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Mazdak
The Psychology of Investing: 5 Critical Traps That Can Destroy Your Wealth The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising...
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The path to investment success is riddled with psychological pitfalls that can turn promising portfolios into cautionary tales.
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F1, Sport and Reality TV It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi...
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It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi with my sons. Full disclosure, we are all team Hamilton fans here, and were excited to watch the final deciding race as to who would take out the 2021 World Driver’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Just Build Websites Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
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5 months ago
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure. The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
Damn Interesting
The Traveler and His Baggage On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people...
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On 19 May 1943, a news report from Berlin deepened the already dreary gloom that clung to the people of Nazi-occupied Paris. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels proudly announced to the world that the German capital of Berlin was officially judenfrei–free of all Jews. As this...
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in...
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Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
Making software...
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
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Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
Luxagraf:...
California We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to...
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We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to visit my parents, trading the last of fall for some warmth and extra sunshine at the beach. I am a stranger in my hometown. The California of my youth is gone. Everything paved...
Notes on software...
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent) Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability,...
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Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless transactional databases for analytics workloads. Iceberg is a contender too, and is...
blag
Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep? My answer to a question online, why?
7 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
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This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
African History...
Voices of Africa's past: a brief note on the autobiographies of itinerant scholars. an african description of turn-of-the-century Europe.
7 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became...
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Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became fundamental to string theory. The post The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Changelog
Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to about the details of pipes, signals, and certain system calls – and the solution is still elusive. For some time now, I have been using NNCP to back up my files. These backups are...
diamond geezer
Old Bexley & Sidcup I've not been especially balanced in my recent reporting of the capital. • Yesterday I went to...
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I've not been especially balanced in my recent reporting of the capital. • Yesterday I went to Carpenters Road in the constituency of Stratford & Bow where Labour's Uma Kumaran is going to walk it. • The day before I went to Ham in the constituency of Richmond Park where Liberal...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#51) Falling obesity; the red-state boom; U.S. housing supply; men avoiding college; China's economic...
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3 months ago
Falling obesity; the red-state boom; U.S. housing supply; men avoiding college; China's economic goals; implicit taxes on the poor; Garcia interviews Krugman and Cowen interviews Scanlon
Contemporist...
A Muted Palette Unifies The Interior Of This Remodeled Mid-Century Modern Home Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San...
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Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San Francisco Bay Area, that hadn’t been updated since it was built in 1955.
Noahpinion
How not to be fooled by viral charts Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. ...
a year ago
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In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. The post Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist undefined
a month ago
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the third quarter of 2023, most notably Dominion by Tom...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the third quarter of 2023, most notably Dominion by Tom Holland and The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough.
Maggie Appleton
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love,... “Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Whitman wrote in what may be the most elemental...
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“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” Whitman wrote in what may be the most elemental definition of solidarity — this tender recognition of our interdependence and fundamental kinship, deeper than sympathy, wider than love. Half a century after Whitman’s atomic...
Diaries of Note
Nothing can be less beautiful than the first sight of London Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with...
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Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with intellectual curiosity. Born in Suffolk, England in 1819, her now-celebrated journal contains not just her intricate observations of the natural world, but also thoughtful reflections...
Irrational...
Uber's service migration strategy circa 2014. In early 2014, I joined as an engineering manager for Uber’s Infrastructure team. We were...
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In early 2014, I joined as an engineering manager for Uber’s Infrastructure team. We were responsible for a wide number of things, including provisioning new services. While the overall team I led grew significantly over time, the subset working on service provisioning never grew...
Stoic Simple
The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, is known not only for his military...
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Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, is known not only for his military prowess and leadership, but also for his philosophy of stoicism. In this article, we will delve into the life and reign of Marcus Aurelius, explore the principles of stoicism, and...
Maps Mania
Mapping Hurricane Idalia
a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
2 months ago
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If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was...
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
a year ago
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The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed.  I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
TheCollector
US Returns 600 Stolen Artifacts to Italy undefined
7 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
UFOs – Has the Narrative Shifted In an interview for Newsweek, Michio Kaku was asked about UFOs. Here’s his response: Well, first of...
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In an interview for Newsweek, Michio Kaku was asked about UFOs. Here’s his response: Well, first of all, I think that there’s been a game changer. In the old days, the burden of proof was on the true believers to prove that what they saw last night was a flying saucer of some...
Retail Design Blog
CHIMI store by CAMPUS Following outposts in Oslo, Cape Town and Paris, Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI expands once...
2 months ago
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Following outposts in Oslo, Cape Town and Paris, Stockholm-based eyewear brand CHIMI expands once again, and this time, across The...
Open Culture
Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975) History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He...
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History seems to have settled Buckminster Fuller’s reputation as a man ahead of his time. He inspires short, witty popular videos like YouTuber Joe Scott’s “The Man Who Saw The Future,” and the ongoing legacy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), who note that “Fuller’s...
Old Structures...
So Very Random Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards...
a year ago
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Hidden among the vast holdings of the New York Public Library is a set of 52 images of playing cards donated by William Barclay Parsons, arguably most famous for being the chief engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit system, New York’s oldest subway. Each card has an...
