
How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed? undefined
2 months ago
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving...
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Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving them access to better wages, benefits, and profit participation.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions There’s been a lot of speculation lately about why big companies spend millions of dollars acquiring...
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There’s been a lot of speculation lately about why big companies spend millions of dollars acquiring startups for their technology or talent…
Product Identity
Designing for a single purpose What do a Dutch chocolate chip cookie and a thousand-year-old teahouse in Kyoto have in common?
7 months ago
How to Be a Stoic
Stoics should be vegetarian Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy...
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Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in 1975. In truth, utilitarians have been very clear on the subject from the beginning. The...
Old Structures...
A Striking Row I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye....
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I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye. That’s 690 to 700 Madison Avenue, just north of 62nd Street. While there’s an obvious alteration – the facade of the first two floors of each house was replaced at some point […]
xkcd.com
Beam of Light
5 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Simple image vectorization Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
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Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
99% Invisible
Top Billing [EPISODE] There’s a rumor about the 1987 film Outrageous Fortune, a rumor that has dogged producer Jacob Reed...
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There’s a rumor about the 1987 film Outrageous Fortune, a rumor that has dogged producer Jacob Reed since his days in film school. The comedy, starring Bette Midler and Shelley Long, is mostly forgotten. But a feud between the two stars was legendary, a fact referenced on TV by...
TheCollector
The Statue of Athena Parthenos: Everything You Need to Know undefined
9 months ago
ntietz.com blog
What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
A Weekly Dose of...
The Minimal Intervention The Material Imagination Birkhäuser, October 2022 Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pages | 13...
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The Material Imagination Birkhäuser, October 2022 Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pages | 13 illustrations | English (translated from German by Jill Denton) | ISBN: 9783035625301 | $26.99 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the...
Londonist
Battersea Power Station And Nine Elms Tube Stations Just Got Mark Wallinger Labyrinths Great news for Labyrinth hunters!
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence This is the great paradox: that human life, lived between the time of starlings and the time of...
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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...
The Rational Walk
Initial Public Offerings A company that is in the process of selling shares to the public for the first time must navigate a...
a year ago
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A company that is in the process of selling shares to the public for the first time must navigate a minefield of competing interests.
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines? undefined
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TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91) undefined
2 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Cult of Microsoft At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of...
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At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how...
A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #186 Macintosh at 40, Coffee Can Investing, Haslams on Pilot, Vision Pro's missing apps, Investment...
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Macintosh at 40, Coffee Can Investing, Haslams on Pilot, Vision Pro's missing apps, Investment checklists, Shane Parrish interviews Tom Gayner, Novo Nordisk, Howard Marks on interest rates
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ambition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on Georgia O'Keeffe originals. Today's News: Of all the compliments on the new book so far, kind words from Jonathan McDowell mean the most. Or, well, anyway, tied with the nice stuff Mary...
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? And From Where did it Come? All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
Common Edge
The Making of Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood...
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9 months ago
How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
over a year ago
Flashbak
The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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11 months ago
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
Home on Erik...
Installing TensorFlow on AWS Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn't recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live.
TheCollector
What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It? undefined
4 months ago
Oykun
Practising distraction-free creativity The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating...
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The design world is filled with exciting opportunities. We see Designers on X who are creating Framer templates, experimenting with 3D, writing newsletters, starting design subscription agencies, selling icon packs and many more. I know it’s tempting to chase them all. I’ve given...
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
a week ago
Flashbak
The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
Maps Mania
Your Daily Map Trivia Game
5 months ago
Maps Mania
The Treats of San Francisco
6 months ago
The Honest Broker
Open Mic: What Should I Write About? And some coming attractions at The Honest Broker
11 months ago
Making software...
Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
davidyat.es
Review: The Lost Room
a year ago
Arduino Blog
UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family...
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The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs,...
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
over a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On New Year's Day 2024 The best events in London on 1 January.
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
TheCollector
Who Is the Real Banksy? Rumors Behind the Street Artist undefined
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
The Third Year Online Creator Playbook How I'm going to have my most productive and creative year yet
10 months ago
Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
Rest of World -...
The music streaming app for those who can’t pay for downloads Ad-driven Trebel has scooped up 13 million users across Latin America who don't want to pay for...
