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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fabiola Knowles Originally from Sicily, I grew up in Australia; however, having settled in the UK in 1996, it has...
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Originally from Sicily, I grew up in Australia; however, having settled in the UK in 1996, it has been my home for the largest part of my life. I love the outdoors and I am drawn to open landscapes with big skies. I am an artist working mainly with various forms of printmaking. I...
Maps Mania
The Noisiest Cities in America
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Why You Should Skip My Articles and Go Straight to the Comments Here are some highlights from yesterday's open mic anarchy thread
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
On Awards When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and...
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When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Although the Pritzker has long...
Retail Design Blog
NANGA Shop Sendai by ABOUT + monotrum “A sleeping bag manufacturer’s store design that enables creative displays through a ceiling hanger...
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“A sleeping bag manufacturer’s store design that enables creative displays through a ceiling hanger rack system and movable raised floor.”...
mtlynch.io
What I've Been Doing Since Quitting My Job I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and...
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over a year ago
I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and formed my own single-person software company. That was four months ago, so I thought I’d share an update on how things are going. What’s it like not having a job? That’s the most...
TheCollector
4 Ways Indigenous Cultures Survived Colonialism in Latin America undefined
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
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a year ago
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market. Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved. Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
GeoCurrents
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Was No Landslide Donald Trump clearly enjoyed an unexpected and decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential...
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Donald Trump clearly enjoyed an unexpected and decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Indeed, many journalists and pundits have described the results as nothing less than a “landslide.”  In truth, it came nowhere near that standing. Although the final vote count...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The time before YC I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
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I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
Platformer
Susan Wojcicki makes her exit She had a legendary run. Will YouTube's end with it?
a year ago
Commoncog
A Most Unlikely Master of Capital Allocation If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in...
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11 months ago
If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.
Louwrentius
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon"....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in my opinion a pain to configure. Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone finds a...
Benny Kuriakose
Importance of Landscape in School Design Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only...
a year ago
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a year ago
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only comprises of the buildings in a school,...
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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11 months ago
Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
High Signal
Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
Applied Cartography
Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
Birchtree
I don’t care about bad or missing features that I don’t use Sometimes I’ll talk about something I like online and people will express shock that I can use a...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Sometimes I’ll talk about something I like online and people will express shock that I can use a product that has such a clear downside. I’ve gotten people ask how I can use Things since it doesn’t have shared task lists. More recently I
Explorations of an...
Chasing Endemics in Córdoba Córdoba is the second most populated city in Argentina, located in the Punilla Valley around 600 km...
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a year ago
Córdoba is the second most populated city in Argentina, located in the Punilla Valley around 600 km northwest of Buenos Aires. Laura and I spent one night in the city before our morning's birding. Our destination: the beautiful Sierras de Córdoba to the west of the city and...
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is React Suspense?
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
a year ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
The eHMI: How Autonomous Cars Will Communicate With the Outside World Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down...
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over a year ago
Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down the street. You observe the behavior…
CONTEMPORIST
Steel Symphony: A Madrid Home’s Unique Design With Weathered Elegance Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in...
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Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in weathering steel and has a uniquely shaped design. The shape of the home showcases various areas that branch out in different directions, some of which are cantilevered away from the...
McMansion Hell
namesake mcmansion Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long...
4 months ago
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Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
David Heinemeier...
Dare to connect a server to the internet The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
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6 months ago
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
TheCollector
Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters? undefined
4 months ago
Matt Mazur
Is the ChatGPT API Refusing to Summarize Academic Papers? Not so fast. Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API...
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11 months ago
Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API indicating that it was refusing to summarize arXiv papers: There has been a lot of discussion recently about the perceived decrease in the quality of ChatGPT’s responses and seeing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Beyond the Language of the Living' “After someone dies I find it hard to delete their contact from my phone. It feels cruel somehow, as...
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“After someone dies I find it hard to delete their contact from my phone. It feels cruel somehow, as if it was a final obliteration.”  I didn’t know others felt this way, and dismissed it as my indulgence in sentimentality. Rabbi David Wolpe’s admission comes as reassurance. I...
Bits about Money
Requiem for a bank loan A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse...
a year ago
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a year ago
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse on the banking crisis.
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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2 months ago
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 […]
The Changelog
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures) This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them....
