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TheCollector
Pace Gallery Will Represent the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative undefined
8 months ago
Max Countryman
Three Years to Shake Your Head There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the...
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There's an old saying regarding the difficulty of learning the Japanese bamboo flute, known as the shakuhachi, "It takes three years to learn to shake your head." This is in reference to the difficulty of mastering even seemingly simple techniques. The only way around this is to...
Old Structures...
Misleading Words In 1941, Robert Moses demolished the New York Aquarium, located in Castle Clinton in Battery Park,...
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In 1941, Robert Moses demolished the New York Aquarium, located in Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in a fit of pique over losing his fight to build a bridge from the Battery to Brooklyn. (That project became the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.) The aquarium was a three-story building on...
The American Scholar
Rap Rap Rap The post Rap Rap Rap appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Crafting Connection: A Contemporary Addition to a Historic Bungalow Carter Williamson Architects has shared photos of a new home extension that they designed for an...
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7 months ago
Carter Williamson Architects has shared photos of a new home extension that they designed for an Australian house in a heritage conservation area. The designers’ brief asked for an open, warm home in which a family could truly gather, one that respected the home’s history while...
Escaping Flatland
Integrity Intensely Human, No 3
10 months ago
Unpacked
Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their...
a year ago
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a year ago
YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their Winter 2023 cohort and, unsurprisingly, ~31% of startups have a self-reported AI tag.
AVC
What Does “Native” Mean When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology....
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When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile...
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
Londonist
Eurostar Launches Flash Sale - With Tickets From £35 Dépêchez-vous!
9 months ago
Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
symmetry magazine
Applications of quantum mechanics at the beach How does sunscreen work on the atomic level?
a year ago
Map of the Week
Headwaters When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping project showing this for the Northeastern United States. For the level of detail needed it was necessary to choose a manageable area so I chose where I've lived almost all of my...
Platformer
Google goes to court On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
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a year ago
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with. You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
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...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves? The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
Open Culture
Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917) Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the...
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Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the middle of every major event. Even before, as Prime Minister, he steeled the resolve of his people and faced down the Third Reich juggernaut; even before he loudly warned of the...
Computer Ads from...
EPYX's Pitstop Where Winning is the Pits.
6 months ago
diamond geezer
Draw-Off For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately...
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a month ago
For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately lowered. Draw-Off and it exposes more of the riverbed than usual. In order to carry out essential maintenance works on Richmond lock, weirs and sluices, it is necessary to hold up the...
Neocha – Culture &...
Unraveling the Enigma
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
CHIMI store by CAMPUS Following outposts in Oslo, Cape Town and Paris, Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI expands once...
a month ago
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a month ago
Following outposts in Oslo, Cape Town and Paris, Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI expands once again, and this time, across The...
Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
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10 months ago
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like? I Dare You...
5 months ago
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
Seth's Blog
Make or buy? If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you’re a writer, it probably doesn’t pay to chop down trees and make your own paper, or even to set up a little machine shop to make your own pens. That’s pretty obvious. Should the smoothie shop make its own almond milk? It’s pretty clear that Starbucks should have a team of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Superintelligent Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she's forced against her will to take care of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she's forced against her will to take care of her physical and mental wellbeing. Today's News:
Londonist
The Most Festive Christmas Afternoon Teas In London This Year Scones and cakes with a seasonal twist.
a year ago
The Ruffian
My Ten Favourite Books of the Year Plus a Rattle Bag of Goodies (and a special Christmas offer)
a week ago
Build In Public...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Prakash Chandran) ⭐️ Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week,...
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over a year ago
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week, I interview one prolific creator or founder and unpack insights and actionable advice from their story that can be helpful in your own journey. In today’s edition, I wanted to...
TheCollector
Battle of Issus (333 BCE): Alexander the Great vs. Darius III undefined
6 months ago
Daniel Miessler
GPT and Search There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down Google. I get the excitement there, but there are some pretty serious barriers to having this happen immediately. First, GPT is non-deterministic, meaning you can ask it the same...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Poem Becomes Molten with Activity' I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is new, such collections are like well-stocked cafeterias. You push your tray down the line and sample what looks good. Once seated, if a friend recommends a dish you avoided, you can...
