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Steve Blank
Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress This article previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete...
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over a year ago
This article previously appeared in Defense News. It was co-written with Joe Felter, and Pete Newell. Today, the U.S. is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Both are wakeup calls that victory and...
Artificial Ignorance
Blade Runner 2024 Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
10 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Element pop-up store by llLab. The Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui offers an unconventional reflection on curatorial retail...
10 months ago
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The Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui offers an unconventional reflection on curatorial retail spaces. By thoughtfully curating the...
Willem's Blog
Born with MCADD Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were lucky to be just in time!
McMansion Hell
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually. Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial...
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: FOMC Minutes Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. FOMC Minutes, Meeting of March 18-19
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vice Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Speaking of vices, he's available to hang this...
11 months ago
Notes on software...
1 million page views I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since Murat wrote about his 1M page view accomplishment at the time, I felt compelled to now too. I started regularly blogging in 2018. For some reason I decided to write a blog post...
Dustin Curtis
Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen...
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In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger screen made Surface feel absolutely futuristic: in the Photos app, you could toss around pictures...
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 7 Highlights Why am I making slower progress than I’d like on my book? I optimize my Asciidoctor write...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Highlights Why am I making slower progress than I’d like on my book? I optimize my Asciidoctor write and preview workflow. I’m working on a side project to track Hacker News performance in real-time. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
Classical Wisdom
The Fury Within Anger in Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology
2 months ago
Commoncog
One Definition of Wisdom Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Fuclrum Studio Workspace by Fulcrum Studio Fulcrum Studio uses the opportunity to create its own workspace as a play space. It breaks the mold...
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
American Airlines’ Top Credit Card Offers 100K Mile Bonus
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A House Designed Like Two Barns Beside Each Other Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that...
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Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that has a layout similar to two barns positioned side-by-side. The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected...
Odds and Ends of...
Empty climate gestures, Peter Hitchens' timezone crusade, and the big questions about New Towns Let Barry have his solar panels!
3 months ago
TheCollector
Author & Scientist: What Makes Isaac Asimov’s Work Timeless? Words to describe one of the top 20th-century science fiction authors are prolific, philosophical,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Words to describe one of the top 20th-century science fiction authors are prolific, philosophical, and accessible. These words explain Isaac Asimov, the college professor, author, and scientist. He explored many ideas, many becoming timeless.   What Inspired Asimov to Write?  ...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the...
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Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Seth's Blog
The near future (and summer reads) Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can...
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Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can think hard about the tomorrow we’re about to live in. Summer reads are supposed to be a bit lighter. Technological change is making our near future a bit harder to dance with, and...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 2 (Jurassic Coast) We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new...
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We were firmly based in Swanage after the long day of travel and ready to explore our new surroundings. However, we were still pretty tired so we stuck close to home and made it an easy day. Swanage sits near the eastern end of the 96 mile (154 km) Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World...
Wuthering...
Finishing The Story of the Stone - What a blessing this is, to return to the scene of my childhood... How I wish all long novels were published in sensible multi-volume editions.  I have finished...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
How I wish all long novels were published in sensible multi-volume editions.  I have finished The Story of the Stone, 2,500 pages in five volumes, the last two translated by John Minford.  Cao Xueqin and his posthumous editor Gao E again share credit for authorship.  Chapters...
Articles
I've never done this before
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
THE ARCHITECTURAL...
6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead,...
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The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
Archinect - Features
10 Tips for Overcoming and Preventing Burnout in Architecture If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023,...
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If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023, Archinect’s Mental Health Survey found burnout to be a common theme among those who told us they were experiencing stress at work. Our community has also raised the issue among themselves,...
Londonist
45+ Fantastic Things To Do In London This Month: November 2023 Vintage cars, new exhibitions and the all-important Christmas light switch-ons.
a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Use touch-action: manipulation; to avoid double-tap-to-zoom Recently we built and launched A Good Enough Guestbook, a place where you can send us doodles and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently we built and launched A Good Enough Guestbook, a place where you can send us doodles and they’ll print out on our little printer. It’s quite lovely and fun, and you should send us a doodle. We might also have more in store for these printers in the future. In the...
Contemporist...
The Ocean Is Just Below: A Home That Hangs Off The Edge Of A Cliff Perched dramatically on the slopes of Mount Paku in New Zealand, Cliff Hanger House lives up to its...
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Perched dramatically on the slopes of Mount Paku in New Zealand, Cliff Hanger House lives up to its name. Designed by Turner Road Architecture, this coastal retreat appears to float above the rugged cliffs, just 35 metres above sea level, with uninterrupted views stretching...
Seth's Blog
“Usualing” This is not a real word, but it’s useful nonetheless. When we default to doing what we did without...
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This is not a real word, but it’s useful nonetheless. When we default to doing what we did without examining our options, we’re ‘usualing.’ It’s a helpful way to save time, because we can’t re-examine every possible option or we’d never get out the door in the morning. We wear...
Calculated Risk
Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with house prices in 2025? Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with...
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6 months ago
Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with house prices in 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices,...
Josh Thompson
How to Ask Questions of Experts To Gain More than Just Answers Recently, I co-led a session at Turing with Regis Boudinot, a Turing grad who works at GitLab. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I co-led a session at Turing with Regis Boudinot, a Turing grad who works at GitLab. We discussed two things: asking good questions having a good workflow After the session, I promised an overview of what we discussed. Here’s that overview for “Asking good questions”....
The Honest Broker
Open Mic Discussion: How Do You Deal with Disabilities that Put Your Vocation at Risk? A reader asks for your advice
a year ago
detreville
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
a year ago
./techtipsy
Why my blog was down for over 24 hours in November 2024 In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours. Here’s what I learned from this absolute...
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In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours. Here’s what I learned from this absolute clusterfuck of an incident. Lead-up to the incident I was browsing through photos on my Nextcloud instance. Everything was fine, until Nextcloud started generating preview images for...
Old Structures...
