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Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono December Update It's been a while since I had announced the release of Berkeley Mono. The more I examine it under...
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It's been a while since I had announced the release of Berkeley Mono. The more I examine it under scrutinous eyes, the more I find that there is more work to be done. At one point, I had the following masters going through the final tuning: Berkeley Mono
Stoic Simple
Stoic Philosophy and its Influence on Literature Throughout History Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is a way of life that encourages individuals to be virtuous, rational, and in control of their emotions. Stoicism has been an important part of literature throughout the ages, with many authors...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid? undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Its Super-Ego Has Gone AWOL' The American philosopher Brand Blanshard delivered the Riecker Memorial Lecture at the University of...
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2 months ago
The American philosopher Brand Blanshard delivered the Riecker Memorial Lecture at the University of Arizona in 1962. It was published that year as a twenty-three-page pamphlet titled “On Sanity in Thought and Art.” For much of the text Blanshard reviews various twentieth-century...
Common Edge
Buildings, Communities, Cities: Things Fall Apart If the detached house is “The American Dream,” do we need a new dream?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Can’t wait The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges...
a year ago
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a year ago
The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges can’t wait. Today is a good day to remember that better is possible, and that we shouldn’t wait for the problem to become easy or fade away. Better begins with each of us, but it...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #7 The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford...
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The second full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen drilling continue on the Stratford side, both under and beside the flyover. A third lane is already substantially carved out at the end of Stratford High Street. Below we see a broad curve where grey concrete block...
African History...
Self-representation in African art: the wall paintings of medieval Nubia. (ca. 700-1400) an African portrait of an African society
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #156 Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century...
a year ago
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a year ago
Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century anarchy, Buffett and Japan, Claude Hopkins, Benjamin Franklin
Alex Meub
Upgrading the Weber Q Grill I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried. However, I recently noticed...
./techtipsy
How to make digital copies of your old video tapes Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital...
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Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital copies of their contents. To get started, you will need the following: old video tapes that you want to make copies of (VHS and its variants) a device that can read analog AV signals...
Nela Dunato Art &...
My policy on the use of generative AI in creative work I have never used generative AI software to produce original written content, images, code, audio,...
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I have never used generative AI software to produce original written content, images, code, audio, or video, and do not intend to in the future. All of the art, design, photography, writing, video, and audio material published on NelaDunato.com and other websites I own have been...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential tips for Customer Success teams on PostHog While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can do for other teams too — including customer…
Math Is Still...
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. The post The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences first appeared on Quanta...
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft's gaming strategy we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film...
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a year ago
we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film photographers) while mobile gaming MAU is growing WW at a significant rate (like digital photography was growing).
Tech and Tea
Ask vs guess culture When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the...
a year ago
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a year ago
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 New Luxury Hotels in California You Should Know About
10 months ago
Londonist
The Secretive Eel Pie Island Is Open To Visitors This Weekend Explore the usually off-limits oddball artistic enclave.
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Automated Stitching of Chip Images This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS...
8 months ago
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This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. Here are links to previous posts: This post will cover the software used to stitch together smaller images generated by the control software into a single...
UX Collective
You’re trying to turn an oil tanker Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
Christopher Butler
The Elements of Good Craft How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft. Attention to Detail The number one...
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How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft. Attention to Detail The number one distinction among designers who need a lot of direction and designers who do not is their attention to detail. This is because attention to detail is commonly misunderstood. Attention...
Odds and Ends of...
How to fix The Observer Slow news is good news?
3 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
The four cohorts of the status quo The first group cares about the policy. They benefit from it. They’ve organized themselves around...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The first group cares about the policy. They benefit from it. They’ve organized themselves around it. The second group cares about stability. They have limited bandwidth, and they’re not particularly interested in reconsidering everything, all the time. The third group doesn’t...
Mazdak
Subscription Overload: The Rise of Recurring Revenue The number of products and services we sign up for is ballooning as almost every industry latches...
