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Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
a year ago
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Handmade Seattle 2023

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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The Marginalian
Eunice Newton Foote and the Birth of Climate Science: The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered the... On an anonymous desk in a spartan classroom of the pioneering Troy Female Seminary, a teenage girl...
a year ago
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Eunice Newton Foote and the Birth of Climate Science: The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered the Greenhouse Effect

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
On an anonymous desk in a spartan classroom of the pioneering Troy Female Seminary, a teenage girl with blue-grey eyes and an oceanic mind is bent over an astronomy book, preparing to revolutionize our understanding of the planet. The year is 1836. No university anywhere in the...
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Asterisk
The Ruin of Mumbai Mumbai’s land use regulations are designed to keep population density low. Instead, they force...
11 months ago
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The Ruin of Mumbai

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Mumbai’s land use regulations are designed to keep population density low. Instead, they force Mumbaikars into slums, while all of India pays the price.
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One Useful Thing
On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
a year ago
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On giving AI eyes and ears

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
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Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
10 months ago
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Where parents make a difference

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

10 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Art Must Be Giving Pleasure' On May 14, 1947, after giving seven months of lectures on the sonnets and all but two of...
a year ago
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'Art Must Be Giving Pleasure'

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a year ago
On May 14, 1947, after giving seven months of lectures on the sonnets and all but two of Shakespeare’s plays at the New School of Social Research in New York City, W.H. Auden delivered a concluding lecture. He roots Shakespeare’s vision in the notion of original sin and what he...
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wadertales
Flexible nesting behaviour In April and May, tens of thousands of Black-tailed Godwits return to Iceland, having spent the...
4 months ago
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Flexible nesting behaviour

from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
In April and May, tens of thousands of Black-tailed Godwits return to Iceland, having spent the summer in Western Europe, particularly Britain & Ireland but also France, Portugal and Spain. For early arrivals, the conditions they encounter vary markedly between years. In a cold...
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CONTEMPORIST
A White Concrete Exterior Protects This Seaside Mediterranean House Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small...
4 months ago
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A White Concrete Exterior Protects This Seaside Mediterranean House

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small seaside town in Valencia, Spain. The house has a white concrete envelope that generates a large protective shell for a harmonious and delicate interior. Large overhangs and a system...
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TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other undefined
a year ago
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other

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a year ago
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mtlynch.io
A Simple Pre-Rendered Web App Using Vue + Nuxt In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the...
over a year ago
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A Simple Pre-Rendered Web App Using Vue + Nuxt

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the convenient development experience of Vue without forfeiting critical features like social sharing or search engine optimization. This tutorial assumes no experience with Vue or Nuxt....
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Seth's Blog
Explaining yourself The only reason we need to go into detail about our resume, the details of our new idea or the...
10 months ago
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Explaining yourself

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

10 months ago
The only reason we need to go into detail about our resume, the details of our new idea or the features of a product is to cause action to happen. And action is the result of tension, status or affiliation, and these are based on trust. There are many ways to build that trust,...
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Open Culture
The Big Map of Who Lived When Shows Which Cultural Figures Walked the Earth at the Same Time: From... We could call the time in which we live the “Information Age.” Or we could describe it more vividly...
4 months ago
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The Big Map of Who Lived When Shows Which Cultural Figures Walked the Earth at the Same Time: From 1200 to Present

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

4 months ago
We could call the time in which we live the “Information Age.” Or we could describe it more vividly as the era of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, Beyoncé and Bob Dylan. Whatever you think of the work of any of...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 7  (Hodgepodge) The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into...
9 months ago
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Dayton, Ohio Part 7  (Hodgepodge)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

9 months ago
The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into any of the earlier articles. Naturally I’ve collected them all together within this final compilation to serve as a wrap-up. Then we can call this one done and move onto the next...
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Old Structures...
An Advanced Method Of Doing Something Simple This detail takes some explanation. This is from a late-1800s factory building. It’s a bearing-wall...
9 months ago
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An Advanced Method Of Doing Something Simple

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9 months ago
This detail takes some explanation. This is from a late-1800s factory building. It’s a bearing-wall building with heavy-timber floors, and it appears to have been constructed to code for that type and era. There were a number of almost-modern code requirements that end up being...
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diamond geezer
Pointless push-button crossings There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout. This one's worthwhile. However this...
8 months ago
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Pointless push-button crossings

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

8 months ago
There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout. This one's worthwhile. However this one's useless. This one's useless too. And what's interesting is that people generally don't realise this and press the buttons anyway. Parents heading to the shops press the...
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Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
8 months ago
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Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers ...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
a year ago
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The First Biographers

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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ntietz.com blog
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
3 months ago
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Asheville

from ntietz.com blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
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The Modern House
Cath Kidston: the floral-obsessed entrepreneur on why life isn’t always a bed of roses  Cath Kidston needs little introduction. Her eponymous brand was something of a zeitgeist, becoming...
11 months ago
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Cath Kidston: the floral-obsessed entrepreneur on why life isn’t always a bed of roses 

from The Modern House [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
Cath Kidston needs little introduction. Her eponymous brand was something of a zeitgeist, becoming entirely synonymous with a certain strand of the shabby-chic look that so gripped the late 1990s and early 2000s. But there was life before the company – Cath worked first for […]
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Wuthering...
it’s right about here that there would normally be a gap - Peter Adamson's Classical Philosophy, the... Peter Adamson is an English philosopher with a long-running podcast, History of Philosophy without...
a year ago
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it’s right about here that there would normally be a gap - Peter Adamson's Classical Philosophy, the beginning of the History of Philosophy without Any Gaps

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
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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A Beautiful Site
Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users...
over a year ago
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Custom Event Names and the Bubbling Problem

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The topic of custom element event names comes up every now and then, especially from Shoelace users who get confused when events of the same name are emitted from different components. Take <sl-details>, <sl-dialog>, and <sl-dropdown>, for example. They all emit sl-show and...
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Asterisk
California vs. Big Soda Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work. But during the time it took to figure this out, enacting them...
8 months ago
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California vs. Big Soda

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work. But during the time it took to figure this out, enacting them became much harder.
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TheCollector
What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance undefined
a month ago
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What Was Lucas Cranach’s Legacy? A Dynasty in the German Renaissance

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a month ago
undefined
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
First Loop Fright Breakthrough success and catastrophic failure seem random at first, but they are more systematic...
over a year ago
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First Loop Fright

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Breakthrough success and catastrophic failure seem random at first, but they are more systematic than they appear.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Noble Unconsciousness Is in Him' A reader asks if I have any heroes. “I’m guessing Samuel Johnson is one,” she writes, and that’s...
6 months ago
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'A Noble Unconsciousness Is in Him'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago
A reader asks if I have any heroes. “I’m guessing Samuel Johnson is one,” she writes, and that’s correct. “I think people are too cynical to have heroes today,” she continues. “They’re embarrassed to say someone is a hero. Nobody’s good enough. Everybody wants to look for failure...
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Sam Altman
Please Fund More Science Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health,...
over a year ago
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Please Fund More Science

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal.  Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the world goes below 1, a good enough treatment that people no longer need to be...
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts. They know what they think.
a year ago
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.

