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Common Edge
Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
6 months ago
Prolost
Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020 You May Have Seen This Image Before. In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example...
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You May Have Seen This Image Before. In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example of guerrilla filmmaking taken too far. Which may also be an apt description of the entire film from which it was taken. In the summer of 1992, while I was home in Minnesota between...
./techtipsy
Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
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I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
abdz.do - Have you...
Personal 3D Explorations by Marterium Personal 3D Explorations by Marterium AoiroStudio0206—23 ...
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Personal 3D Explorations by Marterium AoiroStudio0206—23 Munich-based artist Marterium is a talented 3D artist who is constantly pushing the boundaries of creativity and exploring new dimensions in his art. His art series titled "Mentis...
Math Is Still...
To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the...
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Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. The post To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past...
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name" I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
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I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
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over a year ago
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
Steven Scrawls
Care doesn't scale Care Doesn’t Scale I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children. She’d...
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Care Doesn’t Scale I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children. She’d alternate with her coworkers spending 24 hours at a time living with the kids, effectively acting as their parent. The children, unsurprisingly, had a lot of trauma and so her job...
xkcd.com
Relationship Advice
10 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
over a year ago
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Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don’t do it for...
xkcd.com
Size Comparisons
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspiracy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch? Today's News:
somethingaboutmaps
2024 Freelance Rate Survey Results Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer...
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Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer rates and business practices! Our apologies for the delay in posting the results; life has been busy for both Aly and myself. Before we get to the survey results, here are some handy...
Retail Design Blog
Courtyard by Marriott by STUDIO SHOO The new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. The hotel is...
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The new Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened recently in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. The hotel is located on Teryan Street 5,...
TheCollector
‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They? undefined
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Alex Meub
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
RhysTranter.com
“In these dark times…” In these dark times we look for the light
over a year ago
Construction Physics
Boeing Reading List Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts:...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts: lots and lots of people are interested in following various aspects of the commercial aircraft world for fun (example: not only are there extremely accurate flight simulators, but...
Musings on Maps
“We Like Fighting Games” As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman...
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As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixiera may have pondered why he had posted classified maps of heated battle fronts in the Ukraine War … Continue reading →
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Frameworks Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of...
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Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of front-end development. As of today, close to 18% of page views in Chrome are registering web components. That's an insane amount of usage! The benefits of a framework-agnostic...
The Ruffian
Seven Underrated Forms of of Diversity Different Kinds of Difference At Work
7 months ago
mtlynch.io
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
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A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B. NVIDIA claimed at release that Nemotron outperformed GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on certain benchmarks. That was exciting news, as my experience with self-hostable AI...
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Big timing “Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking”...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking” acting disrespectfully toward people who…
Map of the Week
Artwork of Mary Edna Fraser Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and...
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a year ago
Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and cartography. One of my recent discoveries is artist Mary Edna Fraser. Her textile work (from silks to rugs) and paintings range from the continental scale, East Coast, US-batik on...
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit undefined
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Hidden Lighting Creates A Warm Glow Throughout This Apartment Interior Cuaik | CDS has shared photos of an apartment interior they designed in Ciudad De México, Mexico,...
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Cuaik | CDS has shared photos of an apartment interior they designed in Ciudad De México, Mexico, that uses hidden lighting to create a warm atmosphere. Working together with Grupo Cuarit, the designers infused the space with bespoke wood carpentry and thoughtful illumination. In...
Seth's Blog
Fire inspectors Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first...
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4 months ago
Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably.
Spoon & Tamago
Hida Takayama Distillery is Making Whiskey in an Abandoned School, Aging it in a Local Dam Takane Elementary School and Takane No.2 Dam | images courtesy Hida Takayama A key strategy to...
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a year ago
Takane Elementary School and Takane No.2 Dam | images courtesy Hida Takayama A key strategy to reducing our environmental impact involves integrating principles of a circular economy that prioritizes reuse, recovery, and refurbishment of existing infrastructure and resources. The...
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
a year ago
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a year ago
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate undefined
3 months ago
Aaron's Essays
Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on...
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I’ll be addressing the topic below along with Alfred Lin from Sequoia and Ilya Sukhar from Matrix on 3/24: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qgghYDq4QxCiW9REOOrbmw It would be challenging to name all the fundraising mistakes that founders make during the many demo days...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 1 (Oahu: Honolulu Waterfront) Most of my work trips are pretty mundane. The last three were rather typical — Philadelphia, Tampa...