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometimes I...
The Works in...
Communities of Practice: The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine The first section of Ch. 3 of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance on Books in Progress
4 months ago
Contemporist...
This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
9 months ago
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Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
Cheese and Biscuits
Lulu's, Herne Hill Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most importantly from my point of view - dramatically improving the quality of food photography on this blog. I'm sure Lulu's would be a lovely, cozy little spot even in the depths of...
Posts on Made of...
Navigating the Linux Kernel In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way around the Linux kernel. I’m not sure I have much in the way of systematic advice for tracking down the answers to questions about the Linux kernel, but thinking about what I do when...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Plan a Relaxing Getaway in the Austrian Alps
6 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
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I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
CONTEMPORIST
Sculptural Walls Inspired By The Intricate Detailing Of Indian Temple Architecture Abin Design Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a gallery and store that...
a month ago
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a month ago
Abin Design Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a gallery and store that displays Italian furniture in Kolkata, India. The striking interior seamlessly blends the finesse and elegance of Italian craftsmanship with the vibrancy of Indian design traditions....
Tom Blomfield
When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - NYT Click here to go see the bonus...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/space-billionaires-sex.html Today's News: Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
Anecdotal Evidence
'I'd Walk in Heaven With My Feet on Earth' “If love of beauty were the same as faith, / I’d walk in heaven with my feet on earth.” The...
12 months ago
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“If love of beauty were the same as faith, / I’d walk in heaven with my feet on earth.” The late Terry Teachout once described himself as a “Midwestern aesthete,” an identification I have happily claimed. I sense that a love of beauty has grown scarce and too often earns contempt...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ball Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the human has an existential tantrum so they...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the human has an existential tantrum so they take away its ice cream for a week. Today's News:
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Harbinger of a Song Greater Still' “I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me...
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a year ago
“I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me till the early hours of the morning. The tears often ran down his face as he read, without the slightest apparent consciousness of them on his part. The pathos and grandeur of these...
Lighthouse Blog
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3 months ago
I Have No Idea What...
Starting Over Abandoning the idea of building a Slack Alternative
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Maps Mania
Playing Placename Detective
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TheCollector
7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World undefined
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Luxagraf:...
The Lost Coast Driving west on Florida's highway 98 is a little like traveling back in time. It's hard to believe...
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Driving west on Florida's highway 98 is a little like traveling back in time. It's hard to believe standing amidst the crowds of Panama City Beach, but not ten miles east, once you pass through the actual Panama City, the crowds disappear, along with everything else. After...
The Thinking Cap
The Future of No Code is Low Code Or why we should write more programming languages instead of trying to build virtual legos.
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Intelligent Directions
a year ago
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements undefined
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The American Scholar
“The Last Words of My English Grandmother” Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
Poverest This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret...
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This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret Leisure Destination Poverest, the charming outer London suburb handily located on the Chislehurst Road, where a good time is always on offer. [map] Ask anyone in Poverest where...
Louwrentius
Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform...
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Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform storage IO performance benchmarks. FIO does provide a script called "fio_generate_plots" which generates PNG or JPG based charts based on the data generated by FIO. The charts are...
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities undefined
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Beautiful Public...
Photologging Vans These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained...
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These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained through public records requests. Almost every state’s highway departments had highway photolog programs, some dating back as early as 1961. These sequences were captured by specially...
Retail Design Blog
ROTATE flagship store by Thibault Allgayer Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and...
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Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimars, and part of forward fashion...
History Today Feed
‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review ‘Daughter of the Dragon’ by Yunte Huang review j.hoare Tue, 01/09/2024 - 08:37
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TheCollector
‘Just Stop Oil’ Protestors Cover Stonehenge in Powder Paint undefined
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Willem's Blog
Helping people with free software This week I helped a man with repairing and reinstalling his computer with Debian GNU/Linux.
over a year ago
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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6 months ago
Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
Articles - Alex...
Adland is an island We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our...
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We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our clients’ companies and the categories in which they compete. We visit the sites in which our products are produced and the stores in which they are sold. We analyse their adverts...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Interior Decoration Doesn't Count" Just last week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland,...
