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The Sam Bankman-Fried Files In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected...
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a year ago
In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met.  In attendance at the dinner at his house were: 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Doug Emhoff 3) Katy Perry 4) Orlando Bloom 5) Kate Hudson
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base ourselves and Buffer...
Londonist
Panto In London - Where To Watch The Best Pantomimes This Festive Season Panto is back for 2023 - oh yes it is!
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Age of Terror' If “terror” meant anything to me as a kid it was probably an episode of The Twilight Zone. Some were...
a year ago
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a year ago
If “terror” meant anything to me as a kid it was probably an episode of The Twilight Zone. Some were ridiculous, others remain watchable after more than sixty years. At least one, “Night Call,” left me so frightened I didn’t want to return to my darkened bedroom. I grew up safe...
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art undefined
3 weeks ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ian Burke Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and grew up in Redcar before studying Fine Art at Newcastle University. Having completed a Master's at Goldsmith's College, London he established a career in teaching art.  Ian now...
Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS
over a year ago
Flashbak
Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
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3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation? undefined
8 months ago
The Pragmatic...
The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
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9 months ago
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
Tech + Economics +...
The curse of the Sisyphean read-later list Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm talking about - that growing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's talk about our digital 'save for later' pile. You know what I'm talking about - that growing list of articles, videos, and podcasts we swear we'll get to eventually. It's like we're building our own little museum of cool stuff we'll explore 'one day.' When are you...
Noahpinion
BRICS is fake It's not an anti-NATO, it's not going to replace the dollar, and it's not going to control global...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's not an anti-NATO, it's not going to replace the dollar, and it's not going to control global economic growth.
Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
a year ago
nanoscale views
Some interesting links - useful lecture notes, videos Proposal writing, paper writing, and course prep are eating a lot of my bandwidth right now, but I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Proposal writing, paper writing, and course prep are eating a lot of my bandwidth right now, but I wanted to share a few things: David Tong at Cambridge is a gifted educator and communicator who has written lecture notes that span a wide swath of the physics curriculum, from...
TheCollector
5 Famous Black Mexicans undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great undefined
6 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
diamond geezer
Basingstoke Gadabout: BASINGSTOKE Basingstoke is a large town in north Hampshire, roughly halfway along the M3...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Gadabout: BASINGSTOKE Basingstoke is a large town in north Hampshire, roughly halfway along the M3 motorway. It's simultaneously ancient and modern, a traditional market town selected by the London County Council for substantial postwar expansion which saw its population increase...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Asheville’s French Broad River is a Must-Visit
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Green Chain 12 It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence since 2001, the Capital Ring completed in 2005, the Green Chain grew an extra leg in 2010 and the Jubilee Greenway emerged in 2012. So I was thrilled to discover that the Green Chain...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes ---
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
In the multitude I become bewildered When he wrote the following entry in his journal in October 1940, André Gide was living through a...
a year ago
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a year ago
When he wrote the following entry in his journal in October 1940, André Gide was living through a chaotic period in history. A French literary titan known for probing works like The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters, Gide now found himself grappling with the profound impact that...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Liz Denys
My favorite secret to baking healthier: white whole wheat flour Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people seem to be wondering how to generally add more whole grains to their diets. This doesn't come as much of a surprise: whole grains haven't had their bran and germ removed through...
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann? undefined
3 months ago
Identity Designed
CleanO2 Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
over a year ago
Jason Crawford
The lessons of Xanadu One of my all-time favorite articles is “The Curse of Xanadu,” by Gary Wolf, which ran in WIRED...
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over a year ago
One of my all-time favorite articles is “The Curse of Xanadu,” by Gary Wolf, which ran in WIRED Magazine in 1995. On the surface, it’s a piece of tech history, a story of a dramatic failure. But look closer, and you can find deep philosophical insight. Xanadu was a grand vision...
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – An Apartment Transformed With A New Interior FCstudio has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
FCstudio has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that transformed the space into a contemporary and open interior. The design plan included removing walls and creating integrated spaces, like in the living room, which was once a smaller...
davidyat.es
Walkthrough: Causality Couriers
a year ago
xkcd.com
Time Traveler Causes of Death
4 months ago
The History of the...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Platformer
How Google taught AI to doubt itself Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
diamond geezer
Signs of autumn in Old Malden I worry sometimes that my content isn't niche enough. Things on hills in Hainault. Ex-country lanes...
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a month ago
I worry sometimes that my content isn't niche enough. Things on hills in Hainault. Ex-country lanes in Harrow. Bridges in Norwich. So today I'm going all-out niche in an attempt to dampen interest even further. Welcome to... Signs of Autumn in Old Malden Malden, a manorial...
mtlynch.io
Fixing Memory Exhaustion Bugs in My Golang Web App Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for...
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for sharing files. I use it to send files that are too large to be email attachments, but I don’t want the recipient to deal with Dropbox or Google Drive. A few months ago, I started...
