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Steve Blank
Why Large Organizations Struggle With Disruption, and What to Do About It Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and...
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Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. How an organization reacts to this type of disruption determines whether they adapt or die. I’ve...
diamond geezer
PR bumf round-up I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to....
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I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to. But they still trickle in, generally from hopeful marketeers with a press release to regurgitate or a plea to amplify some sponsored content. We don't do that here, thanks. Zarya...
Paul Graham: Essays
How Not to Die
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US? undefined
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
The problem with the movie version There are lights, camera and action, but mostly there’s the unreality of making it fit. Happily ever...
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There are lights, camera and action, but mostly there’s the unreality of making it fit. Happily ever after, a climax at just the right moment, perfect heroes, tension, resolution and a swelling soundtrack. Every element is amplified and things happen right on schedule. Consume...
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
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11 months ago
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
Maps Mania
The Rising Risks of Wildfire
a year ago
Londonist
A Map Of Southwark Place Name Origins The etymology of the London Borough Southwark.
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review ‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review JamesHoare Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:06
9 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Family-Friendly Vacations on Alabama's Gulf Shores and Orange Beach
a year ago
The Modern House
Peak Performance: what does a walk up a mountain sound like?
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Why should we consider the soul mortal? In October 1908, 20 years before publication of her groundbreaking children’s book Millions of Cats,...
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In October 1908, 20 years before publication of her groundbreaking children’s book Millions of Cats, American artist and author Wanda Gág embarked on a 30-year diary-keeping journey. This detailed and intimate record not only encompassed her personal experiences and reflections...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the...
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4 months ago
The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and...
African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885) Journal of African cities chapter 5
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
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over a year ago
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
Platformer
Meta unspools Threads Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on the company's big new swing at Twitter
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can Any Good Come From War? The Tragedy of the Trenches
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox. It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
11 months ago
Mazdak
Tech Titans: AI Race Heats Up! We will explore the intensifying competition between major tech companies in the field of artificial...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We will explore the intensifying competition between major tech companies in the field of artificial intelligence.
journal – Winnie Lim
when my body goes rogue [cw: pain, death] Yesterday I started experiencing pain in my body again. It is difficult not to...
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a year ago
[cw: pain, death] Yesterday I started experiencing pain in my body again. It is difficult not to feel low when it happens. I think chronic pain snowballs into a form of ptsd,...
James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an ‘Emergency Brake’ Many microbes and cells are in deep sleep, waiting for the right moment to activate. Biologists...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Many microbes and cells are in deep sleep, waiting for the right moment to activate. Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast. The post Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an...
Home on Erik...
I don't want to learn your garbage query language This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language....
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over a year ago
This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language. There's a trillion different ORMs out there. Another trillion databases with their own query language. Another trillion SaaS products where the only way to query is to learn some random...
TheCollector
What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas? undefined
4 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Was J. Edgar Hoover? undefined
5 months ago
Style over Substance
M4 Hex Socket Thumbscrew Knob Caps For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based...
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over a year ago
For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based CAD/CAM program that lets you create your own 3D designs. The best way to learn how to use a new program is to build something you actually need. And my latest design is a work in...
AVC
What Happened In 2022 I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending...
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over a year ago
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead. This is the first of these two posts. The second one will run tomorrow. What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital...
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver N40L is a great NAS or Router Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21: Yes, the new model G7 N54L is out. Some products seem almost too good to be true and I think the HP Proliant Microserver N40L is one of them. If you are into the market for a very...
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984 We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
Jorge Arango
Horsey Horseless and the Challenge of AI-native Products Disruptive technologies call for rethinking product design. We must question assumptions about...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Disruptive technologies call for rethinking product design. We must question assumptions about underlying infrastructure and mental models while acknowledging neither change overnight. For example, self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels. Users direct AI-driven vehicles by...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Richly, Sometimes Dreamily, Melodic' A friend has given me an unexpected gift: a first American edition of Poems for Children (Henry Holt...
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10 months ago
A friend has given me an unexpected gift: a first American edition of Poems for Children (Henry Holt and Co., 1930), with a printed note before the title page:  “Three hundred copies of ‘Poems for Children’ have been specially printed and bound, and have been signed by the...