Old Structures...
Pareidolia He’s a happy little gas-powered guy.
5 months ago
Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation That Revolutionized Map Design (1943) In 2017, we brought you news of a world map purportedly more accurate than any to date, designed by...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In 2017, we brought you news of a world map purportedly more accurate than any to date, designed by Japanese architect and artist Hajime Narukawa. The map, called the AuthaGraph, updates a centuries-old method of turning the globe into a flat surface by first converting it to a...
xkcd.com
Cell Organelles
6 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
a year ago
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a year ago
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
High Signal
$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
Mazdak
AI Gone Wrong? Can Chatbots Be Held Responsible for Suicide? This episode examines the tragic case of a teenager who became obsessed with an AI companion bot and...
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a month ago
This episode examines the tragic case of a teenager who became obsessed with an AI companion bot and later died by suicide.
Wuthering...
Lucretius brings to light in Latin verse the dark discoveries of the Greeks During the Hellenistic period, Epicureanism and Stoicism replaced Plato and Aristotle as the...
a year ago
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a year ago
During the Hellenistic period, Epicureanism and Stoicism replaced Plato and Aristotle as the dominant philosophical movements (Plato would make a big comeback; Aristotle would have to wait for the great Arabic philosophers).  Both movements were popular in the Roman Republic as...
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading undefined
2 months ago
Common Edge
On the Value of Miniatures and Scale Models Thinking small can help us answer the challenges of our time.
4 days ago
Adventures In...
Puget Sound 3D block diagram Here’s a map of the Puget Sound area that I made a couple years ago for presentations to folks in...
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Here’s a map of the Puget Sound area that I made a couple years ago for presentations to folks in the US northwest. Recently I wanted to work some more at labeling in a 3D environment and found this to be a handy target. Additionally, I thought it would be fun to make more use …
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024 The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
4 months ago
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
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a month ago
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more. I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
Old Structures...
We Become Accustomed – Part 2 Yesterday I talked about the process of erecting a steel frame at the Astor Building. At some point,...
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a year ago
Yesterday I talked about the process of erecting a steel frame at the Astor Building. At some point, a curtain wall has to be put on that frame or you have a jungle gym rather than a building. Two photos taken two weeks apart (September 2, 1925 above, September 16, 1925 below)...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
wadertales
Broad-billed Sandpiper: Now a Red-listed wader A dedicated team of Scottish bird ringers has been studying breeding waders in northern Norway since...
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A dedicated team of Scottish bird ringers has been studying breeding waders in northern Norway since 1993. One of the focal species of their fieldwork is the secretive Broad-billed Sandpiper, an unusual taiga wader which nests on low-lying tussocks embedded in floating mats of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Red Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the right opportunity to remind you that...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the right opportunity to remind you that every SMBC is available as a high-quality print to adorn your home or office. Today's News:
The Marginalian
Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries... "At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a...
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"At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution."
TheCollector
5 Fascinating Maps that Show Our Evolving Understanding of the World undefined
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Facing the future The Tofflers explained that Future Shock kicks in when the world changes faster than we’re ready...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Tofflers explained that Future Shock kicks in when the world changes faster than we’re ready for. We react instead of respond, and often shut down in the face of too much of the new. When our world changes (and it always does, more now than ever) we have four choices. And...
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
xkcd.com
Siphon
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #224 Edith Hamilton on human stupidity, BHE's latest investor presentation, Berkshire's 13-F, Extending...
a month ago
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a month ago
Edith Hamilton on human stupidity, BHE's latest investor presentation, Berkshire's 13-F, Extending human lifespan, Fastenal's success story, Buffett's early investments, IKEA's founder
diamond geezer
Rugby Gadabout: RUGBY Rugby is the easternmost town in Warwickshire, not far from Coventry, and the site...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Gadabout: RUGBY Rugby is the easternmost town in Warwickshire, not far from Coventry, and the site of an important railway junction. It's big in cement, was big in electronics and has been a market town since medieval times. But it's best known worldwide for its school and the...
devonzuegel.com
A libertarian just won the Argentinian presidency – how did that happen? If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential election, here's some background. First, a key fact is that the government is printing money at an accelerating rate, resulting in 143% annual inflation as of the most recent count....
alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
Tech + Economics +...