The American Scholar
Feels Like Coming Home The wonders of the coastal redwood The post Feels Like Coming Home appeared first on The American...
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The wonders of the coastal redwood The post Feels Like Coming Home appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Titanic Rescue Mission at Risk undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief History of Aboriginal Australia: The World’s Oldest Culture undefined
4 days ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Home In The Trees With A Living Room Suspended Over The Forest Floor DeForest Architects has sent us images of a home they completed in Burien, Washington, that has a...
a year ago
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DeForest Architects has sent us images of a home they completed in Burien, Washington, that has a living room suspended above the forest floor. The home sits on a one-acre wooded parcel at the top of a bluff overlooking Puget Sound, with the clients wanting a tranquil and...
Contemporist...
A Home Filled With Rustic Italian Charm Was The Client's Request For This Renovation Architecture and interior design studio Bradley VanDerStraeten has shared photos of a Victorian...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Bradley VanDerStraeten has shared photos of a Victorian terrace house renovation in London, England, that was designed with Italian charm, and centered around a sociable kitchen and its pantry.
Retail Design Blog
Mercedes-Benz Offices by Boytorun Architects Boytorun Architects designed the Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Headquarters in a way that fosters...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Boytorun Architects designed the Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Headquarters in a way that fosters collaboration and innovation, emphasizing a sense of belonging...
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible? undefined
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Specter Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes they just read our declarations of war...
7 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes they just read our declarations of war and get giggle-fits. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
ARK Club by VGC Design “Ark” is a medical aesthetics pharmaceutical corporate club located on the top floor of a single...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
“Ark” is a medical aesthetics pharmaceutical corporate club located on the top floor of a single commercial building. It integrates...
Ralph Ammer
What is a picture? This article gives a phenomenological definition of what a picture is. The post What is a picture?...
over a year ago
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This article gives a phenomenological definition of what a picture is. The post What is a picture? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Louwrentius
Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
Maps Mania
Open Places Map
3 months ago
pcloadletter
My articles don't belong on certain social networks I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me...
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I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites like Reddit and Hacker...
One Useful Thing
Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....
a year ago
Astral Codex Ten
The Innocent And The Beautiful Have No Enemy But Time ...
a month ago
PHD Comics
10/22/21 PHD comic: 'Current Status' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Current Status" - originally published 10/22/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
The Marginalian
What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being "You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky...
8 months ago
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"You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light."
mtlynch.io
The Dumbest Task I Ever Outsourced I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage them to place a higher value on their free time and delegate their errands. Few of them heed my advice, and it’s probably because they know about the time I paid someone $96 to...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Strangford (Jo Pearson) Hi! I’m Jo, working as a printmaker under the name 'Strangford' in Northern Ireland - though I’m...
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Hi! I’m Jo, working as a printmaker under the name 'Strangford' in Northern Ireland - though I’m originally from South London. Describe your printmaking process. I make large, bright, unusual relief prints from my home studio; mostly of animals. I carve into flooring lino - it’s...
Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City! This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images: The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it: Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
TheCollector
What Can You Expect to See at the Spring Temple Buddha? undefined
a year ago
Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
a year ago
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The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
This Space
Favourite books 2022 This selection does not include those books I enjoyed, that asinine dilution poured into innumerable...
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over a year ago
This selection does not include those books I enjoyed, that asinine dilution poured into innumerable books of the year lists, though I enjoyed those not included in this selection. Jon Fosse – Septology Thomas Bernhard – The Rest is Slander "we are concealing a secret, a secret...
On the Arts
Winter as Reading Season David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Rereading past work One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found...
a week ago
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a week ago
One of the best things about writing this blog is rereading the posts. Here are some I’ve found myself reading again lately: On creative work: On going direct: The post Rereading past work appeared first on Herbert Lui.
Drew Ex Machina
Rockets Falling from Orbit: The Saturn V That Launched NASA’s Skylab In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
TheCollector
A Historical Overview: What Was Japan’s Tokaido Road? undefined
a month ago
Probably...
How Does World Population Grow? Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially, quadratically, linearly, or logarithmically?” Here are the responses: By a narrow margin, the most popular answer is correct — since 1960 world population growth has been roughly...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Third Age of JavaScript A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A bunch of things are moving in JavaScript - it is quite feasible that the JS of 10 years from now will look totally unrecognizable
Adventures In...
Make this AI-inspired topo landscape please Many weeks ago I saw an achingly beautiful bit of AI-generated terrain art shared by Esri’s glorious...
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Many weeks ago I saw an achingly beautiful bit of AI-generated terrain art shared by Esri’s glorious instagram account. Initially I was a bit intimidated by the robots; it was so charming and tactile and wondrous and dreamlike and sinuous. But also…inspiring. I wondered if I...
A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
xkcd.com
Sitting in a Tree
9 months ago
Jonas Hietala
My Minions So I think I made it! It became a pretty different game from what I set out to create, but I’m glad...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I think I made it! It became a pretty different game from what I set out to create, but I’m glad with how it turned out. My Minions Instructions Build a pathway and then place objects or release minions on it, everything must be on a path. Place musical objects or make the...
