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A Quest Nature Tour To Borneo: Kota Kinabalu, Mount Kinabalu, Sepilok And The Kinabatangan River Our Quest Nature Tours group assembled in Kota Kinabalu on the evening of October 3 and the...
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Our Quest Nature Tours group assembled in Kota Kinabalu on the evening of October 3 and the following morning we were off. Kota Kinabalu is situated on the coast, but is only a two hour drive from the mountains that form the spine of Borneo and its highest peak, Mount Kinabalu....
Classical Wisdom
The First Philosopher? And the Boundless Universe
6 months ago
The Honest Broker
How 'American Graffiti' Invented Classic Rock (and Changed My Life) My favorite George Lucas film turns 50 tomorrow, and I love it for the soundtrack—but for a whole...
a year ago
Contemporist...
This Cape Town Home Was Given An Updated Interior And A New Garden Pavilion Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town,...
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Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town, South Africa, that included the updating of the interior and the addition of a new garden pavilion.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compliment Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to...
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to realize it isn't an insult. Today's News:
David Gerrells
how to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my...
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification? undefined
3 weeks ago
Old Structures...
History From Afar This is a fantastic, if weirdly inaccurate, map from 1840. It was, according to the text at the...
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9 months ago
This is a fantastic, if weirdly inaccurate, map from 1840. It was, according to the text at the bottom, “Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge”, located in London. I am all for the diffusion of useful knowledge, but the problem with this map is that its...
pcloadletter
Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible My theory is that some performance consultants got paid a lot of money one day for a single word:...
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11 months ago
My theory is that some performance consultants got paid a lot of money one day for a single word: "impact." If you have worked in big tech, you're probably all too familiar with this word because your annual performance evaluations are based on your impact. As an employee,...
journal – Winnie Lim
tokyo art book fair Last week or some time ago I came across a mastodon post that Tokyo Art Book Fair is happening this...
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a year ago
Last week or some time ago I came across a mastodon post that Tokyo Art Book Fair is happening this weekend. We thought it would be fun to go since we planned...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Human Impulse, the Human Aspiration' The upstairs neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H....
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a year ago
The upstairs neighbor, a diffident graduate student in English, knocked on the door to tell me W.H. Auden had died. He was close to tears and couldn’t stop shaking his head in disbelief. This was half a century ago, late September 1973. We talked books almost daily and a few...
Scott Jenson
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended...
Josh Thompson
Job Hunting Recommendations for Early-Career Software Developers I’ve distilled a number of conversations into this post. Some of it is specific to getting a remote...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve distilled a number of conversations into this post. Some of it is specific to getting a remote job and working remotely, but all of it is applicable for any kind of software-related role. It’s probably applicable to non-software roles, but this is where most of my exprience...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Niiiice Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, he can tell the precise letter count...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, he can tell the precise letter count she's using. Today's News: New minibook launching tomorrow! Stay tuned...
Retail Design Blog
L’Oreal Skincare Set by BXL Design We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative...
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We designed a skin care product gift box for L’Oreal. The project service team held several creative brainstorming seminars and...
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature undefined
a year ago
Matt Blewitt
A Love Letter to Giant Robots Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first...
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7 months ago
Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first exposure to them was probably through 1994’s BattleTech animated series, where Adam Steiner piloted an AXM-2N Axman, in its frankly ridiculous neon green and purple paint job. And from...
Arduino Blog
Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible! At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners....
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a month ago
At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that the Arduino Alvik robot now officially supports block-based coding! Coding has never been easier thanks to Alvik’s seamless...
Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
abdz.do - Have you...
Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity abduzeedo0214—23 ...
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a year ago
Blueshift Collective: Where NFT Meets Creativity abduzeedo0214—23 Are you tired of the same old NFT collections that feature the same type of art over and over again? Look no further than the Blueshift Collective - a free and open NFT...
SOCKS
Architectural Narrative: “New York City: The Edge of Enigma” by Francisco Javier Rencoret (1991) In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell...
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In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, published New York City: The Edge of Enigma, (Princeton Architectural Press), a visual essay that retraces the myth of the foundation and development of New York City....
Londonist
Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: March 2024 Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
10 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
How Hermès Sells "Time" The ~$250B French luxury giant creates the most sought after leather bags through craftsmanship,...
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The ~$250B French luxury giant creates the most sought after leather bags through craftsmanship, heritage and long-term thinking.
Seth's Blog
99 vs 0 If you get a 99% quality haircut or a 99% close-to-perfect meal, it’s better than good. On the other...
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If you get a 99% quality haircut or a 99% close-to-perfect meal, it’s better than good. On the other hand, if the scrub nurse only does a 99% job of disinfecting the tools in the operating room, you’re still going to die of an infection. Some projects respond very well to...
UX Collective
What’s next on Figma’s mind? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Techniques to Cope with Change Change is an inevitable part of life. Whether we like it or not, things are constantly shifting and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Change is an inevitable part of life. Whether we like it or not, things are constantly shifting and evolving around us. While some changes are positive and exciting, others can be challenging and overwhelming. The art of stoicism can teach us how to cope with these changes in a...
Josh Thompson
62 lessons learned after one year of full-time travel Kristi and I put together a non-comprehensive list of things we’ve learned while traveling full-time...
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Kristi and I put together a non-comprehensive list of things we’ve learned while traveling full-time last year.  Samples: Kristi 1. Josh and I are such a good team, and we balance each other.  We’ve figured out our strengths and how to contribute to our successes together. It’s...
Passing Time
How I passed the time in 2024 Essays, books, albums, & reviews
3 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
"We Should Sell To Self-Insured Employers" | Out-Of-Pocket Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 2
a year ago
TheCollector
Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art) undefined
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Park City, Utah's Top Winter Activities for Families
a month ago
Math Is Still...
The #1 Clue to Quantum Gravity Sits on the Surfaces of Black Holes A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about...
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A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the space-time fabric. The post The #1 Clue to Quantum Gravity Sits on the Surfaces of Black Holes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Singed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL...
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL humans, the notion of sadness ceases to have meaning, so it's all good. Today's News: Fun interview about A City on Mars with Jordan Harbinger.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology “The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of...
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over a year ago
“The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of technology.” — The Economist In the year…
Maps Mania
3D Middle-earth
a year ago
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 5 (DOF) Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on.
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Fiblets Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume...
a week ago
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a week ago
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume actually unusually heavy? Did a chef really prepare this meal just for me? These fiblets are so common that they become part of the culture, a trope that lets the user know that this...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024 Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
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a month ago
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
Seth's Blog
The system has fingerprints We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to...
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5 days ago
We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to the community. If we do it a second time, it’s worth taking a hard look at the system that set us up for failure. How did the system get here? Who benefits? When we can see […]
Diaries of Note
Meet a twenty-four-year-old scriptwriter called J.J. Everything changed for Richard E. Grant in 1987 when his big screen debut in Bruce Robinson’s iconic...
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a year ago
Everything changed for Richard E. Grant in 1987 when his big screen debut in Bruce Robinson’s iconic black comedy, Withnail & I, catapulted him towards Hollywood. By the time he wrote the following diary entry four years later he had worked with the likes of Steve Martin, Bruce...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
25 Questions You Didn’t Know You Needed “Art of the Living Dead” to Answer A starting point for anyone curious about reading a book about creativity and zombies
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
November, 2024 Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved,...
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a month ago
Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved, without fanfare or closure) cough and a dearth of time to write as I started to explore easing back into full-time work. Still, some writing (and selfishly, I'm excited to end the...
Dreams of Space -...
Start to Infinity (1978) A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
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a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations. Shurlygin, Victor.  СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
Old Structures...
A Good Idea But Not Enough Via Core77, some excerpts of Clara Mu He’s masters thesis, which propose a way to make wood-frame...
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Via Core77, some excerpts of Clara Mu He’s masters thesis, which propose a way to make wood-frame construction much more amenable to recycling and reuse of materials: here. In short, if you use strapped and ganged lumber sticks rather than special sizes and penetrative...
Josh Thompson
On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool Introduction Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
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3 weeks ago
Introduction Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts: So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”. I...
Marian's Blog
3D printed model of my neighborhood I 3D printed a model of the street where I live. This post will explain how I prepared the data for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I 3D printed a model of the street where I live. This post will explain how I prepared the data for it. Update: I have now automated the entire process and published my code. You can find it here. I worked with aerial Lidar data that is provided by the state I live in to download...
Math Is Still...
To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional...
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Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres. The post To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Contemporist...
Green Metal Siding Allows This Small Cottage To Blend In With Its Surroundings Daymark Design Incorporated has shared photos of a cabin they completed in Robert’s Island Honey...
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Daymark Design Incorporated has shared photos of a cabin they completed in Robert’s Island Honey Harbour in Ontario, Canada, that's clad in sage green standing seam metal siding.
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid undefined
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Birthday cards for Dad
over a year ago
Open Culture
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Perform a Rollicking Cover of the Mary Tyler Moore Theme Song (1996) ?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Originally written by Sonny Curtis and released in 1970, “Love Is All...
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3 months ago
?si=Pblv5Tzpi_F-a6cu Originally written by Sonny Curtis and released in 1970, “Love Is All Around”–otherwise known as the Mary Tyler Moore theme song–has been covered by many acts: Sammy Davis Jr, Hüsker Dü, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, to name a few. After releasing a studio...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 6 (County-Centric) We were now between race days again, with two races down and one more to go. So we could do pretty...
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We were now between race days again, with two races down and one more to go. So we could do pretty much whatever we wanted now and I decided to focus on some county counting. It was all virgin territory to me and I intended to cover as much of it as I could during […] The post...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to resin casting At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
2 weeks ago
tomcritchlow.com
Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have...
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Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.
Notes on software...
Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go As part of bringing myself up-to-speed after joining TigerBeetle, I wanted some background on how...
a year ago
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a year ago
As part of bringing myself up-to-speed after joining TigerBeetle, I wanted some background on how distributed consensus and replicated state machines protocols work. TigerBeetle uses Viewstamped Replication. But I wanted to understand all popular protocols and I decided to start...
The Ruffian
What's the Point Of Protests? Maybe Not What We Think It Is
8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Death of Einhard the Historian The Death of Einhard the Historian JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:28
10 months ago
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K. A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
7 months ago
Old Structures...
Amazing Detail I recently put up a map put up an 1884 planning map for the expansion of the Croton water system...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently put up a map put up an 1884 planning map for the expansion of the Croton water system north of New York. It turns out that was just an appetizer. Today’s map, from 1899, has much more detail and is amazing proof of what could be done with hand drafting: no GIS...
Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1 For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981     You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981     You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
Ink & Switch
08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
9 months ago
Uncharted...
Become a World-Class Communicator I’m running a 2nd cohort of my course: How to Become a World-Class Communicator, starting in two...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’m running a 2nd cohort of my course: How to Become a World-Class Communicator, starting in two weeks, on November 4th!
Passing Time
Your Social Universe Imagine yourself as a star.
10 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Double Cups by Khatabgasim Double Cups is a charming establishment that seamlessly marries the age-old traditions of Arabian...
a month ago
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a month ago
Double Cups is a charming establishment that seamlessly marries the age-old traditions of Arabian coffee with the contemporary trends in...
Irrational...
Writing an engineering strategy. Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once you become an engineering executive, an invisible timer starts ticking in the background. Tick tick tick. At some point that timer will go off, at which point someone will rush up to you demanding an engineering strategy. It won’t be clear what they mean, but they will want...
Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7 Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
a year ago
TheCollector
Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright undefined
9 months ago
blag
About Some Stuff About Me
over a year ago
Wanderingspace
Europa Seen by Juno Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too” undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
4 Founding Fathers who Signed the Declaration of Independence undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring) Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
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a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Love, love, love
10 months ago
Entrepreneur's Edge
OKRs will never be enough Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.
a year ago
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End? undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Watch Hardware Wars, the Original Star Wars Parody, in HD (1978) This past May, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson set off waves of social-media discourse with “The...
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This past May, YouTuber Jenny Nicholson set off waves of social-media discourse with “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel,” a four-hour-long video critique of Disney’s hugely expensive, now-shuttered Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser in Orlando, Florida. Having gone...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
Louwrentius
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many features of ZFS also appeal to home NAS builders and with good reason. But not all features are relevant or necessary for home use. I believe that most home users building their...