Possibly A Bad Idea John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
a year ago
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John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
Josh Thompson
An announcement, and a teaser (for you rock climbers) Here’s a clip from a video I shot today.  Can you guess what’s coming? (This is all going to happen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s a clip from a video I shot today.  Can you guess what’s coming? (This is all going to happen on The Climber’s Guide) (Warning to mobile users: big gif) In case you didn’t guess, or you guessed wrong… I’m shooting tons of video for a course. It’s going to be awesome. It’s...
The Marginalian
Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and... Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Where we go when we go to sleep and why we go there is one of the great mysteries of the mind. Why the mind at times refuses to go there, despite the pleading and bargaining of its conscious owner, is a greater mystery still. We know that ever since REM evolved in the bird brain,...
SatPost by Trung...
Write For Yourself Not your audience.
a year ago
Londonist
The Golden Age Of Transatlantic Travel Hides In Plain Sight By Trafalgar Square Cockspur Street was a cornucopia of cruise line companies.
a year ago
Josh Thompson
RailsConf CFP Outline I’m pitching some ideas for RailsConf. I only heard about it a few days ago (oops) so this is a bit...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m pitching some ideas for RailsConf. I only heard about it a few days ago (oops) so this is a bit rushed: Idea 1: “Junior” Developers are the Solution to Many of Your Problems Abstract: Our industry telegraphs: “We don’t want (or know how to handle) ‘Jr. Devs’.” Jr. Devs, or as...
Open Culture
George Orwell’s Political Views, Explained in His Own Words Among modern-day liberals and conservatives alike, George Orwell enjoys practically sainted status....
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Among modern-day liberals and conservatives alike, George Orwell enjoys practically sainted status. And indeed, throughout his body of work, including but certainly not limited to his oft-assigned novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, one can find numerous implicitly or...
Open Culture
Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665 A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they...
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A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they were about 40. In fact, even in antiquity, one could well make it to what would be considered an advanced age today — assuming one survived the great mortal peril of childhood, and...
The Works in...
Invisible College: Applications close on 28th April Apply to come to our premier event for students
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics...
11 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it. Today's News:
Paolo Amoroso's...
Changing text style for DandeGUI window output <![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library...
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm developing in Common Lisp. I finally got around to this and implemented the GUI:WITH-TEXT-STYLE macro which controls the attributes of text printed to a...
Birchtree
Birchtree's new look Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was time to refresh the look around these parts of the indie web. The main impetus for this change was the simple fact I have too many projects I
Computer Ads from...
A Quick Note and Some Comics An apology and some entertainment
4 months ago
Londonist
Competition Alert! Win A Family Mini Break In A 5-Star London Hotel A fantastic prize from Pan Pacific London.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
One Definite Sign of a Bad Startup Idea If you can’t tell anyone about your startup idea, it's not a good idea
over a year ago
Open Culture
The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes Setting aside just one day for the Louvre is a classic first-time Paris visitor’s mistake. The place...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Setting aside just one day for the Louvre is a classic first-time Paris visitor’s mistake. The place is simply too big to comprehend on one visit, or indeed on ten visits. To grow so vast has taken eight centuries, a process explained in under three minutes by the official video...
Society's Backend:...
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
a year ago
Jason Fried
Avoiding pile-ups One of the reasons we work in six week cycles, is that it gives us a different definition of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the reasons we work in six week cycles, is that it gives us a different definition of later. When you work on really long projects — say 3, 6, 9 month projects — or projects that don’t have any end in sight, “we can do that later” typically means you’ll get to it...
Inverted Passion
Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
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over a year ago
As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
Contraption Co.
How I use data to optimize AI apps A video collaboration between Find AI and Velvet
9 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Economics of Taylor Swift's $2B+ Eras Tour Breaking down the numbers for the most successful concert tour ever.
7 months ago
Platformer
Substack's new fundraising pitch Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
A Project of One's Own
over a year ago
Open Culture
Brian Eno Attempts to Figure Out What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel Lecture (previously featured here on Open Culture). But he was also thinking about it three decades ago, as evidenced by A Year with Swollen Appendices, his diary of the year 1995...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Uniform Ever thought of having a personal uniform? Not the typical work attire, but a carefully curated...
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a year ago
Ever thought of having a personal uniform? Not the typical work attire, but a carefully curated capsule wardrobe that reflects a cohesive style. My interest in fashion is limited, yet the concept of capsule wardrobes has fascinated me for years. I've been chipping away at...
Making software...
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing[^1] software is a complex...
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over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing[^1] software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
Open Culture
A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and later refined in Japan, Zen Buddhism has long appealed to Westerners as well. Some of that owes to the spare, elegant aesthetics with which popular culture associates it, and more...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 2 (Take a Walk) Dayton is decently sized place with about 130,000 residents in the city proper and about 800,000 in...
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Dayton is decently sized place with about 130,000 residents in the city proper and about 800,000 in the larger metropolitan area. So that makes it large enough for some attractions and urban amenities, but nobody would mistake it for a city that never sleeps. I figured I might...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic...
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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic feelings with NEW phrases. Today's News:
Articles
Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store
over a year ago
Josh Thompson
Overcome (some) barriers in work with this magic phrase You’re sending an email to your boss about some decision point you’re facing. How should you word...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’re sending an email to your boss about some decision point you’re facing. How should you word it? Compare this wording: Let me know if my criteria are sound, or if you have any concerns. I’d like to get started as soon as possible. To this wording: Unless I hear otherwise,...
Retail Design Blog
Onitsuka Tiger store by Studio Dini Cataldi Following Milan and London, Japanese sneaker brand Onitsuka Tiger has inaugurated a third European...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Following Milan and London, Japanese sneaker brand Onitsuka Tiger has inaugurated a third European flagship store in Barcelona. Nestled on...
Louwrentius
Achieving 220 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding I wrote an article about the subject of getting beyond the limits of gigabit network file transfers....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wrote an article about the subject of getting beyond the limits of gigabit network file transfers. My solution is to use multiple gigabit network cards and use Linux interface bonding to create virtual 2 gigabit network interfaces. The solution is to use mode 0 or round robin...
Flashbak
Art of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Russia : Highlights from the George Costakis Collection “I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.”...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I was dazzled by the flaming colors in this unknown work, so unlike anything I had seen before.” – George Costakis    These abstract and spellbinding images are from Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia : Selections from the George Costakis Collection, as described in a catalogue of...