Handprinted - Blog
Screen Printing with Speedball Night Glo onto Fabric As Halloween fast approaches, it’s time to get those costumes ready. We think it’s a perfect...
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over a year ago
As Halloween fast approaches, it’s time to get those costumes ready. We think it’s a perfect opportunity to try out Speedball Night Glo Fabric Screen Printing Ink! Print glow in the dark Halloween messages, pictures, or even your kids’ spooky drawings onto their own...
TheCollector
A History of Cairo in 11 Monuments undefined
5 months ago
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast! Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the votey panel just makes the point more strong. Today's News:
Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Avoiding Featurism Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term “featurism”. I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don’t use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current “digital product” industry quite well the more...
TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age undefined
a year ago
McMansion Hell
texas gothic revival Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered around the nation (online) in search of another opportunity to...
TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift undefined
8 months ago
Moneyness
It's time to get rid of "crypto" Call me a pedant, but I'm not a fan of the word "crypto". It may have been a serviceable category...
10 months ago
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Call me a pedant, but I'm not a fan of the word "crypto". It may have been a serviceable category back in 2011 when there was only one type of crypto thingy – bitcoin. But it's ceased to be a meaningful term and, if anything, it causes a regression in understanding. Source:...
Maps Mania
Today's Global Heating Forecast
7 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Safest Countries for LGBTQ Travelers
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...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
ACDF Architecture and BVN Architecture transformed McCarthy Tétrault law firm’s Montreal offices into open, collaborative spaces with standardized workstations, flexible...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Blindspots and Biographies
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
Confronting and Embracing the Void | A Review of The Stranger by Albert Camus Castles in the Sky #36
a year ago
TheCollector
What Makes the City of London Unique? undefined
a year ago
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world) I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
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I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
Rest of World -...
New visa programs spark brain drain fears across Africa German and Canadian visa policies could make it harder for African companies to retain talent.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Louise Bourgeois? 7 Facts About the Surrealist Artist undefined
6 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Converting heritage buildings into shops ADS (ALLDESIGNSTUDIO) has crafted a novel shopping experience within the Fuzhou Kerry Center in...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
ADS (ALLDESIGNSTUDIO) has crafted a novel shopping experience within the Fuzhou Kerry Center in Fujian, China, with their latest project...
TheCollector
10 Landmarks That Should Be Considered Wonders of the World undefined
3 months ago
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - River Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the comics are written just so Corey Mohler...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the comics are written just so Corey Mohler will look at his screen, shake his head, and sigh. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
A greater public calamity could not have occurred On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected death of Princess Charlotte of Wales. The only child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte was admired for her spirited personality...
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
a year ago
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As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps: 1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
Diaries of Note
Last day of shoot Emma Thompson spent five years crafting the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a period that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Emma Thompson spent five years crafting the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a period that might be described as part love affair with Jane Austen’s novel, part wrestling match with the challenge of adapting it for the big screen. When finally released in 1995, boasting a...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Threat of Technology In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I...
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In my second book (shameless plug alert) – The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future – my coauthors and I try to imagine both the utopian and dystopian versions of the future, brought about by technology, either individually or collectively. This topic has come up multiple times recently...
Open Culture
Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero... Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies...
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Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies and many others, passed away in Chicago, at the all-too-early age of 61. In tribute, we’re bringing you this classic 2013 post from our archive.  Journeyman record producer Steve...
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A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of globally-sourced animals, as well as a conservation hub and a prestige tourist attraction. But it's a bit pricey with tickets costing £27 on weekdays and £31 at weekends, or even more on the...
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Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
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When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Hard to Find a Name in Human Speech' After a stop in Hong Kong during his four-thousand-mile journey back to Moscow from Sakhalin Island,...
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After a stop in Hong Kong during his four-thousand-mile journey back to Moscow from Sakhalin Island, Chekhov’s ship encountered rough weather and high seas. Before reaching Singapore, two men had died and their bodies were thrown overboard:  “When you see a dead man wrapped in...
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This Building With A Split Roof Makes Space For A Rooftop Park Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia,...
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Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia, that has a split roof held together by a skylight. The split design allowed half of the building to have a regular roof, while the other, is dedicated to outdoor space and a garden....
Seth's Blog
Don’t steal the revelation Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then...
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Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then we see that we’re going to be better at it, and we’re not good at it yet. Then we figure it out and we’ve succeeded. Repeat. When we pre-process the information and simply test...
Basta’s Notes
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If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
TheCollector
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Recently Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
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Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty hard problem. It was pretty well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really trying not to write a search...
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alexwlchan
Putting history on the map → Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for...
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Back in July, we built an interactive map for the Flickr Commons Explorer. I wrote an article for the Flickr blog about some of the photos I found using the map – including Antarctic explorers, northern factories, and Hawaiian industry. [If the formatting of this post looks odd...
Christopher Butler
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...
Seth's Blog
Long form AI The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can...
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The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can then ask it for criticism, summaries or other insights. I wouldn’t use it on a piece of literature, but if you’re reading for work (aren’t we all), it will dramatically increase how...
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Earthfoam nostalgic and fresh design for new organic and fair-trade sleep brand abduzeedo0201—23 Earthfoam is a new organic and fair-trade sleep brand with an end-to-end sustainable supply chain. Having launched in November 2022 with the...
The Marginalian
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In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) ran for President, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate. Papers declared her candidacy “a brazen imposture, to be extinguished by laughter rather than by law.”...
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My favorite job interview question I like job interviews. I participated in a lot of job interviews in 2017. I interviewed extensively...
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I like job interviews. I participated in a lot of job interviews in 2017. I interviewed extensively before starting at SoundCloud, and then again on my way to my current position at The Wall Street Journal. Sometimes, interviews are full of fascinating cultural signals. Most...
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HelpKit reached $1000 MRR!
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ToughSF
Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of...
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Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of an already powerful fission detonation. What if we could do away with both? Fusion power without the need for fissiles, but also small enough to be launched into space. It is...
Stoic Simple
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Are you tired of constantly searching for happiness? Do you find yourself feeling unsatisfied, regardless of your accomplishments and possessions? If so, you might benefit from adopting the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. In this guide, we will explore the principles of Stoicism...
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India shuts down the internet far more than any other country The country had 771 blackouts between 2016 and 2023, and there have been 51 so far this year. We...
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Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
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Marian's Blog
Work in progress: Location based online game This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map...
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This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map and the location of the player is also the location ingame, just like in Ingress. I know that making an online game like this is an ambitious goal and it will probably never be...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Some Spirit That Didn’t Wobble' “As a youngster I came to the classics simply by following the clues of other writers. Cooper,...
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“As a youngster I came to the classics simply by following the clues of other writers. Cooper, Stevenson, Whitman, even Edgar Rice Burroughs seemed to lead, allusion by allusion, back to a body of writing that was solider and wiser, some spirit that didn’t wobble, wasn’t under...
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This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his...
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Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience.
Farza's Newsletter
me and satoru iwata were chilling at target and bought some beef jerky I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our...
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I’ve been having a ton of fun lately with ZipSchool. We’re evolving fast in terms of our understanding of the product, problem, user. We’re following the data and have numbers we can point to when making a majority of our decisions. We’re focusing on growth.
diamond geezer
Tup'penny #10003 ✅ Analysis 2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What...
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#10003 ✅ Analysis 2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What I wondered was what years my remaining 2p coins were minted in and how many years are missing. 1971 1980 1990 1991 1993 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008...
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1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
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As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone. If I've based the advice purely on
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Plans for Summer of Code My first summer job is now over, and after a weekend of rest, it is now time to plan for my second...
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My first summer job is now over, and after a weekend of rest, it is now time to plan for my second summer job: IDA Summer of Code. I will work a month, or 4 weeks, with contributing to rust! The only issue is, I have no idea where to start. I didn’t have a strict plan or a vision...
Elad Blog
Video and transcript: Fireside chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face We discuss Hugging Face, Open Source, and AI
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Moneyness
AML works, even if it intercepts less than 1% of criminal proceeds. Here's how Critics of anti-money laundering (AML) often point to the fact that just a tiny fraction of 1% of...
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Critics of anti-money laundering (AML) often point to the fact that just a tiny fraction of 1% of criminal proceeds are seized every year, their point being that AML is not working. Either update our approach to AML, they say, or just throw in the towel and legalize money...
99% Invisible
Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE] Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this...
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Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Irrational...
ReadME contribution on reliability programs. I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The...
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I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The ReadME project. This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year, when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project. That project is a...
Melissa Penfold
THE MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
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How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
A Smart Bear
How to measure the accuracy of forecasts How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy....
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How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
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The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS...
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A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS developers.
Eric Bailey
It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
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One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
Both Are True
hello from the other side a record of my first two days away from the internet and social media and wow
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans Romans before the Romans
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Bradley's Ghost
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Construction Physics
How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
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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,...
Old Vintage...
The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox) Most of my systems are microcomputers (and commensurately sized), though I do have some moderately...
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Most of my systems are microcomputers (and commensurately sized), though I do have some moderately larger beasts: you've met homer, my 1987 HP 9000/350 rack system, and Floodgap is powered by uppsala, a 2U-in-a-tower IBM POWER6 520 running AIX. But my first "large" machine, and...
Musings on Maps
Sea Surface Temperatures With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years...
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With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years satellites have monitored sea surface temperatures, we’ve been struggling to map the changes in sea-surface temperatures, both globally and locally, in satisfactory and meaningful...
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Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market. Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved. Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
Calculated Risk
Two Bank Failures in 2024 There were four bank failures in 2024. The median number of failures since the FDIC was established...
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There were four bank failures in 2024. The median number of failures since the FDIC was established in 1933 was 7 - so 2 failures in 2024 was below the median. Click on graph for larger image. The second graph includes pre-FDIC failures. In a typical year - before the...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack...
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One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems.
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
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Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to emit LLVM IR as an option instead of...
Musings on Markets
Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023! I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six...
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I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis. At...
Diaries of Note
They will pay in full Lena Mukhina was sixteen when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, setting off...
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Lena Mukhina was sixteen when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, setting off a chain of events that would lead to the Siege of Leningrad—a brutal and devastating blockade that lasted more than two years and led to the deaths of 1.5 million people. Mukhina...
Josh Thompson
Growing in your first software development job I started my first software developer role a year ago. (November 2017) This is tremendously...
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I started my first software developer role a year ago. (November 2017) This is tremendously exciting, of course, but introduces its own set of challenges, like: I finished Turing and I’ve got a job! Oh snap. I just finished a grueling program, and my reward is I’m fit to sit at...
Seth's Blog
Remarkable pronouncements The scientific rule of thumb is simple: When you make a bold claim, you need significant research to...
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The scientific rule of thumb is simple: When you make a bold claim, you need significant research to back it up. Telling us that eating vegetables is healthy can be justified by a fairly simple high school science paper. But if you want to claim that the moon is made of celery...
Calculated Risk
MBA Survey: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases to 0.47% in December From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.47% in December The...
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From the MBA: Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Decreases Slightly to 0.47% in December The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) monthly Loan Monitoring Survey revealed that the total number of loans now in forbearance decreased by 3 basis points from 0.50% of servicers’...
The Modern House
Mark Bonskek and Sabba Khan’s playful Maryland home is a masterclass in materiality
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It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
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For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
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Taekyeom Lee Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with an artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and...
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Taekyeom Lee is a graphic designer with an artist’s sensibility. As a researcher, educator, and maker — born and raised in South Korea, now living and teaching in Madison, Wisconsin he works in the space where tactility and technology meet, combining ancient materials and...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in December 2024 30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in December 2024 1) TfL expect to introduce both peak and...
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30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in December 2024 1) TfL expect to introduce both peak and off-peak Stratford International-Beckton DLR services on a permanent basis once sufficient new trains are available to permit this. 2) Touchless push-button signage has been...
Seth's Blog
The status quo is very good… at sticking around. In fact, that’s what it’s best at. New research shows that computers and robots...
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at sticking around. In fact, that’s what it’s best at. New research shows that computers and robots are now better at solving CAPTCHA puzzles than humans. This was inevitable. The interesting question is, “how long before they go away?” First, someone has to decide that it’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
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Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
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How to Be (Reasonably) Hard on Yourself The mantra
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How to make volunteer-driven open source projects successful Success can come in many ways. But many aspire to have a big user base: it’s nice if your open...
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Kevin Chen
Supporting macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode on the web macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately 78 percent cooler...
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macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately 78 percent cooler when using the computer. In Safari Technology Preview 68, it’s now available on webpages too! Here’s how I added support to this website. Download video Using the...
TheCollector
Explore Frida Kahlo’s Composition Techniques in 6 Works undefined
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Uncanceled Units
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Handprinted - Blog
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Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to fabric. We used MasterCut for our block because it’s an easy to cut stamping material that prints beautifully. Draw around your block onto a piece of paper. Draw part of your...
Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
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I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
diamond geezer
Borough squares --> How many Squares are there in each London borough? National Street...
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NeuroLogica Blog
World Events and the Conspiracy Instinct By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate...
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By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate Trump at a rally. While it has only been a few days, preliminary investigation has found that 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, using a AR style rifle purchased legally by his...
xkcd.com
Greenland Size
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Eric Bailey
Tribble Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy. You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m...
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Tribble, Tribs, Tribby P, little guy, little dude, bud, buddy. You’re my best friend’s cat, but I’m the next-of-kin on the pet-sitter paperwork. You’re not mine, but I’m definitely a part of you. You’ve been a presence and a comfort through most of my adult life. I’d like to...
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s undefined
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Archinect - Features
10 helpful tips for architecture students going back to school School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term....
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School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term. Whether you're a fresh undergraduate student embarking on your first year of architecture school or you're a returning student about to continue another rigorous year of learning,...
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Mouth Lookers and the Connection Illusion My girlfriend told me I was do it wrong. How was I supposed to know? They don’t teach this stuff in...
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The Rational Walk
The Berkshire Hathaway Playbook Competition tends to eliminate high profits resulting from business models that have worked...
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Competition tends to eliminate high profits resulting from business models that have worked spectacularly well. Will Berkshire's playbook continue to perform well in the future?
Passing Time
A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
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Sean Carroll
The Zombie Argument for Physicalism (Contra Panpsychism) The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there. I’m a physicalist myself — as I...
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The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there. I’m a physicalist myself — as I explain in The Big Picture and elsewhere, I think consciousness is best understood as weakly-emergent from the ordinary physical behavior of matter, without requiring any special...
Eric Bailey
Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers...
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I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent. There is another browser extension called “Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss”. It is made by the highly suspicious Firefox user...
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot? undefined
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History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review ‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review JamesHoare Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 040: GPTs November 10, 2023.
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Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 1, Forests “Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll...
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“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic...