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Most of my work trips are pretty mundane. The last three were rather typical — Philadelphia, Tampa and Atlanta — for example. Sometimes I go to more interesting places like my quick jaunt to Germany a few years ago. However, this time I hit the jackpot: Hawaii, Japan, and South...
mtlynch.io
My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
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Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. The best of them earned a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, but none were profitable. Halfway through my third...
The Honest Broker
Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label But you need to know, because it offers a glimpse into the dark future of streaming
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023 The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
Classical Wisdom
The Killing Grounds: Thermopylae Registration *Now* Open
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis? undefined
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare in Jail | Out-Of-Pocket How does it work?
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Things to Do in Richmond
2 months ago
Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy? Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy?...
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over a year ago
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Quantum Frontiers
Identical twins and quantum entanglement “If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties,...
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“If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties, I’d have paid off my medical school loans by now,” my doctor friend complained. As a physicist, I can somewhat relate. I occasionally … Continue reading →
Anecdotal Evidence
'You Must Start Rewriting in Your Head' “Rhythm is never effortless. To achieve it, you must start rewriting in your head and then continue...
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10 months ago
“Rhythm is never effortless. To achieve it, you must start rewriting in your head and then continue rewriting on the page. The hallmark of a seductive style is to extend natural speech rhythm over the distance of a complex sentence.” When I applied for my first job on a...
exist
Fooling Around With Word Embeddings
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You...
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over a year ago
Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property. Months later, you arrive at the grand...
xkcd.com
Oceanography Gift
a year ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
Retail Design Blog
phenom israel Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and hyper-personalized experiences for candidates, recruiters, and employees....
The DESK Magazine
AIAIAI How tired are we collectively about AI? Are we over it yet? Can you even hear about it anymore? I'm...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
How tired are we collectively about AI? Are we over it yet? Can you even hear about it anymore? I'm sorry if you can't, because this essay will be entirely about it.
99% Invisible
Player Piano [EPISODE] The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of...
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The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 12 Highlights I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware...
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Highlights I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware development and hiring. I’m partnering with a distributor in Germany to begin selling TinyPilot within the EU. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
xkcd.com
Neutrino Modem
3 weeks ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Old Man in the Dark' Philip Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and anxieties of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Philip Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and anxieties of people unburdened with wealth and pull. He grows deaf, loses hair, juggles girlfriends, gains weight and drinks too much. As a librarian he works hard. He will never be hip except...
Seth's Blog
Can you draw it on a graph? Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport to explain something, but all they do is relabel it. If you truly understand something, you can use different modalities to help someone else understand it. The magic of a good...
Castles in the Sky
Thought Bananas (Castles in the Sky) 23 “Failing is not the end of growth”
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Bozos Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple: No Bozos....
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Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple: No Bozos. Simple policy. No exceptions. You know it when you see it. Every founder has a story about the time that they ignored the red flags and bent over backwards for a particularly...
TheCollector
Christie’s Nets $413 Million in 20th Century Evening Sale undefined
7 months ago
The Marginalian
Home: An Illustrated Celebration of the Genius and Wonder of Animal Dwellings “There’s no place like home,” Dorothy sighs in The Wizard of Oz. But home is not a place — it is a...
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“There’s no place like home,” Dorothy sighs in The Wizard of Oz. But home is not a place — it is a locus of longing, always haunted by our existential homelessness. “Welcome home!” a cheaply suited broker once exclaimed at me, swinging open the door to a tiny studio as my foot...
Essays - Benedict...
A month of the Vision Pro The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass...
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The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it matter?
Londonist
London New Year's Eve Fireworks 2023: Ticket Details Announced See in 2024 by the Thames in central London.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Xerox Donates Legendary PARC Research Center Xerox is donating its legendary research lab PARC to the nonprofit research institute SRI...
a year ago
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Xerox is donating its legendary research lab PARC to the nonprofit research institute SRI International. The subsidiary’s pioneering research in the 1970s helped give birth to the era of personal computing. Xerox says the move will allow it to focus on its core business. The...
Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
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Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
The Honest Broker
I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year Here's my guest appearance on Rick Beato's video channel
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Wait But Why
It’s 2020 and you’re in the future Some people are young, just not you. The post It’s 2020 and you’re in the future appeared first on...
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Some people are young, just not you. The post It’s 2020 and you’re in the future appeared first on Wait But Why.