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8 months ago
Just last week, and not for the first time, I had a dream set in Kay’s Books in downtown Cleveland, where I visited often as a kid and worked in 1975. I was in the basement in the general hardback fiction section where I saw the copy of Under the Volcano I bought there forty-nine...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby) Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Does technology have a right to exist? (No.) So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that...
a year ago
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a year ago
So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that those restrictions aren't possible given the scale, value, or some other property of the technology. For example, a common retort to arguments that Facebook and YouTube should...
Commoncog
Cultural Advantage is Counter Positioning Competitive advantages in business that come from cultural differences tend to be...
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over a year ago
Competitive advantages in business that come from cultural differences tend to be counter-positioning, not process power. Why this is surprising, and why it matters.
Flashbak
The Amy Carter ‘Love Doll’ – Playing With The President’s Daughter In 1977 Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In...
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11 months ago
Reporter: Do you, Amy Carter, have a message for the children of America? Amy Carter: “No.”   In 1976, nine-year-old Amy Carter left her home in Plains, Georgia, and moved into the White House. People noticed the first child to live at the White House since the days of JFK. And...
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet? Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
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Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually…
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless...
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Gender Boxing Hubub Both Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria earned medals in female boxing competition at...
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4 months ago
Both Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria earned medals in female boxing competition at the 2024 Olympics. This has caused a controversy because both boxers, according to reports, have some form of DSD – difference of sex development. This means they have been caught...
One Useful Thing
The Machines of Mastery "Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
a year ago
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard, part 2: goals and values I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm...
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm involved in a few student groups that have been spending a handful of time talking about it lately. While a good portion of discussion about recruitment is (and should be) focused on...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Variety is the Spice of Ancient Life
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HTMHell
#3 image-buttons Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif"...
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Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
Noahpinion
Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
a year ago
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace? undefined
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛳️ Cruise hustles
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History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell JamesHoare Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
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nanoscale views
Scientific travel Particularly in these post-pandemic, climate-change-addled, zoom-enabled times, I appreciate the...
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Particularly in these post-pandemic, climate-change-addled, zoom-enabled times, I appreciate the argument that it's always worth asking, "Is this trip really necessary?"  We are in the age of remote work and zoom seminars that are attended by people from all over the world.  Is...
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 2 This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
David Heinemeier...
Villains may live long enough to become heroes The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of...
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8 months ago
The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of "cutting off the air supply", of embrace-extend-extinguish, of open source as a "cancer", and of Bill Gates before he sought reputational refugee in philanthropy. What made the...
macwright.com
Incentives My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
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9 months ago
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
Seth's Blog
More vs. better If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go...
a year ago
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a year ago
If every building in the shopping district in a big city was owned by one landlord, rents would go up. So would the prices of everything sold. The landlord would keep a significant percentage of each store’s profits and innovation would suffer as well. Google’s monopoly is real....
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
The Ruffian
Seven Underrated Forms of of Diversity Different Kinds of Difference At Work
7 months ago
The Ruffian
The End of History Academic historians are destroying their own discipline
a year ago
Open Culture
When the Grateful Dead Played at the Egyptian Pyramids, in the Shadow of the Sphinx (1978) In September of 1978, the Grateful Dead traveled to Egypt and played three shows at the Great...
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In September of 1978, the Grateful Dead traveled to Egypt and played three shows at the Great Pyramid of Giza, with the Great Sphinx looking over their shoulders. It wasn’t the first time a rock band played in an ancient setting. Pink Floyd performed songs in the middle of the...
Simply Explained
Securely access home network with Cloudflare Tunnel and WARP When Cloudflare announced that their Tunnel service would become free, I saw an opportunity to...
over a year ago
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When Cloudflare announced that their Tunnel service would become free, I saw an opportunity to strengthen the security of my Home Assistant instance. Until now, I have been using Cloudflare's CDN to connect to my HA instance, but that required opening ports on my router and...
Maps Mania
The AI Satlas
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Let’s Talk About Obesity Drugs | Out-Of-Pocket we're entering a new era for these treatments
a year ago
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
a year ago
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a year ago
Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
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...