Castles in the Sky
Simplicity, Expertise, and Bullshit The difference between understanding and communicating
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Unpacked
Regulating AI: The case for a mechanisms-based approach Targeting specific mechanisms mitigates AI risks more effectively, is easier to get consensus on,...
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Targeting specific mechanisms mitigates AI risks more effectively, is easier to get consensus on, and avoids unintended consequences of brute force approaches
Retail Design Blog
Aesop boutique by Sher Maker At long last, Aesop has landed in Bangkok, opening a standalone boutique in achingly fashionable...
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At long last, Aesop has landed in Bangkok, opening a standalone boutique in achingly fashionable Thonglor, a fast-evolving neighbourhood known...
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TfL FoI requests in April 2024 20 things we learned from TfL FoI requests in April 2024 1) The annual operating cost for the...
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20 things we learned from TfL FoI requests in April 2024 1) The annual operating cost for the Woolwich Ferry is £8.9 million. 2) In 2021 there were 305km of bus lanes in London, up from 293km in 2011. 3) Tfl spent £282,945.43 advertising this year's Fares Freeze on posters, in...
Rest of World -...
A changing tech landscape makes for weird birthdays online As social media as we know it crumbles around us, birthday greetings have become the province of...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #165 Buffett on Inflation, Dollar General, Due Diligence, Personal Libraries, The role of AI in drug...
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Buffett on Inflation, Dollar General, Due Diligence, Personal Libraries, The role of AI in drug discovery, Small-cap opportunities, and interviews of Peter Brown, Bill Gross, Chris Bloomstran.
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I can't believe this needs to be said. I can't believe this needs to be said, but no - the reason Disney's movies have bombed lately is...
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I can't believe this needs to be said, but no - the reason Disney's movies have bombed lately is not because they aren't advertising on Birdchan. There are a plethora of reasons behind their recent box office failures. But they have nothing to do with diminishing...
Weighty Thoughts
Deep Tech Startups Are Not Software Startups Or why AI and “Software/SaaS” are apples and oranges
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Explorations of an...
Los Amigos Biological Station - Part 3 My final post from Peru.... September 22, 2022 Much like the previous morning, Laura and I...
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My final post from Peru.... September 22, 2022 Much like the previous morning, Laura and I arranged a packed breakfast and we hit the trails around dawn. While birds were obviously on my mind, there were still a few mammals that I was really keen to search for, too. And luck...
History Today Feed
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Crypto Confidential Pre-Order Bonuses! Live Hangs, Early Chapters, Cut Material, and more…
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Christopher Butler
Out-Random the AI If you are a creative person, AI is frightening. It should be. It is yet another technology that we...
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If you are a creative person, AI is frightening. It should be. It is yet another technology that we know more than enough to not pursue, but will anyway because our culture is an untethered, nihilistic avarice addiction cloud in which we are all entrapped. The truth is that...
The Marginalian
200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists in Praise of the Creative and... There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows...
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There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In...
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Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
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Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
IEEE Spectrum
Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering Sony’s team made that happen. And since Aibo’s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of...
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Sony’s team made that happen. And since Aibo’s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of the cute little quadrupeds—a huge number considering their price of several thousand dollars each. From the start, Aibo could express a range of simulated emotions and learn through...
Astral Codex Ten
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Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Calm Anxiety and Bring Peace of Mind Anxiety can be a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While there are...
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Anxiety can be a debilitating condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While there are countless treatments available, many individuals find relief in ancient philosophies like Stoicism. In this article, we explore Stoicism's teachings and practical techniques for...
Kevin Chen
How autonomous vehicle simulation works When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
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When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#29) AI might help the middle class, Americans can afford food, narratives about science, Europe's...
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AI might help the middle class, Americans can afford food, narratives about science, Europe's defense industry, and Native American YIMBYism
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Maximization Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few extra to catch up. Today's News:
The Honest Broker
How Bing Crosby Made Silicon Valley Possible The singer who popularized "White Christmas" was also a visionary tech innovator
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Atoms vs Bits
Keyword Conversations No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
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computers are bad
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
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Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
High Signal
Joining a startup as a co-founder Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy...
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Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy analytics startups as a co-founder after it had already launched. We talked about how he met the original founder of Simple Analytics, how they negotiated the new ownership...
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The chaotic beauty of street art I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
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I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Making Computers More Efficient An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers,...
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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...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 1-7 April 2024 Our top stories from the last seven days.
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Seth's Blog
Valuable contributions We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many...
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We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many hours of engagement the top 15,000+ most watched shows on the network received over a six month period. Here’s the file. Who won? That question is actually the lesson here. The...
Interaction Magic -...
Think outside the screen Nobody likes stroking a pane of glass, so why do we love touchscreens so much? Let's build...
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Nobody likes stroking a pane of glass, so why do we love touchscreens so much? Let's build distributed interfaces that work.
Noahpinion
Energy Bell: The sketch of an idea How can we get America back to the forefront of energy research?
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Dominik Sobe's...
The reason I got hooked on being an Indiehacker
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Basecamp's house of cards... Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure...
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Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure (unknown) I don’t know where I first heard the above quote, but the events of the last week have really shown how true this saying is. I will start by saying that I have been an...
