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Maps Mania
245 Russian Military Targets at Risk
4 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Everything Will Evaporate What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities,...
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What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities, but at present the most likely scenario seems to be that the universe will continue to expand, most mass will eventually find its way into a black hole, and those black holes will...
Noahpinion
The Big Tariffs are here Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
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Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they… “If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
over a year ago
HTMHell
Makeshift hot reload by Evan Hahn In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh...
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4 weeks ago
by Evan Hahn In short: put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> in your <head> element to refresh your page every second. This is a makeshift "hot reload" for development. It's not perfect, but it can be a quick solution! Hot reloading automatically reloads parts of your page...
AVC
The Hour Of Code I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual...
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over a year ago
I have written many times about the Hour Of Code here at AVC. It is the highlight of the annual Computer Science Education Week which is the first week of December, which is this week. Yesterday Marco Argenti, Goldman Sachs’ CIO, and I went with NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks...
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
escape the algorithm
Is Substack exaggerating its network effects? The data tells the story writers want to hear... but is it true?
11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
Identity Designed
The Bond Designed by Common Curiosity, Birmingham, London.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
What can you do with a single <div>? If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create something incredible? That's exactly what Lynn Fisher has been doing with A Single Div. Using only a single HTML element and some CSS, she's created some shockingly complex artwork...
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Diagram of Passenger Stations in the Sydney Metropolitan Area, 1928 There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928....
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There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928. There’s a lot of different angles – both with route lines and station labels – but it still manages to hang together as a coherent whole. A big part of that is the dead straight...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation! In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023,...
11 months ago
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In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023, driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound. In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and...
Retail Design Blog
Pinnacle Design Offices by Pinnacle Interiors Pinnacle Interiors unveiled the d3 Design Office in the Dubai Design District, showcasing...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Pinnacle Interiors unveiled the d3 Design Office in the Dubai Design District, showcasing innovative, sustainable design through LEED certification, biophilic...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Gratitude: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/9GQ1QTVVeNk Did you know that gratitude is actually considered to be one of the most important, positive emotions that the ancient Stoics believed human beings should develop? In fact, it's such an important emotion that it's even been said that the...
Mind Mine
a series of morning thoughts trying something new… listen to my voice :)
5 months ago
ntietz.com blog
return "reflections on a batch"; There's a tradition at Recurse Center of writing a Return Statement after your batch. I'm not sure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a tradition at Recurse Center of writing a Return Statement after your batch. I'm not sure of the origin of the terminology, but it seems like it's a pun on the return statement in programming languages. It's a great tradition, and it gives me a good motivator to reflect...
Rest of World -...
The new AI assistants may not speak your language Mind the language gap.
a year ago
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History undefined
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Scammers on the Rise Good rule of thumb – assume it’s a scam. Anyone who contacts you, or any unusual encounter, assume...
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10 months ago
Good rule of thumb – assume it’s a scam. Anyone who contacts you, or any unusual encounter, assume it’s a scam and you will probably be right. Recently I was called on my cell phone by someone claiming to be from Venmo. They asked me to confirm if I had just made two fund...
TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
9 months ago
Cognitive...
From Zero to Fineturning with Axolotl on ROCm Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers! Few have tried...
10 months ago
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Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers! Few have tried this and fewer have succeeded. I've been marginally successful after a significant amount of effort, so it deserves a blog post. Know that you are in for rough waters. And even...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Continue Reading
Open Culture
Ancient Greek Armor Gets Tested in an 11-Hour Battle Simulation Inspired by the Iliad By Greek law, every male citizen over the age of eighteen must spend from nine months to a year in...
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7 months ago
By Greek law, every male citizen over the age of eighteen must spend from nine months to a year in the Hellenic Armed Forces. As in every country with such a policy of mandatory conscription, this is surely not a prospect relished by most conscripts-to-be. But then, it can’t be...
TheCollector
9 Provocative Artworks by Maurizio Cattelan undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. They didn't know. But they know now.
8 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
Ben Borgers
Girl Talk: All Day
over a year ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
The Whys and Hows of the Opt-Out Cap. Why I built the Opt-Out Cap cap, and how it all came together.
over a year ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained undefined
6 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Start something small * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started: >...
