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TheCollector
Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology undefined
3 days ago
The Roots of...
Developing a technology with safety in mind If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? It occurred to me that the...
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a year ago
If a technology may introduce catastrophic risks, how do you develop it? It occurred to me that the Wright Brothers’ approach to inventing the airplane might make a good case study. The catastrophic risk for them, of course, was dying in a crash. This is exactly what happened...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Highlights of New York Winter Jazzfest, January, 2025
a week ago
Rest of World -...
It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
Londonist
V&A East - Brand New Museum Opening In 2025 Announces Its First Exhibition The Music Is Black: A British Story will get the ball rolling.
a year 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...
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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...
Old Structures...
First-Mover Status The Empire State Building gave up its title of “tallest” more than fifty years ago, but that’s not...
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The Empire State Building gave up its title of “tallest” more than fifty years ago, but that’s not particularly important. It’s still a beautiful building and still loved by tourists and natives alike. The biggest change in its status over that period if time is the gradual...
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Best, Most Beautiful Places to Visit in Portugal
a year ago
Light from Space
The Space Lobster Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus...
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over a year ago
Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus shows a complex pattern of Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen-III regions. It's quite far south in the sky at a declination of −34° 20′ and here in Tucson it barely
The Map is Mostly...
July 4, 2024 Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us...
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Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us always be grateful for it. And let us always remember that good things are created not when people decide they have claims against an institution or a society, but when they have...
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 3: Hunter Canyon to Portal September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used to this view. View from Beatty's Guest Ranch - Miller Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona This was our final morning in this region; we had plans to make the long drive eastwards...
diamond geezer
Leicester Square LEICESTER SQUARE £260   London's Monopoly Streets LEICESTER SQUARE Colour group: yellow Purchase...
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LEICESTER SQUARE £260   London's Monopoly Streets LEICESTER SQUARE Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £260 Rent: £22 Area: 2 acres Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 And so to the yellows, the 'entertainment' corner of the Monopoly board. One theory has it that their ordered...
Londonist
How Many Underground Stations Are Overground, And How Many Overground Stations Are Underground? If you see what we mean...
11 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Superconductor Flap of 2023 If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team from South Korea claims to have developed a material that is a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. Interestingly, if you are someone who does not follow such...
Rest of World -...
Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax its labor laws. Unions are fighting back The business-friendly change extends factory shifts from nine to 12 hours, and allows women to work...
a year ago
FIRE v London
10 year review Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years....
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a year ago
Wahoop! I have made it through ten years. In fact, I’ve had a trackable portfolio for over 20 years. But 10 years ago I started tracking my portfolio in a consistent, monthly way – unitising its performance so I could measure its return. It wasn’t until 2015 that I started this...
The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction undefined
8 months ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
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a month ago
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
Old Structures...
Against Expectations Last Friday, I was walking through a neighborhood with quite a few of these handsome bow-fronted...
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4 months ago
Last Friday, I was walking through a neighborhood with quite a few of these handsome bow-fronted rowhouses. It was not in upper Manhattan, the south Bronx, Brooklyn, or Hoboken, as you might expect. It was in Queens. More specifically near the Ridgewood/Glendale border, a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jawing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had elaborate speech bubbles. Today's News:
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence undefined
2 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
ChatGPT == Google News? ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines. jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
The American Scholar
Lift Off The post Lift Off appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
brr
The Last Egg Five more months until freshies...
a year ago
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
a year ago
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a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
TheCollector
NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery undefined
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Sparkles in React In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
Classical Wisdom
Do You Believe in Magic? Marcus Aurelius and Ephesia Grammata
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
Adolf Hitler is said to be dead On 1st September 1939, Friedrich Kellner, a German justice inspector and committed Social Democrat,...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 1st September 1939, Friedrich Kellner, a German justice inspector and committed Social Democrat, embarked upon a courageous mission that would continue until 1945. In defiance of the Nazi regime, he secretly documented the brutal realities of life under Hitler’s rule,...
Rest of World -...
Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned Creators use euphemisms and emojis to get around what they say are arbitrary moderation...
a month ago
Wanderingspace
Enter Prometheus “Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera...
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2 weeks ago
“Here's a view of Saturn's moon Prometheus, made from images captured with the narrow-angle camera on Cassini on December 6, 2015. Cassini was about 37,400 km from Prometheus when the images were acquired. Part of the F ring is visible in the background at the top.” — Jason Major
balajis.com
Global Crypto Regulation: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a...
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without...
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Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without a magnetic field coaxing them into it. The post Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates first appeared on Quanta Magazine
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine JamesHoare Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Beautiful Public...
Mapping the Sea Floor USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of...
a year ago
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a year ago
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
NeuroLogica Blog
Converting CO2 to Carbon Nanofibers One of the dreams of a green economy where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is stable, and not...
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11 months ago
One of the dreams of a green economy where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is stable, and not slowly increasing, is the ability to draw CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to a solid form. Often referred to as carbon capture, some form of this is going to be necessary...
The Modern House
All things nice: designer Tom Bartlett's converted spice factory is a lesson in decorating with...
2 months ago
Citation Needed
Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me? The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto...
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8 months ago
The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto criminals. Also, lawmakers take another stab at stablecoin regulation.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Asheville’s French Broad River is a Must-Visit
11 months ago
TheCollector
The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence in the US undefined
2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again. For people who want signed copies,...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again. For people who want signed copies, they will be available via The Strand, as well as HelloComics of Charlottesville and Scrawl bookstore of Reston. Today's News: This is the hardest project I've ever worked on and, I...
Jason Crawford
Precognition It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are...
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over a year ago
It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are living in the past. All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does. To be less pithy, but more clear: Most people are slow to notice and accept change. If you can...
The Modern House
‘I go to bed thinking about it’: why Tate Modern director Frances Morris returns to her childhood... Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return...
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a year ago
Where does our spirit go when we die? Frances Morris has this question figured out: she will return to the home in which she was born, a Georgian house abreast the Meridian Line in Greenwich. Listen to this deeply personal conversation on our podcast, Homing […]
TheCollector
Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution undefined
11 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Evidence of Ancient Solar Flares From time to time the Earth gets hit by a wave of energetic particles from the sun – solar flares or...
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a year ago
From time to time the Earth gets hit by a wave of energetic particles from the sun – solar flares or even coronal mass ejections (CMEs). In 1859 a large CME hit Earth (known as the Carrington Event), shorting out telegraphs, brightening the sky, and causing aurora deep into...
Oykun
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for...
a year ago
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a year ago
My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for others than yourself was an interesting perspective to build habits. I found the practical tips about how to phrase some questions useful such as using "What..." instead of "Why.
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
11 months ago
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour To Borneo: Kota Kinabalu, Mount Kinabalu, Sepilok And The Kinabatangan River Our Quest Nature Tours group assembled in Kota Kinabalu on the evening of October 3 and the...
a month ago
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a month ago
Our Quest Nature Tours group assembled in Kota Kinabalu on the evening of October 3 and the following morning we were off. Kota Kinabalu is situated on the coast, but is only a two hour drive from the mountains that form the spine of Borneo and its highest peak, Mount Kinabalu....
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader? is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
There are no secrets left First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…
Maps Mania
Global Sentiment Towards Israel & Palestine
a year ago
Max Rozen
The books I read in 2018 A list of books I read in 2018
over a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
a year ago
Moneyness
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new...
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a month ago
On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns were required  to take out a pair of scissors and snip their banknotes in half. This was known in Finland as setelinleikkaus, or banknote cutting....
Londonist
This North American City Is Basically A Big Old Copy-And-Paste Of London Copy our homework much, folks?