The fuckery. I start each day with the intention of writing positively about tech and AI and startups and vc...
a year ago
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a year ago
I start each day with the intention of writing positively about tech and AI and startups and vc and then I open my laptop and…there it is. There’s the fuckery.
Steve Klabnik
Returning to Free Software, a guide
over a year ago
Escaping Flatland
How I write essays Notes on process
2 weeks ago
Arduino Blog
Speed up your project’s compile time by up to 50% in Arduino Cloud! At Arduino, we know how precious your time is when you’re building your next big project or...
a week ago
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a week ago
At Arduino, we know how precious your time is when you’re building your next big project or experimenting with new ideas. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce a game-changing update to the Cloud Editor Builder — the engine behind compiling your sketches in Arduino Cloud. This...
Citation Needed
Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania.
Marcus on AI
On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is...
a month ago
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a month ago
A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is “indistinguishable” from William Shakespeare.
Londonist
Around London In 14 Lions And Lionesses One to paw over.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Gleams Like a Warm Homestead Light' Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as Martial:  “In private she mourns not the late-lamented; If someone’s by, her tears leap forth on call. Sorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented. They are true tears that without witness...
TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million undefined
5 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1986/06 Australian Personal Computer Mag It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from the June 1986 issue of Australian Computer magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your...
Musings on Markets
A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition If, as you read this post, it feels like you have read it or a close variant before, it is because...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If, as you read this post, it feels like you have read it or a close variant before, it is because you have. Each year, ahead of teaching my classes at NYU's Stern School of Business in the spring, I invite readers to accompany me on my journey, and this year is no different....
99% Invisible
Trail Mix: Track Two [EPISODE] Welcome to our second episode of short stories all about what may be the original designed object:...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to our second episode of short stories all about what may be the original designed object: the trail. If you haven’t heard the first episode yet you should totally go back and listen. It’s a lot of fun. Trail Mix We’re going to kick this second episode once again starting...
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office – 2024 After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized...
yesterday
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After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized it this year. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a long entry to this blog about how we keep this office space organized. While much of it is still as it was then, it is...
The Honest Broker
The Hottest Drummer You've Never Heard A new book pays tribute to the amazing Chick Webb, the hardest swinging jazz drummer of his day
a year ago
The Modern House
Why deli and wine bar Lulu’s is winning the hearts of locals in Herne Hill
a year ago
Noahpinion
How China's "debt traps" actually work Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
a year ago
Old Structures...
The Name Lost Meaning From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress, “View of a Manhattan street from New York City’s High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.” Except that you can’t see the High Line because she was...
Willem's Blog
Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
over a year ago
nanoscale views
2024 version: Advice on choosing a graduate school It's been four years since I posted the previous version of this, so it feels like the time is right...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It's been four years since I posted the previous version of this, so it feels like the time is right for an update. This is written on the assumption that you have already decided, after careful consideration, that you want to get an advanced degree (in physics, though much of...
diamond geezer
Untangling Hackney We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's no point replacing paper maps and posters on platforms until then. But the online map on the TfL website is another matter and is often updated between print runs to reflect the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Tree House With Two Rooms Architecture firm Studio MEMM has designed a tree house for their clients that could be used by both...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture firm Studio MEMM has designed a tree house for their clients that could be used by both children and adults. Located in the middle of the Brazilian forest, the design of the treehouse was inspired by the geometries of the surrounding sycamore leaf structures...
CONTEMPORIST
Handmade Elongated Bricks Cover The Exterior Of This Home Photography ©Paolo Abate MoDusArchitects has sent us photos of a modern home they recently completed...
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a year ago
Photography ©Paolo Abate MoDusArchitects has sent us photos of a modern home they recently completed in South Tyrol, Italy, that’s faced in handmade bricks. Photography ©Gustav Willeit The home, located in a small town and surrounded by vineyards, appears as a single-family...
Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18 React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
Londonist
Sadiq Promises 'Bakerloop' Express Bus Route Mirroring the proposed Bakerloo line extension.