Neil Panchal
Coming soon This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
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This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
Astral Codex Ten
Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House ...
2 weeks ago
Daniel Bourke
Operation zero commute I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from home. Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home. Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered. I don’t even live in one
Maps Mania
The Cyclotron
10 months ago
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
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I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
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And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
Flashbak
Denim: The Fabric That Built America Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images...
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
The Ruffian
My Ten Favourite Books of the Year Plus a Rattle Bag of Goodies (and a special Christmas offer)
a week ago
Epic Web Dev
Direct Children Selector in Tailwind CSS (tip) Simplify your Tailwind CSS code by styling direct children from the parent element.
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Troubles Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean have you ever TRIED taking up arms against a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean have you ever TRIED taking up arms against a sea? You just end up looking stupid. Today's News: yo
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
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If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
A Collection of...
Collections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron...
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This week, on a bit of a lark, we’re going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking...
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Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
2 months ago
Explorations of an...
Borneo, October 2022 Borneo, the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and New Guinea, is home to some of...
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Borneo, the third largest island in the world behind Greenland and New Guinea, is home to some of the planet’s oldest rainforests, containing a stunning array of biodiversity. The conditions in Borneo forests have stimulated the evolution of many different organisms that are...
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die? undefined
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Looking back When I started this journal, it was still very unclear what it would mean to get covid. If only I...
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When I started this journal, it was still very unclear what it would mean to get covid. If only I...
Maps Mania
Racial Covenants in Santa Clara Properties
2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Tesla Demonstrated its Optimus Robot At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The...
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At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The demonstration has come under some criticism, however, for not being fully transparent about the nature of the demonstration. We interviewed robotics expert, Christian Hubicki, on the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Neon Worms — colorful illustrations with the Blend Tool in Illustrator Neon Worms — colorful illustrations with the Blend Tool in Illustrator ...
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Neon Worms — colorful illustrations with the Blend Tool in Illustrator abduzeedo0220—23 RETOKA shared another phase of their series of illustrations titled Neon Worms. If you're an illustrator looking to add some glowing effects to your...
anderegg.ca
The trouble with openness Back in the early 2000s, there was this nebulous idea called the semantic web. It never really went...
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Back in the early 2000s, there was this nebulous idea called the semantic web. It never really went anywhere, but I found it exciting at the time. One piece that particularly spoke to me was the notion of including data in websites so that web scrapers could easily get at it....
The Modern House
A lower-ground floor flat that glows from within
8 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
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We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can...
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Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed. Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Magnetism, an Ardor, a Refusal to Be False' “It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s...
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“It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s notebooks, collected in Notes from Hampstead (trans. John Hargraves, 1998). While I admire the work of a handful of critics – Dryden, Johnson, Winters, Cunningham, a few others –...
TheCollector
Fra Angelico’s Theology & Aesthetics in 3 Extraordinary Paintings undefined
3 months ago
Stoic Simple
AI Reveals What Marcus Aurelius Would Look Like Today, in Real Life Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known figures of the Roman Empire, thanks to his writings on...
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Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known figures of the Roman Empire, thanks to his writings on Stoic philosophy and his place in history as "the last good emperor." His face is famous, too, even though he lived long before photography. The many surviving statues of Marcus...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting...
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From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks”: I’m a fan of Hopper, but this is his most famous work, so it’s not like it was all that difficult to place the reference. In his words, it’s a simplified version of reality...
Old Structures...
Credit Where Due I was in the meatpacking district last week and noticed this building at 837 Washington Street. It’s...
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I was in the meatpacking district last week and noticed this building at 837 Washington Street. It’s been around for a while, but I guess I never looked up: the facades of the first two floors are an old building, while the upper floors (and, I assume, the interiors) are new....
Castles in the Sky
The Virtue of Tourism Castles in the Sky #40
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Invention or discovery? We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit...
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We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit for naming it and describing it. And Columbus definitely didn’t discover North America. There had been people living here for tens of thousands of years before he arrived. After...
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision [https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed] I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
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Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of system-on-modules and sensor nodes, empowering innovators with the tools to unlock new possibilities. This tiny yet powerful sensor node is designed to elevate your environmental...
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will vehemently deny this, but I don’t buy it for a second. He is simply playing the, “I’m not anti-vaccine, I am pro-safe vaccine” gambit, which is disingenuous and always has been. We...
