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Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 2: Just the Two of Us 0. Everyone Likes a Giveaway Stick around to hear how you can win a fabulous prize by hardly doing...
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0. Everyone Likes a Giveaway Stick around to hear how you can win a fabulous prize by hardly doing anything. Take it away, fellas… 1. Still Positive Did you know that once you acquire COVID-19 your PCR test can be positive for up to 90 days? Did you know that the at-home tests...
The Convivial...
The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 13
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Collection Of Off-Grid Cabins Hidden Deep In The Jungle Architect Daniel Cota has shared photos of Glass 20.87, an off-grid project of 8 separate glass...
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Architect Daniel Cota has shared photos of Glass 20.87, an off-grid project of 8 separate glass houses in Mexico. Each house is spaced 20 to 25 meters apart, allowing for total privacy due to the dense jungle. The construction at Glass 20.87 was entirely artisanal (no machinery...
Quantum Frontiers
Let gravity do its work One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort...
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One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person. I pressed the elevator’s 4 button, … Continue reading →
Noahpinion
All the arguments against EVs are wrong EVs are just going to win.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Patek levels of finishing We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new...
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We’re in the final phase of getting the first ONCE product out the door. As with any new development, there are a million little details we need to nail for a successful launch that’s up to our standards. That’s usually where the temptation to cut corners on internal quality...
Open Culture
How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant. Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then...
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Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold and enjoy.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pseudocode for Intentionality slug: intentionality
a week ago
99% Invisible
Chick Tracts [EPISODE] Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There...
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Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There are two hundred and seventy different Chick Tracts, with titles like “The Death Cookie,” “Kidnapped!,” “Mean Momma,” “The Sissy?,” and “Satan Comes To Salem.” Many of these are...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all...
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One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all unnecessary words. Problem...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
What India can tell us about Netflix’s future Disney, Ambani, and the Netflix niche.
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Getting to no “Yes” is magical. It brings possibility and forward motion. But it’s almost impossible without “no”...
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“Yes” is magical. It brings possibility and forward motion. But it’s almost impossible without “no” and no can be just as frightening. First, there’s the no of “I can’t go for that.” The no of refusing to race to the bottom, the no of avoiding the selfish hustle, the no of...
Kagi Blog
Kagi + Wolfram Building a search engine is hard.
10 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
An in-depth look at the UX Design of the Porsche Taycan Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car...
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Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car company with specs that challenge Tesla's…
A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
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Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain. Adding a virtual host # Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
Math Is Still...
What Causes Giant Rogue Waves? Once dismissed as myths, monstrous rogue waves that tower over ships and appear without warning are...
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Once dismissed as myths, monstrous rogue waves that tower over ships and appear without warning are real. Wave-science researcher Ton van den Bremer and Steven Strogatz discuss how rogue waves can form in relatively calm seas and whether their threat can be predicted. ...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML vs TypeScript: comparing their type systems A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values...
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A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values in a piece of code, and validates them against their types. JavaScript has a type system, but it’s dynamic. This is one of the key advantages of using the language, providing an...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of...
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Pius Uzamere argues that virtual reality will succeed first in business applications instead of gaming: The most interesting virtual reality…
Rest of World -...
Ultra-cheap meals from China’s delivery giant are hugely popular. Drivers are bearing the costs Meituan’s group order program boomed amid China’s post-Covid-19 thrift economy, but delivery drivers...
7 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Poets in an Age of Prose' Yvor Winters published his final book, Forms of Discovery, in October 1967, three months before his...
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Yvor Winters published his final book, Forms of Discovery, in October 1967, three months before his death from cancer at age sixty-seven on January 25, 1968. Read his late correspondence in The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters (ed. R.L. Barth, 2000) for an understanding of the...
Map of the Week
Snickelways of York Note: In May, I spent some time traveling through England. This is the first of maybe several posts...
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Note: In May, I spent some time traveling through England. This is the first of maybe several posts from that trip. In York, England a snickelway is a narrow passageway variously referred to as a"snicket", "gimmel" or "alleyway", the word being a combination of all of these. Mark...
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home undefined
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more...