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a year ago
They know what they think.
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Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
a year ago
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Pessimism in News Media Headlines

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
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Retail Design Blog
Nikon flagship store by LUKSTUDIO ‘Creativity is the art of balancing the infinite and the finite.’ This quote from Oscar Wilde...
5 months ago
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Nikon flagship store by LUKSTUDIO

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
‘Creativity is the art of balancing the infinite and the finite.’ This quote from Oscar Wilde perfectly captures the essence...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
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Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
a year ago
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Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Competition is overrated Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. – Garry Tan Suppose...
over a year ago
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Competition is overrated

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. – Garry Tan Suppose you have an idea for a startup, and then…
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Herbert Lui
Rereading past work One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found...
2 weeks ago
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Rereading past work

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 weeks ago
One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found myself reading again lately: On creative work: On going direct: The post Rereading past work appeared first on Herbert Lui.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
How to Tell if Your Job is Real After quitting his job, a friend made an odd comment. He said, "It’s weird when you realize that...
over a year ago
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How to Tell if Your Job is Real

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
After quitting his job, a friend made an odd comment. He said, "It’s weird when you realize that none of it is real." His observation stuck me as both profoundly true and maddeningly confusing.
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Tjaart’s Substack
The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
11 months ago
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The curious case of the missing period

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11 months ago
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
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SOCKS
Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with...
over a year ago
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Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, an early photographic technique), and with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, (the inventor of the cyanotype, a technique that...
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Seth's Blog
The list of compromises All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving...
a year ago
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The list of compromises

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving something up, we would have done that already. So, if a persistent problem important, the question is not: Should we compromise or not? The question is: Which changes are we going...
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TheCollector
More Banksy Animals Appear Across London undefined
5 months ago
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More Banksy Animals Appear Across London

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5 months ago
undefined
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Castles in the Sky
The Wedge Between Pleasure and Pain Castles in the Sky #40
a year ago
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The Wedge Between Pleasure and Pain

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a year ago
Castles in the Sky #40
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Maps Mania
One Hour AI Map Challenge
a year ago
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One Hour AI Map Challenge

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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
2 months ago
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Gladiator Combat

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2 months ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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The Perry Bible...
Please The post Please appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
6 months ago
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Please

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6 months ago
The post Please appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Journalists Fail on UAP Story Nothing about the recent resurgence in interest in UFOs (now called UAPs for unidentified anomalous...
a year ago
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Journalists Fail on UAP Story

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Nothing about the recent resurgence in interest in UFOs (now called UAPs for unidentified anomalous phenomena) is really new. It’s basically the same stories with the same level of completely unconvincing evidence. But what is somewhat new is the level of credulity and outright...
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Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
a month ago
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Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

a month ago
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
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Willem's Blog
Back to the University Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
a year ago
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Back to the University

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
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Common Edge
Designing for Disaster in an Increasingly Dangerous World What does it take to protect homes against tornados, hurricanes, flooding, fire, and erosion?
7 months ago
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Designing for Disaster in an Increasingly Dangerous World

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7 months ago
What does it take to protect homes against tornados, hurricanes, flooding, fire, and erosion?
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Classical Wisdom
Why are MYTHS Important? Podcast with Stephen Fry
7 months ago
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Why are MYTHS Important?

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7 months ago
Podcast with Stephen Fry
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Londonist
A Map Of Westminster Place Names And Where They Come From From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
10 months ago
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A Map Of Westminster Place Names And Where They Come From

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10 months ago
From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
a year ago
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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

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a year ago
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This Space
At home he’s a tourist: The Moment by Peter Holm Jensen Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday...
over a year ago
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At home he’s a tourist: The Moment by Peter Holm Jensen

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday speech, a word or two is usually added to supplement the weedy noun: people say “At this moment in time”, which is when I ask: can a moment be in anything else; a moment in lampposts...
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TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play? undefined
8 months ago
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What Is a Medieval Morality Play?

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8 months ago
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Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966) Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
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Computer Things
The Juggler's Curse I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1...
a week ago
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The Juggler's Curse

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1 I've gotten to the point where I can almost consistently do a five-ball cascade, which I thought was the cutoff to being a "good juggler". "Thought" because I now know a "good...
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Rest of World -...
In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and...
6 months ago
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In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

6 months ago
Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, with little pushback from authorities or platforms.
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Making software...
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
a year ago
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HTML Dark Mode

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic "dark mode" by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 11-12 November 2023 The Lord Mayor's Show, music festivals, Diwali celebrations and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 11-12 November 2023

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a year ago
The Lord Mayor's Show, music festivals, Diwali celebrations and more.
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Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
8 months ago
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos

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8 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
2 weeks ago
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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
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Londonist
Halloween 2023: Parties, Events And Things To Do In London Get your spook on.
a year ago
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Halloween 2023: Parties, Events And Things To Do In London

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a year ago
Get your spook on.
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alexwlchan
Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they...
over a year ago
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Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger

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over a year ago
At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they give us nice request-response logs for all our traffic: <-- GET / --> GET / 200 754ms 57.28kb <-- GET /stories --> GET /stories 200 374ms 71.29kb <-- GET /works?query=trees -->...
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Anarchy Unfolds
To beat fascism, tell better stories On false narratives and the stories we need to tell
2 days ago
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To beat fascism, tell better stories

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2 days ago
On false narratives and the stories we need to tell
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Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
over a year ago
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Big timing “Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking”...
over a year ago
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Big timing

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
“Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking” acting disrespectfully toward people who…
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Laetitia@Work
Debunking the Laziness Lie Laetitia@Work #53
over a year ago
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Debunking the Laziness Lie

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over a year ago
Laetitia@Work #53
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Marco.org
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year...
over a year ago
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Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts

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over a year ago
The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year to build. Voice Boost 2 is an all-new audio engine that includes professional-grade, mastering-quality loudness normalization. When I first introduced Overcast in 2014, Voice Boost...
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Diaries of Note
I WAKE FOR THE FIRST TIME Everything changed for British musicologist Clive Wearing in 1985, the year he contracted...
a year ago
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I WAKE FOR THE FIRST TIME

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a year ago
Everything changed for British musicologist Clive Wearing in 1985, the year he contracted herpesviral encephalitis. The disease severely damaged his memory-forming brain regions, leading to one of the most extreme cases of anterograde amnesia ever recorded and a memory span that...
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Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago....
6 months ago
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semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
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Society's Backend
AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
3 months ago
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AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason

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3 months ago
Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
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The Modern House
The delightful details of an Art Deco apartment in Shepherd’s Bush, west London
a year ago
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The delightful details of an Art Deco apartment in Shepherd’s Bush, west London

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a year ago
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Max Rozen
2023: Focusing on a single product pays off The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
a year ago
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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off

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a year ago
The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
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Ben Borgers
Locked Posts on Ghost
over a year ago
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Locked Posts on Ghost

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over a year ago
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Londonist
Horizon 22: Visit The Tallest Free Viewing Gallery In Europe The City's tallest building lets you looking down on the Shard.
a year ago
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Horizon 22: Visit The Tallest Free Viewing Gallery In Europe

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a year ago
The City's tallest building lets you looking down on the Shard.
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Making software...
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the...
over a year ago
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Write HTML Like It's 1999

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer's life easier....
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Londonist
Kong And Godzilla Appear By/In The Thames For Epic Selfie Op! They're only here till tonight.
10 months ago
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Kong And Godzilla Appear By/In The Thames For Epic Selfie Op!

