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The Convivial...
Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version) Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13 (supplement)
a year ago
TheCollector
From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace? undefined
9 months ago
Kevin Chen
Large language models are a sustaining innovation for Siri Many people assume that large language models (LLMs) will disrupt existing consumer voice...
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Many people assume that large language models (LLMs) will disrupt existing consumer voice assistants. Compared to Siri, while today’s ChatGPT is largely unable to complete real-world tasks like hailing an Uber, it’s far better than Siri at understanding and generating language,...
Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
Open Culture
The Story of Francis Ford Coppola’s Four-Decade-Struggle to Make Megalopolis This past summer, out came a trailer for Megalopolis, the movie Francis Ford Coppola has spent half...
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3 months ago
This past summer, out came a trailer for Megalopolis, the movie Francis Ford Coppola has spent half of his life trying to make. It took the bold approach of opening with quotes from reviews of his previous pictures, and not positive ones: when it was first released, Rex Reed...
Good Enough
You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
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When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Good Interviews In early 2019, I came to the realisation that people prefer to read about people more than they do...
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In early 2019, I came to the realisation that people prefer to read about people more than they do about things. It’s not exactly a phenomenon, but it was significant for the editorial direction of Minimalissimo. Since relaunching the latest version of the site, you will notice a...
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome? undefined
12 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Nanobébé Offices by Switchup Switchup designed Nanobébé’s office with a focus on simplicity, natural light, and glass dividers,...
5 days ago
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Switchup designed Nanobébé’s office with a focus on simplicity, natural light, and glass dividers, creating a modern, collaborative space that...
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
US Independence Day Tikalon is on a short holiday in celebration of US Independence Day, July 4, 2024. Our next article...
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Tikalon is on a short holiday in celebration of US Independence Day, July 4, 2024. Our next article will be posted on Monday, July 15, 2024. View my version of the iconic image of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in which he encounters some unusually large...
ntietz.com blog
"Help, iterators made my Rust program slower!" Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem. They had a Rust...
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a year ago
Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem. They had a Rust program which was using threads and for loops. When they updated the code to use iterators, it got dramatically slower. Why did this happen? For a Rust veteran, the problem might not be...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering...
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11 months ago
It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering management position after the expansion of our team. I've been a front-end developer for 7 years before that, and initially I took the "advanced individual contributor" career track before...
Retail Design Blog
Miphe Whisky by hunap studio The Miphe Whisky label is an artistic fusion of traditional Japanese aesthetics, the wabi-sabi...
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5 months ago
The Miphe Whisky label is an artistic fusion of traditional Japanese aesthetics, the wabi-sabi philosophy, and modern minimalist design. This...
diamond geezer
Advent Way 'Tis the season. Advent Way N18 A country lane called Angel Road once headed east out of...
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'Tis the season. Advent Way N18 A country lane called Angel Road once headed east out of Edmonton following Pymme's Brook, ending at a sylvan bridge across the River Lea where anglers often gathered. Then in the 1920s the North Circular Road was built, the engineers choosing...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
10 months ago
Commoncog
There Is No Truth in Business, Only Knowledge 'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from...
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'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from W. Edwards Deming may well be a working philosophy of business.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 7-8 October 2023 Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style undefined
a year ago
Londonist
London Hat Walk: Scores Of Fashionable Folk Will Parade Around Town This Weekend Hat's the way uh-huh, uh-huh...
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sympathy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This'll be even funnier once SMBC is infinite...
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'First Find a Thinking Being. Lots of Luck' As a non-mathematician, I’m more interested in the history of mathematics than in math itself....
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As a non-mathematician, I’m more interested in the history of mathematics than in math itself. That’s a confession of inadequacy, though I’m not one of those people who says, “I don’t have a head for math,” when what they really mean is arithmetic. Because of my job I’ve learned...
Spoon & Tamago
Myaku-Myaku Footwear, Inspired by the Googly-Eyed Mascot for the Osaka Expo Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has...
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Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has inspired numerous spinoffs, both official and unofficial. And with exactly 1 year to go before the Expo, we should all expect to see a lot more. The latest iteration comes in the form...
Adventures In...
How to Make this Animated Map of Blue Whale Migration I have a deep admiration for the stirrings inside animals that drive them to undertake...
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I have a deep admiration for the stirrings inside animals that drive them to undertake thousands-of-miles journeys to far flung locations, and back, in concert with the passage of the our earth around its sun. I’ve reflected on it in writing what became a surprisingly...
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
8 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates September 9: Feed finding
4 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#38) WW2 production; "Neopopulism"; fake science; desire modification; deregulation ideas
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Art Destinations in Italy: Itinerary for Art Lovers
7 months ago
TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution undefined
7 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Restaurant Dominic Chapman, Henley-on-Thames This isn't going to be a very long post because, well, it wasn't a very long lunch. Sometimes you...
