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Retail Design Blog
424 store by Zoo as Zoo Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it...
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a month ago
Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it wasn’t until 2015 that he...
The American Scholar
A Giant of a Man The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark The post A Giant...
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2 months ago
The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark The post A Giant of a Man appeared first on The American Scholar.
Paul Graham: Essays
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
over a year ago
Noahpinion
China's demographics will be fine through mid-century There is no imminent crisis.
6 months ago
Passing Time
How I passed the time in 2024 Essays, books, albums, & reviews
4 days ago
Notes on software...
Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface for data stored in S3. But one missing critical feature in gosql is LIMIT and OFFSET support. This post walks through the few key changes to gosql to support LIMIT and OFFSET. You...
Paul Graham: Essays
What the Bubble Got Right
over a year ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 17 On learning screencasting, cleaning up tech debt, and focus
a year ago
99% Invisible
Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE] All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts...
a year ago
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a year ago
All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak...
The Honest Broker
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
4 months ago
99% Invisible
Craptions [EPISODE] Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are the people learning a new language, the easily confused, and of course captions are essential for people who are Deaf or...
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
2 months ago
Seth's Blog
The seduction of grad school For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels...
a year ago
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a year ago
For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels irresistible. If you’re good at school, the challenge and offer of law school, med school or a famous business school means you get to do more of what you’re good at. You’re offered a...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The College Health Opportunity | Out-Of-Pocket We can make college healthcare better! And honestly we have to
a year ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
7 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How can you tell if you’re a good developer? Question: Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Question: Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot — Java, Javascript, Python, NodeJS — you name it. The job market's been great, making it super easy for me to switch between gigs. I've done both full-time and contract work across...
Londonist
Where To Celebrate Lunar New Year And Chinese New Year 2024 In London Events and celebrations to welcome 2024's Year of the Dragon.
11 months ago
Noahpinion
The positive case for Joe Biden It's not just about being anti-Trump.
7 months ago
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach’s Life and Travels in Germany undefined
4 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Do We Have Free Will? Let’s dive head first into one of the internet’s most contentious questions – do we have true free...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let’s dive head first into one of the internet’s most contentious questions – do we have true free will? This comes up not infrequently whenever I write here about neuroscience, most recently when I wrote about hunger circuitry, because the notion of the brain as a physical...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Special Edition - WoW | Out-Of-Pocket World Of Warcraft vs. COVID-19
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is George Orwell Best Known For? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Half Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones after the next funding round. Today's News:
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road JamesHoare Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Londonist
Santa's Grottos 2023: Where To Meet Father Christmas In London This Year The man in red is popping up all over town.
a year ago
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983 In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
Stephen Diehl
Purely Narrative-driven Bubbles
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier "The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
a year ago
Daniel Bourke
Operation zero commute I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from home. Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home. Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered. I don’t even live in one
TheCollector
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview undefined
a year ago
The Modern House
A Piers Gough apartment with a secluded balcony and spectacular views of the Thames
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
Das Gesamtkunstwerk First and foremost I am a designer. By trade and at heart.
6 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something  from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
nanoscale views
What are "quantum oscillations"? For the first time in a couple of decades, I was visiting the Aspen Center for Physics, which is...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the first time in a couple of decades, I was visiting the Aspen Center for Physics, which is always a fun, intellectually stimulating experience.  (Side note: I sure hope that the rapidly escalating costs of everything in the Aspen area don't make this venue untenable in the...
Math Is Still...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site. Let’s rock!!
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
a year ago
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a year ago
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
The Rational Walk
The Digest #191 The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel shareholders, Investing lessons from Earnest Shackleton, Google's Gemini AI goes off the rails
The Solarchitecture...
Case study #2 - Sunbeam A-frame Let's start 2023 with presenting one of my dearest projects.
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review ‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review j.hoare Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut Off His Ear? undefined
6 months ago
Common Edge
What Primitive Huts Teach Us About Architecture An enduring ‘origin myth’ continues to inspire contemporary designers.
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast? This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me for the recording of the session.
Working Theorys
Placeholders for Life Life is not a dress rehearsal
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Curious Examiner of the Human Mind' On June, 25, 1763, Boswell and Dr. Johnson dined at the Mitre Tavern on Fleet Street. The friends...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
On June, 25, 1763, Boswell and Dr. Johnson dined at the Mitre Tavern on Fleet Street. The friends had met for the first time just a month earlier at Thomas Davies’ bookshop on Russell Street. Johnson starts the conversation with a dismissal of Thomas Gray (1716-71). In the...