12 months ago
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12 months ago
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them. Now that they’ve enjoyed it, I’m releasing it under the GPL v3. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Apply Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hope the socks and sandals don't make this NSFW for...
6 months ago
Maps Mania
The Spanish Wealth Divide
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Mystery of the Mind
a year ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 4 and wrap-up Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Because of the timing of my flight back to Houston, I really only went to one session today, in which my student spoke as did some collaborators.  It was a pretty interesting collection of contributed talks.   The work that's been done on spin transport in multiferroic...
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great? undefined
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
a year ago
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I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
Working Theorys
How to Be Like Derek Guy If you spend any time on Twitter, you know the handle @dieworkwear by heart. And you know it’s the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If you spend any time on Twitter, you know the handle @dieworkwear by heart. And you know it’s the handle of Derek Guy, menswear expert extraordinaire. (I’m still unsure if that’s his real name, but I haven’t bothered to look it up because at this point I trust him implicitly.) I...
diamond geezer
National Rail interchange symbols What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a...
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7 months ago
What does the National Rail symbol on the tube map mean? I ask because several stations with a National Rail service don't have the symbol, for example here in the northwest corner of the map. The two symbol-less Metropolitan line stations are Rickmansworth and Chorleywood....
Strange Loop Canon
Power, money and human nature Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
pandemic grief and sadness One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know...
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One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know – including the most intelligent and the most socially responsible – throw away all covid...
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History undefined
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
12 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Florida's Waffle House Index Score
2 months ago
Blog System/5
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
In Praise of the Preterite Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun...
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3 weeks ago
by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chemistry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless expenditure of grant money. Today's News:
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960) So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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a year ago
So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
The Marginalian
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings "Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning."
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Schedule Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The real mystery is whether the last panel is right...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The real mystery is whether the last panel is right before or right after. Today's News:
devonzuegel.com
Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters? A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than...
a year ago
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a year ago
A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than renters. I asked around for what other people thought and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write up my takeaways. I. Investments demand legibility Homeownership is...
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites undefined
11 months ago
Londonist
'Eatalong' With Kevin Mac Allister At These Special Home Alone Screenings Including a dish called a 'Filthy Animals'.
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
Corporate Bloodsuckers Fiction | Magical Realism Short Story #3
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Poor Charlie’s Almanack My thoughts on the new edition with a focus on inconsistency avoidance, one of the twenty-five...
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My thoughts on the new edition with a focus on inconsistency avoidance, one of the twenty-five psychological tendencies that can cause human misjudgment.
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they...
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9 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me: 10% “100%” 36% “pretty confident” 39% “somewhat confident?” 15% “literally no idea” I was...
Old Structures...
Social Commentary In A Map Above, David Burr’s 1834 map of New York. I guess 190 years make a bit of a difference. This is, in...
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Above, David Burr’s 1834 map of New York. I guess 190 years make a bit of a difference. This is, in some ways, more of a map-like graphic than an actual map. The shaded areas are not the only places where there were buildings, but rather the areas that were solidly built up....
./techtipsy
How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very...
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A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Of Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use. Today's News:
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively...
a year ago
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a year ago
A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively little data. The post Flow Proof Helps Mathematicians Find Stability in Chaos first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures undefined
11 months ago
Citation Needed
Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites.
Seth's Blog
Thoughts on audiobooks I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious... A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Noahpinion
How we'll know if Trump is going to sell America out to China Keep an eye on the export controls. They are the key.
a week ago
Londonist
April And May Tube Strikes Called Off No tube strike next Monday after all.
8 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Sine and cosine Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can make things like O or 8 by using them both.
balajis.com
Going Meta Meta may be Android to Apple's Apple.
a year ago
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’ undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression? undefined
2 months ago
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
Maps Mania
The US Foreign Assistance Map
8 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
a year ago
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a year ago
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
diamond geezer
Count 2024 During February 2003 on diamond geezer I kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
During February 2003 on diamond geezer I kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts, to be precise, in a none-too thrilling daily feature called The Count. My 28-day tally chart may have been deathly dull to the rest of you, but I've continued to count those...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
The American Scholar
What Comes Naturally The post What Comes Naturally appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne? undefined
a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Ramones presidential seal logo Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights...
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights Reserved. Source: i-d.vice.com License: All Rights Reserved. Arturo Vega had the logo tattooed on his back with his own name incorporated and a type style that is less stylized...