Retail Design Blog
Furnish & Shade Furnish & Shade, located in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, is a 6,500 sq. ft. retail space designed by OSA...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Furnish & Shade, located in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi, is a 6,500 sq. ft. retail space designed by OSA Studio,...
Steve Klabnik
Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
over a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Podcasts &amp; conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
Common Edge
How Madagascar Is Confronting Climate Change The island nation is grappling with unique and formidable environmental challenges.
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a...
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over a year ago
July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and...
Seth's Blog
Wearing the costume There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown...
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a month ago
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown requires far more than getting a clown suit. Entrepreneurs with business cards, slick websites and mission statements are confused. That’s not the hard part. If the costume puts you in...
TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series undefined
8 months ago
Oykun
Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Castles in the Sky
Why Write Memoirs | Review of All the Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin A good memoir is entertaining, insightful, and relatable. A great memoir changes you because you see...
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a year ago
A good memoir is entertaining, insightful, and relatable. A great memoir changes you because you see yourself in it. All the Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin is a great memoir. It is nominally a book about a guy who becomes obsessed with chess. But to me, it’s a book about the...
Contemporist...
A Glass Wall Separates A Bedroom From The Living Spaces In This Apartment MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living level with a bedroom enclosed behind a glass wall.
Val Sopi
On the first page of Hacker News with Subsection <p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create support docs, such as user guides, knowledge bases, documentation, and changelogs.&nbsp;</i></p><p><i>Below I describe the launch of Subsection of <a...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #195 BHE Investor Conference, United States vs. Apple, Ajit Jain interview, Flaws in medical studies,...
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9 months ago
BHE Investor Conference, United States vs. Apple, Ajit Jain interview, Flaws in medical studies, Pursuing happiness, Mitsubishi Corporation, Robert Cialdini interview
NeuroLogica Blog
Intuitive and Analytical Thinking Here is a relatively simple math problem:  A bat and a ball cost $1.10 combined. The bat costs $1...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here is a relatively simple math problem:  A bat and a ball cost $1.10 combined. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? (I will provide the answer below the fold.) This problem is the basis of a large psychological literature on thinking systems in the...
High Signal
Making $6k from a baby AI photo generator Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an app that shows how your future baby may look.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot sales continue running strong despite a delay in launching our next product. I analyze how I’m spending my time and figure out ways to allocate my hours better. Goal Grades At the...
Map of the Week
The Grand Paris Express I was recently in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD) when I came across this...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD) when I came across this fantastic exhibit on the Grand Paris Express. The GPE is a hugely ambitious project to add several metro ring lines connecting the suburbs of Paris to each other and to the central...
Londonist
WrapUp London: Donate Your Unused Coat To Someone Who Needs It This Winter A small gesture goes a long way 🙂
a year ago
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president. While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
over a year ago
Articles - Alex...
Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
Maps Mania
The A-Z Music Map
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
Elad Blog
AI Platforms, Markets, & Open Source What does the future market structure look like for AI foundation and API companies? How does OSS...
a year ago
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What does the future market structure look like for AI foundation and API companies? How does OSS play a role in a world of ever scaling models?
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Notes on software...
Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since...
over a year ago
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In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since Python has a builtin parser library and because a number of CPython internals are exposed for extension writers. By the end of this post, in a few hundred lines of Python, we'll be able...
Vadim Kravcenko
The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic Once the pandemic hit and employers started to embrace remote work more openly, a new phenomenon...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once the pandemic hit and employers started to embrace remote work more openly, a new phenomenon gained momentum — Interviews-as-a-service. […] The post The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
CONTEMPORIST
The New Addition On This Home Includes A Pass-Through Window To The Kitchen Building firm Demardi, together with design firm Mesh Design & Projects, have recently completed the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Building firm Demardi, together with design firm Mesh Design & Projects, have recently completed the renovation and new rear extension of a home in Thornbury, Australia, for a young family. The original facade of the home was restored, weatherboards were replaced, and new...
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism undefined
3 months ago
The American Scholar
American Horror Story Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The...
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a month ago
Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear The post American Horror Story appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
And then that happened The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what...