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In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. The post Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination undefined
9 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 3 (Exploring La Fortuna) The second full day in La Fortuna promised abundant showers although not continuously. It was the...
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The second full day in La Fortuna promised abundant showers although not continuously. It was the rainy season after all and it rains, and people deal with it. Frankly, the bright sunshine of the previous day was a fluke. So we understood all of this ahead of time and we devised...
Musings on Markets
The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction! Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled...
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Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. That call, at first sight, contained exceptionally good news, with revenues and earnings coming in at stratospheric levels, and above expectations,...
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 2 This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
devonzuegel.com
Contemplating calendars My friends say that my calendaring practice is atypical (and mock me incessantly for it). They're...
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My friends say that my calendaring practice is atypical (and mock me incessantly for it). They're not wrong, but I'll contend that most people underutilize this ubiquitous tool. A calendar is not just a reminder device for keeping track of external events. Used right, a calendar...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theodicy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for more updates and check the blog for more info! Today's News: BOOOOOOOOOOOK
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Ins and Outs of Fundraising Today | Out-Of-Pocket Some stuff I’ve learned doing a little healthcare startup investing
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Apple is in its Ballmer era During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock...
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During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock traded sideways, Ballmer made sure it was still raining dividends. Yet, today, that era of Microsoft is not looked upon too fondly. It's seen as being anchored in the company's...
Old Structures...
Gaudy This scrapbook clipping is listed as 1895 to 1945. The presence of the entrance kiosk for the City...
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This scrapbook clipping is listed as 1895 to 1945. The presence of the entrance kiosk for the City Hall subway stop means it’s after 1904. I’m not sure if the Municipal Building (built 1909 to 1914) would be visible from this angle or would be off the left side of the frame; the...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974) 51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
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51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
Open Culture
Watch the Performance of a Mozart Composition That Had Been Lost for Centuries For most musicians, a long-lost song written in their teenage years would be of interest only to...
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For most musicians, a long-lost song written in their teenage years would be of interest only to serious fans — and even then, probably more for biographical reasons than as a standalone piece of work. But that’s hardly the case for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was composing...
Simply Explained
How I Structure My ESPHome Config Files I'm a big fan of ESPHome. I have 24 devices running it, and I only buy new IoT devices when I know...
over a year ago
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I'm a big fan of ESPHome. I have 24 devices running it, and I only buy new IoT devices when I know they can run ESPHome.ESPHome is a modular firmware that you have to configure with YAML files. You define what components it should load and how it should talk to the hardware of...
Dreams of Space -...
One, Two (1965) The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting...
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do. DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
IEEE Spectrum
Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s...
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The semiconductor laser, invented more than 60 years ago, is the foundation of many of today’s technologies including barcode scanners, fiber-optic communications, medical imaging, and remote controls. The tiny, versatile device is now an IEEE Milestone. The possibilities of...
TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled) undefined
a year ago
diamond geezer
The Secret Life of the Home As science evolves, so does the Science Museum. The Secret Life of the Home. This much-loved...
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As science evolves, so does the Science Museum. The Secret Life of the Home. This much-loved corner of the basement, where the life of the domestic appliance is quirkily celebrated, closes forever on Sunday 2nd June. I went for a last look round with a wall-to-wall smile,...
The personal website...
Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring Tokyo. Until the last few days of 2018, I had never been...
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For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring Tokyo. Until the last few days of 2018, I had never been to Tokyo — or, for that matter, any city as large as Tokyo. And while I have many many great memories of the city, I’m particularly eager to share my impressions of the Tokyo...
Jonas Hietala
Establishing Habits with Habitica I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I...
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over a year ago
I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I believe it all started with an amazing book called The Power of Habit which describes the amazing benefits habits can give, both in the context of your own life but also in business....
./techtipsy
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
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This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
Jascha’s blog
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes. This is true almost everywhere. We will name...
bt RSS Feed
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
diamond geezer
Arsenal title-chasing live blog Arsenal title-chasing live blog 16:00 Could still win it. 16:05 Bugger. 16:23 Sigh. 16:43...
