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HTMHell
An HTML structure for a tab component by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
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by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I. As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerve Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And don't even start in on liquor-cake. Today's...
4 months ago
The Marginalian
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are "We are carriers of spirit... into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation."
a year ago
Christian Selig
More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of...
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over a year ago
Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of why you might want this! Finding the average color of an image is a nice trick to have in your toolbelt for spicing up views. For instance on iOS, it’s used by Apple to make their...
mtlynch.io
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
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2 months ago
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B. NVIDIA claimed at release that Nemotron outperformed GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on certain benchmarks. That was exciting news, as my experience with self-hostable AI...
TheCollector
How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot? undefined
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Gleams Like a Warm Homestead Light' Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as...
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Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as Martial:  “In private she mourns not the late-lamented; If someone’s by, her tears leap forth on call. Sorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented. They are true tears that without witness...
The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Arrives at the Washington Post And updates on seven other recent articles at The Honest Broker
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Functional Programming, Abstraction, and Names
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 14 Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a European distributor. After three years, I’ve earned back my investment in Zestful (and I might sell it). I’m still ruthlessly delegating every task I can. Goal Grades At the start of...
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79 Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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6 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Triangle of Harm
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language undefined
10 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on The Psychology of Money A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
over a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem undefined
3 months ago
Platformer
How two insurgents are taking on Twitter Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
a year ago
The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
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over a year ago
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
IEEE Spectrum
When IBM Built a War Room for Executives Computer History Museum’s collection has a biography of sorts—a life before CHM, a tale about how it...
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Computer History Museum’s collection has a biography of sorts—a life before CHM, a tale about how it came to us, and a life within the museum. The chapters of that biography include the uses made of it, and the historical and interpretive stories it can be made to tell. This then...
Anecdotal Evidence
'So Many Delicate Aphorisms of Human Nature' “We should hesitate to name any writings which would afford so large and so various a selection of...
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3 months ago
“We should hesitate to name any writings which would afford so large and so various a selection of detached passages complete in themselves. . . . We should be at a loss to name the writer of English prose who is his superior, or, setting Shakespeare aside, the writer of English...
Maps Mania
The Map to the White House
4 months ago
Flashbak
Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925) The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions.     Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
The Elysian
Week 4: One pitch several places
9 months ago
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of the Year to Visit Cairo, Egypt? undefined
6 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Why My Blog is Closed-Source In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In our community, it's so common for developer projects to be open-source. I'm breaking with this trend for my blog, but I have good reasons! In this article, I'll share my reasoning, as well as a workaround in case you _really_ want to see the source. If you're considering...
PHD Comics
07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "James Webb Telescope" - originally published 7/12/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How to analyze public healthcare datasets (even if you're non-technical) | Out-Of-Pocket Plus: using ChatGPT to analyze datasets?
a year ago
Londonist
"Wretched, Frightful, Monstrous" - How London's Iconic Landmarks Were First Reviewed Inc. some serious shade thrown on Tower Bridge.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Is the West falling behind in science? China is now the leader in applied physical sciences. How can the U.S. and its allies catch up?
6 months ago
Quanta Magazine
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of...
a year ago
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Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of the world. The post Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
The industry behind the industry behind AI It’s outsourcing all the way down.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is The Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part II: Evidence from News Media Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down....
a year ago
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a year ago
Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down. I have shown before some preliminary evidence from Twitter content about how Great Awokening terminology with negative connotations are indeed down but those with positive...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, October 2023 A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots...
a year ago
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a year ago
A ~monthly feature. Last month was busy for me with a lot of travel and a lot of focus on The Roots of Progress as a nonprofit organization, so I haven’t had as much time as I prefer for research and writing. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic Q&A: can virtue justify evil? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org.]...