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10 months ago
They're only here till tonight.
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IEEE Spectrum
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances...
2 months ago
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Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances like stoves and washing machines are returning to knobs, and several car manufacturers are reintroducing buttons and dials to dashboards and steering wheels. With this...
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There are two types...
Why GoDaddy’s Microsoft Exchange Email for Mac Users S*cks After three years of unreliable, expensive email service from GoDaddy and Microsoft, I’ve...
over a year ago
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Why GoDaddy’s Microsoft Exchange Email for Mac Users S*cks

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
After three years of unreliable, expensive email service from GoDaddy and Microsoft, I’ve reluctantly concluded that I have to find a new service for my domain name email. For reasons I won’t go into here, that’s a problem. GoDaddy is … Continue reading → The post Why GoDaddy’s...
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Liz Denys
Leave icebreakers to strangers, or how to spin friends and introduce people My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits,...
over a year ago
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Leave icebreakers to strangers, or how to spin friends and introduce people

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits, the obvious one being that my friends tend to have great taste in people. But I'm also at least a little bit awkward. Despite consciously thinking about asking thoughtful versions...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Know About Renting an Electric Vehicle
a year ago
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What to Know About Renting an Electric Vehicle

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a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Pizza 4P’s Lotte Mall West Lake by ODDO architects The architectural design of Pizza 4P’s restaurant project exemplifies a fusion of traditional...
8 months ago
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Pizza 4P’s Lotte Mall West Lake by ODDO architects

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

8 months ago
The architectural design of Pizza 4P’s restaurant project exemplifies a fusion of traditional craftsmanship, modern design, and sustainability principles within...
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Home on Erik...
Recurrent Neural Networks for Collaborative Filtering I’ve been spending quite some time lately playing around with RNN’s for collaborative filtering....
over a year ago
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Recurrent Neural Networks for Collaborative Filtering

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I’ve been spending quite some time lately playing around with RNN’s for collaborative filtering. RNN’s are models that predict a sequence of something. The beauty is that this something can be anything really – as long as you can design an output gate with a proper loss function,...
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The Rational Walk
The Sad Irons During the depths of the Great Depression, Lyndon Johnson was determined to electrify the Texas Hill...
a year ago
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The Sad Irons

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
During the depths of the Great Depression, Lyndon Johnson was determined to electrify the Texas Hill Country. Success was integral to his path to greater power.
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Seth's Blog
Chores They’re essential. The house begins to stink if we don’t take out the garbage. But at work, while...
a year ago
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Chores

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
They’re essential. The house begins to stink if we don’t take out the garbage. But at work, while they might be essential, they may not be important. At least, not important enough for us to spend a lot of focus on. Chores are: The bills have to get paid. But they might not have...
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99% Invisible
Goodnight Nobody [EPISODE] To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the New York Public Library, a list was published of the ten...
a year ago
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Goodnight Nobody [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the New York Public Library, a list was published of the ten books that had been checked out the most in the history of the library — and most of these were children’s books, like The Cat in the Hat and Where the Wild Things Are. Curiously...
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TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet? undefined
a year ago
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Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?

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a year ago
undefined
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bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
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Cut Your Forms in Half

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014). At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding...
2 weeks ago
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Service onboarding model for Uber (2014).

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a system model representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number of...
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TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth undefined
a year ago
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth

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a year ago
undefined
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Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
over a year ago
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The OpenAI Mission

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
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Matt Mullenweg
DrupalCon Singapore This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform...
a month ago
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DrupalCon Singapore

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

a month ago
This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform creators, developers, and supporters.  Last year, I had the chance to share the stage with Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and the conversation stuck with me. It highlighted the...
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
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The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to Eastern Congo.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
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Posts on Made of...
Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the...
over a year ago
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Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this...
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nanoscale views
Materials characterization techniques – a brief glossary Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying...
a year ago
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Materials characterization techniques – a brief glossary

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Suppose someone has synthesized or found what they think is a new material. How do people studying materials (condensed matter physicists, materials scientists, materials chemists) figure out what they have and understand its properties? That's the puzzle-solving aspect of...
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TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting undefined
6 months ago
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What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting

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6 months ago
undefined
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Joel Gascoigne
Welcoming Maria Thomas as Buffer’s Chief Product Officer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In July, we shared that we were looking for a...
over a year ago
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Welcoming Maria Thomas as Buffer’s Chief Product Officer

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In July, we shared that we were looking for a product leader to help us take Buffer forward in our next phase. After speaking to an incredible group of talented folks in product, I’m happy to share that Maria
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Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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TokyoDev
On the Value of Software One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing...
over a year ago
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On the Value of Software

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing my perception of the value of software. As a developer, the underlying assumption was the more functionality software had, the more valuable it was. This proposition was...
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Londonist
Fantastic Firework Displays And Buzzing Bonfire Nights Near London Whizzbangs worth leaving London for.
a year ago
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Fantastic Firework Displays And Buzzing Bonfire Nights Near London

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Whizzbangs worth leaving London for.
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Seth's Blog
And it can also do that If you were around when the Model T was first announced, you could have built the organizations that...
11 months ago
22

And it can also do that

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

11 months ago
If you were around when the Model T was first announced, you could have built the organizations that became Disney, McDonald’s and Holiday Inn, all of which were powered by cheap, plentiful cars. You could have become a major developer of suburbs, mortgage banking and even pop...
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Diaries of Note
I look forward to the operating theatre as a happy release The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind...
a year ago
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I look forward to the operating theatre as a happy release

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind razor-edged novels like Brideshead Revisited. But even for Waugh, the back-end of 1946 was particularly trying. Not only was he surrounded by the family who so regularly irritated...
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Wanderingspace
Dust Storm On Mars A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold...
9 months ago
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Dust Storm On Mars

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9 months ago
A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold front. As the northern polar cap shrinks fast, it releases cold air that sometimes moves south, like on Earth. These cold fronts strengthen in late summer and early fall due to...
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David Heinemeier...
As we forgive those who trespass against us Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes...
9 months ago
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As we forgive those who trespass against us

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9 months ago
Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes Coinbase and we at 37signals did a few years back. So yesterday, I did two separate interviews with media outlets on the topic. And we spoke in part about those early weeks of...
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The Modern House
The Modern House: a potted history Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as...
8 months ago
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The Modern House: a potted history

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8 months ago
Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as the UK’s leading design-led estate agency. How did we get here? Today, co-founders Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill were asked this very question on BBC Radio 4’s Gap […]
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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 23-29 October 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 23-29 October 2023

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a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
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A Beautiful Site
Opening a new window after an async operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in...
over a year ago
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Opening a new window after an async operation

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over a year ago
I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. However, I needed to fetch the target URL from the server first, then open the window. Kinda like this: const button =...
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African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history. the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
11 months ago
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a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history.