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a year ago
The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what happened and then decide to do something with that insight. Thirty years ago, AOL was my company’s biggest client. They charged users $3 an hour to use their precursor to the internet,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Perfect Restaurant This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job. If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
a year ago
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a year ago
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work. Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray. Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
TheCollector
Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance undefined
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Maps Mania
Visit Barcelona Without Going Abroad
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TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore undefined
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CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A 1970s Home Received A Contemporary Renovation Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a...
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a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a home in Seattle, Washington. The original 1970s Seattle rambler had a typical boxy layout, while the exterior featured brick with blue and red accents. The new exterior includes new...
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent? undefined
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TheCollector
What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa? undefined
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Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
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over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name undefined
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Londonist
Vintage Football Shirts: The Best And Oddest From Every Big London Club New book delves deep into the world of vintage collectables.
a year ago
FIRE v London
I’m 28, and can’t figure out how to start on FatFIRE – what would you do in my shoes? From: TazTo: FvL Hi FvL I’ve read your blog on and off for the past year or three. I graduated from...
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From: TazTo: FvL Hi FvL I’ve read your blog on and off for the past year or three. I graduated from the London School of Economics in 2017 after which I went through the hardest few years of my life mentally and ended up unemployed or in dead-end low paid jobs. I currently work...
Platformer
The platforms give up on 2020 lies For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Get/Want/Have To Get to, want to and have to are an endless braid. How much of our time do we spend on each? Have to...
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a year ago
Get to, want to and have to are an endless braid. How much of our time do we spend on each? Have to is often up to someone else. The things we’re required to do by the system or the people in it. Get to is a matter of perspective. Trust and health and leverage […]
99% Invisible
De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE] Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more...
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Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands...
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett’s Evolving Estate Plan Warren Buffett has revised his will to leave his remaining assets at the time of his death to a new...
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Warren Buffett has revised his will to leave his remaining assets at the time of his death to a new charitable trust run by his children.
Flashbak
Erté’s Naked Alphabet, 1967 It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and...
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4 months ago
It took Erté decades to complete his naked, somewhat erotic Alphabet – began in the late 1920s and not finished until 1967. All 26 letters are created in individual gouaches on paper, in exotic human form (and later formed print editions). This exhibit was a hit when it was first...
Common Edge
Randy Fertel on the Power and Peril of Creative Improvisation A lively talk with the author about his new book, Winging It.
8 months ago
Old Structures...
Being Stalked From The Past Once again, one of Angel Rizzuto’s photos, this one from 1954, gets very close to us. This is the...
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Once again, one of Angel Rizzuto’s photos, this one from 1954, gets very close to us. This is the intersection of Whitehall and Stone Street looking east. (For once, the logic of the street grid and the actual cardinal points align exactly.) Almost every building in this view has...
Sarah Parmenter
Celebrating the Power of Female Friendships with Adobe XD This quarter I got to work on a really exciting project in collaboration with Adobe XD. The brief...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This quarter I got to work on a really exciting project in collaboration with Adobe XD. The brief was slightly open to interpretation and one of the themes put forward back in February was “Celebrating the good in the world” by creating content that speaks to a cultural trend or...
Maggie Appleton
Epistemic Disclosure
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
I’ve given my pee to science On 23rd November 2014, former Italian Air Force pilot Samantha Cristoforetti embarked on a...
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On 23rd November 2014, former Italian Air Force pilot Samantha Cristoforetti embarked on a monumental journey. Strapped into the confines of a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan, she was launched towards the International Space Station where she was to live for 199 days—the longest...
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How i make investment decisions 🏝 The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps...
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The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 3 Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog...
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
Map of the Week
The Spread of Slavery in the United States In September, 1861 the U.S. Coast Survey published this large map showing the enslaved population by...
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In September, 1861 the U.S. Coast Survey published this large map showing the enslaved population by county. It was "sold for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army." The image above is from an article in Smithsonian. Here is a detailed view showing part...
Christopher Butler
We Have Five Years Left We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of...
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We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help? We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time,...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
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Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
The Universe of...
Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For...
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Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that $$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$ Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes and be taking off your shoes. And let be putting...
Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I...
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My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I planned to make a typical acrylic sandwich case for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
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The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only...
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Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…
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Mindshare 🧠 The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Having enough support that you can insist on four years to research a topic before presenting a book is of course down to all of you over all these years. It is daily appreciated. Today's News:
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Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A...
