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TheCollector
6 Lesser-Known Strange Ancient Olympic Sports undefined
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s 2023 Results — Overview This article provides a 30,000 foot overview of Berkshire Hathaway's results for 2023 with a focus...
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This article provides a 30,000 foot overview of Berkshire Hathaway's results for 2023 with a focus on the components net operating earnings.
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800. Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
The American Scholar
The Writer in the Family The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary...
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The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero The post The Writer in the Family appeared first on The American Scholar.
42!
The wrong birthday assumption Many years ago, back in the late 80’s, one of my first big development contracts was to create a...
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Many years ago, back in the late 80’s, one of my first big development contracts was to create a database for NAALAS - the North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (no longer around). Basically, this organisation provided legal assistance for Aboriginal people to help them...
Citation Needed
Effective obfuscation Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical...
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Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.
Diaries of Note
Today was truly, absolutely the worst day ever in Sarajevo In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions...
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In April 1992, following Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, simmering tensions among the region’s ethnic groups escalated into the devastating Bosnian War. It wasn’t long before the city of Sarajevo found itself under siege. Amidst the chaos, a courageous young...
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
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If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
mtlynch.io
A Beginner's Guide to Mining Siacoin This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but custom mining hardware is now available for Sia. The custom hardware has made Sia GPU mining non-viable. This guide will still work, but you may never reach payout, even with a...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. ...
a year ago
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In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. The post Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
OpenFreeMap Map Styles
2 months ago
The Marginalian
The Broadest Portal to Joy "Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in...
a year ago
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"Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in the midst of rhizomatic care that extends in every direction, spatially, temporally, spiritually."
Wait But Why
SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version) It's not a small rocket. The post SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version)...
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over a year ago
It's not a small rocket. The post SpaceX’s Big Freaking Rocket – The Full Story (G-Rated Version) appeared first on Wait But Why.
Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too...
a year ago
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a year ago
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for 1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities. ingredients Rough quantities per person: 100g pasta Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify(). Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
balajis.com
#1 - Vitalik Buterin on Starting New Countries, Upgrading Ethereum, and Improving Yourself Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new...
a year ago
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Listen now (118 min) | A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum. OUTLINE 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of Ethereum 16:54 - The DAO hack 20:32 - The Devcon 2 attack 33:24 - The...
TheCollector
British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914 undefined
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
How Zimbabwe’s biggest fast-food company became a popular fintech solution Innbucks started as an app to receive loose change at some restaurants. Now, it’s a licensed...
a year ago
Open Culture
What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to...
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7 months ago
In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to side with either the Beatles or their rivals, the Rolling Stones. On some level, it must have made sense, given the growing aesthetic divide between the music the two world-famous...
Seth's Blog
The tooth fairy Make a list of things you used to believe. Fervently, certainly, completely. Things that you were...
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4 months ago
Make a list of things you used to believe. Fervently, certainly, completely. Things that you were sure of, but now, with the passage of time and the benefit of experience, you know to be incorrect or incomplete. Of course, it’s not just mythical creatures beloved by children....
Steve Klabnik
Matz is nice so we are nice
over a year ago
Londonist
Big Improvement In London's Roadside Pollution, Says Report NO2 levels plummet, but more to be done.
9 months ago
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes. Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started...
a year ago
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Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy. The best introduction to my...
Probably...
Reject Math Supremacy The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool...
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The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It All But Lovely As Silence Is' Thanks to S.J. Perelman and his 1952 collection The Ill-Tempered Clavichord, I get confused with...
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Thanks to S.J. Perelman and his 1952 collection The Ill-Tempered Clavichord, I get confused with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (1722) and with that bone that runs from the sternum to the shoulder blade. You know, the clavicle. Each time I need to cite one of the three, in writing...
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The first nine minutes Mixing up a batch of homemade vegan marshmallow Fluff® is an exercise in patience. For the first...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mixing up a batch of homemade vegan marshmallow Fluff® is an exercise in patience. For the first nine minutes of the ten minutes it takes in the mixer, not much happens. And then, it transforms into something fluffy and delightful. Without the recipe, it’s unlikely that most...
Maps Mania
The Death of Japantown
6 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A House That Blends Into The Color Palette Of The Surrounding Desert Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a...
a year ago
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Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a new modern home that’s integrated into the rugged natural landscape of the Mojave Desert, With a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the home has been designed as a...
