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TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too” undefined
8 months ago
Mazdak
The Future of Healthcare: Your AI Health Pod is Here! 🩺 Get ready for a revolution in healthcare! Say goodbye to long waits and crowded waiting rooms, and...
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a year ago
Get ready for a revolution in healthcare! Say goodbye to long waits and crowded waiting rooms, and hello to the CarePod, your self-contained doctor's office powered by artificial intelligence. Imagine: Stepping into a futuristic pod at your local mall, gym, or even office...
Stephen Wolfram...
Can AI Solve Science? Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for...
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Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? Particularly given its recent surprise successes, there’s a somewhat...
somethingaboutmaps
A Free eBook of Terrain Lines Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using...
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Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using some novel techniques that allowed me to create a hachure drawing style from digital elevation data. If you’d like to see the whole set, I’ve now assembled them into a quick eBook...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Requiem for Raghavan Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming...
2 months ago
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Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn&
Open Culture
RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story of how...
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In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story of how he became a writer. Its first episode had appeared more than twenty years earlier, in a New Yorker piece titled “Why Write?”: “I was eight years old. At that moment in my life,...
Matt Mazur
The Kenya Quick Answer Goes Viral, Again On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot...
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On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot of the now-famous “african country that starts with k” Google Quick Answer, which quickly went viral, garnering over 82k likes and 3 million views as of the time of this writing...
One Useful Thing
What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter Democratizing data analysis with AI
a year ago
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism undefined
a year ago
Common Edge
What Makes a City Resilient? A talk with Sam Carter, a founding principal at the Resilient Cities Catalyst.
3 months ago
Archinect - Features
How to Understand Architecture Business Conditions Using the AIA's Architecture Billings... Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in...
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Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in billings by architecture firms in the United States. Over time, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has become a valuable metric for charting the economic health of the...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Future of Startup Funding
over a year ago
TheCollector
Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity undefined
11 months ago
anderegg.ca
Maybe Bluesky has “won” November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X....
2 months ago
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November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this...
sbensu
Breaking changes in JSON APIs A collection of common breaking changes to JSON APIs for you to keep in mind as you design.
a year ago
Noahpinion
The free world teeters on the edge of a knife If Trump is elected, there will be no liberal great powers left in the world.
2 months ago
escape the algorithm
Close reading the trees How competitive Google Street Viewing makes the world feel seen
11 months ago
Josh Thompson
`ls` command to show directory contents I like to use the tree command on my local machine when trying to peek into the structure and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like to use the tree command on my local machine when trying to peek into the structure and contents of a given directory. tree -L 2 will [L]ist recursively everything [2] levels deep from your current directory. The output is nicely formatted like this: > tree -L 2 . ├──...
Castles in the Sky
Good Lessons from Bad Men Paradoxical lessons in masculinity from crime cinema
a year ago
Josh Thompson
A New Old Financial Product I’m going to weave together talk of land value, and financing, and some of the primitives1 around...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m going to weave together talk of land value, and financing, and some of the primitives1 around financial products. How much would you pay for a box that lives in your mailbox and delivers $1000 on the first of every month? Would you pay at least $5000, if you felt really...
Data Boutique
The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data Market components to consider when selling pre-scraped datasets
a year ago
Noahpinion
Don’t Rock the Vote Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest...
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5 months ago
Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest post by Wally Nowinski)
The Marginalian
Emerson on the Singular Enchantment of Indian Summer (and a Better Term for This Liminal Season... "There are days... wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the air, the heavenly bodies, and...
2 months ago
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle undefined
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is my friend Jade,...
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is my friend Jade, creator of the Up and Atom channel. She makes these incredible math and physics explainers that I absolutely love, and she recently got the opportunity to visit ITER (eater) in France....
Global Inequality...
James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
Archinect - Features
Happy National Volunteer Week! Here's a resource guide for architects and designers looking... This week, from April 21–27, is officially National Volunteer Week in the United States. To...
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This week, from April 21–27, is officially National Volunteer Week in the United States. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Archinect has curated a handy guide of resources for architects looking to donate their time and skills to various causes that will ultimately lead to...
Mazdak
Understanding Employment Insurance (EI) Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial...
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Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial support to eligible individuals who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. While this is the most commonly understood purpose of EI, the program offers various benefits...
diamond geezer
Consecutive postcode districts It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than wasting your time reading today's post. That's because it's about journeys through consecutively numbered postcode districts, an issue of no practical use whatsoever. postcode...