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By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A person who overcame all of their personal defects to achieve a life of complete tranquility and goodness. The perfect Stoic, if you will.  They referred to this person as the Stoic...
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How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
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Does location really matter for your startup? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base ourselves and Buffer...
Daniel Miessler
Generate AI Art Using Your Own Writing One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art...
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One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are cool, but a lot of the magic comes down to prompt engineering, which is non-trivial. Prompt Engineering is almost equal parts...
The Marginalian
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"At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution."
Seth's Blog
Which team? Culture seeks shortcuts. The oldest shortcut is: “Friend or foe?” If we know the answer to that, a...
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Culture seeks shortcuts. The oldest shortcut is: “Friend or foe?” If we know the answer to that, a whole bunch of time gets saved, and fear is reduced as well. The labeling goes beyond which team, cadre, tribe or village someone is part of. It extends to the ways we demonstrate...
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
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The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Londonist
13 Autumnal Day Trips From London: October 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
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Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
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The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
The Tao Of Wealth
A Prayer For The New Year God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I...
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God, grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time,enjoying one moment at a time;accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;taking, as Your Divine Incarnations...
Seth's Blog
The first person “I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so...
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“I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so good. But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, is it “he” or “she” or “they” or “it”? Because anything that is an “it” shouldn’t be able to say “I”. We […]
Math Is Still...
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...
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The difference between creative & uncreative people When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to...
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When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to capture it, share it or both.
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The Cultural Anthropology of React
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TinyPilot: Month 7 Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k...
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Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k in January. Most of TinyPilot’s sales came from a single positive YouTube review. TinyPilot is experiencing growing pains as I scramble to meet demand. Goal Grades At the start of...
The Pragmatic...
Cruel Changes at Twitter The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks...
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The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks after Elon Musk bought the company. Managers will have 20+ reports and are expected to code at least 20% of the time.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Interdisciplinary Website Maker Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech....
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Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech. While I myself am not an English major (more on that below) his desire to be interdisciplinary parallels my own. I began to realize I was that most horrifying of things:...
The Modern House
The Good Stuff: six materially focused homes with both substance and style Decorating a home is a substantial matter – quite literally. The materials we choose to live...
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Decorating a home is a substantial matter – quite literally. The materials we choose to live alongside inform our understanding and enjoyment of spaces, which is something we’re quite invested in. As such, we’ve got pretty good at seeing the wood from the trees. Here, […]
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Take Back The City On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the...
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On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the middle of a New York City street with a bullhorn. Why? Vecause he’s positioned himself near a meeting on the Highline … Continue reading → The post Take Back The City appeared first on...
TheCollector
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Giving your startup a point of view * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post [https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup] is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rich Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The second-floor problem remains difficult for...
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Saturn Family Portrait From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with...
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From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. This is a full-color look at a view that was originally published in...
Posts on Made of...
Write testable code by writing generic code Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains...
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Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains several software engineers nearly as obsessed with software testing as I am): uhh, so I’m writing some code to handle an econnreset… how do I test this? This is a good question!...
NeuroLogica Blog
3D Printed Rocket Launches This is one of those technology news stories where the implications of the technology is greater...
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This is one of those technology news stories where the implications of the technology is greater than the thing itself. Relativity Space, a rocket company based in California, launched their first Terran-1 rocket. The launch ultimately failed when the second stage failed to...
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Scania Offices by Giant Leap Giant Leap designed Scania’s new South African head office, creating an inspiring and unified space...
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Giant Leap designed Scania’s new South African head office, creating an inspiring and unified space that embodies the brand’s values,...
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Diaries of Note
Morbidness—is it? English author George Gissing was known for writing tales of Victorian life that often centred...
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English author George Gissing was known for writing tales of Victorian life that often centred around class struggles and social issues—a literary prowess that led George Orwell to acclaim him as “perhaps the best novelist England has produced.” When he penned this poignant diary...
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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...
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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
NeuroLogica Blog
Fossil Fuels – Reduce Demand or Supply? This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a...
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This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a somewhat of a dilemma. Is the optimal path to reductions and eventual elimination of fossil fuel burning through reduced demand or supply? There are some interesting tradeoffs...
