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Simply Explained
Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fix If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin...
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over a year ago
If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin will be short-circuited and cause the unit to heat up significantly, creating a potential fire hazard!
Math Is Still...
A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling The discovery earlier this year of the “hat” tile marked the culmination of hundreds of years of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The discovery earlier this year of the “hat” tile marked the culmination of hundreds of years of work into tiles and their symmetries. The post A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
AI Map Markers
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends) My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Ben Borgers
Batching
over a year ago
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London: April 2024 From Caravaggio to Antony Gormley.
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Paper review: C-store It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read "C-store: a column-oriented DBMS" from chapter 4 of the Red Book. This one I picked since I thought it would be helpful for the chess database I'm working on, and it does seem...
NeuroLogica Blog
Big Ring Challenges Cosmological Principle University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a...
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12 months ago
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a giant arc of galaxy clusters in the distant universe, has now discovered a Big Ring. This (if real) is one of the largest structures in the observable universe at 1.3 billion light...
SatPost by Trung...
Beating the Auction Duopoly Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Sotheby's and Christie's are a combined 538 years old. Can the 48-year old Heritage Auctions topple this duopoly?
somenice
Whistler High Note Trail Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Out-Of-Pocket Game plan | Out-Of-Pocket How to build the on-boarding system for healthcare
a year ago
./techtipsy
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
a year ago
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a year ago
I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
Koos Looijesteijn
Your app is not a product
8 months ago
Christopher Butler
The View from Here There are many reasons to make things and share them, to write and publish, to speak and record. So...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are many reasons to make things and share them, to write and publish, to speak and record. So many reasons, most unknown; far be it from me to make assumptions about other peoples’ motivations. But among them, amidst even the most altruistic, is the one that is most...
diamond geezer
Thursday transport news Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Thursday. Four stations...
a year ago
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a year ago
Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Thursday. Four stations miss out on 4G can't ring a friend and have a very loud conversation and they are Paddington, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf and Woolwich. These will be added to the roster next year,...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Noahpinion
Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s The future ain't what it used to be.
a year ago
Louwrentius
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
Calculated Risk
December 13th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Retail Design Blog
MyHeritage Offices by Auerbach Halevy Architects Auerbach Halevy Architects designed multiple office expansions for MyHeritage, integrating...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Auerbach Halevy Architects designed multiple office expansions for MyHeritage, integrating historical elements with modern design trends and creating a warm,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 7 Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot achieved astonishing growth in revenue, jumping from $15k in December to $42k in January. Most of TinyPilot’s sales came from a single positive YouTube review. TinyPilot is experiencing growing pains as I scramble to meet demand. Goal Grades At the start of...
Construction Physics
How California Turned Against Growth Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs,...
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5 months ago
Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs, the chance to become rich and famous, or simply the comfortable climate and beautiful landscape.
Birchtree
Squashing links on social media Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are...
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a month ago
Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly
African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD. The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
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5 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
Classical Wisdom
Andromeda: The Beauty of the Mediterranean Take a Santa Pause
2 weeks ago
Aaron's Essays
Investors and their incentives It is incredibly important to understand the incentives of investors when you are raising money....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is incredibly important to understand the incentives of investors when you are raising money. This used to be fairly easy - you raised money from Venture Capitalists who wanted to see a big return on their investment. The best of these investors were incredibly focused on...
Asterisk
When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?
weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 1988 This is one of my most surprising discoveries in second-hand bookshop trawls in the far off days...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This is one of my most surprising discoveries in second-hand bookshop trawls in the far off days when they existed, especially because it was found in Portsmouth, not the most literary of cities despite Dickens and Conan-Doyle (or perhaps because of Dickens and Conan-Doyle)....
Cheese and Biscuits
Jacuzzi, Kensington If you've been to Gloria, or Circo Popular, or Ave Mario, you'll know the drill by now. Big Mamma...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you've been to Gloria, or Circo Popular, or Ave Mario, you'll know the drill by now. Big Mamma group restaurants are ludicrous, overblown chintz-fests where decent if overpriced food plays second fiddle to people watching and celeb-spotting. And don't get me wrong, there's...
