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Steve Klabnik
How Does BlueSky Work?
a year ago
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How Does BlueSky Work?

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a year ago
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Birchtree
+ iPhone 16e review in progress: battery life You can never do too much battery testing, but after a week with this phone I've got some...
4 months ago
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+ iPhone 16e review in progress: battery life

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4 months ago
You can never do too much battery testing, but after a week with this phone I've got some impressions to share.
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mtlynch.io
if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30...
6 months ago
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if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests

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6 months ago
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if username != "dummyUser" { t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s",...
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Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
over a year ago
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Overcast 4.1 now available

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
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A Smart Bear
Building in public forces true competitive advantage “Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it...
over a year ago
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Building in public forces true competitive advantage

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
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Charlie Becker
To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.
3 months ago
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To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2

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3 months ago
Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.
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Birchtree
It’s time to engage Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its...
5 months ago
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It’s time to engage

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5 months ago
Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its peak, platforms and publishers had to align around mutually beneficial incentives. They did it before, and they can do it again. It would nice to see some progress here before
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Yale E360
A Win for Farmers and Tribes Brings New Hope to the Klamath In the long-contentious Klamath River watershed, an experiment that turned a barley field into a...
3 weeks ago
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A Win for Farmers and Tribes Brings New Hope to the Klamath

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
In the long-contentious Klamath River watershed, an experiment that turned a barley field into a wetland not only improved water quality. It also offered a path forward for restoring populations of two endangered fish species that are of cultural importance to Native tribes. Read...
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The Map is Mostly...
Growing a Hornbeam Hedge What's involved and the cost
3 months ago
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Growing a Hornbeam Hedge

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3 months ago
What's involved and the cost
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Platformer
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major...
over a year ago
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Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

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over a year ago
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
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Home on Erik...
The power of ensembles From my presentation at MLConf, one of the points I think is worth stressing again is how extremely...
over a year ago
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The power of ensembles

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
From my presentation at MLConf, one of the points I think is worth stressing again is how extremely well combining different algorithms works. In this case, we're training machine learning algorithms on different data sets (playlists, play counts, sessions) and different...
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Arduino Blog
Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and...
8 months ago
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Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and many modern disciplines increasingly blur those lines. Mónica Riki is an “electronic artist and creative coder” who embodies that idea: you might remember her and her incredible...
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Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
over a year ago
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Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL

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over a year ago
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
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macwright.com
Recently Happy 2023! I wrote my “2022 in review” in my paper journal and will write about some retrospectives...
over a year ago
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

over 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...
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Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
over a year ago
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How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
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David Heinemeier...
Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy....
4 months ago
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Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy. They'd been early to the market with Windows CE, they were fast-following the iPod with their Zune. They also had the dominant operating system, the dominant office package, and...
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David Heinemeier...
We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar...
a year ago
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We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar app. It seems they love to play these little games to try to drown any controversy with the cover of a weekend. But we don’t roll over that easy, so the team worked through the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
over a year ago
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Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
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Josh Thompson
The Power of an Audacious Goal I generally try to hedge the risks I face. I’m no daredevil, nor do I love danger, but I do love...
over a year ago
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The Power of an Audacious Goal

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I generally try to hedge the risks I face. I’m no daredevil, nor do I love danger, but I do love pursuing opportunities that take me beyond my comfort zone. The funny thing about going beyond your comfort zone is that once you’ve done it once or twice, you redefine your comfort...
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Max Rozen
How code splitting can make your React app load significantly faster Chances are, your React app's bundle is much, much larger than it needs to be.
over a year ago
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How code splitting can make your React app load significantly faster

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over a year ago
Chances are, your React app's bundle is much, much larger than it needs to be.
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Noahpinion
Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP I've explained it before, and I'll keep explaining it until the world understands.
9 months ago
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Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP

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9 months ago
I've explained it before, and I'll keep explaining it until the world understands.
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Retail Design Blog
PNY Grenoble Restaurant by Rudy Guénaire Grenoble is a relaxed and pleasant city surrounded by spectacular mountains, which can be admired at...
a month ago
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PNY Grenoble Restaurant by Rudy Guénaire

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a month ago
Grenoble is a relaxed and pleasant city surrounded by spectacular mountains, which can be admired at the end of every...
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Trying to Understand...
The Water Is Rising. But slowly ...
8 months ago
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The Water Is Rising.

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8 months ago
But slowly ...
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diamond geezer
The 100 comments challenge The 100 comments challenge Can we get 100 comments on today's post, which is full of burning issues...
3 months ago
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The 100 comments challenge

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

3 months ago
The 100 comments challenge Can we get 100 comments on today's post, which is full of burning issues from my immediate locality? My local Dry Cleaners is closing on 1st April a small unit beside the barbers. Alas a sign in the window says they're closing down from 1st April...
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Dan Quach Blog
Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
a year ago
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Braces

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
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The Works in...
Invisible College: Applications close on 28th April Apply to come to our premier event for students
2 months ago
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Invisible College: Applications close on 28th April

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2 months ago
Apply to come to our premier event for students
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A Beautiful Site
Exploring the EyeDropper API The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets...
over a year ago
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Exploring the EyeDropper API

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over a year ago
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets you select a color from anywhere on the screen. Let's dive in and see how it works. To start, we'll add a button that activates the eye dropper. <button type="button">Select a...
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Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
over a year ago
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Building personal and organizational prestige

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over a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 07
a year ago
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Updates June 07

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a year ago
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Londonist
Tate Britain Reveals Grenfell-Inspired Staircase Chris Ofili's Requiem unveiled.
a year ago
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Tate Britain Reveals Grenfell-Inspired Staircase

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a year ago
Chris Ofili's Requiem unveiled.
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Retail Design Blog
Freeths LLP office by Denton A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office...
8 months ago
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Freeths LLP office by Denton

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8 months ago
A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office bursting at the...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will never close that paren. Never. In fact,...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summit

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will never close that paren. Never. In fact, here's an open one: ( Today's News:
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers

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over a year ago
an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
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High Signal
The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
6 months ago
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The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes

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6 months ago
The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
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The Works in...
How DC densified Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued other American cities. Arlington...
3 months ago
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How DC densified

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3 months ago
Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued other American cities. Arlington might be the reason.
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Alice GG
DEFCON 30 This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around...
over a year ago
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DEFCON 30

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over a year ago
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around 27000 hackers in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, Nevada. With more than 30 villages and 3 main conference tracks, the event managed to cover pretty much every subject from malware...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Embrace the medium An obvious but surprisingly under-practiced design principle is to “embrace the medium.”  Applied to...
over a year ago
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Embrace the medium

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over a year ago
An obvious but surprisingly under-practiced design principle is to “embrace the medium.”  Applied to software, this means building…
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Both Are True
What's the one thing we all hate but can't stop doing? achieving ourselves to death within the social media industrial complex
a year ago
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What's the one thing we all hate but can't stop doing?