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This isn't going to be a very long post because, well, it wasn't a very long lunch. Sometimes you want to spend all day cooing over a tasting menu, getting through way too many bottles of wine and ending up leaving just as the next set of guests are arriving for dinner. Sometimes...
Commoncog
Lee Walker and the Dell Growth Plateau How Lee Walker overcame Dell's biggest growth plateau in 1986. A story about capital, imagination,...
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How Lee Walker overcame Dell's biggest growth plateau in 1986. A story about capital, imagination, and creative deal-making.
CONTEMPORIST
Bamboo And Traditional Craftsmanship Weave Nature Into The Design Of This Retail And Exhibition... Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as...
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Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as part of the Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Shanghai, China. Aligned with Element’s sustainable branding philosophy, this project embraces bamboo to explore a spatial...
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
Maps Mania
Konbini Wars
4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lightness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she experiences true oneness when she's asked...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she experiences true oneness when she's asked to change it by one boss, then to put it back the other way by another boss. Today's News:
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Eponymous Laws Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
over a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
Edmund Burke Explains
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
The hate stare was everywhere practiced In November 1959, at a time of profound racial tension and segregation in the American South,...
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In November 1959, at a time of profound racial tension and segregation in the American South, journalist John Howard Griffin embarked on a remarkable and controversial journey. In an attempt to better understand the Black American experience, Griffin underwent a medical treatment...
Blog - Practical...
These Metals Destroy Themselves to Prevent Rust [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the old Howard...
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over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the old Howard Frankland Bridge that carries roughly 180,000 vehicles per day across Old Tampa Bay between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. A replacement for the bridge is currently under...
The Marginalian
The Art of Withstanding Abandonment: The Patience of the Penguin and How Evolution Invented Faith “Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other...
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“Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,” Simone Weil wrote in her soulful meditation on the paradox of closeness and separation. To be separated from a loved one — in space or in silence, by choice or...
HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
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by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
Open Culture
Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified... When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque...
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When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music...
Willem's Blog
Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
ntietz.com blog
Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint" If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It seems like every team practices it differently, but there are certain commonalities that run through all teams I've seen. One of those is the term used for each time-delimited...
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just...
a year ago
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a year ago
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just performed a SWAR algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64. This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of the bits you wish...
The American Scholar
Part of the Parade The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
Conversation-Catalysing Events There's a famous British politics quote where the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, aka...
10 months ago
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There's a famous British politics quote where the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, aka Supermac, is asked the hardest thing about government and replies “Events, dear boy, events”. This probably never happened and is absolutely irrelevant to this blogpost regardless, but I...
Jonas Hietala
Focusing Attention: Programming These last two weeks have been a small attempt at clearing up my head a bit. I have far too many...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These last two weeks have been a small attempt at clearing up my head a bit. I have far too many things I’d like to do and even if it’s not possible to do them all at once it didn’t stop me from thinking of them. One minute it’s that and the other it’s something completely...
The Modern House
Furniture designer James Stickley’s cleverly zoned live/work loft in east London
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Building a phosphorescence detector There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in the wild.
Max Rozen
Understanding when to use useMemo If you've just learned what useCallback is, you might be wondering why on earth useMemo exists, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've just learned what useCallback is, you might be wondering why on earth useMemo exists, and why we don't use it everywhere.
The Modern House
Tangled up in blue: a diminutive urban cottage designed by fardaa
4 months ago
Paul Cudenec
The criminocracy's Colombian connection Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American country from 2010 to 2018.
Common Edge
NCARB’s Michael Armstrong on Pathways to Architectural Practice “If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a...
4 months ago
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“If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a fresh look at everything.”
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 24: Content parsing improvements
a year ago
Maps Mania
GeoTimeGuessr
a year ago
Rest of World -...
What we learned from reporting on global tech this year Rest of World contributors from Dhaka to Buenos Aires share their highlights, low points, and key...
a month ago
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Rest of World contributors from Dhaka to Buenos Aires share their highlights, low points, and key takeaways from covering technology in 2024.
The American Scholar
The Support Ship The post The Support Ship appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 months ago
The Marginalian
Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the... “To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What happens when you get to the end of things?” four-year-old Johnny in Ohio asks his mother from the bathtub while Whitman’s borrowed atoms are becoming young grass in a...
Jonas Hietala
Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
over a year ago
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Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Magnetism, an Ardor, a Refusal to Be False' In “The Madonna of the Future,” an 1873 story by Henry James, an American painter in Florence tells...
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a year ago
In “The Madonna of the Future,” an 1873 story by Henry James, an American painter in Florence tells the narrator, “If you but knew the rapture of observation! I gather with every glance some hint for light, for color or relief!  When I get home, I pour out my treasures into the...