Arduino Blog
This smart spice box makes cooking a breeze Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and ingredients. Recipes are useful, but they aren’t very intuitive to those who are more comfortable with visual thinking. To help these people enjoy the cooking experience, Purdue...
Home on Erik...
Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
Open Culture
James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Note: With the sad passing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re bringing back a post from our...
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Note: With the sad passing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re bringing back a post from our archive–one featuring Jones reading two great American poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. These readings first appeared on our site in 2014. For all its many flaws the original...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
Julia Evans
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Here’s the video, as...
TheCollector
8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About undefined
2 months ago
Citation Needed
Follow the Crypto FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
Christopher Butler
Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a list of links on it. There were many of these, some freely accessible, and others within the first walled-gardens of America Online, Prodigy, and so on. But the most famous one is...
Math Is Still...
Grad Students Find Inevitable Patterns in Big Sets of Numbers A new proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges from disorder. ...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges from disorder. The post Grad Students Find Inevitable Patterns in Big Sets of Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
Metaphorical Significant Figures Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code?...
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6 months ago
Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code? (I’m going to say now, at the beginning of this post, and I’ll repeat at the end: we can and should use the current codes. I use current codes in analysis and design; I use old codes...
TheCollector
Giorgio Agamben’s Notes on Dante’s Divine Comedy undefined
a year ago
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say? In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable...
11 months ago
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We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of cartographic creativity. I know some of you are already brainstorming about what you might do this year. Each day has a prompt, and you’re encouraged to make a map that day that is based on...
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It can’t be said often enough that buildings move in various ways, from the effect of environmental conditions. You’ve got gross structural movement from gravity and lateral loads; up, down, and sideways movement from changes in soil volume from water movement; expansion and...
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Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water scarcity! We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing  30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it! The western US is a parched opportunity to create millions of acres...
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Spherical cows are important because they let us abstract away all the complications of the real world and think about underlying principles. But what about when the complications are the point? Then we enter the realm of complex systems — which, interestingly, has its own...
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How we designed the PostHog mascot Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
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all images courtesy the artist On the spectrum of artistic materials, pixel art and ceramics seemingly couldn’t be further apart. On one end you have one of mankind’s oldest forms of expression dating back to the late Paleolithic period. On the other, a digital form of art that...
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Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers. Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
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It may be a sign of something that I read Louis-René des Forêts's Poems of Samuel Wood several years after reading A Voice from Elsewhere in which Maurice Blanchot dedicates three unusually personal (and often bewildering) essays to them. The book's title is adapted from a line...
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The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
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Travelling keeps me sane. It is only on this trip that I realised how much my brain craves being in some sort of engagement, and travelling is a way to keep it...
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It’s grim out there and getting grimmer. Two poems encountered on the same day provided a touch of buoyancy. The first was originally written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov on May 6, 1923:  “No, life is no quivering quandary! Here under the moon things are bright and dewy. We are...
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In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed up 23 years late. This is also concert from which everyone walks out early. The performance is of a piece called ORGAN2/ASLSP. ASLSP stands for “as slow as possible,” which is how...
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If your parents or grandparents grew up in the United States in the 1950s, there’s a decent chance that they know the theme song to The Howdy Doody Show. The Howdy Doody Show is one of those pieces of 1950s ephemera that has come to symbolize mid-century American childhood. For...
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Excited to announce that we have funding for a +3 studentship in the UCL Department of Geography for the project “An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities”. The research will be carried out in association with the Health Foundation and will comprise the creation of a range of...
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I know lately I’ve been in commercial mode, pointing you toward various projects of mine that you can support by giving me money. And I promise I’ll get back to less commercial musings as time goes on. But for now, I also want to alert you to a way you can give other people...
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Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
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There are a few interesting stories lurking in this news item, but lets start with the top level – a new study revises the minimum age of the Moon to 4.46 billion years, 40 million years older than the previous estimate. That in itself is interesting, but not game-changing. It’s...
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We spend a lot of time in our own heads, certain that our path and our method make sense. We often become more certain in the face of criticism or even suggestions. This confidence is essential, as it allows us to lean into our project. Once in a while, though, it might help to...
