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Epic Web Dev
Use Zod for All Form Validation (tip) Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
a year ago
Math Is Still...
In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which...
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Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. The post In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge first...
Retail Design Blog
Hotel Rumour by Studio Modijefsky As the oldest structure in Leiden, dating back to 1060, the Burcht van Leiden castle is one of the...
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As the oldest structure in Leiden, dating back to 1060, the Burcht van Leiden castle is one of the most...
Mazdak
Walmart Goes All-In on AI: Building the Retail Future, One Personalized Shopping Spree at a Time Forget the days of aimlessly wandering Walmart's aisles, clutching a crumpled grocery list and...
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11 months ago
Forget the days of aimlessly wandering Walmart's aisles, clutching a crumpled grocery list and battling for the last box of Oreos. The retail giant is about to revolutionize your shopping experience with a generative AI makeover. Imagine this: You're planning a Super Bowl bash,...
TheCollector
11 Shocking Facts About the Black Dahlia Case undefined
2 weeks ago
./techtipsy
Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my...
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a year ago
Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my article on why I went back to a ThinkPad T430 in 2022. Or that other time when I got a new HP laptop for testing and got so frustrated that I wrote about it. Well, today I’m writing...
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
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How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
Charles Chen
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023 My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
over a year ago
TokyoDev
All About Working Visas for Hiring Foreigners Full-time in Japan *This article is a translation of [a Japanese...
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*This article is a translation of [a Japanese article](https://michi.sociarise.co.jp/recruiting-tips/working-visas/) by Takumi Nakamura, the CEO of [Sociarise](https://sociarise.co.jp), a consultancy for hiring global talents.* When considering hiring foreign nationals, their...
History Today Feed
Beware the Lides of March Beware the Lides of March JamesHoare Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:52
9 months ago
Londonist
TfL Moves To A Bigger Lost Property Office The network's only getting bigger, after all.
a year ago
Beautiful Public...
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to...
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3 months ago
Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data.
Seth's Blog
All species are invasive species Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North...
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Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did. And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the scary new tech that was going to change...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore? undefined
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
The Last of England Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never...
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Ford Madox Brown was a British artist born in Calais in 1821, widely recognised though never officially part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was in 1852 that he started work on two of his most famous paintings: Work, which took thirteen years to complete, and The Last of...
TheCollector
6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells undefined
10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Relief, Joy, or Nostalgia' “Of course, no one simply reads, or rereads, a given book. One reads a certain edition at a specific...
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7 months ago
“Of course, no one simply reads, or rereads, a given book. One reads a certain edition at a specific time in one’s life, and the particular book’s smell, typeface, and paper can be as much a part of the experience as one’s physical and emotional circumstances.”  I used to think...
Rest of World -...
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China A milestone in the militarization of AI.
5 months ago
Commoncog
The Limits of Operational Excellence An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven,...
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An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven, achieve operational excellence, and die, and others acquire Process Power and win?
SatPost by Trung...
6 thoughts on "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style...
a year ago
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a year ago
Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style and Big Tech beefs (Bill Gates, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos).
TheCollector
10 Ancient Cities Around the World to Visit undefined
3 days ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design ...
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Monterra: sipping on sustainable and vegan wines with stylish packaging design abduzeedo0217—23 For over a decade, Monterra has been creating top-of-the-line wines sourced from picturesque vineyards in South Australia. But in recent times, the...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 27-28 January 2024 A frost fair, snowdrops and an Australia Day party.
11 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
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over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable) Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
Noahpinion
2023 is when the empires strike back Cold War 2 won't be decided by the opening moves.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Reality Is Better Looking Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in...
a year ago
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Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in 1871, with that incredible cast-iron facade constructed by Daniel Badger. It’s still there, over 150 years later, now apartments. The engraving on the card really doesn’t do the...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Ancient Advice on Health & Fitness
4 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
How Apple and Google Are Taking Over the In-Car User Experience Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives...
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over a year ago
Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives center around apps. These are available…
Steve Blank
Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1 Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a...
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Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
Rest of World -...
Parents turn to AI tablets after China’s tutor crackdown Tech companies iFlytek, Baidu, and BKK are cashing in on parents who fear their child will fall...