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a year ago
The number of products and services we sign up for is ballooning as almost every industry latches onto the subscription business model. This is because businesses can make more money up-front and over time by selling subscriptions and building loyalty. They can also mine...
Working Theorys
Membership clubs & desktop apps are back. And more things I talked about over coffee & dinner this week.
7 months ago
Maps Mania
The Indoor CO2 Map
4 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Parkway Clinic by AsNow The interior design of the Parkway office project with a small area 85 square meters and an...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The interior design of the Parkway office project with a small area 85 square meters and an amorphous geometry was...
diamond geezer
The 24th pub on the A24 Yesterday I attempted to buy a pint in the 24th pub on the A24. Let's see how I did. A24 is a major...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Yesterday I attempted to buy a pint in the 24th pub on the A24. Let's see how I did. A24 is a major trunk road linking London to Worthing in Sussex. It starts outside Clapham Common tube station and follows the Northern line down to Morden, then continues through Cheam, Epsom,...
Londonist
NFL In London 2023: When Are The Games, Who's Playing, And How To Get Tickets? Game dates, teams, and locations.
a year ago
TheCollector
Stonehenge Defenders Got Their Day at Court undefined
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Indonesia is trying to block LGBTQIA content from the internet A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially...
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A new broadcast bill imposes curbs on LGBTQIA content and other “negative” material, potentially hurting content creators and broadcasters in Indonesia.
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Politics Yet Again GOP 4channers, more Twitch drama, and a Very Mad Laptop Company
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian...
a week ago
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a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian is low utility. Today's News:
Mark Manson
Why Growth Requires Struggle I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions...
over a year ago
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I get a lot of reader questions about pain, trauma, challenge, and struggle. Most of these questions were some variation of, “Is there such a thing as being exposed to too much pain?” or “Are there situations where pain and struggle aren’t helpful but only hurtful?” or “What...
Stephen Diehl
Fintech and Practical Utopianism
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes. The post The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set,...
TheCollector
What Was Operation Downfall? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Pearl Harbor Attack undefined
3 weeks ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Papi, London Fields "We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Still, there's a lot to like...
a year ago
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"We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Still, there's a lot to like about Papi. It's one of those places where you want to order everything on the menu, and as the menu isn't that huge, if you take a couple of friends along you probably can. We...
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s “My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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2 months ago
“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler   Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
How to Be a Stoic
Welcome! Welcome to How to Be a Stoic! It began back in March ’15 as a blog to track my personal journey into...
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Welcome to How to Be a Stoic! It began back in March ’15 as a blog to track my personal journey into modern practical Stoicism. The blog has now moved to Patreon and I hope you will follow me there. However, the full archive of 425 posts and a whopping 4,600 comments will remain...
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq undefined
10 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Squeeze page builders, better Bible App, why you're stuck, 1X vs. 2x Founders, talk to people! Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “There is a desperate need for new software devs in the...
Math Is Still...
The Lawlessness of Large Numbers Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about...
a year ago
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Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big? The post The Lawlessness of Large Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer? undefined
11 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison and That Sweet Sweet Tech Equity The backstories for how the single biggest shareholders in Microsoft and Oracle built their stakes.
3 months ago
Wuthering...
Books I read in October 2024 - the old, care-free days of Wuthering Heights I should do one of these “what I read” bits before October becomes too distant. I should also...
a month ago
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I should do one of these “what I read” bits before October becomes too distant. I should also mention my health.  A little over a year ago a surgeon of genius removed a cancerous tumor from my liver, taking much of my liver along with it.  My recovery went well, and my liver grew...
TheCollector
7 Wars That Nearly Happened (But Didn’t) undefined
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
Noahpinion
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity We have public schools for a reason.
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Alien Intelligence Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
a year ago
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a year ago
Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
Old Structures...
Messy First I apologize for the reflections and glare artifacts in the picture: trying to get a decent...
a week ago
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a week ago
First I apologize for the reflections and glare artifacts in the picture: trying to get a decent photo through a clean and polished storefront window on a sunny day is a frustrating endeavor. But at least that gives a second meaning to the post title. Second – but really first –...