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Let’s rewind the videotape and revisit a classic moment in The Dick Van Dyke Show. In the 1962 episode called “Hustling the Hustler,” Mary Tyler Moore (as Laura Petrie) plays pool and sinks three balls in a single shot. The original plan was to splice in footage of a professional...
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I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh (outside) air through the house and recoups heat from the air that is exhausted. There is a problem with this system, though. Sometimes, for example when a neighbour lights their wood...
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In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing. Why are they so good? Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
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Martin Amis' novels were among those I read when I began reading novels – one read what was being talked about on television and in newspapers. Money was the first quickly followed by each and every one that preceded it, including the journalism in The Moronic Inferno, which I...
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A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses. It’s simple to understand and easy to implement. You don’t need lawyers or a prominent social media presence. All it requires is for you to behave like an organized professional....
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A year in blogging I started this blog in May of last year. I don’t mean to brag, but by last April, after less than a year of blogging, I was pulling in upwards of 20 visitors per day, several of whom were not spam bots. That number reached as high as 50 visitors on days when I...
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Twelve months notice Generally speaking, there are two approaches to relating to other people in the business world. The...
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Generally speaking, there are two approaches to relating to other people in the business world. The first approach is transactional and…
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Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The post Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
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Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
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The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples. These maps illustrate the things...
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China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
A Smart Bear
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According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
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I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does everything I really need. One of the things I (possibly mistakenly) want is lots of windows. The problem with having lots of windows is they quickly become hard to keep track of,...
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NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years in the future. Scene 1 (the party): Our opening scene is a New Jersey houseparty, late college. Four kids lamenting the loss of their childhood. And it’s not just their childhood,...
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Everything changed for British musicologist Clive Wearing in 1985, the year he contracted herpesviral encephalitis. The disease severely damaged his memory-forming brain regions, leading to one of the most extreme cases of anterograde amnesia ever recorded and a memory span that...
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Zip Good week. Went through a product pivot this week. We shut down our small class program, where students would have a class with a ratio of 1 teacher-to-5 students. Why did we pivot? Growth wasn’t going anywhere w/ the small class program. Our growth curve for the last 4...
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine In NATO Would Be A Disaster ... But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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Quantum Frontiers
The power of awe Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting...
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Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting Seattle for the second time; I forgot that I’d just finished co-organizing a workshop partially about nuclear physics for the first time. I’d … Continue reading →
Daniel Miessler
My Mom Died on Saturday My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due...
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My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due to mental illness, which left my dad and me on our own. Sometime after we were blessed with a strong, beautiful soul named Rhonda. My dad and I were like rescue dogs, and she saved...
The Ruffian
Zadie Smith and the 'Both Sides' Problem On Centrist Meta-Commentaries
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Dreams of Space -...
Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2 Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight...
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Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
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This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
Paul Graham: Essays
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
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TheCollector
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Old Structures...
A Thomas Nast Holiday – 1 of 3 Nast is best known as a political cartoonist, but he largely created the popular US version of Santa...
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Nast is best known as a political cartoonist, but he largely created the popular US version of Santa Claus from his childhood memories of Christmas in Germany. For the next three days, examples of his work. Today 1863, with references to the Civil War in Santa’s costume.
Stephen Diehl
The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production
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The Marginalian
Endling: A Poem I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone —...
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I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone — padlocked and boarded off, closed for good, a long chain of habit suddenly severed. We know that entropy drags everything toward dissolution, that life is a vector pointed at loss, but...
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Cruise for Best Way to See the Northern Lights in Alaska
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Alex Meub
Recreating the Windows BSOD I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I...
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I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I found the classic DOS system font and was able recreate a pixel-perfect BSOD image using it. You can see a rendering of the classic BSOD in all it’s pixelated glory here and...
nanoscale views
Moiré and making superlattices One of the biggest condensed matter trends in recent years has been the stacking of 2D materials and...
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One of the biggest condensed matter trends in recent years has been the stacking of 2D materials and the development of moiré lattices.  The idea is, take a layer of 2D material and stack it either (1) on itself but with a twist angle, or (2) on another material with a slightly...
A Weekly Dose of...
For the Love of (Architecture) Books Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so I put together a list some things I love ❤️ about architecture books...
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Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so I put together a list some things I love ❤️ about architecture books — and just as many things I don't love 💔 about them: 20 pairs in 4 categories. I can't be alone in having these opinions and I might be a bit harsh in my criticisms, but if I...