The Changelog
Facebook’s Blocking Decisions Are Deliberate – Including Their Censorship of Mastodon In the aftermath of my report of Facebook censoring mentions of the open-source social network...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the aftermath of my report of Facebook censoring mentions of the open-source social network Mastodon, there was a lot of conversation about whether or not this was deliberate. That conversation seemed to focus on whether a human speficially added joinmastodon.org to some sort...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
a year ago
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Diaries of Note
The sight that met us was beyond anything one could conceive Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th...
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Few archaeologists can claim to have felt the surge of exhilaration that Howard Carter did on 27th November 1922, as he stood before the threshold of discovery in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The electric lights glared down on a scene of ancient splendour as Carter and his team...
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Curiosity to Inquire Into All Things' “Concupiscence of experience, boundless curiosity to set our foot everywhere, to enter...
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2 months ago
“Concupiscence of experience, boundless curiosity to set our foot everywhere, to enter every possible situation. Montaigne.”  I could have signed my name to that when I was twenty. I wanted to visit every country in the world, even the most dangerous. I made plans to move to...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Best Lawn in the Entire Post-Apocalypse What kind of an idiot am I that I would be doing lawn maintenance during the zombie apocalypse? Let...
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
The century of Voltaire Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be...
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Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be renowned for his dramatic, emotive works, his use of bold colour and brushwork setting him apart. But his influence extended beyond the canvas, as at the age of twenty-three he...
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2024 The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy...
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The Ware for November 2024 is shown below. Click on any image for a larger version. I have a policy of never using one of my own projects for name that ware. But, sometimes I see another person’s project in the wild and it is just too cool not to share! I came across this […]
Retail Design Blog
FOGO E ÁGUA at ALEA RESORT FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted from a brine...
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague undefined
2 months ago
Laetitia@Work
Cognition & care: pay attention! Laetitia@Work #58
a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 19
over a year ago
Common Edge
Unlocking the Mysteries of Zoning Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning.
Open Culture
The World’s First Medieval Electronic Instrument: The EP-1320 Lets You Play the Sounds of... At this time of the year, the Swedish island of Gotland puts on Medeltidsveckan, or “Medieval Week,”...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
At this time of the year, the Swedish island of Gotland puts on Medeltidsveckan, or “Medieval Week,” the country’s largest historical festival. According to its official About page, it offers its visitors the chance to “watch knights on horseback, drink something cold, take a...
Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Dan Slimmon
Fix tomorrow’s problems by fixing today’s problems A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have...
a year ago
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a year ago
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grows over time. Eventually, deploys start randomly timing out. The deploy pipeline grinds to...
diamond geezer
Draw-Off For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately lowered. Draw-Off and it exposes more of the riverbed than usual. In order to carry out essential maintenance works on Richmond lock, weirs and sluices, it is necessary to hold up the...
Matt Blewitt
Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned From NHS 111 Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context of incidents at your company? Although mostly true, I want to talk about a time in my career when sometimes, just sometimes, it was the latter, and how it shaped my approach to...
Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art "Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
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over a year ago
"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to...
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over a year ago
I lost my position as global minister for future generations because I spent my effort points to fast to reach net zero.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Why is open source software so badly designed? “It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open...
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism undefined
4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The law showed no moooorcy. Today's News:
a week ago
Raw Thought (from...
Confront reality
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great. This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Math Is Still...
The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light —...
a year ago
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a year ago
To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light — Cynthia Chiang builds her own equipment. Then she deploys it at the ends of the Earth. The post The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise first...
SOCKS
Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of...
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over a year ago
Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views....
Open Culture
Martin Scorsese Plays Vincent Van Gogh in a Short, Surreal Film by Akira Kurosawa The idea of the auteur director has been a controversial one at times given the sheer number of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The idea of the auteur director has been a controversial one at times given the sheer number of people required at every stage to produce a film. But it hangs together for me when you look at the films of say, Martin Scorsese or Akira Kurosawa, both directors with very...
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...
Wanderingspace
Mars Express is Still Making Great Images 20 Years Later Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In...
4 months ago
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Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In one shot, you can see Mars as a half-lit disk, with Phobos, its tiny moon, hovering above. Right below Phobos is Olympus Mons, the solar system's largest volcano, towering 22 km...
Sean Carroll
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | 23. Criticality and Complexity Spherical cows are important because they let us abstract away all the complications of the real...