The Modern House
At home with our favourite interiors influencer, Akilah Cohen
3 days ago
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
Jonas Hietala
February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
diamond geezer
Green Chain 12 It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence since 2001, the Capital Ring completed in 2005, the Green Chain grew an extra leg in 2010 and the Jubilee Greenway emerged in 2012. So I was thrilled to discover that the Green Chain...
Old Structures...
Skyscrapers at the IStructE A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A reminder: On Thursday I’ll be talking about the technological origins of skyscrapers and the New York contribution to that history, at the Institution of Structural Engineers. If you’re in London – as most of you are not – come in person; otherwise, the talk will be available...
TheCollector
History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes undefined
9 months ago
Londonist
120 Teens Are Walking The Entirety Of The Tube This Sunday (Not through the tunnels, though.)
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What's Left ... And What's Left? A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Write For Yourself Not your audience.
6 months ago
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Doing science backwards Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias
over a year ago
TheCollector
Three LA Museums Jointly Acquire Collection of Local Art undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show undefined
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
a year ago
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a year ago
I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods) undefined
11 months ago
AVC
Bi-Directional EV Charging EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year...
a year ago
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a year ago
EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year earlier. If that rate of growth continues, EVs will be 10% of the US car market by next year. Most people who own an EV charge it at home, using an EV […]
The Modern House
A contemporary gallery-like home with countless credentials in Hampstead
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Copyright Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, if you think Present is bad you should've...
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.
Paul Cudenec
Terrorism and the demonocracy One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by...
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a month ago
One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by UK surgeon Nizam Mamode.
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete? undefined
a year ago
TokyoDev
Generating social images with static site generators With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With TokyoDev, this site, my goal is to help international software developers start and grow their career in Japan. Being a developer myself, it's been tempting to come up with technical solutions to do this. But I've realized that rather than writing code, my time is better...
Louwrentius
Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm Install the kernel headers if you haven't already - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7 - extract the...
Londonist
Things To Eat And Drink In London This Halloween From pumpkin-spiced crumble to a sinful supper club.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash?
over a year ago
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome? undefined
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Confess Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The belly button is the least objectionable...
a year ago
Abstruse Goose
... ...
a year ago
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
over a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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.
Londonist
Christmas Music Shows In London 2023 - Get Festive With Everything From Crooners To Massaoke Carols not your thing? There's still a sleigh-load of festive music to lap up.
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rachel Snowdon Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator who has been based in West Devon since 2009.   Describe your printmaking process. Having recently introduced more colour into my designs, multi-block lino printing is probably...
Society's Backend
Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
6 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review ‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review JamesHoare Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
Casey Handmer's blog
It Is Time To Build The Monster Scope A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates helpful feedback from a number of knowledgeable readers.  With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space...
Math Is Still...
The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near. The post The New Math of How Large-Scale Order Emerges first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound.
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness for conspiracy theories that don't involve politics. Today's News:
Archinect - Features
The Books You Should Read for Summer 2024, According to Leading Voices in Architecture Is your bookshelf ready for Summer? If not, we have you covered.  Continuing a recurring tradition,...
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Is your bookshelf ready for Summer? If not, we have you covered.  Continuing a recurring tradition, Archinect has reached out to notable figures across the architecture community who have been featured in our editorial over the past year, asking them what books they believe...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Startups, stop treating engineers like a different species Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs –...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs – treat engineers like a fundamentally different type of…
Arduino Blog
This portable Starmap could be your guide to the cosmos Estimates vary, but there are generally a few thousand stars bright enough to see in the sky on a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Estimates vary, but there are generally a few thousand stars bright enough to see in the sky on a clear, moonless, cloudless night away from city lights. You might be able to identify a couple of them, along with a handful of constellations. But what about the rest? If they...
Steve Klabnik
Your startup is not a platform
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Integrate rest into your work and practice The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout, lead to stress fractures, or cause a host of other issues. We need to give our bodies time to rest so that we can heal. This is something we often resist, but it's essential. And...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 6 (End Sound) This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet.
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 040: GPTs November 10, 2023.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Tube Shaped Treehouse Wrapped In Diamond-Shaped Metal Tiles Artistree, a company that creates treehouses and tiny homes, has shared photos of their design named...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Artistree, a company that creates treehouses and tiny homes, has shared photos of their design named “The Spyglass Treehouse”, which provides a unique window into the surrounding environment. Inspired by old-fashioned spyglasses used to magnify what is in the distance, this...
Chris Grossack's...
Proving Another "Real Theorem" with Topos Theory Another day, another post that starts with “So I was on mse…”, lol. Somebody asked whether...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Another day, another post that starts with “So I was on mse…”, lol. Somebody asked whether maximizing over a compact set is a continuous thing to do. That is, given a continuous function $f : K \times X \to \mathbb{R}$ is the function $x \mapsto \max_{k \in K} f(k,x)$...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I am making an Exploding Kittens TV series at Netflix It's being produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. View on my website
over a year ago
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know undefined
5 months ago
The Honest Broker
If I Ran a Major Record Label... I'd do these 10 things
a year ago
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.
Diaries of Note
Come ennui When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran...
a year ago
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a year ago
When he wrote the following diary entry in September of 1918, John Dos Passos was already a veteran of the ambulance service, having served in the battlefields of Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917, as well as on Italy’s Mt. Grappa. But he now found himself entangled in the...
Platformer
Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
NS–2 / ESTUDIO–PELO by toro arquitectos We’ve talked about ESTUDIO–CAFE, a cool coffee parlour in Montevideo, in a previous post. The café...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We’ve talked about ESTUDIO–CAFE, a cool coffee parlour in Montevideo, in a previous post. The café is a side activity...
Seth's Blog
Working with problems They’re everywhere we look. Here are a few thoughts on the ones that won’t go away: First, is it a...
a year ago
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a year ago
They’re everywhere we look. Here are a few thoughts on the ones that won’t go away: First, is it a problem or a situation? Problems, by definition, have solutions. You might not like the cost of the solution, the trade-offs it leads to, or the time and effort it takes, but...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…
Archinect - Features
AI is Good For Architects (For Now) In the final chapter of Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence, Niall Patrick Walsh reflects on...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In the final chapter of Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence, Niall Patrick Walsh reflects on the historical relationship between architecture and technology, charting a trajectory for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the future of the architectural...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Future is Flutter Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and open standards is that the product and the employer are orthogonal. I've had three employers in my career, and in all three cases when I left my employer I continued my job. With...
xkcd.com
*@gmail.com
a year ago
Liz Denys
Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Scalability patterns of distributed systems I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have released a new chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! It explores the different patterns at your disposal when designing…
The Honest Broker
My Lost Gumby Essay Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
a year ago
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Announced For February And March Plan ahead if you use the Ginger Line.
10 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
a year ago
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a year ago
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
Home on Erik...
Some more font links My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site while I was sleeping, and then obviously vanished from HN before I woke up. But it also got retweeted by a ton of people.
Construction Physics
Book Review: Healthy Buildings Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about how buildings affect health. Allen is a former environmental consultant, professor of public health, and director of Harvard’s “Healthy Buildings” program. Macomber is a lecturer...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
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Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
Rest of World -...
Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
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A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
Diaries of Note
It’s almost impossible to know what to say In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two...
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In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two towering Shakespearean plays, King Lear and Richard III, with groundbreaking lead performances from Brian Cox and Ian McKellen, respectively. Their first destination beyond the UK was...
Londonist
Peckham Festival: Free 3-Day Party Comes To SE15 London This September Music, workshops, crafts, food - you name it.
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Working with Rust in (neo)vim I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was...
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I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code. My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers. Why he told us that, I have no idea. But...
The Modern House
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
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Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
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How to use generative AI for historical research Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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On using time <p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
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<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I&nbsp;used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door —&nbsp;but I would get to...
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Open Culture
Nick Cave Narrates an Animated Film about the Cat Piano, the Twisted 18th Century Musical Instrument... What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “cat piano”? Some kind of whimsical furry beast with...
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What do you imagine when you hear the phrase “cat piano”? Some kind of whimsical furry beast with black and white keys for teeth, maybe? A relative of My Neighbor Totoro’s cat bus? Or maybe you picture a piano that contains several caged cats who shriek along an entire scale when...
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Skydio I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a...
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I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a startup developing artificial intelligence…
Londonist
Another Dazzling Light Show Comes To This Central London Church This Winter Luxmuralis work their magic at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh,...
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I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh, big deal! It’s stable in day-to-day use, ships with up-to-date software, and the software selection is adequate out of the box. It also ships with a fresh Linux kernel version1,...