Seth's Blog
Patience It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find.
a year ago
TheCollector
“Protector of the Indians”: Who Was Fray Bartolome de las Casas? undefined
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Rest of World -...
Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
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Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
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D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev], here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to my uncountably many users! The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
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I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
Musings on Markets
Dealing with Aging: Updating the Intel, Walgreens and Starbucks Stories! A few weeks ago, I posted on the corporate life cycle, the subject of my latest book. I argued that...
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A few weeks ago, I posted on the corporate life cycle, the subject of my latest book. I argued that the corporate life cycle can explain what happens to companies as they age, and why they  have to adapt to aging with their actions and choices. In parallel, I also noted that...
Archinect - Features
Climate, Justice, and Collaboration in Academia: A Conversation with Tyler School of Art and... At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an...
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At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an academic culture grounded in collaboration. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture, Wingert-Playdon is engaged in a mission of encouraging cross-disciplinary...
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
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At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
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I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World ...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Maps Mania
10 Million Street Views
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Where To Watch Fireworks On Bonfire Night In London 2023 Mark Guy Fawkes Night with a bang.
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TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire? undefined
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best? undefined
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars undefined
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Aaron's Essays
Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
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Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
TheCollector
The History of Underwear: Loincloths, Petticoats, Boxers, & Briefs undefined
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AI Snake Oil
Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy...
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By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Master Etcher of Human Portraits' In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen...
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In celebration of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s fiftieth birthday, on December 22, 1919, seventeen poets and friends were asked to contribute to a symposium published a day earlier in the New York Times Book Review. All but Robert Frost contributed. Amy Lowell wrote: “A realist,...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
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This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Moved—Stopp’d--Shall I Go On?—No' The professor asked me to write a paper on Tristram Shandy, the novel she had introduced to us in...
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The professor asked me to write a paper on Tristram Shandy, the novel she had introduced to us in her eighteenth-century English fiction class. It was her favorite novel. Its bawdy humor matched her own. For me it was love at first sight – for the novel, I mean. I was already a...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
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macwright.com
Recently The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still...
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The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still really loving the constellation of bands around Mammal Hands. They just released a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent. RETURN by tAKX Their guitarist,...
Herbert Lui
A place and its magic When my partner and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii earlier this year, a driver told us about how...
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When my partner and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii earlier this year, a driver told us about how the island had lost its magic to him. After he spent a couple of years there, he naturally stopped noticing the beauty of the island. He felt wistful about this, and while his...
Left To Write
Nashing Out How Playing Good Poker Connects With Behavioural Economics
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work
a year ago
TheCollector
Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale undefined
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TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works undefined
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Retail Design Blog
Chun Sheng Jewelry by Aurora Design Aurora Design has received a renovation project for an old residential building located in an old...
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Aurora Design has received a renovation project for an old residential building located in an old neighborhood in the center...
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine Or: How we weaponised serendipity
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The Marginalian
From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer "I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities."
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Seth's Blog
Replacing bad systems with bad systems A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a...
a year ago
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A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a cumbersome, awkward system. Coins are heavy and you need to have them handy, meters need to be reinforced against theft and breakage, town employees have to empty the coins and...
The American Scholar
Bards Behind Bars Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on The American Scholar.
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi? Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
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Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
The Marginalian
How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old "Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a...
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"Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being."
The Berkeley...
Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
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In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin undefined
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Probably...
What size is that correlation? This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder...
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This article is related to Chapter 6 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder now. It is also related to a new course at Brilliant.org, Explaining Variation. Suppose you find a correlation of 0.36. How would you characterize it? I posed this question to the...
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Founders - Don't just build another job for yourself I was having pre-Christmas lunch with Paul*, one of my best friends from middle school a couple of...
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I was having pre-Christmas lunch with Paul*, one of my best friends from middle school a couple of weeks back. However, as soon as he sat down at our table and I asked him how he was, he surprisingly announced that he would be closing his business at the end of the year. I was...
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art. Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Archinect - Features
Beaux-Arts to Bauhaus: How Two Schools Shaped Architectural Visualization Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural...
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Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural visualization. Through fostering particular artistic philosophies, drawing techniques, and design ideologies, such institutions shape not only the architects themselves but also the way...
beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
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a year ago
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
8 months ago
somenice
Mammoth Mountain Logo Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated...