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
Jason Crawford
Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars. Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more....
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Milpa whiskey by Monograf Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying...
a year ago
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Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying a unique process rooted in...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The new heroes of design I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to...
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over a year ago
I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to digital...
bt RSS Feed
The Death of Personality The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Death of Personality 2017-11-01 On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it’s fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple’s iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
TheCollector
Lost Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Restored After Beirut Explosion When a series of deadly blasts devastated Beirut in 2020, a previously unknown painting by the most...
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a month ago
When a series of deadly blasts devastated Beirut in 2020, a previously unknown painting by the most celebrated woman artist of the Italian Baroque era emerged from the wreckage. The painting has since been reattributed to Artemisia Gentileschi and fully restored to its original...
Ryan Mulligan
Blog Questions Challenge Hey there. It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hey there. It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to (optionally) participate in this year's Blog Questions Challenge. I had planned on doing it then. But life really hit hard as we entered this year and it has not let up. Energy...
Retail Design Blog
Xiaoshi Restaurant by Longterm Design Located in the bustling coastal city of Wenzhou in the southeast of China, known for its mild...
a year ago
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a year ago
Located in the bustling coastal city of Wenzhou in the southeast of China, known for its mild subtropical climate, Xiaoshi...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Adult Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down his shirt. Today's News:
Wait But Why
Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level. The post Neuralink and the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level. The post Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future appeared first on Wait But Why.
UX Collective
Creativity is the only thing Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
7 months ago
xkcd.com
Bug Thread
a year ago
Anarchy Unfolds
The rich don't have authority On the myth of power and money
5 months ago
Sam Altman
Funding for COVID-19 Projects I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help.  I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like to start funding more startups working on: Producing a lot of ventilators or...
Noahpinion
Go read some Vernor Vinge R.I.P. to my favorite science fiction author
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2 A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
a year ago
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a year ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Quanta Magazine
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve? One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One of the most important events in the history of life on Earth was the emergence of multicellularity. In this episode, Will Ratcliff discusses how his snowflake yeast models provide insight into what drove the transition from single-celled to multicellular organisms. ...
The Diff
When and How Will AI Offer People Search? Plus! Consumption Patterns; Training Data; Grift Confluence; Marketing and Piracy; Convergence
4 months ago
ByteofDev
Building the fastest object and array differ How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
over a year ago
Farza's Newsletter
been playing mario kart on my tamagotchi Hey everyone! Chilling at a little cafe right now. Got a cappuccino and a cheese danish. So, we’re...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! Chilling at a little cafe right now. Got a cappuccino and a cheese danish. So, we’re working on _buildspace now and a lot of folks have asked me about why we pivoted away from ZipSchool. I’ll answer that question with a screenshot from our investor update below:
Quanta Magazine
How Math Achieved Transcendence Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them. The post How Math Achieved Transcendence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini December 8, 2023.
a year ago
TheCollector
Was Camelot Inspired by a Real Location? In the legends of King Arthur, the famous capital city of the king is Camelot. Yet despite the fact...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
In the legends of King Arthur, the famous capital city of the king is Camelot. Yet despite the fact that the Arthurian legends are based in a historical setting, Camelot itself is widely regarded as fictional. It is considered to have been an invention of the French writers who...
The Elysian
Further reading on employee ownership My notes from the margins of my research.
10 months ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Site Nonsite: Live at Delia's Third Happening Months of work went into this show, resulting in six fresh arrangements and two new songs, and I was...
10 months ago
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Months of work went into this show, resulting in six fresh arrangements and two new songs, and I was unexpectedly happy with everything captured on the night. This document feels like a fitting conclusion to the first chapter of Site Nonsite. — Simon Collison A real treat for the...
MMapped blog
Rust at scale: packages, crates, and modules
over a year ago
TheCollector
Shadow Work 101, Applying Jung’s Teachings (With Philosophical Examples) Have you ever become irritated with a chatty person and then realized that you’re just as chatty...
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Have you ever become irritated with a chatty person and then realized that you’re just as chatty yourself? That awareness can represent a glimpse of your “shadow.” In Carl Jung’s theory of analytic psychology, shadow refers to parts, memories, and longings that have been pushed...
Archinect - Features
On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar...
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Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar platitudes repeated endlessly in classrooms, critiques, and career talks. Work hard. Stay disciplined. Develop your craft. Each phrase is earnest, and each contains some truth, but...
Roberto's blog
From Gatsby to Hugo: a Markdown minimalist's journey I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that...
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a year ago
I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
Max Countryman
Mindset for New Engineering Managers Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common...
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over a year ago
Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common mistake is to assume that our previous expertise will make this transition seamless. In reality, it's important to recognize the need to shift mindsets entirely.
Seth's Blog
And when it breaks? Most of the pitch and the demo is all about how terrific our plans are, and how well our gadget...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Most of the pitch and the demo is all about how terrific our plans are, and how well our gadget works. But if we hope for resilience, perhaps it makes sense to show off how gracefully the system breaks. Because it will break. Because plans won’t work out. Because we’ll be...
dthompson
Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now, and the next one is starting on 10/28, and with each attempt I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been exploring in...
Haterade
RECIPE: Barbecue Boost, Quickly (BBQ) Running Gel This one's for the meatheads.
a year ago
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
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over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
Birchtree
New weekend, new video recommendations My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this season. I totally missed that the fastest lap point was going away. Unsecured and still-using0the-default-password cameras are quite the thing…always always always change your...
Max Rozen
Understanding Integration Testing in React Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library is rough. You can't do a lot of things you used to, and there are new best practices. Let's learn them!
Yale E360
Endangered Eels a Top Target for Traffickers in Europe Endangered eels, a top target for wildlife traffickers in Europe, are generating billions in profits...
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Endangered eels, a top target for wildlife traffickers in Europe, are generating billions in profits for smugglers globally, according to two new reports. Read more on E360 →
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Tips for an Eco-Friendly Trip to Park City
6 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Where's Teddy? So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it is. Made in about seven days (more likely eight) and I thought it became quite cool. Where’s Teddy? How to Play Your mission is to find teddy and his teddybear friends. The...