Maps Mania
Open Places Map
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
Rest of World’s 2024 reading guide Global tech leaders share 12 books to add to your must-read pile.
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Sharp tools Professional woodworkers rarely have to be reminded to sharpen their tools. Of course they know...
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Professional woodworkers rarely have to be reminded to sharpen their tools. Of course they know this. The rest of us, on the other hand, regularly use digital tools we don’t understand, don’t maintain and haven’t optimized. Sometimes, our lack of care in the choice and use of...
TheCollector
11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj undefined
12 months ago
Seeking Wisdom
How a Machine Learns – Part 2 I’m truly impressed by how accurately LLMs grasp natural language and consistently provide spot-on...
a year ago
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I’m truly impressed by how accurately LLMs grasp natural language and consistently provide spot-on answers. Through these posts, I’ll build a toy GPT from scratch using Python and unpack everything that goes inside the LLMs, including the math it uses. This is my third post on my...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Immortal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't care if scientists invent immortality, I am...
6 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't care if scientists invent immortality, I am transferring my head to my kids' bodies and that is final! Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a month ago
Diaries of Note
This tedious battle against the mountain is almost over At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second...
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At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second and third Americans ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, following an arduous journey that began alongside a formidable team of 17 other Americans, 32 Sherpas, and 909 porters...
A Beautiful Site
How to delete a tag on GitHub In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot...
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In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot of folks will argue that you shouldn't delete tags, but there are real-world examples in which tags need to be deleted.  That said, it's both a good and a bad thing that GitHub...
devonzuegel.com
The unconference toolbox by Jason Benn & Devon Zuegel So, you’ve been invited to an unconference! Maybe you’re not entirely...
a year ago
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by Jason Benn & Devon Zuegel So, you’ve been invited to an unconference! Maybe you’re not entirely sure what that means (did the organizers misspell "conference"?), or maybe you’ve been to dozens of these before and you’re looking for some ideas for how to run an awesome...
Retail Design Blog
space timefill Coffee Shop by SAISA STUDIO space timefill is a medium-sized flat cafe inside an old residential complex. There is a small cloth...
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space timefill is a medium-sized flat cafe inside an old residential complex. There is a small cloth running right in...
Posts on Made of...
Using X forwarding with screen by proxying $DISPLAY If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a long-running session going on a server somewhere, and log in and resume my session without losing any state. I also love X-forwarding. I love being able to log into a remote server...
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...
Alex MacCaw
Advice to my younger self I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
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over a year ago
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full: If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say? That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
PostHog's RSS Feed
We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few...
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We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few weeks, our team have been hard at work moving over…
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors ---
over a year ago
TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi undefined
a year ago
Wait But Why
100 Blocks a Day Everyone gets 100 10-minute time blocks to use every day. How are you using yours? The post 100...
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Everyone gets 100 10-minute time blocks to use every day. How are you using yours? The post 100 Blocks a Day appeared first on Wait But Why.
Max Rozen
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL... Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 3 - Let's build a GraphQL...
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon"....
over a year ago
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The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in my opinion a pain to configure. Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone finds a...
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Democracy The Greeks' Greatest Gift?
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service...
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Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service sold out within weeks of launching in the country.
Fonts In Use – Blog...
As We Are Now book jacket Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.abebooks.com Between the Covers (edited). License:...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.abebooks.com Between the Covers (edited). License: All Rights Reserved. One advantage that lettering has over typeset text is that the artist can always alter letterforms ad hoc, depending on the context. This allows her to make...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Parenting & Children: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
5 months ago
Diaries of Note
Grey morning Alexandra Feodorovna, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine...
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Alexandra Feodorovna, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine on June 6, 1872. Twenty-two years later, she wed Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and adopted her new name. Her reign as Tsarina was turbulent, marked by her controversial...
The Map is Mostly...
Breadcrumbs One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.
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One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.
Seth's Blog
Pet quirks Peeves make lousy pets. They undermine us and put us on edge. But quirks? Little eccentricities we...
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Peeves make lousy pets. They undermine us and put us on edge. But quirks? Little eccentricities we see in the world that offer a cost-free smile. Habits or interactions that always make us a little lighter on our feet and open the door to better… They’re easy to find, not hard to...
mtlynch.io
How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the...
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When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the code is just as important to the review as the person who reads it. There’s scarcely any guidance on preparing your code for review, so authors often screw up this process out of...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
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by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
Seth's Blog
Good businesses solve real problems But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need...
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But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need housing, health care and food. They want delight, belonging and status. When a company shows up in the marketplace with a product or service that people eagerly choose to buy, it’s...
xkcd.com
Local Group
8 months ago
Electronics etc…
HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
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Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
Willem's Blog
Tablet as main computer I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share you my experience on using Surface Pro and iPad Pro to get my work done.