Home on Erik...
MCMC for marketing data The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some simple uncertainty estimates. I have data like this: <th> Total spend </th> <th> Transactions </th> Channel A <td> 2292.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on The Psychology of Money A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Making Computers More Efficient An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers,...
a year ago
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a year ago
An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers, including personal use, data centers, the internet and communication centers. The same analysis projected that this was likely to increase to 20% by 2025. This may have been an...
ntietz.com blog
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
TheCollector
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream? undefined
a month ago
Construction Physics
The Long Road to Fiber Optics Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...
4 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five things to finish your week (#19) Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI...
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Real wages, why North Korea is poor, China's stalled catch-up, the economics of social media, AI takes some jobs, and a comic about rabbits
Quantum Frontiers
May I have this dance? This July, I came upon a museum called the Haus der Musik in one of Vienna’s former palaces. The...
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This July, I came upon a museum called the Haus der Musik in one of Vienna’s former palaces. The museum contains a room dedicated to Johann Strauss II, king of the waltz. The room, dimly lit, resembles a twilit gazebo. … Continue reading →
Wuthering...
Books I Read in September 2023 Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of...
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Despite all evidence I hope to wrap up the Greek philosophy project within the next couple of weeks.  A medical deadline approaches.  That will help. As usual, I read good books.   PHILOSOPHY & SELF-HELP Letters from a Stoic (c. 60), Seneca - good timing for some...
Stories by Andrej...
CS183c Assignment #3
over a year ago
This Space
A loss of problems Martin Amis' novels were among those I read when I began reading novels – one read what was being...
a year ago
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a year ago
Martin Amis' novels were among those I read when I began reading novels – one read what was being talked about on television and in newspapers. Money was the first quickly followed by each and every one that preceded it, including the journalism in The Moronic Inferno, which I...
The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
Maps Mania
Map Race
a year ago
The Modern House
How architect Alex Nikjoo lifted a lower-ground floor flat with a lightness of touch
5 months ago
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
a year ago
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The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
Old Structures...
A Generational Change A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is...
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9 months ago
A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with St. Bart’s in front of it; the ornate tower that seemingly ends the avenue is the New York Central Building, not yet sold by the railroad and...
Retail Design Blog
Conexus Studio Offices Conexus Studio‘s Singapore office showcases a vibrant and efficient design, blending practicality...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Conexus Studio‘s Singapore office showcases a vibrant and efficient design, blending practicality with sophistication to foster creativity and collaboration, featuring...
History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review ‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review JamesHoare Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
2 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Anatomy of a bad search result In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using Google.  I thought it might be interesting…
diamond geezer
Route 59 Route 59: Smithfield to Streatham Hill Location: London south, inner Length of bus journey: 6 miles,...
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10 months ago
Route 59: Smithfield to Streatham Hill Location: London south, inner Length of bus journey: 6 miles, 55 minutes It's traditional around every birthday that I take a numerically significant bus journey. Seventeen years ago I took the 42 to Dulwich, then subsequently the 43 to...
Neocha – Culture &...
The Photography of Shin Noguchi
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism? undefined
2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Than Documentary' “Literariness, as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of...
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“Literariness, as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of formal qualities. What makes a work literary is the ability to be understood and appreciated outside the context of its origin. That is why a literary work, however valuable as a document of its...
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Chris Combs Surveillance state The post Chris Combs appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Focusing Attention: Study Hacking A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my part. But the past is the past and this week I’m going to be study focused. Not that I need to study, but I really need to rework my study technique. I’ve been going on like a classical...
Dan Slimmon
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Past Is Alive and Stirring With Objects' Published in the January 1821 issue of London Magazine are thematically linked essays by two...
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Published in the January 1821 issue of London Magazine are thematically linked essays by two friends, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt: “New Year’s Eve” and “On the Past and Future,” respectively. Lamb’s is better known, and I'm aware of several readers who, like me, read it...
TheCollector
Why Did Remedios Varo Paint So Many Self-Portraits? undefined
2 months ago
The American Scholar
Up Close The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
DJI flagship store by Various Associates Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Chinese interior studio Various Associates has completed an irregular pyramid-shaped flagship store for drone brand DJI in Shenzhen, China. Located...
Vitalik Buterin's...
收入-邪恶曲线:思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
McCarthy Tétrault Law Offices by ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture transformed McCarthy Tétrault law firm’s Montreal offices...
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ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture transformed McCarthy Tétrault law firm’s Montreal offices into open, collaborative spaces with standardized workstations, flexible...
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 26 The Power of Meeting Weirdos
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3 September 22, 2023.
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beeing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever think about how many STDs would go down...
5 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever think about how many STDs would go down with us if there were an AI apocalypse? Today's News:
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Horrible Therapist - Random Comic Generator The images here are picked randomly, so they might be nonsensical and/or terrible. View on my...
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Dark But Festive' I grew up in the Age of Magazines. My parents, who were not book readers, subscribed at various...
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I grew up in the Age of Magazines. My parents, who were not book readers, subscribed at various times to Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Time, Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic, not to mention those periodicals subscribed to by my mother (McCall’s,...
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through. But who is prepared to admit it?
a month ago
Spoon & Tamago
A Weathered Copper Facade Oxidized by Soy Sauce Defines Suetomi’s New Kyoto Cafe Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a café business named AoQ Related posts: Kaikado’s Tea and Coffee Cafe in Kyoto Cafe Fang: An Oasis of Books and Coffee in Kyoto Discover Souvenirs Galore at Kyoto’s Newest Gift...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
a year ago
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I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
Mark Manson
Why You’re So Unhappy This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how...
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a year ago
This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how everything will fall into place if you're patient. Spoiler alert: it won’t. The cold hard truth is this: the universe doesn’t care about your happiness. You do. Maybe you've...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That... Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
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Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
The Honest Broker
My Secret Life as a Social Media Coach When people ask my advice on how to flourish online, I share these five rules
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat." What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
a year ago
Wanderingspace
China's Zhurong Mars Rover How adorable is this. The Zhurong rover placed a camera on the ground, backed up and took a selfie...
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How adorable is this. The Zhurong rover placed a camera on the ground, backed up and took a selfie next to the landing platform it emerged from last month.
Math Is Still...
AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional...
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Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles. The post AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha? undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Installing TensorFlow on AWS Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn't recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great....
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Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great. Perhaps you're creating a new startup, perhaps…
Posts on Made of...
What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
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MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of...
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.5.0 Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This...
over a year ago
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Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This week's highlights include a new website, multiple…
nanoscale views
Seeing through your head - diffuse imaging From the medical diagnostic perspective (and for many other applications), you can understand why it...
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From the medical diagnostic perspective (and for many other applications), you can understand why it might be very convenient to be able to perform some kind of optical imaging of the interior of what you'd ordinarily consider opaque objects.  Even when a wavelength range is...
Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
over a year ago
Old Structures...
A Metaphor Looking at the Brooklyn Bridge from the waterfront on the Brooklyn side: Each of the four main...
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Looking at the Brooklyn Bridge from the waterfront on the Brooklyn side: Each of the four main cables is attached to one of the four deck-stiffening trusses below by the vertical suspender cables. The towers are separately attached to the trusses by the diagonal brace cables in...
diamond geezer
Wood End Do you ever look at the front of a bus and think "where the hell is that?"? actual place in actual...
3 months ago
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Do you ever look at the front of a bus and think "where the hell is that?"? actual place in actual London. It even has a library, or rather it did but we'll get to that. You'll find it west of Sudbury, north of Greenford, east of Northolt and south of South Harrow, if that...
Eric Bailey
Operating System and Browser Accessibility Display Modes
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple’s Keynote, etc....
Open Culture
The Page That Changed Comics Forever: Discover the Innovative 1950s Comic Book That Almost Went... If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll...
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If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll be familiar with the seal of the Comics Code Authority. I remember seeing it stamped onto the upper-right corner of issues of titles from The Amazing Spider-Man to reprints of Carl...
PostHog's RSS Feed
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
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1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
brr
Brr Wants A Job 8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!