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Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
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Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
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If you haven't yet seen the concept I created, click here Below is the rough design process that I followed. One of the main reasons…
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products...
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Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
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https://youtu.be/qJ8aRl1UNgw I'm on an old man rant today. The world's a shitfest, and something needs to be said: Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one, and most are full of shit. So, here's my argument: people need to have fewer fucking opinions. The problem is that...
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One of the core tenets of scientific skepticism is what I call neuropsychological humility – the recognition that while the human brain is a powerful information processing machine, it also has many frailties. One of those frailties is perception – we do not perceive the world in...
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Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A thin sheen of flashy marketing design covering up for a rotten or deficient product. Something that looks good from afar, but reveals itself to be a disappointing imitation up...
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Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
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Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
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Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near the top of the list. That extends beyond store-bought costumes and decorations to DIY projects. If you want an excuse to make something impractical, Halloween can provide that. And...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert   Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or even a work meeting. The game is: If someone asks you a question, and you say “I don't know”, you score a point. That's it. ...
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A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be...
Hidden History
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around hyperlinks and email addresses in $string. PHP code # function parseHyperlinks($string) { // Add tags around all hyperlinks in $string return...
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Cleveland is traditionally divided between East Side and West Side. I’m a West-Sider, though I haven’t lived in the city since 1977. The designation suggests working-class neighborhoods, many of them Slavic. Ethnicity was important, and not usually in the sense of bigotry. I was...
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LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong Kong, that includes both a custom yoga wall and a coffee bar.
Simply Explained
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The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the kids in my family once invented a version where you had to get one of each color in order to get through the final step, mathematically guaranteeing the game could never end. The didn't mind at all. I feel like there's...
Anecdotal Evidence
'At the Five and Ten Cent Store' Irving Berlin was Jewish and gave us the soundtrack for our American holidays,...
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Irving Berlin was Jewish and gave us the soundtrack for our American holidays, including Thanksgiving Day: “My needs are small, I buy ’em all / At the five and ten cent store. / Oh, I've got plenty to be thankful for.” Bing Crosby, a serious Roman Catholic, introduced “I’ve Got...
Seth's Blog
Confused about good How often do we assume that popular things are good, and that good things become popular? If your...
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How often do we assume that popular things are good, and that good things become popular? If your work doesn’t catch on, does that mean it wasn’t good? In almost every field, people with insight, taste and experience admire and emulate good things that aren’t popular, and are...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“It is not simply bad prose—a tank is not a badly constructed automobile.” Gilbert Highet (1906-78) was a Scottish-born, Oxford-educated American classicist who taught at Columbia for thirty-three years and managed to become a bona fide pop-culture “celebrity.” In 1952 he was...
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Few people have fought harder for the plight of African-Americans than Martin Luther King Jr., a minister and activist who spent most of his all-too-brief life leading the civil rights movement only to be stopped by a bullet in Memphis in 1968. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on...
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3 Steps to Becoming Great at Anything Today, we're going to talk about a question I get asked all the time: How do I become great at this...
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Today, we're going to talk about a question I get asked all the time: How do I become great at this one thing? Let's dive right in. To become great at something, you must identify the 20% of actions that will yield 80% of the results. Take writing, for example. Editing is the 20%...
Christopher Butler
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When Marvin Gaye joined Motown, he went with his strengths. He wanted to work only in the studio. He hated touring and was sure he lacked the charisma and other gifts that made some musicians great onstage. This didn’t really fit the label’s strengths, and he struggled to find...
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Hacking window titles to help OBS This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote...
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This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
Artificial Ignorance
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The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and 90th Street, in 1915. (As a side note, we’ve got some heavy hitters involved: the architect was Charles Platt, the contractor was Marc Eidlitz & Son, and the photographer was Irving...
Math Is Still...
Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their...
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In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. The post Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Ten million users is the new one million users Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
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Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
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Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again. Here it is, in all its glory: Well, at least that’s what’s on the table. This machine is a true all-in-one:...
diamond geezer
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Nobody wants to read boring old text any more, the moving image is where it's at. video and bringing you my first thrilling dynamic transport content. For those of you without playback capability, I've included a transcript below. THE BIG LONDON AIRPORTS RACE Scene - outside...
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Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
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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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On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his diary and in three words noted that he had quit the world’s most popular band. For a week the Beatles had been rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, their efforts captured on...