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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5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
7 Times the Parthenon Was Transformed and Destroyed undefined
a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#27) Chaos Climbers, gender wars, union wars, social media toxicity, a good spending bill, and urban...
11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Taking care This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen. View on my website
a year ago
Neil Madden
Entity authentication with a KEM In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity...
a year ago
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a year ago
In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity authentication or identification (to distinguish it from message authentication or data origin authentication). There are lots of ways to do this. In this post I’m going to talk about...
Paul Graham: Essays
Fashionable Problems
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Hinchley Wood One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford line. unsung fields to the east of Esher, officially in the parish of Thames Ditton, sliced through by a non-stopping railway. What changed things was the arrival of the Kingston Bypass...
Build In Public...
Building In Public 101 Here's a crash course on the rising trend of building in public
over a year ago
HTMHell
Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers by Alexander Muzenhardt Introduction Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a...
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a week ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt Introduction Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a product. You dive into the work with full energy, and just before the deadline, you manage to finish it. Everyone loves your work, and the feature is set to go live the next...
mtlynch.io
My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes (Part One) For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different...
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over a year ago
For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different apartments and one house. They’re family home videos from my childhood. After 600+ hours of work, I finally digitized and organized them well enough to throw away the original tapes....
The Changelog
Remote Directory Tree Comparison, Optionally Asynchronous and Airgapped Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In the previous installment on store-and-forward backups, I mentioned how easy it is to do with ZFS, and some of the tools that can be used to do it without ZFS. A lot of those...
Rest of World -...
Malaysia’s homegrown car brands bank on cheaper models to compete with Tesla and BYD Proton and Perodua are betting on low prices and an emotional connection with Malaysia’s drivers to...
4 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Startup Hubs Work
over a year ago
Londonist
Punk Bands In 1970s London: Rescued And Never-Before-Seen-Photos Free exhibition only on for a month.
a year ago
ToughSF
Moto-Orion: Mechanized Nuclear Pulse Propulsion The Orion nuclear pulse propulsion concept has been around for over six decades now. It is powerful...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Orion nuclear pulse propulsion concept has been around for over six decades now. It is powerful and robust, but lacks the flexibility and features we expect from many more modern designs. Can we give it those additional capabilities? That cutaway is one of Matthew Paul...
Math Is Still...
What Can Cave Life Tell Us About Alien Ecosystems? Extremophiles, or microbes that live in the most seemingly hostile environments, are the darlings of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Extremophiles, or microbes that live in the most seemingly hostile environments, are the darlings of astrobiologists, who study the potential for life beyond Earth. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with astrobiologist and cave explorer Penelope Boston about how life...
Londonist
Cricket Cornish Pasty Anyone? London's Bug Restaurant Has Just Gone Permanent Hop to it!
10 months ago
Marian's Blog
Raspberry Pi Wetterstation Um die Daten, die meine Arduino-Wetterstation liefert, verfügbarer zu machen, habe ich mich...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Um die Daten, die meine Arduino-Wetterstation liefert, verfügbarer zu machen, habe ich mich entschieden, das Projekt jetzt mit einem Raspberry Pi weiterzuführen. Die Sensordaten werden wieder vom ILC-Board geliefert, das ich für den Schülerwettbewerb Intel Leibniz Challenge...
Seth's Blog
The best possible use I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms and predicting the future since 1989. It was a large space on a vibrant New York City corner. The rent must be astronomical. Or else the purveyor owns the building. Given that this...
Working Theorys
The Time-Boxed Startup What if startups had an expiration date?
10 months ago
HTMHell
Security Headers using <meta> by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
DYNOMIGHT
Why I’m skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing The Attorney General of Massachusetts recently announced that drivers for ride-sharing companies...