The Elysian
I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract In pursuit of a better book deal (and record deal and podcast deal...)
7 months ago
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage undefined
3 months ago
mtlynch.io
Automated Prosper Investing with ProsperBot Overview I started investing in peer to peer lending in 2014 through a site called Prosper. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overview I started investing in peer to peer lending in 2014 through a site called Prosper. I thought peer to peer lending was a neat idea and could potentially earn lucrative returns. When I began, I chose each of my loan investments manually, but over time, I have automated...
Anecdotal Evidence
''In Prose, Plain as Pike, Pillory' Austin Clarke (1896-1974) was an Irish poet of the generation after Yeats, the slightly...
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2 months ago
Austin Clarke (1896-1974) was an Irish poet of the generation after Yeats, the slightly older contemporary of Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh. In 1968 he published A Sermon on Swift and Other Poems, and the 117-line title poem appeared in The Massachusetts Review in 1970....
Maps Mania
Mapping the Political Landscape
2 months ago
ntietz.com blog
return "reflections on a batch"; There's a tradition at Recurse Center of writing a Return Statement after your batch. I'm not sure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a tradition at Recurse Center of writing a Return Statement after your batch. I'm not sure of the origin of the terminology, but it seems like it's a pun on the return statement in programming languages. It's a great tradition, and it gives me a good motivator to reflect...
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Works of Paul Klee You Should Know undefined
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
A simple guide to personal data and PII Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines can run to €20 million or 4% of a company's global…
SatPost by Trung...
Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery Notes from the 1987 Esquire magazine issue that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to "pursue mastery [because]...
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7 months ago
Notes from the 1987 Esquire magazine issue that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to "pursue mastery [because] that will fulfill your life".
Nat Eliason's...
Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
over a year ago
On the Arts
Modern Culture is Too Escapist, Part 1: Isolated vs. Integrated Arts Too much creative energy is focused on escaping the world, not on enhancing it.
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
Noahpinion
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap Narrative-driven triumphalism does not make for sound policy.
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
Permission to Slow Down In... Out...
a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of Malcolm X: “You Had Better Make Some Noise” undefined
a year ago
Old Structures...
An Original Or An Imitation Of An Imitation The Leonard Street facade of 249 Church Street: For this discussion, ignore the stone ground-floor...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Leonard Street facade of 249 Church Street: For this discussion, ignore the stone ground-floor storefront, which was a 1920s alteration of this 1867 loft building, probably replacing cast iron columns and lintels. The rest of the facade is, per the Landmarks designation...
TheCollector
6 Ways to Pass the Time in the Middle Ages undefined
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta): take your embedded development to the next level Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2024, most notably The Diary of Anne Frank, Endurance, Crime and Punishment, and the Iliad.
Math Is Still...
How Does Math Keep Secrets? Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it now lies under nearly every part of modern life. In this week’s episode, computer scientist Boaz Barak and co-host Janna Levin discuss the past and future of secrecy. ...
Paul Graham: Essays
Charisma / Power
over a year ago
Good Enough
Beware of Free Software Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try...
a year ago
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a year ago
Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try to offer me a slice of free pizza, I'd suspect there's something wrong with it. And ever since my kids can understand me, I've taught them to be careful of free stuff. Nothing is...
Diaries of Note
Cowslips capriciously colouring meadows in creamy drifts Although not widely acclaimed during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is now...
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a year ago
Although not widely acclaimed during his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is now recognised as one of the most brilliant poets of the Victorian era, celebrated for the masterful use of language, rhythm, and evocative imagery in his poetry. A committed Jesuit priest,...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery undefined
5 months ago
macwright.com
Recently Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty hard problem. It was pretty well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really trying not to write a search...
ntietz.com blog
Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious) Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says...
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2 months ago
Software licenses are a reflection of our values. How you choose to license a piece of software says a lot about what you want to achieve with it. Do you want to reach the maximum amount of users? Do you want to ensure future versions remain free and open source? Do you want to...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Insphex, a hex dump tool in Medley Common Lisp <![CDATA[I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with...
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7 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with and runs on the Medley Interlisp environment. Similarly to the Linux command hexdump, it shows the contents of files as hexadecimal values and the corresponding ASCII characters....
The Great Discontent...
The Legacy of Corita Kent Corita Kent was an artist with an innovative approach to design and education. She worked in the...
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Corita Kent was an artist with an innovative approach to design and education. She worked in the Immaculate Heart College Art Department, above, c. 1955. (Photo/Fred Swartz, courtesy of the Corita Art Center) “Sometimes you can take the whole of the world in, and sometimes you...
The Modern House
With the rolling South Downs on its doorstep, the award-winning Black Timber House by HAPA...
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Moneyness
The lower limit to silver's usefulness in coinage A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between...
a year ago
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a year ago
A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between 1625-1649, during the reign of King Charles I. This coin, captured in the video below, illustrates an important feature of coinage: the lower limit to silver's usefulness as a monetary...