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
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In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. Outcome Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
Londonist
A Map Of London Nicknames: From The Gherkin To The Silicon Roundabout What would you add to the map?
a year ago
Construction Physics
The dream of deregulation - the grid part III For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically...
a year ago
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For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 2: Britney Coltrane 1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I...
a year ago
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a year ago
1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I tried to deal with the company-side of work: setting up payroll, health insurance, and making sure we’re compliant (hello, bureaucracy!). Back in the day when Danny and I started...
99% Invisible
Chick Tracts [EPISODE] Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There are two hundred and seventy different Chick Tracts, with titles like “The Death Cookie,” “Kidnapped!,” “Mean Momma,” “The Sissy?,” and “Satan Comes To Salem.” Many of these are...
Rest of World -...
What we learned from reporting on global tech this year Rest of World contributors from Dhaka to Buenos Aires share their highlights, low points, and key...
2 weeks ago
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Rest of World contributors from Dhaka to Buenos Aires share their highlights, low points, and key takeaways from covering technology in 2024.
Society's Backend
What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
7 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
7 months ago
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One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
Florian Bellmann |...
Processes don't create ownership, people do Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
7 months ago
High Signal
$30k a month from a bootstrapped B2C company Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing...
6 months ago
macwright.com
Recently Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
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Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty hard problem. It was pretty well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really trying not to write a search...
Trying to Understand...
In the Shallows Of The Deep State. But is there anything there?
a week ago
Blog - Practical...
4 Myths About Construction Debunked [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you...
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over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you probably either love or hate, depending on your commute or profession. Obviously, as a civil engineer, it’s something I think a lot about, and over the past 6 years of reading...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
The American Scholar
Ups and Downs The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 weeks ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 2 Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up...
a year ago
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a year ago
Internet Intimacy Yesterday, I mentioned the Yoto Daily, a daily podcast for kids that loads up automatically on the Yoto player. I just wanted to add that what makes it special is that it feels like a voicemail from a friend. Listening to it gives me (and I presume, my...
The American Scholar
In Reprise: Next, Line Please A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on...
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A new poetry prompt for players new and old The post In Reprise: Next, Line Please appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Nothing to ad A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended with one participant describing the hard part with, “nothing to ad.” She was referring to how much the thread had covered, but the pun wasn’t lost on us. Social media offered an...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cape Town? undefined
5 months ago
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
Alex MacCaw
Universality and APIs From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From Roman numerals to Indian digits, from hieroglyphics to Latin languages, universality has been the key to unlocking human progress.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
  Our oldest got his second jab today. If we’re lucky it’s just in time for him not to join the...
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over a year ago
Our oldest got his second jab today. If we’re lucky it’s just in time for him not to join the...
Paul Graham: Essays
Orthodox Privilege
over a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
The roadmap is not the territory Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to talk about growing their business. But the funny thing about growth and marketing is that each component is like a thread that, once pulled, unravels the whole spool.
Calculated Risk
AIA: Architecture Billings "Flat" in November; Multi-family Billings Turn Slightly Positive Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE)...
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Note: This index is a leading indicator primarily for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment. ABI November 2024: Architecture firm billings remain flat Despite the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score dipping slightly below 50 for the month, it remains close...
Musings on Markets
Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price... In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used  a simple banking framework to advance the notion that the key ingredient tying together the banks that have failed so far in 2023 is an absence of stickiness in deposits, created partially by depositor and deposit...
PostHog's RSS Feed
VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
a year ago
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a year ago
We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
Marco.org
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
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Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
Seth's Blog
The empathy of useful feedback When a friend shows you work in progress, your best contribution is to imagine the point of view and...
a year ago
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a year ago
When a friend shows you work in progress, your best contribution is to imagine the point of view and preferences of the person it is being created for. “I don’t like it,” isn’t useful, because it’s not for you. “I could imagine that someone who wants x, y or z would be looking...
bt RSS Feed
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source...
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over a year ago
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks 2020-12-08 I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn’t anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
NeuroLogica Blog
Is Mars the New Frontier? In the excellent sci fi show, The Expanse, which takes place a couple hundred years in the future,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In the excellent sci fi show, The Expanse, which takes place a couple hundred years in the future, Mars has been settled and is an independent self-sustaining society. In fact, Mars is presented as the most scientifically and technologically advanced society of humans in the...