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11 months ago
the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
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Open Culture
The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839 In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The...
5 months ago
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The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839

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5 months ago
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an...
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journal – Winnie Lim
on learning the definition of endodontist, and compassion Have you heard of the profession, “endodontist” before? I have not, until very recently. After...
3 days ago
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on learning the definition of endodontist, and compassion

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3 days ago
Have you heard of the profession, “endodontist” before? I have not, until very recently. After suffering for a couple of decades from chronic illness, I have come to realise it is truly...
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The Berkeley...
The Berkeley Crossword Solver We recently published the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), the current state of the art for solving...
over a year ago
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The Berkeley Crossword Solver

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over a year ago
We recently published the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), the current state of the art for solving American-style crossword puzzles. The BCS combines neural question answering and probabilistic inference to achieve near-perfect performance on most American-style crossword...
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Josh Thompson
Five Lessons Learned in Buenos Aires Note: This is an unedited draft of a post from July 5, 2015. Almost exactly one year ago, written...
over a year ago
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Five Lessons Learned in Buenos Aires

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over a year ago
Note: This is an unedited draft of a post from July 5, 2015. Almost exactly one year ago, written after a week in Buenos Aires. Since writing this post, Kristi and I have continued on to more than a year of non-stop travel, though we’re settling down back in Golden, CO in about...
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abdz.do - Have you...
Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art abduzeedo0220—23 ...
a year ago
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Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art

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a year ago
Branding for Fluxus: where coffee meets art abduzeedo0220—23 Fluxus is the newest coffee project from one of the biggest coffee roasters in Turkey. Inspired by the international community of artists, composers, and designers that was Fluxus,...
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The American Scholar
“The Cucumber ” by Nâzim Hikmet Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Cucumber ” by Nâzim Hikmet appeared first on The...
5 months ago
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“The Cucumber ” by Nâzim Hikmet

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5 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Cucumber ” by Nâzim Hikmet appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Marginalian
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods The art-science that captured the wonder of some of "the most brilliant productions of Nature."
a year ago
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How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods

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a year ago
The art-science that captured the wonder of some of "the most brilliant productions of Nature."
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Josh Thompson
2023 Annual Review It’s that time of the year. I often enjoy reading other people’s annual reviews, and I’ve always...
a year ago
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2023 Annual Review

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a year ago
It’s that time of the year. I often enjoy reading other people’s annual reviews, and I’ve always found value in writing my own, even as there is a few years I’ve missed, since I started the habit way back in 2015. for a long time, I did annual reviews. 2020 was late, and then for...
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A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
over a year ago
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The Future of Shoelace

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over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
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Archinect - Features
Discussing Paid Research Opportunities for M.Arch Students at UW-Milwaukee SARUP In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture &...
a year ago
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Discussing Paid Research Opportunities for M.Arch Students at UW-Milwaukee SARUP

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a year ago
In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).  For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
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Retail Design Blog
Marie Curie building by Proof of the sum Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and...
4 months ago
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Marie Curie building by Proof of the sum

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4 months ago
Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and existing companies....
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TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung? undefined
7 months ago
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What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?

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Vitalik Buterin's...
Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
over a year ago
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?

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over a year ago
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Stephen Wolfram...
Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar...
over a year ago
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Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology

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over a year ago
The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its technology to advance human technology by a million years”. I’ve heard some pretty wacky startup pitches over the...
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The Marginalian
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection “To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the...
8 months ago
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Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

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8 months ago
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her astonishing teenage herbarium until the moment Susan pinned a violet to her alabaster chest in the casket, she filled her poems with flowers and made of...
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The Modern House
A blank canvas within one of London’s best brutalist buildings
a year ago
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A blank canvas within one of London’s best brutalist buildings

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a year ago
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alexwlchan
Using static websites for tiny archives In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my...
3 months ago
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Using static websites for tiny archives

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3 months ago
In my previous post, I talked about how I’m trying to be more intentional and deliberate with my digital data. I don’t just want to keep everything – I want to keep stuff that I’m actually going to look at again. As part of that process, I’m trying to be better about organising...
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Maps Mania
The World's Bioregions & Ecosystems Mapped
a year ago
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The World's Bioregions & Ecosystems Mapped

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a year ago
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CONTEMPORIST
A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently...
12 months ago
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A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe

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12 months ago
Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently completed that has an eye-catching tiled facade and interior. The V-Spot Café, located in Chandigarh, India, has a common design aesthetic throughout, from the facade to the interior....
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Naz Hamid • Journal...
🔗 Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly' Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice. The problem today is that most...
2 months ago
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🔗 Rivian's chief software officer says in-car buttons are 'an anomaly'

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2 months ago
Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice. The problem today is that most voice assistants are just broken. Sorry Wassym, I'll take a tactile mechanical button in my car anyday. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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TheCollector
Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas undefined
9 months ago
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Speculation Grows Over a $4.7 Million Tax Bill Paid With Goyas

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9 months ago
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist? undefined
2 months ago
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?

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2 months ago
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Designed As Three Cascading Glass Boxes Efficiency Lab for Architecture has designed a modern home nestled into the steep hillside of the...
11 months ago
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A New Home Designed As Three Cascading Glass Boxes

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11 months ago
Efficiency Lab for Architecture has designed a modern home nestled into the steep hillside of the Telluride Box Canyon in Colorado. The plan for the home focused on the architectural expression of three cantilevered glass boxes. Each glass box is positioned in a moment of...
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Retail Design Blog
YOPE office by Loskiewicz.Studio We were commissioned to design the interiors for YOPE. Yope is a highly innovative Polish cosmetic...
a month ago
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YOPE office by Loskiewicz.Studio

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a month ago
We were commissioned to design the interiors for YOPE. Yope is a highly innovative Polish cosmetic brand with the core...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Interculturality as Shelter Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants...
a year ago
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Interculturality as Shelter

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a year ago
Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants experience interculturality in the neighborhood where their school is located. It shows their ways of feeling, walking, and making the city. A neighborhood where nobody...
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Asterisk
The Misery Bomb Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the...
6 months ago
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The Misery Bomb

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the trend, it might have an outsized impact on their future.
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Rest of World -...
How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could...
11 months ago
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How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia

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11 months ago
Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe.
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Applied Cartography
Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
11 months ago
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Gosling’s Old Rum

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11 months ago
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Spoon & Tamago
60-Year-Old Machiya Adapted into Hender Scheme’s New Osaka Flagship All images © toha courtesy DDAA Hender Scheme’s flagship store in Kansai is an adaptive reuse of a...
a year ago
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60-Year-Old Machiya Adapted into Hender Scheme’s New Osaka Flagship

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a year ago
All images © toha courtesy DDAA Hender Scheme’s flagship store in Kansai is an adaptive reuse of a sixty-plus-year-old one-story wooden house near Umeda Station in Osaka. With a spacious area of around 175m² and impressive high ceilings, the store has been designed to reflect...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Racy git magic Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the...
a year ago
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Racy git magic

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing. And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1 $ tree...
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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...
over a year ago
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My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I

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over a year ago
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...
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Dominik Sobe's...
Recapping 2023
a year ago
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Recapping 2023

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a year ago
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Internal Tech Emails
Inside Apple's Marcom meeting To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running...
a year ago
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Inside Apple's Marcom meeting

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a year ago
To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.
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macwright.com
Val.town Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
over a year ago
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Val.town

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
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Retail Design Blog
House of B Store by Another D Studio We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to...
8 months ago
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House of B Store by Another D Studio

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8 months ago
We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to expand and deepen...
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TheCollector
Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion undefined
9 months ago
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion

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9 months ago
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TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece undefined
10 months ago
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece

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10 months ago
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Ben Borgers
Dark Sky
over a year ago
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Dark Sky

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over a year ago
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AI Snake Oil
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves. What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
9 months ago
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AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.