Old Structures...
Wrong But Impressive I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s...
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I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s on, the cleaning probably will; the content generally ranges from idiotic (here’s my name – isn’t it impressive?) to puerile (pictures of genitalia being the most common); and it’s...
One Useful Thing
On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
a year ago
Citation Needed
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from” Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of...
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Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 18-24 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Maps Mania
Virtual Road Trips
8 months ago
Tom Blomfield
Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of...
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Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of breathless pronouncements on a “revolution" in mobile payments. To be clear - Apple Pay is a step forward in terms of end user experience - but it simply entrenches a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consequences Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in literally any context. In fact, if anyone sends hatemail, it's going to be my response. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
Art is local On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his...
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On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
The Modern House
Laurence Quinn, architect and founder of Modern Works, on the power of production
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Arduino Blog
Can remote co-presence keep distant human connections alive? The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social...
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The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social interaction to maintain good mental health. Sadly, many of us spend our lives physically separated from our loved ones by great distances or inopportune circumstances. That’s why a team...
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs? Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
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Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
Seth's Blog
The commonweal Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of...
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Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of Signficance. If you have a chance to post a review, that would be great. And you can find the podcasts here. The first step in making things better is talking about it.
Epic Web Dev
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The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
TheCollector
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Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when...
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Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when handling a 100% random workload of 4K requests. This is a worst-case scenario for almost every storage subsystem. Normal day-to-day workloads may not be that harsh in a real-life...
The American Scholar
Above the River of Your Longing Two new prompts The post Above the River of Your Longing appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The economics of "Rich Men North of Richmond" It made some good points, and some not-so-good points.
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New Rent-Free Apartments Aspire to Support Budding Manga Artists a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a...
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a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a model has existed in Japan in which subsidized housing supports manga artists who are early in their career and have not yet established an audience. One of the earliest was the...
The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
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200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
The Ruffian
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 17-18 February 2024 VAULT Festival returns, plus a cheese market and a day of Lego.
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Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
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People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
Josh Thompson
The Present You It seems most of the decisions in life are made in favor of the present you, or the future you. I...
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over a year ago
It seems most of the decisions in life are made in favor of the present you, or the future you. I wish the future me could sit beside the present me, and discuss how I was going about my day. Instead, it’s a rather one-sided conversation. There are obvious choices, like food,...
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Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
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Corsair CM PSU-750HX seems ok I had to replace my Coolermaster PSU and after some searching on the interweb, I chose the Corsair...
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I had to replace my Coolermaster PSU and after some searching on the interweb, I chose the Corsair CMPSU-750HX. One of the reasons is that Corsair states that this PSU can withstand 50 degree Celcius in continuous operation on full load. The package is very, clean, with all the...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
TheCollector
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Life After Lifestyle One of the best and most inspiring articles I read this year.
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The Pragmatic...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
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The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
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Digital Tug-of-War On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
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My Cousin Went To Greece Once How relevant does your anecdote have to be before you'll mention it in a conversation?
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diamond geezer
The greatest sport Why is football the world's greatest sport? It might not be your favourite sport but that's not...
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Why is football the world's greatest sport? It might not be your favourite sport but that's not relevant here - on a global stage football dominates all. One reason is that football's so simple to play. It's just you and a ball and all you have to do is kick it. Most other...
Seth's Blog
Surprise and uncertainty Until just recently, a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic. Two...
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Until just recently, a solar eclipse wasn’t a tourist event. It was the cause of real panic. Two reasons that are worth considering: Eliminate surprise and explain the circumstances and panic starts to fade.
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Aaand we're back in quarantine PCR test of one of the children in our oldests’ daycare group was positive. Keeping our youngest at...
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PCR test of one of the children in our oldests’ daycare group was positive. Keeping our youngest at home too,...
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The ops toolkit for early-stage startups Ok, so you’ve read Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things , but what are all the boring...
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Ok, so you’ve read Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things , but what are all the boring admin things that are actually going to drain 4…
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Profound Beliefs This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the...
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This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.” You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite of a...
TokyoDev
Living with a disability in Japan This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last...
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This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last 16 years. Even though I do not have a mobility disability, I have also included notes about mobility accessibility because I also have some awareness of those through relatives. I...
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
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It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly. But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything: Kate @thingskatedid my twitter archive...
Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
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Array 1.7.0 This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data...
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This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much…
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Earthrise from Apollo 8 – December 24, 1968 The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by...
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The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by the assassination of prominent public figures, violent protests […]
computers are bad
2023-04-27 los alamos - compound to county pt I This weekend, I found myself staying in Los Alamos for a volunteer role in which I judge children on...
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This weekend, I found myself staying in Los Alamos for a volunteer role in which I judge children on the quality of their software. Clearly this is not the kind of opportunity I would turn down, but I also always take an excuse to drive back up the hill. I only lived in Los...