IEEE Spectrum
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances...
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8 months ago
Tactile controls are back in vogue. Apple added two new buttons to the iPhone 16, home appliances like stoves and washing machines are returning to knobs, and several car manufacturers are reintroducing buttons and dials to dashboards and steering wheels. With this...
Louwrentius
Benchmarking storage with Fio and generating charts of the results Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of options to create a storage benchmark that would best reflect your needs. Fio allows you to assess if your storage solution is up to its task and how much headroom it has. Fio outputs...
xkcd.com
Geohydrotypography
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The length trick It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation....
Christopher Butler
How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas. Ideas...
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The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas. Ideas don’t stand on their own. When a good idea turns into a good thing, it’s because structure and systems — ones that existed before the idea — made it happen. There’s this myth in...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Mindful Travel in Greater Palm Springs
8 months ago
DYNOMIGHT
Thoughts on seed oil A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was...
a year ago
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a year ago
A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was safe, he’d wait a couple months and renew his attack: “When are you going to write about seed oils?” “Did you know that seed oils are why there’s so much {obesity, heart disease,...
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 20th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 1.2% Week-over-week, Up 24.8% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week. Inventory always...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week. Inventory always declines seasonally in the Winter and usually bottoms in late January or February. If the previous week was the seasonal bottom, that would be very early in the year, but that has...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Fundraising Survival Guide
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Support my open-source work and blog posts
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
I'm Probably Procrastinating Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days. I’m going to try to make a better version of a decades’ old application for managing machine shops. I’m doing lots of coding to avoid talking to customers. Goal Grades At the...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 44 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
davidyat.es
Up to eleven
3 months ago
The Rational Walk
Negative Lollapalooza Effects Sharing ideas can have benefits but there are also psychological risks. This article applies lessons...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sharing ideas can have benefits but there are also psychological risks. This article applies lessons from Charlie Munger's psychology of human misjudgment to investing.
Common Edge
Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and...
over a year ago
Yale E360
With 'Big Beautiful Bill,' U.S. to Reverse Course on Clean Energy The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy...
a week ago
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a week ago
The Republican spending bill, signed into law Friday, will reset the course for the U.S. energy sector, analyses show. The law rapidly phases out tax credits for wind, solar, and electric cars, while making it cheaper to drill and mine for fossil fuels on federal lands.  Read...
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 377.5 ...
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Birth of the University as Innovation Incubator This article is excerpted from Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by...
a month ago
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a month ago
This article is excerpted from Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by Matthew Wisnioski (The MIT Press, 2025). Imagine a point-to-point transportation service in which two parties communicate at a distance. A passenger in need of a ride contacts the...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 16-22 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
LA Ports: March Inbound Traffic Up YoY, Outbound Down Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...
Don't Worry About...
Zuckerberg's Dystopian AI Vision You think it’s bad now?
2 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Bugger Ahhh… Finally another game! Theme of this beauty is Failure and your mission here is to avoid the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ahhh… Finally another game! Theme of this beauty is Failure and your mission here is to avoid the bugs. As a programmer the fight with those nasty bugs are a daily occurrence and now I’ve brought you a chance to kill those nasties too! The gameplay wasn’t what I was planning on -...
wingolog
whippet progress update: funding, features, future Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in , including sponsorship, a new collector, and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in , including sponsorship, a new collector, and a new feature.Whippet But first, a reminder of what the haps: Whippet is a garbage collector library. The target audience is language run-time authors, particularly “small”...
The Diff
You Can't Measure AI Market Share Because it Lives at too Many Layers Plus! Moderation; Unavoidable Timing; Sad AIs; Friendshoring
2 months ago
Londonist
Ever Noticed These Decorative Panels At Guy's Hospital? Three scenes of hospital life.
a year ago
The DESK Magazine
Breaking the algorithm The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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8 months ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Don't Worry About...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
David Heinemeier...
Apple approves the HEY Calendar I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s own history as a preview for people who don’t have an account. And I didn’t give the gambit better than 30% odds of succeeding, but lo and behold, it did! Apple has approved our...
Maps Mania
Paving Paradise for the Ultra Rich
3 weeks ago
Maps Mania
The Republic of Climate Change Deniers
4 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hooded Daredevil strikes a pose: That weird thing he’s kneeling on is part of one of the towers of the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Daredevil strikes a pose: That weird thing he’s kneeling on is part of one of the towers of the Manhattan Bridge. Here’s a nice general shot of the bridge, looking toward Brooklyn, from the HAER survey: And here’s a close up of where the pedestrian walkway on the outboard edge of...
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
AI Snake Oil
Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough. Opting out is the latest example of generative AI developers externalizing costs.
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Shrinkflation, SanDisk style 2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that you notice after formatting the device in an OS. Please read the article in full before making inaccurate comments online. For many years, I have used two SanDisk Ultra 16 GB USB flash...
Eric Bailey
Consider the Tomato
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Warabi Shoten by Econosys Design Warabi Shoten are known for their signature soft warabi mochi. The texture of warabi mochi inspired...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Warabi Shoten are known for their signature soft warabi mochi. The texture of warabi mochi inspired the logo, which is...
Don't Worry About...
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
David Gerrells
why everyone hates levels Levelsio and I go way back, like 8 years back. I first met him on the twitter when I came across the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Levelsio and I go way back, like 8 years back. I first met him on the twitter when I came across the “indie hacker” scene.
Marcus on AI
Altman vs Musk cage match Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
Ryan Hoover's...
Non-obvious problems
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
7 months ago
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7 months 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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Examples of Great URL Design Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010): URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take...
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop Diff Tab Demo (tip)
10 months ago
MMapped blog
Advent of Code 2024
6 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are...
Herbert Lui
“Never do nothing” It was earlier in his life, perhaps when he worked in finance, that Dave Spitz picked up a belief: ...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
It was earlier in his life, perhaps when he worked in finance, that Dave Spitz picked up a belief:  “If you do everything on your to-do list, you’re succeeding. If you don’t, you’re failing.” Dave quit finance and eventually started California Strength, a training facility for...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Safe Are Submarine Tours? Should You Go On One?