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Arsenal title-chasing live blog 16:00 Could still win it. 16:05 Bugger. 16:23 Sigh. 16:43 Aagh. 16:45 Oooh.   17:22 Bugger. 17:53 Ooooooh! 17:54 Sigh. 17:59 Could still win it. 18:00 Didn't.
TheCollector
The 6 Finest Gothic Cathedrals in France undefined
5 months ago
Old Structures...
I’m Fairly Sure The Library of Congress calls this 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto “View of children playing on sand...
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The Library of Congress calls this 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto “View of children playing on sand and dirt mound near stone structure and construction materials” which is nice and descriptive. They use that kind of title when no one was certain what the subject of the photo is....
Math Is Still...
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute Large language models do better at solving problems when they show their work. Researchers are...
10 months ago
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Large language models do better at solving problems when they show their work. Researchers are beginning to understand why. The post How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Weighty Thoughts
China's AI Journey Talking to Jordan Schneider from ChinaTalk about China's technological ascent
7 months ago
bt RSS Feed
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn’t shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
abdz.do - Have you...
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around ...
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Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around abduzeedo0212—23 Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love and remind us that it is all around us. This year, instead of buying generic gifts, why...
ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
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The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all. Just throw it away. I'm serious. And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work. It's going to save you time in the long run. The...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
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This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Lessons from the PC video game industry The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and...
over a year ago
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The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed The success or failure of tech and media products depends on complicated…
The personal website...
The legacy of NFTs A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and...
over a year ago
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A new trend is sending shock waves through the world of art, collecting, finance, and investing. It’s the result of a perfect storm: one part scientific breakthrough, one part new financial paradigm, one part reflection of world events. Some people attribute it entirely to the...
Moneyness
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
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On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
Nela Dunato Art &...
Why I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency As of September 1st 2023 I’ve been self-employed for 10 years. For this anniversary, I decided to...
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As of September 1st 2023 I’ve been self-employed for 10 years. For this anniversary, I decided to answer a question I'm often asked by family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers: do I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don't, and in this article I...
McMansion Hell
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors -... Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis In my latest column for The Nation, I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I think single stair is wonderful! - But I also don’t think it’s some kind of panacea for the housing crisis.
TheCollector
What Is First Thessalonians About? undefined
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Philips 9TC 2100 40 years ago this week I bought my first television. It was only black and white and only had a...
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40 years ago this week I bought my first television. It was only black and white and only had a nine inch screen, hence the model name, but it showed all the same channels as a normal television and most importantly it was mine. Back in 1983 there were only four channels to...
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know undefined
2 months ago
Simply Explained
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't...
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Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!
Contemporist...
This Wood Watchtower Is Also A Home For Bats NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also...
3 months ago
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NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also doubles as a shelter for bats.
Math Is Still...
Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species? The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on...
2 months ago
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The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with evolutionary biologist Kevin de Queiroz...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Actually Read the Dictionary' In one of the news weeklies long ago I read that Dr. Oliver Sacks enjoyed reading the Oxford English...
a year ago
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a year ago
In one of the news weeklies long ago I read that Dr. Oliver Sacks enjoyed reading the Oxford English Dictionary. Was this mere bravado, another instance of Sacks polishing his image as a lovable, learned eccentric? Or, like his friend W.H. Auden, was he gleaning the dictionary...
CONTEMPORIST
This Cat Cafe In New York Was Designed With Whimsy And Playfulness Architect Sonya Lee has shared photos of the new location of Meow Parlour, a cat cafe in New York...
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Architect Sonya Lee has shared photos of the new location of Meow Parlour, a cat cafe in New York that had outgrown its previous space. The storefront has a 10’ wall of white oak shelves that spell out M E O W, which also function as signage, a playspace for the cats to snuggle...
Epic Web Dev
TypeScript: What’s the Point?! (article) TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite...
10 months ago
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TypeScript elevates JavaScript with static typing, offering scalable, maintainable code despite initial challenges.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Curse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have gone very well. Today's News:
Engineers Need Art
SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
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SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
Benny Kuriakose
The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for its mouth-watering cuisine but also...