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9 months ago
What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
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Andrej Karpathy blog
(started posting on Medium instead) The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
over a year ago
38

(started posting on Medium instead)

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting to doing it on Medium because...
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A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
over a year ago
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BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing

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over a year ago
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
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Farza's Newsletter
just used a helium balloon as a standing desk and broke my apple newton Minutes In the last 6 days, Zip has streamed a total of 277,000 minutes of live classes across all...
over a year ago
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just used a helium balloon as a standing desk and broke my apple newton

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over a year ago
Minutes In the last 6 days, Zip has streamed a total of 277,000 minutes of live classes across all our students. Nice. 1,000,000 minutes soon! FB Group! Been working hard to get the FB Group rolling and create a community at Zip. Three learnings. First
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swyx's site RSS Feed
You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless...
over a year ago
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You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless architecture.
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History Today Feed
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why? When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why? JamesHoare Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
9 months ago
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?

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9 months ago
When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why? JamesHoare Thu, 05/02/2024 - 09:19
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TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles? undefined
3 months ago
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Who Won the Seven Days Battles?

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bt RSS Feed
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
a year ago
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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source

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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
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Common Edge
Turning Point: The Three Climate-Planning Scenarios Available to Us Continued inaction could leave us with fewer, and far riskier, options for mitigating a warming...
2 months ago
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Turning Point: The Three Climate-Planning Scenarios Available to Us

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Continued inaction could leave us with fewer, and far riskier, options for mitigating a warming Earth.
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xkcd.com
Trimix
3 weeks ago
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Trimix

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Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Factorization Homology? I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the...
10 months ago
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Talk -- What is Factorization Homology?

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I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the special session on Homotopy Theory and Category Theory in Interaction. The conference was this weekend, and I’m typing this up on my plane ride home. I had a great time, and...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Home Investments Many people are choosing to slowly improve, enhance, and invigorate their living spaces by making...
over a year ago
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Home Investments

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Many people are choosing to slowly improve, enhance, and invigorate their living spaces by making subtle but significant changes to their homes with the addition of good quality, easily transportable furniture and fittings. Even those who are not home owners are taking this...
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Left To Write
The Spread of Misinformation & Existential Risk of AI Continuing my AI conversation with Asad
a year ago
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The Spread of Misinformation & Existential Risk of AI

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Continuing my AI conversation with Asad
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Quantum Frontiers
Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a...
a month ago
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Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost

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You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to...
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Musings on Markets
The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications! As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children...
5 months ago
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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

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5 months ago
As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children are quick to point out my age, and I accept that reality, for the most part. I understand that I am too old to exercise without stretching first or eat a heaping plate of cheese...
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Maps Mania
Today's Global Heating Forecast
7 months ago
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Today's Global Heating Forecast

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7 months ago
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blag
Recurse Center Day 17 Disk Storage I
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 17

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Disk Storage I
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symmetry magazine
Practice makes perfect (particle detectors) Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE...
a year ago
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Practice makes perfect (particle detectors)

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Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II. When complete, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, will be the world’s most comprehensive neutrino experiment—and...
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xkcd.com
Physics Lab Thermostat
4 months ago
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Physics Lab Thermostat

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99% Invisible
Cooking with Gas [EPISODE] Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named...
a year ago
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Cooking with Gas [EPISODE]

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Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named Richard Trumka Jr. He works with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates stuff like furniture and electronics and household appliances. Basically, the agency is supposed...
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Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0

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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
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Daniel Miessler
Humiliation is Deadly
over a year ago
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Humiliation is Deadly

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Anecdotal Evidence
"The Test of a Reader' “. . . to say a word or two about the improvable reader. The gift of reading, as I have called it,...
7 months ago
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"The Test of a Reader'

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7 months ago
“. . . to say a word or two about the improvable reader. The gift of reading, as I have called it, is not very common, nor very generally understood. It consists, first of all, in a vast intellectual endowment—a free grace, I find I must call it—by which a man rises to understand...
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Posts on Made of...
Three kinds of memory leaks So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can...
over a year ago
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Three kinds of memory leaks

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over a year ago
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak. But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad...
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Nat Eliason's...
How We Designed a FUN Nonfiction Book Cover Every step and cover along the way
7 months ago
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How We Designed a FUN Nonfiction Book Cover

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7 months ago
Every step and cover along the way
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Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World! Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
6 months ago
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!

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6 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969.   Shelton...
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Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
3 months ago
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The Counter, Tunbridge Wells

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3 months ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
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Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago
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Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software

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over a year ago
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
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David Perell
Ash Fontana: Building Artificial Intelligence Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early...
over a year ago
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Ash Fontana: Building Artificial Intelligence

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over a year ago
Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early employees at an online investing platform called AngelList. From there, he became the Managing Director at Zetta, the first investment fund focused on artificial intelligence. Now,...
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The Marginalian
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous... Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other...
a year ago
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A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

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a year ago
Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being alive. But it is also a thing of great pliancy and creativity — a living reminder that...
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Archinect - Features
Echoes and Requiems: Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture... In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had...
7 months ago
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Echoes and Requiems: Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego

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7 months ago
In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had recently become the head of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego (WUSD) following the departure of the previous chair, Geraldine Forbes, to New Mexico. During our...
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TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions undefined
a year ago
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions

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a year ago
undefined
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Josh Thompson
How To Take Back Your Attention On The Internet with uBlock note: this page has 17Mb of gifs and images. I don’t really want to take the time to manually trim...
over a year ago
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How To Take Back Your Attention On The Internet with uBlock

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over a year ago
note: this page has 17Mb of gifs and images. I don’t really want to take the time to manually trim the gifs from >3Mb/each to <1Mb each, so I didn’t. If you’re on mobile, or trying to conserve data, you might want to come back to this one later. I value my attention and focus. I...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Examples of Great URL Design Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work...
a year ago
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Examples of Great URL Design

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a year ago
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
8 months ago
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Summary of changes for May 2024

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8 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
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Spoon & Tamago
Elongated Engawa Defines this Community Welfare Center in Chiba As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the...
a year ago
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Elongated Engawa Defines this Community Welfare Center in Chiba

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a year ago
As Japan’s population continues to grow older—one in 10 residents are aged 80 or above—care for the elderly becomes an increasingly important issue. And while elderly populations are typically seen as a burden, there are places around rural Japan that offer glimpses of a more...
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ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
7 months ago
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Affirmations for bloggers

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7 months ago
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shrink Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Go ahead, email me your shrinkage joke. It's...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shrink

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Go ahead, email me your shrinkage joke. It's fine. Today's News:
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The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023 A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
a year ago
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What I’ve been reading, October 2023

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a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
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Luxagraf:...
Drive My Car After last summer's sprint north, we swore we'd never try to move that fast again. We are heading...
a year ago
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Drive My Car

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a year ago
After last summer's sprint north, we swore we'd never try to move that fast again. We are heading back down south for the winter, but we're going to take months to get there. We're going to wander, at a leisurely pace, stopping frequently, the way we traveled when we first set...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why is enterprise tech so far behind consumer tech? Because it can be. Brian Manning put it nicely in a comment to my post yesterday about enterprise software: In my...
over a year ago
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Why is enterprise tech so far behind consumer tech? Because it can be.