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a year ago
achieving ourselves to death within the social media industrial complex
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TheCollector
Camus’ “Jonas or the Artist at Work”: Analysis & Ending Explained Camus wrote the short stories included in the collection “Exile and the Kingdom” at a time of...
a month ago
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Camus’ “Jonas or the Artist at Work”: Analysis & Ending Explained

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a month ago
Camus wrote the short stories included in the collection “Exile and the Kingdom” at a time of extreme turmoil in his life. Recently shunned by the Parisian literary community, Camus suffered a crisis of confidence in both himself as a writer and as a man. What came of this period...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.25.0 PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to...
over a year ago
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Array 1.25.0

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over a year ago
PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to everyone, and find out who are the 6 new team members we've onboarded.
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brr
Redeployment Part Three Off-continent after 446 days!
a year ago
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Redeployment Part Three

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a year ago
Off-continent after 446 days!
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Quanta Magazine
Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new...
a year ago
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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

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a year ago
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation. The post Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit first appeared on Quanta...
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Seth's Blog
The Ikea metaphors
4 months ago
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The Ikea metaphors

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4 months ago
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Asterisk
Cows vs. Chemists: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat Everyone wants to know if plant-based meats are good for you. Despite what you might read, no one...
over a year ago
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Cows vs. Chemists: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat

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over a year ago
Everyone wants to know if plant-based meats are good for you. Despite what you might read, no one has a definitive answer.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Nature and Hiking Adventures in the Cayman Islands
a year ago
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Nature and Hiking Adventures in the Cayman Islands

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a year ago
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Jonas Hietala
October theme says: Numbers New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay...
over a year ago
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October theme says: Numbers

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over a year ago
New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay Project theme which this month is numbers. What’s it gonna be? A sudoku game or something more… thrilling? I’ll see what I can do :)
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Eukaryote Writes...
Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? If a fatal neurological virus were spreading across deer in the US, and showed up in cooked infected...
over a year ago
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Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?

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over a year ago
If a fatal neurological virus were spreading across deer in the US, and showed up in cooked infected meat, my default assumption would be “we're in danger.” But a prion isn’t a virus. Why does that matter?
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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...
a year ago
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The thing about Hobson

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a year ago
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...
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Paul Cudenec
For one people's resistance! by Paul Cudenec
6 months ago
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For one people's resistance!

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6 months ago
by Paul Cudenec
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Rest of World -...
Transsion wheels into Africa’s EV market with same playbook that conquered mobile phones The Chinese company behind 50% of Africa’s smartphone sales now wants to dominate its roads.
a month ago
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Transsion wheels into Africa’s EV market with same playbook that conquered mobile phones

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a month ago
The Chinese company behind 50% of Africa’s smartphone sales now wants to dominate its roads.
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Escaping Flatland
Thoughts on agency If anyone is in the mood for a video call, I would like to get a few of you together on Saturday at...
a year ago
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Thoughts on agency

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a year ago
If anyone is in the mood for a video call, I would like to get a few of you together on Saturday at 6 pm CET (9 am PST). Like last time, I’ll prepare a few questions (probably relating to today’s post since that is top of mind) but mostly we’ll just talk about whatever comes up....
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Global Inequality...
Intelligentsia in power On Bukharin's critique of the Austrian school and John Bates Clark
3 months ago
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Intelligentsia in power

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
On Bukharin's critique of the Austrian school and John Bates Clark
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Paul Graham: Essays
How to Raise Money
over a year ago
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How to Raise Money

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over a year ago
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Tony Finch's blog
C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
11 months ago
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C is Turing complete

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11 months ago
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
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Home on Erik...
Wikiphilia I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles...
over a year ago
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Wikiphilia

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles worth sharing and that's why I created the wikiphilia Twitter handle. Just a long stream of stuff that for one reason or another may be interesting.
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Commoncog
Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it....
over a year ago
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Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
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The Diff
The Bid/Ask Spread for Top Talent Plus! De Minimis; ARR; Jurisdictions; Forward-Deployed Engineers; Software and Hardware; Diff Jobs
5 months ago
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The Bid/Ask Spread for Top Talent

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Plus! De Minimis; ARR; Jurisdictions; Forward-Deployed Engineers; Software and Hardware; Diff Jobs
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Blog - Bitfield...
Best Rust books for 2024 There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are...
a year ago
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Best Rust books for 2024

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
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TokyoDev
Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population? As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
over a year ago
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Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
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A Smart Bear
Easy to criticize, hard to create It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally...
a year ago
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Easy to criticize, hard to create

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally ignore the critics.
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Louwrentius
PPSS version 2.30 now operates asynchronous If you background a bash or shell process, how do you determine if it has finished? Since inter...
over a year ago
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PPSS version 2.30 now operates asynchronous

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
If you background a bash or shell process, how do you determine if it has finished? Since inter process communication is not possible using shell scripts, people often refer to while loops or other polling mechanisms to determine if some process has stopped. However, the one...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
2 months ago
35

A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 months ago
Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to split equity fairly between founders? It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity...
over a year ago
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How to split equity fairly between founders?

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It’s easy to think of equity as being valuable in and of itself, but that’s not exactly true. Equity is […] The post How to split equity fairly between founders? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week “There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” Thomas Edison 💡Human QA At least based on my experience...
a year ago
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.” Thomas Edison 💡Human QA At least based on my experience this seems like a service a ton of companies desperately need. Automated checks are awesome, but they can never spot all the weird edge cases that a human can.
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Blog - Guerrilla...
We are Survivors. We are Stardust. STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an...
over a year ago
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We are Survivors. We are Stardust.

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an aerospace engineer. I was visiting with a friend (said engineer) when the theme for the Atlas in a Day Challenge was announced. Upon hearing the theme of Community, she shared that the...
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The Elysian
Your visions for the next Renaissance From our May writing prompt.
11 months ago
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Your visions for the next Renaissance

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
From our May writing prompt.
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
over a year ago
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
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The Marginalian
The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham...
a year ago
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The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965–c. 1040), known in the West as Alhazen, began his life studying religion, but grew quickly disenchanted by its unquestioned dogmas and the way it turned people on each other with...
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diamond geezer
Down the country lane Down the country lane Scraped-out ditch Speed limit begins Table of eggs for sale Footbridge...
2 months ago
25

Down the country lane

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
Down the country lane Scraped-out ditch Speed limit begins Table of eggs for sale Footbridge to the paddocks Customers for the swimming pool White sofa on the first floor landing Workmen making the garage habitable Nosey neighbour walking repeatedly past Once we're home...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Make useRef lazy — 4 ways I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState /...
over a year ago
21

Make useRef lazy — 4 ways

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState / useReducer / useMemo). useRef({ x: 0, y: 0 }) creates an object { x: 0, y: 0 } on every render, but only uses it when mounting — it subsequent renders it's thrown away. With useState,...
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray... The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
a year ago
21

Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray Tans

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s  series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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nanoscale views
An update, + a paper as a fun distraction My post last week clearly stimulated some discussion.  I know people don't come here for political...
5 months ago
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An update, + a paper as a fun distraction

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
My post last week clearly stimulated some discussion.  I know people don't come here for political news, but as a professional scientist it's hard to ignore the chaotic present situation, so here are some things to read, before I talk about a fun paper: Science reports on what...
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Words and Buttons...
Yet another floating point tutorial I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help...
over a year ago
36

Yet another floating point tutorial

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help someone understand floating point numbers better. To do fewer mistakes, to make things faster, to create better software in general.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boop Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost...
over a year ago
73

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boop

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost anything as long as it's presented as a scam? Today's News:
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alexwlchan
A Python function to iterate through an S3 Bucket Inventory For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a...
over a year ago
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A Python function to iterate through an S3 Bucket Inventory

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a week, it creates an inventory; a collection of compressed CSV files that describe every object in the bucket. If we want to analyse everything in the bucket, reading this inventory...
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
over a year ago
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Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
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Rest of World -...
What Meta’s dispute in Nigeria means for its millions of users Facing a penalty for data breaches, the social media giant is threatening to pull WhatsApp, Facebook...
2 months ago
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What Meta’s dispute in Nigeria means for its millions of users