History Today Feed
The Tudor War on Libel The Tudor War on Libel JamesHoare Thu, 10/24/2024 - 09:19
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers has arrived! Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will make me a design god! Or at least make me aware of something called design. Joking aside I’m really terrible at design and making things look good. Admittedly my programming art...
diamond geezer
50 posts I won't be writing 50 posts I won't be writing • January's fried chicken launches (except that's actually 51, so I...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
50 posts I won't be writing • January's fried chicken launches (except that's actually 51, so I will be writing one of them... here later) Retracing Terry and June Happy Ever After evolved into Terry and June in 1979, for copyright reasons. Both featured Terry Scott and June...
History Today Feed
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia JamesHoare Fri, 02/23/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
11 months ago
A Smart Bear
"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Resolve decision-making conflicts by selecting the right approach: Make a bold choice, synthesize a new solution, or find the balance.
Paul Graham: Essays
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being "You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum...
a year ago
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a year ago
"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge."
Anecdotal Evidence
'Like a Golden Retriever' Part of the pleasure of listening to the late jazz musician Dave McKenna playing piano was hearing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Part of the pleasure of listening to the late jazz musician Dave McKenna playing piano was hearing the musical quotes he wove into his improvisations. The practice, deplored by some critics, was not unique to McKenna, of course. To cite only jazz musicians I have seen in person,...
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Quarantine Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m not aware of...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023 A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
a year ago
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a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
Math Is Still...
How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface....
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. The hidden culprit? Magnetic activity. The post How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Pragmatic...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
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.
Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Degen communism: the only correct political ideology
8 months ago
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
TheCollector
London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market undefined
a year ago
./techtipsy
Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024 I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I wasn’t considering remaking this setup with everything I’ve learned 6 years later. Oops. I got access to an allegedly-faulty AMD Radeon RX 480 and an NVIDIA GTX 1650 for free...
History Today Feed
‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review ‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review JamesHoare Wed, 09/11/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Old Vintage...
Cracking DesignWare's The Grammar Examiner on the C64 It's been awhile since I've stripped the copy protection off a Commodore 64 software package. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been awhile since I've stripped the copy protection off a Commodore 64 software package. This weekend I had a reason to. The Grammar Examiner from 1984, something like a mashup between a board game and Strunk and White's Elements of Style, where you get to edit a fictional...
RhysTranter.com
Visit to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the development of my faith. We even saw Arvo Pärt and his wife Nora shopping at their local...
Archinect - Features
When Should Architecture Firms Start Hiring? Five Factors To Consider With the U.S. Federal Reserve embarking on rounds of target interest rate cuts in late 2024, AEC...
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a month ago
With the U.S. Federal Reserve embarking on rounds of target interest rate cuts in late 2024, AEC industry commentators are forecasting that architectural business conditions may improve in the coming months. Architecture firms experiencing an increased workload may, therefore,...
devonzuegel.com
OSS lazy-loads governance A special characteristic of open source software (OSS) is that you don't need institutional support...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A special characteristic of open source software (OSS) is that you don't need institutional support to get started. It's interesting to compare this to physical infrastructure, like dams or railroads. Before you can begin those projects, you need upfront capital, permits,...
computers are bad
2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Slackware The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
a year ago
Liz Denys
Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
NeuroLogica Blog
Reconductoring our Electrical Grid Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Over the weekend when I was in Dallas for the eclipse, I ran into a local businessman who works in the energy sector, mainly involved in new solar projects. This is not surprising as Texas is second only to California in solar installation. I asked him if he is experiencing a...
mtlynch.io
The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage them to place a higher value on their free time and delegate their errands. Few of them heed my advice, and it’s probably because they know about the time I paid someone $96 to...
Seth's Blog
The house painter and the architect We don’t design a book until after it’s written. Or cast the movie until the screenplay is complete....
a year ago
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a year ago
We don’t design a book until after it’s written. Or cast the movie until the screenplay is complete. The house painter has an important job, but it makes no sense to plan for the painting before the house is designed. This makes a lot of sense because some parts of a project have...
Retail Design Blog
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I remember reading an essay a month or so ago — sadly I forget where — talking about how things end for tyrants. If I were to sum it up, it would be with the word “alone.” Their power fading, they find that they had few true friends or believers; just others that were greedy …...
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Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat. A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I...
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“I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so good. But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, is it “he” or “she” or “they” or “it”? Because anything that is an “it” shouldn’t be able to say “I”. We […]
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In 1942, shortly before the US joined the war, editor and lifelong pacifist Alfred Hassler registered as a conscientious objector. However, his commitment to nonviolence led him to refuse even the alternative to combat service: enrollment in a Civilian Public Service camp, as...
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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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It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the morning sessions of the DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting (pdf of agenda here).  A few quick highlights that I thought were...
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