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
.raw It’s a workspace, concept shop, café and gallery rolled into one that has given Ljubljana a...
a month ago
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a month ago
It’s a workspace, concept shop, café and gallery rolled into one that has given Ljubljana a promising new creative hub....
Calculated Risk
The Changing Mix of Light Vehicle Sales An update: The first graph below shows the mix of sales since 1976 (Blue is cars, Red is light...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
An update: The first graph below shows the mix of sales since 1976 (Blue is cars, Red is light trucks and SUVs) through January 2025. Click on graph for larger image. Over time the mix has changed toward more and more light trucks and SUVs.  Only when oil prices are high, does...
Win Vector LLC
The Statistics of Drawing Cards After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the methods used to characterize card counting. So, I’d like to share my new article on the statistics of drawing cards. This note relates the distribution of draw cards (which can seem...
nanoscale views
Updates, thoughts about industrial support of university research Lots of news in the last few days regarding federal funding of university research: NSF has now...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Lots of news in the last few days regarding federal funding of university research: NSF has now frozen all funding for new and continuing awards.  This is not good; just how bad it is depends on the definition of "until further notice".   Here is an open letter from the NSF...
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
Asterisk
Prediction Markets Have an Elections Problem Weeks after it was clear that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, you could still make pennies on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Weeks after it was clear that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, you could still make pennies on the dollar betting Joe Biden would win. Why doesn’t smart money drive out dumb money in election markets?
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...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
"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."
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare Private Equity, More Thoughts | Out-Of-Pocket From a doctor, an ex-PE person, and way smarter people than me
a year ago
Adventures In...
Thoughts on the Cartographer’s Role in an AI Future A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few moments ago I was asked by a student about the “development of cartography over the next 10 years.” Here’s my somewhat off-the-cuff response, though my thoughts have been steeping in this for the past year or so. In the next 10 years artificial intelligence, and probably...
Solving the decision...
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Ride-hailing unions in Africa are struggling for traction Drivers’ unions in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Tanzania say they’re no match for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Drivers’ unions in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Tanzania say they’re no match for companies like Uber, Bolt, and inDrive.
Don't Worry About...
On Deliberative Alignment Not too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
5 months ago
Opsbros
The past lives again! I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons ago and bring them to the era of the internet.
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ 46 Celebrating another year around the sun in one of our favorite cities in the world, for this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Celebrating another year around the sun in one of our favorite cities in the world, for this one. Read on nazhamid.com or Reply via email
Seth's Blog
Personal process notation “I’ll remember it later.” I’ll confess, I rarely do. It turns out, it’s easier to remember questions...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I’ll remember it later.” I’ll confess, I rarely do. It turns out, it’s easier to remember questions than answers. And tools like Google Docs and photos in the cloud give us a chance to build our own personal search engine. It takes 14 steps to construct the pages in one of my...
Abishek Muthian
My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few platforms left where people with subject matter experience and authority share valuable insights with less noise. HN provides a way to save those comments, but I also wanted a way...
Beautiful Public...
Cold War Military Slides A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear arsenal.
TheCollector
What Did Karl Marx Say About Climate Change? Karl Marx didn’t say anything specific about climate change yet in many ways predicted it. Living...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Karl Marx didn’t say anything specific about climate change yet in many ways predicted it. Living through the rise of the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed the emerging ecological consequences of rapid industrialization. In this context, he believed that the exploitation of...
David Heinemeier...
Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
a year ago
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a year ago
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Create Slowly The concept of slow design is one I've applied for several years. As time passes (quickly) and new...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The concept of slow design is one I've applied for several years. As time passes (quickly) and new technologies land on our desks, the expectation that we need to react at lightning speed to prove to the world we're always in the know of what's trending, is exhausting. Even if...
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
5 months ago
Asterisk
Artificial Wombs When? What to expect when you’re expecting in 2050.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
BEA: Real GDP increased at 2.3% Annualized Rate in Q4 From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Advance Estimate) Real gross...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Advance Estimate) Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the advance estimate released by the U.S....
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 21-27 August 2023 EVERY brewery taproom, a view higher than the Shard, and NFL in London.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The Superman metaphors Sooner or later, we are all superheroes. Superman wears a costume. As we all do. He isn’t great at...
yesterday
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yesterday
Sooner or later, we are all superheroes. Superman wears a costume. As we all do. He isn’t great at time management, always focused on the urgency at hand instead of investing in long-term planning. He rarely works to change the foundational system he’s part of. Supervillians...
Seth's Blog
Exceed or maintain? In just about every group, people decide in advance how they’ll show up when it comes to learning,...
a year ago
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a year ago
In just about every group, people decide in advance how they’ll show up when it comes to learning, to winning and to responding to opportunities. They’re wearing a hat with a label, and over time, it’s not hard to recognize. This can change based on pedagogy, social conditions...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Friends pay full price Several months ago, I met a new friend and gave them a copy of Creative Doing as a gift. They...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Several months ago, I met a new friend and gave them a copy of Creative Doing as a gift. They responded that they would buy another copy, saying, “Friends pay full price.” It was refreshing, the complete flip of the usual friends and family discount. (Or in my case, giving gift...
Josh Thompson
On Fables: Finishing up Antifragile I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile, says: The great economist Ariel Rubinstein gets the green lumber fallacy - it requires a great deal of intellect and honesty to see things that way. Rubinstein refuses to...
Map of the Week
Mapping The Surf Malin and Mizen is a company that makes specialty maps like the California Surf Map   I love the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Malin and Mizen is a company that makes specialty maps like the California Surf Map   I love the wavy lines and details showing ideal wind and swell directions, coordinates, shark sightings, etc. The hand drawn details on the land are also very nice.  The company is named...
David Crawshaw
2015-04-02 "- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one...
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"- Picture two conversations sharing a congested gateway as two separate train tracks with one common section.- When a blue train waits for red trains to go through the shared section, the blue trains behind it catch up (get more clumped)- If the merge rules are efficient...