TheCollector
How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women? undefined
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Secrets of Crete
a year ago
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence undefined
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do meetings at PostHog Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
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Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
nanoscale views
A busy and contentious week in condensed matter physics There were a couple of interesting and controversial things afoot this week in the condensed matter...
a year ago
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There were a couple of interesting and controversial things afoot this week in the condensed matter world. There was a new preprint from the group of Prof. Hemley at the University of Illinois Chicago featuring electronic transport measurements in samples of the putative room...
The Honest Broker
Get Ready to Pay More for Music The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit undefined
2 weeks ago
mtlynch.io
Reset Month No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am...
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No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project. Retrospectives will resume in July.
Mazdak
The Elon Musk Empire In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and...
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In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and critical industries as Elon Musk. His companies, spanning transportation, communication, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, stand as testaments to his audacious vision and...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
The Modern House
Room for Improvement: designer Nat Buckley rethinks Energy Performance Certificates
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
over a year ago
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Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
Diaries of Note
A night of terror In September of 1939, English housewife Nella Last began keeping a diary that would span 30 years,...
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In September of 1939, English housewife Nella Last began keeping a diary that would span 30 years, ultimately producing one of the longest diaries in the English language at more than 12 million words. Born Nellie Lord in 1890, she was a voluntary participant in the Mass...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Startup Hubs Work
over a year ago
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a...
7 months ago
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Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management. I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root. 1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices? Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mary Meeker’s [ ](images/screen-shot-2009-12-27-at-11-51-18-am.png) The assertion seems to be that there is something special about the…
Commoncog
Learning About Moats the Hard Way How even legendary conglomerator Henry Singleton got caught out by competitive arbitrage at the end...
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(Posted with permission). The ISM® Services index was at 54.1%, up from 52.1% last month. The employment index decreased to 51.4%, from 51.5%. Note: Above 50 indicates expansion, below 50 in contraction. Services PMI® at 54.1% December 2024 Services ISM® Report On...
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JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
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A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from. The post Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields...
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As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me, you might get stressed out about the thought of people looking at your work and critiquing or criticizing your app's design. Take a deep breath, recenter, and remember that code...
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I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a stupendous change to the environment, and as with any change, there are winners and losers. The winners are usually us, people, through hydropower generation, protection from flooding,...
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I am not the first to say this but it bears repeating – it is wrong to use the accusation of a mental illness as a political strategy. It is unfair, stigmatizing, and dismissive. Thomas Szasz (let me say straight up – I am not a Szaszian) was a psychiatrist who made it his...
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Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I have an idea and it might be good, all I need to do is execute it. Right? Programmer graphics coming to take you away! Anyway it’s going to be a risk-like game with a twist: you can...
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The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
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Of all the books in this series, this was the one I most wanted to write about and also the one I knew would be impossible to write about, at least in a couple of distracted hours. Imagine this: through mathematical calculation, close reading and literary detective work, a...
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How the 1B+ user professional network went from a cringe-inducing activity feed to a useful and less cringey social feed.
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When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
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On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
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Two eclipses of the Sun will be visible in North America during the 2023-24 school year. The post Two Eclipses of the Sun Coming to North America 2023-24 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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(This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a self-driving car may properly react in most situations based on billions of images it has seen.
Old Structures...
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From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of the island: It’s the mid-length air shaft for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and, constructed circa 1950, it’s a relative newcomer to the island’s landscape. The diagram below,...
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Musings on Markets
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This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. To illustrate the heat that buybacks evoke, consider two stories in the last two weeks where...
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My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
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CONTEMPORIST
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Spaces Architects@KA has shared photos of a tall and narrow house they designed in New Dehli, India, that includes a large wall mural. The colorful mural, which spans multiple floors, depicts a tree with leaves, flowers, and birds. Interior walkways provide an unobstructed view...
This Space
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So much for this blog being labelled "the best resource in English on European modernist literature": this year's choice is a collection of lectures delivered in the early 1960s at the University of Zürich, published in English translation in 1970, with this edition being...
