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Christopher Butler
A New Kind of Wholeness Check out the light in my office right now 🤩 . AI effectively, but to understand how it fits into...
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Check out the light in my office right now 🤩 . AI effectively, but to understand how it fits into the larger patterns of human creativity and purpose. That’s a good thing — designers are good observers. No matter what the tech, we notice patterns we notice the lack of...
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
Quanta Magazine
The AI Tools Making Images Look Better Researchers have discovered ways around a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and beauty in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Researchers have discovered ways around a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and beauty in digital images. The post The AI Tools Making Images Look Better first appeared on Quanta Magazine
IEEE Spectrum
Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the...
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over a year ago
In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Mr. Raskin believed the computer he...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom. government in central Africa.
a year ago
Articles
3 things I learned from my book launch
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Crime and Punishment #1 This seemed like a good next topic to spin off from monthlies and make into its own occasional...
2 months ago
symmetry magazine
Seeing the full picture with line-intensity mapping Astronomers are championing a relatively new technique as a method to understand the structure of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Astronomers are championing a relatively new technique as a method to understand the structure of the early universe in three dimensions.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Explore Sonoma’s French-Style Wineries and Eats
2 months ago
The personal website...
Optimize for learning Modern software development encourages us to build without learning. Here’s an example: I’m a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Modern software development encourages us to build without learning. Here’s an example: I’m a designer. My team expects me to know the right way to design things. But I don’t always know the right way to design things. It’s hard for me to say “I don’t know the right way to design...
Arduino Blog
The bare necessities: cleaner water and safer food with Arduino There’s a handful of things we truly need in order to live, and food and water comfortably make the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There’s a handful of things we truly need in order to live, and food and water comfortably make the list. Unfortunately, our water and food sources are not always safe. Throughout the world — even in developed countries — pollution, climate change, and poor management are...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback: for actions, not guilt.
Retail Design Blog
Blue Table Chocolates by Arch&Type Tasked to imagine a ~900 square foot space for an artisan chocolatier, Arch&Type asked how built...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tasked to imagine a ~900 square foot space for an artisan chocolatier, Arch&Type asked how built space can enhance the...
The Honest Broker
Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label But you need to know, because it offers a glimpse into the dark future of streaming
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
autocutsel As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different applications in different ways. I know some people who use them deliberately, juggling two pieces of text in different clipboards at once, but for me, it’s always just been...
SatPost by Trung...
Gathering seeds My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
over a year ago
watchTowr Labs
Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623) We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators using a zero-day exploit in Cleo MFT software - namely, LexiCom, VLTransfer, and Harmony - applications that many large enterprises rely on to share files securely. Cleo have a...
Maggie Appleton
A Digital Anthropology Reading List A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology
over a year ago
99% Invisible
Open Borders A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it....
a week ago
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A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized...
oftwominds-Charles...
The Economy of Denial: Addiction, Extortion, Deception Denial doesn't end well, and the 'Economy of Denial' is destined to deconstruction. Even the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Denial doesn't end well, and the 'Economy of Denial' is destined to deconstruction. Even the most opinionated become circumspect when the discussion turns to The Addiction Economy, for the term The Addiction Economy calls things by their real name, which disrupts our...
The Universe of...
Think speak, now speak! Katara is now in her sixth semester in college and can speak Mandarin. I am so proud! For class she...
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7 months ago
Katara is now in her sixth semester in college and can speak Mandarin. I am so proud! For class she recently wrote a talk (in Mandarin) about Hua Guofeng, the often overlooked second chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. She videoed herself giving the talk, and posted it to...
The Changelog
Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The...
a year ago
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It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them “too controversial”. Facebook then censored the article about...
Open Culture
Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do to a much more restrained aesthetic style in our own texts. But that’s not to deny the temptation to start this paragraph with one of those oversized initial letters that grew...
Seth's Blog
The Net Promoter Score More than two-thirds of the companies surveyed said that they used NPS methodology with their...
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More than two-thirds of the companies surveyed said that they used NPS methodology with their customers. Some are using it to measure employee satisfaction as well. The P stands for ‘promoter’, but of course, it doesn’t actually measure promotion. If that many of your customers...