Map of the Week
Lenapehoking-The Delaware Watershed A more modern take on last week's Coaquannock map, Lenapehoking is a map of the Delaware Watershed's...
a year ago
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a year ago
A more modern take on last week's Coaquannock map, Lenapehoking is a map of the Delaware Watershed's natural environment. The title means land of the Lenape people. The map was created by Illustrator Meg Lemieur and is available on Etsy. The map is beautifully illustrated with...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s the relationship between cost and price? What’s the relationship between price – the ability to charge for your product – and cost – how much...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What’s the relationship between price – the ability to charge for your product – and cost – how much it costs you to produce it? Price is a…
The Rational Walk
The Digest #172 Pilot's Founders vs. Berkshire, I Bonds, Ted Weschler interview transcript, Expanding circles of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Pilot's Founders vs. Berkshire, I Bonds, Ted Weschler interview transcript, Expanding circles of competence, Damodaran on Tesla, Thompson on AI, Charlie Munger, Chris Davis
TheCollector
What Is Theodicy? undefined
a year ago
General Robots
What's With All the Humanoid Robots? If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
Josh Comeau's blog
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for...
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
a year ago
Irrational...
2024 in review. A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
A lot happened for me this year. I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta, which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in. My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it. We started the unironically daunting San...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Books, Books, Books' The name I remembered but not what he had written, which is hardly unusual when the writer...
a year ago
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a year ago
The name I remembered but not what he had written, which is hardly unusual when the writer in question was first encountered in childhood and his readability hasn’t survived into adulthood. Very young children pay attention to the work, not its author. In this case, “Wynken,...
Open Culture
The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes The video above from YouTuber Alex Day includes clips from about 500 movies, and you’ve almost...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The video above from YouTuber Alex Day includes clips from about 500 movies, and you’ve almost certainly seen more than a few of them. Battleship Potemkin, Dumbo, Rear Window, Dr. No, The Godfather, E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Top Gun, Braveheart, Gladiator, Inception: we’re not...
Farnam Street
Focus to Win Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about saying no. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said it was focus. This sounds really simplistic, but it still shocks me how few...
Castles in the Sky
Do the weirdest thing that feels right. From "what to write" to "how to live"
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
The Modern House
At home with our favourite interiors influencer, Akilah Cohen
3 weeks ago
Retail Design Blog
phenom israel Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and hyper-personalized experiences for candidates, recruiters, and employees....
Confessions of a...
Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
9 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […] The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Daniel Bourke
My book Charlie Walks: A Novel is now available worldwide Charlie Walks: A Novel now shipping paperback copies worldwide.
over a year ago
Making software...
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
Identity Designed
WHEN Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
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Calculated Risk
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 21.9 percent from two weeks earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week...
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My new product on Product Hunt today Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product
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Stoic Simple
Stoicism & Politics: Should Stoics be Apolitical? By Tanner Campbell Recently it was suggested to me that a Stoic could be apolitical. While I believe...
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By Tanner Campbell Recently it was suggested to me that a Stoic could be apolitical. While I believe this is theoretically true, I don’t believe, in practice, that anyone could call themselves a Stoic while abstaining entirely from political involvement. I want to talk about why...
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I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
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CSS formatting in the console I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
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I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console: Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
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This Lakehouse Hovers Above The Natural Sloped Terrain Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset,...
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Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset, Ontario, that hovers above the natural sloped terrain close to the water’s edge of Kawagama Lake. The building, which sits lightly on the rugged site, invites expansive sky and...
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After the tragic and fatal Halloween crowd crush that occured in Seoul last year, Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, which has increasingly become a go-to spot for Halloween parties—often with dangerous consequences—is taking preemptive measures to discourage people from congregating in their...
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Founder Stories Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where...
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Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where we interviewed startup founders. I love…
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
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The Great Filter Comes For Us All With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
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With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? teaching the aliens how to exit Vim (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Marsh Light Is Still Burning Hard' I’m suspicious of the itch for ranking books and making lists. Too often it’s a substitute...
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I’m suspicious of the itch for ranking books and making lists. Too often it’s a substitute for actually reading them, a ruse for flaunting one’s hipness or sophistication. My late friend David Myers was fond of assembling such lists, which are likely to assure higher-than-average...
diamond geezer
Going unitary Local government organisation in England is complicated, always has been, which is why the...
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Local government organisation in England is complicated, always has been, which is why the government are keen to reorganise it. There are 317 councils in England: (upper-tier) (lower-tier) (unitary) (unitary) (unitary) (unitary) Logically it makes no sense that some shire...
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Indie Hacking Week 1 Recap: Starting TimelineGPT, Ending LearnGPT Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good...
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Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good groove as far as my daily routine, but I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet how much flexibility I have in terms of my daily schedule. For example, I’m still waking up early to […]
Stephen Diehl
Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage
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Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the importance of mocking and setting proper test boundaries.
Inverted Passion
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I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently wide definition of butt. Today's News:
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Environmental Sensing using an eInk Display and CircuitPython Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an...
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Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an 2.9″ e-ink display. My first choice was to use the display vertically. It feels a bit less like a price tag in this orientation. This past August 18th marked CircuitPython day, a...
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Who speaks of the Armenians? Britain is in bed with Putin's friends
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10 Historic Cities in India That Exist Since Ancient Times undefined
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Faking It A pet peeve of more than one of us at Old Structures is seeing buildings that are “faking” something...
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A pet peeve of more than one of us at Old Structures is seeing buildings that are “faking” something that makes no sense. Examples abound, like weep holes in solid masonry walls. I noticed this building while on the train recently, with the star anchors that one often sees on...
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Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
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In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I honestly don't know how this became AI week. If...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I honestly don't know how this became AI week. If you want an answer, ask bing Today's News: Big announcement in 12 days!
Diaries of Note
How could such courage be? On 20th July 1969, the world held its collective breath as the Apollo 11 mission made its historic...
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On 20th July 1969, the world held its collective breath as the Apollo 11 mission made its historic landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong’s immortal words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” echoing around the globe and cementing the moment as a...
Londonist
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Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House,...
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Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
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Why I cancelled my Replit subscription <![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of...
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<![CDATA[I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi language development environment in the cloud. I've been subscribing to the Hacker plan for the past few years and it worked well for my...
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OpenSea slashes NFT marketplace staff by 50% OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the...
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OpenSea, the prominent NFT marketplace startup, has laid off about half of its staff, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. The company would not ...
One from Nippon
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Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens. Onsen as a Business Despite all the hype in Part 1
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Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to...
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Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Accepter and Recorder of Things as They Are' It has been a good week for the satisfaction of knowing that a book I recommended has been read and...
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It has been a good week for the satisfaction of knowing that a book I recommended has been read and enjoyed. A reader in New York City tells me the title character of V.S. Pritchett’s 1951 novel Mr. Beluncle reminds her of her late father, a man she describes as “feckless.” And...
Open Culture
Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that...
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If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that cash-intensive society involves the use of thousand-yen bills. Once considered the equivalent of the American ten-spot, the yen’s lately having fallen to its lowest value in decades means that...
FIRE v London
Feeling broke My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is...
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My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is captured in my monthly portfolio updates, I thought it was worth recording some of my emotions while they are still fresh. Two years ago Turning the clock back, my financial...
Jonas Hietala
The Decline of FPS Games I read an article about the decline of FPS games and it made me think a bit. When was the last time...
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I read an article about the decline of FPS games and it made me think a bit. When was the last time I actually enjoyed an FPS game? I installed old Deus Ex a while ago but it’s what 12 years old? Team Fortress was okay, the one or two times I tried it, but I can’t say I truly...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Musings on CVS, two-way negotiation, and venture studios | Out-Of-Pocket + we're hosting another dinner! and courses ending!
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In-depth: PostHog vs Hotjar Want to understand the difference between Hotjar and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Hotjar is a...
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Want to understand the difference between Hotjar and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Hotjar is a user research tool that offers session replays…
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable? undefined
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know undefined
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IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
mtlynch.io
A Simple Example of Calling a C Library from Zig Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C...
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Zig is a new, independently developed low-level programming language. It’s a modern reimagining of C that attempts to retain all of C’s performance benefits while also taking advantage of improvements in tooling and language design from the last 30 years. Because Zig is designed...
Seth's Blog
“I’ve never seen you paint” … said the collector to the painter Jasper Johns. “Neither have I.” Watching is different than...
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… said the collector to the painter Jasper Johns. “Neither have I.” Watching is different than doing. Trying to do both at the same time is a challenge.
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Emotional labor in creative professions + mixed media art journal page video Doing creative work on behalf of a client requires a tremendous amount of empathy for their needs....
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Doing creative work on behalf of a client requires a tremendous amount of empathy for their needs. This emotional labor should be recognized and valued. In this episode of Art Chat I explain the source of emotional labor and its impact on our well-being, and provide tips to...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Long Island Rail Road Screen Maps at Grand Central Madison Submitted by Griffin, who says: I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to...
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Submitted by Griffin, who says: I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to check out the new station this morning. Spotted this new map on the wall down there, thought you might find it interesting. Transit Maps says: Oh, I do like this. Graphically strong...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
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Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
Classical Wisdom
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio July 19, 2024.
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A NoteCards project for the RetroChallenge 2024 <![CDATA[Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards...
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<![CDATA[Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards project targeting Medley Interlisp. The RC2024 announcement explains the point of the challenge is to do something new, learn, and have fun with retro systems: In a nutshell,...
High Signal
The best no-code newsletters for founders to read Want to find the best no-code newsletters for learning about what you can build without coding? You...
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Want to find the best no-code newsletters for learning about what you can build without coding? You came to the right place!
Artificial Ignorance
What are logprobs? Something to do with logs and probabilities.
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Math Is Still...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle...
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What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle question that physicists are still grappling with, decades into the quantum age. The post The Quest to Quantify Quantumness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Fatih Arslan
Automating my gate door How to automate a gate door without remote capabilities using a smart relay and integrate it into...
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How to automate a gate door without remote capabilities using a smart relay and integrate it into HomeKit via Home Assistant.
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Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
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The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
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Stat Significant
The Rise and (Overstated) Fall of Radio. A Statistical Analysis Examining radio's rapid adoption and surprising cultural endurance.
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39 Books: 2008 On January 19 of this year, I received a traumatic brain injury that for 16 years has limited my...
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On January 19 of this year, I received a traumatic brain injury that for 16 years has limited my capacity to read. It was also the year I read two novels in which the legacy of violence presses on the form they take. Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness spirals in Bernhardian...
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The Cyclotron
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Fender’s First Ever Flagship Store by Klein-Dytham Architecture Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding...
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Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding on the wave of soaring demand of Guitars during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related posts: House Tour: Yoyogi Artist Studio (with a hidden bed) #thatPOWER | Will.i.am’s new music...
Maps Mania
A New Google Map of the Brain
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mtlynch.io
How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the...
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When people talk about code reviews, they focus on the reviewer. But the developer who writes the code is just as important to the review as the person who reads it. There’s scarcely any guidance on preparing your code for review, so authors often screw up this process out of...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
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If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014). At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding...
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At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a system model representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number of...
Jonas Hietala
I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games...
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For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games again. So I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck (and like any self-serving gentleman I took care to pitch it as being for my kids) and I started loading it up...
diamond geezer
High Streets My High Streets post got a lot of attention over the weekend. How many High Streets are there in...
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My High Streets post got a lot of attention over the weekend. How many High Streets are there in London? Twitter and got 20 more comments. Hacker News, the behemoth American syndicator, and got 80 more comments. diamond geezer. a) not realising the significance of capital...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rach Lloyd Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and...
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Hello, my name is Rach and I'm a printmaker from Shropshire. I go by the name Rach Lloyd Press, and pride myself on making all of my print-runs and editions in very small numbers, so people can own a unique piece of artwork at an affordable price. I am a multidisciplinary artist,...
Probably...
Testing Percentiles Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. test_percentile Testing percentiles¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. I have two different samples (about 100...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
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mtlynch.io
Strong Towns I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
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I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government. This book...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and...
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Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and going quick” is: I can burp some npm commands into my terminal, burp some more to setup a deployment pipeline and blam! Website. The time to product demo is so low. But there’s...
Internal Tech Emails
The Sam Bankman-Fried Files In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected...
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In LA last weekend, I met with Michael Kives and his firm, K5. He is, probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met.  In attendance at the dinner at his house were: 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Doug Emhoff 3) Katy Perry 4) Orlando Bloom 5) Kate Hudson
TheCollector
The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover undefined
9 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket" Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the...
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Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones back in 1926: From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that…
Londonist
London New Year's Eve Fireworks 2023: Ticket Details Announced See in 2024 by the Thames in central London.
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Flashbak
Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
The Ruffian
The Unreal Thing What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative...
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What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative Industries
ntietz.com blog
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
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over a year ago
Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
Steve Klabnik
Going vimgan
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
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diamond geezer
A nice walk A Nice Walk: Suburban circuit (¾ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too...
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A Nice Walk: Suburban circuit (¾ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, easily reached, pretty flowers, running water, hidden secrets, occasional benches, refreshment opportunity, entirely step-free, won't take long. So here's...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Building a High Volume Data Processing Pipeline in JavaScript There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an...
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There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an ETL pipeline I built with a microservice architecture in JavaScript and some of the lessons I learned as part of the process.
computers are bad
2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad...
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A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website...
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Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
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British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s.     Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inversion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of that book. Today's News: I am signing at Telegraph in Charlottesville: Today at 2! If you want a signed copy, this is my only remaining scheduled signing right now so please come...
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A Really Big Computer GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS...
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GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS (20e15) of compute, GPT-4 used 47.5 person-years to train. Very human scale. I want to build a computer capable of training GPT-4 in a day. I need 3e25/86400 = 347,000,000 TFLOPS, or...
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“The Ferryman’s Due,” my article about Andrew Rickard and his Obolus Press, is published in the January 2025 issue of The New Criterion.: “Rickard often encounters such passages, in which the author he is translating seems to speak for him. ‘It’s uncanny. The past is not dead,’...
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As a former newspaper reporter I regularly read three hard-copy newspapers: The Leader, a neighborhood weekly here in Houston; the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal; and County Highway. That’s down from thirty years ago when I read seven or eight papers every day (like a...
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It started with a tweet: New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates — Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson) January 7, 2018 Why? Because I've been sitting in 100,000,000 meetings where people endlessly debate whether the monthly number of...
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It's a busy time, but I wanted to point out a couple of papers from this past week. First, I want to point to this preprint on the arxiv, where the Weizmann folks do an incredibly technically impressive thing.  I'd written recently about the thermal Hall effect, when a...
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One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
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If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
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The things we do each day, every day, often arrive without intent. By the time we realize that they’re now habits, these random behaviors have already become part of how we define ourselves and the time we spend. Bringing intent to our rituals gives us the chance to rewire our...
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How we made feature flags faster and more reliable Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
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Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
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There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
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New And Improved Graphics! Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan...
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Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan approach of the Brooklyn Bridge. The short version is that it’s an 1880s steel truss reinforced in the mid-1900s with a steel arch below. The long discussion is: here and here and...
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The most recent episode of John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, featured a discussion of the UFO phenomenon. I’m always interested, and often disappointed, in how the mainstream media portrays skeptical topics. One interesting addition here is that Oliver actually referenced an SGU...
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I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators – for low...
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As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators – for low pay and little future prospects.
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Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
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Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
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Putting up the big numbers Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday...
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Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday (or more than the person next to them). You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock...
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I can't believe this needs to be said, but no - the reason Disney's movies have bombed lately is not because they aren't advertising on Birdchan. There are a plethora of reasons behind their recent box office failures. But they have nothing to do with diminishing...
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Ophelia Chong has had a long and storied career in photography, art, and creative direction that spans from magazines and music labels to film festivals and book publishing. When a family member’s medicinal marijuana use inspired her to dip her toes into the world of weed, Chong...
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+ / - , Actualization Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is...
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Reposting some writing I did a while back on the subject of how additive manufacturing is necessarily a destructive process.
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This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
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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.
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TikTok users are chasing easy money by reposting viral videos from China The practice goes against TikTok's policies, but "gurus," and "mentors" are exploiting the trend...
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Highlights from The Industrial Revolution, by T. S. Ashton The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830, by Thomas S. Ashton, is classic in the field, published in...
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The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830, by Thomas S. Ashton, is classic in the field, published in 1948. Here are some of my highlights from it. (Emphasis in bold added by me.) The role of chance What was the role of chance in the inventions of the Industrial Revolution? It is true...
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Summer Light Reading 2024 Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light...
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Here is another installment of what is becoming an annual summer tradition. Just like the light beach reading, here is some light map reading. Not much to comment about, just some maps and related items I like. First of all since the Olympics are in Paris, a nice papercut map you...
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
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This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
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A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing the 18,000 award winners from 139 different design disciplines.
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“As long as I am alive, I will be a photographer. I will never retire” – Dorothy Bohm   Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a Jewish German-speaking family. In 1939 she was...
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For Open House this weekend I visited twelve different and varied properties, ranging from underwhelm to amazeballs. I'll save the wow until later but here are brief reports on the others, hopefully as testament that exploring otherwise inaccessible spaces is an opportunity not...
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Since its inception in 2010 by friends Inwook Park, Nadan Cho, and Jonkyu Choi, fashion brand thisisneverthat has come a...
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The shifting status of more data How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell....
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How do we know if we’re doing a good job? In some fields, it’s always been pretty easy to tell. Either the building falls down or it doesn’t. Either the car starts after you charge the battery or it’s still dead. We can ask easy questions about how long it took or how much it […]
Math Is Still...
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart. A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would...
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A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into disarray. But physicists are now discovering that the pull of disorder may not be so easily overcome. The post A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal...
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All images ©Kotaro Tanaka courtesy OEO Studio OEO Studio, a Copenhagen-based design firm, has recently completed the interiors of Noma Kyoto, a pop-up dining in Japan in collaboration with Ace Hotel. The 250 sqm existing dining space has been transformed under the guidance of...
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sketchbook – 2024 March 24 - March 30 If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
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Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain...
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In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems. The post Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The hidden cost of cyberwarfare Digital Peace Now is working to raise awareness of the damage done by cyberattacks.
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For a successful etch, there is a little bit of care and attention you need to give to your metal plate first. There are surface impurities and grease pockets within the metal that will need to be removed before coating your plate with grounds. This blog is part of a series...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I draw hands so poorly I worry I'll be accused of being an AI. Today's News: THANK YOU! We are just over a day in and past 250% of our goal. WOOHOO! If you check out the page, you'll see we now have Phil Plait as an...
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Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
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I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
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Europe is half the cost for our company meet-ups Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for...
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Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for 37signals. We got going again in Miami, then hopped to Amsterdam, and most recently we went to New Orleans. Next we're going to Barcelona in the fall. Would you have guessed that...
Home on Erik...
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
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I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
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2024 Tax Changes in Canada: A Detailed Guide for Canadians 💰🇨🇦 The Canadian tax landscape undergoes periodic shifts, and 2024 is no exception. This year,...
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The Canadian tax landscape undergoes periodic shifts, and 2024 is no exception. This year, adjustments and updates across various areas present both opportunities and considerations for taxpayers. Let's explore the key changes and consider their potential ramifications.
Old Structures...
It Can Go Either Way Much like the photo from Monday, this April 1959 photo by Angelo Rizzuto could be either demolition...
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Much like the photo from Monday, this April 1959 photo by Angelo Rizzuto could be either demolition or construction. The steel frame on the left is on the site of 350 Park Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets on the west side of Park Avenue. The ornate masonry box just north of...
Sam Altman
What I Heard From Trump Supporters After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the...
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After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience—I highly recommend it.  With three exceptions,...
mtlynch.io
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-110k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Gwern.net Newsletter
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October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
A Weekly Dose of...
The Minimal Intervention The Material Imagination Birkhäuser, October 2022 Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pages | 13...
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The Material Imagination Birkhäuser, October 2022 Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pages | 13 illustrations | English (translated from German by Jill Denton) | ISBN: 9783035625301 | $26.99 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the...
Open Culture
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The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie. The site...
ntietz.com blog
Decaf is good, actually We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give...
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We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give me the good stuff." "Death before decaf." "Decaf isn't coffee." It has this reputation that it's bad and that coffee people avoid it. And yet, if you drink decaf, you're a true...
mtlynch.io
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I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts of my configuration.nix file under source control. My goal I’d like for my Nix configuration files to be modular and reusable, so depending on the system or flake, I can pull in...
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Beware of free pizza If I want a slice of pizza, I don't expect it to be free. In fact, if you try to offer me a slice of free pizza, I'd suspect there's something wrong with it. And ever since my kids can understand me, I've taught them to be careful of free stuff. Nothing is...
Home on Erik...
Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
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One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried says he wants a do-over just as Celsius fraudster Alex Mashinsky goes to trial, and some more ill-received blockchain games suggest “GameFi” has an uncertain future.
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SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
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Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
Simply Explained
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For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
Maps Mania
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“Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered, there was in him a mixture of that disease, the nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry, though the...
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Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features.