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a week ago
The Attorney General of Massachusetts recently announced that drivers for ride-sharing companies must be paid at least $32.50 per hour. Now, if you’re a hardcore libertarian, then you probably hate the minimum wage. You already disagree with this policy, so you need no convincing...
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’ undefined
8 months ago
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #217 Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The Fed's Inflationary Bias, Jimmy Carter at 100, Sam Altman, Bruno Leoni, Thermopylae
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism undefined
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
Stumbling in the dark Learning is complicated. While we’re doing it, it’s easy to imagine that those around us are...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Learning is complicated. While we’re doing it, it’s easy to imagine that those around us are completely sure of themselves, moving forward in a well-lit space. In fact, if you visit a growing company, a useful school or anywhere that growth is happening, you’ll quickly see that...
General Robots
Nailing the Demo So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
a year ago
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a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
Retail Design Blog
SKIN boutique by PAULO MERLINI architects Located in Saldanha, on the ground floor of a residential building, this two-storey commercial space...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Located in Saldanha, on the ground floor of a residential building, this two-storey commercial space was characterized by a relatively...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Critics Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I found something lazier than graph jokes! Today's...
4 days ago
Old Structures...
Mystery Work From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is accurate – “Four hundred ft. above the street – iron worker on the Singer Tower, New York, U.S.A.” but it doesn’t tell us what we’re actually looking at. For example, the steel we’re...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank...
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#1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank and was promoted by every direct response marketer. Always inspiring to see humble beginnings like this and a good reminder that most businesses are not sexy from day 1.
David Gerrells
Can you convert a video to pure css? Can you convert a video to pure css? There is only one way to find out.
4 months ago
Maps Mania
Tokyo Live
a year ago
Making software...
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
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over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Ruthless Edit Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Rick Rubin gives this advice about working in the studio with artists when making an album: [Let’s say] We’ve recorded twenty-five songs. We think the album is going to have ten. Instead of picking our favorite ten, we limit it to: “What are the five or six we can’t live...
The Wandering...
Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami. [Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see that Younghusband now has to turn south, as his own map shows. The journey takes from June 23rd to July 4th, or twelve days. His mapmaker places Ula Khutun almost halfway from...
Escaping Flatland
Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.
The Rational Walk
Claim Checks Viewing money as "claim checks" that can be exchanged for goods and services is a very useful...
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5 months ago
Viewing money as "claim checks" that can be exchanged for goods and services is a very useful concept.
Probably...
The Political Gender Gap is Not Growing In a previous article, I used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to see if there is a growing...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In a previous article, I used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to see if there is a growing gender gap among young people in political alignment, party affiliation, or political attitudes. So far, the answer is no. Ryan Burge has done a similar analysis with data from...
TheCollector
What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society? undefined
9 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Apple Wins Apple Intelligence and aggregation puts Apple in a dominant AI position
6 months ago
Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
Moneyness
The long arm of OFAC and its reach into the Ethereum network Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving...
a year ago
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a year ago
Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange, is openly processing Ethereum transactions involving Tornado Cash, a piece of blockchain infrastructure that was sanctioned by the U.S. government last year for providing mixing services to North Korea.  Over the last two weeks...
Old Structures...
Fireworks The various amusement parks at Coney Island used to have spectacles as well as rides and ordinary...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The various amusement parks at Coney Island used to have spectacles as well as rides and ordinary shows. From 1885, a fireworks show at Manhattan beach called The Last Days of Pompeii: Happy Independence Day.
On Life and Lisp
Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
Nadia Asparouhova
Working notes for Summer of Protocols I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m participating in the Summer of Protocols research program this summer as a Core Researcher. It’s an 18-week program, funded by the Ethereum Foundation, that aims to catalyze a wider exploration of protocols and their social implications. I plan to focus on protocols as...
Seth's Blog
Fooled Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons, algorithmic spam at scale, health claims, illogical political arguments, fundraising pitches, overnight shortcuts on the road to riches or happiness and MLM hustle. Your account has...