6 months ago
HTMHell
Microdata for books by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
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by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
Eric Bailey
Undercover Founder
over a year ago
Old Structures...
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time Some current news: various books from the nineteenth century are being taken off library shelves...
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Some current news: various books from the nineteenth century are being taken off library shelves because their covers and/or page edges contain poisonous dyes, as described in “That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes” by Jennifer Ouellette. The...
Society's Backend
Open Models Catching Up, SearchGPT Release, Deepfake Victims Protected by Regulation, and More Weekly updates and resources 7/29/24
6 months ago
sbensu
Incentives as selection effects When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
7 months ago
A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
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I’ve had an idea rolling around my head. I suspect that “being curious” will correlate well with positive outcomes in my life, on pretty much any time horizon, be it days, weeks, or decades. Curiosity feels like a tolerable antidote to boredom, though boredom in and of itself is...
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Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved. The call for entries is now open! Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
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It’s been a while since I last wrote about my ThinkPad T430 that was tasked with being a home server. After doing some experiments with my setup a couple of times, it is once again the main server for all my self-hosting needs. However, this time I have made some...
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Creativity is at bottom the combinatorial work of memory and imagination. All of our impressions, influences, and experiences — every sight we have ever seen, every book read, every landscape walked, every love loved — become seeds for ideas we later combine and recombine,...
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In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
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Let's start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a philosophical and ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, and perception of humanity. It's a behemoth that thrives on relentless growth, often at a devastating cost....
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For the triumphant final video in the Biggest Ideas series, we look at a big idea indeed: Science. What is science, and why is it so great? And I also take the opportunity to dip a toe into the current state of fundamental physics — are predictions that unobservable universes...
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CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
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Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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Design firm Atelier SUN has completed the renovation of a home near Toronto, Canada. The house was built in the 1980s during an era of mass-produced developments, which resulted in excessive structural elements such as columns and beams throughout the space. The updated design...
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Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween screen printing project! Create t-shirts, tote bags, and poster prints that’re hauntingly fun and frightfully easy!   Party Prints - Speedball Night Glo Acrylic Ink on Paper! If you’re a Halloween lover this project is for you! Using...
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The German folklorists who helped build a nation The post Masters of Horror and Magic appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Despite the commonly accepted truth in Hard Science Fiction, spacecraft are able to evade detection in space in many circumstances. The Hydrogen Steamer was a design that used liquid hydrogen evaporative cooling to keep a non-reflective surface practically invisible.  However,...
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We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version (available for both Android and iOS platforms) optimized for unlocking the full potential of larger screen sizes. What is the Arduino IoT Remote app?  The Arduino IoT Remote app allows...
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“All the poems of our lives are not yet made. We hear them crying to us,” Muriel Rukeyser writes in her timeless ode to the power of poetry. “Cry, heart, but never break,” entreats one of my favorite children’s books — which, at their best, are always philosophies for living. It...
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Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1]. I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
The Rational Walk
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Berkshire Hathaway continues to evolve as Warren Buffett celebrates his 93rd birthday with no signs of putting down his paintbrush anytime soon.
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If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
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Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking-points? While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing....
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Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has combed his hair; Anything to me is sweeter Than to see this Struwwelpeter. – Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy-Peter...
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If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
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John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. His phonovision was an early attempt at video recording, with the signals preserved on phonograph records. His noctovision used infrared light to see objects in the dark, which some experts claim was a...
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Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
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Born in Dorset in 1890, Mary Butts was a modernist writer who fused spirituality, mythology, and reality in that were largely unappreciated during her lifetime. Twice married, first to writer John Rodker in 1918, and later to artist Gabriel Atkin in 1930, Mary navigated...
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When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved it for Pollen but felt it deserved it’s own post. A caveat: I generated Tufte CSS style sidenotes and marginnotes which made it more complex than if I had simply generated...
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If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team from South Korea claims to have developed a material that is a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. Interestingly, if you are someone who does not follow such...
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The first few moves of a chess game give the player almost unlimited freedom. There are countless legal moves, and nothing to constrain the choices that a player makes among them. But as we add leverage to our culture and our organizations, the choices aren’t as easy. Jerry...
