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Anecdotal Evidence
'I Have Finally Written on Politics" The April 1970 issue of the now-defunct New American Review included one of those self-important...
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The April 1970 issue of the now-defunct New American Review included one of those self-important symposia beloved by editors, this one titled “The Writer’s Situation.” A surprising participant was J.V. Cunningham, who seldom played the conventional literary game. A poet, critic,...
ntietz.com blog
Your app doesn't need to know my gender So often when we sign up for an application, it asks us for our gender, sex, or title. For example,...
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a year ago
So often when we sign up for an application, it asks us for our gender, sex, or title. For example, there is a cycling app called Zwift which I use to ride indoors. When you sign up, you enter your gender. On the app, they say that you need to be honest because it impacts...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
./techtipsy
Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
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over a year ago
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
David Perell
Hugging the X-Axis I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience...
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I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience it all? Change it up. Visit every country. Try a bunch of careers. The menu of life is vast, and it’d be a shame to only order a single entrée.  When I say I was allergic to...
The Marginalian
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter NEW Event
4 months ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Resiliency patterns of distributed systems I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The...
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I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems : Resiliency Patterns. The chapter is all about failures and their…
Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
8 months ago
The Modern House
Explore Simon Allford’s ‘family home in the sky’ in our new film series
10 months ago
Diaries of Note
The news from remote France grows more ominous every day Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life...
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Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life in the trenches and his criticism of the conflict. In 1918, he had already gained recognition for his poetry, with his first collection, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, published...
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...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
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Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
Seth's Blog
A thoughtful review Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy,...
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Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy, and I’m so delighted the book resonated the way it did. Case: You are a corporate strategic planner – someone immersed in defining a future for your organization. But lately, you...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Help You Achieve Personal Growth Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over 2000 years, yet its teachings are still relevant today. In recent years, stoicism has gained popularity as a tool for personal growth. The principles of stoicism can help us develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and...
The American Scholar
“How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson appeared...
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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson appeared first on The American Scholar.
High Signal
Making thousands from Bubble courses Kieran Bell is a founder specializing in teaching people how to use the no-code software Bubble.
a year ago
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Rest of World -...
Visa and Mastercard are pouring money into Africa From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S....
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9 months ago
From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent.
Many Worlds
The Evolving Science of Technosignatures The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago as an effort to pick up radio...
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a year ago
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago as an effort to pick up radio signals from distant civilizations.  The effort was centered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and was by today’s standards quite rudimentary. A much broader search...
ntietz.com blog
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With...
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8 months ago
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With great logs, you can see what your application is doing. And without them? Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out. Instead, you wonder why your customers...
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
"Now is the Most Important Time" Jensen Huang, Cillian Murphy, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah Winfrey on the power of being...
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9 months ago
Jensen Huang, Cillian Murphy, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah Winfrey on the power of being present.
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023 undefined
9 months ago
Luxagraf:...
St. Andrews Leaving Fort Pickens made me a little sad. We've spent so much time here over the years its started...
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Leaving Fort Pickens made me a little sad. We've spent so much time here over the years its started to feel like one of our many homes. But there are time limits. We can't stay any more this season, and with our current plans we probably won't be back for several years. I'll miss...
Mazdak
Unlocking Tax Savings and Building Wealth for Your Children: A Smart Strategy for Business Owners As a business owner, you're constantly seeking ways to optimize your operations, reduce costs, and...
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As a business owner, you're constantly seeking ways to optimize your operations, reduce costs, and maximize profits. But have you considered a strategy that not only benefits your business but also sets your children up for financial success? The concept of hiring your children...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Five Best Hotels in Switzerland
a year ago
xkcd.com
Range Safety
11 months ago
Tom Blomfield
Don't write tests - The Hidden Cost of TDD I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments...
over a year ago
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I’ve been following the TDD/testing debate with some interest; I work at an early-stage payments startup called GoCardless where we test religiously. We’re not dogmatic about whether the tests come first or not, but code doesn’t get deployed without full unit & acceptance tests....
The Works in...
Lost Science When discoveries are forgotten and then found
11 months ago
Wuthering...
Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and their Stoic self-help books - I shall not be afraid when my last hour... The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at...
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The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at least until I read Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (1st C.) several years ago and discovered that it was a self-help book, one of the founding self-help books.  The Meditations of...
Oxide Computer...
The Cloud Computer Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer —...