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
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Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
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How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
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Nela Dunato Art &...
How to tactfully answer awkward client questions The first time you get a challenging question will always feel uncomfortable, and you’ll probably...
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The first time you get a challenging question will always feel uncomfortable, and you’ll probably say something you’ll regret later. But that interaction is a valuable lesson, and the trick is to get prepared for the next time someone asks you the same question—because there will...
Strange Loop Canon
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Bond Street BOND STREET £320   London's Monopoly Streets BOND STREET Colour group: green Purchase price:...
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BOND STREET £320   London's Monopoly Streets BOND STREET Colour group: green Purchase price: £320 Rent: £28 Length: 800m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 penultimate street on the Monopoly board famously doesn't exist, even though it has a station named after it. It's also...
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About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
Open Culture
Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (1969) In 1994, Jerry Beck edited the book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation...
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In 1994, Jerry Beck edited the book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals, which challenged experts to create a ranking of the best short, cel animated cartoons ever made. To no one’s surprise, the experts chose 10 Warner Bros. animations crafted...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesser Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Proposal: the middle of any food should be called...
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Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip) Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
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Liz Denys
A meeting of mindsets This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my...
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This spring, I finally had time in the right places in my schedule to incorporate teaching into my semester. I'm a Learning Assistant (LA) for 6.042: Mathematics for Computer Science, which offers an introduction to discrete mathematics oriented towards computer science and...
Christopher Butler
Digital Reality Digital Shock Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s...
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Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s Neuromancer might be the most prophetic novel we never read as teenagers. Published in 1984, it predicted the digital world we would inherit: a reality where human consciousness extends...
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Netlify Year One > Update: I have since [left Netlify](https://dev.to/swyx/farewell-netlify-1alo).
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On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
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English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Writing an Authentication Store in Svelte This is my attempt today wrapping an Authentication workflow into a Svelte Store
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Does technology have a right to exist? (No.) So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that...
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over a year ago
So often, people argue against restrictions on technology (or tech companies) with the argument that those restrictions aren't possible given the scale, value, or some other property of the technology. For example, a common retort to arguments that Facebook and YouTube should...
computers are bad
2023-07-15 underwater ears everywhere Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am bad at computers (yet...
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Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am bad at computers (yet another case of "forgot to enable the systemd unit"). It's fixed now. The unsubscribe link was also broken and is now fixed but, you know, maybe that was a feature. Did wonders for...
NeuroLogica Blog
3D Printing Superalloys This is a cool material science development that nicely illustrates recent technological...
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a year ago
This is a cool material science development that nicely illustrates recent technological advancements. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a superalloy using additive manufacturing (3D printing). That may not sound that impressive at first, but consider the...
TheCollector
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Seth's Blog
Childish or childlike? Childlike involves wonder. It’s the ability to see the world with fresh eyes and create magic....
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Childlike involves wonder. It’s the ability to see the world with fresh eyes and create magic. Childish, on the other hand, is living as if there are no consequences. Over time, we’ve gotten very good at meauring the long and short-term consequences of our actions. And good at...
TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse undefined
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Array 1.6.0 One of the most fun weeks we've had so far with our UX - resizable and touch-enabled dashboards with...
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One of the most fun weeks we've had so far with our UX - resizable and touch-enabled dashboards with a new display mode, Microsoft Teams support, and…
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
over a year ago
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844 A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
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A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844.     “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.2.0 Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update...
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Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes PostHog iOS Library…
AVC
Threads Like tens of millions of others, I downloaded Threads onto my phone yesterday and signed up. The...
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Like tens of millions of others, I downloaded Threads onto my phone yesterday and signed up. The thing that Twitter has been missing since it killed off its ecosystem over a decade ago is competition. And as we all know, lack of competition is a very bad thing. In governments and...
xkcd.com
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TheCollector
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Moneyness
There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of...
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a year ago
PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maintain a balance of dollars, PayPal customers can now hold something new called PayPal USD, a crypto version of a dollar. Whereas PayPal USD...
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“Big Real Estate’s Continuing Stranglehold Over New York City” Recently, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the causes of...
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Recently, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times about the causes of unaffordable housing in New York City. He blamed the crisis on a few things, including a powerful financial “monoculture” in the city, NIMBYs, … Continue reading → The post “Big...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson’s Harrowing, Chemical-Filled Daily Routine E. Jean Carroll’s 1993 memoir of Hunter S. Thompson opens like this: I have heard the biographers of...
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E. Jean Carroll’s 1993 memoir of Hunter S. Thompson opens like this: I have heard the biographers of Harry S. Truman, Catherine the Great, etc., etc., say they would give anything if their subjects were alive so they could ask them some questions. I, on the other hand, would give...
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
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The Marginalian
Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people,...