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 9: Tinamous In the Amazon To Rare Montane Monkeys (February 11, 2024) February 11, 2024 Our alarm went off at 4:30 AM and at 5:00 AM we began the long, windy drive in the...
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February 11, 2024 Our alarm went off at 4:30 AM and at 5:00 AM we began the long, windy drive in the dark across the Andes. The reason for our early start is that we had a date with tinamous and wood-quails at a small family-run reserve called Arena Blanca. Our contact at the...
Ben Borgers
Writing Tasks Down
over a year ago
Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
Castles in the Sky
I have a new face. Reintroducing myself and Castles in the Sky
4 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
Louwrentius
Script that shows smart values of all disks' Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot of hard drives. If you want to quickly check on some key SMART values to determine the health of individual disks, you might be interested in this script. I wrote a small Python...
The Convivial...
Dots Will Be Connected The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 3
a year ago
The Works in...
How pour-over coffee got good While popular with enthusiasts, pour-over coffee frustrated shops because it takes so long to make,...
a month ago
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While popular with enthusiasts, pour-over coffee frustrated shops because it takes so long to make, but that's changing.
Steve Klabnik
Better Ruby Presenters
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Small doses If you go to a health food store and buy some pills with selenium, colloidal silver or other...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you go to a health food store and buy some pills with selenium, colloidal silver or other mysterious substances in them, it’s possible that they’ll make you feel a bit better. On the other hand, if you take a large dose, you’ll get sick or possibly die. In very small doses,...
Wuthering...
The appeal of Septology as religious fiction - the urge, inexplicably, to pray - because it helps!... Septology is a stream-of-consciousness novel throughout, a mix of sentence fragments, unconventional...
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Septology is a stream-of-consciousness novel throughout, a mix of sentence fragments, unconventional punctuation, and temporal shifts, meaning the painter Asle is sometimes thinking about the present and sometimes about the past.  These are all old moves, old techniques.  I was a...
Internal Tech Emails
Apple exec on App Store complaints In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to...
a year ago
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In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to distribute apps on their own, bypassing our store.
Math Is Still...
The Year in Math Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of mathematical delight and discovery. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 31 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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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 $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
Maps Mania
Unlocking America’s Visual Time Machine
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World? undefined
a year ago
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah. This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
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Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal A case study I published for my work at Temporal
over a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Aerial The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with...
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The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with a view of the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. If that tiny bit of the bridge tower isn’t recognizable, Murry Bergtraum High School and the adjacent Verizon Office Building surely...
devonzuegel.com
Numbers for understanding cities Whenever I think about physical places, I find myself coming back to a few types of numbers again...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Whenever I think about physical places, I find myself coming back to a few types of numbers again and again. I've collected these into spreadsheets so that I can reference them more easily, and I figured they might be useful to others too: Urban densities – Population density...
Acko.net
On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
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over a year ago
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
Tinloof - Blog
How we build fast Shopify stores It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates,...
a year ago
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It is no surprise that ecommerce page speed is a key factor in user satisfaction, conversion rates, SEO, and brand perception. Research clearly shows that the slower the ecommerce is, the less likely visitors are going to purchase; 79% of customers are less likely to buy again...
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Best New Orleans Neighborhoods for Visitors
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
a year ago
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For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
Josh Thompson
The Millionaire Next Door I’m struggling to know what to write about The Millionaire Next Door. It’s got many wonderful...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m struggling to know what to write about The Millionaire Next Door. It’s got many wonderful traits, and I strongly recommend that you read it (I wouldn’t mention it otherwise) but it’s got some flaws. I’m afraid if I focus on the flaws, I’ll turn people off from it that might...
Diaries of Note
Man cannot live long without joy Dorothy Day was an influential American journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic...
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a year ago
Dorothy Day was an influential American journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement in the 1930s. Driven by her deep spiritual convictions, Day was a relentless advocate for social justice, and in the late 1930s and early 1940s her work took on a...
The Modern House
Designer Sue Minter’s colourful country house in the Cotswolds
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Noodling for professionals When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his quartet, they spent a total of four days in the...