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror? What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible? undefined
4 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
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Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
Archinect - Features
New Dog, New Tricks: Reflections on Construction, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To explore these questions in depth, Archinect speaks with both Boston Dynamics and the Applied Research + Development group at Foster + Partners for their experiences and...
AFAR Media - Travel...
BIPOC Guide to Asheville's Outdoors
10 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Magnetohydrodynamic Drive – Silent Water Propulsion DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now working on developing a...
a year ago
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DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now working on developing a magnet-driven silent water propulsion system – the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive. The primary reason is to develop silent military naval craft. Imagine a nuclear submarine with an MHD drive,...
Rest of World -...
Ride-hailing drivers in Nigeria are suffering after government triples fuel prices Uber and Bolt drivers say the fuel subsidy removal has put them at risk of losing their livelihoods.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Using AI to revive nostalgia — and preserve Hong Kong’s past Michael Chang, CEO of Capture.HK, talks about how the company helps digitize old albums and video...
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
El recurso escaso más importante es la legitimidad
over a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947) Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History? Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
2 months ago
Willem Pennings
Balancing cube This cube manages to balance itself on a corner, and can simultaneously rotate around its axis in a...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This cube manages to balance itself on a corner, and can simultaneously rotate around its axis in a controlled manner. It does so using clever controls and a set of three reaction wheels. The original idea for this device comes from researchers at ETH Zürich, who demonstrate...
nanoscale views
Intriguing papers - exquisite thermal measurements + automated materials discovery/synthesis It's a busy time, but I wanted to point out a couple of papers from this past week. First, I want...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's a busy time, but I wanted to point out a couple of papers from this past week. First, I want to point to this preprint on the arxiv, where the Weizmann folks do an incredibly technically impressive thing.  I'd written recently about the thermal Hall effect, when a...
The Honest Broker
What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt She wrote this book in the 1950s, but it's frighteningly relevant right now
a month ago
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
The Great Discontent...
Rafael Espinal Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked...
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Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked within the halls of government, first as a New York State Assemblymember and then as a New York City Councilmember, advocating for artists, independent workers, and underserved...
Spoon & Tamago
Komaeyu: Redesigning the Public Bath to Preserve Traditional Sento Culture all photos by Ju Yeon Lee courtesy Schemata Architects The number of public baths, or sento as...
a year ago
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all photos by Ju Yeon Lee courtesy Schemata Architects The number of public baths, or sento as they’re referred to in Japan, have been in chronic decline since the late 1960s. As the number of homes with their own private bath proliferated, public bathhouses shrank from over...
NeuroLogica Blog
Possible Sign of Life on Exoplanet The James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic analysis of K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light years from...
a year ago
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a year ago
The James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic analysis of K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light years from Earth, shows signs that the atmosphere may contain dimethyl sulphide (DMS). This finding is more impressive when you know that DMS on Earth is only produced by living organisms, not...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
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4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
Adventures In...
How to Make Features Illuminate an Underlying Basemap Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are...
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Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are casting light on the basemap below? Here’s a silly little trick using crafty symbology and blend modes in ArcGIS Pro. In this case we’ll use glorious stork migration paths,...
Common Edge
Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture? It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
10 months ago
HTMHell
#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser...
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over a year ago
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine"> <div> <img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg"> </div> </div> </a> Issues and...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City undefined
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
The hidden cost of cyberwarfare Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
a year ago
diamond geezer
A nice walk A Nice Walk: Suburban circuit (¾ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too...
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7 months ago
A Nice Walk: Suburban circuit (¾ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, easily reached, pretty flowers, running water, hidden secrets, occasional benches, refreshment opportunity, entirely step-free, won't take long. So here's...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Tiniest Botanical Garden is in Shibuya photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office Walk south from Shibuya station and within 10 minutes you’ll stumble upon a glass dome-shaped building sandwiched between several nondescript buildings. Hidden in plain sight is the Shibuya City Botanical Garden, Japan’s...
mtlynch.io
Happy City by Charles Montgomery Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Given how much urban design affects our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about and participate in it. This book was eye-opening in terms of the way I look at cities and how its inhabitants interact with them. I took for granted the idea that cities should be friendly to...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 368 | ChinaBalloons, CustomGPT, 90s++… ✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll...
a year ago
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a year ago
✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll prevent the email from occasionally descending into the void. SECURITY The US shot down a Chinese spy balloon. They gathered the debris from the water it fell into, and it's currently...