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over a year ago
Spherical cows are important because they let us abstract away all the complications of the real world and think about underlying principles. But what about when the complications are the point? Then we enter the realm of complex systems — which, interestingly, has its own...
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover the Best Fall Getaways: 3 American Cities You Must Visit
7 months ago
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
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While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt undefined
8 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates May 24
7 months ago
Willem's Blog
Tudor Black Bay 36 long-term review For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, every day and night. Read along to learn...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, every day and night. Read along to learn what makes the Tudor Black Bay 36 the perfect every day watch.
TheCollector
Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction undefined
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
Foreign tech workers hit hard by South Africa’s new immigration laws Lured by rich job opportunities in South Africa's tech scene, thousands of migrants from across the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Lured by rich job opportunities in South Africa's tech scene, thousands of migrants from across the continent flooded into the country. Now, those jobs are out of reach.
Posts on Nikita...
Switching From C++ to Rust Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
Oxide Computer...
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
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over a year ago
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
Prolost
Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro And I’ve got some free LUTs for you. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but there’s already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, that’s where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Anachronistic The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in mid-air, I guess: The location is instantly recognizable: the building on the far left with the single dormer is the Washington Life Insurance Building at 141 Broadway, the...
Ben Borgers
Friday, January 21, 2022
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification? undefined
a month ago
Founder's blog
Improving C# Performance with Span<T> Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and .NET Core releases come with so many performance oriented features that I've been waiting to play with, specifically the new datatype called Span<T>. Here's the thing. Every...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, May 2023 This is a monthly feature. As usual, I’ve omitted recent blog posts and such, which you can find in...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a monthly feature. As usual, I’ve omitted recent blog posts and such, which you can find in my links digests. John Gall, The Systems Bible (2012), aka Systemantics, 3rd ed. A concise, pithy collection of wisdom about “systems”, mostly human organizations, projects, and...
The Marginalian
In the Dark: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Find the Light Behind the Fear The mind is a camera obscura constantly trying to render an image of reality on the back wall of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The mind is a camera obscura constantly trying to render an image of reality on the back wall of consciousness through the pinhole of awareness, its aperture narrowed by our selective attention, honed on our hopes and fears. In consequence, the projection we see inside the dark...
Platformer
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday The high cost of cutting expenses
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Whoomp-whoomp-whoomp On 7th August 1942, Allied forces landed on the shores of Guadalcanal, igniting one of the most...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 7th August 1942, Allied forces landed on the shores of Guadalcanal, igniting one of the most significant campaigns in the Pacific during World War II. While U.S. forces grappled with a formidable Japanese defence in a treacherous jungle environment, American journalist Richard...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Special Edition: A Toilet And A Neural Network | Out-Of-Pocket You didn't know you needed this. And you probably don't.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained undefined
3 months ago
Common Edge
Declaration of Independence From Sprawl Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
7 months ago
Charles Chen
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
Arduino Blog
Control your Raspberry Pi GPIOs with Arduino Cloud using Python | Part II As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs remotely. Well, you have landed in the right place.  This article builds upon our previous introduction to “Visualize your Raspberry Pi data with Arduino Cloud | Part I.” Now, we’ll...
Dan Quach Blog
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
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over a year ago
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Blues? undefined
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Cruise for Best Way to See the Northern Lights in Alaska
9 months ago
Fatih Arslan
How I Designed a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone Dock Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm...
3 months ago
Archinect - Features
AI, Climate, and Advice for the Next Generation: Watch Our Roundtable with SCI-Arc Program... In November 2024, Archinect brought together four program chairs from the Southern California...
a month ago
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a month ago
In November 2024, Archinect brought together four program chairs from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) for a wide-ranging roundtable conversation.  The questions up for debate and discussion were among the most pressing facing the architectural...
TokyoDev
Marketing yourself as a developer As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to succeed, it also takes good marketing. The same is true for you as a developer in the job market: while solid technical skills are necessary to land great jobs, your ability to sell...
Londonist
An A-Z Of The London Underground X was tricky but we think we sorted it.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
"I'm on the edge of revolt" I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all these years, but I must say I'm on the edge of revolt now that Google's actions are so punitive, not just for Expedia, but also for IAC and all the players that depend upon something...
ntietz.com blog
My portable ergonomic setup In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids. That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally. One guaranteed trigger...
Society's Backend
Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
4 months ago
Map of the Week
Where Your Christmas Tree Comes From A recent map on maps.com (an Esri run map site) by Joshua Stevens shows where Christmas trees are...
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A recent map on maps.com (an Esri run map site) by Joshua Stevens shows where Christmas trees are grown. The data is from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Each tree shaped spike represents a county. The most significant areas are in Oregon and North Carolina. If you click on...
Mind Mine
transformations surrender & renew
a month ago
Common Edge
MoMA’s Woefully Incomplete Look at Architecture’s Environmental Arc A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises Here's how you kill an entire genre
7 months ago
watchTowr Labs
Check Point - Wrong Check Point (CVE-2024-24919) Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and...
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Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and laying bare a recent in-the-wild exploited bug. This time, it is Check Point who is the focus of our penetrative gaze. Check Point, for those unaware, is the vendor responsible for...
TheCollector
La Malinche: The Treachery and Tragedy of Cortés’s Native Interpreter undefined
a month ago
The Honest Broker
How Musicians Invented Stand-Up Comedy Even today rhythm makes a joke funnier
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Your own addressbook and calendar cloud You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data...
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You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data and share it between your devices.
Asterisk
Intelligence Testing Everyone agrees that AIs are getting smarter — but it’s surprisingly difficult to measure by how...
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Everyone agrees that AIs are getting smarter — but it’s surprisingly difficult to measure by how much.
Citation Needed
Issue 72 – A seat at the table The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government...
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The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government continues to worsen, and several media outlets botch their crypto reporting at a time it’s needed most.
Jonas Hietala
IDA Summer of Code 2014: Summary This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged...
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This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged commits 6790 lines added 2822 lines deleted 36 pull requests, 34 merged 12 pull requests directly fixing issues rest either documentation or cleanup 1 RFC submitted...
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
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2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Madeira, Portugal Is the Ideal Stopover Destination
2 months ago
The personal website...
The management strategy that saved Apollo 11 13 minutes from landing the Eagle on the surface of the moon, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had a...
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13 minutes from landing the Eagle on the surface of the moon, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had a problem. Their guidance computer was showing a cryptic alarm, flashing the number 1202. With the mission (and their lives) in danger, the astronauts had to make a decision: continue...
wadertales
Curlew nest survival The Eurasian Curlew is designated as ‘Near-Threatened’ by IUCN/BirdLife. It is Red-listed in the UK,...
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The Eurasian Curlew is designated as ‘Near-Threatened’ by IUCN/BirdLife. It is Red-listed in the UK,  largely due to a rapid decline in breeding numbers. In this context, the fact that there are a few pink squares (indicating increased numbers) on the map showing breeding...
Louwrentius
Making cowpatty recognize a four-way handshake I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way...
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I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way handshake of a WPA session. I got it working like this: First, download cowpatty 4.6 right here, within the source directory of cowpatty. Extract cowpatty and apply this patch using these...
NeuroLogica Blog
Rats! What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on...
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What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on this island fat flightless birds who nested on the ground and were a convenient way to restock their ship’s food supply. Within 80 years the dodo went extinct. But hunting was not...
Noahpinion
No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
a month ago
Maps Mania
AI Geography Quizzes
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 1 (Oahu: Honolulu Waterfront) Most of my work trips are pretty mundane. The last three were rather typical — Philadelphia, Tampa...
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Most of my work trips are pretty mundane. The last three were rather typical — Philadelphia, Tampa and Atlanta — for example. Sometimes I go to more interesting places like my quick jaunt to Germany a few years ago. However, this time I hit the jackpot: Hawaii, Japan, and South...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Socrates Matters New Event: November 22
2 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Losing a Loved One: 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...
Stoic Simple
5 Stoic Strategies for Anger Management Are you someone who struggles with managing your anger? Do you find yourself constantly feeling...
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Are you someone who struggles with managing your anger? Do you find yourself constantly feeling frustrated and overwhelmed? If so, it might be time to consider turning to the ancient wisdom of Stoicism. In this article, we'll explore five Stoic strategies for anger management...
History Today Feed
‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review ‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review JamesHoare Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:46
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Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seth's Blog
Nothing to ad A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended...
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A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended with one participant describing the hard part with, “nothing to ad.” She was referring to how much the thread had covered, but the pun wasn’t lost on us. Social media offered an...
NeuroLogica Blog
Student Attitudes Toward AI in the Class Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic...
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Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic institution in Sweden. The results are not surprising, but they do give a snapshot of where we are with the recent introduction of large language model AIs. Most students, 56%, reported...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 5 (Mississippi Gulf) Next we returned to familiar territory. I’ve mentioned the Mississippi Gulf Coast many times on...
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Next we returned to familiar territory. I’ve mentioned the Mississippi Gulf Coast many times on Twelve Mile Circle because I go there fairly regularly and I have a lot of family there. However, my last trip was way back in 2019 and only for a long weekend. Somehow I never figured...
xkcd.com
Snow
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Working Theorys
Agency in the Age of AI | Theory No. 10 In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest...
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In the age of AI, where do I fit in? It’s a conversation permeating dinners, group chats, and honest online discourse.
Retail Design Blog
MAAP LaB Berlin The European retail expansion of MAAP has reached yet another major capital—Berlin. The cycling...
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The European retail expansion of MAAP has reached yet another major capital—Berlin. The cycling apparel brand has secured a unit...
essay – snarfed.org
Policing misinformation Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
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Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
Jonas Hietala
A friendly game of Twilight Imperium A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We...
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A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We were six players, most had played the third edition before. As I was quite hyped before the game, I had read up on the rules, watched a let’s play or two and listened to a podcast...
Opsbros
Saibah Securitah It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Twitter and third-party Twitter developers I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all...
over a year ago
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I can’t remember the last time the tech world was so interesting. First, innovation is at an all time high.  Apple, Google, Facebook…
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Hanging on to 'stuff' Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on...
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Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on old pieces of furniture and belongings that are just cluttering our life and no longer needed. But this is a surprisingly difficult task. Almost every time we go to get rid of a...
Londonist
45+ Action-Packed Things To Do In London In April 2024 The best events in London this month.
10 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Steep Embankments My police officer friend (and design mentor) once told me the story of a strange death he...
over a year ago
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My police officer friend (and design mentor) once told me the story of a strange death he investigated where a woman was found floating face down next to a shopping cart.
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I’ve officially switched back over to Jekyll. I’m not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I’ll...
The Elysian
Do we still want the future desired by the past? Why three socialist utopian novels are still relevant 100 years later.
3 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
8 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Selective Memory Eraser I can’t remember the day I won the top artist award in college. I know it happened, I know I was...
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I can’t remember the day I won the top artist award in college. I know it happened, I know I was thrilled, but I can’t tell you anything specific about that day. Why did the high point of my college career, the culmination of my boyhood dream, vanish from memory?
Archinect - Features
Exhibit Columbus’ University Design Research Fellows Showcase Proposals That Activate the... How do you activate invisible spaces, and what does it mean to design for the public? These were the...
a year ago
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How do you activate invisible spaces, and what does it mean to design for the public? These were the themes that sparked important conversations at Exhibit Columbus’ 2023 Design Presentations organized by the Landmark Columbus Foundation. Each Exhibit Columbus cycle focuses on a...
Good Enough
Thoughts On Thoughts It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our...
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It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our thoughts and what we believe about them. Or perhaps we can think of this as an intervention. This post is the circle of friends gathered to help us stop hitting ourselves in the...
Paul Cudenec
There's only one global mafia! I have noticed that some people, even those generally receptive to my point of view, beg to differ...
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I have noticed that some people, even those generally receptive to my point of view, beg to differ when it comes to the existence of a single global mafia – the entity I have taken to calling the criminocracy or even demonocracy.
Data Boutique
AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
a year ago
Christian Selig
Theming Apps on iOS is Hard Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with...
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Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with blue links to a light green background with green links) is a pretty common feature across a lot of apps. It’s one of the core features of the new “Twitter Blue” subscription,...
Noahpinion
Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips! A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me
6 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
The third option * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the recent...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the recent months I’ve realized I am very much in a bubble. Everyone I know is building a company. Amongst my circle of friends, that is the norm. This, however, is mostly out of choice: I...
Louwrentius
Why VMware vSphere replication is changing the game If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller setups, many people do employ multiple VMware hosts, but the SAN is a single point of failure. SANs are often fully redundant devices, with redundant PSUs, storage controllers,...
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
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Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
PostHog's RSS Feed
What's the true role of a product team at an engineering-led organization? We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a...
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We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a roadmap or solutions - it all comes from engineering. A…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Crypto token roundup Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred...
over a year ago
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Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 2…
diamond geezer
Slowing the Bow Roundabout (this is the last post written on my old laptop) temporary timetables on bus routes 25, 205, 276,...
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(this is the last post written on my old laptop) temporary timetables on bus routes 25, 205, 276, 277 and 425 "to help with reliability during roadworks at the Bow Roundabout and displacement of traffic onto local roads". For example buses on route 25 usually run every 7-8...
Seth's Blog
A deal’s a deal A fundamental building block of civilization is the understanding that contracts matter. Regardless...
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A fundamental building block of civilization is the understanding that contracts matter. Regardless of where someone is on the current political spectrum (from Alinksy to Mises), things can be understood to work better if the boss, the vendor, the client and the freelancer all...
haseeb qureshi
Why Decentralization Isn’t as Important as You Think If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes...
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over a year ago
If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes like this: in the beginning, the web was “truly decentralized.” Against all odds, the World Wide Web won against the corporatist designs of companies like Microsoft, and cyberspace...
TheCollector
What is Pantheism in Art? undefined
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Open House (3) Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star...
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Yesterday's Open House tally was seven. • The repurposed building indelibly associated with a star architect where everyone had to wear a name badge in case the over-excitable staff wanted to make conversation, but there was in fact hardly anything to see and I was out of there...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the votey panel just makes the point more strong. Today's News:
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
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I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
The Modern House
Peak Performance: what does a walk up a mountain sound like?
a year ago
TheCollector
Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes undefined
6 months ago
Maps Mania
The Same Size As
a year ago
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Quest for the Bornean Peacock-Pheasant October 19, 2024 Laura and I were up dark and early from our accommodations in Ranau. I filled my...
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October 19, 2024 Laura and I were up dark and early from our accommodations in Ranau. I filled my thermos with coffee, we quickly packed (though not quietly, as every dog in the neighbourhood began barking), and we headed eastwards to the town of Telupid where we had a very...
Construction Physics
When did New York start building slowly? (Note: the analysis below of floor plate size vs construction speed is incorrect due to...
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(Note: the analysis below of floor plate size vs construction speed is incorrect due to autocorrelation effects. For a correct analysis, see the subsequent post here) It’s good to be able to build things quickly. The faster you build something, the quicker the benefits from it...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that...
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Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely you’d want to know what sorcery makes this possible, right? Well the future is...
The Honest Broker
A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with... This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Top Spots to Relax in Palm Springs’ Desert Oasis
2 months ago
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Mid-19th Century California Gold Rush undefined
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Mackinac’s Orbit, Part 11 (What’s Brewing?) Twelve Mile Circle readers don’t really care about my brewery visits. I get it. You won’t offend me...
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over a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle readers don’t really care about my brewery visits. I get it. You won’t offend me if you skip this article or scroll through the pictures without reading anything. I really do this more for myself to create a record of my visits that extend beyond the simplicity...
diamond geezer
100 tuts and a sigh 100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the...
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100 tuts and a sigh beside the litter bin? Why is your basket on wheels completely blocking the aisle? Why did you set the ringer on your phone to maximum volume? Who rotated the Cyclists Beware sign so traffic can't read it? Why has nobody rotated the sign back to where it...
TheCollector
The Chagra: A Model for Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon undefined
3 months ago
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
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over a year ago
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
TheCollector
How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time? undefined
3 months ago
Contemporist...
A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina,...
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AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina, whose design was inspired by geometry and its surroundings.
Ben Borgers
Donating forks to the dining hall
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using DEV.to as a CMS Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
The personal website...
Datum ipsum tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tl;dr — I’ve created a tool called Datum Ipsum to enable designers to use realistic data when mocking up data visualizations. Also, this is a written version of a talk I gave at Data Viz Camp 2016 in NYC. The slides for that talk are here. In my career as a designer, both at...
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Odyssey Homer's Homecoming
6 days ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
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I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
8 months ago
Maps Mania
Your Hour-By-Hour Guide to Election Night
2 months ago
Oykun
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers My recommendation: 9/10 More details and reviews on Amazon You don't need the perfectly systemized...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recommendation: 9/10 More details and reviews on Amazon You don't need the perfectly systemized plan to have a successfull business. Focus on giving the best service possible to the small number of people and improve/invent as you get feedback. Don't fear to be
Dominik Sobe's...
The reason I got hooked on being an Indiehacker
a year ago
99% Invisible
Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE] All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts...
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All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak...
Rest of World -...
Meta’s long-standing problem with “shaheed” An overdue ruling from the Oversight Board.
9 months ago
nanoscale views
Power and computing The Wall Street Journal last week had an article (sorry about the paywall) titled "There’s Not...
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8 months ago
The Wall Street Journal last week had an article (sorry about the paywall) titled "There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech Ambitions", about how there is enormous demand for more data centers (think Amazon Web Services and the like), and electricity production can't...
Common Edge
Michael Van Valkenburgh on the Making of Brooklyn Bridge Park The noted landscape architect talks about one of the great 21st century urban parks.
6 months ago
Arduino Blog
This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their...
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Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their potential within our world. Because the practical applications are actually pretty limited (given the high cost), we inevitably begin to consider how those robots might function as...
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
a month ago
Seth's Blog
The conspiracy of mediocrity Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich...
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Solo mediocrity is rampant, of course. We know that toasting the bread before making the sandwich makes it more delicious, but in service of convenience and speed, we skip a step. It becomes a conspiracy when more than one of us is involved. The freelancer who offers cheap and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Wishes Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This. This shall be my immortality. Today's...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This. This shall be my immortality. Today's News: Wanna rant about space settlement (pro or con) in a way that is substantially MORE ACCURATE and includes notes on legal/culinary matters pertaining to space cannibalism? A City on...
Seth's Blog
Typist/Hypist Not that long ago, you could make a living as a typist. Technology keeps changing the world. Now,...
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Not that long ago, you could make a living as a typist. Technology keeps changing the world. Now, you’re more likely to find a job doing something that seems a lot less mechanized. But that too will be programmatic soon enough. PS here’s an important new book about perfectionism.
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast! Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Poem Calls For a Formal Reading' I swore off poetry readings a long time ago for reasons of health. The atmosphere of pressurized...
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7 months ago
I swore off poetry readings a long time ago for reasons of health. The atmosphere of pressurized solipsism makes it difficult for me to breathe. Sugary adulation induces diabetic comas. Free verse is emetic and I’m allergic to hipsters but Thursday evening I broke my vow and went...
Old Structures...
All In A Name I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too...
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I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too small to house a modern government. The first solution dreamed up in the late 1800s was to replace City Hall with a much larger building. For various reasons – including expense, a...
99% Invisible
As Slow As Possible [EPISODE] In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed...
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Photography by Aaron Pocock sense of space [SOS Architects] has sent us photos of a contemporary home they recently completed, that includes an unexpected all-black kitchen. Photography by Mike Baker The striking black kitchen facilitates the owners’ love for cooking and...
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Here's my quick first-pass take on Privacy Pools, the heir apparent to privacy tool Tornado Cash. My comments are on the legal side, and less so the technical side, although the two aren't mutually exclusive.  I've already written a bunch of times about Tornado Cash on this blog....
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In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media) in more detail than I normally do. Don’t worry, the movie reviews are staying free and on social media ✌️
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Peter Adamson is an English philosopher with a long-running podcast, History of Philosophy without Any Gaps.  What can that mean, without any gaps? We’ve finished Aristotle, and it’s right about here that there would normally be a gap.  In an undergraduate philosophy course you...
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This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...
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A transport system that can get spacecraft to Jupiter in 10 days, but without a massive onboard reactor, using antimatter fuel or riding a gigantic laser beam?  What we need instead is a Fusion Highway to connect the Solar System in unprecedented ways.  The art above is by...
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If you accept the premise that training  cycles are the method by which you will improve your climbing, you  should be able to focus less on the day-by-day fluctuation in your performance. At least, I should be able to, since I accept that premise. Yet I still struggle to not be...
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One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in...
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It was towards the end of his life in 1979 that John Cheever told his son, Benjamin, about his journals, and of his wish for them to be published after his death. These journals comprised twenty-nine looseleaf notebooks filled with entries that, in Cheever’s inimitable style,...
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I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself a Luigi costume a month in advance. Only to realize I was going to be out of town the whole weekend.
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A lack of basic infrastructure forced a 74‒year-old widow to carry a water bucket a mile-and-a-half back to her tiny shack.
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
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Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE).  Just some of the things I am looking for or enjoying while reading Ovid’s epic of “forms changed / into new bodies.”  (tr. Charles Martin, 2004, p. 15).  Or, per Arthur Golding (1567, p. 3 of the Paul Dry paperback) “Of...
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On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies a wealth of mathematics. The post A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. (I grew up in an environment that didn’t involve spending a lot of time on...
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Photo by Tamiko Thiel via Wikimedia Commons How can we know whether a claim someone makes is scientific or not? The question is of the utmost consequence, as we are surrounded on all sides by claims that sound credible, that use the language of science—and often do so in attempts...
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Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
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"This business is like bird spotting" One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely...
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One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely think about big themes. This business is…
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Photography by Brett Boardman Multidisciplinary architectural practice fjcstudio, has completed a building in Sydney, Australia, that includes colonial stone masonry, lofty geometric forms, and a layered tapestry of handcrafted materials. Photography by Brett Boardman Photography...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls for no reason, or he that doeth not? Today's News:
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles don't slowly become crabs and I'm kicking myself no. Today's News:
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Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
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useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
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“When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an investor a year or two ago, shortly after our Series A, and the subject of revenue goals came up. At the time, our revenue was pretty low - less than 10% of monthly costs. We estimated...
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Córdoba is the second most populated city in Argentina, located in the Punilla Valley around 600 km northwest of Buenos Aires. Laura and I spent one night in the city before our morning's birding. Our destination: the beautiful Sierras de Córdoba to the west of the city and...
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After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my...
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Some musings on ORMs I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application,...
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I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the one hand, ORMs are vastly more pleasant to work with than code that constructs...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Anyone know if there's a case of partial application of law of the sea? Today's News: Come see me! BAHFest London, this Saturday, one night only.
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For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and we think technically. Designers are weird and artistic, they wear black sweaters and long scarves, they are no match to us. I never quite understood how you can ignore design if...
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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over a year ago
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...
beep.blog
Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say...
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a year ago
John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say no. But it feels a bit skeevy, and more than a little curious, that they choose to. Is it outrageous? My gut said yes. It's outrageous that Apple would change their
CONTEMPORIST
Tropical Living: This Modern Home Embraces The Steep Terrain Of The Costa Rican Jungle SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on...
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SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on transparency, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. The steep terrain posed the biggest challenge of the design, and as a result, the home was broken up into...
The personal website...
How to get the best design feedback from your team In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback should be concise Feedback should be action-oriented Feedback should have a consistent format At the time, the Planetary design team was growing. We were grappling with one of the...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
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Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
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The First 31 Paintings of 2016 Since January 1, I have been posting one piece of art a day
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum...
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10 months ago
Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones. The post Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do first appeared on Quanta Magazine
General Robots
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As printmakers, we know that having good tools can be a game changer when it comes to your printmaking practice. There are lots of lino and wood cutting tools to choose from so read on for a breakdown of the different options available. All our linocut tools can be found here. We...
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London's cheapest visitor attraction Visiting attractions in Greenwich keeps getting inexorably more expensive. And not just because...
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Visiting attractions in Greenwich keeps getting inexorably more expensive. And not just because admission prices have increased but because buildings that used to be free to enter started charging money. Royal Greenwich Observatory had free admission between 2001 and 2011, then...
Seth's Blog
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a year ago
If you announce that something is elegant or classy, it probably isn’t. There’s a humility to hospitality and sophistication that evaporates when we name it.
Notes on software...
Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
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7 months ago
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
Math Is Still...
How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes A novel type of “jumping gene” may explain why the genomes of complex cells aren’t all equally...
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A novel type of “jumping gene” may explain why the genomes of complex cells aren’t all equally stuffed with noncoding sequences. The post How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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I'm not a fan of mandatory investor education classes. The issue was brought up recently by former chair of FDIC, Sheila Bair, who sees such classes as ways to stop future FTX-style disasters. The model of finance I've been using for many years is the fairly dismal dark forest...
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Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over...
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I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
ToughSF
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There is a type of nuclear propulsion that can have most of the acceleration of a nuclear thermal rocket but also the high Isp of an electric thruster.  Let’s have a look at nuclear ‘thermal-electric’ engines and their advantages. The title image is from 'dV: Rings of...
Applied Cartography
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A little over six months ago, I wrote Notes on Zed. My conclusion at that time was that Zed made a lot of great choices and felt really good to use, but lacked parity with VS Code's feature/ecosystem to its detriment. Six months later, I spent a few days using it as my daily...
Noahpinion
Indiamerica A new quasi-alliance is born, but there are still some challenges to overcome.
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Probably...
Should divorce be more difficult? “The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some...
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“The Christian right is coming for divorce next,” according to this recent Vox article, and “Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.” As always when I read an article like this, I want to see data — and the General Social Survey has just the data I...
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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over a year ago
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.
Oykun
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Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
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Hundred Rabbits
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The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: According to patreon I already did this? Sparrows in moonlight. Today's News: