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Josh Comeau's blog
Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
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over a year ago
An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights The UN Declaration of Human Rights JamesHoare Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a week ago
Steve Klabnik
I'm quitting Hacker News
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Deepfake Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking...
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking themselves for affirmation. Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
Passive Solar Water Desalination I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that...
a year ago
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a year ago
I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that at least for the last 40 years, and the statistics are alarming. According to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water: “We are seeing the consequences not of freak events,...
Applied Cartography
Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. [1] Anyway, the two thoughts: I think Fathom...
The Turn Signal RSS...
An in-depth look at the UX Design of the Porsche Taycan Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car...
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Last month, Porsche unveiled the Taycan. It is the first electric car from an established car company with specs that challenge Tesla's…
Flashbak
Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118.     Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
CONTEMPORIST
Tree-like Columns Show The Craftsmanship Inside This Riverside Pavilion Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South...
a year ago
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a year ago
Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, which they recently completed that aims to reinvent East Asian timber architecture. Before the city was urbanized, the riverside was surrounded by bamboo forests. Inspired by...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Leader election best practices Sometimes a single process in a system needs to have special powers, like being the only one that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes a single process in a system needs to have special powers, like being the only one that can access a shared resource or assign…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Files Please Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A range of apps can edit a single file in a single...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules
over a year ago
Mark Manson
3 Steps to Stop Negative Thinking Ever find yourself drowning in a sea of negativity, wondering how you can escape the relentless...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever find yourself drowning in a sea of negativity, wondering how you can escape the relentless tidal wave of self-doubt and judgment? Well, you're not alone. We all suffer from negative thoughts, and it's about time we learned how to deal with them effectively. In this...
TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History undefined
3 months ago
History Today Feed
‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review ‘One Fine Day’ and ‘Imperial Island’ review j.hoare Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:12
a year ago
TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
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over a year ago
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
Archinect - Features
Five Big Factors Behind the Architecture Industry’s Economic Slowdown Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which...
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5 months ago
Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which invited you to share how you were feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and sector. Our analysis found that across the United States, architects have seen business...
TheCollector
Venice Locals Oppose the City’s New Entry Fee undefined
7 months ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
Left To Write
Sinking To Survive I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is...
a year ago
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a year ago
I always feel like I’m drowning. At this point I’m used to it. But I do question how much of this is inherited and how much of this is self-inflicted. Last year, I read an article on Epigenetics. The gist of it is that we’re shaped by the genes of our parents and grandparents,...
TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.4% to 3.1% From Goldman: Following this morning’s data, we left our Q4 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at 2.4%...
2 days ago
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From Goldman: Following this morning’s data, we left our Q4 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at 2.4% (quarter-over-quarter annualized) and our Q4 domestic final sales forecast unchanged at +2.3% [Dec 20th estimate] emphasis added And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model...
Raw Thought (from...
Take a step back
over a year ago
Christian Selig
Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
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a month ago
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
The Ruffian
How the World Failed Greta Thunberg The Perils of Praising Teenagers
2 months ago
Adventures In...
Blend Mode Helper Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
Flashbak
Music of the Squares David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies, writes Carmel...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Seth's Blog
The perfect conditions Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or...
a year ago
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a year ago
Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or the most romantic sunset for a proposal. But it’s not right here and it’s not right now. Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect.
Quanta Magazine
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup. The post Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Making software...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
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Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Socii This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V),...
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This week, as an addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V), we’re going to take a look at how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which it does not inhabit. These are Rome’s ‘allies’ (socii), a euphemistic label for the...
Construction Physics
Born Sleeping A personal post about the loss of our son
3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
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This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 7B Instruct on a Macbook Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to document the steps I took to run Mistral’s 7B-Instruct-v0.2 model on a Mac for anyone else interested in playing around with it. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this 7B Instruct...
Kevin Chen
Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
diamond geezer
Opening up the Thames Path I'm indebted to Ian Visits for alerting me that a new stretch of the Thames Path has just opened up....
3 months ago
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I'm indebted to Ian Visits for alerting me that a new stretch of the Thames Path has just opened up. It's alongside Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham FC, where previously you had to divert inland around three sides of the stadium. That's no longer necessary because a new...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 28 August-3 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO
over a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 1985 The first novel I read was Twice Shy by Dick Francis, reportedly the Queen Mother's favourite...
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8 months ago
The first novel I read was Twice Shy by Dick Francis, reportedly the Queen Mother's favourite novelist (which tells you all you need to know about the intellectual energies of British Royal Family). It was the hardback edition below and tells the story of an Olympic champion...
Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
AVC
What Will Happen In 2024 As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has...
11 months ago
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As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because...
99% Invisible
Mr. Yuk [EPISODE] Some of you may be familiar with a figure called Mr. Yuk, depending on your age and where you grew...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Some of you may be familiar with a figure called Mr. Yuk, depending on your age and where you grew up, but for rest of you: Mr. Yuk is a neon green circular sticker with a cartoon face on it. His face is scrunched up with his eyes squeezed tight and his tongue is sticking The...
Elad Blog
Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
Commoncog
The Amazon Weekly Business Review Everything you need to know about the Amazon Weekly Business Review: how it works, why it works, and...
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Everything you need to know about the Amazon Weekly Business Review: how it works, why it works, and how it helps Amazon win.
Blog posts of...
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it. Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The End of Localhost > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure? undefined
3 weeks ago
Left To Write
#8 Writemas: 3 Lessons from Steve Jobs' Biography Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex character with many paradoxes and personal contradictions. For example, he was adopted and struggled with ‘rejection’, yet rejected his own daughter, Lisa Jobs.
Seth's Blog
The Le Guin precepts Fabled author Ursula Le Guin had a sign over her desk: Not a bad place to begin.
a year ago
Map of the Week
Heat Islands of Philadelphia Program Note: This month is Philadelphia month! Don't get too excited.  In the past I've done San...
a year ago
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a year ago
Program Note: This month is Philadelphia month! Don't get too excited.  In the past I've done San Francisco Week and New Jersey Week. Much of that content was posted to Twitter. These things happen when I suddenly find a trove of information about a specific place. In this case...
The Honest Broker
The Most Dangerous Thing in Culture Right Now is Beauty You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Students of Stoicism: Using Stoic Philosophy in Teaching & Education In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well...
a year ago
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a year ago
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world, students face immense pressure to perform well academically, often at the cost of their emotional and mental well-being. As a result, many students struggle with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem, which can impact their...
Artificial Ignorance
The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
Quanta Magazine
The Lawlessness of Large Numbers Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about...
a year ago
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Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big? The post The Lawlessness of Large Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
ribbonfarm
Ribbonfarm is Retiring After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com domain and all links will remain active, but there will be no new content after November 13th, 2024, which happens to be...
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...
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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...
The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
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As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
Identity Designed
Ryuko Designed by Blok Design, Toronto.
over a year ago
The Ruffian
The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence Why Thinking In Pairs Is Powerful and What It Tells Us About AI
2 months ago
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
The Marginalian
Heroism and the Human Search for Meaning: Ernest Becker on the Hidden Root of Our Existential... "To become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic...
a year ago
TheCollector
An American Revolution Drawing Found in a NY Apartment undefined
8 months ago
Retail Design Blog
DICA café by Artefact As a veritable hotbed of creativity on numerous levels, it isn’t hard to imagine life in Seoul has...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
As a veritable hotbed of creativity on numerous levels, it isn’t hard to imagine life in Seoul has plenty to...
The Pragmatic...
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to...
a year ago
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At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with...
SatPost by Trung...
Blumhouse: The Hollywood Horror Hit Machine How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
a year ago
Light from Space
The Helping Hand of LDN 1355 LDN 1355 is a dark nebula in Cassiopeia, vaguely in the shape of an outstreched human hand—the dark...
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LDN 1355 is a dark nebula in Cassiopeia, vaguely in the shape of an outstreched human hand—the dark dust obscuring the reflection nebula behind it. Total exposure time: 58h 50' (211,800s) Image resolution: 5,216 × 3,909px (1.924″/px) Shot from my driveway
Flashbak
Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) features the fabulous painting Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as the Great Wave. First published for the New Year of 1831, the ukiyo-e series of large, colour woodblock prints was, due its immense...
A Beautiful Site
Find and replace hyperlinks and email addresses in PHP These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around hyperlinks and email addresses in $string. PHP code # function parseHyperlinks($string) { // Add tags around all hyperlinks in $string return...
Londonist
This Oxford Circus Building Is The Mini Me Of An Iconic Manhattan Skyscraper Palladium House is a tribute to the American Radiator Building.
10 months ago
The Berkeley...
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
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Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
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Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot sales continue running strong despite a delay in launching our next product. I analyze how I’m spending my time and figure out ways to allocate my hours better. Goal Grades At the...
The Honest Broker
What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.) I share updates on ten recent articles
a month ago
TheCollector
How Did Religion Influence Law in the Ottoman Empire? undefined
10 months ago
The Modern House
Nature's way: Botanical stylist Yasuyo Harvey’s stunning transformation of a standard suburban semi
3 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
An Earth-like Climate is Fragile One of the biggest questions of exoplanet astronomy is how many potentially habitable planets are...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the biggest questions of exoplanet astronomy is how many potentially habitable planets are out there in the galaxy. By one estimate the answer is 6 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. But of course we have to set parameters and make estimates, so this number can...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 23 Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and it’s surprisingly simple. I’ve given up on Vue and frontend frameworks in general. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Estimating floating point error the easy way Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Unforeseen floating point error is the source of the most unpleasant bugs. The bugs that come and go unpredictably. The bugs that don't reproduce on unit-tests and lay low through the integration phase only to be seen by your most important customer.
A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
Seth's Blog
The hubris of creativity Where’s your permit? Who said you could try to solve this problem? I don’t get it… That’s too...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Where’s your permit? Who said you could try to solve this problem? I don’t get it… That’s too original. It’s not original enough. You missed a comma. That’s not funny. That’s been done before. That’s never been done before. It’s not your best work. None of us are authorized to...
A Smart Bear
How startups beat incumbents A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
Seth's Blog
Widespread resistance Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid...
a year ago
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a year ago
Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in un-delivered talent are all symptoms of resistance. Knowing that it has a name helps us...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Meaning is for 18 year olds. I'm ready for...
4 weeks ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
Computer Ads from...
Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED Fast Enough for the Human Race
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Horse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Annnnnd with this update I'm back on schedule....
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Annnnnd with this update I'm back on schedule. Click back a few to make sure you haven't missed one - I loaded a bunch of updates in the past few days. Today's News:
TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History undefined
7 months ago
The American Scholar
Heart of Semi-Darkness A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The American Scholar.
Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics Memorial Sales Ends
6 months ago
Making software...
CSS Value: `currentColor` CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS...
over a year ago
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CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS value types, but today we are going to focus on currentColor. So what is the currentColor value type anyway? The currentColor value type will apply the existing color value to other...
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Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
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Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
I'll look it up later Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get...
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Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get home. Here are three of this week's serendipitous discoveries. North: Gilpin's Bell Where: Fore Street, Edmonton, N18 What I thought: Hmm, what's that lump of concrete in the...
Making software...
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
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I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
A Weekly Dose of...
Favorite Books of 2023 For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year,...
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For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. From the 86 books I featured in 2023, 15 (or...
The Berkeley...
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Toxic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Symmetry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why Starfish have so much sex. Today's...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing Derek Parfit were still around to roll his eyes at this. Today's News:
A Beautiful Site
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I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to the websites and applications that are created with it. This is an important goal of my projects. Oftentimes, people will ask "is it accessible?" I'm reluctant to answer because...
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Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the components of a well-structured email, we can bridge the gap and ensure effective communication.
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How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
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Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
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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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Make these ornaments please It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just...
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It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just slightly awkward office holiday parties. We dedicate 82-86% of our mental capacities to socializing with our colleagues over deserts and drinks, while the remaining 14-16% remain...
Coding Horror
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It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I've done professionally after that. I
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Planned closures An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's...
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An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
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We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
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The Word that guides my year <p>Sort of without fail and unplanned, every year in December, I usually think of a word that I want...
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<p>Sort of without fail and unplanned, every year in December, I usually think of a word that I want to live by the upcoming year.</p> <p>Depending on what kind of year I have had, the&nbsp;Word for the upcoming one should represent the practical step ahead for...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we should never fear to do . . . if, that is, the risk is actually something that will help us live a more virtuous life, fulfill our potentials, or help other people. However (and...
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One Month of Better Offline Hello! I have been deliberately not dropping every episode of my new show iHeartRadio/Cool Zone...
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Hello! I have been deliberately not dropping every episode of my new show iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline onto the newsletter feed, as I don't want to start sending you two emails a week, or make you feel like you're being spammed. I am
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed? How can we train Resilience?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
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This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
Citation Needed
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"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
Open Culture
Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of... Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray...
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Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) on a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, and he spent a total of $9.80, how many hours did it...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Poet's Hope' Erica Light is the daughter of my late friend Helen Pinkerton (1927-2017), the poet and Melville...
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Erica Light is the daughter of my late friend Helen Pinkerton (1927-2017), the poet and Melville scholar. We exchange emails several times each year, usually devoted to what we are reading. This week she reported reading some of the writers and books I’ve mentioned recently at...
Internal Tech Emails
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PR bumf roundup I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to....
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I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to. But they still come, generally from hopeful marketeers with a press release to regurgitate or a plea to amplify some sponsored content. We don't do that here, thanks. Emily got...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible Pt. III: The HTML o(m)g:image is presented like a quiz: You get one question at a time When you choose an...
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
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I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
Patrick Kayongo
Park Games As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin...
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As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ideology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I know the hatemail is coming, but I can't tell...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I know the hatemail is coming, but I can't tell from whom... Today's News:
Common Edge
When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy? Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
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Musings on Markets
The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor! If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums,...
a year ago
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If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. As part of that obsession, since September 2008, I have estimated an equity risk premium...
Prolost
The M1 Max MacBook Pros Apple opened their October event with a young musician creating an Apple-inspired music track in a...
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over a year ago
Apple opened their October event with a young musician creating an Apple-inspired music track in a dingy garage filled with gear worth tens of thousands of dollars. Some viewers commented on the unrealistic portrayal of a creative professional. But I felt like I was looking in a...
99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Athens GA As It Is [EPISODE] This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location...
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This is the third and final episode in a three-part series of Roman Mars recording on-location guides to the design features and interesting spots in cities he loves. Roman moved to Athens, Georgia, to pursue a PhD in plant genetics, but dropped out and got into the local music...
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elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
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a year ago
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
ntietz.com blog
Betraying vim for the IDEs of March vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a...
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a year ago
vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a different editor. And I did it on March 15th2, the Ides of March. Or is it the IDEs of March? The betrayal happened slowly, then all at once. For the past few weeks I've been ruminating...
diamond geezer
Unblogged February 29 unblogged things I did in February Thu 1: While I was in Trafalgar Square today I stood in the...
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29 unblogged things I did in February Thu 1: While I was in Trafalgar Square today I stood in the shadow of Nelson's Column and took a photo of it stretching towards the National Gallery. It's much better than the photo I used last week in my post about the shadow of Nelson's...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, July 12, 2024 Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for...
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Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the start of the Imperator Teaching Paradox series ready for this week, but it has been a bit stubborn and I do not want to derail my book writing/revising schedule in order to push it out before it is ready. So that will almost certainly...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely...
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Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely my own. Early in my career, I did…
Anecdotal Evidence
'Little Towns Should Have Had Their Chroniclers' Every St. Patrick’s Day my mother pinned on my shirt before I walked to school a green and white...
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9 months ago
Every St. Patrick’s Day my mother pinned on my shirt before I walked to school a green and white knitted shamrock and reminded me of the origin of my first name. Her father was born in County Cork, as were her mother’s parents. I waited until the third grade to rebel against...
diamond geezer
Stratford station has a new entrance Stratford station has a new entrance. Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use...
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Stratford station has a new entrance. Gibbins Road entrance and for most passengers it's of no use whatsoever. Stratford station has a new entrance. by the end of March but it didn't. It was due to open in May but it didn't. It's looked finished for ages but it clearly wasn't...
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 1: Introduction, Phoenix to Miller Canyon Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini...
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Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini vacations. Due to the variations in her work schedule, Laura had two blocks of time - a five-day chunk in early August, and six days in early September - and we wanted to make the...
Maggie Appleton
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Tracking Humanity
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Noahpinion
How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration? What really happens when a "flood of migrants" gets "dumped" on a small heartland town.
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Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Closed/open I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a...
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a year ago
I’m told that the hardest part of being a teaching golf pro isn’t helping adult golfers develop a good swing. It’s getting them to stop using a bad one. Our position feels so fragile, we hold on very tightly. Competence, status and connection are fleeting yet hard-won. We can...
This Space
39 Books: 1993 I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in...
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7 months ago
I've written about Gert Hofmann's novels a few times, most recently Veilchenfeld (Our Philosopher in the US edition), but not his short stories. In the year Hofmann died aged only 62, I bought and read Balzac's Horse and other stories in the wonderful Minerva paperback imprint....
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Their Enemies The Russians But what about the rest of us?
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Willem's Blog
Helping people with free software This week I helped a man with repairing and reinstalling his computer with Debian GNU/Linux.
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somethingaboutmaps
A Free eBook of Terrain Lines Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using...
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Friends, earlier this week I mentioned that I’d completed a whole bunch of terrain sketches using some novel techniques that allowed me to create a hachure drawing style from digital elevation data. If you’d like to see the whole set, I’ve now assembled them into a quick eBook...