Willem's Blog
Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to...
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This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.
Birchtree
It’s time to engage Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its...
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Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its peak, platforms and publishers had to align around mutually beneficial incentives. They did it before, and they can do it again. It would nice to see some progress here before
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fix Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ever since twitter got weird people have tried to...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ever since twitter got weird people have tried to fix twitter by making twitter. Today's News:
99% Invisible
Everything Is Tuberculosis You may know John Green as a Youtuber, a podcaster, or the mega best-selling author of Looking for...
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You may know John Green as a Youtuber, a podcaster, or the mega best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. His latest book is called Everything Is Tuberculosis. It’s a deep-dive into one of the...
Yale E360
Penguin Droppings May Be Seeding Clouds, Study Finds Penguin droppings may play a role in the formation of clouds over Antarctica, new research...
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Penguin droppings may play a role in the formation of clouds over Antarctica, new research finds. Read more on E360 →
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Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work? A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
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A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS. You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
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The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
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Don't Worry About...
Worries About AI Are Usually Complements Not Substitutes A common claim is that concern about [X] ‘distracts’ from concern about [Y].
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Handprinted - Blog
Screen Printing with Permaset Puff Paste Puff Paste is a great way to add a little something extra to your fabric prints! It adds depth and...
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Puff Paste is a great way to add a little something extra to your fabric prints! It adds depth and texture and is so much fun to use. In this project, we have exposed a screen and used it to print with Puff Paste onto a tote bag: Half-fill the coating trough with photo emulsion....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sack Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!
Jonas Hietala
Starcraft 2 Keycaps When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure...
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When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure they cost almost 10x as much as a “regular” one and they didn’t even have these funky multimedia keys, what gives? Did I loose my insanity? It was supposed to give a great typing...
Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Lovely Lightness of Spirit' My understanding of “deliquescing” goes back to high-school chemistry: a solid melts or becomes...
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My understanding of “deliquescing” goes back to high-school chemistry: a solid melts or becomes liquid by absorbing moisture from the air. Kay Ryan uses the word in an unexpectedly metaphorical way in her review of This Craft of Verse (2002), a transcript of the lectures Jorge...
Patrick Kayongo
What Are Software Developers For At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is...
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At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is at an all time high. Devin, claims to offer a “fully autonomous AI software engineer”. Other tools like Marblism have less ambitious claims but can still create a working web...
Dan Quach Blog
Software Estimations Using Reference Class Forecasting 18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to...
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18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to chat about my next project. We discuss the details, and then she asks me the dreaded questions programmers fear which is “how long will it take?”. I stumble with some guestimate...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Like an Occupying Army' Two unrelated situations bring poems, song lyrics and old television commercial jingles to...
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Two unrelated situations bring poems, song lyrics and old television commercial jingles to mind, seemingly out of nowhere: on first waking in the morning and while preparing a meal in the kitchen. None is summoned. They blip to the surface like bubbles in a pond. Last weekend I...
wadertales
When mates behave differently Iceland’s 40,000 Oystercatchers are an interesting mix of resident birds and migrants, providing an...
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Iceland’s 40,000 Oystercatchers are an interesting mix of resident birds and migrants, providing an ideal system in which to study the costs and benefits of the two options, and to try to work out what influences whether an individual becomes a ‘resident’ or a ‘migrant’. I’ve...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Killing the Internet Encryption dramas, baby mamas, Reddit paywalls and a wholesome AMA
4 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 4 (Japan: Exploring Tokyo) Sure, the tourists sites were great, but Twelve Mile Circle readers know I like to follow tangents...
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Sure, the tourists sites were great, but Twelve Mile Circle readers know I like to follow tangents even when I do that. I’m always on the hunt for the unusual, or at least the unusual to me. I’m sure everything seemed perfectly normal to anyone from Japan. So I made sure I...
Seth's Blog
On reading it in a book Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said of his career, “This is not stuff you can read...
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Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said of his career, “This is not stuff you can read in a book,” he said. “This is stuff that you have to experience.” I think it’s also useful to flip it around. There are things you will have trouble experiencing until you read...
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
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TheCollector
What is the Poorest Country in Africa? From an economic perspective, Africa is the poorest continent. Almost half of all people living in...
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From an economic perspective, Africa is the poorest continent. Almost half of all people living in Sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line. The causes for this dynamic are legion. A large portion of them can be attributed to foreign intervention in the form of colonialism...
This Space
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard I began reading The Morning Star without any prior knowledge of the contents, just as I had begun...
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I began reading The Morning Star without any prior knowledge of the contents, just as I had begun reading every other book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s since receiving an ARC of the first volume of My Struggle long before he shone above us like the morning star in this novel. This...
David Crawshaw
Transaction oriented collector golang.org/s/gctoc
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Willem's Blog
Lunch by plane This week I went out for lunch by plane from Hilversum to Texel with a good buddy of mine.
over a year ago
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Embracing Hacker Culture This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Embracing Hacker Culture appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Posts on Made of...
My Apollo Bibliography Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become...
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Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the Apollo program (and early space program more generally), and been reading my way through a growing number of books and documentaries written about it. At a...
macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
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I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
Paul Graham: Essays
General and Surprising
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
The Eagle Mountain Top Restaurant by Viereck Architects When first arriving at the site at 2000m above main sea level, we were stunned by the panoramic...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient Novel
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive introduction to iterative algorithms An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit...
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An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit condition problem on an oversimplified linear system solver.
Open Culture
Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952) Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were the two biggest comedy stars of the silent era, but as it...
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Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were the two biggest comedy stars of the silent era, but as it happened, they never shared the screen until well into the reign of sound. In fact, their collaboration didn’t come about until 1952, the same year that Singin’ in the Rain dramatized...
Sam Altman
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
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A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
Retail Design Blog
Magura Winery by the Labelmaker Crafting a Premium Competitive Identity for Spirits market The design of a bottle label is more than...
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Crafting a Premium Competitive Identity for Spirits market The design of a bottle label is more than just a visual...
Contemporist...
A Contemporary Home Inspired By The Fachwerk-Style Houses Of Germany Interior designer Tamara Strugova, together with her husband, has completed a contemporary home...