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review ‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review JamesHoare Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
The Rational Walk
Just Hold the Goddamn Stock! Charlie Munger's solution to estate planning at Berkshire was simple: Just Hold the Goddamn Stock!...
3 months ago
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Charlie Munger's solution to estate planning at Berkshire was simple: Just Hold the Goddamn Stock! Unfortunately, his advice is not easy to follow.
TheCollector
5 Lost Cities of Ancient Egypt Rediscovered undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy? undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The rock star conundrum Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the fastest-selling singles of all time. The documentary of the event is just okay, but it’s fascinating in how it shows us just how deep imposter syndrome lies. Only a few stars seemed at all...
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture undefined
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Redefining a profession Pharmacists used to mix chemicals by hand to create prescriptions. Opticians used to grind lenses...
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Pharmacists used to mix chemicals by hand to create prescriptions. Opticians used to grind lenses from scratch. Lawyers used to start with an empty page. Graphic designers needed to know how to draw. All of these jobs are still important. None of them are the same as they were...
African History...
a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion an African kingdom in southern Italy.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 New Luxury Hotels in California You Should Know About
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Seamus Heaney A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
a year ago
James Cheshire
Anxiety and Mapping the Climate Crisis Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a...
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Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a number of times about if I feel powerless in the face of the data I’m showing. I reflect on this here with Kit Rackley. Our chat also in part inspired this article in The...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Turkish Airlines Launches New Flights to Istanbul From Detroit
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My New Startup Checklist some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet,...
a year ago
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some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet, but I did want to capture some notes on logistical stuff I have had to ramp up on as a first time founder. hopefully this helps somebody out there.
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
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over a year ago
Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
Map of the Week
New Orleans Slave Revolt Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job training they were getting from their benevolent overseers. In fact there were numerous rebellions. The largest one was in 1811 outside of New Orleans.  The map above is from a...
The American Scholar
“Hymn” by A. R. Ammons Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American Scholar.
AVC
What Happened In 2022 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
a year ago
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a year ago
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital...
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How MainStreet gets you government $ | Out-Of-Pocket Get government tax credits for your health startup
a year ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Khe Hy Lessons from building RadReads and helping over 40,000 professionals in public
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of conversations recently with people who find themselves in the kitchen but without the means to cook anything. As a cook myself they often ask me how to go about finding themselves a chef...
This Space
39 Books: 2022 "Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the...
6 months ago
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"Hölderlin...asked only that we accept silence as the one meaningful syllable in the universe." This line from Paul Stubbs' remarkable essay collection The Return to Silence is not an epigram to Marjorie Perloff's Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics, but it might have...
Making software...
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don't think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Retail Design Blog
Villa y Zapata Tequila by Helix Branding Villa y Zapata Tequila is a revolutionary, handcrafted spirit crafted for those with discerning...
a month ago
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a month ago
Villa y Zapata Tequila is a revolutionary, handcrafted spirit crafted for those with discerning palates. It pays tribute to individuals...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: Could Facebook move faster? In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In China there is this strong culture of cloning things quickly and building lots of different products instead of just focusing on one thing at a time. This allows them to plant lots of seeds, and although it yields lower quality products in the short term as they're cloning and...
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...
7 months ago
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7 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...
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught? undefined
10 months ago
Open Culture
What It Takes to Pass “the Knowledge,” the “Insanely Hard” Exam to Become a London Taxicab Driver Anyone who’s followed the late Michael Apted’s Up documentaries knows that becoming a London cab...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Anyone who’s followed the late Michael Apted’s Up documentaries knows that becoming a London cab driver is no mean feat. Tony Walker, one of the series’ most memorable participants, was selected at the age of seven from an East End primary school, already distinguished as a...
bt RSS Feed
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
CONTEMPORIST
A Unique Window Shape Helps Frame The View From Inside This Cabin Architecture firm Rever & Drage has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they designed that...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Architecture firm Rever & Drage has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they designed that includes a uniquely shaped window to perfectly frame the view of the sunset. Located in Nordmarka, Norway, the cabin contains the most necessary features, but not much more, making it...
There are two types...
“My Open Letter to NYC DOT Commissioner Rodriquez” Dear Commissioner Rodriquez, I’m writing to you because I just signed up for a workshop to improve...
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Dear Commissioner Rodriquez, I’m writing to you because I just signed up for a workshop to improve Canal Street that your department is running tonight. I met you when you were a Councilman. I know you care deeply about making … Continue reading → The post “My Open Letter to NYC...
99% Invisible
The Monster Under the Sink [EPISODE] In the middle of the 20th century, the small town of Jasper, Indiana did something that no other...
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In the middle of the 20th century, the small town of Jasper, Indiana did something that no other city had done before: they made garbage illegal. The city would still collect some things, like soup cans and plastics, but yucky junk, like food waste, wouldn’t get picked up. This...
Math Is Still...
Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm. ...
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New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm. The post Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Probably...
What does a confidence interval mean? Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. In general, I will...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. In general, I will try to focus on practical problems, but this one is a little more philosophical. confidence What does a confidence interval mean?¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics...
TheCollector
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The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling, Routing, Data Loading, Forms, SEO, Error Handling, and more!
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Possible Verdicts Are Five' As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about...
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As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about everything else -- becomes harsher and more fashionable, interesting conversation withers. Have you noticed how quickly people dismiss a subject before it has been pondered and probed?...
Seth's Blog
Infamy We’ve gotten so hung up on famous that it’s easy to forget that there are two kinds of renown. Being...
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We’ve gotten so hung up on famous that it’s easy to forget that there are two kinds of renown. Being known for lowering the standards of discourse, cheating, or whining is a choice, but why would you trade your reputation to become infamous?
Londonist
60 Of The Best Things To Do In London This Spring Your March-May diary, sorted.
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CONTEMPORIST
Metal Cladding Wraps Around The Large Gable Roof Of This House BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the...
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BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the West and the East, linking a Chinese-Canadian family’s present lifestyle to their past memories. Located in Vancouver, Canada, the home has a prominent gable form that floats atop...
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Merchants of complexity It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
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It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
Diaries of Note
The hate stare was everywhere practiced In November 1959, at a time of profound racial tension and segregation in the American South,...
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In November 1959, at a time of profound racial tension and segregation in the American South, journalist John Howard Griffin embarked on a remarkable and controversial journey. In an attempt to better understand the Black American experience, Griffin underwent a medical treatment...
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Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often...
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A key question for founders is when they should try to raise money. More specifically, they often wonder whether to raise money now or wait…
Stephen Wolfram...
Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe *my article for New Lines Magazine
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NeuroLogica Blog
Subjective Neurological Experience On the SGU we recently talked about aphantasia, the condition in which some people have a decreased...
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On the SGU we recently talked about aphantasia, the condition in which some people have a decreased or entirely absent ability to imagine things. The term was coined recently, in 2015, by neurologist Adam Zeman, who described the condition of “congenital aphantasia,” that he...
The Modern House
Tim Little: the owner of Grenson footwear on his journey from Adidas ad man to sole trader For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and...
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For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd talks to Tim Little, who – after zigging and zagging his way through the worlds of marketing, advertising and, latterly, shoes – now sits at the head of Grenson, the traditional cordwainers that have been handcrafting […]
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar – They’re Just Messing With Us Daredevil – Matt Murdock- is blind. He’s got radar, but that doesn’t allow him to read what’s...
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Daredevil – Matt Murdock- is blind. He’s got radar, but that doesn’t allow him to read what’s printed on a flat surface. So why would he have a poster of the NYC subway map in his kitchen?
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PostHog teams up with Altinity That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the...
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That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the launch of the PostHog Marketplace . Double…
David Heinemeier...
Pick promise over proof After hiring people for twenty years, I've come to accept that it's impossible to know up front what...
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After hiring people for twenty years, I've come to accept that it's impossible to know up front what someone is truly capable of. Sure, we try our best to make good, educated guesses during the hiring process, and this is why asking finalists to do sample work projects is so...
Luxagraf:...
Family After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
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After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
julian.digital
Thoughts on Clubhouse Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with...
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over a year ago
Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with it, is essentially an audio-first social network. It’s kind of a mix between Reddit and a podcast. An interactive radio show. The app lets you jump into different chat rooms and...
ToughSF
Starship Lite: from rapid Interplanetary to Interstellar Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle...
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over a year ago
Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle able to push probes towards the farthest objects in our Solar System.  What other missions could the Starship ‘Lite’ do, and how quickly? Near SSTO Rockets performance scales...