The DESK Magazine
It's live! Introducing the new HOVS website The new HOVS (House of van Schneider) aka my personal (studio) website, is finally LIVE!
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Some people understand REST and HTTP
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40 companies that are beating the West Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley...
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Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
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Post-Apocalyptic Illustrations of Tokyo in Ruins Shinjuku Station – the road has collapsed on the South side of the station, revealing pools of blue...
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Shinjuku Station – the road has collapsed on the South side of the station, revealing pools of blue water that have formed on the train tracks Stories about the collapse of civilization and order—apocalyptic stories—endlessly seduce us. As terrifying as the real thing would...
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6 months ago
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
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Why journalists can't quit Twitter The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
a year ago
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The 8 Jobs of Management Recently, John Cutler...
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Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
Paul Graham: Essays
A Student's Guide to Startups
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The Map is Mostly...
Dispatches from childhood Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with...
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Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way. Everything is visceral to them, and they carry this visceral interiority everywhere.
IEEE Spectrum
Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room Any home baker will confirm that, even if you have all the right ingredients and follow the recipe,...
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Any home baker will confirm that, even if you have all the right ingredients and follow the recipe, things don’t always turn out the way you envisioned. Such was the life of inventor extraordinaire Granville T. Woods. Who was Granville T. Woods? Woods was endowed with...
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How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very...
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A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mans Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: English would be so much funnier, for generations,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: English would be so much funnier, for generations, if we made a one-time switch from men to mans. Today's News:
mtlynch.io
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it...
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An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it names names and exposes internal Facebook discussions that were never meant to be public. An engaging read, but the narrator is painfully obnoxious.
Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: against the destructive will of Mammon It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely...
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It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely opposed to the modern world, to its infrastructure and to its thinking.
The Ruffian
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mtlynch.io
How I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog A year in blogging I started this blog in May of last year. I don’t mean to brag, but by last April,...
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A year in blogging I started this blog in May of last year. I don’t mean to brag, but by last April, after less than a year of blogging, I was pulling in upwards of 20 visitors per day, several of whom were not spam bots. That number reached as high as 50 visitors on days when I...
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Inside Marie Antoinette’s Reopened Apartment At Versailles
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2018: Reflections on trying to start an internet business A review post on what I've done this year in terms of trying to start an Internet business
over a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use. Today's News:
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WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world...
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For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
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Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.2 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
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I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.2 release includes a new feature: nsnotify can now send NOTIFY messages from a specific source address Thanks to Adam...
mtlynch.io
Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...
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For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Zig is a great language for performance...
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Notes on Progress: The stats gap Students understand just enough statistics to get by
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Artificial Ignorance
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Seth's Blog
The reality of chasing pop It’s tempting for a creator. To make a pop hit, a song or a book or a meme that becomes a popular...
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It’s tempting for a creator. To make a pop hit, a song or a book or a meme that becomes a popular idea and part of the culture. In our lifetimes, it’s become possible to imagine that you could even make a living creating pop. But pop is a harsh mistress, because pop means...
Maps Mania
Today's Global Heating Forecast
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Simply Explained
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it) There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button...
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over a year ago
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button or link. This is called a layout shift, and Google has declared war on them. They've added layout shifts to the Core Web Vitals, and if your website has a lot of them, it will get...
Platformer
Meta doubles down on layoffs The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the...
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The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the trend?
Londonist
Where To Watch The Rugby World Cup 2023 In London Pubs and bars screening the action.
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Noahpinion
Thoughts on techno-optimism What it means to me, and why I support it.
a year ago
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976 The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine...
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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. The drug was illegal – still is, of course – and publishing a book on it is risky. But it an effort to produce the...
The Convivial...
Why An Easier Life Is Not Necessarily Happier Remembering Albert Borgmann (1937-2023)
a year ago
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Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
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Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
Charles Chen
On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
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Punk Bands In 1970s London: Rescued And Never-Before-Seen-Photos Free exhibition only on for a month.
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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...
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Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
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This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
Common Edge
Braids by Jade: L.A. Street Art Through Two Lenses Artist Lauren Halsey's visual chronicles of her changing neighborhood.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
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MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great. This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...