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Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer — along with our $44M Series A financing. From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in my 2020 Stanford talk, we have had three core beliefs as a company: Cloud computing is the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stretch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel about Lamarckian evolution, e.g. where parents find out about a secret tattoo when Junior is born with it. Today's News:
Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Better Ruby Presenters
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy? undefined
3 months ago
Mazdak
A Brighter Outlook for Home Buyers in 2024? The Federal Reserve's recent announcement of potential interest rate cuts in 2024 has sent ripples...
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The Federal Reserve's recent announcement of potential interest rate cuts in 2024 has sent ripples through the housing market, sparking both excitement and cautious optimism among prospective buyers and existing homeowners alike. While the prospect of lower mortgage rates is...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
2 weeks ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Why Do Species Evolve to Get Bigger or Smaller Have you heard of Cope’s Rule or Foster’s Rule? American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first...
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Have you heard of Cope’s Rule or Foster’s Rule? American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first noticed a trend in the fossil record that certain animal lineages tend to get bigger over evolutionary time. Most famously this was noticed in the horse lineage, beginning with small...
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget` by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on...
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2 weeks ago
by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
The American Scholar
Interlude: The Idea of “The West” A brief look at a grand narrative The post Interlude: The Idea of “The West” appeared first on The...
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A brief look at a grand narrative The post Interlude: The Idea of “The West” appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus,...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2024, including Aeschylus, Herodotus, the Odyssey, and American Scripture.
The Thinking Cap
Your Platform Is as Strong as Its Identity Layer Analyzing platforms through a layered cake of identity, social networking, and super apps.
over a year ago
Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
12 hours ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Control as Liability
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
More Luigi! Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one...
over a year ago
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Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago. In case anyone is interested I'll include it too:
Darek Kay
Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are...
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While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are displayed when sharing a link on social media or messaging apps. Here's an example from WhatsApp: For each photo that I publish, I create a WebP thumbnail for the gallery. I wanted...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 1 Livecoding my own Dev.to CMS with Next.js + Preact + TypeScript + Tailwind UI
over a year ago
99% Invisible
Backfired: The Vaping Wars [EPISODE] For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the...
6 months ago
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For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the downsides. Cigarettes sans the things that make smoking the biggest cause of preventable death in America like tar, carcinogens, etc. Cigarette companies tried to create “safe,”...
The Berkeley...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
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To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for constraining the agent to regions of high data density throughout its trajectory (left). Here, we present an approach which achieves this goal by combining features of density...
bt RSS Feed
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
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over a year ago
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I’ll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let’s take a look at all the...
Seth's Blog
Confusion about performance The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two...
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The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two components: –The story and expectations and cultural impact of what you do (the story). –The deliverables that are objectively measured (the spec). It helps to have both. Many...
Arduino Blog
A beautiful custom calculator built with IV-12 VFD tubes Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many...
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Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many years, because their distinct orange glow carries a lot of vintage appeal. But VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) tubes have been gaining in popularity recently and have different —...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Comfort, Solace, Inspiration' “A few books, however,” writes Michael Dirda, “become lifelong companions, works we regularly turn...
a year ago
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“A few books, however,” writes Michael Dirda, “become lifelong companions, works we regularly turn to for comfort, solace, inspiration.” The reviewer identifies a slightly different category, “the books we find ourselves crazy about and hope to revisit someday,” as distinguished,...
SatPost by Trung...
9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
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2 months ago
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
xkcd.com
Fever
11 months ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 3 My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with...
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My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with collaborators and old friends, but here goes: Pedram Roushan from Google gave an interesting talk about noisy intermediate-scale quantum experiments for simulation.  He showed some...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 43 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
10 months ago
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Mazdak
Binance CEO Steps Down and Pleads Guilty as Part of $4.3 Billion Settlement Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful...
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Binance is the world's largest crypto exchange, and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is the most powerful player in the industry. This deal puts an end to a years-long investigation into Binance. The deal: CZ agreed to pay $50 million in fines and is prohibited from operating or managing...
Londonist
Putney Gets New Embankment And Boat Race Marker First of seven riverside improvements from the supersewer.
a year ago
Mazdak
2024: A Roadmap for AI's Next Big Step 2023 was a whirlwind year for artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT wowed us with its ability to...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
2023 was a whirlwind year for artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT wowed us with its ability to generate human-quality text, while chipmaker Nvidia pushed the boundaries of what's possible with graphics processing units (GPUs). But amidst the hype, there were also concerns about...