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Interior designer Tamara Strugova, together with her husband, has completed a contemporary home whose design was inspired by the Fachwerk-style houses found in Hamburg, Germany, with their prominently exposed posts and beams.
Don't Worry About...
o3 Will Use Its Tools For You OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
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Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 3 (Apalachicola) Next we began the actual “road” portion of the road trip as Atlanta receded into the distance behind...
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Next we began the actual “road” portion of the road trip as Atlanta receded into the distance behind us. We spaced our drives into four segments of 5-6 hours each to make them manageable. I figured that would cover a decent distance without consuming the entire day. The first leg...
Flashbak
July 12 in Northern Ireland, 1987–1998 Much has changed in Northern Ireland Mike Abrahams took these pictures, including the Good Friday...
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Much has changed in Northern Ireland Mike Abrahams took these pictures, including the Good Friday Agreement and a return to power sharing. “I am not a news photographer,” says Abrahams to Cafe Royal, which has published a zine of his pictures of July 12 celebrations, “there are...
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CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
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CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let’s change that, shall we? The Demo I’m basing...
A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff! Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
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Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
Herbert Lui
Who came before you? Sometimes, it helps to remember that you’re never alone. You are just one of the more recent people...
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Sometimes, it helps to remember that you’re never alone. You are just one of the more recent people in a long line of people that started before you, connected together by your craft. In Eat a Peach, David Chang notes the absurdity of working in a kitchen. Every chef goes through...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1 With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
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With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
Calculated Risk
BLS: CPI Decreased 0.1% in March; Core CPI increased 0.1% From the BLS: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased 0.1 percent on a...
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From the BLS: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased 0.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in March, after rising 0.2 percent in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased...
Open Culture
A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, Eno remembered his...
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Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, Eno remembered his initial thoughts going into it: “I want to make a kind of music that prepares you for dying–that doesn’t get all bright and cheerful and pretend you’re not a little apprehensive, but...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Race Question As a scientific concept – does race exist? Is it a useful construct, or is it more misleading than...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As a scientific concept – does race exist? Is it a useful construct, or is it more misleading than useful? I wrote about this question in 2016, and my thinking has evolved a bit since then. My bottom line conclusion has not changed – the answer is, it depends. There is no fully...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Genius Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course then it becomes insulting when the other...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course then it becomes insulting when the other person doesn't want nightvision. Today's News:
Willem's Blog
Something the smartwatch will never have: patina Patina is often neglected when comparing smartwatches with regular watches.
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
New Resy Promo Will Give You $99 Off at These Restaurants
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AVC
The Heist On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight...
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On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight from Paris. While waiting for our luggage, I got pushed a notification in my web3 wallet that there was an NFT drop underway that I could participate in. So I clicked on the link,...
Citation Needed
Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and...
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The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and shady crypto billionaire Justin Sun cozies up even closer to the Trump family
Old Structures...
The User Interface A piece of technology that many people comment on after a trip to Japan is the combination...
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a year ago
A piece of technology that many people comment on after a trip to Japan is the combination toilet/bidet, and I guess I’m no different. The photo above shows the control panel at my hotel: the silver button the right is the flush valve and all the other buttons refer to the bidet...
Birchtree
This is why people see attacks on DEI as thinly veiled racism The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and...
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The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and will be an investigation into what went wrong here, but every politician and official who spoke at the White House today explicitly blamed DEI programs for this crash. The message may...
Noahpinion
Six ideas for Poland Poland is a developed country. But it can still get richer.
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
A Swan-song For Europe It didn't have to be this way.
4 months ago
Oykun
Stop charging hourly! Start charging for the Value! Money has always been an uncomfortable topic to talk about, especially for us creatives. We value...
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Money has always been an uncomfortable topic to talk about, especially for us creatives. We value our creation, get satisfaction from the process and the result so much that we often do not really give the importance it deserves to this money topic. I have been designing for many...
Society's Backend:...
I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Hiring is Obsolete
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
ISM® Manufacturing index Decreased to 50.3% in February (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.3%...
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(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.3% in February, down from 50.9% in January. The employment index was at 47.6%, down from 50.3% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 48.6%, down from...
Sometimes It Works...
Streaming & Recording I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life...
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I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life gets in the way. I'm going to make a concerted effort to do more tho going forwards. Streams are going to be focused on my side projects and open source work I stream on Twitch...
Val Sopi
Messy is Perfect I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing...
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I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing in, conversions are steady, the app works flawlessly, and revenue is predictable. But that’s not life. And nor is business. Life is messy. And there’s no such thing as perfect. At...
Wanderingspace
Venus from Earth (with Stacking) Image taken by @TheVastReaches. According to the photographer, “It takes just a few minutes to...
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Image taken by @TheVastReaches. According to the photographer, “It takes just a few minutes to collect all the frames. This started as 6 video files, 45,000 frames total. Then they are stacked and combined.”
The Marginalian
Wonder-Sighting on Planet Earth: The Space Telescope Eye of the Scallop Inside Earth's most alien vision.
over a year ago
Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
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Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
Old Structures...
Changes and Not I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s...
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I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s mislabelled at the New York Public Library web site as “Vista, Thomas Street”. We all make mistakes, and whomever confused Thames and Thomas hid the location of this photo by accident....
Rest of World -...
What you need to know about Africa’s first AI factory Nvidia and Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa join hands to bring supercomputer technology to...
3 months ago
Both Are True
HERE IS THE REAL LINK FOR BATWRITE the last one didn't work is what people are telling me
a month ago
Calculated Risk
Housing March 10th Weekly Update: Inventory up 0.5% Week-over-week, Up 28.3% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.5% week-over-week. Inventory is now up...
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Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.5% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 2.9% from the seasonal bottom eight weeks ago in January and should start increasing significantly in the Spring. The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active...
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
over a year ago
TheCollector
Medieval Japan vs Medieval Europe: How Different Were They? In modern-day society, it is easy to see how Japan differs from Europe. Cultural ideals in Japan are...