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
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Possible futures for Bridgy Fed Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support...
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Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
CONTEMPORIST
This Japanese Restaurant Uses Washi-Inspired Acrylic Panels To Create A Cozy Atmosphere odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China,...
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odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China, that uses textural materials to create a quiet, relaxing, and cozy atmosphere. The open entrance consists of a light box and two sets of low-wall partitions, allowing the space to be...
journal – Winnie Lim
pretension Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself...
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Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself just like I wouldn’t expect someone without a leg to run a marathon,...
Noahpinion
Harris needs to be Pennsylvania fracking's biggest champion Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same.
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TheCollector
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journal – Winnie Lim
in the mountains at chiang mai After spending a while in the city we moved to the mountains for a bit. Previously I had avoided any...
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After spending a while in the city we moved to the mountains for a bit. Previously I had avoided any trips that involved long vehicle rides because of covid risk, but I...
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Good Meteor Shower This Week Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (Dec. 13-14) is the peak time for one of the best meteor...
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Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (Dec. 13-14) is the peak time for one of the best meteor showers of the year – the Geminids.  The post Good Meteor Shower This Week appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Math Is Still...
An Explorer of Abyssal Depths Looks to Oceans on Other Worlds The marine geochemist Chris German brings decades of experience studying seafloor hydrothermal vents...
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The marine geochemist Chris German brings decades of experience studying seafloor hydrothermal vents to NASA’s preparations for visits to other ocean worlds in our solar system. The post An Explorer of Abyssal Depths Looks to Oceans on Other Worlds first appeared on...
Old Structures...
Four, Maybe Five, Maybe Six Bridges Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from...
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Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from Rutgers Street and South Street: We’ve got a pseudo-dramatic, badly framed view of the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the elevated FDR Drive blocking most of it....
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 19-25 February 2024 Do cool stuff for under a fiver.
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The Marginalian
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music "Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything...
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Musings on Markets
Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen,...
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In March 2023, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank shocked investors not only because it was unforeseen, but also because of the speed with which it unfolded. That failure has had a domino effect, with Signature Bank falling soon after, followed by Credit Suisse in April 2023 and by...
TheCollector
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Rest of World -...
The changing face of protest Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the...
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Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.
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My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit...
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It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit Flower Fountain for my two adorable cats. The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd, but having one really helps with cats staying hydrated and that alone avoids all sorts...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Book You Know You Don’t Understand' Some thirty years ago, at his request, I met with an author in upstate New York who wanted me to...
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Some thirty years ago, at his request, I met with an author in upstate New York who wanted me to write a feature story for my newspaper about him and the small-press book he had written. Frank had been lobbying me for weeks by telephone. He was middle-aged but carried himself...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
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From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Notes on software...
General book recommendations This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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The Honest Broker
A Tribute to Tony Bennett (1926-2023) I've been a fan since childhood—and it feels like I've lost a part of my extended family
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Sean Carroll
Johns Hopkins As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school,...
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As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. (I grew up in an environment that didn’t involve spending a lot of time on...
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The Honest Broker
It's Open Mic Day—Talk About Anything You Want What's on your mind?
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Maps Mania
The Best Price Comparison Maps
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Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – epilogue – curse of dimensionality This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most...
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This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most of the interesting parts, but there are still some topics left to be discussed. To go back and read the meaty stuff, check out
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 2) I like to go to the Roadmap of ReasonML from time to time to get excited about what's getting...
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I like to go to the Roadmap of ReasonML from time to time to get excited about what's getting cooked. Whenever I visit the page, I can't help but notice these 2 points: So the official documentation itself admits that the async story and JSON handling are not that great. This...
Max Rozen
Managing your Node.js installation If you're finding yourself manually installing different versions of Node, you need to know there's...
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If you're finding yourself manually installing different versions of Node, you need to know there's a *much* better way.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Ways to give power to the patients | Out-Of-Pocket can software give us agency?
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Epic Web Dev
Good Code, Testable Code (article) Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for...
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Learn what testability means, how it relates to code complexity, and why it's essential for effective testing.
Ben Borgers
The Code That Keeps Me Alive
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Service as a Service Before you start offering Software as a Service, perhaps just offer a Service.
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Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul? Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
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Both Are True
"she looks exactly like you" she's my daughter, she's my twin
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Rest of World -...
The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages "Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
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Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
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Retail Design Blog
Pizza 4P’s Lotte Mall West Lake by ODDO architects The architectural design of Pizza 4P’s restaurant project exemplifies a fusion of traditional...
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The architectural design of Pizza 4P’s restaurant project exemplifies a fusion of traditional craftsmanship, modern design, and sustainability principles within...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
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That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th. June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
The Modern House
Planned to Perfection: six meticulously designed modernist flats Looking for the chance to live inside a piece of architectural history? Here are six London flats...
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Looking for the chance to live inside a piece of architectural history? Here are six London flats for sale within buildings that exemplify the best of British modernism, from the Barbican to Trellick Tower. The brains behind these sprawling estates and soaring blocks followed new...
Willem's Blog
Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that...