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When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his quartet, they spent a total of four days in the recording studio. They created one of the bestselling and most important jazz albums of all time in less than a week. Of course, they’d been exploring for months. In clubs, in front of...
Daniel Bourke
Wu wei (无为) — The art of not forcing The controlled accident. Sometimes it gets mistaken for "do nothing" or "doing nothing". Because the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The controlled accident. Sometimes it gets mistaken for "do nothing" or "doing nothing". Because the characters 无为 (wu wei) mean nothing (wu, 无) and doing (wei, 为). So although a literal translation would be doing nothing, it doesn’t mean the same as sitting
Maps Mania
Where Mountains Rise From Oceans
6 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
a year ago
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a year ago
We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
This Space
39 Books: 2001 In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six...
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In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six years after the French original was cited by Gabriel Josipovici as one of his books of the year: "a beautifully controlled examination of the effect on [Roubaud] of his wife's death...
The Modern House
Modest living meets modernist design in the Isokon Building in Hampstead
a year ago
diamond geezer
Far From Super Loop On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a rainbow burst of pastel colours and the legend The Superloop Is Coming. The given date is Spring 2024 and it's described as a commitment by the Mayor to improve public transport in...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
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9 months ago
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Their Thoughts, Their Longings, Hopes, Their Fate' A new record: stopped three times at train crossings in a single day without leaving the city,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A new record: stopped three times at train crossings in a single day without leaving the city, driving only to the university library and back, twenty-two miles. Because of its sprawling, unplanned nature, Houston is a dense web of train tracks, as John Bainbridge, a staff writer...
The Marginalian
Emerson on the Singular Enchantment of Indian Summer (and a Better Term for This Liminal Season... "There are days... wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the air, the heavenly bodies, and...
2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
L’Oréal Office by M Moser Associates L’Oréal, a global leader in the beauty industry, recently collaborated with us to bring a new image...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
L’Oréal, a global leader in the beauty industry, recently collaborated with us to bring a new image and vision to...
Unpacked
Zoom's AI policy backlash & customer data in model training Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (27 mins) | Zoom came under fire recently for silently changing their terms of service in a way that allows use of customer data (read your video and audio recordings) for training Zoom features. In this episode, we unpack the timeline of events that followed, Zoom's...
Maps Mania
Tree Maps of the World
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China? undefined
6 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Artificial Diamond Boom The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us...
a year ago
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a year ago
The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us something about a post-scarcity world. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. However, it like to form with other elements and therefore it was very difficulty to...
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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a year ago
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...
xkcd.com
Features of Adulthood
3 days ago
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Fund a Startup
over a year ago
cabel.com
The Forged Apple Employee Badge Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incredible piece of Apple history! Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs’ badge (despite the auction title), but...
The Marginalian
Look Up: The Illustrated Story of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Who Laid the Groundwork for... How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Open Culture
A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of centuries now, the revered composer still has certain mysteries about him. Some of them he surely never intended to clarify, like the identity of “Immortal Beloved”; others he...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Impossible View Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the background were realistic, and got part of the way there. The gray building on the right looks like a simplified version of the Socony-Mobil Building at the southeast corner of...
Old Structures...
What “Structure First” Means I like “Why we need a ‘structure first’ approach to existing buildings” by Penny Gowler, which is...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I like “Why we need a ‘structure first’ approach to existing buildings” by Penny Gowler, which is perhaps not surprising since I’m a structural engineer. I’m going to argue here that Ms. Gowler’s article and my position are just slightly more nuanced than that. Architectural...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau Linking to a blogpost I was too lazy to do
over a year ago
Asterisk
What I Won’t Eat A reflection on ethics, animal cognition, and chocolate cake.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Everyone wants to be connected But we hesitate to be the connector. Everyone wants to be trusted, but we hesitate to trust. And...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
But we hesitate to be the connector. Everyone wants to be trusted, but we hesitate to trust. And everyone wants to be respected, but we often fail to offer our respect. What an opportunity.