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
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This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
ToughSF
The Expanse's Epstein Drive We aim to take a fictional propulsion technology from The Expanse, and apply the appropriate science...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We aim to take a fictional propulsion technology from The Expanse, and apply the appropriate science to explain its features in a realistic manner. This also applies to other SciFi settings that want a similar engine for their own spacecraft. The Epstein Drive Title art...
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi? Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
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Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
Patterns in Humanity
Constructing Missing Crime Tables Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here I take the raw data from the National Crime Victimization Surveys and construct summary results missing from recent reports.
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR undefined
11 months ago
mtlynch.io
Questions to ask a potential 3PL vendor Over the past six months, I’ve been transitioning the fulfillment processes at my e-commerce...
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Over the past six months, I’ve been transitioning the fulfillment processes at my e-commerce business to a third-party logistics (3PL) vendor. I didn’t know anything about 3PLs before starting this process, so there were a lot of things I didn’t know to ask about. Here are the...
The Wandering...
Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920,...
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over a year ago
The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920, Henry Thompson, an Alberta newspaperman, began interviewing 87-year-old Peter Erasmus, who lived near him in the area of Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Erasmus, who had been born in 1833 in...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024 This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
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6 days ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract: Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
Ink & Switch
11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Shields up Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly,...
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a year ago
Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly, it certainly wasn’t news. They were just four people in a small office in Florida. They gleefully made stuff up every week. They had a few filing cabinets of stock photos, and they...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Fort Myers: Your Gateway to Unforgettable Outdoor Adventures
6 months ago
dthompson
How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for...
a year ago
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Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows or via a web...
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment? undefined
3 weeks ago
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
Good Enough
Lettini is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
a year ago
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a year ago
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re starting a new Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time, starting with our resident designer… Who the hell do you think you are? 👋 Hello, I’m...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The roads not taken
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Shipping is capturing value This great essay from Sean Goedecke went viral two weeks ago, drawing fury and fervor alike for a...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
This great essay from Sean Goedecke went viral two weeks ago, drawing fury and fervor alike for a Moral Mazes-esque analysis of how engineers at large companies should think about shipping: Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is...
Scott DeLong
Weeks 48-52: My Final Update It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My...
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a year ago
It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My Final Update appeared first on Scott DeLong.
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame? undefined
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
a year ago
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a year ago
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
diamond geezer
How deep is Crossrail? In the last week TfL have refused to answer two freedom of Information requests both asking the same...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In the last week TfL have refused to answer two freedom of Information requests both asking the same thing. How deep are Crossrail stations? geology student at UCL attempting to complete an air quality project and the other just wanted a data dump. I am looking for the platform...
Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
2 months ago
This Space
Atheism of the novel "Here it comes: the information dumping..." From section 237, page 185 of Ellis Sharp's latest...
a year ago
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"Here it comes: the information dumping..." From section 237, page 185 of Ellis Sharp's latest novel, the part that is commentary on his attempt to destroy a commercially successful novel emulating "the style that The Guardian liked and promoted": The narrator is a young...
Londonist
Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
10 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub. “This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!” So I start...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #220 The Intelligent Investor, Antitrust and Big Tech, Berkshire Hathaway's Moat, Nuclear War Risks, The...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Intelligent Investor, Antitrust and Big Tech, Berkshire Hathaway's Moat, Nuclear War Risks, The Invisible Man, AIG's Rise & Fall, Housing Prices, Barbary Wars, Speeches of Pericles
Handprinted - Blog
Creating Cyanotypes using the Speedball UV Lamp Cyanotypes are made using a light sensitive solution to create designs on fabric and paper. Prints...
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a year ago
Cyanotypes are made using a light sensitive solution to create designs on fabric and paper. Prints are typically created using direct sunlight. Unfortunately here in the UK, sunshine is often in short supply! But we have discovered a work around using the Speedball UV Lamp, a...
Seth's Blog
Emotional labor and its consequences Forty years ago, Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote about emotional labor. The work that frontline...
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Forty years ago, Arlie Russell Hochschild wrote about emotional labor. The work that frontline employees had to do (especially women) in managing and expressing emotions as part of their job. She talked about how exhausting it was for flight attendants to show up with a smile,...
Tech + Economics +...
Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug. Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the means. This is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the means. This is the seductive trap of Effective Altruism (EA), a doctrine born to the rationalist cradle, promising to solve the world's woes through a calculator. Into this world stepped Sam...
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
a year ago
Maps Mania
America is a Jigsaw
a year ago
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
Dominik Sobe's...
Recapping 2023
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Showing up Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s more like 90 percent. For example, I…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
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If you can’t answer that six-word question, you’re selling a commodity. Organizations don’t buy things, people do. And people at companies aren’t spending their own money, so this is the only question on the table. A cogent story, based on affiliation and status, one that sees...
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Every London borough hosts a Remembrance event, maybe several. The parade lines up outside the museum and awaits the signal. Everyone important's here, all the civic dignitaries apart from those who've been delegated to officiate at the borough's three other memorials. The...
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You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems. You dislike meetings and ceremony. Here’s what you can do to maximize what you like and minimize what you don’t: radiate information. The daily standup meetings that Scrum...
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Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing traditions.
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It’s late in the evening of Saturday, October 28th, 1989. You flip on the television and the saxophonist David Sanborn appears onscreen, instrument in hand, introducing the eclectic blues icon Taj Mahal, who in turn declares his intent to play a number with “rural humor” and...
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Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a malignancy rate of 2% per year, does that compound? So after 5 years there’s a 10% chance it will turn malignant? This turns out to be an interesting question, because the answer...
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Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished? One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
The Modern House
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At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994 On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
Classical Wisdom
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ntietz.com blog
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
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over a year ago
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
History Today Feed
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Tribes in Northeast India have long been isolated from the rest of the country. Creators are using YouTube to challenge the cliches that isolate them.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show–it started first as a musical stage production in 1973, then became a cult classic film in 1975. Now, a half-century later, it gets reborn as a retro video game. Scheduled to be released by Halloween, the game features “8‑bit chiptune renditions of...
Noahpinion
Economic losses for our allies are not wins for the U.S. Stop comparing ourselves to countries who are on our side.
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computers are bad
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On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt." Of course the headline doesn't actually say this, but it does seem to imply that there has been some kind of failure of...
diamond geezer
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Inconsequential transport news The graphic shows a child standing beside an adult, well away from the teeth at the edge. But it also breaks the cardinal rule of "standing on the right", indeed if every parent chose to behave this way it'd block walker-uppers and...
Louwrentius
LFS - Linux Firewall Script released I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux...
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I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux Firewall Script. I run a small Linux box as an internet router that doubles as a firewall. The firewall is configured using iptables. In my opinion, iptables is not the easiest tool to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini December 8, 2023.
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If you’ve boarded the Tokyo Metro this month, there’s a good chance you walked into a train car that was…well, different. Perhaps you felt unobstructed, light and fluid as you passed with ease through the typical blockage. If you experienced any of those symptoms, it’s the work...
diamond geezer
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Let's return to London's newest official walkway, the Green Link Walk, which was launched on 1st March. If you need a map try here, if you need an app try here, if you want 45 pages of walking instructions try here, and if you're reading this several months in the future try...
Rest of World -...
How livestream realtors helped make Xishuangbanna a boom town Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming,...
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Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
Spoon & Tamago
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The Kawazu-Zakura cherry blossoms  If you’re sick of winter and ready for spring, head to Shizuoka’s Kawazu City, the host of one of Japan’s earliest cherry blossom festivals. The Kawazu-zakura cherry blossoms are known for blossoming early and some trees are already beginning to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 041: Lyria November 17, 2023.
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Atoms vs Bits
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I Have No Idea What...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: OpenAI, hear me out: instead of nerfing the AI just make it shame the user. Today's News:
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2019: Lessons learned It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end...
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It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end of year blog post last year so I…
alexwlchan
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Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums. The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
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J. G. Ballard Demystifies Surrealist Paintings by Dalí, Magritte, de Chirico & More Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard...
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Before his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and High-Rise, J. G. Ballard published three apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. Each of those books offers a different vision of large-scale environmental disaster, and...
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Citation Needed
Video: The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political...
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation undefined
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Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
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This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
diamond geezer
On multiple OS maps This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of...
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This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of 1:50000, and between them they cover the whole of Great Britain and its islands. maps tend to align precisely with their neighbours so places appear on one or the other. But...
TheCollector
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detreville
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Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925), a genuine monster.  “As I was saying it is often irritating to listen to the repeating they are doing, always then that one has it as being to love repeating that is the whole history of each one, such a one has it...
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Escaping Flatland
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alexwlchan
Starting Docker just before I need it Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog,...
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Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog, and even if it’s doing nothing it can make my laptop feel sluggish. I’ll often stop if it my computer feels slow, which is great right until the next time I need to use it: $...
The Diff
That Top-of-Cycle Feeling Plus! Search; Cost of Capital; Duration; Aggregate Demand; Leaky Restrictions
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Business Brainstorms
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “i want to go to a doctor that will run every single...
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“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” – The opening lines to Paradise Lost by John Milton, illustrated by John Martin     John Milton’s (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) epic poem...
Londonist
Review: Yoko Ono's Music Of The Mind Is Bizarre, Baffling, Laughable, Brilliant Immersive retrospective lands at Tate.
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Hope for Mars Nothing really. Just a gorgeous image of Mars from the UAE Hope mission.
over a year ago
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Political campaigns embrace AI to reach voters across language barriers Advocacy groups like AAPI Victory Alliance are using ChatGPT and Claude to reach speakers of Hindi,...
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xkcd.com
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 027: Challenge accepted August 11, 2023
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Remains of the Day
Why Information Grows It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting...
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over a year ago
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"There's no way to tell where the border is between measurement and manipulation" Jaron Lanier discussing whether machine learning systems like Netflix recommendations, Facebook's...
over a year ago
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has...
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When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
Maps Mania
Moon 2.0
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Liz Denys
The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of...
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Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of all forms. My hands-down favorite until a few months ago was the caffè macchiato - not to be confused with the highly commercialized latte macchiato you see in places like...
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Balance Sheet of Conscience' “Strange as this may sound, as soon as I saw the first Soviet airplanes on September 17, 1939, I had...
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“Strange as this may sound, as soon as I saw the first Soviet airplanes on September 17, 1939, I had no doubt at all that I’d end up in a camp, and yet I wasn’t much interested in them. Could I have been wearied in advance, by the monotony and dullness of mass atrocities?”  That...
xkcd.com
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xkcd.com
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As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and Mars, Melodie Yashar is aware that, even in space, 3D printing does not exist in a vacuum. Like any construction methodology, it requires a confluence of design intent, delivery...
Rest of World -...
The company building AI dubbing that preserves original voices Seamus McAteer, the founder of Speechlab, discusses AI-generated speech and the importance of...
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Infinite Scroll
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Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly popular in modern times. This philosophy, which focuses on self-control, rational thinking, and acceptance of the inevitability of life's ups and downs, has much to offer those who...
History Today Feed
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
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The Political Biases of Google Bard It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system...
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It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system designed to advance government interests
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diamond geezer
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BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 n.b. This is Bow Street in Covent Garden which is nowhere near Bow Road in Bow, nor close to the church of St-Mary-le-Bow...
One Useful Thing
How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
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Transit Maps
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Submitted by Browne, who says: UTA, the primary transit provider for northern Utah, has officially launched its newest BRT service, and with it, a new transit map. The OGX is a new BRT route from Ogden Central Station, downtown, Weber State University, and down to McKay-Dee...
Fatih Arslan
A month in Munich We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of...
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We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of photos. Here is how it went.
Rest of World -...
At home with Asia’s shopping influencers In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
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Seth's Blog
The thing about Hobson People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial...
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People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial London, he rented horses. And every customer was allowed to take the horse closest to the door. Hobson’s choice is no choice at all. Of course, this system meant that the horses were...
Infinite Scroll
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Jack of all clouds In an episode of Screaming in the Cloud podcast, Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
TheCollector
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The Wrong Stuff Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
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./techtipsy
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
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over a year ago
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
Citation Needed
Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.
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Spoon & Tamago
Go See 5.3 Million Baby Blue Eye Flowers at Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their...
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photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their short-lived beauty. But equally ephemeral are Japan’s Nemophila, or Baby Blue Eyes. And once a year, around late April to Early May, an astounding sea of 5.3 million of these little...
The Modern House
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If The Modern House had a Word of the Year, then Passivhaus would probably be it. Passivhaus emerged as a set of design principles in the 1980s and has come to represent the world-leading standard in energy-efficient homes. It guarantees a happy balance of sustainability […]
journal – Winnie Lim
restarting from scratch I’d finally tested negative on may 2nd the 13th day of my infection, in time to have a mini...
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I’d finally tested negative on may 2nd the 13th day of my infection, in time to have a mini celebration with my partner. I am not sure if I overdid it, but...
TheCollector
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HTMHell
#31 additional “assistance” Bad code <a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional assistance in...
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Bad code <a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional assistance in navigating or accessing the content of this website, please call our customer service toll free number 1-800-666-8654309" title="If you find that you need additional assistance in...
Seth's Blog
The sportscar quadrants They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare...
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They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare one–a car that goes fast but doesn’t feel like it’s on the edge. The hot rod is a car that is actually pretty safe, precisely because it doesn’t feel that way. You don’t have to...
Seth's Blog
The gratuitous use of plastic At the dawn of the plastic age, it was a cheap substitute. The word “plasticky” is not a compliment....
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At the dawn of the plastic age, it was a cheap substitute. The word “plasticky” is not a compliment. Over time, the plastics industry developed new finishes, colors and most of all, cultural impact, and extra (wasted) plastic packaging was seen first as convenient, then as a sign...
Saturday Morning...
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Math Is Still...
How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently. The post How...
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Common Edge
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fast.ai
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The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a...
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The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of Project 2025. There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
Neil Madden
XSS doesn’t have to be game over There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
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There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
./techtipsy
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
Seth's Blog
The amateur presenter Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained...
a year ago
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a year ago
Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained but with something to say. If you’re called on to give a talk or presentation, the biggest trap to avoid is the most common: Decide that you need to be just like a professional...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Karma Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
To Day is the most Best day ever in my Life On 25th August 1989, Canadian geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his stellar team at Toronto’s Hospital...
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a year ago
On 25th August 1989, Canadian geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his stellar team at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children made a groundbreaking announcement: they had pinpointed the gene behind cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that can lead to serious breathing problems and chronic...
Blog posts of...
The things first time founders do… Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first...
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Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Iceland Cruises to Book Right Now
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Willem's Blog
Apple Watch as Phone Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the liberating yet challenging world of wearable tech.
Stephen Diehl
Reflecting on Haskell in 2016
over a year ago
The Changelog
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
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3 months ago
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
A Smart Bear
Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and" Luck always plays a role in startups, but there are ways to better capture upside and mitigate...
7 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now. I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
David Perell
What’s Up with Austin? Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared first on David Perell.
Noahpinion
The age of SASEA South Asia and Southeast Asia are globalization's next frontier.
5 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the...
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a week ago
Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
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a year ago
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Rest of World -...
The U.S. is racing to source chips from Vietnam —  but engineers are scant A deficit of 15,000 engineers is predicted in the next five years. Just 89 students are enrolled in...
a year ago
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a year ago
A deficit of 15,000 engineers is predicted in the next five years. Just 89 students are enrolled in the country’s only comprehensive chip engineering degree.
Making software...
Easy Custom Radio Inputs Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
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over a year ago
Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are something designers tend to over-think when trying to customize them. Let's walk through how to create custom radio buttons with pure CSS, while still preserving performance and...
diamond geezer
Denham Green As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. n.b. there are four...
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7 months ago
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. n.b. there are four Denhams. Specifically Stanley Kubrick Road is in Denham Green. Three things to see in Denham Green 1) Denham Film Studios Alexander Korda opened his film studios just north of Denham in 1935. Some...
Seth's Blog
The 500 ways There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require...
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a year ago
There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require a blood oath or even much inconvenience. “I’m thrilled that you’re contributing.” “Can’t wait to see how this turns out.” “I know someone who really needs to hear about this.” “Go...
