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Man Ray, Mathematical Objects (1934-36) The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at...
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The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris made a great impression on Surrealist artists. Allegedly, after Max Ernst brought these wood, metal, wire, and plaster forms to Man Ray’s...
The Modern House
Field Work: A guided architectural tour of the Thames – 'a pukka example' of a team away day Earlier this month, The Modern House team had the pleasure of Benedict O’Looney’s company. For a...
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Earlier this month, The Modern House team had the pleasure of Benedict O’Looney’s company. For a full three hours, the architect, historian and former punk musician stood at the prow of a riverboat in the Thames and narrated the rich, complex history of the buildings […]
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maps Mania
You Don't Know Africa
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
diamond geezer
Revisiting Northwall Road Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Yesterday was one of the ten busiest days ever on this blog. Almost ten thousand people turned up. • When an American website got excited about the location of pylons in London they linked to something I'd written 4 days earlier. That was my 3rd best ever day. American website...
Irrational...
Better to micromanage than be disengaged. For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
Good Enough
That time Marvel secretly endorsed my podcast with “the greatest comic book cover of all time” This is a blog post that has nothing to do with Good Enough, but I was told “There needs to be a...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a blog post that has nothing to do with Good Enough, but I was told “There needs to be a record of this somewhere on the internet!” and I don’t have my own blog. Years ago my friend and I ran a radio show called Gorilla Madness, which we also spun out into a podcast after...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Addition Is Perched Above This Home In Texas Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing...
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Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing bungalow in Austin, Texas. Owners Dylan and Annie, a landscape designer and a hairstylist, wanted to keep their backyard intact, and not move during construction nor disrupt the mature...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why YC
over a year ago
diamond geezer
60-odd years of game show debuts 60-odd years of UK game show debuts 1962 University Challenge 1963 Password 1964 Mr and Mrs 1965...
a year ago
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a year ago
60-odd years of UK game show debuts 1962 University Challenge 1963 Password 1964 Mr and Mrs 1965 Call My Bluff 1966 It's A Knockout 1967 Ask The Family 1968 Just A Minute 1969 Jokers Wild 1970 A Question of Sport 1971 Sale of the Century 1972 Mastermind 1973 We Are The...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
a year ago
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a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Disadvantages of Wine' An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking...
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3 months ago
An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking wine or any fermented liquor, because, as he acknowledged to us, he could not do it in moderation. Lady M’Leod would hardly believe him, and said, ‘I am sure, sir, you would not carry...
TheCollector
Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church undefined
9 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to better handle stress in a startup? Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on your journey. The […] The post How to better handle stress in a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Shocking Scandals: 10 of the Most Controversial US Elections undefined
3 months ago
Noahpinion
Here...comes...INDIA!!! The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.
a year ago
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper? undefined
9 months ago
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
7 months ago
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The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Which VC firm should I pitch? A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him, but then realized that most of my…
Flashbak
One Last Look at the Hotel where ‘Trainspotting’, ‘The Big Man’, ‘Taggart’ and Other Shows Were... You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
You may have never heard of the George Hotel, which once sat at the top of Buchanan Street in Glasgow like a ‘great carbuncle’, but you have probably seen parts of its interiors from films like Trainspotting (the circular room used as a backdrop for the drug scene with Keith...
Archinect - Features
How to Understand Architecture Business Conditions Using the AIA's Architecture Billings... Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in...
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7 months ago
Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in billings by architecture firms in the United States. Over time, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has become a valuable metric for charting the economic health of the...
37signals Dev
Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Geometry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke conceived while reading Tarski's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke conceived while reading Tarski's biography, a fact which will cause four of you to laugh politely. Today's News: Hey guys, ask us anything because WE TOOK OVER THE BARNES & NOBLE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
TheCollector
Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Who Were the 43 Group? undefined
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
TheCollector
When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin? undefined
a year ago
Christopher Butler
object – 1999 Qualcomm QCP-860 This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was the Qualcomm QCP-860. It was marketed at the time as a “thin phone.” By today’s standards, that might seem silly, but at the time, phones were generally much chunkier. Like this...
TheCollector
What Was Life Really Like for WWI Tank Crews? undefined
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Burial Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They must've felt so in tune with their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They must've felt so in tune with their environment. Today's News: Next Tuesday!
Kagi Blog
Summarize anything with the Universal Summarizer Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Your Greatest Strength Is Also Your Greatest Weakness Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only...
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5 months ago
Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only trade-offs.” This applies to technology too (and, if you really think about it, life generally — but we won’t go that far). As an example, what makes npm great? It’s so easy to install a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where You Can Explore the World's Rivers And Protect Them
a year ago
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Early Life: From Rural Kentucky to the White House undefined
3 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Gave Themselves Without Idle Words to Death' Rudyard Kipling was barely twenty years old when he wrote his “Prelude” to Departmental Ditties...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rudyard Kipling was barely twenty years old when he wrote his “Prelude” to Departmental Ditties (1886), which includes these lines: “The deaths ye died I have watched beside, / And the lives ye led were mine.” Eugene Sledge was nineteen when he enlisted in the Marine Corps a year...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Bayesian Learning Lets update our priors! Oh wait we have none.
over a year ago
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters “This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming     Many … Continue reading "Dear...
Nat Eliason's...
Proof You Can Do Hard Things An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
a year ago
Sean Carroll
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field theory, the error bar, gauge...
devonzuegel.com
Book review: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C. Scott. It explores how the unique characteristics of grain-based agriculture shaped the early history of states. While I did learn many interesting historical facts and trends from...
CONTEMPORIST
Metal Cladding Wraps Around The Large Gable Roof Of This House BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the...
a year ago
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a year ago
BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the West and the East, linking a Chinese-Canadian family’s present lifestyle to their past memories. Located in Vancouver, Canada, the home has a prominent gable form that floats atop...
Jonas Hietala
Up like a Sun, Down like a Pancake I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But it just don’t feel right to me. I’m not prepared, I feel a little bit stressed and I don’t really have faith in my game so I’m gonna step down this one as well. But it’s fine, Ludum...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
  Our oldest got his second jab today. If we’re lucky it’s just in time for him not to join the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our oldest got his second jab today. If we’re lucky it’s just in time for him not to join the...
Retail Design Blog
Padel 1.8.5 by Salto Studio A warehouse. Eight courts. Five sculptural objects. A disused industrial warehouse is transformed...
a week ago
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a week ago
A warehouse. Eight courts. Five sculptural objects. A disused industrial warehouse is transformed into a boutique padel club, providing sophisticated...
Seth's Blog
How many sparks? That’s the tempting question. How much hustle, hoopla and initiative do we need to get this idea...
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a week ago
That’s the tempting question. How much hustle, hoopla and initiative do we need to get this idea ignited in the marketplace… But the much better question is: How much kindling do we have? Kindling doesn’t happen all at once. It’s the result of investments over time. We can earn...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments... "The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often...
a year ago
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a year ago
"The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The intellect arises out of it, is rooted in it, draws its nourishment and sustenance from it."
TheCollector
Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy undefined
3 months ago
diamond geezer
Where in London? It's Where in London? time again. You can see the photos individually here: NW NE SW...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It's Where in London? time again. You can see the photos individually here: NW NE SW SE Answers NW: ???Vanbrough Crescent, Lime Tree Park, Northolt UB5--> NE: Stansgate Road shops, Dagenham RM10 SW: Heatherlea Grove, The Hamptons, Worcester Park KT4 SE: The Beck, High Broom...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coddled Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It really only gets good in the 4th...
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect? Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
Remains of the Day
American Idle I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok. All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
Rozado’s Visual...
DepolarizingGPT A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
a year ago
TheCollector
13 Surprising Facts About William Shakespeare undefined
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
“Catch me if you can!” — How Alvik learns to dodge trouble with AI, featuring Roni Bandini Have you ever discovered a cool piece of tech buried in your drawer and thought, “This could make...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Have you ever discovered a cool piece of tech buried in your drawer and thought, “This could make for an awesome project”? That’s exactly what happened to Roni Bandini, maker, writer, electronics artist – and Arduino Alvik Star!  Bandini began coding at 10 years old, and has...
TheCollector
What Was Little Turtle’s War? undefined
3 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fiona Black My name is Fiona Black and I am an artist, folk musician, writer, history geek and lover of stories....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
My name is Fiona Black and I am an artist, folk musician, writer, history geek and lover of stories. Home for me is the Highland village of Evanton, just north of Inverness on the shore of the Cromarty Firth. I am happy to have returned to live and create in the Highlands, and I...
Mazdak
5 best investments during high interest rates Interest rates are rising, and that means it's time to rethink your investment strategy. When...
a year ago
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a year ago
Interest rates are rising, and that means it's time to rethink your investment strategy. When interest rates rise, the value of existing bonds declines, and stocks can become more volatile. However, there are still a number of investments that can perform well in a high interest...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
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...
a year ago
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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,...
The Marginalian
Befriending a Blackbird Friendship is a lifeline twined of truth and tenderness. That we extend it to each other is...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Friendship is a lifeline twined of truth and tenderness. That we extend it to each other is benediction enough. To extend it across the barrier of biology and sentience, to another creature endowed with a wholly other consciousness, partakes of the miraculous. Born in England in...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Convince Investors
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try! Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
SatPost by Trung...
Write For Yourself Not your audience.
6 months ago
Identity Designed
Contemporary Art Now Designed by Knom, Madrid.