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[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org.] V. writes: My question is: can Stoic virtues be used as excuses to conduct evil deeds? I’m asking this question for several reasons. First, in the current political climate, the...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Closure
over a year ago
The Ruffian
The Age of Centrist Heroes Is Over I Hope You Like Pizza
6 months ago
Quanta Magazine
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells...
a year ago
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a year ago
As researchers race to cultivate more of the intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few cells now growing in labs are giving us our best glimpses of the forerunners of all complex life. The post Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity first...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
abdz.do - Have you...
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs abduzeedo0428—23 ...
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Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs abduzeedo0428—23 Hungarian graphic designer KissMiklós has created a stunning series of typography compositions that showcase the beauty of serif fonts, letters and ligatures. While they may...
Jonas Hietala
2013 Read Books I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet Deluxe - Jens Lapidius Escape from camp 14 - Blaine Harden Wonderful. A great book. Edge - Jeffery Deaver Dollar - Lee Child Gisslan - Lee Child Bränd - Lee Child Besökaren - Lee...
The American Scholar
“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Technology and Moral Responsibility As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago....
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a year ago
As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago. Yesterday, I re-read a series of posts I wrote over a decade ago on ethics and technology. Here’s the first one. What surprised me yesterday was how I could have easily written...
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince? undefined
10 months ago
./techtipsy
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the last 6-7 years or so. USB connected storage is a bad idea when you are using BTRFS. USB connected storage is still a bad idea when you are using ZFS, but it is at least much more...
xkcd.com
US Survey Foot
11 months ago
The American Scholar
“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Severe weather alert For the last two weeks, my weather app has informed me that there’s a real risk (in this case,...
a month ago
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a month ago
For the last two weeks, my weather app has informed me that there’s a real risk (in this case, wildfires). But, after a few days, that’s not severe weather. That’s just weather. (Metaphor alert). Patterns are easy to ignore. We pay attention when the pattern is interrupted. The...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
What Will Happen When Your Analytics Become Illegal? When your users become aware of the data you are collecting will they be angry? Will you lose their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When your users become aware of the data you are collecting will they be angry? Will you lose their trust? How long do you think you will be able to keep this secret?
Articles - Alex...
Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
The Modern House
Nick Knight on being a skinhead, why he’s hopeful about AI and how well-designed spaces make life... In our new podcast, Homing In, our co-founder Matt Gibberd invites guests to discuss their childhood...
a year ago
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a year ago
In our new podcast, Homing In, our co-founder Matt Gibberd invites guests to discuss their childhood home, where they live now and their thoughts on future living. (If you missed episode one, with Ruth Rogers, be sure to listen here.) Our guest on this episode […]
TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship undefined
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Generation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm even into heterocyclic compounds. Today's News:
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million! $1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
a month ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A General Effect of Pleasing Impression' Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of which roughly coincided with the arrival of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in the Golden Age of Blogging, the decline of which roughly coincided with the arrival of Anecdotal Evidence in 2006, literary memes were far more popular. Some were trivial parlor games, a way for certain readers to safely show off without having ever opened a book....
Home on Erik...
NoDoc We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about abolishing documentation. Or NoDoc, as I'm going to call this movement. This was meant to be mostly a thought experiment, but I don't see it as complete madness.
TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth? undefined
a year ago
Both Are True
well this is embarrassing when you're madsad about the caviar problems
6 months ago
pcloadletter
Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty well-received. I decided a fitting way to celebrate was to head on over to Feedly and catch up on some reading! I clicked on an engineers blog feed to check out here latest couple posts. I...
Ferd.ca
A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
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11 months ago
2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
Ben Borgers
I want to use all of my ridiculously many meal swipes
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Ups and Downs The post Ups and Downs appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Maps Mania
Explore the World with Shadows
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Two - Stabilization In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is part two of a three-part series about how I resurrected ingredient-phrase-tagger, a library that uses machine learning to parse cooking ingredients (e.g., “2 cups milk”) into...
TheCollector
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality? undefined
a year ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good are these site builders? I don’t know. Are you worried about job security? I have two thoughts… 1. We’ve seen this before Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow… all these tools...