Common Edge
How to Be a Better Architect Than Me My recent talk to high school seniors.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates’s Teaching Inspire Cynicism? undefined
10 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/08 Commodore Computing International Mag Time for some humor
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
3 weeks ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400 <![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the AArch64 version on the Raspberry Pi OS desktop: SDL version of Medley Interlisp on a Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry Pi OS. The online version of Medley runs well and smoothly...
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass? undefined
10 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Is making mistakes a necessity for success? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I would like to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I would like to ponder whether making mistakes is actually a necessary part of the process of achieving whatever form of “success” we are striving for. I’d love your thoughts in the comments. A...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Moment Before the Germans Will Arrive' A Jewish friend writes: “The distraction of the war and its repercussions around the world is making...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Jewish friend writes: “The distraction of the war and its repercussions around the world is making concentration on other things difficult.  . . . I wish I could tune the news out. But the stakes for the future of Israel and of Jewish life generally are too great for me to be...
Bits about Money
Improving how credit cards work under the covers Card networks are legacy systems. Some bugs have persisted for decades, surprisingly, but they can...
a year ago
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a year ago
Card networks are legacy systems. Some bugs have persisted for decades, surprisingly, but they can be fixed. Stripe provides examples.
Seth's Blog
Working with problems They’re everywhere we look. Here are a few thoughts on the ones that won’t go away: First, is it a...
a year ago
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a year ago
They’re everywhere we look. Here are a few thoughts on the ones that won’t go away: First, is it a problem or a situation? Problems, by definition, have solutions. You might not like the cost of the solution, the trade-offs it leads to, or the time and effort it takes, but...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Build system insights
over a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
Our First Community Call This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO community, courses, Motivations for picking a startup idea Decision making differences between short holds and longer holds.
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road? undefined
4 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
Different kinds of people It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive wine to beer, or prefer amusement parks to bowling. Except everyone is the same and everyone is different. What’s actually useful is to realize that in this moment, under these...
TheCollector
Guimarães: 9 Historic Sites in Portugal’s Cradle City undefined
2 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro
over a year ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable? undefined
3 months ago
99% Invisible
Long Strange Tape [EPISODE] The Cassette tape was great in so many ways, but let’s be honest, they never really sounded great....
a year ago
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a year ago
The Cassette tape was great in so many ways, but let’s be honest, they never really sounded great.  But because the cassette was so much cheaper and easier to use and portable, a lot of people didn’t care so much about the audio quality. They just wanted to be able to use...
blag
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
10 months ago
The Forney Flyer
Making the Most of Being Stuck I'm taking a quick break from the series I was doing about our past, to update you on what's going...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm taking a quick break from the series I was doing about our past, to update you on what's going on here right now.  I mentioned a while back that I would update you regarding our summer plans when we knew more. Well, the uncertainty has persisted throughout the summer, so I...
Louwrentius
'Tool of the month: iftop - advanced bandwidth monitoring' The utility iftop allows you to monitor bandwidth usage. It is in some sense similar to tools like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The utility iftop allows you to monitor bandwidth usage. It is in some sense similar to tools like iptraf, dstat and bwm-ng. Iftop is more special than those. Because iftop lets you monitor the speed of individual TCP / UDP connections. Basically, you will be able to determine...
Tech and Tea
Progress can be slow We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
On store Cult running shoe brand On is accelerating the roll-out of new stores in leading cities across the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Cult running shoe brand On is accelerating the roll-out of new stores in leading cities across the planet, and very...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
over a year ago
balajis.com
#5 - India's Largest Exit Listen now (161 min) | The $16B acquisition of Flipkart was the largest in Indian tech history....
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (161 min) | The $16B acquisition of Flipkart was the largest in Indian tech history. Balaji speaks with Flipkart founder/CEO Binny Bansal on how he built the company from scratch when Indian startups weren't even a thing — and how Flipkart's rise parallels the rise of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Subjective Neurological Experience On the SGU we recently talked about aphantasia, the condition in which some people have a decreased...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
On the SGU we recently talked about aphantasia, the condition in which some people have a decreased or entirely absent ability to imagine things. The term was coined recently, in 2015, by neurologist Adam Zeman, who described the condition of “congenital aphantasia,” that he...
The Roots of...
2023 in review 2023 was another big year for me and The Roots of Progress. It was a year when ROP as an...