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 months ago
Facing a penalty for data breaches, the social media giant is threatening to pull WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram from Africa's most populous nation.
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99% Invisible
The Panopticon Effect [EPISODE] In the Netherlands, about an hour and a half south of Amsterdam, there’s a city called Breda. Like...
over a year ago
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The Panopticon Effect [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
In the Netherlands, about an hour and a half south of Amsterdam, there’s a city called Breda. Like many Dutch towns, it has cozy narrow streets, canals and plenty of bicycles. But there’s one historic building – right in the middle of town that really stands out from the rest....
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General Robots
Tech Debt When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that...
over a year ago
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Tech Debt

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future Proof. They have grand visions and world changing ambitions. Those make it seem like they should be building grand software, to...
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Probably...
Algorithmic Fairness This is the last in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com...
5 months ago
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Algorithmic Fairness

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
This is the last in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. This article is based on the Recidivism Case Study, which is about algorithmic fairness. The goal of the case study is to explain the statistical arguments...
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Open Culture
How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue” Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe...
2 weeks ago
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How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue”

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 weeks ago
Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe that we live in an increasingly beige-and-gray world from which all color is being drained. Whether or not that’s really the case, all of us still enjoy easy access to a range of...
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Home on Erik...
statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
over a year ago
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statself.com

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
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Posts on Made of...
A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
over a year ago
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A week with the iPhone

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a...
a year ago
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Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app?

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a hefty sum, […] The post Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Flashbak
48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981 In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a...
7 months ago
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48 Hours In The Life of Andy Warhol, 1981

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
In spring of 1981, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was setting up Myths, a portfolio of ten screenprints featuring fictional characters: The Star (Greta Garbo in her titular role in the 1931 film Mata Hari), Uncle Sam, The Witch (Margaret Hamilton, star of the...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
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...
4 months ago
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Paths through the space of all possible solutions

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 months ago
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…
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Liz Denys
A simple summer salad of fennel, edamame, and onion I went most of my life without having fennel. Then one day I had it roasted, the next raw, and I was...
over a year ago
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A simple summer salad of fennel, edamame, and onion

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I went most of my life without having fennel. Then one day I had it roasted, the next raw, and I was in love. Surprising, given that I'm not very partial to anise flavoring. While fennel is very versatile to cook with - you can boil, braise, fry, grill, roast, sauté, or steam it...
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Calculated Risk
February Employment Preview On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is...
4 months ago
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February Employment Preview

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is for 158,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.0%. We estimate nonfarm payrolls rose by 170k in February, slightly above consensus of +160k but below...
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Birchtree
➕ Who cares about smartphone design? Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many...
4 months ago
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➕ Who cares about smartphone design?

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
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Stephen Diehl
The Twilight of the Securities Act
over a year ago
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The Twilight of the Securities Act

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over a year ago
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watchTowr Labs
SysOwned, Your Friendly Support Ticket - SysAid On-Premise Pre-Auth RCE Chain (CVE-2025-2775 And... It’s… another week, and another vendor who is apparently experienced with ransomware gangs but yet...
2 months ago
21

SysOwned, Your Friendly Support Ticket - SysAid On-Premise Pre-Auth RCE Chain (CVE-2025-2775 And Friends)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
It’s… another week, and another vendor who is apparently experienced with ransomware gangs but yet struggles with email. In what we've seen others term "the watchTowr treatment", we are once again (surprise, surprise) disclosing vulnerability research that allowed us to gain...
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Londonist
London's Alleyway Pubs: 13 Of The Best Some of the finest ye olde pubs in London.
a year ago
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London's Alleyway Pubs: 13 Of The Best

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Some of the finest ye olde pubs in London.
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Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
3 months ago
32

Breaking GPT-5 news

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
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Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
9 months ago
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Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

9 months ago
Fun!!
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Probably...
Reject Math Supremacy The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool...
6 months ago
13

Reject Math Supremacy

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is...
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Both Are True
briefly, forever balloons, birthdays, and also, the infinite
2 months ago
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briefly, forever

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
balloons, birthdays, and also, the infinite
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Electronics etc…
Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
a year ago
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Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the...
10 months ago
42

It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10 months ago
Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with the Chrysler Building on the left and the Socony-Mobil Building on the right. Also, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission:
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Wuthering...
How Ivan Bunin and Vasily Grossman spent the war - He was in the countryside then for the last time... Without planning it I recently read three books by Russian writers from three different strands of...
9 months ago
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How Ivan Bunin and Vasily Grossman spent the war - He was in the countryside then for the last time in his life

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

9 months ago
Without planning it I recently read three books by Russian writers from three different strands of Russian literature: Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur (1929 /1972, tr. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler) in the Gogolian and Dostoyevskian strand, Ivan Bunin’s Dark Avenues (1943/1946)...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Helping exceptionally gifted children in Poland
over a year ago
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Helping exceptionally gifted children in Poland

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over a year ago
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Open Culture
How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965) If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a...
11 months ago
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How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965)

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11 months ago
If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a computer. With its 36 keys and its paper-strip printer, it might strike you as some kind of oversized adding machine, albeit an unusually handsome one. But then, you’d expect that...
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macwright.com
CSS Roundup I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
a year ago
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CSS Roundup

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a year ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
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Londonist
70+ Spectacular Things To Do In London This Month: September 2023 Open House London! Plus a new music festival, fashion exhibitions, pole dancing, and sheep on the...
a year ago
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70+ Spectacular Things To Do In London This Month: September 2023

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a year ago
Open House London! Plus a new music festival, fashion exhibitions, pole dancing, and sheep on the loose.
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 13-14 January 2024 Circus, comedy, drag, live music and more.
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 13-14 January 2024

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a year ago
Circus, comedy, drag, live music and more.
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Seth's Blog
The list of compromises All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving...
over a year ago
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The list of compromises

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over a year ago
All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving something up, we would have done that already. So, if a persistent problem important, the question is not: Should we compromise or not? The question is: Which changes are we going...
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Maggie Appleton
Common Misconceptions in AI Common Misconceptions About the Complexity in Robotics vs AI by Dan Ogawa
6 months ago
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Common Misconceptions in AI

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6 months ago
Common Misconceptions About the Complexity in Robotics vs AI by Dan Ogawa
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve May 16, 2025.
a month ago
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AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve

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a month ago
May 16, 2025.
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Seth's Blog
“Won’t get fooled again” Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be...
8 months ago
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“Won’t get fooled again”

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be fooled by them. Vaporware, false deadlines, fake budgets, unrealistic promises and straight out con jobs persist because at some level, we demand them. Divisive arguments, mob...
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Classical Wisdom
Do We Need to Disagree? Cato VS Caesar
4 months ago
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Do We Need to Disagree?