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
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Seth's Blog
On to the next thing Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all...
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Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with feet and taking ballet lessons), we need to walk away from the last thing. Wrap it up, learn from it, leave it in good hands. And we...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The State of UX Design of Chinese Car Brands The Market Potential Today, the sales numbers from Chinese car manufacturers don't seem threatening...
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over a year ago
The Market Potential Today, the sales numbers from Chinese car manufacturers don't seem threatening to established car companies but they…
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Maternity Care and Payer Contracting with Marta Bralic Kerns | Out-Of-Pocket and some good tips for consultants working at startups
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Laetitia@Work
What does psychological safety at work depend on? Laetitia@Work #75
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How big is the Flutter team? I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because...
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I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter. It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
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Strange Loop Canon
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
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Myra DuBois Takes Us On Her Perfect Day Out In London "Look at St Paul's! An icon in the capital! Much like myself."
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Getting an Autism Diagnosis On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism...
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On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much detail as I can. This post would not have...
Londonist
Revised Skyscraper Plans Could Make It Centimetres Taller Than The Shard One Undershaft is going up in the world.
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A Year of Wildfires
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Why Open Source AI Will Win You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
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Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
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AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias? A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
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Retail Design Blog
Liquor packaging by BXL Packaging Design A bottle of good is like a work of art The packaging design of this liquor is inspired by the...
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Noahpinion
Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is! Decoupling will take time, and it won't look like the Iron Curtain, but it's happening.
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Louwrentius
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
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over a year ago
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
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Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
nanoscale views
Brief items - light-driven diamagnetism, nuclear recoil, spin transport in VO2 Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion...
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Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion to political madness), but here are three papers (two from others and a self-indulgent plug for our work) you might find interesting. There has been a lot of work in recent...
Diaries of Note
I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
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a year ago
Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
Seth's Blog
The unwritten rules get written …when someone decides to selfishly push. There’s an assumption of civility and fairness in all of...
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a year ago
…when someone decides to selfishly push. There’s an assumption of civility and fairness in all of our interactions. When a harsh competitor unilaterally breaks unwritten rules (because it’s “not technically against the rules”) the community then writes down a new rule. The best...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro undefined
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Wuthering...
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles - indeed his end / Was wonderful if ever mortal’s was Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles is one of the plays that got me excited about the entire project of...
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over a year ago
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles is one of the plays that got me excited about the entire project of reading or re-reading the complete plays.  The last surviving tragedy, even if it hardly recognizable as a tragedy, it provides a coherent ending to the tragic tradition.  It is...
Engineer’s Codex
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss 60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were...
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
over a year ago
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Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – An Apartment Remodel In Milan Creative studio Lascia la Scia, has shared photos of a modern apartment renovation in Milan, Italy,...
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Creative studio Lascia la Scia, has shared photos of a modern apartment renovation in Milan, Italy, they completed that included reworking the layout to include a main open-plan living space as well as a home office and second bedroom. Before we see the renovated space, here’s a...
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy? undefined
8 months ago
Willem Pennings
ClockSquared improvements My ClockSquared project has a long history – it goes all the way back to 2015, when it was simply...
a year ago
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a year ago
My ClockSquared project has a long history – it goes all the way back to 2015, when it was simply called the “Birthday word clock”. I haven’t spent much time on the project in recent years, but I’ve upgraded the internals a while ago and finally felt like writing a post about it....
Laetitia@Work
5 toxic forces that prevent you from quitting when you should Laetitia@Work #56
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Math Is Still...
The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others. ...
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11 months ago
Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others. The post The Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the Galaxy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History undefined
7 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Air Quality, Breathing, and Health | Out-Of-Pocket What we inhale is a public health issue
a year ago
The American Scholar
Tunneling to Freedom In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp The post...
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In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp The post Tunneling to Freedom appeared first on The American Scholar.
Atoms vs Bits
Evidence (p=.05) that ≥15% of Super-intelligences are Safe? It’s strange but at least temporarily come with me to crazy town.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What drives Optimal Overhead? The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
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somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
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a year ago
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Mazdak
Is Tesla's Full Self-Driving REALLY Safer Than Humans? Tesla's latest vehicle safety report claims that Autopilot has a crash rate of one accident per 7...