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Knows to Get a Dollar' The word tummler I learned from A.J. Liebling. It’s the title of a story he collected in his first...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The word tummler I learned from A.J. Liebling. It’s the title of a story he collected in his first book, Back Where I Came From (1938). “Tummler” was published in the February 26, 1938 issue of The New Yorker and begins:  “To the boys of the I.&Y., Hymie Katz is a hero. He is a...
Old Vintage...
The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox) Most of my systems are microcomputers (and commensurately sized), though I do have some moderately...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of my systems are microcomputers (and commensurately sized), though I do have some moderately larger beasts: you've met homer, my 1987 HP 9000/350 rack system, and Floodgap is powered by uppsala, a 2U-in-a-tower IBM POWER6 520 running AIX. But my first "large" machine, and...
Joel Gascoigne
Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
The Marginalian
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on the Antidote to Self-Righteousness and Our Best... This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand...
a month ago
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a month ago
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-righteousness to distract from the uncomfortable unknowns, from the great open...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing issue2pr
over a year ago
macwright.com
How I write and publish the microblog by () This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too...
a year ago
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a year ago
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too “official” feeling to post little notes-to-self and tech tricks and whatnot. The setup is intentionally pretty boring. I have been using Obsidian for notetaking, and I store micro blog...
AI Snake Oil
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Copyright Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, if you think Present is bad you should've...
a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works undefined
a year ago
diamond geezer
River Wogebourne THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead...
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7 months ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead (5 miles) The Wogebourne is a five mile tributary of the River Thames in the southeast London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, that flows generally in a northeasterly direction,...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates April 19
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Can You Get Banned from Flying for Skiplagging?
a year ago
Nothing Human
Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
Tech + Economics +...
OpenSea slashes NFT marketplace staff by 50% OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the...
a year ago
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a year ago
OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. The company would not ...
This Space
39 Books: 2022 "Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
"Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the universe." This line from Paul Stubbs' remarkable essay collection The Return to Silence is not an epigram to Marjorie Perloff's Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics, but it might have...
The Turn Signal RSS...
In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It To illustrate how climate controls have evolved, I'll compare two generations of Mercedes S-Class:...
a year ago
TheCollector
Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama? undefined
3 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
Contemporist...
A Grid Of Large Windows Maximizes The Water Views At This Modern Home Architecture firm Worrell Yeung has shared photos of a modern home they completed that's a study on...
a month ago
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a month ago
Architecture firm Worrell Yeung has shared photos of a modern home they completed that's a study on a 2x2x7 grid structure in three dimensions.
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments. In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
A Smart Bear
How annual pre-pay creates an infinite marketing budget Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's...
5 months ago
essay – snarfed.org
Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
a month ago
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a month ago
Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
The Rational Walk
Biden’s Withdrawal and the Limits of Gaslighting President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the...
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President Biden's withdrawal from the election is the culmination of months of gaslighting by the Democratic Party and allies in the mainstream media.
Anecdotal Evidence
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The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without the most important resource of them all.
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Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
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Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Let’s start at the beginning—back to the environment where you grew up....
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I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
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Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as the UK’s leading design-led estate agency. How did we get here? Today, co-founders Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill were asked this very question on BBC Radio 4’s Gap […]
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For years, I’ve hired freelancers through a site called Upwork. The site attracts many different professionals, so I’ve used it to find everything from cartoonists to software developers to copy editors. Some were great, some were disastrous, but none of them had ever tried to...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Formula 1 is, by many accounts, the pinnacle of car racing. F1 cars are among the fastest in the world, particularly around the tight corners of the various paved tracks across the globe. Drivers can experience...
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No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
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It’s often the case that when we do good things for others, we open ourselves to new risks. A student helps a classmate, only to get accused of cheating. A friend lends money, which strains the friendship. A driver stops their car for a pedestrian, then gets rear-ended. We do so...
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The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago when I got serious about classical literature.  I had never heard of him, partly because of the odd historical artifact where what he writes is called “Menippean satire” even though...
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Located in the wilderness of of Hanno City (Saitama), about an hour outside of Tokyo, is Saturday Factory, a design studio founded by Satoshi Odagiri in 2015. Inspired by the surrounding forests, rivers and wildflowers, Odagiri creates balancing mobiles that incorporate materials...
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I wrote an article about the subject of getting beyond the limits of gigabit network file transfers. My solution is to use multiple gigabit network cards and use Linux interface bonding to create virtual 2 gigabit network interfaces. The solution is to use mode 0 or round robin...
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At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
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Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project. If you want to make a change, you update the...
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On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Yorktown effectively came to an end. Situated in Virginia, Yorktown had been a critical stronghold for the British forces led by General Charles Cornwallis. The American and French...