Notes on software...
Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped...
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over a year ago
I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped my y410p dual-booting Windows / Ubuntu with FreeBSD running Gnome 3. I learned a lot during the transition and came to appreciate FreeBSD as a user. I soon began running...
xkcd.com
Bracket Symbols
a year ago
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
TokyoDev
How to grow your startup through community Over my career, I’ve spent at least one thousand working hours on supporting local developer...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Over my career, I’ve spent at least one thousand working hours on supporting local developer communities. My current business, TokyoDev, has spent over 8 million Japanese yen (about 53,000 USD) on community sponsorships. What have I received in return? That depends on your...
Retail Design Blog
Conexus Studio Offices Conexus Studio‘s Singapore office showcases a vibrant and efficient design, blending practicality...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Conexus Studio‘s Singapore office showcases a vibrant and efficient design, blending practicality with sophistication to foster creativity and collaboration, featuring...
Quanta Magazine
For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most...
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One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science. The post For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Yale e360
In Europe, Solar Power Overtakes Coal For the first time in the EU, solar supplied more power than coal did last year, a new analysis...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
For the first time in the EU, solar supplied more power than coal did last year, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
David Heinemeier...
Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over...
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I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
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a year ago
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Noahpinion
The New 1970s The U.S. is a confused, unsettled nation. But green shoots are quietly sprouting.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
“Not your best ever” In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal. Each thing is not going to top...
a year ago
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In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal. Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.
Rest of World -...
Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Jürgen Schmidhuber says the whole world can benefit from the kingdom’s funding of futuristic AI initiatives, and lead to a new golden age for science.
David Heinemeier...
Bad Therapy This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So...
a year ago
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This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So many kids with a diagnosis of one sort or another, so much monitoring of children's every move, so much anxiety over the most trivial things, like the sugar content of a cupcake....
Society's Backend:...
Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
a year ago
xkcd.com
Real Estate Analysis
over a year ago
Unfiltered by Tim...
You Don't Want to Be Rich, You Want Independence “Autonomy is wealth”
2 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
"Things Sam is freaking out about" buying SNAP
a year ago
Irrational...
Talks
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Essence 58 by K LASER Design Lab. Essence 58 reimagines premium packaging, redefining the interplay between texture, light, and...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Essence 58 reimagines premium packaging, redefining the interplay between texture, light, and craftsmanship. Developed under the “Harvested Essence” brand, this...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Process Behind the Touch Interaction Concept If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I followed. One of the main reasons…
Commoncog
Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators?...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.
Ken Shirriff's blog
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
Jonas Hietala
Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
Construction Physics
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials that can have their conductivity varied by many orders of magnitude, which makes it possible to selectively block and allow the...
The American Scholar
Up Close The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
10 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately...
a year ago
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a year ago
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computable—computation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core...
Calculated Risk
FOMC Preview: No Change to Fed Funds Rate Most analysts expect no change to FOMC policy at the meeting this week, keeping the target range at...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Most analysts expect no change to FOMC policy at the meeting this week, keeping the target range at 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 percent.    Market participants currently expect the FOMC to also be on hold at the June meeting, with the next rate cut in July, and one or two more rate cuts later...
Laetitia@Work
Adios productivity Laetitia@Work #46
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged April 30 unblogged things I did in April Tue 1: I still had no broadband at the start of the month, so my...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in April Tue 1: I still had no broadband at the start of the month, so my original plan for an April Fool's Day post had to go unimagined. Thankfully I'd already knocked up my monthly FoI round-up before the connection died on Saturday, so a fictional...
Home on Erik...
Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
abdz.do - Have you...
&Walsh rebrands Lex, welcoming in a new generation of LGBTQ+ community creators &Walsh rebrands Lex, welcoming in a new generation of LGBTQ+ community creators ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
&Walsh rebrands Lex, welcoming in a new generation of LGBTQ+ community creators abduzeedo0130—23 &Walsh created the messaging framework, visual identity, UX/UI toolkit, and website design & development for the queer-owned and operated social...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
Astral Codex Ten
Money Saved By Canceling Programs Does Not Immediately Flow To The Best Possible Alternative ...