Weighty Thoughts
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
3 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater undefined
6 months ago
Quanta Magazine
Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly, moving us closer to fully private internet searches. The post Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Ryan Mulligan
CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of sibling elements inside a grid display. What tripped me up was, while these elements were hidden, all of the container's gap gutters remained, leaving undesired extra visual spacing. I...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
a year ago
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a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
ntietz.com blog
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added solar cooking experiment, making seamed box cushions, making saloon cushions, moisture prevention underliner, and board games. Updated...
Nat Eliason's...
Make the Commitment You're Afraid to Make The cost of looking for new mountains
a year ago
Build In Public...
Your New Brainstorming Buddy 🧠💡 Meet Scrintal, a new canvas that's like a playground for your mind.
2 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
sbensu
Everybody is the main character People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny....
a year ago
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a year ago
People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny. Make it clear to them that they are!
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers”...
a month ago
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a month ago
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
Old Structures...
Bones Beneath The Skin A peek behind the surface at the 68th Street station on the Lexington Avenue (6) train. This station...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A peek behind the surface at the 68th Street station on the Lexington Avenue (6) train. This station was part of the Dual Contracts expansion of the subway system, and opened in 1918. I’m pretty sure the platforms were lengthened at some point after that, probably in the 1950s or...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Odd Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll eventually toot the proof. Today's News:
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing undefined
a year ago
The Marginalian
Lichens and the Meaning of Life "We are lichens on a grand scale."
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
andwander GINZA SIX by Schemata Architects and wander features a wide range of unisex items available in various colors. Each item has its own...
a month ago
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a month ago
and wander features a wide range of unisex items available in various colors. Each item has its own unique cutting...
This Space
39 Books: 2013 I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to a particular bench with a view of the sea. On first glance A Table for One promises only banal, coffee-table memories and reflections, and that would be almost right: Real...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vidjagames Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course. Today's News:
Style over Substance
Shooting the Ligero 3D-printed Mamiya Press camera by MaxWanderlush Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the...
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Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the panoramic pinhole Goodman Scura and the MPWide, a modified Fuji Instax Wide 300. The MPWide is a mod by the talented Mario, otherwise known as MaxWanderlush. He has been releasing...
bt RSS Feed
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Oldey-Timey From a 1944 newspaper comic strip called Miss Fury – the title character is about two-thirds...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
From a 1944 newspaper comic strip called Miss Fury – the title character is about two-thirds Catwoman and one-third Batman – a taxi trip through Manhattan, past Washington Square, and to a Greenwich Village rowhouse: The car speeding through below the arch is not a mistake:...
Archinect - Features
2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates Archinect's 2024 highlight of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, where we focus on...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Archinect's 2024 highlight of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, where we focus on courses and workshops for adults, high school graduates, and current college students. Take a look below at our curated selection of educational events at academic institutions and...
Remains of the Day
American Idle I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok. All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
TheCollector
The Word Renaissance: Its Meaning, History, and Cultural Impact undefined
4 months ago
diamond geezer
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Josh Collinsworth
Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
AREMAR jewelry Showroom Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured...
yesterday
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yesterday
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured surfaces, highlighted by a subtle...
Rest of World -...
The augmented-reality app helping Muslims pray toward Mecca Miqat uses 360-degree views and mapping software to help users determine the exact right direction...
3 months ago
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
a year ago
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The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
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If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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One of the spokespeople for the new milk marketing campaign confessed that she doesn’t really like drinking milk. Sales are way down, and an entire generation is drinking other beverages. Other than the people who are paid to sell or lobby for milk sales, few people are...
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Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
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Yeah. Um… Wow. Nice Job NASA. I’ll just copy/paste how The Planetary Society explained it: “NASA's Curiosity team made this artistic interpretation of the rover's view from high up Mt. Sharp by combining pictures taken at different times of day and adding colors to bring out the...