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Diaries of Note
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Remembered chiefly for his short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hamlin Garland earned praise for his vivid portrayals of Midwestern life, and for finding the profound in the mundane. Born in Wisconsin in 1860, it was in 1898 that Garland began to keep a daily diary in...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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An old friend back in upstate New York and I were texting. We worked years ago as reporters for the same newspaper. She was married then to her second husband, who had multiple sclerosis and died slowly and horribly. When she had to  go out of town, I would stay with him...
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If you look at a map of the U.S., there's a few routes that will get you from Pensacola FL to Wisconsin. They all have one things in common: they pass through Illinois. Unfortunately, there isn't much camping in Illinois, and what camping there is... is generally not great. We've...
diamond geezer
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My latest numberplate-spotting game, as I said yesterday, is trying to spot all the pairs of letters at the start of a vehicle registration plate. I tried spotting L-pairs over the weekend - a dozen attempts in various parts of town for roughly fifteen minutes each. The dark...
A Smart Bear
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Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
Math Is Still...
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger...
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Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger ones, offering a new look into the brain’s number system and its connections to memory and mathematics. The post Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better...
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“New books can have few associations. They may reach us on the best deckle-edged Whatman paper, in the newest types of famous presses, with backs of embossed vellum, with tasteful tasselled strings,--and yet be no more to us than the constrained and uneasy acquaintances of...
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The little person at the control panel, the one who sees what the retina produces, the one who decides, the one who speaks up… (This is the dualist solution to the free will problem–yes, I have a physical body, they say, but I also have a little human inside of me that gets to...
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Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting the company’s culture with open areas, communal spaces,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When humans finally step into the Experience Machine, their choice of paradise will be heartbreaking. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
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Something I’ve been thinking a lot about is: How can we fund the next Renaissance? How can we create a world where artists are better funded and…
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This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of Commoncog's best ideas, and a preview of several upcoming experiments.
The Rational Walk
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In 1955, Charlie Munger's nine year old son died of leukemia, a disease with a nearly 100% death rate at the time. How did he overcome his grief and endure in life?
macwright.com
A shortcut for bash using tt by () I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new...
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I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation: I wrote this tiny zsh function...
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2 This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
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This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
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It’s been a while since my last post! Since then, I’ve been focusing on growing Remote Rocketship. I’m super excited to announce that it’s reached $2,000 MRR! 🥳 You may recall from the last post that I mentioned that the only sustainable channel to grow the website is SEO and...
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This is part of an ongoing series about our LLM technology:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin KitThe New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram LanguagePrompts for Work & Play:...
99% Invisible
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Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as Americans weighed in on which portrait of Elvis would be forever immortalized on a 29 cent US postage stamp. It was put to a popular vote: should the stamp feature an image of...
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Tikalon Blog is now in archive mode. Here's a directory of links to easily printed and saved articles. If you're willing to wait a while for the download, a zip file of all the blog articles can be found at the link below. Note, however, that these articles are copyrighted and...
Musings on Markets
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In this, the first full week in November 2024, the big news stories of this week are political, as the US presidential election reached its climactic moment on Tuesday, but I don't write about politics, not because I do not have political views, but because I reserve those views...
Spoon & Tamago
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all photos by Ju Yeon Lee courtesy Schemata Architects The number of public baths, or sento as they’re referred to in Japan, have been in chronic decline since the late 1960s. As the number of homes with their own private bath proliferated, public bathhouses shrank from over...
Artificial Ignorance
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Toot toot! Go the trumpets! Today's News: Hey! If you want a signed Bea Wolf or A City on Mars, or Soonish, *or* Phil Plait's new book Under Alien Skies, buy here.
TokyoDev
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In May 2022, Elon Musk tweeted this cartoon: The creator of the cartoon, Colin Wright, explained it like this: At the outset, I stand happily beside ‘my fellow liberal,’ who is slightly to my left. In 2012 he sprints to the left, dragging out the left end of the political...
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Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light beach reading, here is some light map reading. Not much to comment about, just some maps and related items I like. First of all since the Olympics are in Paris, a nice papercut map you...
History Today Feed
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Announcing The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness! Click this comic or check the blog! Today's News: Thank you!
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How to conduct a system design interview The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview....
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The system design interview is a great way to assess the seniority of a candidate in an interview. You can find a lot on the Internet on how…
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Diaries of Note
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On the evening of 14th April 1865, as he sat in Ford’s Theatre with his wife Mary, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth, who fired a .44 caliber Derringer pistol at the back of Lincoln’s head and then fled the scene. A...
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New work attacks a long-standing barrier to understanding how prime numbers are distributed. The post A New Generation of Mathematicians Pushes Prime Number Barriers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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A Beautiful Site
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Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
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Biden is right that we need to raise taxes But his plan needs a lot of work.
7 months ago
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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons" My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and bigger premises a few blocks...