8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are Many Real Things of Beauty Here' A reader sent me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A reader sent me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating its opposite, ugliness, exactly, though his prose definitely leans in that direction. Only a graduate-school alumnus could come up with such silly ideas. Rather, he seemed to be saying that...
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong JamesHoare Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
10 months ago
Transit Maps
New Official Map: San Francisco Muni Metro Map with Central Subway This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central...
a year ago
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This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central Subway – seemed like the appropriate day to post about it. Design-wise, this is very much an evolution of previous efforts (see my review of the post-COVID resumption of service...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Tiniest Botanical Garden is in Shibuya photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within 10 minutes you’ll stumble upon a glass dome-shaped building sandwiched between several nondescript buildings. Hidden in plain sight is the Shibuya City Botanical Garden, Japan’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Donate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I learned today that the etymological roots of the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I learned today that the etymological roots of the word anatomy mean cutting up. Today's News:
Maps Mania
Mapping Loch Ness Monster Sightings
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
Christian Selig
First on New Blog Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will...
a year ago
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a year ago
Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will remove. This goat’s name is apparently Gubgub, and very cute.
Ian Betteridge
20241202 Ten Blue Links, the late late late show edition! Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Technically this is eight blue links, because I spent the weekend in Bristol and we’re getting towards Christmas. Next week: five blue links and a bag of wine gums. 1. RIP ChromeOS (sort of) Odd as it sounds today, when I talk a lot about user privacy and avoiding cloud services,...
Christopher Butler
Link – Johannes Klingebiel's Personal Website johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden. There is so much to like on...
6 months ago
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johannesklingebiel.de is a really nice website and digital garden. There is so much to like on Johannes’s website — from the attention he gives to details that orient you to the site’s structure to the delicate balance between the playful and the analytical in its visual...
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Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
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“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin   Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
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It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then...
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The American Scholar
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I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Overall the article is very good, and author Maddie Bender was fair and reasonable in how I was quoted. I can’t always take that as a given. No matter how...
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Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
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By now we have all seen the impressive robot videos, such as the ones from Boston Dynamics, in which robots show incredible flexibility and agility. These are amazing, but I understand they are a bit like trick-shot videos – we are being shown the ones that worked, which may not...
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Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed for a Sydney suburban home owned by a design-conscious couple.
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Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, going by the usual arguments, cockroaches are way better explorers. Today's News:
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Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit. He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
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Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible? Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
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Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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Bits about Money now offers paid memberships. (Plus, a bonus essay on newsletter financial infrastructure.)
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I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
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Lavenham Day out: Lavenham well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds....
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Day out: Lavenham well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds. But 500 years ago Lavenham was one of the wealthiest towns in the country thanks to all the money to be made from sheep, specifically the dyeing, spinning and weaving of woollen...
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We ship whenever PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps...
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PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps improve our product. We get features in users’ hands…
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Clear the barnacles The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
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The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
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Breaking the algorithm The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
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The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to pursue, what to worry about. And it's easier to let it.
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895) The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
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The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
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There is only one form of passive income worth celebrating. It’s a UBI. The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque images of digital...
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The romanticised notion of passive income typically conjures up picturesque images of digital nomads lounging on immaculate beaches, their bank accounts growing with the profits from their latest online course on becoming a digital nomad. Dividends from investments in...
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So… this is a job? What is Design? The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flesh Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't need your life story, I need to know how...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't need your life story, I need to know how much lemon to put in this man-tartare! Today's News:
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Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
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A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
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John &amp; Paul &amp; Ringo &amp; George / &amp;&amp;&amp; T-shirt Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved. Experimental...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: walkerart.org License: All Rights Reserved. Experimental Jetset designed the original John & Paul & Ringo & George T-shirt (referencing the names of the Beatles) in 2001 for Yoshi Kawasaki at the Japanese apparel company 2K/Gingham. The...
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Galapagos Capital Offices by Perkins&Will Perkins&Will designed an office for Galapagos Capital in São Paulo, featuring a circular layout with...
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Perkins&Will designed an office for Galapagos Capital in São Paulo, featuring a circular layout with a central atrium and natural...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Human Impulse, the Human Aspiration' The upstairs neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H....