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All original writing and images on this blog are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. That means you can republish the content or adapt it as long as you honor the license. What you’re allowed to do Republish the content in any medium or...
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Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I consulted: San Francisco Chronicle voter guide SPUR endorsements GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
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The genesis for “My Parallel Communities of Chiang Mai (ชุมขนคู่ขนานที่เชียงใหม่)” likely began on a calm, wet-season night after the rains had subsided at One Nimman, my group of friends — portrait artists from Chiang Mai University — shooting the breeze and hustling what money...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 077: A good week for open-source July 26, 2024.
6 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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11 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Nat Eliason's...
You're Not Struggling Alone If you're worried you don't have to worry
over a year ago
TheCollector
6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth undefined
a year ago
Contemporist...
A New Bunkhouse Provides Additional Accommodation For A Family's Cabin On An Island SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington State, that provides additional sleeping accommodations for a family's cabin.
Computer Things
Some notes on for loops New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
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9 months ago
New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here. Some notes on for loops I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Transforming two-sided markets AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in...
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8 months ago
AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in a small way. They organized the drivers, and now they organize the riders. Hailing a cab was already sort of anonymous, but with competition and structure, AI will continue to get...
TheCollector
Hidden Gospels: What Books Were Removed from the Bible (and Why)? undefined
9 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
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Rest of World -...
Virtual tomb-sweeping keeps a Chinese tradition alive As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are...
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4 months ago
As Chinese migrants struggle to return home for traditional tomb-sweeping, virtual platforms are helping them pay respects from afar.
Retail Design Blog
On store Cult running shoe brand On is accelerating the roll-out of new stores in leading cities across the...
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8 months ago
Cult running shoe brand On is accelerating the roll-out of new stores in leading cities across the planet, and very...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 13 Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up time by delegating responsibilities to my teammates. I miraculously became unstuck on two tasks that have been blocking work for months. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
The Modern House
Shifted into a different place: landscape designer Darren Hawkes describes the transformative...
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Sword Is Mightier... ...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.
a week ago
Willem's Blog
Moving to the countryside Join me on a journey from the bustle of Amsterdam to the tranquility of Noord-Limburg's countryside.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Apelles: Antiquity’s Greatest Painter undefined
9 months ago
Fonts In Use – Blog...
I ❤️ NY Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.moma.org © 2021 NYS Dept. of Economic Development....
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over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.moma.org © 2021 NYS Dept. of Economic Development. License: All Rights Reserved. “I ❤️ NY” presentation board, two-line version, 1976, as archived in MoMA’s permanent collection. Source: www.moma.org © 2021 NYS Dept. of Economic...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 6 (Houston) The heat really cranked up as we entered Texas, never dropping below a daily high of 100° Fahrenheit...
a year ago
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a year ago
The heat really cranked up as we entered Texas, never dropping below a daily high of 100° Fahrenheit (38° Celsius). Here my hybrid working vacation transitioned completely to pure work for a day. That’s where I needed to attend meetings at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
Probably...
Probably the Book Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is available, I will post it here. In the meantime, you can read the slides, if you don’t mind spoilers. For people at the conference who don’t know me, this might be a good time to...
Math Is Still...
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures. The post Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past...
TheCollector
Who are the Yazidis & What Are Their Beliefs? undefined
11 months ago
Willem's Blog
Impact of training Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and data analysis on my performance in the Fietselfstedentocht 2023.
Escaping Flatland
Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise undefined
10 months ago
Castles in the Sky
The Best Things I Read or Watched in April 2024 | Castles in the Sky Links These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you...
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9 months ago
These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you can click the link to take you straight to that part of the article. Cosmographia by M. E. Rothwell “On reaching the age of the TV anti-hero” by Erik Hoel
Maps Mania
How big are London, New York & Tokyo?
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
A Wasting Asset? Europe turns away from America.
2 months ago
Louwrentius
Benefits of hyper-threading on a Core 7i processor I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel processing framework...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had some wave files that I wanted to encode to mp3. I wrote a small parallel processing framework for this job. It executes parallel jobs so I can benefit from the 4 cores + 4 virtual cores of my new Core 7i 920 processor.  The framework is based on some shell scripts running...