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Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people, and yet all personal love is but a fractal of a larger universal love. Some call it God. I call it wonder. Dante called it “the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.”...
Diaries of Note
I fell on the flagstones It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by...
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It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by emotional distress, declining health, and unwavering artistic spirit. Kahlo endured multiple surgeries and spent long periods in hospital during this period, and in 1953, already...
Citation Needed
Issue 70 – The Cryptocurrency States of America Crypto’s efforts to buy the 2024 elections paid off, and we’re in for a bumpy ride.
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Arduino Blog
Monitoring the weather with an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010-based station Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to...
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Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to analyze how the local climate changes over time. This project by Hackster.io user Pradeep explores how he was able to design a simple station outdoors that could communicate with a...
Spoon & Tamago
The Conran Shop, A New Chapter For Hillside Terrace by Keiji Ashizawa Design All images courtesy of Keiji Ashizawa Design Since opening its London flagship in 1973, The Conran...
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All images courtesy of Keiji Ashizawa Design Since opening its London flagship in 1973, The Conran Shop has been a go-to destination for all things contemporary design. And in their latest chapter, the curated shop welcomes you to its new space in Hillside Terrace, a relaxing...
Willem's Blog
Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
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Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
HTMHell
#18 main divigation Context: The main navigation of a personal website. Bad code <div class="nav"> <div> ...
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Context: The main navigation of a personal website. Bad code <div class="nav"> <div> <div>about</div> <div>thoughts</div> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them The <div> element is an element of last resort, for when no other element is suitable. Use of the <div>...
Aaron's Essays
Fundraising isn't predictable I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying...
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I recently had a conversation with a founder who'd just finished a number of unsatisfying conversations with investors. The founder's company was growing well, had crossed $1mm ARR, but still couldn't raise money. According to conventional wisdom, that should have been enough to...
Open Culture
James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Note: With the sad passing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re bringing back a post from our...
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Note: With the sad passing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re bringing back a post from our archive–one featuring Jones reading two great American poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. These readings first appeared on our site in 2014. For all its many flaws the original...
TheCollector
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Flashbak
My ‘Homeric Retching’: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letter To His Wife About A Nasty Bout of Food Poisoning “Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it...
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“Exactly at 2:30, I suddenly felt an urge to vomit, had barely time to run outside — and there it began…” – Vladimir Nabokov to his wife Vera     Among Vladimir Nabokov’s love letters to his wife published in Letters to Véra, a wonderful book that takes us behind the scenes of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Karma Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out. Today's News:
Open Culture
Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San...
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In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San Francisco, California. Little did he know that he’d wind up playing drums for the band that night — that his name would end up etched in the annals of rock ’n’ roll. The Who came to...
Both Are True
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Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987) “I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
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“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
Maps Mania
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NeuroLogica Blog
Meteostat-12 Meets Flat Earthers I know this wasn’t the purpose of sending up a €4.3bn satellite into geostationary orbit, but...
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I know this wasn’t the purpose of sending up a €4.3bn satellite into geostationary orbit, but tweaking flat earthers is a fun side effect. European countries have collaborated on this project, having weather satellites in orbit since 1977. The latest iteration is Meteostat-12,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Secrets Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra! Today's News:
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The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
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Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
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Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the ulisp compiler's LLVM backend to support printing integers to...
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
The Marginalian
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I am offline. The internet went down and I had to cancel a few meetings. For the moment, I’m by myself. My first thought: What if it didn’t come back? Not in an end-of-the-world kind of way — not for everyone — but just for me. What if my last meeting was actually my last...
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“In the streets I saw two men meet after a long separation, it was plain. They came forward with a little run and LEAPED at each other’s hands. You never saw such bright eyes as they both had. It put one in a good humour to see it.” Yet again I’ve heard the small-minded slur that...
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Particularly in these post-pandemic, climate-change-addled, zoom-enabled times, I appreciate the argument that it's always worth asking, "Is this trip really necessary?"  We are in the age of remote work and zoom seminars that are attended by people from all over the world.  Is...
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'A Dead Wall or a Thick Mist' Reading occasionally reveals a pleasing convergence of thought between one writer, separated by...
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Reading occasionally reveals a pleasing convergence of thought between one writer, separated by centuries and continents, and another. The happy reader is their ambassador and beneficiary. I was again reading Nabokov’s brief, death-haunted novel from 1972, Transparent Things. Its...
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At this time of year I like to blog about a festively-named London street, however mundane it might be. In the past I've taken you to Noel Street, Noel Square, three Noel Roads, Noel Park Road, Turkey Street, Christmas Street, Yuletide Close, Shepherds Hill, Angel Road, Stables...
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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
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The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
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over a year ago
Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
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over a year ago
A few days ago, I worked on a project that was mostly about serving up basic store data (modeled after Etsy) to an API. We had a few dozen end-points, and all responses were in JSON. Most of the action happened inside of our controllers, and as you might imagine, our routes.rb...
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My Third Year as a Solo Developer Today is the third anniversary of quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I...
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Today is the third anniversary of quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I posted updates at the end of my first and second years, so it’s time to share my progress. The year things clicked into place In my first two years working for myself, I earned less...
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Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a...
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Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
The Modern House
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Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review) Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
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Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
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Getting shot hurts On 30th March 1981, as he emerged from a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel and...
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On 30th March 1981, as he emerged from a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel and headed towards a waiting limousine, U.S. President Ronald Reagan was hit by a bullet from the gun of would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr. The President, initially unaware that he had...
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This is the eighth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Shiloh Frederick. Born and raised in New York City, Shiloh is a writer and...
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Laxative Literally ‘Empties Out’ All Other Ads in Creative Campaign Targeting Tokyo Metro If you’ve boarded the Tokyo Metro this month, there’s a good chance you walked into a train car that...
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a year ago
If you’ve boarded the Tokyo Metro this month, there’s a good chance you walked into a train car that was…well, different. Perhaps you felt unobstructed, light and fluid as you passed with ease through the typical blockage. If you experienced any of those symptoms, it’s the work...
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The last RailsConf Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
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Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
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Link – Linsey Rendell's personal website linseyrendell.com is a really nice website. I just love the overall look and simplicity of what...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please make sure to buy all smbc products before deciding to tune out of consumer culture. Today's News:
Flashbak
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Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
The American Scholar
The Next New Thing In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The...
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8 months ago
In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The post The Next New Thing appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch? Today's News:
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Japan’s first flagship store of Mardi Mercredi is located along the path to Daikanyama Station. The project, encompassing site selection,...
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Slow down to speed up Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s...
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Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why it’s more accurate to call them “crashes” and not “accidents.”) That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have bold plans. That’s essential. It’s the last-second shortcuts that get us into...
Louwrentius
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If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2. I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
Overcoming Bias
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I have often taken on the role of econ futurist, analyzing the social consequences of particular future techs.
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
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In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
weird medieval guys
Why is medieval art so weird? Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran...
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Listen now (73 min) | In this inaugural episode of the Weird Medieval Guys podcast, Olivia and Aran discuss why medieval art is so intriguing to modern viewers and what makes so much of it so weird. Also discussed are Galaxy Quest, Mel Gibson's crimes against the Middle Ages, and...
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What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
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OP_RETURN based tokens are fundamentally flawed Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token...
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Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token system for Bitcoin Cash Introducing Colored Coins: a Bitcoin Cash token implementation Both are improvements over Tokeda as they allow permissionless transfers. However all commit...
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Oculus I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the...
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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…
Seth's Blog
Better pockets Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a...
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Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a universal area for improvement. When in doubt, make the pockets better. The interesting work is in realizing that you might offer a product or service where there are non-universal...
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Worn on your fingers, the Tap Strap recognises tapping and moving to control and type without a mouse or keyboard!
David Heinemeier...
Magic machines There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to...
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9 months ago
There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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over a year ago
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
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10 quick scenes from seoul I missed yesterday’s every-sunday-I-will-publish-a-post day because we’re now travelling in seoul. I...
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I missed yesterday’s every-sunday-I-will-publish-a-post day because we’re now travelling in seoul. I used to write more stream of consciousness posts while I travelled, but somehow over the past few years my writing...
A Collection of...
Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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When quickly-growing Altruist, a digital brokerage platform for RIAs, decided to open an office in Dallas, ENTOS Design engaged Tangram...
Math Is Still...
Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new...
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a year ago
For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart. The post Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons first...
The Marginalian
From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer "I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities."
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Metamorphoses, cantos 7 through 10 - more Heroides, more gore, more of everything - What meen my... Metamorphoses is fluid, quick, and ever-changing.  Let’s look at cantos VII through X, which...
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Metamorphoses is fluid, quick, and ever-changing.  Let’s look at cantos VII through X, which have their share of famous stories, stories famous, or as famous as they are, because of Metamorphoses.  Venus and Adonis, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion.  Icarus –...
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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...
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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...
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The new issue of our print magazine has just landed in our shop – and it’s filled with stories that look at the journeys we go on with our homes, from the emotional paths they take us on, to the very real process of renovating […]
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A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
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Product engineer vs software engineer: How are they different? Software companies are changing. Where once product managers and software engineers dominated, now a...
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Software companies are changing. Where once product managers and software engineers dominated, now a new role is emerging: the product engineer…
Ryan Mulligan
Someone Great Where to start? The grief is heavy and far too real. I barely slept last night. The brain fog is...
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Where to start? The grief is heavy and far too real. I barely slept last night. The brain fog is thick but finding the words and placing them here may provide some catharsis. I lost someone great. Oscar was so much bigger than most folks will ever understand. His love, not just...
Flashbak
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin     John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
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Apple’s reluctant shift toward India Apple apparently sees India as a destination to assemble and sell its iPhones. But CEO Tim Cook...
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a year ago
Apple apparently sees India as a destination to assemble and sell its iPhones. But CEO Tim Cook hasn’t made any big promises yet.
Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
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Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
Naz Hamid • Journal...
🔗 Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for...
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2 months ago
This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for you, so you can spend your attention elsewhere. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
Maggie Appleton
DeepSeek If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you...
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If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you might not know what DeepSeek is yet. Bless you.
Classical Wisdom
Why Don’t We WANT To Be Wrong? How can we develop our Many-sidedness?
11 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Google Domains to shut down The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t...
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a year ago
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
The Modern House
Jeremy Lee: the much-loved chef who grew up in a wedge of cheddar If ever there was a corrective to the idea of the dour Scotsman, it could be found in Jeremy Lee....
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11 months ago
If ever there was a corrective to the idea of the dour Scotsman, it could be found in Jeremy Lee. Glaswegian-born (and now London-based) Jeremy is chef proprietor of Quo Vadis, the historic Soho institution beloved of virtually everyone who’s ever had the privilege of […]
alexwlchan
Flickr Foundation at iPres 2024 &rarr; I wrote about a recent conference trip for the Flickr.org blog: In September, Tori and I went to...
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I wrote about a recent conference trip for the Flickr.org blog: In September, Tori and I went to Belgium for iPres 2024. We were keen to chat about digital preservation and discuss some of our ideas for Data Lifeboat – and enjoy a few Belgian waffles, of course! We ran a workshop...
Matt Blewitt
Shunn The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts to publishers. It was created by author William Shunn and is widely used in the publishing industry. Here is a brief demonstration of a tool I wrote to facilitate generating...
Castles in the Sky
Beyond Cliché and Pretense: From the Canon to Constellations The Importance of the new type of Artist
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Seth's Blog
Freedom of attitude There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating and is reliably busy. The other has an astonishingly low 1.5 out of 5 rating. The physical plant is virtually identical, and the marketing and promo are the same. The only difference...
Classical Wisdom
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Flashbak
American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name     We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place. Today's News: More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
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mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 3 Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has...
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over a year ago
Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has become my greatest challenge in not sweating the small stuff. Is It Keto continues growing in the background, with a 22% increase in revenue and a 35% rise in traffic. Goal Grades...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
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We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
Math Is Still...
The Year in Math Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time...
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Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TokyoDev
Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
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a year ago
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey 2022](/insights/2022-developer-survey) revealed that the country is still struggling to close the gender gap in the workplace in the tech industry. As a Japanese woman and a mother of two children, I was very...
Rest of World -...
South Africa’s competition watchdog takes aim at Google The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the...
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The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the country’s digital economy at risk.
Open Culture
How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a...
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In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a German clown in Auschwitz. The result was so awful that he never allowed its release, and it quickly acquired the reputation—along with disasters like George Lucas’ Star Wars...
Drew Ex Machina
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Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Saturday Morning...
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Seth's Blog
Pleasant We often use words like “beautiful” or “stunning” or “perfect” when we actually mean “popular” or...
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We often use words like “beautiful” or “stunning” or “perfect” when we actually mean “popular” or “pleasant.” Every day is beautiful in its own way. But the weather yesterday was pleasant. Hit songs are hits. But they’re rarely perfect. I’m a big fan of pleasant. And I often like...
TheCollector
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Retail Design Blog
115 Bake House & JIM ‘s Recipe by sutearchitect Cafe 115: A Transformation of a 60-Year-Old Commercial Building – Cafe 115 is a café that combines...
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Cafe 115: A Transformation of a 60-Year-Old Commercial Building – Cafe 115 is a café that combines coffee and homemade...
Marian's Blog
Uni-Timer Ich bin seit diesem Semester Student und in der Uni dauern Vorlesungen immer 90 Minuten, von...
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over a year ago
Ich bin seit diesem Semester Student und in der Uni dauern Vorlesungen immer 90 Minuten, von “viertel nach” bis “viertel vor”. Da kam mir die Idee, dass man eine Uhr bräuchte, die nicht den Fortschritt der aktuellen Stunde, sondern den der aktuellen Vorlesung zeigt. Dazu habe ich...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson and Art Over Commerce PLUS: Election Betting, Selling to Costco and AI in Hollywood.
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The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small...
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Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small shooter. The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afro Bullet masher - can you keep up with 100 enemies at the screen? Instruction W: up Credits Music: The Last Prophecy - Matthew Le Blanc...
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s undefined
a year ago
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr? undefined
4 months ago
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
3 months ago