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe undefined
10 months ago
The Modern House
James Lohan: the co-founder of Mr &amp; Mrs Smith on how his first experience of home shaped an... James Lohan’s entrepreneurial spirit first came to light in the school dinner queue when he saw the...
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7 months ago
James Lohan’s entrepreneurial spirit first came to light in the school dinner queue when he saw the potential for turning a profit on a stack of cheese toasties. A series of successful business ventures followed suit, but it was in 2003 that James and his […]
macwright.com
Recently Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives on how the business and such have gone, but for now, let’s keep this traditional, a good old-fashioned Recently. Reading This month’s theme, looking back on it, was feminism, and...
The Marginalian
Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal: A Scientist’s Search for the Fulcrum of Faith "The universe is not a place where evolution happens, it is the evolution happening. It is not a...
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"The universe is not a place where evolution happens, it is the evolution happening. It is not a stage on which drama unfolds, it is the unfolding drama itself."
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Software The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the firmware I had to order a microSD card reader. With that on hand the flashing wasn’t difficult. The VORON docs walks you through the installation very well. Mainsail I chose to install...
Lighthouse Blog
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4 months ago
Platformer
Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography Walter Isaacson brings new tales of Jack Dorsey, that Sergey Brin selfie, and more
a year ago
Old Structures...
Two Anachronisms I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It...
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I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It implies a drama that may never have existed. In this case, the west block-front of Trinity Place between Edgar and Rector Streets provides a nice contrast of building ages. From...
Seth's Blog
Digital shortcuts and cognitive load I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my...
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I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my subconscious figured out that getting behind a few trucks for the entire ride enabled me to spend four hours without using much conscious effort on driving. Every day, we make decisions....
Anecdotal Evidence
'Implacable, Bewildered, It Moves Among Us' Some sixteen years ago David Ferry thanked me for a post I had written about some of the lines by...
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a year ago
Some sixteen years ago David Ferry thanked me for a post I had written about some of the lines by Dr. Johnson interpolated into his poems. That email is long gone but I remember being touched by his buoyant sense of gratitude. That a man in his eighties, much honored as a poet,...
Louwrentius
Understanding Storage Performance - IOPS and Latency Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want to discuss some fundamentals that are true regardless of your particular needs. This will help you better reason about storage and may provide a scaffolding for further learning....
macwright.com
Hawbuck wallets There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the...
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8 months ago
There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the most famous. An option that never seems to come up in internet listicles but I’ve sworn by for years is the Hawbuck wallet. My personal preferences for this kind of thing...
Math Is Still...
Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a group of young physicists think they have resolved the conflict by appealing to the central pillar of the new century — the physics of quantum information. The post...
TheCollector
A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do) undefined
4 months ago
Diaries of Note
Chaos ashore On 6th June 1944, approximately 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in an effort...
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a year ago
On 6th June 1944, approximately 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in an effort to reclaim France from Nazi control. One of those brave souls, attached to the Sherwood Rangers tank regiment, was Reverend Leslie Skinner, a remarkable, compassionate man who was...
The Marginalian
The Paradox of Free Will The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive? undefined
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Christopher Butler
There Is No Digital World Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation...
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Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation movement. inverse terms — has created a profound civilizational threat that masquerades as an opportunity. The truth is that there is no such thing as the “digital world.” It is not a realm...
Londonist
Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London "Now pay attention..."
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Relatable Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This comic will become way MORE relatable after the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This comic will become way MORE relatable after the apocalypse when everyone urgently needs potatos. It's what you call playing the long game. Today's News: A second starred review for A City on Mars - this one from Publisher's...
Rest of World -...
Illegal gold mining influencers are tearing up the Amazon Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal...
a year ago
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a year ago
Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal behavior into money-making content.
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
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3 months ago
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Solar Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual use of photovoltaics. Today's News:
balajis.com
The Network State Book A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
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over a year ago
A new book on starting new countries. Available on Kindle and for free at thenetworkstate.com.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Score Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is he uses the money to get a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is he uses the money to get a flight back south to buy more pens. Today's News:
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2024 The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when...
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5 months ago
The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments? undefined
4 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
blag
SQLite Slaps why SQLite is cracked
6 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"This business is like bird spotting" One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely think about big themes. This business is…
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany undefined
9 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
iMessage for Android I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wow Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody was buying it. Today's News:
The Marginalian
The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back. In the years since, the heron has become the closest thing I have to what...
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976) Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
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a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic. Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
Maps Mania
Electrical Japan
a year ago
Citation Needed
Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me? The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto...
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The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto criminals. Also, lawmakers take another stab at stablecoin regulation.
RhysTranter.com
Of Gods and Men (2010): Witnesses to Faith Xavier Beauvois’s 2010 film, Of Gods and Men, begins with this ominous epitaph from the...
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6 months ago
Xavier Beauvois’s 2010 film, Of Gods and Men, begins with this ominous epitaph from the eighty-second psalm. It is to be a portent of the narrative’s themes of death and dignity, explored in conversation with the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 25-31 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
9 months ago
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity undefined
a year ago
Christopher Butler
object – OMNI Magazine, Issue 1 This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a publication very much of its time and ahead of its time. I briefly subscribed to OMNI magazine in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was the sort of magazine that thoroughly suited my interests but was often a bit over my head and clearly not meant for a kid to read....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
a year ago
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a year ago
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Otherwise, as Apolitical as Possible" “If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort of common sense becomes as rare as humility by the hour. It’s the time of year when we start filling the recycling bin with unsolicited, unread campaign literature. This season’s favored...
History Today Feed
The Women who Forged Medieval England The Women who Forged Medieval England JamesHoare Thu, 09/05/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
How Do Fish Ladders Work? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a...
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8 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a stupendous change to the environment, and as with any change, there are winners and losers. The winners are usually us, people, through hydropower generation, protection from flooding,...
TheCollector
The Arts & Crafts Movement: A Response to the Industrial Revolution undefined
4 months ago
Good Enough
Thoughts On Thoughts It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our thoughts and what we believe about them. Or perhaps we can think of this as an intervention. This post is the circle of friends gathered to help us stop hitting ourselves in the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024 Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
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a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
Paul Graham: Essays
Lies We Tell Kids
over a year ago
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
over a year ago
Wuthering...
The appeal of Septology as religious fiction - the urge, inexplicably, to pray - because it helps!... Septology is a stream-of-consciousness novel throughout, a mix of sentence fragments, unconventional...
a month ago
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a month ago
Septology is a stream-of-consciousness novel throughout, a mix of sentence fragments, unconventional punctuation, and temporal shifts, meaning the painter Asle is sometimes thinking about the present and sometimes about the past.  These are all old moves, old techniques.  I was a...
TheCollector
Who Invented the First Motion Picture Camera? undefined
4 months ago
Blog System/5
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
10 months ago
Home on Erik...
More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi: Next week I'm presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Spoon & Tamago
Coworking Space in Kinosaki Onsen Encourages Users to Take Bath Breaks Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The Kinosaki International Art Center (KIAC) is a multipurpose community center located in Kinosaki Onsen, a quaint town on the coast of Japan that’s known for their natural hot...
Old Structures...
New Year’s 1909 According to Puck, a trip to New York is the safety valve that keeps Brother Straightlace, leading...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
According to Puck, a trip to New York is the safety valve that keeps Brother Straightlace, leading the simple life, from blowing up. Opinions vary.
Common Edge
The Creative Power Produced by Embracing Paradox There is a keen sense of insight that comes from being in the in-between spaces of a largely binary...
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
The Hand-Squeegee Philosophy After showering, many people "hand-squeegee" some of the water off themselves before using a towel.
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After showering, many people "hand-squeegee" some of the water off themselves before using a towel.
African History...
a brief note on Africa in 16th century global history. the international relations and manuscripts of Kongo
9 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Finding Small Primordial Black Holes Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Astrophysicists come up with a lot of whacky ideas, some of which actually turn out to be possibly true (like the Big Bang, black holes, accelerating cosmic expansion, dark matter). Of course, all of these conclusions are provisional, but some are now backed by compelling...
Jason Crawford
“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based on this. Recently when someone commented...
./techtipsy
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
a year ago
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a year ago
I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...