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Last year, Roman Mars teamed up with Hank Green to guest host Dear Hank & John — this year he’s back on the Greens’ show once again, but this time with Hank’s brother John. In their podcast Dear Hank & John, “hosts John and Hank Green (who are also authors and YouTubers) offer...
Old Structures...
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From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, what appears to be a page of illustrations from a European tourist guide to New York: Let’s start with the non-controversial item in the lower left: That is a decent engraving of Das Stadhaus / The City Hall / La maison de Ville as...
somenice
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It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
Rest of World -...
The Indian EV startup navigating short-lived government subsidies Prashant Vashishtha is the founder and chairman of Sokudo Electric India.
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I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
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It makes perfect sense that with London commercial property rents sky-high, wiley restaurateurs should look further afield and towards quirkier, more unusual spaces to set up shop. I have had mixed experiences dining on a boat (the London Shell Company: great fun; our office Xmas...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“We should hesitate to name any writings which would afford so large and so various a selection of detached passages complete in themselves. . . . We should be at a loss to name the writer of English prose who is his superior, or, setting Shakespeare aside, the writer of English...
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This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too “official” feeling to post little notes-to-self and tech tricks and whatnot. The setup is intentionally pretty boring. I have been using Obsidian for notetaking, and I store micro blog...
dthompson
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Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
Louwrentius
Solaris is an obsolete platform Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the...
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Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the Solaris operating system is obsolete. Solaris can be considered legacy. Sun was a hardware shop and to sell their hardware, they needed a great operating system. Sun had a great...
Mazdak
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The $500 billion app store market, which has been a cash cow for Apple and Google for years, is facing a growing number of threats. A recent court ruling against Google and new regulations in Europe and Asia could force the two tech giants to open up their app stores to more...
Saturday Morning...
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Show me! Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean?...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
Don Melton
My traitorous move to Windows I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of...
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I still have my Mac. Three of them in fact. And, of course, my iPhone. Why would I ever get rid of it? That’s just crazy talk. But… uh… my primary desktop computer has changed. Just a bit. Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming...
journal – Winnie Lim
a snapshot of my psyche, and an egg sandwich Sometimes I think I am too “purist” in the way I live: I am always trying to do the “right” thing,...
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Sometimes I think I am too “purist” in the way I live: I am always trying to do the “right” thing, but perhaps what is the right thing for me intellectually may...
The Solarchitecture...
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Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
Noahpinion
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diamond geezer
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It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence since 2001, the Capital Ring completed in 2005, the Green Chain grew an extra leg in 2010 and the Jubilee Greenway emerged in 2012. So I was thrilled to discover that the Green Chain...
Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
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Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
Making software...
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
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Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine's...
Daniel Miessler
Twitter’s Blue Checkmark Strategy Reduces Trust in Pursuit of Revenue When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month,...
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When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month, I was happy. As a legacy holder of the checkmark there’s a slight band-aid-sting of the check indicating specialness—who doesn’t want to feel special?—but I’d much rather see a...
alexwlchan
Taking scheduled screenshots of my website A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
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A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation. What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on. For example,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are Many Real Things of Beauty Here' A reader sent me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating...
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A reader sent me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating its opposite, ugliness, exactly, though his prose definitely leans in that direction. Only a graduate-school alumnus could come up with such silly ideas. Rather, he seemed to be saying that...
TheCollector
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alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
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Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years. Time flies when you’re organising information! I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come. Its approach...
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General? And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
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Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970) What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
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What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
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ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
CONTEMPORIST
A Daybed Nook Is A Great Place To Read Inside This Cabin Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a secluded home they designed in Methow Valley,...
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Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a secluded home they designed in Methow Valley, Washington. One of the key interior elements is a built-in day bed. The open nook has various functions. There’s the day bed for relaxing, with storage drawers built in underneath. The...
Cheese and Biscuits
Bouchon Racine, Farringdon Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas...
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Such is the cyclical nature of these things, trends in food or clothing or plenty of other areas besides will, given long enough, find themselves fading in and out of favour. There was a time, within living memory, when French cuisine was considered the gold standard of...