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Mining Incorporated (unfinished) Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very serious attempt at making a grand game for Ludum Dare 29. Unfortunately it was a far, far, too big of a game for me to be able to finish it in one weekend. But I had a great...
Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022 Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #202 George Washington on debt, Superinvestors of micro-caps, BYD, OXY/BHE joint venture, Imposter...
a year ago
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a year ago
George Washington on debt, Superinvestors of micro-caps, BYD, OXY/BHE joint venture, Imposter syndrome, Decline of higher education, Howard Schultz, Cathie Wood, Robert Hagstrom
Platformer
How two insurgents are taking on Twitter Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
over a year ago
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Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around Notes
The Perry Bible...
Hacked The post Hacked appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
a year ago
Articles
Black lives matter
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Temple in Ancient Judaism? (Purpose & Significance) The Temple in Jerusalem was the structure that replaced the Tabernacle the Israelites traveled...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
The Temple in Jerusalem was the structure that replaced the Tabernacle the Israelites traveled around with throughout their sojourn in the desert. For 40 years, and even after that, from when the Israelites conquered the promised land until their third king was crowned, the tent...
On the Arts
Do biographies need to start at the beginning? Alternatives to the predictably linear narratives of most biographies.
a year ago
Articles
When you can't win
over a year ago
diamond geezer
The Square 45 45 Squared 13) THE SQUARE, UB7 Borough of Hillingdon, 40m entire village is pencilled in for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
45 45 Squared 13) THE SQUARE, UB7 Borough of Hillingdon, 40m entire village is pencilled in for demolition, every last building, because we're just outside Heathrow Airport and a Third Runway is coming. Longford, a key staging point on the old route to the West Country. It's...
Quanta Magazine
Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more...
7 months ago
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In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. The post Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold first appeared on Quanta...
Diaries of Note
The virus has displaced me British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s shack perched on the stark yet striking shingle beach of Dungeness, Kent. In 1986, following his diagnosis with HIV, Jarman found solace and creative refuge in this secluded spot—its...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stop Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh wait, shoot, would you mind if I did a quick...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oh wait, shoot, would you mind if I did a quick full body scan before never speaking to you again? Today's News:
The New Oil
Hooked 2.0: How Scams are Evolving & How to Avoid Them
4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Proof of Stake FAQ
over a year ago
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Making Icons Fresh We discussed metaphysics like… how it felt to tap them, with and without shadow. We endlessly...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We discussed metaphysics like… how it felt to tap them, with and without shadow. We endlessly fiddled with shadows, geometric and visual sizes, gradients, colors, border radii, and lighting concepts. Our obsession to get them just right went far beyond reason. An interesting...
Josh Thompson
Turing Prep Chapter 4: Arrays, Hashes, and Nested Collections Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
Mazdak
Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1: A Quantum Leap Towards the Future After 17 years of research and development, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
After 17 years of research and development, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum processor—Majorana 1. This breakthrough has the potential to redefine the future of computing, promising industrial-scale problem-solving and scientific discovery at an unprecedented level.
Birchtree
This is why people see attacks on DEI as thinly veiled racism The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and will be an investigation into what went wrong here, but every politician and official who spoke at the White House today explicitly blamed DEI programs for this crash. The message may...
RhysTranter.com
Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the...
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over a year ago
This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the things that we did, with a selection of photographs from each day.
Steve Klabnik
Rust has finally outgrown me
over a year ago
Londonist
Doctor Who TARDIS And Sculpture Appear On South Bank See David Tennant regenerate into Ncuti Gutwa... and back again.
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Joining Arcol
over a year ago
TheCollector
Is There a Historical Basis for King Arthur’s European Campaign? In the legends of King Arthur, the leader of the Britons is most famous for fighting against the...
a month ago
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a month ago
In the legends of King Arthur, the leader of the Britons is most famous for fighting against the Saxons during their conquest of Britain. Most scholars acknowledge that this may have a factual basis. However, at least as early as the 12th century, King Arthur is also presented as...
Tinloof - Blog
A basic introduction to functional programming principles in ReasonML Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability...
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over a year ago
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability and purity. ReasonML extends the functional language OCaml and compiles to JavaScript. This article aims to introduce you to some very basic functional principles present in...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
8 months ago
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Decreased 0.3% in March From the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) decreased...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
From the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) decreased 0.3 percent in March but increased at an annual rate of 5.5 percent in the first quarter. The March decline was led by a 5.8 percent drop in the index for utilities, as temperatures...
Contemporist...
The most unique holiday stay in Tulum, and it's hidden in the jungle Welcome to Babel, not your average hotel, and definitely not your typical tourist trap. Nestled in...
a month ago
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Welcome to Babel, not your average hotel, and definitely not your typical tourist trap. Nestled in the jungly heart of Tulum, this striking pink-toned structure is a game-changer for architecture, sustainability, and how we think about living with nature instead of just on top of...
Birchtree
Nebula Sans (and my new Jet Lag addiction) My friend and Comfort Zone cohost Niléane recently recommended the series Jet Lag: The Game, and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
My friend and Comfort Zone cohost Niléane recently recommended the series Jet Lag: The Game, and it's become my new obsession recently. I think the show is so fun, and Sam, Adam, and Ben have such a great dynamic. The show is on YouTube, but it&
Musings on Maps
Along Narnia’s Enchanted Shores As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have...
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As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have been suggested to benefit from looking, both for perspective and solace, if only for relief, to fantasy literature as … Continue reading →
Blog - Practical...
Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Even though it’s a favorite...
3 months ago
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Even though it’s a favorite vacation destination, the beach is surprisingly dangerous. Consider the lifeguard: There aren’t that many recreational activities in our lives that have explicit staff whose only job...
Retail Design Blog
Pulmuone’s Innovative Store Redefines Food Culture with Sustainability and Modern Convenience. Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive experience that transcends traditional retail. This...
Quanta Magazine
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy...
a year ago
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A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from. The post Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields...
somethingaboutmaps
Journey’s End Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only...
Wuthering...
Books Read in June 2024 - "Why can't we steal the calm vegetable clairvoyance of these great rooted... Three weeks in Portugal meant less and different reading. FICTION Wolf Solent (1929), John Cowper...
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Three weeks in Portugal meant less and different reading. FICTION Wolf Solent (1929), John Cowper Powys – among the most eccentric novels I have ever read, up there with his contemporaries D. H. Lawrence and Ronald Firbank!  I feel I should write about it; I feel I should read...
Moneyness
Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable, costing 3.69 cents to produce each one. In response, the lobbyists that earn big profits from the ongoing existence of the penny have come out in full force with dubious arguments for...
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
a year ago
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My name is Gemma Berenguer and I'm from Barcelona. I'm a printmaker specialising in screen printing, although I also dabble in etching and block printing as well. I run Monostereo, a screen printing company in Barcelona, which has been operating for 15 years now.  I first...
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We’ve lost touch with the ultimate purpose of education: to transform our being and improve our character. The liberal arts are the ends, not the means.   The post Where the Liberal Arts Went Wrong appeared first on David Perell.
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This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the foreground. The Precision Breeding Act will now allow gene-edited plants to be developed and marketed in England (not Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland). The innovation is that the law...
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A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
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Intuition is simply a theory we haven’t yet put into words. Once we write down and share our intuition, it becomes more resilient, focused and useful to others.
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Switch on to Capitalcard Back in January I spotted an original 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station. "I hope someone...
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Back in January I spotted an original 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station. "I hope someone preserves it," I wrote, and what do you know they have! It now has a secure glass frame across the front and also one of the London Transport Museum's blue heritage posters...
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Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
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One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
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Inefficiency is the result of wasted energy. Understanding this you can start looking for ways to plug the leaks and recapture the lost energy that is slowing you down.
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Yale e360
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
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While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace. But that had me asking: why is it...
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Was the Spanish Inquisition Really That Harsh? (Truths & Myths) When most people think of the Spanish Inquisition, they picture horrific scenes of torture and...
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When most people think of the Spanish Inquisition, they picture horrific scenes of torture and cruelty, thousands of people burning at the stake, and a tyrannical religious regime with too much power. What led to these misconceptions and propaganda surrounding the Inquisition,...
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Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
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Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
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How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
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Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a...
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Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a 32-bit processor but also switching to a CMOS implementation. I've been reverse-engineering parts of the 386 chip and came across two interesting and completely different circuits...
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Opella’s new headquarters in Morristown, designed by Gensler, emphasizes connection, agility, and employee well-being through a dynamic culture and consumer...
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Mourning a Dam to Love a River Hurricane Michael's Destruction of Kapps Mill Dam
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Overcoming Bias
Prioritizing Concrete Proposals I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Though I’ve already done something similar for people & blogs, I thought it could be interesting to answer similar questions in a different slice of time after being tagged by Naz Hamid...
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The Physics of Flocks Most people have watched large flocks of birds. They are fascinating, and have interested scientists...
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Most people have watched large flocks of birds. They are fascinating, and have interested scientists for a long time. How, exactly, do so many birds maintain their cohesion as a flock? It’s obviously a dynamic process, but what are the mechanisms? When I was young I was taught...
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
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I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Must Be Continually Striving to Live' A reader asks what I hope to accomplish in retirement. I’m not one for making grand plans or...
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A reader asks what I hope to accomplish in retirement. I’m not one for making grand plans or resolutions. No golf and little travel. It’s more likely I’ll continue what I’m already doing – writing, reading, family matters – just more of it. More Montaigne, J.V. Cunningham,...
Transit Maps
15% Off All Prints in the “Transit Maps” Store Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store,...
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Just a reminder that the best way to support the site is by buying a print from our online store, because you get something awesome in return! We’re having a Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sale with 15% off all prints. Choose from my original...
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in South Carolina South Carolina’s history is deeply intertwined with the founding of America, the Revolutionary War,...
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South Carolina’s history is deeply intertwined with the founding of America, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. It was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860, setting the stage for the nation’s most defining conflict. Battles such as those in Camden and Cowpens...
Christopher Butler
Design for AI If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look...
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If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look like? How does it need to work? When mobile device browsers first became a design problem, some people said that the best way to solve it was with two sets of markup — one for...
Open Culture
The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing the stories...
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You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing the stories behind at least a few notable, beautiful, or downright strange buildings. Yet most longtime New Yorkers, famed for tuning out their surroundings to better strive for their goals of...
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From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
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The Marginalian
The Proper Object of Love: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We...
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One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to understand people — and “understanding is love’s other name.” Even without...
mtlynch.io
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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In which I review almost every episode of Black Mirror Dammit, I really need a break from economics.
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Classical Wisdom
Monsters of Mythology Who Made the Top Ten?
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The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, April 2023 A monthly feature. Note that I generally don’t include very recent writing here, such as the latest...
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A monthly feature. Note that I generally don’t include very recent writing here, such as the latest blog posts (for those, see my Twitter digests); this is for my deeper research. AI First, various historical perspectives on AI, many of which were quite prescient: Alan Turing,...
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Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops President Kuo Zhang tells Rest of World in an exclusive interview that the company is bullish about...
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High Signal
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Productized services are growing rapidly in popularity. For founders, they offer a way to make a six figure salary relatively quickly. For companies, it means paying top talent without the downsides of hiring an employee like paying for a recruiter, paying extra taxes etc. ...
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v2 XO V1 concluded with 10 acquisitions and 1 "fund". The V1 "conclusion" is really a line in the sand...
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XO V1 concluded with 10 acquisitions and 1 "fund". The V1 "conclusion" is really a line in the sand but it feels right as we continue to offload assets to focus on larger deals using outside capital. This will transition us into v2 which we'
The Elysian
What my cooperative media ecosystem could look like My vision for a federated nation of independent writer states.
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Posts on Made of...
The Window Manager I Want Since I first discovered ratpoison in 2005 or so, I've basically exclusively used tiling window...
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Since I first discovered ratpoison in 2005 or so, I've basically exclusively used tiling window managers, going through, over the years, StumpWM, Ion 3, and finally XMonad. They've all had various strengths and weaknesses, but I've never been totally happy with any of them. This...
Calculated Risk
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt:...
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Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt: Another monthly update on rents. Apartment List: Asking Rent Growth -0.3% Year-over-year ... On the supply side of the rental market, our national vacancy index ticked up to 7...
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Borneo 2024: Introduction And Pre-Tour Birding About a month ago, I returned to Sabah in east Malaysia for my fourth tour of duty as a guide for...
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About a month ago, I returned to Sabah in east Malaysia for my fourth tour of duty as a guide for Quest Nature Tours. I've always said that Borneo is one of my favourite tours that I run and even after three previous trips I was looking forward to returning. One of the main...
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
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The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Essential Greeks Returns!
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Moneyness
Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock? Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A...
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Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain influence over Donald Trump would like to pay him a giant bribe, but doing so directly is prohibited by all sort of laws. Luckily, Trump has just...
Calculated Risk
YoY Measures of Inflation: Services, Goods and Shelter Here are a few measures of inflation: Click on graph for larger image. Services were up 4.1% YoY as...
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Here are a few measures of inflation: Click on graph for larger image. Services were up 4.1% YoY as of February 2025, down from 4.2% YoY in January. The second graph shows that goods prices started to increase year-over-year (YoY) in 2020 and accelerated in 2021 due to both...
Data Boutique
Using Historical Data: Basic Knowledge Elements to consider when using historical data from web scraping
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes Bringing visual explanations and embodied knowledge to programming tools
over a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added charging electronics, solar cooking and solar...
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Large Folding Glass Walls Open This Home To A Courtyard Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large...
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Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large folding windows that connect the interior to the inner courtyard and garden.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book Tour! Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks everyone! Sorry to nag about this, but well, it's the culmination of 4 years of work. I hope to see some of you! Today's News: Here are links to the individual events: Strand...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
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Liz Denys
Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023 Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I'd like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
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8 habits for a better day at work
over a year ago
Common Edge
It’s Time to Revise the Metrics for Measuring Quality Places One important guideline: look for simple indicators of complex conditions.
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journal – Winnie Lim
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I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I don’t feel like I have made much progress, and perhaps I...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
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You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Jonas Hietala
Computer upgrade After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some...
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After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some pictures about the process. It was time I didn’t really want to do an upgrade right now, but I felt I had to do it. Sometimes the lag had gotten very noticeable, for example when...
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Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
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Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
The American Scholar
“One Letter” by Liu Xiaobo Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “One Letter” by Liu Xiaobo appeared first on The American...
a year ago
Common Edge
Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture? Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Delicate, Invisible Web You Wove' Who wrote this about whose poetry?:  “For here the water buffalo may rove, The kinkajou,...
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Who wrote this about whose poetry?:  “For here the water buffalo may rove, The kinkajou, the mungabey, abound In the dark jungle of a mango grove . . .”   I might have guessed Kipling or some forgotten Georgian poet. Perhaps it’s a verse omitted by Eliot from Old Possum’s Book of...
Notes on software...
Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Athena the Goddess Of? Her 3 Domains Athena is one of the most famous deities from Greek antiquity. Born in full armor, springing forth...
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Athena is one of the most famous deities from Greek antiquity. Born in full armor, springing forth from the head of her father Zeus, the virgin goddess was her father’s favorite daughter. She was also a favorite among the Greek people as the patron of not just Athens but also...
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Quick guide to git and github (Part 1) Before we start, make sure you have an account on GitHub. Go to https://github.com. Pick a username,...
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Before we start, make sure you have an account on GitHub. Go to https://github.com. Pick a username, enter your email id and choose a…
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In defense of ruthless managers There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are...
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There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 2 Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I...
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Highlights I’m finding it surprisingly difficult not to work. Sleep is getting a little better. I used Nix to create a slick and reusable fuzz testing workflow. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
The American Scholar
A Blast of a Time The scientific underpinnings of Armageddon The post A Blast of a Time appeared first on The American...
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The scientific underpinnings of Armageddon The post A Blast of a Time appeared first on The American Scholar.
Paul Graham: Essays
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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An...
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You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies “Nope! Composer is safe!” Adventure Time An Acceptable Risk What else can you do? Enter Ensemble ¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
Wrong Side of...
The seed of Elon Khan Ultra-prolific men are not like the rest of us
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancients After Alexander The Hellenistic Age
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
Two ways to defend the status quo Neither is true, helpful or generous. Both happen all the time. Call it out when you see it.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Alumnus Software joins Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program We are thrilled to announce that Alumnus Software, based in India and the United States, has joined...
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We are thrilled to announce that Alumnus Software, based in India and the United States, has joined our System Integrators Partnership Program (SIPP) at the Gold level. With over 20 years of expertise in embedded software, IoT applications, and Edge AI development, Alumnus has a...
Luxagraf:...
Low Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays...
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a year ago
Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays fighting their way through wisps of Spanish moss. You can find this scene anywhere in South Carolina below the fall line, a vague geographic boundary that runs along the southeastern...
The American Scholar
Engulfed The post Engulfed appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Science Communication About Controversial Issues The world of science communication has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and it’s...
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The world of science communication has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and it’s useful to think about those changes, both for people who generate and consume science communication. The big change, of course, is social media, which has disrupted journalism and...
Tom Blomfield
Monzo growth I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and...
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I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven’t been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought I’d write out my thoughts in a longer piece so I can feel less bad about giving...
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 3 Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog...
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
Josh Thompson
Rails Migration: When you can't add a uniqueness constraint because you already have duplicates I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for...
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over a year ago
I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for development.wombatsecurity.com. This post has been updated to reflect some lessons learned while running this migration in production. Don’t leave a column without an index at any point in...
NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Debate Regarding Health Effects – Part III Part 3 Hi Steve, and thank you for your timely response, and for even considering hosting this...
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over a year ago
Part 3 Hi Steve, and thank you for your timely response, and for even considering hosting this debate. There has been, and continues to be a “blackout” on almost all discussion regarding the science behind climate change. If “The science” is truly “settled”, it is a pretty shaky...
Retail Design Blog
Bidfood Pizza Academy by mode:lina Bidfood Pizza Academy in Wrocław, designed by mode:lina™ studio, is a space dedicated to training...
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Bidfood Pizza Academy in Wrocław, designed by mode:lina™ studio, is a space dedicated to training and culinary workshops, where Italian...
The American Scholar
Overconsumed Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard The post...
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Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard The post Overconsumed appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in...
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Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
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Paths through the space of all possible solutions Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed...
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Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed system, you can’t violate the CAP…
Stephen Diehl
Monads Made Difficult
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth? And does it need to be true to be important?
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Mark Williams' C Programming System What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
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The Honest Broker
An Open Letter to Taylor Swift I'm asking a favor—but not for me. I want you to do a favor for the music.
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How We Designed a White-Label In-Car Infotainment System Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to...
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Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to change this because each carmaker had…
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Stickies: Spatial note-taking
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Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “I’m sorry about the politics” edition 1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the...
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1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the departures from its senior editorial ranks will continue to make a bad strategy worse. What makes this situation more difficult for the company is its board, which is free of any...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Amazon + One Medical Post | Out-Of-Pocket I guess I should say something?
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on new discoveries in African archeology and the stone ruins of Cameroon. Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription...
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
Louwrentius
What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come...
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Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come up: Unrecoverable read errors (UREs) or what old people like me call 'bad sectors' Silent data corruption (data corruption unnoticed by the storage layers) I get a strong impression...
Charlie Becker
Notes Worth Saving #1 From the launch of Notes in April 2023 until December 2023
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Infinite Scroll
JD Vance and Vice Signaling Abandon your values for power and profit
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Seth's Blog
The new reality of old media Cable TV was a perfect storm. The number of channels that needed old movies and TV series to fill...
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Cable TV was a perfect storm. The number of channels that needed old movies and TV series to fill airtime almost exactly matched the number of worthwhile shows that were available. Which meant that A Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, Seinfeld and MASH could be cornerstones of the...
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
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Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers ...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
over a year ago
xkcd.com
Cosmic Distance Calibration
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Eric Bailey
Improving the usability and accessibility of a healthcare website by being mindful of reading level
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blag
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over a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The Transition The Great Awokening and the end of the cultural revolution
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Both Are True
confessions of a recovering content creator started out at buzzfeed now we here - my convo w comedian and mind behind Create.Repeat, Zack Evans
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“I Have Had My Vision” Three prompts The post “I Have Had My Vision” appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Calculated Risk
LA Ports: March Inbound Traffic Up YoY, Outbound Down Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
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Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...