Spoon & Tamago
A Struggling Regional Train Line Turns its Cars into a Photo Gallery to Boost Ridership the winning photograph of the Koumi Line photo contest There are numerous tiny train lines across...
a year ago
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a year ago
the winning photograph of the Koumi Line photo contest There are numerous tiny train lines across Japan that are a dying breed. One of those is the Koumi Line, which connects Kobuchizawa Station in Yamanashi with Komoro Station in Nagano. The picturesque line, despite its views...
The Architectural...
New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new...
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Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new houses made in a traditional style. But this is exactly what the average person appreciates. “Why do many architects dislike the very thing that residents often enjoy?” asks architect...
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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8 months ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Always Singular, and Never Trite or Vulgar' “He was never seen to be transported with Mirth, or dejected with Sadness; always Chearful, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
“He was never seen to be transported with Mirth, or dejected with Sadness; always Chearful, but rarely Merry, at any sensible Rate, seldom heard to break a Jest; and when he did, he would be apt to blush at the Levity of it: His Gravity was Natural and without Affectation.”  The...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Where They Grind the Grain of Thought' Let me sing the praises of Miss Milly, Miss McClain, Miss Esson, Miss Shaker, Miss Martin, Miss...
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a year ago
Let me sing the praises of Miss Milly, Miss McClain, Miss Esson, Miss Shaker, Miss Martin, Miss Rose, Miss Whistler – my teachers, K-6, at Pearl Road Elementary School. Most were young and pretty, more like big sisters than mothers. On the television in Miss Shaker’s class we...
TheCollector
Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective undefined
5 months ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
a month ago
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Just as last week's Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post, two of the three monographs featured here were also on that list. As happened when I wrote this post, each book begins with a rhetorical question...
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Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece, that has a monochromatic interior to catch the eye of people walking past.
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Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows or via a web...
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Paradigm has polled some Democratic voters about crypto and released a summary of their results. How does it stack up to other industry polls, which are often heavily manipulated to paint a deceptively rosy picture?
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You May Have Seen This Image Before. In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example of guerrilla filmmaking taken too far. Which may also be an apt description of the entire film from which it was taken. In the summer of 1992, while I was home in Minnesota between...
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I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
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A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post. here are the myths: myth: you need to be original myth: you need to...
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When you pack for a trip, you pack “just in case” items, right? Things that in a certain situation would be priceless. Think “umbrella” or “underpants”. But then you think of all the possible situations you might encounter, and you’ll find your “just in case” items quickly...
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Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how they work, what are their differences, similarities, and limitations.
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England.   “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
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Not all projects become t-shirt brands, nor should they. The risk is in thinking you’re building one when you’re not. T-shirt worthy brands are a very small subset of the whole. The question is: Would your customers want to wear your logo on a t-shirt? Why? If you’re creating...
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Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with some science. Our experiment was to observe the conduction of electricity through a pickle, using salt ions. We connected a pickle to the mains supply. Pickles have a strong...
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There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
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I want to return to the 1834 map I showed a piece of yesterday. New York in 1834 was missing much of the built environment that we associate with it today – no skyscrapers, no subways, no els, no tunnels, no bridges except at the Harlem River, not much in the way of water supply...
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If you spend enough time digesting hackneyed business or self-improvement advice, you've probably seen someone wax poetic about the following image: This is meant to be an illustration of the power of incrementalism (often referred to as kaizen when the writer is trying to be...
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My wife played a brilliant prank on me today, as she does every year. Here’s a partial list: Convincing me that I was about to eat a slice of carrot cake; it was a sponge covered with toothpaste. I bit into it. Convincing me that she had, in anger and frustration, cut off almost...
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This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific questions. Are animals conscious? This is a question discussed in a recent BBC article that peaked my interest. They eventually get to a question that they should have opened with – how do...
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The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
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I bought a used automatic fish feeder from ebay. This device is completely mechanic and very old (older than 1989). It has 27 containers for fish food and a disc that does one rotation per day. By sticking pins into that disc one can trigger one or more feedings per day. A pin...
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This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map and the location of the player is also the location ingame, just like in Ingress. I know that making an online game like this is an ambitious goal and it will probably never be...
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In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation mechanism is given the recipient’s public key and outputs a fresh AES key and an encapsulation of that key that the recipient can decapsulate to recover the AES key. In this post I...
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