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11 months ago
2023 was another big year for me and The Roots of Progress. It was a year when ROP as an organization really started to take off. Even though the org itself was formed in 2021, at first it was just a vehicle for my own intellectual work, plus a few side projects. Last year we...
CONTEMPORIST
6,000 Pieces Of Discarded Whiskey Barrels Were Used In The Design Of This Bar Roomoo Design Studio has shared photos of their latest project, the Laizhou Bar in Shanghai, China,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Roomoo Design Studio has shared photos of their latest project, the Laizhou Bar in Shanghai, China, which features recycled whiskey barrels throughout its design. The designers used around 6,000 pieces of discarded wooden barrels dismantled from the whiskey barrels of a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Top 10 Locations and Hotels for Food Lovers
a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Early-stage engineering Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure — they all need to be set...
a year ago
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a year ago
Early on you need to be fast. Your team, your stack, your infrastructure — they all need to be set up for that. To do that, you have to have the confidence to break with best practices. And that confidence comes from knowing what risks actually matter in your context.
African History...
The General History of Africa a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Misrepresenting the Past and Its Culture' I was still a kid when Marshall McLuhan became the sage du jour in the sixties. Television was a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was still a kid when Marshall McLuhan became the sage du jour in the sixties. Television was a “cool” medium, according to Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). The cooler the medium, McLuhan wrote, “the more someone has to uncover and engage in the media” and...
xkcd.com
Professional Oaths
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Open source (and self-hosted) alternatives to Hotjar & FullStory Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture....
a year ago
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a year ago
Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
Rest of World -...
How this mental health care app is using ChatGPT to improve its chatbot Andrea Campos is the founder and CEO of Yana, a mental health care app and chatbot for Spanish and...
6 months ago
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article. As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
TheCollector
Operation Barbarossa: When Nazi Germany Tried to Invade the USSR undefined
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Using Crates.io with Buck
a year ago
Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
Code Of Honor
The making of Warcraft part 3 The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The first-ever multiplayer game of Warcraft was a crushing victory, an abject defeat, and a tie, all at once. Wait, how is that possible? Well, therein lies a tale. This tale grew organically during the writing to include game AI, the economics of the game business, fog of war...
Epic Web Dev
What is a Superset (in programming?) (article) Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
The Rational Walk
The Digest #205 Books I read in Q2, Buffett's estate plan, The magic of compounding, How to read a book, Portfolio...
5 months ago
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After your floorplan, and along with your use of sunlight, the materials you choose will make the biggest difference in the mood that inhabits your home. This post covers our own thinking and what we decided.
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I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software.
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The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an insight with potentially major ramifications. The post In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as something that we are not. For example, I've longed to be a surfer for years. The idea fascinated me so much that I even booked several weeks of surf lessons in Costa Rica. Surfing...
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For all you Lord of the Rings fans, remember: Brooklyn is not Mordor. No matter what similarities may exist.
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Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
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It’s been known for thousands of years that the primes go on forever, but new proofs give fresh insights into how theorems depend on one another. The post Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Most companies skimp on process improvement. But the surprising thing is that they do so not because they're bad or lazy — but because there are system dynamics that prevent them from doing so. We take a look at what those are.
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oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
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A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
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Talk to any creative person about building their portfolio and they’ll tell you: copy is the hardest part.
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"It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and complicatedly, matters the most."
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Around the beginning of 2022, my girlfriend and I were taking a hike overlooking Camps Bay. And while the vistas were gorgeous, I was waving my arms about and describing the future of virtual reality. Having worked as a game developer in the VR space for several years (back...
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Make a list of things you used to believe. Fervently, certainly, completely. Things that you were sure of, but now, with the passage of time and the benefit of experience, you know to be incorrect or incomplete. Of course, it’s not just mythical creatures beloved by children....
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The Oresteia is a trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 458 BC. Trapped in a cycle of lawless savagery, mankind finds its way toward due process and justice.
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The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been removed during restoration work. This is a minor decorative element for the church it was removed from. It’s visually important, of course, and we’re not removing it to throw it away,...
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Try patriotism A repost, with some updates.
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My wife, children, and I witnessed a cluster of high-flying, unidentified objects at 6pm on Christmas Day. At 6pm on the evening of Christmas Day, 2021, in Durham, NC, my wife and I were preparing to walk our children down the street to their grandparents’ house for...
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Trusting platforms In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based...
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In response to my post yesterday about how an internet of people has enabled a new wave of web-based marketplaces, Nick Mango commented…
diamond geezer
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Chris Sacca on the implied user contract Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what...