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years undefined
6 months ago
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
Dan Slimmon
Post-mortems: content over structure The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected...
a year ago
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a year ago
The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected behaviors of the system, and learning lets us make improvements to the system’s reliability. The value of post-mortem documents is much less apparent. Many R&D orgs will insist that...
Electronics etc…
ThinMachine - a $25 Thin Client MacOS Time Machine Appliance The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing...
a year ago
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a year ago
The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future. Introduction The HP t520 Thin...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Each Man Can Be Judged By His Favorite Books' This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas Rudd, who quotes her subject: “Each man can be judged by his favorite books.” She adds of the great Spanish thinker and novelist:  “Throughout his long life Unamuno returned to...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
a year ago
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a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
diamond geezer
Your guide to the new Overground line names Your guide to the new Overground line names individual names in 2015, mostly geographically-based,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Your guide to the new Overground line names individual names in 2015, mostly geographically-based, but Boris Johnson swiftly vetoed the proposal. Then in 2021 Sadiq Khan's manifesto pledged to rename the lines if he got elected. "TfL’s London Overground network has grown...
Maps Mania
Geotripper - the Traveling Salesman Game
a month ago
Old Structures...
A Very Specific Moment I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The photo shows St. John’s Chapel, an out-chapel of Trinity Church, which was constructed in 1807 and which eventually gave the park its name. This was originally an almost suburban...
The Gradient
Salmon in the Loop On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
a year ago
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a year ago
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...
The Modern House
Peak Performance: what does a walk up a mountain sound like?
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
Londonist
Putney Gets New Embankment And Boat Race Marker First of seven riverside improvements from the supersewer.
a year ago
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When an environmental impact assessment concludes that only a small number of shorebirds will be affected by a new airport, because relatively small flocks are counted during field surveys, is there an assumption that the birds encountered are always the same individuals? What if...
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This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old beauty underneath layers of dirt!
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samwho.dev
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Saturday Morning...
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Artificial Ignorance
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Lampshading How to turn Ignorance into Power
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Noahpinion
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A guest post by by Liza Tobin, Warren Wilson, Brady Helwig, and Connor Martin of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
Hundred Rabbits
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
TheCollector
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Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. Part 3, Facades: here. Skyscrapers only make sense as an urban phenomenon. (Keep in mind that a lot of inner-ring US suburbs are at urban density.) Putting aside the obvious economic argument that land is cheap in rural areas so...
TheCollector
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A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2. We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case. I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Posts on Made of...
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tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
Build In Public...
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Hey everyone, It’s been a while since I sent a new edition of this newsletter. There’s a good reason behind my delay. Let me share what I’m up to via a string of fun announcements today. Let’s get to it. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: I launched something fun for the larger founder ecosystem...
The Modern House
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Many Worlds
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Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
TheCollector
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One year of cycling GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
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First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
Wuthering...
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We have the complete Plato, from multiple manuscript sources.  We have lost every published book (widely copied scroll) of Aristotle’s, but a large mass of what are perhaps transcribed lecture notes survived, barely, in a single manuscript, so that is our Aristotle.  I don’t know...
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CONTEMPORIST
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MAP Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they completed in Suffolk, England, that’s located adjacent to the creek and reedbeds within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The ‘Creek Cabin’, with early...
Birchtree
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Glasses and headsets and computers, oh my! Why the future continues to be all about adding computers to our lives, not replacing anything.
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Christopher Butler
The AI Designer The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete. For creative craftspeople, AI is...
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The AI Designer is a powerful notion, but it is incomplete. For creative craftspeople, AI is more of an imposed thought experiment than it is a utility. Yes, there are countless AI tools that can do parts of the job — make an image for you, create a layout, automate a...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks everyone! Sorry to nag about this, but well, it's the culmination of 4 years of work. I hope to see some of you! Today's News: Here are links to the individual events: Strand...