TheCollector
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Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Spring Tournament There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
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There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
TheCollector
British Imperial Presence in China: Opium, Porcelain, & Manipulation undefined
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Lighthouse Blog
Overview of the reading view
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Citation Needed
Sam Bankman-Fried wants only six years for his "victimless" crime Sam Bankman-Fried maintains that his crimes were victimless and resulted in zero losses, and...
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Sam Bankman-Fried maintains that his crimes were victimless and resulted in zero losses, and therefore warrant only six years of imprisonment. Prosecutors argue that 40–50 years are justified.
Flashbak
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Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
Math Is Still...
The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of...
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While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. The post The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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A Blight on Soviet Science On a hazy afternoon in March 1927, a Russian scientist was walking through the dense forests of...
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On a hazy afternoon in March 1927, a Russian scientist was walking through the dense forests of Abyssinia, ducking under low-hanging branches and stopping to inspect the wild coffee trees lining his path. Accompanied by a group of local guides, the young traveller had been hiking...
Common Edge
Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown...
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Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
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In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
Common Edge
Bill McKibben on COP28, Maintaining Hope, and Walking in the Woods The activist and author offers some perspective on the recently concluded UN Climate summit.
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Ideology as Anatomy How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy...
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How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives The post Ideology as Anatomy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Outrageous Side Projects The joy of side projects is that you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. Free from the...
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The joy of side projects is that you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. Free from the bureaucracy of your day job you can listen to those little voices that would normally get shouted down in business situations.
Spoon & Tamago
Kawazu Cherry Blossoms in Shizuoka Now in Full Bloom The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms  If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s...
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The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms  If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s Kawazu City, the host of one of Japan’s earliest cherry blossom festivals. The Kawazu-zakura cherry blossoms are known for blossoming early and some trees are already beginning to...
Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883) ‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!) Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created...
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Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based task manager, and everyone gives the iPad some much needed love. Or watch it on YouTube. Weekly Topics Raycast CleanShot X Final Cut Pro Google...
Moneyness
Who are the money launderers in the Tornado Cash stack? Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing...
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Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, because I find it to be a fascinating tool. With the recent indictment of two people involved in the Tornado Cash "stack" for money laundering, here's another post to add...
Paolo Amoroso's...
My Common Lisp setup on Linux <![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment...
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<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment too. But to code in Common Lisp also on my Crostini Linux system, the Linux container of chromeOS I use on a Chromebox, I'm setting up a suitable development environment. In addition...
Seth's Blog
Unstable equilibrium We’re testing a brand new way to host a charity auction, and I’m hoping you can check it out and...
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We’re testing a brand new way to host a charity auction, and I’m hoping you can check it out and even bid to support BuildOn. In this post, I want to take a moment to explain the attraction and risk of unstable equilibrium, and there’s also a fun contest at the end… If you drop...
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review ‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review j.hoare Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
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Aaron's Essays
Abundant Capital The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies...
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The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in...
Josh Thompson
Gratitude 3x/day Earlier this year, I read The Miracle Morning, which promises (paraphrasing here): If you do these...
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Earlier this year, I read The Miracle Morning, which promises (paraphrasing here): If you do these seven things every morning you’ll be the most amazing person you’ve ever met. OK, it’s not exactly that bold, but it’s not far off. It wasn’t a terrible book, it had lots of good...
CONTEMPORIST
Red-Pigmented Concrete Screens Surround This New Home In Cape Town Architecture firm SAOTA, together with interior design firm ARRCC, has recently completed a modern...
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Architecture firm SAOTA, together with interior design firm ARRCC, has recently completed a modern house in Cape Town, South Africa. The home was designed by Philip Olmesdahl, principal of SAOTA, for himself and his family, with him sharing, “When architects design their own...
Nat Eliason's...
10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars How to Stay Sane in a Mania
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The Modern House
The Green Series #2: how to control heat and draught-proof your home Triple glazing and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems come as standard in a...
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Triple glazing and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems come as standard in a Passivhaus home, sealing the interior against the elements and radically reducing your reliance on conventional heating. For the second in our series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs...
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
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Epic Web Dev
What's Coming in React 19 Beta (tip)
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AFAR Media - Travel...
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Collective knowledge systems I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the...