CONTEMPORIST
8,000 Discs Were Suspended To Create This Artistic Installation Canadian-based Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has shared photos of Binary Spectrum, a site-specific...
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Canadian-based Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has shared photos of Binary Spectrum, a site-specific art installation they created for a lobby atrium inside a building in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Comprised of 8,000 translucent discs, Binary Spectrum is a poetic expression of...
TheCollector
Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley undefined
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Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
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The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
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So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Quarantine Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m...
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Until this week, we have been lucky with our daycare. Apart from the occasional positive tests, I’m not aware of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Moment Before the Germans Will Arrive' A Jewish friend writes: “The distraction of the war and its repercussions around the world is making...
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A Jewish friend writes: “The distraction of the war and its repercussions around the world is making concentration on other things difficult.  . . . I wish I could tune the news out. But the stakes for the future of Israel and of Jewish life generally are too great for me to be...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Happiness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We should be measuring happiness of CATS. Today's...
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computers are bad
2024-09-26 the GE switched services network We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to...
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We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to large private line systems like the four-wire private-line national warning system. Let's continue to build on the concept of the private line into large corporate systems. In principle, a...
Unpacked
Klarna, Buy Now Pay Later & first mover advantage The company got to profitable growth by cementing its first mover advantage and doubling down on...
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The company got to profitable growth by cementing its first mover advantage and doubling down on retailer relationships but faces competition from incumbent giants
diamond geezer
The 20 year-old 2016 tube map 20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in...
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20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in 2016. (technically it was 20 years ago last week, but the actual anniversary was election day and we were all otherwise occupied) The map has obviously disappeared from the TfL...
Blog posts of...
Joining hypergrowth startups 😬 I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I...
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I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...
The Honest Broker
Who Was Kid Bailey? I try to solve the last big mystery of the Delta blues
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samwho.dev
Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
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Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW). In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me. If you played a...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Out of the Software Crisis: Gardening The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Great software grows in our minds, we don’t manufacture it on-demand. [Software projects] are grown thought-stuff [but we] treat them like lego blocks. As...
Kevin Chen
How autonomous vehicle simulation works When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
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When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
Arduino Blog
Axiom is Arduino’s newest Gold Integration Partner! Digital manufacturing consultancy and solutions provider, Axiom Manufacturing Systems, based in the...
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Digital manufacturing consultancy and solutions provider, Axiom Manufacturing Systems, based in the United States, has recently joined our System Integrators Partnership Program. As Gold-level partners, Axiom will supercharge their mission – to empower manufacturers to rapidly...
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
The great Banksy cover-up I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it...
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I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it had been rammed with people crowding round the railings, so getting a decent photo was difficult. Day 4 someone chucked white paint over part of the artwork closest to the road and...
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Teaches Us To Have Healthier Relationships In the pursuit of healthy relationships, many individuals turn to various forms of therapy and...
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In the pursuit of healthy relationships, many individuals turn to various forms of therapy and self-help techniques to improve their communication skills, emotional intelligence, and overall well-being. One such approach that has gained popularity in recent years is Stoicism....
The Ruffian
When will an AI win the Booker? A reflection on whether novelists will ever be made obsolete by ChatGPT
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Home on Erik...
Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
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I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
devonzuegel.com
The new city in California A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s...
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A new city has been proposed in California, and the plan is going to a vote in Solano County’s November election. The proposed location is in Solano County, about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the group behind the proposal is named California Forever. As a...
Paul Graham: Essays
Be Good
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diamond geezer
Where's WHS? I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so...
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I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so I went to Canary Wharf instead. Except it turned out there isn't a Canary Wharf branch, there hasn't been for years, despite Google telling me it existed and was open. I did some...
Escaping Flatland
Relationships are coevolutionary loops Looking for Alice, part 3
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Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically... Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Heretic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and one of the interesting things was how almost everyone stressed immediately that most places and times are peaceful. Today's News:
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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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...
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus undefined
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket... Benedict Evans has a new presentation about the explosive growth of internet-connected smartphones....
over a year ago
Val Sopi
On the first page of Hacker News with Subsection <p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create...
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<p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create support docs, such as user guides, knowledge bases, documentation, and changelogs.&nbsp;</i></p><p><i>Below I describe the launch of Subsection of <a...
mtlynch.io
On Migrating from Cypress to Playwright Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov...
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Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov demo Cypress at a 2018 web dev meetup in New York, and I was blown away. I’ve been using Cypress since I saw it demoed at a dev meetup in 2018. Before discovering Cypress, I had...
Math Is Still...
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of...
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John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. The post Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
3 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
The Al Capone Problem Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope undefined
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computers are bad
2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation...
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Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was referring to the...
TheCollector
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The Modern House
An architect's dream: four architect-owned homes for sale A busman’s holiday? A total breakdown of the work-life balance? It would be fair to assume that an...
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A busman’s holiday? A total breakdown of the work-life balance? It would be fair to assume that an architect would find bringing their work home – in the most literal of senses – a bit of a drag. But as this collection of architect-owned homes […]
devonzuegel.com
Argentina On Two Steaks A Day (Idle Words) 04.13.2006 Argentina On Two Steaks A Day The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is...
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04.13.2006 Argentina On Two Steaks A Day The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak...
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
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For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
David Perell
Thoughts on Montreal I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks...
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I visited Montreal for the first time. Here are my general impressions of the city, based on walks around town and casual conversations with friends: Culture: My favorite thing about Montreal is its commitment to culture. French is the dominant language, which is partially why it...
David Heinemeier...
The law of the land Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
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Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #7 The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford...
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The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford side, both under and beside the flyover. A third lane is already substantially carved out at the end of Stratford High Street. Below we see a broad curve where grey concrete block...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #6 The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more...
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The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more drilling. The queues were at their worst on Wednesday when an additional set of roadworks temporarily afflicted Tredegar Road, at one point stretching over three quarters of a mile along...
Maps Mania
US Military Bases Around the World
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Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies. And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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David Heinemeier...
It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our...
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One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our medical care, or even just our customer support interactions, is that being as good as a human isn’t good enough for a robot. They need to be computer good. That is, virtually...
Common Edge
How the Global Business Class Has Transformed the Home They’re bringing the aesthetics and lifestyle expectations of the hospitality industry into their...
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General Robots
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You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company. [There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is
42!
The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice...
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Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice clean HR database…” We thought it was a cute and quirky tagline, and that it would immediately relatable to our target audience of business and human resource managers. After all...
diamond geezer
Gaps between Easters You've probably noticed that Easter Day moves around a lot. Yes, it can fall on any date between...
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8 months ago
You've probably noticed that Easter Day moves around a lot. Yes, it can fall on any date between 22nd March and 25th April, but it never seems to end up on the same weekend it did last year. And indeed it never can. Let's take a look at how the date jumps around during the...
Construction Physics
Semiconductor fab reading list Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is...
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Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is built and operates. But there's an enormous amount written about semiconductors and the technology used to manufacture them, much of it excellent and informative, which makes it...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chaotic beauty of street art I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
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I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
computers are bad
2023-06-30 calling in the alarm I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But...
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I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But here's something short while I'm temporarily back in the warm embrace of 5G: more about burglar alarms. I recently gave a presentation on this topic and I'll probably record it for...
Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
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Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
History Today Feed
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Rest of World -...
How Microsoft and the UAE got caught in the crossfire of the U.S.-China tech war Geopolitical tensions have ensnared Microsoft’s deal for AI company G42.
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Society's Backend
Coming soon! Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts...
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Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
Letters of Note
Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter...
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On this day in 1876, shortly after making history, Alexander Graham Bell wrote the following letter to his father. To read his diary entry from that same day, visit Diaries of Note. And don’t forget to sign up for the Letters of Note newsletter. Born in Scotland in 1847,...
Math Is Still...
The Deep Link Equating Math Proofs and Computer Programs Mathematical logic and the code of computer programs are, in an exact way, mirror images of each...
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a year ago
Mathematical logic and the code of computer programs are, in an exact way, mirror images of each other. The post The Deep Link Equating Math Proofs and Computer Programs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
(Without the bad parts) That makes it easy. “I’m in favor of unfiltered online commentary (without the misogyny, racism and...
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That makes it easy. “I’m in favor of unfiltered online commentary (without the misogyny, racism and mob manipulation.)” “I’d like to run a marathon (without getting tired).” “I’m in favor of strict copyright law (except for the endless © trolls and with just the right amount of...
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
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I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
xkcd.com
Chili Tornado Quake
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Saturday Morning...
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Quantum Frontiers
Film noir and quantum thermo In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing...
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In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing a quintessential father skill—storytelling. If my son inherits even a fraction of my tastes, he’ll soon develop a passion for film noir detective stories. … Continue reading →
The Rational Walk
The Digest #211 Thucydides, Corporate life cycles, Ben Graham's first big win, Buffett's early lesson in activist...
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Thucydides, Corporate life cycles, Ben Graham's first big win, Buffett's early lesson in activist investing, Perils of forecasting, Orwell's 1984, Guy Spier, Ben Thompson, Estée Lauder
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Seth's Blog
But it’s included… Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic...
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Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic to wheat. Perhaps the amusement park includes as many rides as you like, even if you’re feeling sick or have had quite enough for today. The thing about included is that it’s free....
Moneyness
Are the sanctions on Russia working? I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions...
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I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions imposed on Russia have affected regional trade patterns. While direct trade between Europe and Russia has collapsed thanks to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions, the...
Infinite Scroll
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The best book I read was Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which will also be the best thing I read in February.  I gotta catch up on my posts. One big book down, and as a result my list of January books is more sensible. TRAVEL, let’s call it Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), Rebecca...
Notes on software...
Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
abdz.do - Have you...
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By Wind — Printing By Wind abduzeedo0210—23 To meet future demands on quality, specialization, and sustainability, two of Sweden’s (and Europe’s) foremost printing companies joined forces to create a unique and comprehensive offering:...
Londonist
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The Ruffian
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Math Is Still...
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Now that the Overground lines are being separately named, some people are asking whether other TfL services should follow suit. n.b. The answer to this question is 'No', but stay with me as we go through the motions. n.b. These days the Circle line shadows the Hammersmith &...
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Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love 2022-07-14 I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
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I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
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photos by Tomooki Kengaki courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park is a new boutique hotel located in Tokyo’s quiet Tomigaya neighborhood that just opened this month. Designed by architect Keiji Ashizawa, the 7-story hotel has 25 rooms, a restaurant and a...
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Today, the electrical grid has over 500,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5 million miles of lower voltage distribution lines, which supply power from nearly 6,000 large power plants. Together, this system supplies more than 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity...
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In this post, we will have a look at the concept of using a nuclear photon rocket for interstellar travel. They are an old concept that should theoretically be the ultimate form of relativistic propulsion. However, today they are unknown or unpopular. Why might that be the...
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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...
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Doors (by Christian Marclay) White Cube, Masons Yard 6-30 September 2023 10am-6pm, closed Sunday and Monday Christian Marclay is always a treat, if what you enjoy is an exemplarily-crafted audio-visual montage. He's best known for The Clock, a 24 hour compilation of clips from...
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In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences. And in the huge business, expensive software, data analysts and relentless margin seeking pushes organizations to increase their yield. But most businesses (and non-profits and...
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Office Was Hidden Behind A Wall That Folds Open BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in...
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BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in Hawthorn, Australia. One design detail that caught our attention is the home office hidden in plain sight in the dining room behind a wood accent wall. The floor-to-ceiling wood...
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Of course maps are just the most fascinating and information dense graphical information products around…in my unbiased opinion. I can, and do, go on and on about the deep and pervasive benefits of spatial representations. But…well…sometimes a map, strictly speaking, can have...
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The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
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Anecdotal Evidence
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In his brief portrait of Joseph Conrad, Desmond MacCarthy tells us the novelist “felt himself impelled to attempt an intenser vividness in description. Try, just try, so to describe something that the inattentive reader must see it, and the attentive one can never forget that he...
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#14 not my type Bad code <a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a> Issues and how to...
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Bad code <a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a> Issues and how to fix them The type attribute has no effect on the semantics of an <a> element. An anchor may have the type attribute, but the value should be a valid MIME type. Browsers may...
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It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the detail of moving water in photography. So you can imagine the technical challenge of accurately capturing water as a three-dimensional object. Product designer Masahiko Tanoue has...
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Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start with an honest admission. I didn’t set out to write about the world’s first app store. I set out to write about Brother printers. But
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I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I complete them. It’s available to read online for free. I’ve only uploaded the introductory parts but I’ve got a bunch more planned. Why write a book you ask? Well, why not? I...
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tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed programming languages have implementations that compile to native binaries: Python: Cython Common Lisp: SBCL Scheme: Chicken Scheme The benefits of compiling dynamically typed...