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Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated approved. It’s not a stretch to say that a California ski resort has naively combined two M’s to form a crown but to outright copy a symbol used repeatedly by one of the highest selling...
abdz.do - Have you...
CG animation and motion design — Oknoplast PAVA CG animation and motion design — Oknoplast PAVA abduzeedo0505—23 ...
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CG animation and motion design — Oknoplast PAVA abduzeedo0505—23 Polish creative agency Ars Thanea recently completed a stunning CG animation project powered by the new OKNOPLAST window. The result is a breathtaking volcanic world that tells a...
NeuroLogica Blog
A Lifecycle Analysis of Electric Vehicles This article is part of my informal series on EVs, sorting through the claims, reality, and...
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This article is part of my informal series on EVs, sorting through the claims, reality, and propaganda. There are many complicated factors to sort through, but overall, in my opinion, most concerns about EVs are outdated or overblown. There are definitely locations and use...
xkcd.com
Water Filtration
3 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
CSS background patterns I love how much we can do with CSS today, without loading a single picture.
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the amazing tools and research we now have for our metabolic health [cw: metabolic health, diet] My paternal grandmother died before I was born, apparently of diabetes...
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[cw: metabolic health, diet] My paternal grandmother died before I was born, apparently of diabetes complications. When I was younger I couldn’t understand what it meant to die of diabetes complications –...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Stripe Goes No-Code — Stripe Payment Links Explained Stripe has entered the No Code market in a big way! I take a crack at explaining what it's doing and...
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sanctum Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It appears to be a primitive fertility...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It appears to be a primitive fertility fetish. Today's News: Just a month till my new book drops. Please consider preordering!
xkcd.com
Log Cabin
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Ensembles vs Committees A useful dichotomy for team dynamics.
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
New Asteroid Probably Won’t Hit Earth NASA recently discovered a 50 meter wide asteroid whose orbit will come close to Earth. They...
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NASA recently discovered a 50 meter wide asteroid whose orbit will come close to Earth. They estimate a close approach in 2046, which will likely bring the asteroid within 1.1 million miles of the Earth, about four times the distance of the moon. However, there is always...
Seth's Blog
Compounding head starts When a six-year-old kid beats the other kids at tennis, that kid is more likely to be encouraged to...
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When a six-year-old kid beats the other kids at tennis, that kid is more likely to be encouraged to play more, or to get a coach, and pretty soon, they’re much better at tennis than the others. When a musical group has a single that gets some buzz on Spotify, they’re more likely...
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
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My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #194 Poor Charlie's Almanack, Ben Graham, GAAP accounting, John Templeton, AI dystopia, Inflation,...
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Poor Charlie's Almanack, Ben Graham, GAAP accounting, John Templeton, AI dystopia, Inflation, Bloomstran on Berkshire, Intuitive Surgical, The lessons of history
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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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...
Flashbak
It’s About Time: The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970,...
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The Beach Boys were no longer a hit band when Bob Burchman sat in his car in early July 1970, listening to a tape that Dennis Wilson had given him. Bob wasn’t a Beach Boys fan — he preferred Sly Stone or Marvin Gaye or Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or The Beatles  —  but Dennis, an...
devonzuegel.com
Podcasts &amp; conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
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I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
This Space
39 Books: 1999 I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others...
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I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others published around the same time, such as from Quartet Encounters and Carcanet, the latter with a fussy variant on the title: The Book of Disquietude. But this one is the most pleasurable...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Svelte? (The Short Version) The short version of Why Svelte
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The History of New York
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ntietz.com blog
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
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This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Stumped with URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a...
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<![CDATA[I started working on URL validation in WebCard and soon bumped into a bug. When creating a new Web card, WebCard prompts for a URL to store in the card. I wrote the predicate WCD.ValidURLP to do some minimal validation and make sure the input resembles a URL. For...
NeuroLogica Blog
Using AI To Create Virtual Environments Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the...
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Generative AI applications seem to be on the steep part of the development curve – not only is the technology getting better, but people are finding more and more uses for it. It’s a new powerful tool with broad applicability, and so there are countless startups and researchers...
Spoon & Tamago
‘Mirai No Table’ Brings Childcare and Dining Together As One All images © Atelier Air Flo Nukasawa courtesy of Harema Design Office At the crossroads of...