11 months ago
TheCollector
Are We All Actors? Erving Goffman’s Analysis of Social Interactions undefined
5 months ago
On the Arts
Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples An Interview with Max Ryynänen on the Tropical Kitsch
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
8 months ago
Flashbak
Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973) “I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals     Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
xkcd.com
Late Cenozoic
2 months ago
Maps Mania
These are the Safest Cities in the World
6 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain? undefined
5 months ago
Map of the Week
Make the Desert Bloom Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new seas by flooding several below sea level basins, such as the Dead Sea or Death Valley with seawater to create or enlarge inland seas. Here is an image from his Substack pages showing...
The American Scholar
Kinship and Contradictions Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity The post Kinship and...
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a week ago
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity The post Kinship and Contradictions appeared first on The American Scholar.
essay – snarfed.org
I’m not eating my own dog food PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own...
a year ago
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a year ago
PetMD …or if you prefer, eating my own cooking, or scratching my own itch, or drinking my own champagne. Sure. These are all metaphors for the idea that if you build something, it turns out better if you use it yourself, especially if you want it yourself. However, when I think...
99% Invisible
The Art of the Olympics [EPISODE] The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99%...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics. Mexico 68 The 1968 Olympics took place in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first Games ever hosted in a Latin American country. And...
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Beware subclassing Ruby core classes
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Twenty questions Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Your next project might feel like a calling, but it’s a choice. A choice that will have an impact on each day you spend on it. There are no right answers here, but before you fall in love with a business or an organization, it may pay to think about these and other options that...
HTMHell
#7 multiple duplicate ids and table layout Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr id="body_row"> <td id="body_left">…</td> <td id="body_middle">…</td> <td id="body_right">…</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> ...
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’ undefined
7 months ago
Londonist
"£1 For A Return Fare Since 2003": Brockwell Park's Miniature Railway You can hire it for birthdays, too.
8 months ago
Copper • A blog...
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing. I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
Seth's Blog
Consequences Frederick Lewis Donaldson created a list of seven social sins that was soon popularized by Gandhi....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Frederick Lewis Donaldson created a list of seven social sins that was soon popularized by Gandhi. One hundred years later, it’s more relevant and more urgent than ever. Wealth without work.Pleasure without conscience.Knowledge without character.Commerce without morality.Science...
TheCollector
10 Forgotten US Presidents undefined
3 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Better Bayesian Filtering
over a year ago
The Gradient
Mamba Explained Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Three types of acquisitions There are three types of technology acquisitions: - Talent. When the acquirer just wants the team...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are three types of technology acquisitions: - Talent. When the acquirer just wants the team (generally just engineers and sometimes…
The Modern House
Two sisters share the story of their remarkable Patrick Gwynne-designed family home
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Updating Buck
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Making change happen One way to do it is to get people to want what you want. The other way is to help them get what they...
a year ago
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a year ago
One way to do it is to get people to want what you want. The other way is to help them get what they want in a way that gets you what you want. They’re not the same. Changing what someone wants is very different from helping them see the story and the path that […]
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.
The Marginalian
Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and... The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.
a year ago
TheCollector
How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin undefined
8 months ago
The Map is Mostly...
Why Buy a House (or Land)? A lesson in ignoring economics
8 months ago
Londonist
Behind The Blue Doors Of Brixton's Georgian Almshouse Free exhibition comes to Lambeth Archives.
8 months ago
mtlynch.io
Configure a Git Shell Prompt Under Nix I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your...
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I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your terminal shell prompt to show the git status. Julia’s terminal prompt looks like this: ~/work/homepage (main) $ main is Julia’s current git branch. When she’s in the middle of a git...
Maggie Appleton
Historical Trails
a year ago
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 2 This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
a year ago
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
ntietz.com blog
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
The Rational Walk
Charlie Munger (1924 – 2023) A life well lived
a year ago
Max Countryman
Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
Math Is Still...
What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientist to wonder what governed their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientist to wonder what governed their timing. A suite of new findings suggests that cells use basic metabolic processes as clocks. The post What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells first...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals...
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4 months ago
For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise. The post Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Tale of Two Cities undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer undefined
2 weeks ago
Farnam Street
The Winner’s Edge A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed...
a year ago
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A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed by risks that don’t exist and greatly exaggerate them where they do, preventing them from being one of the best. Consider this lightly edited excerpt from a conversation between...
Math Is Still...
To See Black Holes in Stunning Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat The astrophysicist Erin Kara measures time lags in black holes’ X-ray glows, which reveal the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The astrophysicist Erin Kara measures time lags in black holes’ X-ray glows, which reveal the complexity of the objects’ closest surroundings. The post To See Black Holes in Stunning Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Adventures In...
How to find (and style!) detailed water polygons for your map I often struggle to find high resolution polygons for things that tend to change, like water, urban,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I often struggle to find high resolution polygons for things that tend to change, like water, urban, ice, whatever. Here’s how you can wrangle some up-to-date, detailed, water polygons for your small or medium scale maps (plus five different ways you can style them up)… Here’s...
Nadia Asparouhova
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
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Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it. So I asked people on Mastodon: what git jargon do you find...
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In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical currently playing in the Fortune Theatre. The writing is clever, the songs are catchy, and it’s laugh-a-minute funny, but it can also be solemn and moving. The show is based on the...
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When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer. But that cable can become tangled or get in the way, which is a problem for some of the more animated musicians out there. Wireless transmitters exist for them to express themselves...
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We are living through the first year of pretending the pandemic never happened and that everything is back to normal. Nobody has had a chance to heal, and this holiday season is going to break a whole lot of people. Be kind.
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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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A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error: error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope --> src/fs_helpers.rs:29:33 | 29 | pub fn is_ds_store(p: &Path) -> Boolean | ^^^^^^^ not found in...
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At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
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I first heard the song “Fireflies,” by Owl City, shortly after my junior year of college. During the refrain, singer Adam Young almost whispers, “I’d like to make myself believe / that planet Earth turns slowly.” Goosebumps prickled along my … Continue reading →
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I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently. After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
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Here’s a simple grid that might change the way you think about internal stories: When we believe in something that’s useful but not true, it can serve a helpful purpose. The tooth fairy, perhaps. When we act on something that’s useful and also true, we’ve found a resilient path...
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A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. The post Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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In the final year of his life, Clive James published a book-length poem, The River in the Sky (2018), a dying man’s last fling. The title refers to the Japanese phrase for the Milky Way. It’s mostly autobiography, a book of well-rehearsed memories, largely unstructured, much of...
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That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.
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One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which introduces the concept of your peers being your “first team” rather than your direct reports. This was a powerful idea for me, because it’s much harder to be a good teammate to...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Working remotely and having the opportunity to work from home, coffee shops, coworking spaces, or wherever else I might feel the most productive, means that I can design my own mornings because they don’t necessarily need to be...
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The length trick It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a...
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It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation....
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What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consistently maintained? What if there were a tax on empty storefronts, payable after three...
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The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s always just one path, defined by evolution from one state to the next. But in a...
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Using Just I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can...
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I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can open most project directories and run just dev, and it’ll boot up the server that I need. For example, the blog’s justfile has: dev: bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --live...
Seth's Blog
Ideas shared are exponential If everyone visits a factory and takes a sample, it goes out of business. But if everyone in the...
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If everyone visits a factory and takes a sample, it goes out of business. But if everyone in the community takes an idea, that idea goes up in value. The best marketing advice I have for someone writing a book is simple: Write a book that people want to share with others. And...
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Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
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The video above from YouTuber Alex Day includes clips from about 500 movies, and you’ve almost certainly seen more than a few of them. Battleship Potemkin, Dumbo, Rear Window, Dr. No, The Godfather, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Top Gun, Braveheart, Gladiator, Inception: we’re not...
The Marginalian
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To me, what makes the majestic migration of birds so moving is that it is a living spell against abandonment. No one is leaving and no one is being left in this unison of movement along a vector of common purpose. It is the only instance I know of a transition that is not a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Go to the Bookcase' I heard an echo in something I wrote the other day, a dependent clause, inconsequential in itself....