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Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…
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Feeding the algorithm The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It...
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The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It doesn’t matter if it’s good.” The SEO consultant explained that the website had to be loaded with keywords, and that a big budget needed to be set aside to develop inbound links....
The Rational Walk
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“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in polarized light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on November 27, 2012. I've processed the original monochrome image to approximate the color of the area at the time.” — Jason...
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
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Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
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Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
Weighty Thoughts
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Few broadcasters have left as indelible a mark on the hearts and minds of the British public as Sir Terry Wogan. A consummate professional, Wogan’s wit, warmth, and engaging personality endeared him to audiences throughout his long and successful career in radio and television....
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China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators – for low...
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As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators – for low pay and little future prospects.
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WanderJest: Month 2 Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly....
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Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly. WanderJest finally earned its first dollar of revenue, but in a way that is definitely unsustainable. Poor work habits have left me with the most stress I’ve felt in a year. Goal Grades At...
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I cannot understand how these people exist without ice R. D. Blumenfeld is best known for being editor of British tabloid the Daily Express for twenty...
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R. D. Blumenfeld is best known for being editor of British tabloid the Daily Express for twenty seven years—a role he took on in 1902. But for the first thirty years he lived in the U.S., and in 1887 was dispatched to England for the first time to report on Queen Victoria’s...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
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...
McMansion Hell
Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I&rsquo;m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing... Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m...
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Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly design columns. In this first one, I’ve done my best to expand on an earlier McMansion Hell post in order to answer the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'For the Ordinary Educated Man' I’ve read most of Robert Conquest’s books – history, poetry, fiction – and here is the sole passage...
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I’ve read most of Robert Conquest’s books – history, poetry, fiction – and here is the sole passage I have almost committed to memory:  “Literature exists for the ordinary educated man, and any literature that actively requires enormous training can be at best of only peripheral...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
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diamond geezer
The Bridge To Somewhere In the middle of Burgess Park is an old and seemingly pointless bridge. It's red, it crosses nothing...
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In the middle of Burgess Park is an old and seemingly pointless bridge. It's red, it crosses nothing worse than a footpath and you can walk/scoot/cycle past at ground level alongside its entire length. It need not be here and yet it is, and what's more it's just been repaired,...
Math Is Still...
Ninth Dedekind Number Found by Two Independent Groups The numbers count a variety of seemingly unrelated mathematical structures. The post...
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Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip) Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
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How to build an Auto-Playing Slideshow with React In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two...
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In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two sections: The trick
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On Change and Denial "It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to...
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"It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to accompany it like birds flocking before a storm."
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Meditation Part of our 80/20 series sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day focus on your sensory experiences...
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Part of our 80/20 series sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day focus on your sensory experiences (touch, sight, smell, sound). Try to perceive them as accurately as possible [1] [2] [3] footnotes: is that really all? on one level, yes -- both in the sense that
Jonas Hietala
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Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished up our lab series about pintos. The labs were among the best I’ve had yet and I learned a ton. We didn’t follow the official instructions but we had our own assigmnets....
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Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a deep-down, subconscious level, but I won’t say anything that I don’t truly believe. Unlike a phone or laptop, the Vision Pro is one of those products that is particularly tricky...
Notes on software...
Tail call elimination In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated...
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In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated in an interpreter, a compiler targeting C++, and a compiler targeting LLVM IR. Tail calls A tail call is a function call made at the end of a block that returns the value of the...
Rest of World -...
Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
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On Witchcraft Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish...
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Lies, damned lies, and social media Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so. Arguably the internet already came up...
History Today Feed
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When being “first” is not a competitive advantage Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing...
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Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
Diaries of Note
The Jewish police have been ordered to erect the gallows Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub in 1909) was a Lithuanian Jew who played a significant role during...
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Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub in 1909) was a Lithuanian Jew who played a significant role during one of history’s most harrowing periods. As the secretary of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Kovno Ghetto during World War II, he was privy to the inner workings of the...
diamond geezer
Sunday transport news Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct...
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9 months ago
Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct journey on the Underground is between Epping and West Ruislip on the Central line. It's 54.9km long (34.1 miles), comfortably ahead of Uxbridge to Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line...
Retail Design Blog
Link One Watch My name is Johan Link, a 23-year-old Swiss architecture student with a deep passion for design. Over...