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All images © Atelier Air Flo Nukasawa courtesy of Harema Design Office At the crossroads of childcare and dining, ‘Mirai no Table‘ (Table of the Future) is a café conceived from the dual perspectives by Harema Design Office. The café embodies the idea that our food choices shape...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is like a time machine to SMBC circa...
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journal – Winnie Lim
the experience of completing a sketchbook for my japan trip Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on...
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Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on my travels. I did the same when I went to Japan, except a...
The Works in...
How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars: 1973, Israel Maintains A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Back in the market (Sonos Edition) I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly...
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I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly amps for in-ceiling speakers, but also some Ones, 3s, 5s. All of it. Because it Just Worked when it came to multi-room music. Now it doesn't, and it hasn't for a long time, so I've...
The American Scholar
Imperiled Planet The ecological havoc we’ve wrought The post Imperiled Planet appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The ecological havoc we’ve wrought The post Imperiled Planet appeared first on The American Scholar.
Mazdak
Who Should You Ask for Feedback? Feedback is essential for business success. It can help you identify areas for improvement, get new...
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Feedback is essential for business success. It can help you identify areas for improvement, get new ideas, and stay ahead of the competition. But not all feedback is created equal. If you want to get the most out of feedback, you need to ask the right people.
Arduino Blog
This automatic laser turret keeps the cats entertained for hours Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their...
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Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their cats indoors to avoid decimating the local wildlife population and that means Mr. Whiskers and Ms. Socks don’t get much opportunity to express their hunting urges. That’s why...
Open Culture
The World’s First Medieval Electronic Instrument: The EP-1320 Lets You Play the Sounds of... At this time of the year, the Swedish island of Gotland puts on Medeltidsveckan, or “Medieval Week,”...
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At this time of the year, the Swedish island of Gotland puts on Medeltidsveckan, or “Medieval Week,” the country’s largest historical festival. According to its official About page, it offers its visitors the chance to “watch knights on horseback, drink something cold, take a...
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – A Garage Transformed Into A Pool House Nathan Fell Architecture has shared photos of a garage they transformed into a pool house with...
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Nathan Fell Architecture has shared photos of a garage they transformed into a pool house with plenty of space for entertaining. Here’s what the pool house looked like before… The design of the pool house was conceived as an addition to the garage that more appropriately capped...
TokyoDev
The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan...
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I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan decreased by a factor of 12! Home burglaries in Japan peaked in 2003, with 190,473 cases in Japan. But as of 2022, where the most recent data is available, they have dropped to a mere...
diamond geezer
The Lookout The City of London looks favourably upon planning applications for very tall buildings which come...
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a year ago
The City of London looks favourably upon planning applications for very tall buildings which come with a free viewing gallery. Get the public into the Square Mile and they'll spend money here is their very reasonable premise, even if it sometimes results in even-more-towering...
Rest of World -...
Why Nigerian filmmakers are skipping Netflix to go straight to YouTube Filmmakers say YouTube prevents piracy and is more accessible than Netflix, Prime Video, and...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it. Today's News:
The Honest Broker
The Best Online Essays & Articles of 2023 Longform journalism is coming back (and deserves our support)
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TheCollector
8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity undefined
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alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Noahpinion
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap Narrative-driven triumphalism does not make for sound policy.
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Map of the Week
America's First Subway Map The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street,  a...
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The first subway in the United States was built in Boston. The tunnel ran along Tremont Street,  a chaotic mess of streetcars, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The tunnel was built to route the streetcars underground to ease congestion. Here is a plan of the original subway...
Musings on Maps
A Global Landscape of Growing Glacial Loss With frozen glaciers disappearing into the oceans at an unprecedented rate, the rise of an...
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With frozen glaciers disappearing into the oceans at an unprecedented rate, the rise of an ecotourism of glacier viewing is hardly unexpected. But the rise of new heights of glacial melt that are feared for much of the arctic this … Continue reading →
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Diaries of Note
I fell on the flagstones It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by...
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It was in the final decade of her life that Frida Kahlo kept a diary—ten turbulent years marked by emotional distress, declining health, and unwavering artistic spirit. Kahlo endured multiple surgeries and spent long periods in hospital during this period, and in 1953, already...