Open Culture
Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline... More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated...
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More than 50 years and 10 presidential administrations have passed since Orson Welles narrated Freedom River. And while it shows signs of age, the animated film, a parable about the role of immigration, race, and wealth in America, still resonates today. Actually, given the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Importing Common Lisp Files in Medley with TextModules <![CDATA[Medley is a residential environment for Interlisp and Common Lisp development. With some...
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<![CDATA[Medley is a residential environment for Interlisp and Common Lisp development. With some effort it's possible to use Medley as a traditional file based Common Lisp environment. But in specific cases a better approach is to bring in Medley's residential environment...
Alex Meub
Upgrading the Weber Q Grill I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
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over a year ago
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried. However, I recently noticed...
Electronics etc…
Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
TheCollector
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Essays - Benedict...
The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
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over a year ago
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
diamond geezer
Unwritten Seven posts that I considered writing today but they were going nowhere so I didn't finish...
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a year ago
Seven posts that I considered writing today but they were going nowhere so I didn't finish them What's the lowest numbered A road you've never driven on? Wow didn't it just get cold? the temperature in my living room for three years. I note the indoor temperature first thing...
Classical Wisdom
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The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
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This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
Mazdak
The Rollercoaster Ride of Long-Term Rates: What it Means for You and the Economy Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that...
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Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that had everyone from policymakers to financial analysts glued to their screens? Well, guess what? It's mostly reversed! What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means a sigh of relief...
Engineer’s Codex
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A Month In Northern Peru, Part 5: The Marañón Valley (February 7, 2024) February 7, 2024 The Marañón Valley is one of the most important biogeographical boundaries in the...
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February 7, 2024 The Marañón Valley is one of the most important biogeographical boundaries in the Andes. Situated in northwestern Peru, the valley follows the Marañón River which flows northward across plateaus in the Andes. After cutting through a very deep, heavily eroded...
Josh Comeau's blog
Color Formats in CSS CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and...
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over a year ago
CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this article, we'll take a tour of color formats in CSS, and see which option will...
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How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
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Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
Commoncog
Colin Bryar on the practice of Amazon's Weekly Business Review Cedric talks to Colin Bryar, early Amazon executive and former shadow to Jeff Bezos, on one of...
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Cedric talks to Colin Bryar, early Amazon executive and former shadow to Jeff Bezos, on one of Amazon's secret operational weapons: the Weekly Business Review.
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am. Today's News:
African History...
A history of Zanzibar before the Omanis (600-1873) Journal of African cities chapter 7
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You are never taught how to build quality software Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
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Understanding GNU Screen's captions I love screen. I know all the cool kids are using tmux now, but screen keeps it simple and does...
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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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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
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Tony Finch's blog
Some subtleties of keycaps There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a...
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a year ago
There’s plenty of material online about the bewildering variety of keycaps, eg, eg, but I learned a few things that surprised me when working on Keybird69. nightfox I found out that the remaining stock of Matteo Spinelli’s NightFox keyboards were being sold off cheap because of...
The Marginalian
Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop Inside Earth's most alien vision.
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Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
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I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
Christopher Butler
Your Own Personal Picture Collection Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping...
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Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping File. It was an extension of the RISD Library — a vast collection of printed images and clippings organized with a card catalogue. If you ever needed source imagery for a project...
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs on iPhone design This may be our answer - we could put the number pad around our clickwheel.
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A Beautiful Site
PlayCanvas: an easy, open source WebGL game engine Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive enough, today I'm giving you a dose of HTML5 and WebGL greatness. The project is called PlayCanvas, and it dubs itself an open source game engine that brings fun to the...
The Modern House
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As a temporary pop-up space, under the current situation of the venue and budget constraints, we hope to create a...
Flashbak
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After fighting with Bash for quite some time, I found out that the following code provides a nice basis for escaping special characters. Ofcource it is not complete, but the most important characters are filtered. If anybody has a better solution, please let me know. It works and...
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In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering...
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John Updike published “Kenneths” in the July 5, 1958 issue of The New Yorker and collected it in his second book of poems, Telephone Poles (1963):  “Rexroth and Patchen and Fearing—their mothers Perhaps could distinguish their sons from the others, But I am unable. My inner eye...
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Work under any circumstances Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by...
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Benjamin Robert Haydon was a 19th-century British artist and writer whose career was plagued by financial hardship and legal troubles. Born in 1786, Haydon’s passion for historical painting led him down a tumultuous path, as mounting debts and controversial public statements...
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