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My name is Johan Link, a 23-year-old Swiss architecture student with a deep passion for design. Over the past year,...
abdz.do - Have you...
Generative AI 3d illustrations: The Balancing Act 2 Generative AI 3d illustrations: The Balancing Act 2 abduzeedo0508—23 ...
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Generative AI 3d illustrations: The Balancing Act 2 abduzeedo0508—23 Mike Campau, a seasoned digital artist with over three decades of experience, has embarked on an exciting artistic endeavor, pushing the boundaries of his renowned "Balancing...
Seth's Blog
Flashing on contempt It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face...
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It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face and then disappear in less than a second. Blink and you’ll miss them. But sometimes, people don’t blink. We’ve evolved to be hyperware of these tiny displays of emotion. And yet,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 2 Highlights I paused TinyPilot sales to address a design problem. I’m manufacturing a custom USB...
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Highlights I paused TinyPilot sales to address a design problem. I’m manufacturing a custom USB power connector for TinyPilot. Revenue across all my projects was among my strongest ever, at $3.6k total. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
Build In Public...
Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you? It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I...
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It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...
Marine Madness
Cownose rays at Bristol Aquarium (video) Watch Bristol Aquarium’s newest residents in action. Bristol Aquarium reopened its doors on May 18...
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Watch Bristol Aquarium’s newest residents in action. Bristol Aquarium reopened its doors on May 18 after being closed for months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning visitors were finally allowed to return and see their favourite ocean creatures up close. But during the...
Atoms vs Bits
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Can audio engineering ideas help us deal with life in the city?s
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On The Decline of FPS Games Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS...
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Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU Oh How true!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Beer goggles were also cheaper. Today's News:
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"Thank You" letter to Designers for 2022 Dear Designer, You have done an amazing job this year! Maybe you didn’t achieve everything you...
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Dear Designer, You have done an amazing job this year! Maybe you didn’t achieve everything you wanted. Go easy on yourself. Design is hard! You are expected to touch everything from stating business problems to communicating your solutions to developers, stakeholders. You work...
Moneyness
The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss...
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The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a pretty unremarkable coin. It's the second-lowest value Swiss coin, the Swiss version of America's lowly nickel, the sort of coin that many...
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Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022) I returned to Zadar!
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Weighty Thoughts
Deep Tech Startups Are Not Software Startups Or why AI and “Software/SaaS” are apples and oranges
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Old Structures...
A Desperately-Needed Addendum My intention with the last blog post, The More Things Stay The Same was not to leave everyone with a...
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My intention with the last blog post, The More Things Stay The Same was not to leave everyone with a cliff-hanger. Dan Eschenasy asked the obvious question: did the building in question fall down? The answer is no, it did not. 428 West 29th Street shows up on the land use maps in...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Project Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park...
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Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park – currently in restoration – where we’re working: If you don’t see it, look at the iron handrail.
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
A Smart Bear
Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and...
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9 months ago
Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
Noahpinion
The dark vision of America Persecuting groups of people to score political points is not OK.
3 months ago
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
Max Rozen
Starting a Cloudflare Worker from scratch We don't need no fancy tooling!
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This August Bank Holiday Weekend In London: 26-28 August 2023 Carnival! Concerts! A food festival! Dog shows!
a year ago
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day undefined
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Scalloped Ceilings Are The Elegance Overhead In This New York Apartment Frederick Tang Architecture has designed the interior of an apartment on the Upper West Side of...
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4 months ago
Frederick Tang Architecture has designed the interior of an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a couple and their three children. Inspired by their Indian heritage, the family wanted to incorporate stone into their home, and they were also drawn toward color and...
Open Culture
Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our imagination. These days, this notion tends to refer to artificial intelligence-powered systems that generate visual material from text prompts, like DALL‑E and the many others that...
99% Invisible
Melanie Speaks [EPISODE] Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve been told that you speak like your mom, or that you laugh like your uncle. Maybe you sometimes slip back into an accent that reveals something about your past. Maybe you have a...
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry undefined
a month ago
Open Culture
How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983) In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the...
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a month ago
In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear, straight into thin air. If you’re north of 50, you perhaps remember the spectacle. How did he do it? 40 years later, the YouTube channel Mind Blown Magic...
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans? undefined
11 months ago
macwright.com
patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm. Remember patch-package....