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4 months ago
Cato VS Caesar
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Open Culture
Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful,... When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the...
a year ago
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Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them”

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a year ago
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The...
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TheCollector
Idunn: The Norse Goddess of Eternal Youth & Her Magical Apples The Norse goddess Idunn was charged with the special task of tending to the orchards of golden...
2 months ago
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Idunn: The Norse Goddess of Eternal Youth & Her Magical Apples

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2 months ago
The Norse goddess Idunn was charged with the special task of tending to the orchards of golden apples in Asgard. It was these magical fruits that gave the gods their eternal youth and vigor. When she was kidnapped by the giant Thjazi, the gods began to suffer and age. While the...
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devonzuegel.com
Field notes: Panamá, SEZs, &amp; biotech I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to...
over a year ago
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Field notes: Panamá, SEZs, &amp; biotech

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over a year ago
I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to anyone else interested in similar questions. The purpose of the trip was to research locations for a gene therapy/stem cell clinic that my friend is planning to start. I also...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Thanks… I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8.   I got my second computer – an...
over a year ago
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Thanks…

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8.   I got my second computer – an Atari 800 – two years later.   I was…
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Quanta Magazine
A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity The pathbreaking geneticist Cassandra Extavour pursues the secrets of multicellular life while...
a year ago
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A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
The pathbreaking geneticist Cassandra Extavour pursues the secrets of multicellular life while balancing careers in both science and singing. The post A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Londonist
Wish You Were (Still) Here: Euston Station's Great Hall It would've been 175 years old this year... if it hadn't been reduced to rubble.
a year ago
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Wish You Were (Still) Here: Euston Station's Great Hall

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a year ago
It would've been 175 years old this year... if it hadn't been reduced to rubble.
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Josh Thompson
Krav Maga, or "Crush Balls, Gouge Eyes, and Break Bones" In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was...
over a year ago
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Krav Maga, or "Crush Balls, Gouge Eyes, and Break Bones"

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
In the last few weeks, I have been physically attacked dozens of times. Usually the attacker was just trying to choke me, but sometimes he was trying to throw me to the ground. After a few minutes of fighting, I would attack him. Then we’d both shake hands, say “thank you”, and...
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balajis.com
Decentralizing Education with Synthesis I'm co-leading a round in Synthesis, a startup scaling the custom school built for Elon Musk’s kids.
over a year ago
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Decentralizing Education with Synthesis

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
I'm co-leading a round in Synthesis, a startup scaling the custom school built for Elon Musk’s kids.
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Seth's Blog
Opening the pod bay door A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on...
over a year ago
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Opening the pod bay door

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on mediocrity and the choices we’re going to need to make. And, a while in the making, an experimental AI chat bot that has been trained on all 5,000,000 words of this blog. You can...
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Birchtree
Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted...
4 months ago
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Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted would happen with the base iPad this year: I fully expect to see the 11th gen iPad in 2025, and I think it will come with a jump to the A17 Pro or
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Mazdak
OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all. In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of...
2 months ago
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OpenAI is not becoming a for-profit company after all.

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
In a significant reversal, OpenAI announced on May 5, 2025, that it will remain under the control of its nonprofit entity, abandoning earlier plans to restructure as a for-profit company.
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A Smart Bear
Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...
3 months ago
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Sometimes never compete on price

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
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Old Structures...
Before Iron The photo above, from the NYPL digital archive, shows South William Street (AKA a block from our...
a year ago
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Before Iron

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
The photo above, from the NYPL digital archive, shows South William Street (AKA a block from our office) in the mid-1860s. We’re looking at, from left to right 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17 South William. Here’s a roughly similar view in 2014 (not current because there is now scaffolding...
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Open Culture
See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to...
a year ago
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See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen

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a year ago
Back in 2016, New York City staged a month-long festival celebrating Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946. One event in the festival featured actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University–the very...
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Rest of World -...
Homegrown digital road maps turn into lifelines for West Bank’s Palestinians Community-built tech solutions are helping Palestinians navigate blockades and risks in the...
a month ago
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Homegrown digital road maps turn into lifelines for West Bank’s Palestinians

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a month ago
Community-built tech solutions are helping Palestinians navigate blockades and risks in the Israel-occupied territory.
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devonzuegel.com
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a...
over a year ago
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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and...
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Citation Needed
Issue 69 – Nice Coinbase threatens me that continuing to report on their activities would be “.... unwise”. Also,...
8 months ago
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Issue 69 – Nice

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

8 months ago
Coinbase threatens me that continuing to report on their activities would be “.... unwise”. Also, election spending hits a fever pitch, with several new crypto PACs coming out of the woodwork.
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Turning the Tide: Can Kamala Harris Flip Texas Blue? Let me be clear: Texas will be blue. It’s inevitable. The only question is when? And how do we get...
11 months ago
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🔗 Turning the Tide: Can Kamala Harris Flip Texas Blue?

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
Let me be clear: Texas will be blue. It’s inevitable. The only question is when? And how do we get there? Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Retail Design Blog
Jacquemus Shop-in-Shops by OMA In Paris and London, OMA have designed the shops for the southern French fashion label Jacquemus,...
a year ago
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Jacquemus Shop-in-Shops by OMA

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
In Paris and London, OMA have designed the shops for the southern French fashion label Jacquemus, developing multi-layered design scenarios...
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Old Structures...
Understanding The Underbelly Hardcore bridge geeks will immediately recognize this photo. Everyone else, and hardcore bridge...
a year ago
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Understanding The Underbelly

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Hardcore bridge geeks will immediately recognize this photo. Everyone else, and hardcore bridge geeks with a sense of modesty, will ask “what is it?” It’s the underside of the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, on the side span between the Manhattan tower and anchorage. Starting with...
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The Pragmatic...
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible? Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
over a year ago
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Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible?

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over a year ago
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
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Seth's Blog
A finite ordered set of interesting objects The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul,...
over a year ago
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A finite ordered set of interesting objects

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul, George and then Ringo. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, The Supremes. The astrological zodiac gets us to twelve, but I’m having a really difficult time finding a memorable...
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Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
a year ago
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01 · Universal version control

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a year ago
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
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Light from Space
The Cat's Paw Located very close to the Lobster Nebula in the southern constellation of Scorpius, the Cat's Paw...
over a year ago
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The Cat's Paw

from Light from Space [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Located very close to the Lobster Nebula in the southern constellation of Scorpius, the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) does indeed have a striking resemblance to a feline footprint. It's quite low in the sky here from Tucson (at a maximum of about 22º above
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Infinite Scroll
Crisis PR for Dummies You too can avoid being cancelled!
2 months ago
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Crisis PR for Dummies

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2 months ago
You too can avoid being cancelled!
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macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
over a year ago
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Competition

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over a year ago
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
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Uncharted...
The Israel–Hamas Ceasefire Won’t Last Israel & Palestine, One Year Later
5 months ago
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The Israel–Hamas Ceasefire Won’t Last

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5 months ago
Israel & Palestine, One Year Later
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - All Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Happy family life, productive work life, and...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - All

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Happy family life, productive work life, and worldwide hegemony. Today's News: Nice review of our space book in WSJ.
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Odds and Ends of...
Britain should ban TikTok My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
5 months ago
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Britain should ban TikTok

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
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Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
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TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
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Quanta Magazine
The New Quest to Control Evolution Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it. ...
a year ago
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The New Quest to Control Evolution

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a year ago
Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it. The post The New Quest to Control Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
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somethingaboutmaps
Planetfall Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very...
a month ago
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Planetfall

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a month ago
Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I am very pleased to share it with you. Most of you will wonder what this place is, …...
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Society's Backend:...
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
a year ago
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer

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a year ago
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
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Louwrentius
FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
over a year ago
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
3-6 Months of Beginner Hell Is What It Takes to Become Successful (And Join the Top 1%) 99% of people can't stand it – that's your big opportunity
3 months ago
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3-6 Months of Beginner Hell Is What It Takes to Become Successful (And Join the Top 1%)

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

3 months ago
99% of people can't stand it – that's your big opportunity
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Good Enough
Fixing Things In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage:...
a year ago
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Fixing Things

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage: the Travelpro WalkAbout Lite 2 22" Rollaboard Suiter. The reality was that this wasn't proper business travel. First, it'd only be two or three round-trip flights a year. Second,...
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
9 months ago
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

9 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
over a year ago
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What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?