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Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the ulisp compiler's LLVM backend to support printing integers to...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI As Legal Entities Should an artificial intelligence (AI) be treated like a legal “subject” or agent? That is the...
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Should an artificial intelligence (AI) be treated like a legal “subject” or agent? That is the question discussed in a new paper by legal scholars. They recognize that this question is a bit ahead of the technology, but argue that we should work out the legal ramifications before...
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Team Charters are a trap. I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email...
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I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a...
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OLD KENT ROAD £60   London's Monopoly Streets OLD KENT ROAD Colour group: brown Purchase price: £60 Rent: £2 Length: 1¾ miles Boroughs: Southwark and Lewisham Postcodes: SE1, SE15 Old Kent Road, which is also the only location south of the river. Originally this was Watling...
Anecdotal Evidence
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I recently encountered a choice example of academic snobbery, the lording of a tenured professor over lecturers, adjuncts and even “mere assistant professors.” Normally the perpetrator tries to disguise his snottiness or treat it as a joke but in this case the prima donna was...
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DYNOMIGHT
Using axis lines for good or evil Say you want to plot some data. You could just plot it by itself: Or you could put lines on the...
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Say you want to plot some data. You could just plot it by itself: Or you could put lines on the left and bottom: Or you could put lines everywhere: Or you could be weird: Which is right? Many people treat this as an aesthetic choice. But I’d like to suggest an unambiguous...
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The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages "Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
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Diaries of Note
Oh, self, they make me so sick! Born in rural Georgia in 1930, Richelene Mitchell faced significant obstacles throughout her life,...
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Born in rural Georgia in 1930, Richelene Mitchell faced significant obstacles throughout her life, from the entrenched racism of the American South to the economic hardships that forced her into public housing and onto welfare. Yet, despite the unyielding challenges she faced as...
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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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...
Math Is Still...
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra...
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Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe. The post AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless...
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Is This The Oldest Surviving Poster On The Tube Network? The Otrivine gnome is not to be sniffed at.
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Retail Design Blog
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For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has certainly been...
A Weekly Dose of...
The Latest from MoMA: Emerging Ecologies Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books...
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Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books with keywords to better filter and find them. The tags I use move from general terms like "architecture" (the most) and "fiction" (the least) to specific terms that reflect a high...
Jonas Hietala
ghc 8.8.3 cannot find cabal 3.0.0.0 packages I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system...
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I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system it suddenly stopped working. I installed my dependencies with cabal install xmonad, and checked that it’s installed under ~/.cabal: $ ls .cabal/bin/ xmonad@ But still when I...
Londonist
Fears Over Redevelopment Of Surbiton Station Public consultation now open.
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Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
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There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
TheCollector
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The Convivial...
Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist... The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
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Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
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In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
Charles Chen
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4 A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing...
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The Last...
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WHERE DID YOU GO? I flatter myself by thinking you are asking this question.  I am writing a book of and about porn. IS IT ANY GOOD? Not sure.  I am trying my best.  It's a lot of work, complicated by relentless self-doubt.  The good news is I am drinking more. ALMOST...
There are two types...
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How do you know when to use which programming language? Hello Alex, Congrats on graduating. So the question you’re asking is very vague, but I’d like to...
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Hello Alex, Congrats on graduating. So the question you’re asking is very vague, but I’d like to help you out […] The post How do you know when to use which programming language? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Calculated Risk
Monday: New Home Sales Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 22, 2024 Ten Economic Questions for 2025 Chicago Fed National...
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Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 22, 2024 Ten Economic Questions for 2025 Chicago Fed National Activity Index for November. This is a composite index of other data. Durable Goods Orders for November.  The consensus is for a 0.4% decrease. New Home Sales for November from...
mtlynch.io
Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application 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 C’s performance while embracing improvements from the last 30 years of tooling and language design. Zig makes calling into C code easier than any other...
NeuroLogica Blog
It’s Not Possible – Until Suddenly It Is There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the...
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There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the world is political will. Often politicians and motivational speakers will say something along the lines of, “We can do anything, if we put our minds to it.” While this sounds like...