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Tesla's latest vehicle safety report claims that Autopilot has a crash rate of one accident per 7 million miles, significantly lower than the U.S.
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Problem With Digital Instrument Clusters and How to Design a Better One Since the invention of the car, instrument clusters have largely consisted of a speedometer,...
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The Forney Flyer
Congratulations Hannah! Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once...
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For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes. The post The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set,...
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province:...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Status Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the wrong side of the book but *I* say that's in THEIR in-group. Today's News:
Paul Graham: Essays
The Airbnbs
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Rest of World -...
Last-mile delivery is so normalized that we can’t see the endgame approaching Latin American delivery businesses are now entering a new phase of consolidation into their own...
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Londonist
Belgravia In Bloom 2024: Flower Arches And Sculptures Pop Up In West London It's all fun and games this year - that's the theme!
8 months ago
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
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over a year ago
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
xkcd.com
Daytime Firefly
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The American Scholar
Riding With Mr. Washington How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr....
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6 months ago
How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
The DESK Magazine
The difference between creative & uncreative people When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to...
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When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to capture it, share it or both.
swyx's site RSS Feed
IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The Real-Time GPS Spoofing Map
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Same Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics. Today's...
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Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
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over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there. The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and their product using PostHog. This is our fault. We…
Joel Gascoigne
How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
Working Theorys
One-Round Wonder | Theory No. 23 Can a startup have the best of both bootstrapped and venture funded paths?
a year ago
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting undefined
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exist
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The American Scholar
Échame la Culpa The post Échame la Culpa appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Seth's Blog
Purchase decisions All purchases involve a decision. Yes or no, this or that, now or later… But it’s helpful to realize...
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9 months ago
All purchases involve a decision. Yes or no, this or that, now or later… But it’s helpful to realize that all decisions involve a purchase. When we decide to spend time or take a risk or make a commitment, our brains act in a way very similar to how we choose to make a purchase....
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
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I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
Maps Mania
Online GeoJSON Editors
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Londonist
13 Autumnal Day Trips From London: October 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
Blog System/5
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy...
a year ago
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a year ago
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you can unlock and add your keys to the agent once and, from then on, any SSH client such as ssh(1) can interact with the keys without...
Retail Design Blog
Bronx Children’s Museum by O’Neill McVoy Architects Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Children’s Museum aims to engage children with...
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Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Children’s Museum aims to engage children with the connectivity of...
wadertales
Why count shorebirds? A tale from Portugal The Sado Estuary is one of Portugal’s most important wetlands – a key link in the chain of sites...
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a year ago
The Sado Estuary is one of Portugal’s most important wetlands – a key link in the chain of sites connecting Africa and the Arctic, on the East Atlantic Flyway. In a paper in Waterbirds, João Belo and colleagues analyse changes in numbers of waders wintering in this estuary over...
balajis.com
Prompts are Tiny Programs And prompt engineering is a subset of software engineering.
11 months ago
balajis.com
The Network School We’re starting a new school near Singapore for the dark talent of the world. Apply online at...
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We’re starting a new school near Singapore for the dark talent of the world. Apply online at ns.com/apply.
Atoms vs Bits
Everything At Once Sometimes it feels like all your problems loop together.
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History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review ‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review JamesHoare Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence undefined
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Retail and community pharmacies are changing | Out-Of-Pocket COVID tailwinds are changing the role of the pharmacy and pharmacist
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st...
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Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st Street: The relatively-low brown building two blocks up is the Dakota Apartments, but the drawing in the comic isn’t accurate enough to recognize it. The building at the first...
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
over a year ago
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When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot
Open Culture
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art... The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but...
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The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of his work and persona in the years leading up to it. He became a vogue artist of the eighties in part because he could be taken as an unfiltered voice...
TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology undefined
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NeuroLogica Blog
Is AI Sentient – Revisited This happened sooner than I thought. Last June I wrote about Google employee, Blake Lemoine, who...
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This happened sooner than I thought. Last June I wrote about Google employee, Blake Lemoine, who claimed that the LaMDA  chatbot he was working on was probably sentient. I didn’t buy it then and I still don’t, but Lemoine is not backing away from his claims. In an interview on H3...
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful Rails World Vibes I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
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I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: The new conservative era (#53) Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better...
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Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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Clickworkers are turning against each other Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are...
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Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are increasingly wary of newcomers.
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How should you adopt LLMs? Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably...
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Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably been pushed to consider using Large Language Models (LLM) to extend your product or enhance your processes. 2023-2024 is an interesting era for LLM adoption, where these...
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by Thomas A. Powell As a well-seasoned web developer, a clear euphemism for my age, I reminisce about the early days of markup through the haze of strong emotional glasses. I see the past from an extreme nostalgic fondness for the simplicity of the time when a basic text editor...
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For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has certainly been...
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This Changes Everything! Well, it depends what you're trying to do.
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When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
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Despite the general consensus that the United States is in need of more affordable housing, funding to startups focused on affordable housing and more efficient construction technologies is lower in 2024 than in recent years. In the meantime, a series of high-profile...
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I’d like feedback on the following idea. I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP. I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible—the better the country does, the...
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When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
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Grin Sunray Kindergarten, dreaming Space in a Tree Hole. Design starts with a tree. We hope to create a tree...
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The clamp and the mallet While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder,...
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While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder, and eventually whacked at it. No luck. Then I got smart and put three clamps around the part, gently turning each one, increasing the pressure, until it simply popped out....
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Nine years after FENDI first opened a boutique in Miami‘s flourishing Design District, the iconic Roman fashion house has expanded...
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'I Am Breathing--Still' R.L. Barth is preparing a chapbook of poems titled Ghost Story for a publisher. One of its sections,...
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R.L. Barth is preparing a chapbook of poems titled Ghost Story for a publisher. One of its sections, “Snowfall in Vietnam: Poems/Maxims,” consists of ten one-line, five-syllable poems and accompanying titles, some of which are longer than the poems. Their extreme...
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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
Steve Blank
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It was an honor to host US Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.  (Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million...
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I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic.  A...
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In two weeks, I’ll be giving a talk in Philadelphia for the Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers, which is the eastern-Pennsylvania chapter of the Structural Engineers Association of Pennsylvania. The topic is “Engineers’ Guidelines for Historic Buildings” and I’m...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. The perimeter around the Gaza Strip was in a … Continue reading →
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I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.” Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.” And in...
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To connect disparate tech scenes, Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola show language is a great unifier As Africa and Latin America form closer links between their tech scenes, similar challenges,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, going by the usual arguments, cockroaches are way better explorers. Today's News:
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Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
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XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
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There has been much discussion about converting the SpaceX Starship to use nuclear propulsion. It would allow for a great increase in specific impulse and a massive extension of mission capabilities. But is it actually worthwhile? The image above is modified from...
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Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
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CONTEMPORIST
Ombré Wallpaper Was A Creative Design Choice For This Bedroom Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she...
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Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she completed for a busy family of five. One of the design elements that caught our attention, was the room that includes colorful accent walls in the form of ombre wallpaper. The ombre...
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How the attacks in Israel are changing Threads Three months into its existence, the app’s purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace...
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This Hotel Includes A Series Of Treehouse Inspired Elevated Cabins Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa...
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Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa Rica, that offers a distinct canopy-based guest experience. Inspired by childhood treehouses, the designers created tree-inspired pods floating over the landscape, together with a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Statistically, SOMEONE must've done this by accident by now. Today's News: BUY MY BOOK OK
Jonas Hietala
Installing Krita on Slackware 14.1 This is a guide on how to build Krita on Slackware 14.1. This is based on this guide for...
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This is a guide on how to build Krita on Slackware 14.1. This is based on this guide for linux. removepkg calligra Install some dependencies from Slackbuilds. gsl libgexiv2 libpqxx pstoedit Get Krita. The original guide recommends building in ~/kde4 but I moved i to...
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The Performance is Over Even if the artists don't realise it.
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Archinect - Features
Quilian Riano at Pratt: 'Believing in the Power of an Architectural Education' for the Next... Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future...
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Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future of architectural education. This series not only delves into the unique programming of each school but also uncovers the philosophies and approaches that define their educational...
Saturday Morning...
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A Slide Connects The Main Floor With The Kids Bedrooms On The Lower Floor Of This Home Reflect Architecture has remodeled a duplex that had an additional two small basement units, and...
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Reflect Architecture has remodeled a duplex that had an additional two small basement units, and turned it into one unit on the second floor for income purposes, as well as combined the ground floor and lower-level into a single dwelling for a young family of five. One unexpected...