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I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the last decade are a set of systems that are…
TheCollector
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Cheese and Biscuits
Bossa, Marylebone I don't know whether it's by design or sheer accident that Bossa, a brand new Brazilian restaurant...
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I don't know whether it's by design or sheer accident that Bossa, a brand new Brazilian restaurant from chef Alberto Landgraf, has landed right next door to the Brazilian embassy. But it felt very appropriate walking under a giant Brazilian flag up to the front steps of Bossa -...
Nelson's Weblog
Seven slaves, a marker I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I...
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I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I learned there were more, at least seven. This marker comes courtesy of Find-a-Grave. It's on a small family cemetery near Bagwell, TX. I'm not positive but I think the land is...
Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
AFAR Media - Travel...
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and... .
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The Honest Broker
What's the Greatest Live Music Event You Ever Saw? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker
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Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
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Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
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xkcd.com
Marble Run
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alexwlchan
Writing a Mac app to review my photos I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures...
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I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images. I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
TheCollector
Hacker Group Takes Credit for Christie’s Cyberattack undefined
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Diaries of Note
For twelve years we lied about it Kenneth Rose was a journalist and biographer famous for his access to high-profile British figures,...
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Kenneth Rose was a journalist and biographer famous for his access to high-profile British figures, tales of whom are scattered through his extensive diaries. On the day he wrote the following entry in 1985, Rose had spent some time with Mary Soames, daughter of Winston...
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
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The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
Old Structures...
Yet Another Blue-Sky Proposal From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building),...
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From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building), via a scrapbook at the New York Public Library: a very involved railroad and boulevard system that I doubt anyone wanted and had zero chance of being built: This proposal is along...
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...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 25-31 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
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TheCollector
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Willem's Blog
Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
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TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament undefined
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Stories by Andrej...
A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
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Wrong Side of...
The War on the Countryside The Shire must be brought to heel
2 months ago
Notes on software...
Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about Community Notes?
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Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team...
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over a year ago
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline and size over time: 1.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
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<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces...
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In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was formed during the war in Darfur, outside the control of the national army for “special operations”. Because they weren’t under the leadership of the army, normal war...
Maps Mania
Reconstructing the Ancient Trade Routes
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Need to Read
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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3 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books In Defence of Boring Books JamesHoare Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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NeuroLogica Blog
Grief Tech In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her grief she turns to a company that promises to give her at least a partial experience of her husband. They sift through every picture, video, comment, and other online trace of the...
Josh Thompson
Who inspires you, and is still alive? There are lots of dead people that we look up to. But people that are alive, and not world-wide...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are lots of dead people that we look up to. But people that are alive, and not world-wide famous are a bit more knowable. Some of them will even reply to tweets you send them! So, here are a few people that I follow and have received TONS of amazing wisdom from. (I...
The Elysian
Who's qualified to save the world? Two climate dystopias on unlikeable saviors.
6 months ago
Jason Crawford
Things that can kill you quickly There are things that kill you instantly, like a bullet to the head or a fall from twenty stories....
over a year ago
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There are things that kill you instantly, like a bullet to the head or a fall from twenty stories. First aid can’t help you there. There are also things that kill you relatively slowly, like a bacterial infection. If you have even hours to live, you can get to the emergency...
Diaries of Note
The news from remote France grows more ominous every day Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life...
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Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life in the trenches and his criticism of the conflict. In 1918, he had already gained recognition for his poetry, with his first collection, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, published...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 September 2023 Exhibitions, festivals, workshops, talks, cabaret, comedy... phew!
a year ago
Grow With Less
7 Lessons Every Blogger About to Quit Should Know As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to...
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over a year ago
As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to start blogging infuriating. They paint blogging as this wonderful activity that will free you from your 9 to 5 job and solve all your problems. They show you pictures of happy...
The DESK Magazine
The anesthetization of beauty They were all over the internet: Images of deep space, revealing thousands of distant galaxies,...
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They were all over the internet: Images of deep space, revealing thousands of distant galaxies, twinkling in vivid detail. They were beautiful. Full-spectrum color. Never seen before – except they were.