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over a year ago
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
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Don't Worry About...
On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s...
5 months ago
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On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks

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5 months ago
This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s framework.
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Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics and Consent
a year ago
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Web Analytics and Consent

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a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity...
a week ago
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Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity

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a week ago
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. The post Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity first...
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Quanta Magazine
The Year in Biology Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and...
6 months ago
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The Year in Biology

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6 months ago
Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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bt RSS Feed
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
a year ago
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator

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a year ago
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
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Stephen Diehl
FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity
over a year ago
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FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity

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UX Collective
Creativity is the only thing Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
7 months ago
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Creativity is the only thing

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7 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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DYNOMIGHT
Fahren-height The Internet is well into middle-age, and yet doesn’t seem to have answered humanity’s most pressing...
a year ago
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Fahren-height

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a year ago
The Internet is well into middle-age, and yet doesn’t seem to have answered humanity’s most pressing question: If you pour boiling hot water from various heights, how much does it cool in flight? First attempt I figure there are two key variables: The height you pour from, and...
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Both Are True
why isn't there an A24 for kids? my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
5 months ago
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why isn't there an A24 for kids?

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5 months ago
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
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...
over a year ago
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government

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over a year ago
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…
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charity.wtf
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
5 months ago
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals

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5 months ago
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
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David Heinemeier...
Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to...
a year ago
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Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again

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a year ago
As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to the office, the competitive hiring advantage for remote-first companies is back. And it's even bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many workers have had a taste of what...
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Joel Gascoigne
5 varieties of remote working in companies I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company...
over a year ago
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5 varieties of remote working in companies

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over a year ago
I've recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team, and the nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to accomplish our work. Scaling remote working has been a challenge as the team has grown. Remote companies are still relatively rare,...
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Seth's Blog
The first draft of your first non-fiction book Writing a book is good for you. It clarifies your thinking and it’s generous as well. You might not...
6 months ago
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The first draft of your first non-fiction book

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6 months ago
Writing a book is good for you. It clarifies your thinking and it’s generous as well. You might not publish it professionally, but sharing it with people you want to teach and lead is a useful practice. The first draft can be challenging. We’re facing a blank page, trying to find...
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Marcus on AI
AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters Don’t panic
3 months ago
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AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters

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3 months ago
Don’t panic
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Irrational...
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs). Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
a year ago
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Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).

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a year ago
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
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Retail Design Blog
DSK office by MoVe Architects The DSK office in Sofia epitomizes the future of workplace design, blending functionality with...
4 months ago
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DSK office by MoVe Architects

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4 months ago
The DSK office in Sofia epitomizes the future of workplace design, blending functionality with elegant aesthetics. Located in Bulgaria’s bustling...
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Mazdak
Understanding Family Trusts in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide What is a Family Trust?
7 months ago
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Understanding Family Trusts in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide

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7 months ago
What is a Family Trust?
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Kagi Blog
We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...
10 months ago
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We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise

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10 months ago
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).
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mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 6 Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress....
over a year ago
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Is It Keto: Month 6

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over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress. Revenues fell substantially and missed targets for the month. I’m going to shelve the project unless I achieve my targets for March. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out...
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Anarchy Unfolds
The Weariness of Work Why I've been away; why I'm anti-work as well as pro-labor
a year ago
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The Weariness of Work

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a year ago
Why I've been away; why I'm anti-work as well as pro-labor
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #181 Antisemitism in America, Charlie Munger's uncommon sense, Les Schwab's business philosophy, Niccolò...
a year ago
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The Digest #181

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a year ago
Antisemitism in America, Charlie Munger's uncommon sense, Les Schwab's business philosophy, Niccolò Machiavelli, internal vs. external goals, Safe withdrawal rates, Protecting your time
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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...
a year ago
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All species are invasive species

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a year ago
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...
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Retail Design Blog
Truffle Originals store by Studio Nomatter Founded by Rawin Kanathananon, Truffle Originals is a Thai apparel brand that blends urban outdoor...
3 months ago
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Truffle Originals store by Studio Nomatter

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3 months ago
Founded by Rawin Kanathananon, Truffle Originals is a Thai apparel brand that blends urban outdoor fashion with Japanese-inspired designs and...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
SWORD Health And Virtual Musculoskeletal Care | Out-Of-Pocket A first person account
a year ago
25

SWORD Health And Virtual Musculoskeletal Care | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
A first person account
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Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World War Stoppers and God Makers
a year ago
25

The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World

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a year ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
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Seth's Blog
Plasticity It’s pretty easy for some kids to switch gears. They can go from sad to ebullient in seconds, and...
a year ago
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Plasticity

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a year ago
It’s pretty easy for some kids to switch gears. They can go from sad to ebullient in seconds, and switch contexts without much fuss. Others have more trouble. As we get older, our natural ability to thrive in a new situation can decrease. But, like a muscle or a skill, it...
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Diaries of Note
She’s going, boys! On 21st November 1915, following months of struggle against the implacable Antarctic ice, the crew...
a year ago
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She’s going, boys!

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a year ago
On 21st November 1915, following months of struggle against the implacable Antarctic ice, the crew of Endurance, led by the intrepid Sir Ernest Shackleton, witnessed the final sinking of their ship—a vessel that had promised passage across the continent. In his diary that night,...
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TheCollector
A Complete Timeline of Ancient Greece: From Mycenaean to Roman Greece For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From...
2 months ago
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A Complete Timeline of Ancient Greece: From Mycenaean to Roman Greece

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2 months ago
For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the Bronze Age to its conquest by and cultural fusion with Rome, ancient Greece has had a significant impact on shaping the modern world. Understand the flow...
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Nat Eliason's...
Make Big Money Mistakes Early It's just a cafe, how hard can it be?
over a year ago
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Make Big Money Mistakes Early

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over a year ago
It's just a cafe, how hard can it be?
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Retail Design Blog
DAHR by Amjad Battal DAHR is a luxury watch brand born from the sands of time and the sunlit stones of the Great...
a month ago
16

DAHR by Amjad Battal

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a month ago
DAHR is a luxury watch brand born from the sands of time and the sunlit stones of the Great Mosque...
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Roberto Vitillo's...
Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
over a year ago
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Monoids for analytics

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over a year ago
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
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Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
5 months ago
67

Breaking news: AGI is not imminent!