The Rational Walk
Burlington Northern Santa Fe — 2023 Results Warren Buffett is concerned about the performance of Berkshire's railroad
9 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Use the happiness advantage * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Looking back to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Looking back to the start of Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], one of the things I think may have helped a lot with gaining traction fast was to involve users in the validation process and tell these...
Nat Eliason's...
The Childlike Love of Challenge How fast can you run?
over a year ago
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece undefined
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Chinasplaining will backfire A review of "China's World View", by David Daokui Li
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Open House (1) It's that time of year again when hundreds of London properties open their doors to the public if...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It's that time of year again when hundreds of London properties open their doors to the public if you know where to look. It's also the time of year that I visit lots of places and write about them, so steel yourself. That said I only visited two yesterday, way out in far-flung...
David Heinemeier...
Design for the web without Figma By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
a year ago
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a year ago
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
Farza's Newsletter
we bought a matcha machine and im caf'd out my mind help what the hell is going on
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
I Want To Be A Space Pilot (1961) Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) I Want To Be A Space Pilot is part of a series of children's books called "I want to be..." They are essentially a beginning to read career book. I like the very basic illustrations and the straightforward text. I also...
CONTEMPORIST
This Lakehouse Hovers Above The Natural Sloped Terrain Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset, Ontario, that hovers above the natural sloped terrain close to the water’s edge of Kawagama Lake. The building, which sits lightly on the rugged site, invites expansive sky and...
Bits about Money
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
Brazil is the first stop in the Latin American electric motorcycle market Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85%...
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a year ago
Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85% of its electric grid runs on renewable energy.
Construction Physics
Book Review: Healthy Buildings Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about...
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a year ago
Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about how buildings affect health. Allen is a former environmental consultant, professor of public health, and director of Harvard’s “Healthy Buildings” program. Macomber is a lecturer...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Loosen Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I would find it really satisfying if you could turn...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I would find it really satisfying if you could turn a knob in the universe and diffraction fringes would go away. Today's News: Whew! Finally back on my update schedule. ICYMI a couple nice reviews have come in for the new book,...
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
4 months ago
Irrational...
2022 in review. Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak. The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City? undefined
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Oculus I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the future. The best ones were: the Apple II…
Rest of World -...
Venture capital’s cold war ...or how I learned to stop worrying and love decoupling.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile The surprisingly simple tile is the first single, connected tile that can fill the entire plane in a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The surprisingly simple tile is the first single, connected tile that can fill the entire plane in a pattern that never repeats — and can’t be made to fill it in a repeating way. The post Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile first appeared on Quanta Magazine
blag
Recurse Center: Winter Break the Recurse Center winter break
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
Mazdak
Apple Intelligence, Gemini 2.0, Amazon Autos and more Apple just redefined how we use Siri.
a week ago
Old Structures...
Complicated History, Nice Backdrop From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the background. It was a cold month: note the ice in the river past the train storage to the right of pier 15. This is the old pier 15, which was close to the foot of Montague Street. It...
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East) undefined
9 months ago
37signals Dev
Exploring server-side diffing in Turbo We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails...
a year ago
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a year ago
We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails World. One of those experiments included diffing in the server instead of in the client. The idea The inspiration for this idea came, again, from Phoenix Live View, a library I find...
Artificial Ignorance
GPTs won't make you rich But they'll make you more productive.
11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Longtermism Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully time travel isn't possible because boy...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully time travel isn't possible because boy the future is gonna be piiiiiiiisssssed. Today's News:
Citation Needed
We need to talk about digital ownership "Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually...
10 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
The Design Of This Modern White Patisserie Stands Out From Its Neighbors LUKSTUDIO has shared photos of Aimé Pâtisserie, which is located in Shanghai, China, and is flanked...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
LUKSTUDIO has shared photos of Aimé Pâtisserie, which is located in Shanghai, China, and is flanked by familiar coffee and donut franchises. The designers explained, ‘that the challenge of the store is to stand out from its immediate chaos and appeal to the clientele from the...
./techtipsy
How I ended up working as a software developer I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of stories to tell from those years. But those are stories for another time. Today I’d like to focus on where it all got started. The early days I never considered myself good with...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Martyr! book jacket Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved. Martyr! is a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved. Martyr! is a novel by Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar that combines modern situations with traditional imagery. For the jacket, prolific cover designer Linda Huang did what she does so well:...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
over a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part I: Divisa in Partes Tres This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This is the first part of a three-part (if I can keep it) series, examining the historical assumptions of Imperator: Rome, a historical grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive, set during the rise and collapse of the Roman Republic from 304-27 BC and covering the broader...