Seth's Blog
The search tax Amazon took in more than $30 billion in ad revenue last year, money spent to elevate some products...
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Amazon took in more than $30 billion in ad revenue last year, money spent to elevate some products over others in the hierarchy of attention. It’s probably true that someone shopping on Amazon is going to either buy something or not… the purpose of the “ads” isn’t to amplify...
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
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I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context. Today's News: Right here.
Josh Comeau's blog
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“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.
ntietz.com blog
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun) While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack...
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While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1. It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You catastrophic forgetter! You opaque box! You absolute Chinese room! Today's News: Nice book selection here on Barnes and Noble, with an especially good pick right at the bottom.
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I swear, we're working on that stupid t-shirt design. Info in a day or two. Today's News:
The Works in...
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Jonas Hietala
Doing some online Personality tests For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
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For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. The Braverman Test Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
History Today Feed
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CONTEMPORIST
A Concrete Ceiling Floats Above This Round Hotel Bar Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project...
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Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project to renovate the terrace and galleries of the Ritz Four Seasons Hotel Lisbon. The bar has an organic design and total openness to the terrace, with walls of glass allowing the...
Cheese and Biscuits
Restaurant of the Year 2022 - The Bridge Arms, Canterbury Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has...
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Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has slowed down a bit. Where I used to try and do 6 or 7 posts a month, and with that obviously stopping completely while there was nothing open to review, I have since found that 2...
Tony Finch's blog
exponential rate limiting Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed...
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Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas that I hope will be more broadly interesting. Exponential rate limiting uses an...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately he was able to invest those socks and return a dividend later. Today's News: Monday!
Seth's Blog
Abundance and ideas A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The...
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A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The sender was offended that my friend had written a post about a concept she’s been developing for nearly a decade. Of course, no idea is unique, and the posted idea sort of rhymed...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI-Fueled Scams Digital life is getting more dangerous.  Literally every day I have to fend off attempts at scamming...
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Digital life is getting more dangerous.  Literally every day I have to fend off attempts at scamming me in one way or another. I get texts trying to lure me into responding. I get e-mails hoping I will click a malicious link on a reflex. I get phone calls from people warning me...
Making software...
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
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over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...
TheCollector
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TheCollector
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation Do people actually disagree that much?
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Competition Alert! Win A Family Mini Break In A 5-Star London Hotel A fantastic prize from Pan Pacific London.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a...
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You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company. [There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is
Left To Write
Some Sh*tty Career Advice From A Professional Gambler Asymmetric betting, skill acquisition and daring to be different
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Scarlet Ink
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A continuation of my previous article about my experiences at Amazon. What they do well, what they don't do well, and in this article, I also mention a few common beliefs I disagree with.
Seth's Blog
Other people’s problems It’s surprisingly easy to be generous and find solutions to our friend’s problems. Much easier than...
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It’s surprisingly easy to be generous and find solutions to our friend’s problems. Much easier than it is to do it for ourselves. Why? There are two useful reasons, I think. FIRST, because we’re unaware of all the real and imaginary boundaries our friends have set up. If it were...
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My techno-optimism
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NeuroLogica Blog
Unifying Cognitive Biases Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there...
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Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there is some controversy over exactly how to categorize complex phenomena, specifically whether or not to favor the fewest categories based on similarities, or the greatest number of...
TheCollector
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AFAR Media - Travel...
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The Scariest Day of My Life What the hell am I supposed to do?
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TheCollector
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Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a...
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It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on. Meme...
Diaries of Note
You’d think I would be happy all the time Nikki Sixx was twenty-two when he co-founded Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band destined to become one...
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Nikki Sixx was twenty-two when he co-founded Mötley Crüe, a heavy metal band destined to become one of the most successful music acts in history. As the band’s bassist and principal songwriter, Sixx played a key role in developing their iconic rebellious persona, his escalating...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Does Marcus Matter?
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Calculated Risk
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores A brief excerpt: Here are some graphs on outstanding mortgages by interest rate, the average mortgage interest rate, borrowers’ credit...
diamond geezer
London Countries - Albania For the avoidance of doubt, I will not be writing a full alphabetical series of posts called London...
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For the avoidance of doubt, I will not be writing a full alphabetical series of posts called London Countries. But think more deeply and it's actually a terrible idea, at least in its entirety, which is why it won't be happening. Albania and I'd be starting to scrape the...
TheCollector
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The Ruffian
Rattle Bag Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
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Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 4 On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
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Old Structures...
The Personal Connection A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame,...
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A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame, glass-facade office building, remarkable to me for the simple reason that I had my first more-or-less real engineering job there. Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, later known as TAMS...
Trying to Understand...
When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
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Maps Mania
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Rest of World -...
Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
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Koos Looijesteijn
Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors
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Varun's Notes
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mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 1 Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I...
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Highlights My wife and I became parents. I realized that caring for a newborn takes more time than I expected. I’m unsure what to do with my partially-finished Hacker News course. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
Confessions of a...
A first step into the unknown world of academia……. At the beginning of this blog I did promise to include some writings that would at least be...
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At the beginning of this blog I did promise to include some writings that would at least be semi-useful (hopefully!) to future students hoping to move into a career in marine science; so here it goes! From today I am beginning a year long Postgraduate Teaching Internship at UWA....
Math Is Still...
How Did Altruism Evolve? If evolution favors the survival of the fittest, where did the impulse to help others come from?...
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If evolution favors the survival of the fittest, where did the impulse to help others come from? Host Janna Levin speaks with Stephanie Preston, a neuropsychologist who studies the biology of altruism. The post How Did Altruism Evolve? first appeared on Quanta...
TheCollector
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE. The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
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When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
TokyoDev
Childcare Options in Japan Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available....
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8 months ago
Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available. Services will vary greatly depending on your location, the ages of your children, and the time of year. This article explores all of the most common childcare offerings, to get you...
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza undefined
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Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
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A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Breaking unhealthy media habits in six simple steps Shortly after I got my first iPhone, I started using it while walking up the stairs, sitting on the...
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Otherwise, as Apolitical as Possible" “If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort...
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10 months ago
“If Ralph Nader is for it, I am against it; otherwise, as apolitical as possible.”  That sort of common sense becomes as rare as humility by the hour. It’s the time of year when we start filling the recycling bin with unsolicited, unread campaign literature. This season’s favored...
Diaries of Note
The film had killed me On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language...
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On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language adaptation of the 1757 fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Directing this grand endeavour in his 57th year was poet and artist Jean Cocteau, a multi-talented creative force known for his...
Explorations of an...
2023 Part 1: January Through Early March (Argentina, Uruguay) Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my...
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a year ago
Over the next little while I will be making a few photo-heavy blog posts, highlighting a few of my favourite memories from 2023. Laura and I finished our extending traveling in Latin America, but the first four months of 2023 saw us visiting Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to close...
HTMHell
Dear developer, your assumptions are wrong As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught. So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name: <label for="name">First name:</label> <input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
One Useful Thing
Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class Also prompts! And things to watch out for!
a year ago
Old Structures...
Moving Goalposts The image above, of the Grand Union Hotel on the east side of Park Avenue is labelled by the New...
a year ago
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a year ago
The image above, of the Grand Union Hotel on the east side of Park Avenue is labelled by the New York Public Library as 1868 to 1900, but is likely from the late 1870s, or early 1880s. The hotel is the building on the right with three flags and with S-curved mansard roofs on its...
anderegg.ca
Jet Lag: The Game: The Game Some fun news today from the creators of Jet Lag: The Game. They officially announced the next...
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Some fun news today from the creators of Jet Lag: The Game. They officially announced the next season, and also a “home version” of the game. I’ve written about Jet Lag: The Game before, so you might want to start there if you don’t know what I’m talking about. On the latest...