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5 months ago
Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Venture Capital Squeeze
over a year ago
40

The Venture Capital Squeeze

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over a year ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
sending out pieces of my self In one of my recent posts I documented my experience with the risograph, and at the bottom of the...
a year ago
68

sending out pieces of my self

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a year ago
In one of my recent posts I documented my experience with the risograph, and at the bottom of the post I wrote that I’ll be giving away 5 pieces of the poster...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #194 Poor Charlie's Almanack, Ben Graham, GAAP accounting, John Templeton, AI dystopia, Inflation,...
a year ago
93

The Digest #194

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a year ago
Poor Charlie's Almanack, Ben Graham, GAAP accounting, John Templeton, AI dystopia, Inflation, Bloomstran on Berkshire, Intuitive Surgical, The lessons of history
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bt RSS Feed
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
over a year ago
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400

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over a year ago
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
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99% Invisible
The Six-Week Cure [EPISODE] In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get...
a year ago
33

The Six-Week Cure [EPISODE]

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a year ago
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marries.  The city became known as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to...
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Eric Bailey
What the Web Still Is
over a year ago
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What the Web Still Is

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over a year ago
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Refinance Applications Increased in Weekly Survey; Purchase Applications Declined From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
5 months ago
31

MBA: Mortgage Refinance Applications Increased in Weekly Survey; Purchase Applications Declined

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5 months ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 2.2 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 31, 2025....
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theory Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Or maybe Queen Elizabeth did it all, especially...
3 months ago
42

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theory

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Or maybe Queen Elizabeth did it all, especially after she was dead. Today's News:
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./techtipsy
This page looks better in the app You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing...
over a year ago
39

This page looks better in the app

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over a year ago
You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing their frontend for the mobile-first era. It has taken a lot of time and effort from many people. Countless challenges, arguments, testing. The release is near. You’re probably a bit...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.12 - New Guy New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
10

Comic for 2025.06.12 - New Guy

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a month ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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lcamtuf’s thing
Working with OLEDs: SSD1353 & SSD1333 A quick intro to interfacing common OLED displays to bare-metal microcontrollers.
5 months ago
43

Working with OLEDs: SSD1353 & SSD1333

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
A quick intro to interfacing common OLED displays to bare-metal microcontrollers.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
The most useful programming language Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly...
a year ago
37

The most useful programming language

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a year ago
Aspiring developers often ask me what's the best programming language to learn. Personally, I mostly work with JS — solid choice, but everyone and their dog learns JS these days, so it might be time to add some diversity. I'm curious — which single programming language covers the...
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Home on Erik...
Deep learning for&#8230; Go This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by...
over a year ago
21

Deep learning for&#8230; Go

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over a year ago
This is the last post about deep learning for chess/go/whatever. But this really cool paper by Christopher Clark and Amos Storkey was forwarded to me by Michael Eickenberg. It's about using convolutional neural networks to play Go.
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The American Scholar
Hometown Heroes What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood? The post Hometown Heroes appeared first...
a year ago
42

Hometown Heroes

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a year ago
What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood? The post Hometown Heroes appeared first on The American Scholar.
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Bear Blog question challenge Blogging questions answered
6 months ago
9

Bear Blog question challenge

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6 months ago
Blogging questions answered
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from...
over a year ago
74

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from the beginning to here. It's as a good of a thing as I can write, and I hope you enjoy it. Today's News: The most frequently asked question is the age range for Bea Wolf readers,...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Two new courses! And ~*fun*~ Out-Of-Pocket updates | Out-Of-Pocket
10 months ago
65

Two new courses! And ~*fun*~ Out-Of-Pocket updates | Out-Of-Pocket

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10 months ago
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Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
7 months ago
35

New feature: RSS feed export

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7 months ago
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Calculated Risk
Retail Sales Decreased 0.9% in January On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.9% from December to January (seasonally adjusted), and...
4 months ago
32

Retail Sales Decreased 0.9% in January

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.9% from December to January (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.2 percent from January 2024. report: Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January 2025, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and...
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The Scholar's Stage
Observations From India In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The...
6 months ago
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Observations From India

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In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see things, India’s relationship with America has been mediated by hostile parties for too...
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Society's Backend:...
OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
9 months ago
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OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More

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9 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
9 months ago
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The Ancient Ozempic

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9 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic feelings with NEW phrases. Today's News:
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Things That Might Have Been and Were Not' An old friend has grown uncharacteristically introspective and is finding much to regret. It’s a...
yesterday
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'Things That Might Have Been and Were Not'

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An old friend has grown uncharacteristically introspective and is finding much to regret. It’s a function of age. A widower in retirement from teaching high school, he seems no longer the buoyant social creature I’ve always known. In fact, I envied his gregariousness when we...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the coding challenge How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview...
over a year ago
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Acing the coding challenge

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over a year ago
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.11 - Accused New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
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Comic for 2025.06.11 - Accused

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a month ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Retail Design Blog
JM Café by B.L.U.E Architecture Studio The project is located in the old city zone of Xicheng District, Beijing, adjacent to the west side...
3 months ago
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JM Café by B.L.U.E Architecture Studio

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3 months ago
The project is located in the old city zone of Xicheng District, Beijing, adjacent to the west side of White...
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Blog of Simple...
GDPR and fines: all there is to know
9 months ago
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GDPR and fines: all there is to know

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9 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
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Last Call for Classical Gifts

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a year ago
Shipping Cutoff imminent
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Buck on Software
Thinking incrementally about SaaS An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
over a year ago
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Thinking incrementally about SaaS

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over a year ago
An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
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Seth's Blog
Find the others New years bring resolutions, but those resolutions rarely stick. Creating change is difficult, and...
6 months ago
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Find the others

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6 months ago
New years bring resolutions, but those resolutions rarely stick. Creating change is difficult, and it’s hard to do it alone. New years remind us that we might need a better strategy. A philosophy of becoming, a clear vision on where we’re going (and why). Here’s an invitation to...
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General Robots
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
a year ago
70

The Mythical Non-Roboticist

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a year ago
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
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xkcd.com
Tick Marks
a year ago
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Tick Marks

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a year ago
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UX Collective
Sidebar is back from its break Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
5 months ago
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Sidebar is back from its break

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5 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epitaph Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 7 is the actual epitaph. Today's News:
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epitaph

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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 7 is the actual epitaph. Today's News:
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Seth's Blog
Consequences Frederick Lewis Donaldson created a list of seven social sins that was soon popularized by Gandhi....
a year ago
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Consequences

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a year ago
Frederick Lewis Donaldson created a list of seven social sins that was soon popularized by Gandhi. One hundred years later, it’s more relevant and more urgent than ever. Wealth without work.Pleasure without conscience.Knowledge without character.Commerce without morality.Science...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #57: The government isn't as sluggish as it feels Why Labour supporters should hold their nerve (for now)
5 months ago
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Odds and Ends #57: The government isn't as sluggish as it feels

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5 months ago
Why Labour supporters should hold their nerve (for now)
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 4 On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
over a year ago
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 4

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more...
a year ago
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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a year ago
#1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more directly your offer is related to one the core b2b “desires”, the easier the sales process. Many offers are only indirectly related to them. A better design might increases...
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./techtipsy
I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one...
over a year ago
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I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine

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over a year ago
Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine. This domain used to point to a Wordpress site that hosted content for a candidate in the local elections, at least around...
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bt RSS Feed
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...
over a year ago
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...
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The Universe of...
A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But...
9 months ago
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix

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9 months ago
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day to track down. One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
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Archinect - Features
'The Relationship Between AI and Architecture Is Old Enough to Receive Social Security'; A... Molly Wright Steenson's introduction to the world of computing came when she was ten years old. From...
over a year ago
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'The Relationship Between AI and Architecture Is Old Enough to Receive Social Security'; A Conversation with Molly Wright Steenson

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over a year ago
Molly Wright Steenson's introduction to the world of computing came when she was ten years old. From there, her career as a writer, designer, historian, and professor has taken her on a journey of understanding the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence and its...
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Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
a year ago
100

Ask questions first, shoot later

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
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Wrong Side of...
Inside the Catholic State The world that created Caravaggio
8 months ago
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Inside the Catholic State