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I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking McMansion somewhere outside the city limits. If you sort your Zillow results as Price: High - Low, this house will pop up first. It costs something like $5,000,000. It is 10,000 square...
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Perceiving the layers of context in problems will unlock another stage of career progression as a Staff-plus engineer, but there’s at least one essential skill to develop afterwards: navigating ambiguity. In my experience, navigating deeply ambiguous problems is the rarest skill...
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Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
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The best value London sightseeing bus It's hard to get an objective opinion. If you head to the Visit London website it turns out they have an affiliate deal with Golden Tours and promote them heavily at the top of their list, with two other operators tucked a long way down and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There exist solutions that would work if only you could take them seriously. Today's News: Merci!
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Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
A Beautiful Site
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Since my audience consists primarily of web developers, I decided to try a little experiment the other day. I added a console greeting to the site for anyone who decides to look under the hood. Here's how I did it. What the heck is a console greeting? # Some time ago, I saw a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently wide definition of butt. Today's News:
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A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
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Ian Burke is a Painter Printmaker based in the North Yorkshire Moors. He was born in Saltburn and grew up in Redcar before studying Fine Art at Newcastle University. Having completed a Master's at Goldsmith's College, London he established a career in teaching art.  Ian now...
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Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results. This is my test Ceph cluster: The cluster consists of the following...
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This is a short story about something delightful. In 2014, I did a bunch of music for my friends Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi who were making an incredible iOS game called Space Age. I had never written that much music in my life, and it was incredibly fun for me in every way. (You...
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Estimating a Difference of Products Wow, it’s been a long time! Both since my last blog post, and since my last quick analysis trick....
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Wow, it’s been a long time! Both since my last blog post, and since my last quick analysis trick. But I’ve been itching to write more blog posts lately, and I thought that something quick and easy like this would be a good way to get back into it without the kind of effort...
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Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain all of C’s performance benefits while also taking advantage of improvements in tooling and language design from the last 30 years. Because Zig is designed...
Wait But Why
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The first invisible design hides in plain sight. It is as transparent as a window, allowing the meaning to shine through. When properly executed, it never draws attention to itself.
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In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into turmoil as the Bolshevik Red Army entered, leaving the future uncertain for the once-thriving port and its inhabitants. One person who found himself caught amidst the chaos was Ivan...
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Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
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When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
julian.digital
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Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Norwegian and Pacific Northwest salmon industries remain largely overlooked and Martin Lee Mueller cleverly weaves the stories of artificially inseminated and reared salmon to highlight the long-standing notion of human...
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Everybody eats That’s the biggest problem. While plenty of people drive or play pickleball, eating is particularly widespread. Seven billion people multiplies into a big number… Creating the food we eat has significant climate impact. Some of the factors, in unranked order: Even...
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There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
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Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
Diaries of Note
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99% Invisible
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Multi-disciplinary design firm mcmahon and nerlich has shared photos of a warehouse-inspired townhouse with a Spanish twist inside.
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In her first collection, A Good Time Was Had By All (1937), Stevie Smith includes a couplet already suggesting themes that would go on preoccupying her:   “All things pass Love and mankind is grass”.   In scripture, grass is the default metaphor for the transience of life. In the...
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I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started. So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app. 1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON If you’re submitting JSON,...
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I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
Stoic Simple
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic philosophy that has recently sprung up that implies that Stoicism cares more about overcoming our feelings than it does about showing kindness to others. The truth is that a true Stoic...
Maps Mania
Flip Off the World with Street View
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Transit Maps
Historical Map: San Joaquin County, California, c. 1910 Here’s a beautiful old illustrative map – this is from a prospectus advertising the benefits of...
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Here’s a beautiful old illustrative map – this is from a prospectus advertising the benefits of settling in San Joaquin County, California in 1910. Part of depicting this as a desirable place to live and do business is showing the multitude of modern railway lines – including...
Atoms vs Bits
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Can audio engineering ideas help us deal with life in the city?s
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The startup working to teach AI about African history There’s less historical material about Africa for AI to find online. Archivi.ng believes its work...