Diaries of Note
I’ll have to grow it again As the creative force behind such movies as Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei...
a year ago
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a year ago
As the creative force behind such movies as Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, born in 1932, is widely considered to be one of the greatest directors to have ever lived, his pioneering use of long takes and his profound philosophical and poetic...
Steve Klabnik
Using Crates.io with Buck
a year ago
David Perell
What I Got Wrong About Business Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the domain expertise that leads to entrepreneurial ideas. The post What I Got Wrong About Business appeared first on David Perell.
Louwrentius
Affordable server with server-grade hardware part II If you want to build a home server, it may be advised to actually use server-grade components. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to build a home server, it may be advised to actually use server-grade components. I documented the reasons for choosing server-grade hardware already in an earlier post on this topic. It is recommended to read the old post first. In this new post, I only show new...
TheCollector
What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take undefined
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Recording: Live Coding a Bytecode Compiler for Python Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for...
a month ago
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a month ago
Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for a tiny subset of Python in Python. Even though I said I will not be sharing the recording, I think the session went quite smooth so I am sharing it here.
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
Retail Design Blog
485 MetaGalaxy 485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading future design trends. It...
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time someone exposed the babble for what it is, manipulation.
Maps Mania
The AI Diplomacy Map
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war? Or does war have its virtues?
11 months ago
Tech and Tea
Life is not a race Wisdom from a 6 year-old, and top regrets of the dying
6 months ago
Noahpinion
The California Forever project is a great idea The implementation will be very tricky, but there's a big opportunity here.
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical 14 – v DIY While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as...
a year ago
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a year ago
While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as home. Home should be a makerspace! At any level — food, art, life, clothing, and on to more difficult craft like furniture and construction — everyone should have their hands in...
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. The post Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem first appeared on Quanta...
mtlynch.io
Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This year, I decided to build my first ever home storage server. It’s a 32 TB system that stores my personal and business data using open-source software. The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263. It’s similar in price to...
Nat Eliason's...
Cope as an Essential Life Skill Go Fox Go
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!) undefined
11 months ago
Lars Lofgren
The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of companies that have rocketed to success. Especially in tech, there’s always another $1 billion unicorn around the corner. Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Slack, Zenefits, Box, Shopify, yadda...
The Honest Broker
Why Recording Studios Are Unplugging From the Internet And other recent articles of interest
a year ago
Maps Mania
Tokyo Live
a year ago
Dustin Curtis
One of the dumbest things I've ever published While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called Privacy vs. User Experience, published in 2014. In the article, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user privacy was going to slow down its...
The Modern House
Furnishing Futures: the charity improving the lives of domestic abuse survivors – one piece of... When a domestic abuse victim is given the keys to their new home, many will find that it comes...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
When a domestic abuse victim is given the keys to their new home, many will find that it comes unfurnished, often without even carpets on the floors. It can be the cause of much stress for these women, who have recently fled an abusive home […]
Joel Gascoigne
Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Work harder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job." - Jim Rohn A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by Jim Rohn. It stook in my mind, and as the years
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
Seth's Blog
The bitterness loop Spoiled leads to bitter. A sense of entitlement is a trap, because bitterness demands more evidence...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Spoiled leads to bitter. A sense of entitlement is a trap, because bitterness demands more evidence and seeks to maintain dominance over the other emotions. When we’re busy looking for more reasons to be bitter, we’re not taking the time to do generative work, to connect and to...
TheCollector
Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess? undefined
3 months ago
mtlynch.io
Want to Buy Is It Keto? I’m looking for someone to take over my old content website, Is It Keto. Is It Keto is for sale I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I’m looking for someone to take over my old content website, Is It Keto. Is It Keto is for sale I worked on the site on and off between 2019 and 2020, but I no longer have time for it, so it’s just been neglected for the past several years. Still, it consistently earns $1-2k/yr...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He’s a Person of Joy, a Fanatic' Unlike my sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music is good,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Unlike my sons, I can’t listen to music while working – that is, writing. When the music is good, that’s what I’m doing, listening. Otherwise, I don’t need a soundtrack for my life. I would find that annoyingly attention-splitting. What I do instead is periodically take a break...