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The upstairs neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H. Auden had died. He was close to tears and couldn’t stop shaking his head in disbelief. This was half a century ago, late September 1973. We talked books almost daily and a few...
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Submission – Official Map: Greater Copenhagen Rail Map, 2024 Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with...
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Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with it, a much improved map compared to 2019 [My review of the 2019 map can be found here – Cam]. The Circle Line is now more spacious, junctions are labeled more clearly, and metro...
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Eclipse of the Sun Coming in One Week Saturday Oct. 14 North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun. The post Eclipse of the Sun...
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Saturday Oct. 14 North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun. The post Eclipse of the Sun Coming in One Week appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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A Guide to Art and Culture Destinations in Kansas City
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A demostration of fixing a bug from Medley's debugger <![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program. This...
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<![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program. This allows, for example, to correct a bug by inspecting, editing, fixing, and resuming a program that breaks and lands in the debugger because of an error. To gain familiarity with the...
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The Collective Marshmallow Test Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100...
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Society is even harder than passing the marshmallow test. Instead of a single person, imagine 100 people in a room. One marshmallow is placed on a table. If everyone can leave it alone for 15 minutes, everyone gets 2 marshmallows. But if just one person eats it, everyone gets...
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Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
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"You've been banned." The internet was the single most important part of my early teenage years. I know, it sounds a bit...
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The internet was the single most important part of my early teenage years. I know, it sounds a bit dramatic, but I'm serious when I say this.
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Polène store by WGNB Polène is on a roll! Following the opening of standalone stores in Paris, New York and Tokyo, the...
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Polène is on a roll! Following the opening of standalone stores in Paris, New York and Tokyo, the French brand...
Classical Wisdom
LIVE Event: What is Plagiarism? With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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My 2024 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
fast.ai
AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...
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over a year ago
In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
Abstruse Goose
the glorious new master race
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TokyoDev
COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially those looking to relocate to Japan from overseas. To help people understand the current situation with regards to IT jobs in Japan, I contacted [every company using...
Londonist
Why Is There A Huge Mural Of Rembrandt On Mare Street, Hackney? It's the return of the London Mural Festival.
a year ago
Archinect - Features
UK Architectural Licensure Had Not Changed in 50 Years. Until Now. Having previously examined architecture licensure systems in the United States and across mainland...
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Having previously examined architecture licensure systems in the United States and across mainland Europe, this edition of the Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series profiles changes underway in the United Kingdom's licensing system, which is currently undergoing a “fundamental...
blag
Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2) I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
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A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
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The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
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The case for frameworks
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Hiring Content Writers: Part One - Finding Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers There are thousands of working freelance writers in the...
Noahpinion
Heat pumps, heat pumps, heat pumps!! A simple but incredibly useful machine is quietly transforming our buildings.
a year ago
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
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a year ago
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
The Modern House
How an architect couple transformed an old shop in Walthamstow into a restful wooden home 
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Daniel Miessler
Welcome to Unsupervised Learning Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
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Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
Seth's Blog
The last little bit Important hills usually get much steeper at the top. 99% of the training in competitive athletics is...
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Important hills usually get much steeper at the top. 99% of the training in competitive athletics is devoted to the last 1% of performance. A tenth of a second. The same is true for squeezing the last bit of performance out of a car, a grape or a semiconductor. And healthcare,...
xkcd.com
Anti-Vaxxers
a year ago
diamond geezer
The temperature post The temperature post 19.6°C at Kinlochewe. Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway...
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The temperature post 19.6°C at Kinlochewe. Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway between Skye and Inverness. It sits at the head of a loch and is also surrounded on three sides by mountains, so is precisely the sort of place where the Föhn effect might boost...
Elad Blog
Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on Macro, Tech and Startups Video and transcript from a fireside chat with Brad Gerstner of Altimeter
a year ago
Noahpinion
The elemental foe Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.
5 months ago
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
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over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a...
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10 months ago
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a dashboard and set of extensions to operate and observe background jobs, that we’ve been using for over a year, in the beginning with Resque only, and later with both Resque and...
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Sea Surface Temperatures With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years...
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a year ago
With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years satellites have monitored sea surface temperatures, we’ve been struggling to map the changes in sea-surface temperatures, both globally and locally, in satisfactory and meaningful...