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Maps Mania
Virtual Rewind Machines
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TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction undefined
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The American Scholar
Verde Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense...
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Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew The post Verde appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The battlefield where arguments fight A lot of speech is about convincing others of what type of arguments have merit
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Mazdak
The Ultimate Small Business Hiring Guide How to Find the Right Fit for Your Team
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Mark Manson
Why We Do Things We Hate Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as...
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Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as something that we are not. For example, I've longed to be a surfer for years. The idea fascinated me so much that I even booked several weeks of surf lessons in Costa Rica. Surfing...
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Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
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Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
Explorations of an...
Day Two At Río Bigal - Brilliant Birding and Magnificent Mothing The Pink-throated Brilliant.  There are, of course, many other weird and wonderful species that call...
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The Pink-throated Brilliant.  There are, of course, many other weird and wonderful species that call Río Bigal home, but I was first drawn to the idea of visiting this reserve while reading about the enigmatic Pink-throated Brilliant. This rare hummingbird lives only in forest in...
Interaction Magic -...
Life beyond the screen Since early 2020, I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technologies and Prototyping. Switches,...
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Since early 2020, I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technologies and Prototyping. Switches, light, gesture, motion, sound, haptics: this is all about exploring life beyond the screen.
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Forecast Forecast is a long-form generative art project released on fxhash on 16th Feb 2023. This article...
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Forecast is a long-form generative art project released on fxhash on 16th Feb 2023. This article contains info about techniques and some rambling about concepts and emotions.
Seth's Blog
What do we owe the future? You are someone’s ancestor. Most immediately, you are the ancestor of the you of tomorrow. That’s...
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You are someone’s ancestor. Most immediately, you are the ancestor of the you of tomorrow. That’s why we don’t spend every penny in our bank account, why we put leftovers in the fridge, why we earn a degree–it’s a gift to the you of tomorrow. Each of us have a way of thinking...
xkcd.com
the Wrong Stuff
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Retail Design Blog
Confidential Client Offices by Studio Deshi Studio Deshi‘s workspace design challenges conventions by prioritizing Vastu principles and...
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Studio Deshi‘s workspace design challenges conventions by prioritizing Vastu principles and personalized elements, offering a balanced, wellness-focused environment with custom...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
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CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
The personal website...
The Role of Doubt in Design At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a...
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At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a product designer, and he asked “one of the good ones, or one of the bad ones?” A designer on his team — a “bad one” — asked too many questions. Questions like “Why are we building this...
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
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You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
Tech + Economics +...
Don’t look down on TikTok creators. Learn from them. It’s both terrifying and fascinating to watch a generation half my age redefine creativity on...
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It’s both terrifying and fascinating to watch a generation half my age redefine creativity on platforms like TikTok. As a 34-year-old writer, I’ve seen the evolution of storytelling from physical print to digital media to the dazzling, and fast-paced world of social video....
Neil Madden
A few programming language features I’d like to see I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming...
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I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming languages. A “microfeature” is essentially a small convenience that makes programming in that language a bit easier without fundamentally changing it. I love this idea. I’m partial to...
Platformer
How TikTok failed to make the case for itself After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
a year ago
ToughSF
Piracy in Space is Possible Part II: Armed Merchants and Pirate Patrols There's more to piracy than just attacking a target and running away afterwards.  Put yourself in...
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There's more to piracy than just attacking a target and running away afterwards.  Put yourself in the shoes of a pirate, a merchant or the authorities. What would you do? Fighting back Pirates intercepting, attacking and ransoming a merchant crew should be...
Blog - Practical...
Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A train is a simple thing at...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A train is a simple thing at first glance: a locomotive (or several) pull a string of cars along a railroad. But not all those railcars are equal, and there are some fascinating details if you take minute to...
nanoscale views
A few quick highlights It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to...
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It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the morning sessions of the DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting (pdf of agenda here).  A few quick highlights that I thought were...
AVC
The New York Tech Sector The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for...
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The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for NYC and the surrounding metro area as it has been for the last twenty years. I am not going to link to the piece because it is behind a paywall but if you want to read […]
Old Structures...
The Public Realm This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department...
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This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department of New York, at Lafayette and White Streets. The fire department facilities were moved elsewhere over 50 years ago, but the building is landmarked and reusable, so it has been...
Noahpinion
Why the U.S. should fight Cold War 2 And what it means to "fight" in this case.
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Ben Borgers
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Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
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For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
diamond geezer
Southwark 25 Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The...
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Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The platforms are much like many of the others on the Jubilee line extension, but the concourse between them is unique. Step through and you enter a long cylindrical space on two...
TheCollector
Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation undefined
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Svelte Zen Garden reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
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dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
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The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
How Does OpenAI Survive? Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of...
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Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle —...
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
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Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Nelson's Weblog
Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
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Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan Quietly Shines at Milan Design Week Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the...
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Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the biggest names and brands in the design world descend upon the Italian city, which sees its population swell by nearly 25%. Now in its 62nd iteration, the design extravaganza is an...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Seth's Blog
What spoiled wrecks There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a...
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There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a community increases in wealth, the number of spoiled citizens increases as well. It’s often the acid that corrodes the magic that created the wealth in the first place. Whining is a...
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries? undefined
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Pure CSS Parallax Websites "This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to...
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"This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to create a pure CSS parallax scrolling website. If you find this article useful and want to explore CSS Parallax further, you may find my follow-up article “Practical CSS Parallax” an...
History Today Feed
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights JamesHoare Mon, 12/09/2024 - 09:58
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Passing Time
Mixing Memory and Desire Rage & tranquility; decay & rebirth; memory and desire.
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IEEE Spectrum
Smalltalk Blew Steve Jobs’s Mind Late in 1979, Steve Jobs and other colleagues from Apple visited the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center...
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Late in 1979, Steve Jobs and other colleagues from Apple visited the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). There they were introduced to the experimental Alto computer and the Smalltalk language and computing environment, developed by Alan Kay’s Learning Research Group....
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24) Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S....
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Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
Londonist
Greenwich's Old Town Hall To Become Flats And Viewing Gallery Art deco landmark gets green light for regeneration.
10 months ago
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Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company...
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Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company that is trying to make the internet…
The Modern House
Photographer Finn Beales and arts director Clare Purcell on how light and the landscape inspired...
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diamond geezer
Unblogged November 30 unblogged things I did in November Wed 1: I went to peripheral Hadley Wood and walked the length...
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30 unblogged things I did in November Wed 1: I went to peripheral Hadley Wood and walked the length of peripheral Waggon Road, having climbed the peripheral footpath over the tunnel portal. In the process I spent 30 seconds in Hertfordshire, which it turns out is the last time I...
Londonist
The Golden Age Of Transatlantic Travel Hides In Plain Sight By Trafalgar Square Cockspur Street was a cornucopia of cruise line companies.
a year ago
Marco.org
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
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Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
watchTowr Labs
“To live is to fight, to fight is to live! - IBM ODM Remote Code Execution In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but...
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In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but there is one that we have not mentioned before, that is - quite frankly - the heavy-weight champion of the world in terms of applications for large enterprises. With over a hundred
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Crypto token roundup Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred...
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Roundup of lots of recent posts on crypto tokens: Balaji S. Srinivasan — Thoughts on Tokens Fred Wilson — ICOs and VCs here, Ethereum in 2…
mtlynch.io
My First Impressions of Nix Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing...
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Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten...
CONTEMPORIST
The New Addition On This Home Includes A Pass-Through Window To The Kitchen Building firm Demardi, together with design firm Mesh Design & Projects, have recently completed the...
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Building firm Demardi, together with design firm Mesh Design & Projects, have recently completed the renovation and new rear extension of a home in Thornbury, Australia, for a young family. The original facade of the home was restored, weatherboards were replaced, and new...