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This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code, and what the str, &str, String, OsString and CString add. Arrays and Slices Rust C [T; N] (array)Example: [i32; 100]Allocated on the stack T[N]Example: int[100]Allocated on the...
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Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what would I do with a lot of storage? What might I want to run with it, if it were fairly cheap? Backups are an obvious place to start. Borgbackup makes a pretty compelling option: very...
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Mexico’s growing e-commerce infrastructure is built on top of its smallest shops Amazon and MercadoLibre get all the credit, but it’s really a patchwork of mom-and-pop shops that...
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Gert Hofmann's Veilchenfeld is the latest of his novels to be published in English translation, and the first translated by Eric Mace-Tessler. Tom Conaghan at Review31 has given it an appreciative review, recognising that Hofmann's presentation of a civilisation's descent into...
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“We’re going to build a component library — which are like a bunch of LEGOs — so designers/developers can just pick a prefabricated component off the shelf and build with consistency and coherence.” It’s a nice thought, if you don’t think about it too much. But I recently read...
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This is a cool material science development that nicely illustrates recent technological advancements. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a superalloy using additive manufacturing (3D printing). That may not sound that impressive at first, but consider the...
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Marilyn Sides won this reader’s heart in the third paragraph of her 2018 essay “The Consolations of Literature,” when she refers to Dr. Johnson as “grand master of English prose.” She also practices what Anecdotal Evidence preaches: “the intersection of books and life.” We might...
Working Theorys
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Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta features. As a result, we fixed a whole lot of…
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by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
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I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software engineer job vacancies. It looks like there is, but not everywhere.
Louwrentius
ZFS: resilver performance of various RAID schemas When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures...
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When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures before you put your important data on it. It makes sense to know what to do in case a drive needs to be replaced. I also recommend putting a substantial amount of data on your NAS and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Meaning of Sidereal Time' Years ago I was at a birthday party where one of the other guests was a stand-up comic and part-time...
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Years ago I was at a birthday party where one of the other guests was a stand-up comic and part-time journalist who lived in Woodstock, N.Y. He was smart, quick, funny and surprisingly well-read (he knew who Edward Dahlberg was). Neither of us was much of a party-goer so we spent...
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The Ruffian
A Brief History of Suburban Creativity The power of not being with the in-crowd
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A Collection of...
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This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'If the Nation Is to Be Saved From This Menace' “To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming...
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“To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming a nation of minor poets.”  P.G. Wodehouse is being kind. He wrote “The Alarming Spread of Poetry” in 1916 when the blight was fresh and perhaps still reversible. His Exhibit A is...
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The bigotry of Modernism We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse....
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We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Unfortunately, the architecture world, including academics and practitioners, is often unaware that it perpetuates backward and bigoted attitudes, stifling the creativity of architects and...
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RLY Network, a token protocol platform, and brand identity by Serious.Business AoiroStudio0206—23 serious.business is a digital design studio that specializes in creating innovative and impactful designs for clients from a variety of...
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A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find them in my links digests. In all quotes below, any emphasis in bold was added by me. Books Thomas S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948). A classic in the field,...
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30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5 years, i.e. I've done 60 of them, so to still be getting 50 comments on the latest one is quite something, thanks. Sat 2: I broke the news that tube platform tickets were being...
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You never know what you’ll find in the subway. Above, one of the columns on the Brooklyn-bound platform of the R train at Whitehall Street, supporting the station roof, some twenty feet of soil, and the street above. The station opened in 1918 as part of the Dual Contracts...
African History...
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TheCollector
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Posts on Made of...
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(This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 if you’re new here) In this entry, we’ll look at the interfaces that are used to control the behavior of the “termios” box sitting between the master and slave pty. The behaviors...
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues undefined
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David Perell
Rob Henderson: An Internet Academic Rob Henderson is one of my favorite up-and-coming writers. I like him because he’s one of those...
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Rob Henderson is one of my favorite up-and-coming writers. I like him because he’s one of those people who doesn’t fit into a category. He’s a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, but I met him in a book club about technological stagnation. He’s spent years in the academy, first at...
McMansion Hell
bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA Read the bonus post on Patreon!
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Handprinted - Blog
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Scroll through the list below to find definitions and explanations of common printmaking terms: Acid-free – refers to papers that are made with an alkaline pulp, usually with calcium carbonate added. Acids contribute to the deterioration of paper and therefore of prints. Aisuki –...
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My first ever app I made and sold... I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially...
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I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this. It...