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In modern-day society, it is easy to see how Japan differs from Europe. Cultural ideals in Japan are just about as far away from European (or “Western”) culture as you can get—but how far back do these differences go? In this article, we will explore just how different these two...
TheCollector
How the Hittites Used Fear & Strategy to Create a Bronze Age Empire During the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550-1200 BCE), an Indo-European people known as the Hittites...
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During the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550-1200 BCE), an Indo-European people known as the Hittites expanded beyond their borders in central Anatolia to create an empire. The Hittites conquered most of Anatolia, the northern Levant, and destroyed the Mitanni Kingdom, which they...
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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over a year ago
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Old Structures...
The Public Realm This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department...
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This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department of New York, at Lafayette and White Streets. The fire department facilities were moved elsewhere over 50 years ago, but the building is landmarked and reusable, so it has been...
Not Boring by Packy...
Hyperlegible 008: Golden Age with Mike Solana Turning (Parts of) America into Rare Earth Metals Processing Disney World®
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TokyoDev
Safari bug with ruby tag *Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
over a year ago
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*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) which renders as ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) If you control click...
Articles - Chris...
My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story Some mistakes feel worse than death.
a year ago
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
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Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
Home on Erik...
Open source
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Having Kids
over a year ago
Londonist
The Notable Benches Of London 64 unusual benches in one graphic (you might want to sit down).
a year ago
Jason Fried
Don't delegate your word As you build your business, you'll end up delegating plenty. Much of what you did before is now...
a year ago
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a year ago
As you build your business, you'll end up delegating plenty. Much of what you did before is now better done by someone else. To make more progress, you release your grip and allow. But there’s one thing you should hold tight and never let go. It’s the thing that should never be...
Old Structures...
Masonry Against The Sky Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West...
a year ago
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a year ago
Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West Street, with the turn-of-the-century (and somewhat scarred) brick and terra cotta of 17 Battery Place in the background, and with some cumulus clouds (I think…the naming system always...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look you're not allowed to make meaningful changes...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look you're not allowed to make meaningful changes to history so this sort of stuff is the next best thing. Today's News: Psssst. Hey, London.
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Neighborhood Guide to Toronto’s Little Jamaica
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Secret Travel Locations in Monaco
a year ago
Calculated Risk
MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024 From the MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024...
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From the MBA: Delinquency Rates for Commercial Properties Increased in Fourth-Quarter 2024 Delinquency rates for mortgages backed by commercial properties increased during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) latest commercial real...
Wrong Side of...
The seed of Elon Khan Ultra-prolific men are not like the rest of us
4 months ago
Open Culture
Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin... There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in Blade...
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There are more than a few of us who’d enjoy the opportunity to live in a house that appears in Blade Runner; there are rather few of us who would value that opportunity at $23 million, the asking price given in the 2019 Architectural Digest video on Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924...
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Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
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Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
Seth's Blog
When we get to where we’re going …perhaps we should stop. Unless the going was the point.
over a year ago
Chris Grossack's...
Some Doodles I'm Proud of -- The Capping Algorithm for Embedded Graphs This will be a really quick one! Over the last two weeks I’ve been finishing up a big project to...
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This will be a really quick one! Over the last two weeks I’ve been finishing up a big project to make DOIs for all the papers published in TAC, and my code takes a while to run. So while testing I would hit “go” and have like 10 minutes to kill… which means it’s time to start...
The New Oil
On Deleting Odysee
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Both Are True
the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july if america is so bold, why aren't you?
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Marian's Blog
How to add Bluetooth to your Arduino Project with BTduino This tutorial will show you how to connect your Arduino project to an Android device using the...
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over a year ago
This tutorial will show you how to connect your Arduino project to an Android device using the BTduino app. You don’t need an extra Arduino library and you don’t need to code anything on the Android side. Here is what you need: an Android device running Android 4.0 or higher that...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of March 16, 2025 The key reports this week are February Retail sales, Housing Starts and Existing Home Sales. -----...
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The key reports this week are February Retail sales, Housing Starts and Existing Home Sales. ----- Monday, March 17th ----- 8:30 AM: Retail sales for February is scheduled to be released.  The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in retail sales. Empire State manufacturing survey...
The Marginalian
The Whole of It Because we are creatures made of time, what we call suffering is at bottom a warping of time, a form...
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Because we are creatures made of time, what we call suffering is at bottom a warping of time, a form of living against it and not with it — the pain of loss, aching for what has been and no longer is; the pain of longing, aching for what could be but is not yet and may never be;...
Wanderingspace
Goodbye Ingenuity Mission completed. Ingenuity is left alone on Mars after damage to one of its blades renders it...
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Mission completed. Ingenuity is left alone on Mars after damage to one of its blades renders it inoperable..
TheCollector
Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: A Summary When art dealer Richard Feigen asked Linda Nochlin in 1970, “Why are there no great women artists?”...
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2 months ago
When art dealer Richard Feigen asked Linda Nochlin in 1970, “Why are there no great women artists?” he inspired her groundbreaking essay with a similar title published in ARTnews in January 1971. Were women not capable of artistic greatness? Were there, in fact, great women...
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
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over a year ago
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
Stoic Simple
What Did Epictetus Teach About Stoicism? Stoicism is a philosophy that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It emphasizes personal...
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over a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been gaining popularity in recent years. It emphasizes personal ethics, rationality, and self-control. One of the most influential Stoic philosophers was Epictetus, who lived in the first and second centuries AD. Epictetus was born a slave but...
The Convivial...
The Wisdom of Daybreak The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 1
a year ago
Noahpinion
Four years of Noahpinion What happened to the world in 2024, and what I wrote about it
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Ruthless Edit Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s...
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10 months ago
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
Open Culture
Watch The Cure Perform a Three-Hour Concert in London, Celebrating the Release of Their New Album httpv://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new...
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httpv://www.youtube.com/live/_aWDlaxvEZo Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another...
Making software...
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
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a year ago
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
Tech + Economics +...
OpenSea slashes NFT marketplace staff by 50% OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the...
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a year ago
OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. The company would not ...
High Signal
How Allison monetizes her programmatic SEO knowledge Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and...
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Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and reach with programmatic SEO.