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History undefined
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./techtipsy
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34 Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months...
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Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months and the setup has mostly been fine. Sure, the power usage was pretty big under load, and yes, my internet did cut out every time I turned the VM on with all the services starting,...
Seth's Blog
Your own billboard Large sections of Los Angeles are studded with billboards for minor TV shows. These billboards exist...
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Large sections of Los Angeles are studded with billboards for minor TV shows. These billboards exist nowhere else, even though there are televisions globally. Obviously, there’s ego at work here, but it’s sort of productive. First, there’s the ego of the producers/networks. They...
TheCollector
Roman Military Ranks: From Legionary to General undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Midst the Pomp and Toil of War' I learned that General George S. Patton, Jr. wrote poetry from my father, a man who never read...
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I learned that General George S. Patton, Jr. wrote poetry from my father, a man who never read poetry. I was a senior in high school. Days before we went to see the Oscar-winning film Patton, he delivered a lecture on the general’s military prowess, anti-Semitism and desire to...
Quanta Magazine
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the...
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Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in “good” mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic. The post What Makes for ‘Good’...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Life Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Reading astrobiology ruined the universe for...
4 months ago
Astral Codex Ten
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Seth's Blog
On the way to professionalism Professionals make choices. Including: Don’t exploit friends and family. Surgeons shouldn’t do...
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Professionals make choices. Including: Don’t exploit friends and family. Surgeons shouldn’t do surgery on their kids, and investment advisors shouldn’t manage their dad’s retirement fund. It doesn’t matter if you’re sure you’re the best in the world. Swap with the person who’s...
There are two types...
My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
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Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading → The post My...
99% Invisible
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE] Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
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Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
FIRE v London
The richest person you know What’s it like to be in the top 1%? According to the statistics, most of the readers of my blog are...
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What’s it like to be in the top 1%? According to the statistics, most of the readers of my blog are among the highest earning and/or richest people in the UK. I bet however that not many of you feel that way. Let’s start with income To be in the top 1% of earnings in… Continue...
Seth's Blog
Spire confusion When architects show off their work, or propose a bold new building complex or even ask for a zoning...
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When architects show off their work, or propose a bold new building complex or even ask for a zoning variance, the public sees the external photos. The tall spire, the innovative use of glass, the weird hole in the center of the building. And when a car company shows off a new...
nanoscale views
Disorganized thoughts on "Oppenheimer" I saw "Oppenheimer" today.  Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story...
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I saw "Oppenheimer" today.  Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story ends.  Just in case you were wondering, there is no post-credit scene to set up the sequel.  (For the humor-impaired: that was a joke.) The movie was an excellent piece of...
The Last...
Funeral do you have a better system? The funeral is attended by 30 people. It's a military...
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do you have a better system? The funeral is attended by 30 people. It's a military funeral because he was in Korea, and in the front chairs are his wife and two grown children, and they are quietly crying. When it ends, people disperse hesitatingly, after all, they...
Wuthering...
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox - counting the pages, he was quite terrified at the number,... Di at The little white attic is chasing Don Quixote through the 18th century, so she read,...
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Di at The little white attic is chasing Don Quixote through the 18th century, so she read, obviously, The Female Quixote (1852) by Charlotte Lennox.  I had not read it, so I trailed along. An archetypal novelistic heroine, young Arabella has had her brain addled by novels: From...
Open Culture
The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons That Haven’t Been Aired Since 1968 For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a...
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For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a kind of default children’s entertainment. Originally conceived for theatrical exhibition in the nineteen-thirties, they were animated to a standard that held its own against the...
bt RSS Feed
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
Classical Wisdom
How important are dreams? Should we pay attention to them?
11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Jonas Hietala
Writing Home Assistant automations using Genservers in Elixir I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now; it’s a great platform for home automation with its...