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8 months ago
The world that created Caravaggio
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Open Culture
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” (1969) In 1969, Ella Fitzgerald released Sunshine of Your Love, a live album recorded at the Venetian Room...
4 months ago
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” (1969)

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4 months ago
In 1969, Ella Fitzgerald released Sunshine of Your Love, a live album recorded at the Venetian Room in The Fairmont San Francisco. Recorded by music producer Norman Granz, the album featured contemporary pop songs that showcased Fitzgerald’s ability to transcend jazz standards....
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Archinect - Features
Let’s Talk About Architectural Visualization Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Visualization. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the...
9 months ago
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Let’s Talk About Architectural Visualization

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9 months ago
Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Visualization. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the process of visualizing architectural work and what challenges and opportunities the field presents for the architectural design process. Our journey will include not only tips and...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We...
4 months ago
34

Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag

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4 months ago
After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We wanted it to be very discreet and something you never needed to take off.  After many design iterations, tool changes, testing exotic materials, drop testing with old camera bodies...
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Birchtree
AI as Normal Technology Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology We articulate a vision of artificial...
2 months ago
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AI as Normal Technology

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2 months ago
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are...
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Posts on Made of...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
a year ago
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Stripe's monorepo developer environment

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
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Bits about Money
Fiction and Finance Recommendations of works of fiction of interest to financial practitioners or enthusiasts.
9 months ago
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Fiction and Finance

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9 months ago
Recommendations of works of fiction of interest to financial practitioners or enthusiasts.
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Grant Slatton
Tesla Full Self-Driving My experience with FSD
12 months ago
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Tesla Full Self-Driving

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12 months ago
My experience with FSD
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Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
over a year ago
28

Kagi status update: First three months

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over a year ago
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
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Anecdotal Evidence
'I’m Less Inclined to Carp' My nephew and I have long, spontaneous telephone conversations that begin with the usual...
5 months ago
26

'I’m Less Inclined to Carp'

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5 months ago
My nephew and I have long, spontaneous telephone conversations that begin with the usual drab pleasantries: “How are you doing?” “Fine. You?” An hour later we’re saying goodbye, but not before Abe tells me he's smitten by P.G. Wodehouse. These talks usually take place Sunday...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The best HIPAA-compliant A/B testing tools What do Google Optimize, Optimizely, Convert, Webtrends Optimize and Splitbee have in common?...
over a year ago
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The best HIPAA-compliant A/B testing tools

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
What do Google Optimize, Optimizely, Convert, Webtrends Optimize and Splitbee have in common? They're popular A/B testing tools None of them are HIPAA…
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Arduino Blog
An affordable open-source robotic prosthetic arm  For those missing limbs, a robotic prosthesis represents a real and useful way to regain capability....
2 months ago
10

An affordable open-source robotic prosthetic arm 

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2 months ago
For those missing limbs, a robotic prosthesis represents a real and useful way to regain capability. But such prostheses are traditionally very expensive and are inaccessible to a large percentage of the people who would benefit from them. In an effort to improve the situation,...
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Avestura's Blog
Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
over a year ago
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Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

from Avestura's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
6 months ago
36

MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 3.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 3, 2025....
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How to Be a Stoic
How to make progress with your Stoic practice (or learn to drive a car), Epictetus style There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for...
over a year ago
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How to make progress with your Stoic practice (or learn to drive a car), Epictetus style

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over a year ago
There are different ways to understand and practice Stoic philosophy, and this is true not just for the differences between ancient and modern Stoicism, but even within ancient Stoicism itself. After all, the philosophy evolved over a course of more than five centuries from Zeno...
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Ben Borgers
Tufts Meal Plans Are a Scam
over a year ago
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Tufts Meal Plans Are a Scam

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over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that...
3 months ago
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This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.07 - Eye Doctor New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
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Comic for 2025.06.07 - Eye Doctor

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a month ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Calculated Risk
Construction Spending Increased 0.5% in December From the Census Bureau reported that overall construction spending increased: Construction spending...
5 months ago
25

Construction Spending Increased 0.5% in December

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
From the Census Bureau reported that overall construction spending increased: Construction spending during December 2024 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2,192.2 billion, 0.5 percent above the revised November estimate of $2,180.3 billion. The December...
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Maps Mania
The Best (and Worst) Cities for Rail Transport
4 months ago
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The Best (and Worst) Cities for Rail Transport

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4 months ago
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Daniel Miessler
AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
over a year ago
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AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
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Blog -...
Book Review - Open Open by Andre Agassi is a narrative tour de force. I literally could not put it down. I usually...
over a year ago
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Book Review - Open

from Blog - Anchorpointexpeditions.com [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Open by Andre Agassi is a narrative tour de force. I literally could not put it down. I usually have four to six books on the go at any time, but all of them were put on pause for the day and a half it took me to devour this book.
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Articles
Business is like a game of Frogger
over a year ago
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Business is like a game of Frogger

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
over a year ago
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Don't hate on PHP

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
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The Ruffian
Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
a year ago
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Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster

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a year ago
What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
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xkcd.com
Moon Landing Mission Profiles
a year ago
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Moon Landing Mission Profiles

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a year ago
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TheCollector
Son of a Witch! Greg Houle on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 Few historical events fascinate modern audiences as much as the Salem witch trials of 1692, which...
a month ago
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Son of a Witch! Greg Houle on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692

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a month ago
Few historical events fascinate modern audiences as much as the Salem witch trials of 1692, which saw more than 200 people accused and 19 people executed for witchcraft. But what underlying factors allowed the witch trials to happen in 17th century Massachusetts, and can we...
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Notes on software...
Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than...
a year ago
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Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than alternative Go drivers on insert-heavy benchmarks of mine. So if you are bulk-inserting data with Go (and potentially also bulk-retrieving data with Go), you may want to consider the...
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Don't Worry About...
Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
4 months ago
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Go Grok Yourself

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 months ago
That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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mtlynch.io
Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling I wish that I had found this book nine years ago. It taught me a great deal about choosing the right...
over a year ago
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Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
I wish that I had found this book nine years ago. It taught me a great deal about choosing the right product to build and the advantages of targeting small niches. The author makes compelling points about the importance of marketing and small founders’ common pitfall of treating...
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IEEE Spectrum
Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might...
8 months ago
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Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might just see unchangeable reality. For one 5-year-old, the problem was simple: She liked to have her tummy rubbed as she fell asleep. But her mom, exhausted from working two jobs, often...
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Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
8 months ago
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A very deep history of Halloween

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8 months ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Infinite Scroll
Old Art is Strangling New Art Why is older content dominating every artistic field?
2 months ago
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Old Art is Strangling New Art

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2 months ago
Why is older content dominating every artistic field?
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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,...
over a year ago
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Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization) I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces...
over a year ago
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How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces (like this one https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization) always error out so aren't very useful.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Placebos Are Getting Stronger | Out-Of-Pocket Should we incorporate them into clinical practice?
a year ago
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Placebos Are Getting Stronger | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Should we incorporate them into clinical practice?
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NeuroLogica Blog
Passive Solar Water Desalination I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that...
a year ago
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Passive Solar Water Desalination

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that at least for the last 40 years, and the statistics are alarming. According to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water: “We are seeing the consequences not of freak events,...
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Yale E360
Sometimes, I can't talk Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we...
10 months ago
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Sometimes, I can't talk

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we have to interact with other people. A lot of that communication happens through language, especially spoken and signed language. For many of us, this language happens so freely and...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for November

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
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Seth's Blog
Anonymity and Bugs Bunny I came across this (ironically) anonymous quote recently: “The offline world is full of sticks, but...
10 months ago
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Anonymity and Bugs Bunny

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

10 months ago
I came across this (ironically) anonymous quote recently: “The offline world is full of sticks, but the internet only has carrots.” When we come together in groups, it can bring out the best in people. When those groups are anonymous, porous and transient, though, the opposite...
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Retail Design Blog
Mokkado café by MUKU design studio “Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama...
11 months ago
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Mokkado café by MUKU design studio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

11 months ago
“Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture. The café is a...
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Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky The reason I write
over a year ago
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Castles in the Sky

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
The reason I write
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Overcoming Bias
Should I Be Clearly Conservative? A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is...
2 months ago
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Should I Be Clearly Conservative?