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.   If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Londonist
A Free Bowie Exhibition In London's Golden Fitzrovia Chapel A London Day lands in March.
11 months ago
Londonist
London In Teeth A tribute to London's best gnashers.
11 months ago
The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Building a new personal website Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
The Works in...
Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick...
a year ago
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a year ago
Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick to reverse climate change.
Probably...
Ears Are Weird In a previous article, I looked at 93 measurements from the ANSUR-II dataset and found that ear...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In a previous article, I looked at 93 measurements from the ANSUR-II dataset and found that ear protrusion is not correlated with any other measurement. In a followup article, I used principle component analysis to explore the correlation structure of the measurements, and found...
CONTEMPORIST
Glamping Tents Designed By Architects Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they designed for the Costa del Sol Glamping Village in Spain. Each tent’s structure is made entirely of laminated pine wood, with a volume formed from three porticoes that support the...
GeoCurrents
Highway 61 Revisited Revisited in 2024: Bob Dylan, Geography, and the Blues Watching the superb and sublimely acted recent film A Complete Unknown has inspired me to revisit...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Watching the superb and sublimely acted recent film A Complete Unknown has inspired me to revisit the songs of Bob Dylan. In doing so, I have once again been impressed with his geographical vision, marked by effective invocations of place. His frequent use of place names in...
TheCollector
Happy Easter! What Are the Origins of Easter? undefined
10 months ago
Simply Explained
Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome) Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs need constant power. I think that's pretty dumb. Using a physical switch can be way faster than using an app to control the lights.Here's how you can put a Shelly in between the...
Platformer
A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
a year ago
Contemporist...
Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…) These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
TheCollector
How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA? undefined
a year ago
wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
Eric Bailey
A designer developing for Android
over a year ago
macwright.com
Masked email is a killer feature for Fastmail I last sang the praises of Fastmail in 2018, writing about how it’s pretty easy to avoid Google now...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last sang the praises of Fastmail in 2018, writing about how it’s pretty easy to avoid Google now that Google’s products are relatively middling. I’ve been using Fastmail exclusively since then and have only good things to say about it. The user interface is rock-solid and...
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice? undefined
11 months ago
The Elysian
Substack could create the future of books Here’s how that could look.
9 months ago
Laetitia@Work
Leaving Germany: 3 things I’ll miss / 3 things I won’t miss about Germany Laetitia@Work #72
5 months ago
TheCollector
New York’s Rubin Museum Makes Big Changes undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs undefined
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nothing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And that man's name was Job. Today's News:
a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024 I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
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a month ago
I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing. The backlog is brimming, however. Targets for 2024 ❌ Publish at least 40 posts 11 ❌ Reach at least 200k readers Don’t have an...
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
a month ago
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a month ago
Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Christmas Special
over a year ago
sbensu
How to: friction logs Friction logs are a technique to improve your own products and understand others. You use the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Friction logs are a technique to improve your own products and understand others. You use the produdct the way a real user would and write down every single moment you experience some form of negative emotion.
diamond geezer
Wordle #13724 WORDLE #13724 ENACT FIGHT TOUGH WIDTH MIRTH ABOUT
6 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
Nazis don’t deserve free speech. Reality check: Nazism is not an intellectual hypothetical that bears good faith discussion. It's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Reality check: Nazism is not an intellectual hypothetical that bears good faith discussion. It's not a controversial thought experiment. It is a historical movement designed to demonise and exterminate the Other. Born in the tumultuous aftermath of World War I, Nazi...
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958) A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
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a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images. Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.) Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
Christian Selig
Smart Open Xcode If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it. I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'For a Dream's Sake' Interviewer: “Do you feel you could have had a much happier life?”  Philip Larkin: “Not without...
a year ago
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a year ago
Interviewer: “Do you feel you could have had a much happier life?”  Philip Larkin: “Not without being someone else. I think it is very much easier to imagine happiness than to experience it. Which is a pity because what you imagine makes you dissatisfied with what you experience,...