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I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now; it’s a great platform for home automation with its beginner friendly and feature rich UI, support for a ton of different devices and integrations, and there’s a bunch of ways to create automations. But there’s no engine for writing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bring on the Vitamines' When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took...
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When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took a class in something called “psychological anthropology.” The teacher was personable and the class was a sort of catch basin of random learning. We could write about any stray...
tomcritchlow.com
Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have...
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Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.
Laetitia@Work
Xi Jinping, Emmanuel Macron & demographic “warfare” Laetitia@Work #65
11 months ago
Arduino Blog
Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
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The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Creating art out of a weapon. Using the Stuxnet Virus. How and why I made Portrait of a Digital Weapon, a piece of electronic art made from the Stuxnet...
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Not Extremely Enough The New York Times recently published “An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods” and...
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The New York Times recently published “An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods” and an accompanying “Extremely Detailed Guide to the Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods.” They are not information about the neighborhoods themselves, but rather...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Open Culture
Face to Face with Carl Jung: ‘Man Cannot Stand a Meaningless Life’ (1959) Carl Gustav Jung, founder of analytic psychology and explorer of the collective unconscious, was...
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Carl Gustav Jung, founder of analytic psychology and explorer of the collective unconscious, was born on July 26, 1875 in the village of Kesswil, in the Thurgau canton of Switzerland. Above, we present a fascinating 39-minute interview of Jung by John Freeman for the BBC program...
Nat Eliason's...
I'm Writing a Book! Book Update 1
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Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
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I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
balajis.com
#2 - Tobi Lütke & Kaz Nejatian on Shopify's Country-Sized Economy Listen now (127 min) | Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji...
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Listen now (127 min) | Tobi Lütke (Shopify Founder & CEO), Kaz Nejatian (Shopify COO), and Balaji review how Shopify rose from tiny startup to $180B+ global economy, with an annual GMV on par with the GDP of New Zealand. In the process they touch on Hayek, the Hanseatic League,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Collapsars and Gravitational Waves The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that...
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The state of modern science and technology is truly amazing, much more so than the fake stuff that people like to spread around. Gravitational waves have opened up an entirely new type of astronomy, a way to explore the universe through very subtle ripples in spacetime produce by...
Retail Design Blog
Bershka flagship store by Culdesac Are mass fashion brands raising their profile through retail design? Well, Bershka certainly has....
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Are mass fashion brands raising their profile through retail design? Well, Bershka certainly has. We’re talking the retailer’s brand new...
Old Vintage...
CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and...
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I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and useful, you had to do it in 6502 assembly language. Today I still write 6502 assembly, plus some Power ISA and even a little TMS9900. I like assembly languages and how in control of the...
DYNOMIGHT
Datasets that change the odds you exist 1. It’s October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis just happened, thankfully without apocalyptic nuclear...
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1. It’s October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis just happened, thankfully without apocalyptic nuclear war. But still: Apocalyptic nuclear war easily could have happened. Crises as serious as the Cuban missile crisis clearly aren’t that rare, since one just happened. You estimate...
Open Culture
Download 1,000+ Digitized Tapes of Sounds from Classic Hollywood Films & TV, Courtesy of the... Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and...
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Watch enough classic movies — especially classic movies from slightly downmarket studios — and you’ll swear you’ve been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again. That’s because you have been hearing the very same sound effects over and over again: once recorded or...
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Uncharted waters: what startups can learn from pirates about compensation Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just...
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Pirate crews developed a surprisingly similar approach to compensation in the 17th century. Just like many startups, they also balanced equity incentives with other mechanisms that would be familiar to a startup employee today, such as bonuses. These surprising similarities...
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A Green Roof Covers This Unique Vehicle Charging Station Architecture firm ADEPT has shared photos of Norlys Charging Park Drejebaenken, a contemporary...
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Architecture firm ADEPT has shared photos of Norlys Charging Park Drejebaenken, a contemporary charging station in Odense, Denmark. The charging park design consists of easily recognizable details and elements that can be adapted to different geographical locations and sizes. The...