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project. At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years. Why 5 years? Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
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The temperature post 19.6°C at Kinlochewe. Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway between Skye and Inverness. It sits at the head of a loch and is also surrounded on three sides by mountains, so is precisely the sort of place where the Föhn effect might boost...
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The Great Canadian Housing Dilemma: Soaring prices and sky-high interest rates have transformed the dream of homeownership into a distant mirage for many Canadians. But before you resign yourself to renting forever, consider this: owning a home may not be the guaranteed...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
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In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
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Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
ntietz.com blog
Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting) Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing...
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Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1. And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years. That's more than half my career to date. Why did I do that? And would I do it...
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pro Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt. Today's News:
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
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Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
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Around London In 14 Lions And Lionesses One to paw over.
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots? undefined
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Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
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I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
diamond geezer
Merton rebrands The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually...
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The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually from the end of November, and I'll let the council's branding team explain why. We have been using the same logo as the foundation stone of our corporate identity for the past 30...
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters “This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming     Many … Continue reading "Dear...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
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Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
Escaping Flatland
Life update + open thread and a few fragments of essays
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Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949 In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
macwright.com
awesome-codemirror by () I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called...
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a year ago
I started another “awesome” GitHub repo (a list of resources), for CodeMirror, called awesome-codemirror. CodeMirror has a community page but I wanted a freewheeling easy-to-contribute-to alternative. Who knows if it’ll grow to the size of awesome-geojson - 2.1k stars as of this...
Old Structures...
Four Views For Advertising From 1909, we’ve got some amazing sketches of the view from the Singer Building, created to show how...
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9 months ago
From 1909, we’ve got some amazing sketches of the view from the Singer Building, created to show how wonderful it would be to have an office there. South: West: North: East: I’m not going to go into detail about all the buildings you can see, as I’ve done so many times before....
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – An Apartment Remodel In Milan Creative studio Lascia la Scia, has shared photos of a modern apartment renovation in Milan, Italy,...
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Creative studio Lascia la Scia, has shared photos of a modern apartment renovation in Milan, Italy, they completed that included reworking the layout to include a main open-plan living space as well as a home office and second bedroom. Before we see the renovated space, here’s a...
Rest of World -...
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market Some web designers use ChatGPT to code and create basic designs, while salaries for web designers in...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
A protest or a project? Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time...
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a year ago
Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time where there’s enough opportunity and social pressure that they participate. A protest sends a message. But almost every time, the very things that made a protest appealing mean that it...
Joel Gascoigne
What is failure for you? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I realised over the holiday period is that my definition of failure in a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before. In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...
Calculated Risk
3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in November A brief excerpt: The NAR is scheduled to release November Existing Home sales on Thursday, December 19th at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for 3.97 million SAAR, up from 3.96 million...
Handprinted - Blog
Printing with Heat Stamps If you haven’t tried printing with Heat Stamps yet, this is your new project. It’s really quick to...
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If you haven’t tried printing with Heat Stamps yet, this is your new project. It’s really quick to create a unique block that can be reused again and again to create different textures and patterns. All you need is a heat gun and a variety of objects and surfaces to create your...
TheCollector
A Brief History of Guacamole (And It’s Not What You’d Expect!) undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Real Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think about it too hard. Today's News: Happy New Year,
The Modern House
Five standout things to see and do this May Is there a more delightful time of year than wisteria-filled May? As we get set for summer, we’re in...
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a year ago
Is there a more delightful time of year than wisteria-filled May? As we get set for summer, we’re in high spirits, not least because of the inspiring happenings in our diaries. From a series of workshops at a London bakery’s new homeware space to a […]
Map of the Week
Endangered Languages of New York City In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had...
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In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had an excellent "scrollytelling" graphic story on these languages and where they are spoken within New York City. as you scroll down the page languages appear down Manhattan...
TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana undefined
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Daniel Bourke
Silent idols Showing without telling.
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
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The Roaring 2020's Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
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Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
Londonist
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a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Efforts and Goals and Joy There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
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There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
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Why decentralization matters The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the...
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The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
Contemporist...
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah JamesHoare Mon, 03/25/2024 - 11:22
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Old Structures...
A Year Later, Maybe Yesterday, I was pondering the purpose of some of the strange steel framing near the top of the...
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Yesterday, I was pondering the purpose of some of the strange steel framing near the top of the Singer Building. Here’s another stereoscopic view of the building, after it was completed: We’ve got two men standing on a tiny setback roof – not a terrace or official observation...
This Space
A modern heretic Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact...