Common Edge
Is Santa Clara—the Heart of Silicon Valley—Soulless and Banal By Intent? The city combines great wealth and utter placelessness.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Favourable Enough for a Writer' Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the society of the future – our own favourable enough for a writer. By its absurdities, its injustices, its vices, its stupidities, it nourishes a writer’s observations. The more men...
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time undefined
5 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Passing Tribute of a Sigh' “The cemetery lives an intense, passion-filled life.”  Anyone who has walked a cemetery and paid...
a year ago
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a year ago
“The cemetery lives an intense, passion-filled life.”  Anyone who has walked a cemetery and paid respectful attention -- and I mean as a tourist, when the visit is not obligatory – will understand. Once I tramped the beautifully landscaped Vale Cemetery (1857) in downtown...
Seth's Blog
Generational shifts in punditry In 1970, when Walter Cronkite was narrating current events for the United States, he was 54 years...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In 1970, when Walter Cronkite was narrating current events for the United States, he was 54 years old. Hitchcock made his last film when he was 77. When there’s a limited number of slots for narrators to fill, they can stick around for a long time. One of the overlooked cultural...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg? undefined
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Beauty, Clarity, Consolation, Truth' The blogosphere is infested with hair-trigger book critics whose job it is, at long last, to set you...
a year ago
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a year ago
The blogosphere is infested with hair-trigger book critics whose job it is, at long last, to set you straight. Their world is strictly binary --  like/dislike, good/bad – and they are fond of superlatives: the best/the worst. Dissent sparks crackdowns and there is no appeals...
TheCollector
5 Most Hated Famous Artists undefined
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War? The Tragedy of the Trenches
6 months ago
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them. Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
./techtipsy
No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem! The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is...
5 months ago
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The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself DVI or DisplayPort on a dock The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as long as I’ve had this...
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa. Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Why I don't rely on AI for programming (too much) I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting...
a month ago
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a month ago
I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting the pipes wrong. I need to double and triple check the updated code - or fix the resulting errors when I don’t do that. thih9 on Hacker News I’ve been skeptical of the AI craze...
Farza's Newsletter
tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on Zip, which is what I want! And, all the other time is spent on either watching anime or running lol. In terms of running, been running 4-5 miles per day, 6 days a week pretty...
swyx's site RSS Feed
[Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python...
a year ago
Both Are True
I always (always!) tell people to write like they’re texting a best friend who loves them And now I can basically do just that cuz Substack lets me write posts from my phone.
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Desert Home With Mid-Century Modern Design Elements Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has shared photos of a mid-century modern-inspired home they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has shared photos of a mid-century modern-inspired home they completed in Phoenix, Arizona. The entry of the house is highlighted by a singular date palm tree growing through a triangular aperture to the sky. The interior palette is restrained to...
Londonist
The Notable Benches Of London 64 unusual benches in one graphic (you might want to sit down).
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws? And what happens when we don’t?
a year ago
The Works in...
Issue 16: I dream of genes Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and how America's favourite type of coffee got really, really good.
Moneyness
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new...
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a month ago
On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns were required  to take out a pair of scissors and snip their banknotes in half. This was known in Finland as setelinleikkaus, or banknote cutting....
Diaries of Note
God, living is enormous! When she wrote the following entry in her journal and imagined fleeing college to venture into the...
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a year ago
When she wrote the following entry in her journal and imagined fleeing college to venture into the unknown, Susan Sontag was a precocious sixteen-year-old studying English at the University of California, Berkeley. By the end of the year she had indeed left—not on a bus to an...
nanoscale views
Really doing mechanics at the quantum level A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid. Since before the development of micro- and...
a month ago
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a month ago
A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid. Since before the development of micro- and nanoelectromechanical techniques, there has been an interest in making actual mechanical widgets that show quantum behavior.  There is no reason that we should not be able to make a mechanical...