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I heard an echo in something I wrote the other day, a dependent clause, inconsequential in itself. It nagged me, like a commercial jingle from fifty years ago playing in my head. The harder I dredged to recover the source, the deeper it sank. I let go and an hour later it bubbled...
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
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Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
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A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary The post Island Royalty appeared first on The American Scholar.
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A heads-up on a deal: 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 all-inclusive...
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I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
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The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or preventing a storm, because it isn’t caused by our actions. Metaphorical weather is tempting to mistake as a response. When someone cuts us off in traffic or doesn’t engage with us the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI's massive cash needs are Big Tech's chance to own the future Over the past year, AI startups have raised some impressive amounts of money. OpenAI raised $10...
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Over the past year, AI startups have raised some impressive amounts of money. OpenAI raised $10 billion, Anthropic did $6 billion, Inflection AI raised $1.3 billion, and dozens of companies closed rounds in the hundreds of millions.
Christopher Butler
Outlines are IA When you create an outline, you are arranging ideas in relation to one another: a heading is a big...
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When you create an outline, you are arranging ideas in relation to one another: a heading is a big idea, a sub-heading is a smaller one related to it, a bulleted list is a group of even smaller ideas, and so on. Every indent suggests a sense of zooming in — of getting more...
Spoon & Tamago
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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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I haven’t seen much of London in October. I’ve been away every weekend in October, partly in the UK and partly visiting friends overseas. And now we’re in November, the clocks have gone back, but temperatures haven’t plummeted yet. London feels busy – pubs still have crowds...
IEEE Spectrum
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Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet functional, technology. Located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, the MAL is where you can watch a magic lantern show, play Star Castle on a Vectrex games console, or check...
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KetoHub Update: Month 3 In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month,...
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In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month, I’ve evaluated the site’s progress to decide how it’s doing and what areas need improvement. I’m doing my evaluation of December publicly. Here’s what was good, bad, and learnable...
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As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
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On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next day, British Formula One driver Stirling Moss almost died when the left rear wheel of his Lotus-Climax 18 fell off on the treacherous Burnenville curve. Moments later he was thrown...
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This is the fifth and final episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
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Some of the most enticing, important metrics are impossible to measure, even after the fact. Here's now to identify and avoid this trap.
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Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they renovated in London, that included opening up the walls to connect the interior spaces with the garden. The designers removed the whole ground floor, including the external walls to the rear, the stairs, most of the interior,...
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Brilliant. This moving manuscript depicts a single musical sequence played front to back and then back to front. Give the video a little time to unfold and enjoy.
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Philosophy makes me nervous, so I will begin my squib about Plato’s Symposium (c. 385-370 BCE) with an anxiety-deflating observation:  Symposium is fiction, a long story.  It is fiction in that at least some of it is invented, but mostly in that it uses the techniques of fiction:...
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I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on Kubernetes on Google’s Cloud Platform (specifically, the google container engine, which provisions and manages the cluster for me). I left this experience profoundly enthusiastic about the...
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Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022 TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on,...
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TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.
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Earlier this month, a North Carolina man was charged with generating songs using an artificial-intelligence system and configuring bots to stream them automatically, thus racking up some $10 million in illegal royalties. Though that amount no doubt startles many of us, in this...
Naveen Arun's Blog
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Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun when I could be making money off it? Please, let me turn my relaxing gaming sessions into high-pressure performances with commentary. Who wouldn’t enjoy transforming a leisurely...
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After I was not chosen to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, I think it’s time to highlight some brief items: Here is a great blog post by a Rice grad alum, Daniel Gonzales, about flow to approach faculty searches.  I had written a fair bit on this a number of years...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional wisdom, but I’m not so sure. In a recent interview, Elon Musk predicted that AI would “make paid work redundant.” I encountered the same opinion watching the latest season of...
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Blind embossing is a beautiful way in which to add light and shadow to your prints. Embossing adds subtle texture and interest. Emboss prints ‘blind’ (without ink) or combine with inked lino for a complex final print. Prepare the design. These white pencils are brilliant for...
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A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some workers fears the higher costs will be passed on to them.
A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
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Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...