Archinect - Features
Exploring Coffee and Architecture With These Ten Mesmerizing Cafes October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that...
a year ago
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a year ago
October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that exemplify the distinctive attributes and meticulous design considerations behind a diverse array of cafes across the globe.
Cremieux Recueil
"You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly" Attractiveness rating studies shouldn't be taken too seriously
2 weeks ago
Passing Time
Alpine Starts II Or: Thanksgiving in the Mountains
a year ago
TheCollector
9 Printmaking Techniques You Should Know undefined
2 months ago
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically... Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
a week ago
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a week ago
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
xkcd.com
Hand Dryers
a year ago
The Ruffian
A Ruffian Catch-Up In Case You Missed...
a year ago
McMansion Hell
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors -... Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis In my latest column for The Nation, I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I think single stair is wonderful! - But I also don’t think it’s some kind of panacea for the housing crisis.
Wuthering...
My cancer - "It can’t be true! It can’t, but it is." Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since...
a year ago
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a year ago
Liver cancer.  That was a surprise.  I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since the diagnosis last summer, since it was known for a fact that I had something serious, things have moved fast.  It has been like boarding a train.  Once in motion there is no way...
Common Edge
Light and Color: The Spirit-Led Work of James Turrell The artist is driven not just by curiosity or ambition, but by the precepts of his Quakerism.
a month ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't be clever, be clear I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf) So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love plain language. (the last one is a pdf) So it’s no surprise that one of my (many) pet peeves is when a title of an article tries to be clever. Consider, for example: It Can Happen to You This can be about anything from cancer to, as in this case, a very arcane piece of...
xkcd.com
Wikipedia Article Titles
a year ago
Alice GG
Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
Willem's Blog
Building a product platform Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Leverage platform capabilities to quickly launch new products, designing for reusability, flexibility and extensibility.
Retail Design Blog
Matsumoto City Museum by KUME SEKKEI Co. The project is to move and rebuild the city museum of Matsumoto from within the historical site of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The project is to move and rebuild the city museum of Matsumoto from within the historical site of Matsumoto Castle...
Josh Comeau's blog
Hands-Free Coding Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
Maps Mania
The Best Graphics Team in the World
4 months ago
Londonist
At A Glance: What's Happening With London's Transport In 2024 New trains! New stations! Major closures!
11 months ago
Willem's Blog
Why Apple Silicon is a big deal Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
A finite ordered set of interesting objects The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul,...
a year ago
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a year ago
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul, George and then Ringo. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, The Supremes. The astrological zodiac gets us to twelve, but I’m having a really difficult time finding a memorable...
TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg? undefined
9 months ago
One from Nippon
Emoji Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for years and see what others exist. You will soon see 🍡 🈸 🍙 and other weird-looking pictures. What the hell are these things, and why are they in
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023 The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
NeuroLogica Blog
Latest Starship Launch SpaceX has conducted their most successful test launch of a Starship system to date. The system they...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
SpaceX has conducted their most successful test launch of a Starship system to date. The system they tested has three basic components – the Super Heavy first stage rocket booster, the Starship second stage (which is the actual space ship that will go places), and the...
NeuroLogica Blog
What Policies Affect Climate Change? What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and on the SGU, the science of climate change, and specifically focus on what we can do about it, mostly by reducing our CO2 emissions. Often I get push back explicitly promoting the...
Diaries of Note
The reign of beasts has begun The world was plunged into darkness on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, an act of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The world was plunged into darkness on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, an act of aggression that led France and the United Kingdom to declare war. Amidst this global turmoil, a young Albert Camus, then a journalist for socialist newspaper Alger-Républicain, found...
macwright.com
Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been a slow, silly process in which I celebrate when a single pixel lights up on the device. I’m not even writing firmware or code that runs “on the device” - that’s a stretch goal for...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products? How can it be that a) all products are designed, b) designers want to create something good for the...
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. The post Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Infinite Scroll
Worst Tweets 2024 - Preliminary Rounds Vote on which bad takes will make the 2024 bracket!
a week ago
Londonist
Epping Ongar Lights Express - The Fairy Light-Covered Christmas Steam Train Ride Is Back! Most festive train EVER.
a year ago
Londonist
Ayyy! The Fonz Is Coming To London In June Happy days.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House? undefined
a month ago
CommitStrip
No documentation
over a year ago
Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970 In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...