Open Culture
The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This phenomenon has become more difficult to notice in recent years, not because it’s slowed down, but because it’s sped way up, owing to near-instantaneous cultural diffusion on the internet....
Unpacked
AI-enabled SaaS vs Moatless AI Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct...
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Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct threat to AI startups that lack sustainable competitive advantage
Noahpinion
Who's afraid of East Asian management culture? TSMC's difficulties in Arizona aren't due to the mystical superiority of Confucian values.
7 months ago
Christopher Butler
How to Know When to Use AI Maybe this will help. In my circles, AI is either everything or it is nothing. It is the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Maybe this will help. In my circles, AI is either everything or it is nothing. It is the thing to use in every case because if we don’t someone else will or it is the thing to never use because it is a sin against humanity. Capitalists and artists have almost always...
AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
a month ago
Society's Backend
The Metrics Machine Learning Engineers Care About That Modelers Don't And a brief overview of TPUs in Google data centers
9 months ago
Res Obscura
Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful Three theories
a year ago
Notes on software...
Checking linearizability in Go You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to...
a month ago
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a month ago
You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to have to deal with the JVM. Porcupine, used by a number of real-world systems like etcd and TiDB, has you covered! Importantly, neither Jepsen projects nor Porcupine can...
Open Culture
20 Mesmerizing Videos of Japanese Artisans Creating Traditional Handicrafts In Japanese “tewaza” means “hand technique” or “handcraft” and, in this YouTube playlist of 20 short...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In Japanese “tewaza” means “hand technique” or “handcraft” and, in this YouTube playlist of 20 short films, various artisanal techniques are explored and demonstrated by Japanese masters in the field. For those who are both obsessed with Japanese art and watching things get made,...
Commoncog
Creating New Drills for Deliberate Practice A lesson from a four month accelerated expertise experiment. Or: why creating new drills for a...
a year ago
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a year ago
A lesson from a four month accelerated expertise experiment. Or: why creating new drills for a deliberate practice training program isn't as difficult as you might think.
Making software...
Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
The Works in...
The eye of the tiger What makes tigers different from one another?
a year ago
Grow With Less
The Do's and Don'ts of Finding Your Blog Niche There is a lot of bad advice when it comes to finding a blog niche. “Write about your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a lot of bad advice when it comes to finding a blog niche. “Write about your passion.” “Choose the most profitable niche.” “Don’t choose a crowded niche.” This advice is well-intentioned but ignores key psychological principles and causes many bloggers to give up...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Common healthcare questions I get | Out-Of-Pocket Some of your FAQs finally answered
2 weeks ago
Probably...
Data Q&A Today I’m starting a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Today I’m starting a new project with the working title Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. In each installment, I’ll take a question from Reddit’s statistics forum and answer it, using Python code to demonstrate. The first installment is a question about the...
bt RSS Feed
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an “ultimate Raspberry Pi computer” by NODE and was inspired to create my own “portable” Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts undefined
3 weeks ago
Mazdak
Minimize Taxes, Maximize Inheritance: A Canadian Guide to Estate Planning with Real Estate For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key concerns. In this context, real estate, often the largest asset, presents unique challenges and opportunities. While strategies like adding children to titles were once popular,...
detreville
This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
Caltech’s Ginsburg Center Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, which will open in 2025. At a lunch following the ceremony, John Preskill made these remarks. Hello everyone. … Continue...
xkcd.com
Actual Progress
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
learning to be physically stronger After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I...
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a year ago
After thinking about it for more than three years, I’ve finally signed up for personal training so I can learn how to strength-train. We start to have muscle loss as we age:...
brr
Mud Murdo The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
The Big Tariffs are here Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
7 months ago
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Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
Saturday Morning...
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Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
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Indian politicians are bringing the dead on the campaign trail, with help from AI Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and...
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So much for this blog being labelled "the best resource in English on European modernist literature": this year's choice is a collection of lectures delivered in the early 1960s at the University of Zürich, published in English translation in 1970, with this edition being...
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Introducing Collaboration for PostHog PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more...
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PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your…
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Frames DoEvery.Day calendar navigation was broken. We built it using Turbo Rails as it was being developed....
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DoEvery.Day calendar navigation was broken. We built it using Turbo Rails as it was being developed. As we have updated libraries, including Rails, the API has changed. In order to get the calendar navigation working again, I had to pull out some old hacks that made use of...
Remains of the Day
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
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Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
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‘We Have To Get Much Better at Speaking To Wider and Wider Audiences:’ A Conversation With... In February 2024, Brett Steele took up the position of Dean of the University of Southern California...
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In February 2024, Brett Steele took up the position of Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Since then, Steele has been busy capitalizing on the opportunities and responsibilities that come with leading a Los Angeles design school in a city known...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
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British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
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British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
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The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Modern Subway Maps Sasha Trubetskoy, formerly an undergrad at U. Chicago, has created a “subway-style diagram of the...
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Sasha Trubetskoy, formerly an undergrad at U. Chicago, has created a “subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Drawing on Stanford’s ORBIS model, The Pelagios Project, and the Antonine Itinerary, Trubetskoy’s map combines well-known...
Melting Asphalt
Outbreak Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease...
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Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease like COVID-19 spreads. If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking it out. Today I want to follow up with something I've been working… Read more ›
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Five Ways to Become a Better Designer (That Aren't Design) There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need...
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There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
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$\mathsf{B}\text{Diff}(\Sigma)$ Classifies $\Sigma$-bundles I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis,...
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I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis, and how to use $(\infty,n)$-categories. This is all in service of some stuff I’m doing with skein algebras (which are part of a “$3+1$ TQFT” often named after Crane–Yetter, but...
Flashbak
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Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity in which he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered 51 stories. As Joshua LH Burnett...
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Traveling through time in three dimensions 01 Intro Time is a curious thing. It’s a constantly flowing stream that can’t be paused, stopped, or repeated. We experience it, but we can’t control it. We can’t even touch or feel it. To get a better grasp of this weird, intangible...
the singularity is...
Tech Heroin Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
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Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine. Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine. I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress. I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
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Transit Tech Lab The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New...
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The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, and NYC Department of Transportation, launched a call for applications for the 6th annual Transit Tech Lab this week. To kick off this year’s program, the...
Anecdotal Evidence
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The twentieth century was a graduate-level education in irony. Our medical advances were extraordinary – antibiotics, insulin, the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Airplanes, television, computers, space exploration. And yet Guy Davenport was not being needlessly morbid when he...
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What We Do When We See What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same...
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What does it even mean to design when perception is reality? Do we all ever see the same thing? Visual Intelligence, a wonderful book about seeing and clarity, Amy Herman begins with the story of Derreck Kayongo. Kayongo had just stepped into the shower in his hotel room...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, when Jesus wanted to do a breakup he just became dead for a few days. Today's News:
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From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
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I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
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Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 December 2023 Drag brunch, wheelchair basketball, life drawing, and a sci-fi film all-nighter.
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As silly as it sounds, system design interviews are about systems and design Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and...
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Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and have two somewhat subtle observations that would help some candidates. 1. The word system has two meanings The definition most engineers reach for immediately is the one relating...
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This Moment is Your Life How to not waste it
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How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is...
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summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is customer-centric - someone who has a rich mental model for what customers want and is able to step into the customer's shoes. I theorize that beyond a culture of being customer-centric it's the...
Luxagraf:...
Family After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
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After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach. Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
NeuroLogica Blog
An Earth-like Climate is Fragile One of the biggest questions of exoplanet astronomy is how many potentially habitable planets are...
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One of the biggest questions of exoplanet astronomy is how many potentially habitable planets are out there in the galaxy. By one estimate the answer is 6 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. But of course we have to set parameters and make estimates, so this number can...
ntietz.com blog
Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his...
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A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his Ergodox many times, I took the plunge and built my own. 152 solder joints later, I have this beauty: It took a few days to get used to it and in the process, I found a bug in layer...
Maps Mania
The 2024 Cicadapocalypse
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Essays - Benedict...
The VR winter continues Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices...
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Meta has spent at least $50bn on VR and AR so far, but we’re still in the VR winter: the devices aren’t good enough or cheap enough and the user base is flat. But no matter how good the devices get, how many people will care?
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius j.hoare Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
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“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Seth's Blog
When did we lose consciousness? In medical TV dramas, losing consciousness is something that happens suddenly and dramatically. We...
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In medical TV dramas, losing consciousness is something that happens suddenly and dramatically. We can all tell… the body is still there, but the mind is gone, at least for now. Unfortunately, this happens in real life. At work. In our personal lives. For a few minutes or even a...
The Honest Broker
Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers) And I invite you to ask questions of your own
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AcquaintanceWatch #28July Wochabinupto? Blog visitors: 0 Blog comments: 0 Blog content: Hours out: 0 Nights out: 0 Alcohol intake: 0 Becks Tea intake: 0 Trains used: 0 Steps walked: 0 Mystery count: 0 comments if(postComments['231203823120386'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
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Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
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Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa.  There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production. #...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Project Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the...
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Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the frame on the right she’s standing in the pavillion looking across to the main tower.
fast.ai
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Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
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Wrestling with the scammers Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash I guess one of the downsides of the rising popularity and profile of...
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Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash I guess one of the downsides of the rising popularity and profile of our HR startup is that it attracts the lowest online lifeforms to try and see if they can make illicit profit from it. We have been getting the occasional trial user signing up...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We're getting close to the all-evil-wishes SMBC compilation. Today's News:
diamond geezer
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Historic Hounslow High Street Past bypassed in 1925 reducing the flow of traffic and boosting the High Street's importance as a shopping centre for the growing suburb. Then in the late 1960s it was part-pedestrianised in readiness for nearby redevelopment (as you can see...
CONTEMPORIST
A Dramatic Upward-Sloping Roof Covers This Rural Home Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they have designed...
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Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they have designed in Winthrop, Washington, perched atop a steep river bank. The home’s design includes an upward-sloping roof form that motions toward the river and shelters an outdoor room....
Dreams of Space -...
Valentina Tereshkova (Mujeres Celebres) (1967) Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space. This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space. This is a 1967 Spanish comic book highlighting famous women, in this case: Valentina Tereshkova. I last blogged about this in 2009 so it was time for an expansion. It is unusual to find a biographical comic book...
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
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More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
Old Structures...
Uncluttered From 1946, a view from 501 Madison Avenue looking southwest past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to...
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From 1946, a view from 501 Madison Avenue looking southwest past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Rockefeller Center. The International Building on the right partially blocks the view of the taller RCA Building, with the (old) Time-Life building off to the left. The construction site...
Rest of World -...
Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
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With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Georgeade as a Summer Drink' While looking for something else I blundered on an Anglo-American writer and cartoonist new to me...
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While looking for something else I blundered on an Anglo-American writer and cartoonist new to me whose name and one-time popularity long ago evaporated: Oliver Herford (1860-1935), author, co-author and illustrator of more than sixty books for adults and children. There was a...
History Today Feed
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Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch TinyPilot’s new product and branding. I reduced Google Cloud Platform fees by 90% on my side projects. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
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This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the Blender tutorial series on material nodes. His tutorials are great and I appreciate the effort in his editing. Support him if you can. I often joke that I’ve learned Blender 3D every...
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Let’s Talk About Cement Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production...
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Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production (25%) and transportation (28%). We talk a lot about transportation and energy, but industrial carbon is a harder nut to crack. Also, the 23% is direct carbon release from industrial...
Citation Needed
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In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a...
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Land doesn't vote, people do!
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TheCollector
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Both Are True
i still refuse to talk to you w those stupid ass ski goggles on your face take them off not like up on your forehead all the way off throw them on the ground and let's stomp...
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take them off not like up on your forehead all the way off throw them on the ground and let's stomp on them and then, then!, we can chit chat
Passing Time
Tipping is Spreading and It Sucks Every tip given in the United States is a blow at our experiment in democracy.
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
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When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
escape the algorithm
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Political Alignment and Outlook This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from...
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This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 15, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab....
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I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned… Read more ›
The Elysian
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What projects should I study around the world? And would you be interested in showing me around your city or project? I’d love your help plannin…
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The Sneaky Standard A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. These...
Construction Physics
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I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
diamond geezer
Bedford to Bletchley for £1 A ride down the Marston Vale line (where a train journey currently costs just £1, for reasons...
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A ride down the Marston Vale line (where a train journey currently costs just £1, for reasons explained yesterday) Bedford Platform 1a beside the car park, chugging away noisily and hourly. Nearby: The town centre was fairly buzzy on Saturday, helped by umpteen outdoor market...
On the Arts
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AI Snake Oil
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Eulogy for Brian Eulogy for Brian Howard, Macintosh hero, 1944-2010
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What Does Stoicism Teach About Money, Wealth & Poverty? Stoicism is a philosophical belief system that has been around since the ancient times. It aims to...
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Stoicism is a philosophical belief system that has been around since the ancient times. It aims to promote ethical living and personal fulfillment by closely examining one's values and beliefs. One area where Stoicism offers interesting insights is wealth and poverty. This...
TheCollector
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Revising card shape and initialization in WebCard <![CDATA[In NoteCards, Text cards are rectangular windows with proportions similar to a post-it...
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<![CDATA[In NoteCards, Text cards are rectangular windows with proportions similar to a post-it note. The Web card type of WebCard inherits from Text, including the default window size. Since a Web card needs only display a URL, the default shape leaves most of the text area...
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In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature lovers, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares his knowledge and skills to help you navigate and interpret the water around you. Combining elements of natural navigation history,...
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Evidence and the Nanny State Part II In Part I of this post I outlined some basic considerations in deciding how much the state should...
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In Part I of this post I outlined some basic considerations in deciding how much the state should impose regulations on people and institutions in order to engineer positive outcomes. In the end the best approach, it seems to me, is a balanced one, where we consider the burden of...
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Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI consciousness are now taking center stage, marking a significant shift since the current AI resurgence began over a decade ago.
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One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most powerful institutions, brands and people are the ones who are in alignment with their audience. Trust and the benefit of the doubt are more powerful and resilient than command and...
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Over the course of the last nine days, the artist Banksy has been out daily painting animals at various locations across London. As publicity goes it's been a summer season masterstroke. Some have since been removed, some have been screened off, some have been further...
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I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
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How do I get a job in Japan with no experience? Why are there no entry level jobs or ways to break into the industry? This is one of the most common questions in the [TokyoDev Discord server](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV), and for good reason. The [job...
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ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
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The AI driven voice mail system said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you.” Of course, there is no “I” and by most definitions of sorry, it’s not. But it made me feel better. The overworked and slightly bitter front desk person who was the frontline flotsam in a poorly designed...
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George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can make a powerfully cheerful sound, and it’s an instrument both beginners and expert players can learn and easily carry around. As Harrison’s old friend Joe Brown remarked, “You can...
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Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
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“The sun never knew how wonderful it was until it fell on the wall of a building.” So said the great American modernist architect Louis Kahn. And what wise words they are, for a home with good natural light is a special one. Light can […]
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A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da Vinci. Running nearly four hours, the film offers what The New York Times calls a “thorough and engrossing biography” of the 15th-century polymath. Currently airing on PBS, the film can...
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
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The top 10 seafood-consuming nations in the world, plus trends among the world’s richest countries. Seafood is a vital food group and form of income for millions of people around the world. The seafood industry has more than quadrupled in the last 50 years and is estimated to be...
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Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving the web since 1996. So, if you want to see what Google looked like in 1999, they’ve got it. Internet Archive capture of Google from April 22, 1999 ArchiveBox is like your own,...
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