Jonas Hietala
A friendly game of Twilight Imperium A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We...
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A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We were six players, most had played the third edition before. As I was quite hyped before the game, I had read up on the rules, watched a let’s play or two and listened to a podcast...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Drone Madness: Here is the Antidote For those of us who, through the years, have been through wave after wave of uncritical and...
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For those of us who, through the years, have been through wave after wave of uncritical and sensational UFO stories in the media, the current obsession with (and jumping to unwarranted conclusions about) mysterious drones seems all too familiar.  As before, untrained observers,...
FIRE v London
May ’23: Magic megatech May has been election month. In the UK, some (but not all – and not London) local councils had...
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May has been election month. In the UK, some (but not all – and not London) local councils had elections. The Tories took a drubbing, as expected. And overseas the notable election seemed to be Turkey, where autocratic Erdogan won (however fairly) another five year term – taking...
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Humanitree School Hive and Flight by Rosan Bosch Studio Rosan Bosch Studio has designed a holistic and coherent concept for Humanitree School – Hive and...
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Rosan Bosch Studio has designed a holistic and coherent concept for Humanitree School – Hive and Flight (Middle and High...
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A Walkthrough of migrating MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js I recently migrated MaxRozen.com from Gatsby to Next.js, in this article I'll detail the steps it...
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Put Up Or Shut Up I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance...
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I feel like the tech industry is currently in the midst of the most bizarre cognitive dissonance I've ever seen — more so than the metaverse, even — as company after company simply lies about their intentions and the power of AI.  I get it. Everybody wants
markround.com
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In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
ntietz.com blog
Gaining depth perception In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly...
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In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception. When I was a kid, I was always the one who was bad at ball sports. Not for lack of trying, either. I'd run after a ball to catch it, only to be off by a few...
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Common Edge
MoMA’s Woefully Incomplete Look at Architecture’s Environmental Arc A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want to have FRIENDSHIP? Today's News:
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
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He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba     Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
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Artificial Ignorance
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Math Is Still...
What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front...
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A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress. The post What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved first appeared on Quanta...
IEEE Spectrum
This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine...
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Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. served aboard the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, an experience that led...
Flashbak
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
Rest of World -...
The fastest-growing shopping app in the world Meesho is taking on Amazon and Walmart with its focuse on cheaper goods for small-town consumers.
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The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the third quarter of 2023, most notably Dominion by Tom...
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This post is a list of books that I read in the third quarter of 2023, most notably Dominion by Tom Holland and The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough.
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
ntietz.com blog
A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't. Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question...
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Last week, I did a Q&A session for a friend's security class. One of the students asked a question that I loved. They asked something like, "As a principal engineer, how do you make sure your company stays at the forefront of innovation?" There are two reasons I love this...
Moneyness
It's time to trash the "store of value" function of money When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that...
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When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that money has three functions: medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value. Maybe it’s time for educators to throw out this triumvirate. It’s not very accurate.  We need a...
The Rational Walk
Will Berkshire Hathaway Pay a Dividend? Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well...
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Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well served by Warren Buffett's reluctance to send out dividend checks.
Rest of World -...
Water, not lithium, is the resource Latin America should worry about The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without...
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The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without the most important resource of them all.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover Lake Como's Epic Hikes & Cuisine
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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...
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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...
Seth's Blog
Assume goodwill There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that...
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There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that requires us to realize that our doubt might be unfounded. Systems that assume goodwill create possibility, connection and utility far easier than those that don’t. Being invited to...
The Turn Signal RSS...
How We Designed a White-Label In-Car Infotainment System Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to...
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Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to change this because each carmaker had…
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element's height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
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People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
Math Is Still...
Tiny Language Models Come of Age To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler...
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To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. The post Tiny Language Models Come of Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Escaping Flatland
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Contemporist...
Large Folding Glass Walls Open This Home To A Courtyard Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large...
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Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large folding windows that connect the interior to the inner courtyard and garden.
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A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of...
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As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
Open Culture
How Édouard Manet Became “the Father of Impressionism” with the Scandalous Panting, Le Déjeuner sur... Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in...
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Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) caused quite a stir when it made its public debut in 1863. Today, we might assume that the controversy surrounding the painting had to do with its containing a nude woman. But, in fact, it does not contain a nude woman — at least...