TheCollector
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Nela Dunato Art &...
5 things you need before raising your prices Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that...
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Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that happen. The hard truth is, you may not be able to raise your prices overnight. But in this article I'll tell you exactly what you need to do in order to become appealing to higher-paying...
TokyoDev
A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table....
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I’ve worked as a recruiter sourcing candidates from around the world for a Japanese autonomous driving tech company, and have helped hundreds of English-speaking expats in secure...
Confessions of a...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
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Some Climate Change Trends and Thoughts Climate change is a challenging issue on multiple levels – it’s challenging for scientists to...
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Climate change is a challenging issue on multiple levels – it’s challenging for scientists to understand all of the complexities of a changing climate, it’s difficult to know how to optimally communicate to the public about climate change, and of course we face an enormous...
TheCollector
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Premier Yachting in The British Virgin Islands
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Old Structures...
Three Dimentionality I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the...
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I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the first tall buildings constructed there. Here’s an overall view of the original wing (the building is L shaped, with the wings constructed at different times): It’s not deserted – the...
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Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
Daniel Miessler
Humiliation is Deadly
over a year ago
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Google considers buying stake in Epic investment was the only way people could realistically think of to sway them on Epic's approach to...
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What Government Governs Best? Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 3 (Japan: Tokyo Temples and Tourists) I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date...
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a year ago
I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date Line from Honolulu. But it also meant I got a free weekend in Tokyo before resuming work on Monday. It’s easier and cheaper to stay in a hotel all weekend than go half way around the...
Platformer
The consumer AI era has begun OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that...
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a year ago
OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
One Useful Thing
Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI Technological change brings organizational change.
a year ago
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Global gig worker slang, explained Shapar and amagundane are two types of platform workers their peers can’t stand.
a year ago
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Neptune Energy Offices by Parella Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting...
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Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting the company’s culture with open areas, communal spaces,...
Louwrentius
Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
Grow With Less
The Best Way to Come up with Catchy Blog Post Titles Copywriting legend David Ogilvy once said that “on the average, five times as many people read the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Copywriting legend David Ogilvy once said that “on the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” That’s great news because it means a great blog post title has...
Mind Mine
Discussing King, Warrior, Magician, Lover with Co-Author Douglas Gillette masculine archetypes, understanding our shadow, and how we can raise the collective consciousness
2 weeks ago
Noahpinion
Toward a shallower future Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity.
11 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL: Implementing a typechecker in Rust
5 months ago
The Marginalian
The Science of Tears and the Art of Crying: An Illustrated Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Deepest... “All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in...
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“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in her timeless ode to the power of poetry. “Cry, heart, but never break,” entreats one of my favorite children’s books — which, at their best, are always philosophies for living. It...
Society's Backend
Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource... Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo
Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
Castles in the Sky
What We Have Given Up in Exchange for This Limitless Bounty Novelty and Nostalgia in Second-Tier Grocery Stores
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New Health Plans Need New Operating Systems with Flume Health | Out-Of-Pocket this claim is automatic, programmatic, hypnotic, funky fresh
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The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
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a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Moneyness
The effects of Russian sanctions as portrayed in YouTube videos Last month American provocateur Tucker Carlson visited a Russian grocery store. Because it was...
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8 months ago
Last month American provocateur Tucker Carlson visited a Russian grocery store. Because it was filled to the brim with food, Carlson claims that western sanctions placed on Russia aren't having an effect. "We've been told sanctions on Russia have had a devastating effect on its ...
Paul Graham: Essays
Putting Ideas into Words
over a year ago
Citation Needed
Issue 62 – Grassroots Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a...
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Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a meltdown, and another exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #10 Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue to create long queues of traffic. This is a queue...
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4 weeks ago
Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue to create long queues of traffic. This is a queue of traffic moving very slowly in brief bursts towards the end of Bow Road. On this particular day the back of the queue was around Bus Stop M although often it goes a lot further....
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Gordon Moore on self-driving cars “I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago...
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“I never thought I’d see autonomous automobiles driving on the freeways. It wasn’t many years ago they put out a request to see who could…
David Perell
Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor...
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over a year ago
My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Iterative Building and Decision Making Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This...
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Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right? This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...