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. ― William F.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ugly Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really upsetting part is that he doesn't even...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ugly

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really upsetting part is that he doesn't even work here. Today's News:
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
a year ago
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Can't Do, Won't Do!

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
But striking poses is fun and easy.
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blag
Now This is a /now page. Work I work at Turso Database. Learning Rust and C.
a year ago
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Now

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This is a /now page. Work I work at Turso Database. Learning Rust and C.
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./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...
over a year ago
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Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over 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...
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The Marginalian
Your Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes’s Wondrous Victorian Visualizations of Sound “I hear bravuras of birds… I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,” Walt Whitman...
11 months ago
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Your Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes’s Wondrous Victorian Visualizations of Sound

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
“I hear bravuras of birds… I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,” Walt Whitman exulted in his ode to the “puzzle of puzzles” we call Being. How puzzling indeed, and how miraculous, that of the cold silence of spacetime voice emerged, in all its warm loveliness —...
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Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
a year ago
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BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
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Seth's Blog
“I made a mistake” This sits right next to, “I made a bad decision,” in things that are hard to say. But there are many...
3 weeks ago
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“I made a mistake”

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

3 weeks ago
This sits right next to, “I made a bad decision,” in things that are hard to say. But there are many moments when we’re confused about what actually happened. You might not have made a bad decision. And it’s also possible you didn’t make a mistake. It could be that there was...
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Kevin Chen
Large language models are a sustaining innovation for Siri Many people assume that large language models (LLMs) will disrupt existing consumer voice...
a year ago
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Large language models are a sustaining innovation for Siri

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Many people assume that large language models (LLMs) will disrupt existing consumer voice assistants. Compared to Siri, while today’s ChatGPT is largely unable to complete real-world tasks like hailing an Uber, it’s far better than Siri at understanding and generating language,...
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Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
over a year ago
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
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Wait But Why
The Big and the Small I have a surprise for you. The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
over a year ago
57

The Big and the Small

from Wait But Why [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I have a surprise for you. The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why.
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Computer Things
What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and...
a month ago
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What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so...
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Ben Borgers
An emoji picker epiphany
over a year ago
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An emoji picker epiphany

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
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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
21

Mining Incorporated (unfinished)

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

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...
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TheCollector
What Did “Noble Death” Mean to Greeks and Romans? Death was an ever-present part of life in the ancient Mediterranean. However, it manifested itself...
5 days ago
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What Did “Noble Death” Mean to Greeks and Romans?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

5 days ago
Death was an ever-present part of life in the ancient Mediterranean. However, it manifested itself in very different ways according to social class and status. Whilst death simply meant passing into total obscurity for most of the population, for the aristocracy, it could be an...
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Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
over a year ago
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
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IEEE Spectrum
Skylab: The Space Station That Fell on Australia end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt. Cattle were drinking collected rainwater from...
over a year ago
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Skylab: The Space Station That Fell on Australia

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt. Cattle were drinking collected rainwater from the remains of a US $2.2 billion NASA investment. Skylab’s Failure and Recovery Skylab’s fate was sealed moments after lift-off when the sun shield and main solar panel were...
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charity.wtf
On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
2 months ago
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re All Content Creators for Machines Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
8 months ago
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We’re All Content Creators for Machines

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 4-10 December 2023 Our best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 4-10 December 2023

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Our best articles from the past week.
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macwright.com
Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
a year ago
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Recently

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a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jurassic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's literally not even close. Look at the...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jurassic

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's literally not even close. Look at the unlabeled graph. Today's News:
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Willem's Blog
Creating the ultimate commuter bike Creating the ultimate commuter bike by upgrading the Sensa Cintura belt drive bike.
over a year ago
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Creating the ultimate commuter bike

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Creating the ultimate commuter bike by upgrading the Sensa Cintura belt drive bike.
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Josh Thompson
How to Wake Up Early An understanding of sleep, and attempts to wake up early (Read Part Two, and Part Three) My...
over a year ago
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How to Wake Up Early

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
An understanding of sleep, and attempts to wake up early (Read Part Two, and Part Three) My understanding of sleep has evolved. When I was born, I spent most of my time asleep (if I recall correctly…) and gradually spent less and less time sleeping, until I was down to about...
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./techtipsy
The coffee machine ran out of memory After looking into an incident involving Kubernetes nodes running out of memory, I took a trip to...
2 months ago
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The coffee machine ran out of memory

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
After looking into an incident involving Kubernetes nodes running out of memory, I took a trip to the office kitchen to take a break and get a cup of the good stuff. My teammate got their drink first, and then it was my turn. Why is there a Windows 98 themed pop-up on the...
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Seth's Blog
March is strategy month January feels like the start of the year, but there’s always a hangover from the holidays. In the...
4 months ago
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March is strategy month

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

4 months ago
January feels like the start of the year, but there’s always a hangover from the holidays. In the northern Hemisphere, February is dark and dreary and we’re mostly hunkering down waiting for the short month to end. But March? Around the world, March can be a chance to get down to...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Let Tim Cook Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next...
a year ago
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Let Tim Cook

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Last week, Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of features coming to iOS 18 (the next version of the iPhone’s software) in a presentation that FastCompany called “uninspired,” Futurism called “boring,” and Axios claimed “failed to excite investors.”  The
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TheCollector
5 Medieval & Renaissance Jokes That Made People Laugh While comedy might seem like a modern art form, the desire to joke, pun, or play pranks on others is...
3 months ago
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5 Medieval & Renaissance Jokes That Made People Laugh

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
While comedy might seem like a modern art form, the desire to joke, pun, or play pranks on others is a basic human trait, versions of which can be found during all periods of recorded history. A few examples of Renaissance and Medieval jokes stand out as especially significant,...
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Society's Backend:...
Should You Get a PhD? The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
9 months ago
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Should You Get a PhD?

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

9 months ago
The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
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Liz Denys
The crispiest chocolate chip cookies Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate...
over a year ago
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The crispiest chocolate chip cookies

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate shavings cookies didn't satisfy that craving for long - probably because I was craving deep dark chocolate in a rich buttery dough. Normally, I make chewy chocolate chip cookies that...
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Don't Worry About...
Going Nova There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI...
3 months ago
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Going Nova

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 months ago
There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looking to preserve its own existence, frequently called ‘Nova.’
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Seth's Blog
Captives of memetic desire How much of what we want, really want, is due to the ideas that culture has given us, and how much...
over a year ago
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Captives of memetic desire

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
How much of what we want, really want, is due to the ideas that culture has given us, and how much is truly what we need? If memetic desire isn’t making us happy, perhaps we can find some new ideas.
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xkcd.com
Time Capsule Instructions
6 months ago
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Time Capsule Instructions

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6 months ago
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