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over a year ago
Brian Manning put it nicely in a comment to my post yesterday about enterprise software: In my opinion, enterprise technology is WAY behind…
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CONTEMPORIST
This Building With A Split Roof Makes Space For A Rooftop Park Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia,...
7 months ago
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This Building With A Split Roof Makes Space For A Rooftop Park

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7 months ago
Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia, that has a split roof held together by a skylight. The split design allowed half of the building to have a regular roof, while the other, is dedicated to outdoor space and a garden....
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TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi? undefined
a month ago
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Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?

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The Pragmatic...
Uber’s engineering level changes Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time...
a year ago
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Uber’s engineering level changes

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a year ago
Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time to change, and what were they? I’ve collected details.
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Josh Thompson
How to fly… like a boss I am in a quest to level up my life. Free flights is a big part of this. I’ve not gotten too many...
over a year ago
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How to fly… like a boss

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over a year ago
I am in a quest to level up my life. Free flights is a big part of this. I’ve not gotten too many of those yet, but the next best thing is free seat upgrades. I’m not talking about first class - that’s beyond me, at the moment. I’m talking about getting stuck in the back of the...
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The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Isabella Burley
a year ago
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A Day Well Spent with Isabella Burley

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a year ago
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The Rational Walk
The Theban Plays The tragic life of Oedipus is the subject of The Theban Plays by Sophocles. The horrors of its plot...
4 months ago
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The Theban Plays

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4 months ago
The tragic life of Oedipus is the subject of The Theban Plays by Sophocles. The horrors of its plot has captivated audiences for nearly 2,500 years.
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Liz Denys
The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights...
over a year ago
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The underappreciated men's rights activist as a character background

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over a year ago
As we all know, men's rights activists are grossly misunderstood. On the surface, the men's rights movement looks to be about getting equal rights with respect to things like adoptions and custody disputes, but actually, the movement is primarily a coordinated attack on women....
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Old Structures...
The Same But Different This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway...
a year ago
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The Same But Different

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a year ago
This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway runs straight from here until the bend at 10th Street where Grace Church is, and the church is just barely visible at the end of the street. Unlike most photos of Manhattan from the...
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Steve Klabnik
Redcarpet is awesome
over a year ago
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Redcarpet is awesome

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over a year ago
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Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
a year ago
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Artificial Knowledge Creation

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a year ago
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
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TheCollector
10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods undefined
2 months ago
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10 National and State Parks in the US Where You Can See Ancient Redwoods

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2 months ago
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fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
a year ago
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A new old kind of R&D lab

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a year ago
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
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Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
8 months ago
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ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals

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8 months ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
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History Today Feed
War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America JamesHoare Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
a week ago
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War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America

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a week ago
War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America JamesHoare Tue, 01/21/2025 - 09:53
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Rest of World -...
How to launch a Chinese smartphone in Mexico Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
a year ago
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How to launch a Chinese smartphone in Mexico

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a year ago
Antonio Tercero is guiding Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
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Irrational...
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly...
a year ago
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Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly is at odds with thoroughly testing that software. One reason that teams believe this is because a fully automated deployment process implies that there’s no opportunity for manual...
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The Last...
Still Alive WHERE DID YOU GO? I flatter myself by thinking you are asking this question.  I am writing a book of...
over a year ago
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Still Alive

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over a year ago
WHERE DID YOU GO? I flatter myself by thinking you are asking this question.  I am writing a book of and about porn. IS IT ANY GOOD? Not sure.  I am trying my best.  It's a lot of work, complicated by relentless self-doubt.  The good news is I am drinking more. ALMOST...
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Infinite Scroll
The Internet is More Real than Real Life A victory of online spaces over traditional institutions
2 months ago
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The Internet is More Real than Real Life

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2 months ago
A victory of online spaces over traditional institutions
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blag
Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
over a year ago
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Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang

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over a year ago
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
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TheCollector
6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West undefined
a year ago
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6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West

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a year ago
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TheCollector
What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology? undefined
11 months ago
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?

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11 months ago
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Common Edge
What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station? A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New...
a year ago
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What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'More Profundities Than Twists' I’m sure some of you share my slightly guilty impulse: a book last read months or decades ago enters...
6 months ago
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'More Profundities Than Twists'

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6 months ago
I’m sure some of you share my slightly guilty impulse: a book last read months or decades ago enters my thoughts and I can’t shake it. I have to read it again. For me, the same is true of movies. To put it in not non-artistic terms, sometimes you get a craving for spaghetti...
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Stephen Diehl
The Token Disconnect
over a year ago
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The Token Disconnect

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over a year ago
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The Works in...
Notes on Progress: A tale of two particles Not all radioactivity is risky or harmful
over a year ago
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Notes on Progress: A tale of two particles

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over a year ago
Not all radioactivity is risky or harmful
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Recruiting programmers to your startup Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is...
over a year ago
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Recruiting programmers to your startup

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over a year ago
Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is a big topic: many of the points I make…
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Open Culture
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print The most widely known work by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai,...
7 months ago
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The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print

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7 months ago
The most widely known work by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai, 神奈川沖浪裏, is usually translated into English as The Great Wave off Kanagawa. That version of the title reflects the iconic scene depicted in the image well enough, though I can’t help but...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Phone Setup 2021 An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot...
over a year ago
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Phone Setup 2021

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
An annual review of the minimal phone setup sees it considerably different from last year, yet a lot has remained the same. I am still rocking the iPhone 11 with no immediate desire to upgrade. Don't get me wrong, I think the iPhone 12 is a far better design than the 11, but I...
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Construction Physics
How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials? Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked...
11 months ago
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How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked at a collection of 40 different construction tasks, on average materials made up 62% of the cost of the task. And for an average new house, materials make up roughly 50% of direct...
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Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
5 months ago
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Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython

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5 months ago
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
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Stoic Simple
A Stoic Perspective on Achieving Happiness In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and...
a year ago
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A Stoic Perspective on Achieving Happiness

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a year ago
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and pressures of daily life. Many of us are constantly searching for ways to achieve happiness and inner peace amidst the chaos. While some turn to meditation and mindfulness, others...
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Electronics etc…
Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
10 months ago
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

10 months ago
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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xkcd.com
How to Coil a Cable
a year ago
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How to Coil a Cable

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a year ago
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Vitalik Buterin's...
How do trusted setups work?
over a year ago
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How do trusted setups work?

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
5 months ago
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The end of the great order under the Heaven

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
a year ago
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The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
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ntietz.com blog
RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going...
over a year ago
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RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome

from ntietz.com blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The second week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) is a wrap, and it already feels like it's going too quickly. My batch is twelve weeks long, so I'm 17% through. Only ten weeks left! This is a precious time, so I'm trying to make the most of it, but also trying to not increase...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Mindful Travel in Greater Palm Springs
2 months ago
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A Guide to Mindful Travel in Greater Palm Springs

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
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Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions The data auction system explained
10 months ago
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How Data Boutique Works #1: Data Auctions

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10 months ago
The data auction system explained
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2 This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
over a year ago
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Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
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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...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Earned

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
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,...
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Open Culture
Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to... This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to...
9 months ago
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Google Launches a New Course Called “AI Essentials”: Learn How to Use Generative AI Tools to Increase Your Productivity

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9 months ago
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students...
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Seth's Blog
The challenge of N + 1 “Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win...
8 months ago
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The challenge of N + 1

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win every race, every argument, every bank balance competition. Sometimes this is simply a self challenge, not designed to hurt others, but the problem with never being satisfied is...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soul Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, later it turns out souls are just...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soul

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, later it turns out souls are just absolutely delicious. Today's News:
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
over a year ago
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Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
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Londonist
A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line A very peculiar line.
a year ago
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A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line

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a year ago
A very peculiar line.
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Diaries of Note
My soul, my soul, where are you? In 1913, at the age of 38, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung embarked upon a profound and deeply...
a year ago
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My soul, my soul, where are you?

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a year ago
In 1913, at the age of 38, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung embarked upon a profound and deeply introspective journey that would mark a significant phase in his life and work. Prompted by a series of unsettling dreams and visions amidst his contentious break with Freud, Jung found...
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A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
over a year ago
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CSS shapes are here

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over a year ago
Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but you haven't had a chance to see what can actually be done with CSS shapes yet. (Hint: check out the featured image above.) Razvan Caliman explains it like this: For a long time, web...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
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Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Ghostty There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to...
3 weeks ago
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First impressions of Ghostty

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 weeks ago
There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to find people get stuck at the extreme ends of the spectrum; some programmers refuse to configure or learn their tools at all, while others get stuck re-configuring their setups...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
In / Out 2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance...
a month ago
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In / Out

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago
2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance climbing single session training days swimming saving self-care selling investing uniform long hair house + techno sound design Out comparison shyness dishes in sink trends (especially...
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One from Nippon
A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in...
a year ago
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A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store

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a year ago
Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are open. “Disneyland isn’t our land of dreams, this is!” says one 20-something woman.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Subject: Airbnb
over a year ago
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Subject: Airbnb

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over a year ago
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Explorations of an...
Chasing Endemics in Córdoba Córdoba is the second most populated city in Argentina, located in the Punilla Valley around 600 km...
over a year ago
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Chasing Endemics in Córdoba

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
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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High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
3 weeks ago
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Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok

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3 weeks ago
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story. Why did you become a founder? My brain doesn&
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Stoic Simple
Dealing with Loss & Suffering: What Stoicism Teaches In our lives, we all face moments of loss and suffering. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, a...
a year ago
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Dealing with Loss & Suffering: What Stoicism Teaches

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a year ago
In our lives, we all face moments of loss and suffering. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, a job, a relationship, or something else, such experiences can be devastating and difficult to manage. While it may seem impossible to cope with these trying times, Stoicism offers a...
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TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age undefined
a year ago
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age

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a year ago
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HTMHell
#23 A card pattern Bad code <article> <div> <div class="sr-only">Image</div> <img src="/feature-teaser.png"...
over a year ago
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#23 A card pattern

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over a year ago
Bad code <article> <div> <div class="sr-only">Image</div> <img src="/feature-teaser.png" alt="Feature teaser" /> </div> </article> <div> <span> <span>Exciting feature!</span> </span> <div> This text describes what the feature does! </div> <a...
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Open Culture
How Sci-Fi Writers Isaac Asimov & Robert Heinlein Contributed to the War Effort During World War II Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague De Camp at the Navy Yard in 1944 Robert Heinlein was...
7 months ago
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How Sci-Fi Writers Isaac Asimov & Robert Heinlein Contributed to the War Effort During World War II

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7 months ago
Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague De Camp at the Navy Yard in 1944 Robert Heinlein was born in 1907, which put him on the mature side by the time of the United States’ entry into World War II. Isaac Asimov, his younger colleague in science fiction, was born in 1920 (or...
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures “Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
6 months ago
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures

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6 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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Ruud van Asseldonk
An algorithm for shuffling playlists
a year ago
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists

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a year ago
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million undefined
7 months ago
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Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million

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7 months ago
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Spoon & Tamago
Forest Crayons Derived Solely From a Different Species of Tree Native to Japan Forest Crayons are a set of 10 crayons, each with a color derived solely from a different species of...
6 months ago
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Forest Crayons Derived Solely From a Different Species of Tree Native to Japan

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6 months ago
Forest Crayons are a set of 10 crayons, each with a color derived solely from a different species of tree native to Japan such as cedar, hazenoki and katsura. Designed by Saki Maruyama and Daniel Coppen of Studio Playfool, the crayons manage to repurpose Japan’s otherwise wasted...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Imports Under The Hood In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or...
a year ago
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JavaScript Imports Under The Hood

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between the code that you’re writing and the...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 29 January-4 February 2024 The best Londonist articles from the past week.
12 months ago
13

Best Of Londonist: 29 January-4 February 2024

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12 months ago
The best Londonist articles from the past week.
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Rest of World -...
Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
a month ago
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Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a month ago
The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
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Open Culture
Get $160 Off a Year of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses in Data Analytics,... A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40%...
2 months ago
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Get $160 Off a Year of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses in Data Analytics, Generative AI, Cybersecurity and Other Fields

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2 months ago
A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one...
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Jason Crawford
My simple guide to life I first made a version of this chart seven years ago today. It’s worth a re-up (and it’s never been...
over a year ago
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My simple guide to life

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over a year ago
I first made a version of this chart seven years ago today. It’s worth a re-up (and it’s never been on my blog). The meaning of this chart is: Everything you do should be justified either by being inherently enjoyable, or by being important for some other purpose. Absolutely...
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Sam Altman
Tech Workers' Values For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the...
over a year ago
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Tech Workers' Values

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over a year ago
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
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The Beauty of...
Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK) With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me...
over a year ago
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Silver Machine (Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station, Hanley, Staffordshire, UK)

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over a year ago
With a horrid shock of recognition, I suddenly realised what Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station reminded me of. As a one-time public transport officer in a local authority I, like most others, often experienced the depressing feeling of being unable to source enough funding to keep an...
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Josh Thompson
Typing in Colemac 2.0 I want to learn to type in Colemak, but I’m afraid to try to invest twenty hours in it. That’s a...
over a year ago
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Typing in Colemac 2.0

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over a year ago
I want to learn to type in Colemak, but I’m afraid to try to invest twenty hours in it. That’s a long commitment, and I’m afraid I would not follow through, and feel like it was a failure, because I didn’t allot enough time, nor reach a desired level of skill. My hope is that as...
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Rest of World -...
“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil For a few dollars, paid reviewers will record a video vouching for anything. Scammers love them.
a year ago
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“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil

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a year ago
For a few dollars, paid reviewers will record a video vouching for anything. Scammers love them.
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TheCollector
Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert undefined
2 months ago
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert

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2 months ago
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TheCollector
The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons undefined
5 months ago
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons

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5 months ago
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Maps Mania
Is it too hot for the Tour de France?
a year ago
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Is it too hot for the Tour de France?

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a year ago
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Workspace Setup Revisited I shared my workspace setup last year, but since then, I have changed a few things, so I felt it’s...
over a year ago
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Workspace Setup Revisited

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I shared my workspace setup last year, but since then, I have changed a few things, so I felt it’s probably time to share an update on my current setup for both hardware and software. Given the continued Covid restrictions here in sunny Scotland, I am now working from home...
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Louwrentius
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels...
over a year ago
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Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity

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over a year ago
IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier performed a detailed security analysis of IPsec and that the results were not very positive. We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form...
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Castles in the Sky
Who Cries for the Robot? Humans, perhaps?
a year ago
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Who Cries for the Robot?

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a year ago
Humans, perhaps?
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Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
a month ago
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s

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a month ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Made in USA
over a year ago
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Made in USA

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Shoelace.style — A back to the basics CSS starter kit I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda...
over a year ago
21

Shoelace.style — A back to the basics CSS starter kit

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over a year ago
I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda like Bootstrap, but a lot leaner and pure CSS. You don't need a preprocessor like Sass or Less to use it, but it's still highly customizable with CSS variables. I'm calling Shoelace...
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Seth's Blog
A bowl of rice It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It...
6 months ago
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A bowl of rice

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6 months ago
It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It involved countless gallons of water, hours of labor, gallons of fuel. A complex supply chain that ensured you got what you needed, in perfect condition, just as you were ready for it. And...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pseudocode for Intentionality I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
3 weeks ago
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Pseudocode for Intentionality

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3 weeks ago
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
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TheCollector
How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa? undefined
4 months ago
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How Did Luciano Garbati Reimagine Medusa?

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4 months ago
undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960) To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
13

Planet Trip (1960)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus. Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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TheCollector
Was Alexandre Dumas Black? undefined
a year ago
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?

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a year ago
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Mortgage rates...
a month ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims

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a month ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Mortgage rates as of Monday (a little lower on Tuesday). initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. Initial claims were at 220 thousand last week.
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DYNOMIGHT
Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned What does “algorithmic ranking” bring to mind for you? Personally, I get visions of political...
6 days ago
14

Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned

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6 days ago
What does “algorithmic ranking” bring to mind for you? Personally, I get visions of political ragebait and supplement hucksters and unnecessary cleavage. I see cratering attention spans and groups of friends on the subway all blankly swiping at glowing rectangles. I see...
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Ben Borgers
Projects
4 months ago
8

Projects

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4 months ago
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AFAR Media - Travel...
This Luxury Hotel Brand Helps Protect and Preserve the Ocean
a year ago
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This Luxury Hotel Brand Helps Protect and Preserve the Ocean

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a year ago
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The Honest Broker
What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.) I share updates on ten recent articles
3 months ago
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What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.)

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3 months ago
I share updates on ten recent articles
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blag
What I want to do at Recurse Center Projects I want to work on at RC
over a year ago
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What I want to do at Recurse Center

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over a year ago
Projects I want to work on at RC
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IEEE Spectrum
100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM...
11 months ago
67

100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Happy birthday, IBM! You’re 100 years old! Or are you? It’s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it’s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business...
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Londonist
The Massive (And Massively Controversial) Stratford Sphere Is Vegas coming to east London?
a year ago
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The Massive (And Massively Controversial) Stratford Sphere

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a year ago
Is Vegas coming to east London?
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Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
9 months ago
40

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
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Christian Selig
More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of...
over a year ago
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More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of why you might want this! Finding the average color of an image is a nice trick to have in your toolbelt for spicing up views. For instance on iOS, it’s used by Apple to make their...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Travel to Costal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites
8 months ago
37

Travel to Costal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites

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8 months ago
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Londonist
Get Your Broken Stuff Fixed At These Workshops Across London This March Most are free, too.
11 months ago
16

Get Your Broken Stuff Fixed At These Workshops Across London This March

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11 months ago
Most are free, too.
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Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood drops non-compete clause after Rest of World reporting Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of...
10 months ago
63

ShopeeFood drops non-compete clause after Rest of World reporting

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10 months ago
Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of World's reporting, the clause was dropped.
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Boiling Your Kermit Drop a frog in boiling water and it jumps out in shock. Place him in room-temperature water and he...
over a year ago
7

Boiling Your Kermit

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Drop a frog in boiling water and it jumps out in shock. Place him in room-temperature water and he won’t mind if you slowly crank up the heat. He’ll look you square in the eye, absorbing the heat until it all goes black. Sorry, Kermit.
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99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE] In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
a year ago
44

Orange Alternative [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
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The Works in...
Rust never sleeps A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
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Rust never sleeps

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a year ago
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
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Maggie Appleton
The Cultural Anthropology of React An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community
over a year ago
5

The Cultural Anthropology of React

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over a year ago
An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community
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Citation Needed
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely...
6 months ago
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Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation

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6 months ago
Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake crypto super PAC in May 2024.
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #208 Biden's Withdrawal and Limits of Gaslighting, The CrowdStrike Crash, Munger and Franklin, Steve Jobs...
6 months ago
87

The Digest #208

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6 months ago
Biden's Withdrawal and Limits of Gaslighting, The CrowdStrike Crash, Munger and Franklin, Steve Jobs in 1983, Microsoft deep dive, Marks on risk, Luca Delanna on ergodicity, Guadalcanal
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TheCollector
Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England undefined
9 months ago
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Ron’s Place Becomes First Outsider Art with Listed Status in England

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9 months ago
undefined
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
7 months ago
34

Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

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7 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Daniel Miessler
NO. 368 | ChinaBalloons, CustomGPT, 90s++… ✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll...
a year ago
57

NO. 368 | ChinaBalloons, CustomGPT, 90s++…

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a year ago
✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll prevent the email from occasionally descending into the void. SECURITY The US shot down a Chinese spy balloon. They gathered the debris from the water it fell into, and it's currently...
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alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
over a year ago
26

Generating art from lattice graphs

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms. While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project. I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down. On Saturday I was...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI & The Science of Creativity In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen...
a year ago
31

AI & The Science of Creativity

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In an effort to better understand how all this AI stuff works, I’ve been chipping away at Stephen Wolfram’s meticulous piece, “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?”. As you likely know, ChatGPT works by guessing at the next word. Here’s Stephen: when ChatGPT does...
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four JamesHoare Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
7 months ago
30

The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four

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7 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four JamesHoare Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
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Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960) The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
44

Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
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The Marginalian
Cordyceps, the Carpenter Ant, and the Boundaries of the Self: The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi "It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have...
10 months ago
29

Cordyceps, the Carpenter Ant, and the Boundaries of the Self: The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi

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10 months ago
"It is likely that fungi have been manipulating animal minds for much of the time that there have been minds to manipulate."
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Mazdak
The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19? The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
a week ago
17

The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19?

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a week ago
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
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