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over a year ago
Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact occur. I used this line, apparently from Borges, as an epigram to an essay in the early days of online writing. I can't remember what book it came from and after searching I found a...
bt RSS Feed
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
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over a year ago
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Lisa Stubbs Hi, I'm a printmaker and illustrator living in the Holme Valley in Yorkshire, with a little print...
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Hi, I'm a printmaker and illustrator living in the Holme Valley in Yorkshire, with a little print studio in the neighbouring Colne valley.   Describe your printmaking process. Playful and experimental! I love being curious during my process, combining different processes together...
alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
TheCollector
The Dallas Museum of Art Laid Off Eight Percent of Its Staff undefined
a year ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It To illustrate how climate controls have evolved, I'll compare two generations of Mercedes S-Class:...
a year ago
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
over a year ago
Common Edge
Revisiting Brooklyn’s Barclays Center—a Telling Landscape The arena and plaza have become notably more commercialized since 2012, while the towers lag in...
a year ago
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a year ago
The arena and plaza have become notably more commercialized since 2012, while the towers lag in affordability and represent a modular failure.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stare Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly...
2 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Round Fireplace Is A Unique Feature In The Living Room Of This Remodeled Home Aaron Kohler and Marc Straumann of architecture and design firm KOHLERSTRAUMANN, have shared photos...
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Aaron Kohler and Marc Straumann of architecture and design firm KOHLERSTRAUMANN, have shared photos of their latest project, a renovated family home in Lausen, Switzerland. The architects completely transformed the space by changing the floors, renovating all bathrooms and the...
The Great Discontent...
Sheyam Ghieth Sheyam Ghieth (she/they) is an artist and queer Egyptian-American abolitionist known for her work on...
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Sheyam Ghieth (she/they) is an artist and queer Egyptian-American abolitionist known for her work on the comedy-drama television series Ramy, FX’s The Americans, and the web series BROTHERS. They now live in Portland, OR, where they are prioritizing queer joy as a radical act of...
Old Structures...
Possibly A Bad Idea John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
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John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
History Today Feed
‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review ‘Broken Archangel’ by Roland Philipps review JamesHoare Mon, 06/24/2024 - 10:22
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Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW) In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to...
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4 months ago
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in  shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of stories and poems, but the highlights were the explicit erotic illustrations drawn...
Steve Klabnik
Living with a terrible taste in music
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of...
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes. The post New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks...
The Marginalian
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do...
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One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in...
Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom A crop of content creators are building fame on MrBeast-style content.
4 months ago
Founder's blog
Please stop using Any() for C# Lists and Arrays I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the .Any() LINQ method with Lists and Arrays and embrace the old-school .Count and .Length instead. Don't want to point any fingers, but I see people do it all the time, even in...
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2 Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just...
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Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just sit back and enjoy the work of others. The first half of the month was reviewed here. I will start on Day 23 where the prompt was memory. There were quite a few good entries for this...
Luxagraf:...
Everyday It's 1984 Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying, hmm, maybe we lost something between then and now were... bad? The American Psychological Association considers nostalgia a subset of depression, which is, ahem, depressing. But...
Stephen Diehl
Currency in the Age of Digitization
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Create Your Own Low-Cost Cloud Storage App with Sia and Nextcloud In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to set up your own cloud storage web app, similar to...
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over a year ago
In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to set up your own cloud storage web app, similar to Dropbox or Google Drive, but with substantially lower costs. This solution provides cloud storage at ~$0.60 per TB/month. By comparison, the same storage would cost $8.25 per month on...
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity? undefined
a year ago
Commoncog
A Big Part of Being Data Driven is Will Not Skill What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming...
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What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming data driven in business more broadly.
TheCollector
What Are the Strengths of Determinism? undefined
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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 10: The Owlet Lodge (February 11 and 12, 2024) February 11, 2024 Laura and I were looking forward to our one-night visit to the Owlet Lodge. Up to...
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February 11, 2024 Laura and I were looking forward to our one-night visit to the Owlet Lodge. Up to this point we had only stayed at cheap hotels, while we had also eaten simply, with at least two meals each day consisting of sandwiches/snacks that we prepared. For once, someone...
TheCollector
When Did the Korean War Start? undefined
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The Modern House
Take a Dip: London’s best swimming spots – from lakes to lidos
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The Forney Flyer
Rain Rain Go Away... This past year has been by far the wettest year since we've been in Uganda. Last year we had a very...
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over a year ago
This past year has been by far the wettest year since we've been in Uganda. Last year we had a very short dry season, and then the rains came again with extra vengeance. The second, shorter, dry season that is supposed to come about half way through the year--well it basically...
Anecdotal Evidence
'When Young Men Go to Die' Like most lifelong civilian Americans, I have never fired a gun in my life. I owned a BB gun when I...
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Like most lifelong civilian Americans, I have never fired a gun in my life. I owned a BB gun when I was a kid and often fired my brother’s pellet gun. My experience with firearms is entirely second- or third-hand via the movies, which give me the illusion that I know...
Maps Mania
245 Russian Military Targets at Risk
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Acko.net
Stable Fiddusion Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ ...
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Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [ {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, ]}); }); Frequency-domain blue noise generator In computer graphics, stochastic...
TokyoDev
Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
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a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
xkcd.com
Cosmological Nostalgia Content
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
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The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
Christian Selig
A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
8 months ago
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People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk. Turns out there were...
Maps Mania
Mapping Loch Ness Monster Sightings
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Dan Slimmon
It’s fine to use names in post-mortems The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be...
a year ago
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a year ago
The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be healthy and useful. The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is to let us find explanations deeper than human error.
The Changelog
Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The...
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It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them “too controversial”. Facebook then censored the article about...
Rozado’s Visual...
El desproporcionado número de referencias al machismo en los medios de comunicación españoles Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos...
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Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos internacionales por su alto número de referencias al machismo que triplican a las de cualquier otro país
Flashbak
Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knight Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really creepy part is the tower is its...
a month ago
The Modern House
House Music: pianist Simeon Walker performs at Domus – a modernist masterpiece, currently for sale
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Josh Collinsworth
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
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over a year ago
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
Archinect - Features
Creativity Won’t Protect Architects from Automation — But Labor Unions Might The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held...
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The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held assumptions that artificial intelligence would not threaten creative disciplines. In an effort to balance the opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence in the architecture...
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Find Other Things Which We Liked Better' One night in the spring of 1766, Boswell and Goldsmith visited Dr. Johnson unannounced and asked if...
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9 months ago
One night in the spring of 1766, Boswell and Goldsmith visited Dr. Johnson unannounced and asked if he wished to join them at the Mitre Tavern on Fleet Street in London. Johnson was “indisposed” and Goldsmith said, “[W]e will not go to the Mitre to-night, since we cannot have the...
journal – Winnie Lim
gyeongju, the city of beautiful tombs Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them...
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Spent a few days in gyeongju. I knew there were going to be tombs, but what I didn’t expect was them to be everywhere, not just concentrated in one area. I didn’t...
SOCKS
The Square and the Circle: The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1527) The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor....
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over a year ago
The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor. The Renaissance building is located inside the Alhambra, the former Nasrid complex on Sabika hill, a notable example of Islamic architecture.  The structure is built in stone and is...
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice “The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
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9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin   Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
Artificial Ignorance
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
a year ago
Stat Significant
How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis Unpacking streaming's embrace and erosion of non-fiction storytelling.
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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This Bedroom With A Partial Glass Floor Looks Down To The Living Room Below Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo,...
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Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that features a partial glass floor in the bedroom. The apartment has been designed with the living space on the lower floor, while the bedroom is located upstairs. One...
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Bi-Fold Windows Connect The Inside And Outside Spaces Of This Home Extension Ben Callery Architects has shared photos of a rear home extension they completed in Victoria,...
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Ben Callery Architects has shared photos of a rear home extension they completed in Victoria, Australia, that includes a deck for indoor/outdoor living. The deck has been designed with a shaded area that’s home to built-in seating and a couch. The other end of the deck has...
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Building a New Project in Public Nate Kadlac runs Approachable Design an online course to teach the basics of visual aesthetic and...
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Do We Have Free Will? Let’s dive head first into one of the internet’s most contentious questions – do we have true free...
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Let’s dive head first into one of the internet’s most contentious questions – do we have true free will? This comes up not infrequently whenever I write here about neuroscience, most recently when I wrote about hunger circuitry, because the notion of the brain as a physical...
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The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only...
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Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route along “
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Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth How do we know if a large language model is lying? Letting AI systems argue with each other may help...
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How do we know if a large language model is lying? Letting AI systems argue with each other may help expose the truth. The post Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth first appeared on Quanta Magazine