Common Edge
Art & Architecture Writers Demand Fair Pay Wages for free-lance journalists, covering the built environment, have been stagnant or in decline...
a year ago
nanoscale views
AI/ML and condensed matter + materials science Materials define the way we live.  That may sound like an exaggeration that I like to spout because...
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Materials define the way we live.  That may sound like an exaggeration that I like to spout because I'm a condensed matter physicist, but it's demonstrably true.  Remember, past historians have given us terms like "Stone Age", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age", and the "Information...
Mind Mine
my phone is making me dumb is yours too?
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Londonist
Around London In 11 Fish Sculptures, puns and some actual real fish.
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The Marginalian
The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and...
a year ago
Adventures In...
Detect and measure wildfires with Sentinel-1 Explorer Our human visual systems collect light from a pretty narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum....
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Our human visual systems collect light from a pretty narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum. But there is so much more light to see. Radar systems use photons with much longer wavelengths that can break through clouds and smoke, and because the energy is sent from the...
TheCollector
The History of Appalachia & Its People undefined
a year ago
Moneyness
Circle says its USDC stablecoin was as diversified as possible. Is that accurate? There's a good article by Leo Schwartz on stablecoin issuer Circle, which provides some clarity into...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a good article by Leo Schwartz on stablecoin issuer Circle, which provides some clarity into last March's big depegging of the USDC stablecoin, and Circle's subsequent bailout by the government. I wrote about the whole thing here, but the short version is that a handful...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Earned Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and twitter, let me tell you, is very smart. Today's News: It's the last day that sales of Bea count toward our NYT bestseller total! The list is normally dominated by major franchises,...
History Today Feed
Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways Preston’s Banana Boat Stowaways j.hoare Wed, 12/20/2023 - 07:00
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Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and...
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a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple example C programs that you can...
Raptitude.com
How It Seems vs How It Is The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down,...
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The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down, suddenly the room seemed to lose half its size. Turns out it’s just a claustrophobic little room with a toilet, sink, and tub. The sense that there’s open space in front of me while...
Old Structures...
Best Commute Ever The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel...
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The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel is not far away in a two-dimensional sense. I picked it some months ago by looking at a map and thinking that it was a short walk from campus. It’s a short flight to campus if...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare in India | Out-Of-Pocket From the eyes of someone on the ground
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Sort Of Obvious The fact that Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is from Jersey City is integral to her character. As a teen,...
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The fact that Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is from Jersey City is integral to her character. As a teen, she lives at home with her parents and most of the stories revolve around that location. So this view of the waterfront is not exactly hard to find
Blog System/5
Links: February 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
10 months ago
Noahpinion
How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
a year ago
Math Is Still...
A New Idea for How to Assemble Life If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must...
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a year ago
If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be. The post A New Idea for How to Assemble Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Quantum Frontiers
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
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At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
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Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Amuse and Gratify Her Own Self' In her first collection, A Good Time Was Had By All (1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already...
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In her first collection, A Good Time Was Had By All (1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already suggesting themes that would go on preoccupying her:   “All things pass Love and mankind is grass”.   In scripture, grass is the default metaphor for the transience of life. In the...
Bits about Money
Demystifying financial leverage Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for...
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Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Structuring the Unstructured and ScienceIO | Out-Of-Pocket how to train your model, the animated movie
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Seth's Blog
ChatGPT for you AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it...
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AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it feel less like a threat, it gives us the confidence to make it into something better. I use ChatGPT4 just about every day, and I’m often surprised at how frequently it surprises...
The Elysian
What movement does the world need now? Your answers to December's writing prompt.
3 days ago
TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding undefined
11 months ago
Notes on software...
We put a distributed database in the browser – and made a game of it This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Disposal
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Making software...
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I'll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn't already obvious). I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger...
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There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger projects — as long as somebody more knowledgable than me sets it up and maintains it. When I want type hints in VSCode for smaller, personal projects, I use JSDoc which lets you...
Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
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Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
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In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Benny Kuriakose
A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the...
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Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the true essence of the building, the...
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What I want to do at Recurse Center Projects I want to work on at RC
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to See Music & Performing Arts in Asheville, NC
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