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I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that works well on touch screens. It's good to check out some best practices for touch UI design
Josh Thompson
Winter on Two Pairs of Socks We’re minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the...
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We’re minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the wardrobe. I’ll cover more about what we wear another time, but for now, I want to give you an idea. With the right socks, you can go an entire winter with just two pairs of socks. You...
Maps Mania
The History of Latin America
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Retail Design Blog
Ferragamo shop-in-shop Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the...
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Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the Florence-based fashion house has gradually regained the...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Amused Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: They'll go outside again later. Today's News:
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diamond geezer
St Paul's Cathedral On Lord Mayor's Show day entrance to St Paul's Cathedral is free. Today's post comes free with 30...
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On Lord Mayor's Show day entrance to St Paul's Cathedral is free. Today's post comes free with 30 photos on Flickr. n.b. Doors open at 8.30am, so if you get there early you can get minimal people in your photos. 20 things to see inside St Paul's Cathedral Nave 1) The font...
TheCollector
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The Marginalian
Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30... "We are not incoherent, a bundle of sensations, but a self, rising from experience, continually...
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"We are not incoherent, a bundle of sensations, but a self, rising from experience, continually growing and revised... Through experience, education, art, and life, we teach our brains to become unique. We learn to be individuals. This is a neurological learning as well as a...
David Heinemeier...
What is HiFi I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless...
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I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was...
diamond geezer
Summer Olympics of my lifetime Summer Olympics of my lifetime 10th October 1964: Tokyo Tokyo Melody by Helmut Zacharias - and...
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Summer Olympics of my lifetime 10th October 1964: Tokyo Tokyo Melody by Helmut Zacharias - and helped propel it to number 9 in the singles chart. As one of a limited number of 7-inches in our record box while I was growing up it got a lot of plays, and I still subliminally love...
TheCollector
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Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
The Honest Broker
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult? Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
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Cheese and Biscuits
YiQi, Chinatown As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards...
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As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards regional specification. You're not just Thai, you're Northern Thai/Isarn. You're either selling Tokyo ramen or Sapporo Miso or Kyoto-style Kaiseki. And if you're Chinese, are you...
Old Vintage...
Two tiny 65816 DTV consoles The 21st century direct-to-TV game console: a dirt-cheap toy dragging poor ports of cherished games...
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The 21st century direct-to-TV game console: a dirt-cheap toy dragging poor ports of cherished games to a more downmarket age. If you couldn't afford the real device, your alternative was these inexpensive, inadequate facsimiles faithful only to one's gauzy recollection. As their...
bunnie's blog
Automated Stitching of Chip Images This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS...
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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...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
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The Rational Walk
Prometheus Bound This article presents a discussion of "Prometheus Bound", a play by the Greek Tragedian Aeschylus...
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This article presents a discussion of "Prometheus Bound", a play by the Greek Tragedian Aeschylus dating back to the fifth century BC.
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...
Londonist
Hundreds Of Boats Race On The Thames The Week Before Oxford Vs Cambridge Ever seen the Head of the River Race?
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 095: QwQ November 29, 2024.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better? My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the...
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My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Decreased 0.1% in November Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP)...
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Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) moved down 0.1 percent in November after declining 0.4 percent in October. In November, manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, boosted by a 3.5 percent increase in the index for motor...
Product Identity
What’s the future of AI hardware? I don't have answers
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The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
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Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
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For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
Josh Thompson
Tongue Ties: What, So What, What To Do “tongue tied” (my first time hearing the word, my newborn’s experience) ‘tongue tie’ was something...
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“tongue tied” (my first time hearing the word, my newborn’s experience) ‘tongue tie’ was something I’d heard discussed (the little bit of fiber under a tongue) as the child we now know as Eden was incubating inside of Kristi’s womb. I didn’t think much of it then. Cut forward to...
TheCollector
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Many Worlds
The Moon Rush Is On. Are We on Earth Ready For That? An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon this month and a pioneering Japanese lunar  lander is...
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An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon this month and a pioneering Japanese lunar  lander is awaiting an imminent launch.  A Russian craft trying to land in the same area — the southern polar region — recently crashed, as did a private effort by a joint Japanese-United Arab...
A Beautiful Site
TinyPNG: A better way to compress PNG images By now, you know that optimizing images and other resources can reduce bandwidth and help your...
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By now, you know that optimizing images and other resources can reduce bandwidth and help your website load faster. Perhaps you've even used a tool like Pngcrush before to make your images smaller. Now, there's an even better solution. TinyPNG uses "smart lossy compression...
Darek Kay
Migrating a Create React App project to Vite Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It...
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Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It is great for beginners, as you don't need to care about configuring your toolset. However, I've encountered more and more limitations without "ejecting", mostly due to the...
Data Boutique
Generic data marketplaces are broken Misaligned interests and lack of value are the cause
a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Exclusion Principle
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Diaries of Note
The Last of England Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never...
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Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never officially part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was in 1852 that he started work on two of his most famous paintings: Work, which took thirteen years to complete, and The Last of...
Math Is Still...
The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists...
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Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists reimagined their whole field. The post The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine