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The Diff
Meme Markets Plus! Equity Comp, Squared; Venture Debt; 5%; Crypto Leverage; Closed-End Funds
5 months ago
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Meme Markets

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

5 months ago
Plus! Equity Comp, Squared; Venture Debt; 5%; Crypto Leverage; Closed-End Funds
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Quanta Magazine
It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone...
8 months ago
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It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

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

8 months ago
A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove. The post It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
7 months ago
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An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog...
over a year ago
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

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

over a year ago
2 years ago I [moved all my blogging to Dev.to](https://www.swyx.io/devto-cms). Today [my main blog is on Github Issues](https://www.swyx.io/github-cms) and [I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1531330889535602688).
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Stat Significant
How Do Music Listening Habits Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis How does music listening change as we grow older?
5 months ago
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How Do Music Listening Habits Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

5 months ago
How does music listening change as we grow older?
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Londonist
Fancy Eating Cricket-Topped Hummus At This Bug-Based Restaurant? Celeb chefs dish up bugs at this pop-up.
a year ago
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Fancy Eating Cricket-Topped Hummus At This Bug-Based Restaurant?

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Celeb chefs dish up bugs at this pop-up.
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Retail Design Blog
Osaka Expo 2025 Japan Pavilion by Nikken Sekkei The Japan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, serves as the official pavilion of the Japanese...
3 months ago
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Osaka Expo 2025 Japan Pavilion by Nikken Sekkei

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

3 months ago
The Japan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, serves as the official pavilion of the Japanese government. Designed in response...
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The Convivial...
Vision Con (Audio Version) The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 2 (supplement)
a year ago
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Vision Con (Audio Version)

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a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 2 (supplement)
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Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
over a year ago
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Capstone: A tablet for thinking

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over a year ago
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coffee Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: See, if I were smart I'd already have panel 3 on a...
5 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Coffee

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

5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: See, if I were smart I'd already have panel 3 on a mug. Today's News:
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Retail Design Blog
Purple Garden Restaurant Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and...
a year ago
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Purple Garden Restaurant

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

a year ago
Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and fuses them with a contemporary...
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Tony Finch's blog
Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have...
over a year ago
22

Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers

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

over a year ago
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my qp-trie code in BIND. I have now got it working with a refactored qp-trie that has been changed to support asynchronous memory reclamation - working to the point where I can run some benchmarks to compare the...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #206 The Trust Deficit, EU Regulations, Medicare Advantage scams, Munger soldiered on, The cult of...
12 months ago
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The Digest #206

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

12 months ago
The Trust Deficit, EU Regulations, Medicare Advantage scams, Munger soldiered on, The cult of Silicon Valley, Self-esteem and outer scorecards, MMT's founder is worried about deficits
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The slow death of all that is known The know-it-all can never be surprised. Everything he learns is an appendix to some distant...
over a year ago
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The slow death of all that is known

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
The know-it-all can never be surprised. Everything he learns is an appendix to some distant education. What little new insight is gained is but a footnote to that framework of original knowledge, the dusty document of knowledge canonized long ago when his education was...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can...
11 months ago
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Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu

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

11 months ago
Want to listen to this interview instead? Download the latest episode of Better Offline! You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you can insert an RSS feed. Last week, I had the privilege of interviewing Daron Acemoglu — one of the world’s most
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Christopher Butler
Screens Are Good, Actually A screen isn’t a technological distraction to overcome but a powerful cognitive prosthetic for...
2 months ago
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Screens Are Good, Actually

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

2 months ago
A screen isn’t a technological distraction to overcome but a powerful cognitive prosthetic for external memory. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of destroying attention spans, ruining sleep, enabling addiction, isolating us from one another, and eroding...
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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 2-8 October 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
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Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 2-8 October 2023

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a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Options on early stage companies I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially...
over a year ago
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Options on early stage companies

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

over a year ago
I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially obvious fact, yet very few entrepreneurs I…
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Calculated Risk
A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices Another update ... a few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge...
3 months ago
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A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

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

3 months ago
Another update ... a few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge in distressed sales. Click on graph for larger image. The second graph shows the seasonal factors for the Case-Shiller National index since 1987. The factors started to change...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money. “A lot of poor people stay poor because they’re too cheap to get rich”
6 months ago
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If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money.

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

6 months ago
“A lot of poor people stay poor because they’re too cheap to get rich”
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Diaries of Note
My body is the record of those I have loved American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her...
over a year ago
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My body is the record of those I have loved

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
American sculptor Anne Truitt was a singular figure in the field of minimalism, best known for her large, colour-saturated, wooden column sculptures. Born in 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, Truitt studied psychology at Bryn Mawr College before venturing into art, her studies taking...
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Articles
This is hard
over a year ago
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This is hard

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Influencing purchase behaviour For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance,...
over a year ago
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Influencing purchase behaviour

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

over a year ago
For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance, conversion rates and online revenue. Use this useful report to apply behavioural sciences principles to your advantage.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 6 (County-Centric) We were now between race days again, with two races down and one more to go. So we could do pretty...
8 months ago
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Inland Northwest, Day 6 (County-Centric)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

8 months ago
We were now between race days again, with two races down and one more to go. So we could do pretty much whatever we wanted now and I decided to focus on some county counting. It was all virgin territory to me and I intended to cover as much of it as I could during […] The post...
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lcamtuf’s thing
But good sir, what is electricity? A quick look at the physics of conductors, insulators, and electric charges.
4 months ago
32

But good sir, what is electricity?

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

4 months ago
A quick look at the physics of conductors, insulators, and electric charges.
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Articles
Selling stuff on a busy beach It's unlikely you'll convince someone to buy something where there wasn't already existing demand.
over a year ago
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Selling stuff on a busy beach

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over a year ago
It's unlikely you'll convince someone to buy something where there wasn't already existing demand.
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Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
over a year ago
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False Accusation

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
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The Rational Walk
By diverse means we arrive at the same end Montaigne's Essays: Book 1, Chapter 1
a year ago
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By diverse means we arrive at the same end

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a year ago
Montaigne's Essays: Book 1, Chapter 1
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SatPost by Trung...
The Concorde Jet vs. Boeing 747 PLUS: The Matrix's 25th Anniversary.
a year ago
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The Concorde Jet vs. Boeing 747

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
PLUS: The Matrix's 25th Anniversary.
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Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
7 months ago
29

The Assassination of Malcolm X

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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Wuthering...
Books I read in October 2024 - the old, care-free days of Wuthering Heights I should do one of these “what I read” bits before October becomes too distant. I should also...
7 months ago
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Books I read in October 2024 - the old, care-free days of Wuthering Heights

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

7 months ago
I should do one of these “what I read” bits before October becomes too distant. I should also mention my health.  A little over a year ago a surgeon of genius removed a cancerous tumor from my liver, taking much of my liver along with it.  My recovery went well, and my liver grew...
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Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
over a year ago
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doldrumming

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

over a year ago
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
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Raptitude.com
How to Stop Eating Candy for Breakfast There’s a particular scene in an early episode of the Simpsons that I found especially relatable, as...
2 months ago
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How to Stop Eating Candy for Breakfast

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
There’s a particular scene in an early episode of the Simpsons that I found especially relatable, as a ten-year-old whose main interest was candy. Bart and Lisa wake up the morning after Halloween, so miserable from eating sweets that they can’t even look at their candy pile....
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somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
over a year ago
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Simple Oblique Views in Blender

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
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the rock of polynesia

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

over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow? We'd also heard that the school...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Neolithic Revolution What was the greatest invention of human civilization? Arguably it was agriculture, which allowed...
12 months ago
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The Neolithic Revolution

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

12 months ago
What was the greatest invention of human civilization? Arguably it was agriculture, which allowed for civilization itself. Prior to agriculture humans were some combination of hunters, gatherers, scavengers, and fishers. We lived off the land, which was a full-time job. Many...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪

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

over a year ago
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
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Nela Dunato Art &...
How to create a brand mood board A brand mood board is a collage that represents your core values and aesthetic brand qualities in a...
over a year ago
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How to create a brand mood board

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
A brand mood board is a collage that represents your core values and aesthetic brand qualities in a visual way. It’s the first step in translating these abstract concepts into visual language. Whether you decide to work with a designer or by yourself, creating a mood board is a...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Getting your Idea to the MVP 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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Getting your Idea to the MVP

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

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 Getting your Idea to the MVP appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
over a year ago
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My Essential Tools for WordPress Development

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
over a year ago
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Why Twitter is a Big Deal

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over a year ago
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diamond geezer
Station Square 45 45 Squared 20) STATION SQUARE, BR5 Borough of Bromley, 90m×60m Why this one? I had ten minutes in...
a month ago
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Station Square

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

a month ago
45 45 Squared 20) STATION SQUARE, BR5 Borough of Bromley, 90m×60m Why this one? I had ten minutes in Petts Wood yesterday between trains and there it was. Why the name? It's a square immediately beside the station. Is it square? Hell no, it's more a trapezium with two long sides...
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Josh Thompson
Back in the Saddle There’s a point in time when after spending a few weeks or months working on one project/goal, your...
over a year ago
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Back in the Saddle

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

over a year ago
There’s a point in time when after spending a few weeks or months working on one project/goal, your ability to switch tasks to another project diminishes. There’s plenty of evidence that humans can’t multi-task, and those who try just end up doing a lot of things poorly. On the...
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James Vaughan's blog
Tote bag
11 months ago
22

Tote bag

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11 months ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
why i love hong kong Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how...
a year ago
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why i love hong kong

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes...
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Josh Thompson
Setting up for 'SQL Queries for Mere Mortals' This tweet is from… a while ago. Turns out I didn’t dig into this book, because the pace at Turing...
over a year ago
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Setting up for 'SQL Queries for Mere Mortals'

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

over a year ago
This tweet is from… a while ago. Turns out I didn’t dig into this book, because the pace at Turing didn’t allow for a few weeks of thinking just about SQL. yes, I'm digging into sql to better my AR skills, and ultimately whatever I need to use next. pic.twitter.com/UhjyGKv1FQ —...
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Luxagraf:...
Baseball Diamonds We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York....
a year ago
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Baseball Diamonds

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Not that I wanted to go there that badly, but when we took the kids to a baseball game back in Florida the Baseball Hall of Fame somehow came up and I remember Elliott saying "can...
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Articles
Local news web site
over a year ago
4

Local news web site

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over a year ago
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Melting Asphalt
2015 Meta Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I...
over a year ago
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2015 Meta

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I published a paltry six full essays this year. Don't get me wrong: I'm proud of them. But still, six. It would be… Read more ›
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UX Collective
Everything’s a vibe: is it progress or just an illusion? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
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Everything’s a vibe: is it progress or just an illusion?

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

2 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
over a year ago
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AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory

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over a year ago
How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
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NeuroLogica Blog
Robots and a Sense of Self Humans (assuming you all experience roughly what I experience, which is a reasonable assumption)...
7 months ago
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Robots and a Sense of Self

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7 months ago
Humans (assuming you all experience roughly what I experience, which is a reasonable assumption) have a sense of self. This sense has several components – we feel as if we occupy our physical bodies, that our bodies are distinct entities separate from the rest of the universe,...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
6 months ago
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Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor

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6 months ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
over a year ago
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useEffect sometimes fires before paint

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

over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
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Both Are True
someone is impersonating me so i reached out to them going undercover to meet myself -- a video of our entire 30 minute long convo
a year ago
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someone is impersonating me so i reached out to them

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a year ago
going undercover to meet myself -- a video of our entire 30 minute long convo
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Atoms vs Bits
Everything At Once Sometimes it feels like all your problems loop together.
over a year ago
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Everything At Once

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over a year ago
Sometimes it feels like all your problems loop together.
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Retail Design Blog
Kofan Coffee Shop by Makhno Studio Kofan Coffee Shop epitomizes the essence of third-wave coffee culture nestled in the heart of...
8 months ago
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Kofan Coffee Shop by Makhno Studio

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

8 months ago
Kofan Coffee Shop epitomizes the essence of third-wave coffee culture nestled in the heart of Kremenchuk. Our establishment is meticulously...
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Londonist
Petition Launched As Stratford's Beloved Market Village Suddenly Closes It'd been going for over 30 years.
a year ago
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Petition Launched As Stratford's Beloved Market Village Suddenly Closes

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a year ago
It'd been going for over 30 years.
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Archinect - Features
2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates Archinect's 2024 highlight of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, where we focus on...
a year ago
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2024 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates

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a year ago
Archinect's 2024 highlight of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, where we focus on courses and workshops for adults, high school graduates, and current college students. Take a look below at our curated selection of educational events at academic institutions and...
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Retail Design Blog
Caddick Construction Headquarters by Design Tonic Caddick Construction sought to establish a new headquarters in Wakefield, marking a significant...
8 months ago
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Caddick Construction Headquarters by Design Tonic

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

8 months ago
Caddick Construction sought to establish a new headquarters in Wakefield, marking a significant phase in the company’s growth. The goal...
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Ben Borgers
Google Won the Kids
over a year ago
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Google Won the Kids

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over a year ago
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Citation Needed
Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up,...
4 months ago
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Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

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

4 months ago
The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest
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Seth's Blog
Books (and more) Brad Feld has been contributing to and leading the tech community for more than thirty years. His...
a month ago
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Books (and more)

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

a month ago
Brad Feld has been contributing to and leading the tech community for more than thirty years. His books have always been inspiring and useful, but his new book takes it to a higher level. Adam Becker has written two books that I recently devoured. The first is philosophy, history...
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Open Culture
The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You Will Ever Hear On Youtube, jazz enthusiast Jonathan Holmes declares: “I can guarantee this is the cleanest sounding...
a month ago
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The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You Will Ever Hear

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

a month ago
On Youtube, jazz enthusiast Jonathan Holmes declares: “I can guarantee this is the cleanest sounding Louis Armstrong record you’ll ever hear! With the original transfer supplied by Nick Dellow, here is the mother record which was shipped by Okeh to Germany for their Odeon...
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Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
over a year ago
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What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election

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

over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clouds Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someone told me they could only do 2 weeks of SMBC...
7 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clouds

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

7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someone told me they could only do 2 weeks of SMBC in a single sitting before feeling sad and needing a walk. Today's News:
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Open Culture
Steven Spielberg Calls Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “the First Punk Rock Movie Ever Made” Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick are two of the first directors whose names young cinephiles get...
a year ago
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Steven Spielberg Calls Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “the First Punk Rock Movie Ever Made”

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

a year ago
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick are two of the first directors whose names young cinephiles get to know. They’re also names between which quite a few of those young cinephiles draw a battle line: you may have enjoyed films by both of these auteurs, but ultimately, you’re...
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TheCollector
The Pantheon of Greek Gods and Goddesses: Olympians, Titans, and More Worshiping the gods was an important part of daily life in ancient Greece. The most powerful gods...
2 months ago
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The Pantheon of Greek Gods and Goddesses: Olympians, Titans, and More

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Worshiping the gods was an important part of daily life in ancient Greece. The most powerful gods were the 12 Olympians who held supreme power over the world. These gods and goddesses resided on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. From there, they oversaw human...
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular? Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
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Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?

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a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
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TokyoDev
A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table....
over a year ago
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A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I’ve worked as a recruiter sourcing candidates from around the world for a Japanese autonomous driving tech company, and have helped hundreds of English-speaking expats in secure...
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A Day In The Life...
Let's talk about your privates Let's talk about your privates
over a year ago
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Let's talk about your privates

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Let's talk about your privates
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TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
over a year ago
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The 2022 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...
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The Ruffian
On not tolerating intolerance Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech
a year ago
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On not tolerating intolerance

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a year ago
Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech
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Open Culture
An Architectural Tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Desert Home and Studio By some estimations, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home-studio complex took shape in 1941. But...
3 weeks ago
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An Architectural Tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Desert Home and Studio

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3 weeks ago
By some estimations, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home-studio complex took shape in 1941. But even then, the Arizona Republic presciently noted that “it may be years before it is considered finished.” The Taliesin West you can see in the new Architectural Digest video above...
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Herbert Lui
Some people have it, some people don’t? A few years ago, I wrote that writing is thinking. You are better off writing to think, not trying...
4 months ago
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Some people have it, some people don’t?

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

4 months ago
A few years ago, I wrote that writing is thinking. You are better off writing to think, not trying to think before you write. “But some people are just better at it,” Ant K writes in a comment (which Karolis recently agreed with). He compared his work with another author he held...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for May 2023

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

over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
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Open Culture
Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Free Online Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post...
a year ago
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Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Free Online

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

a year ago
Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post featuring 20 short stories written by Munro. Today, with the sad news that Alice Munro has passed away, at the age of 92, we’re bringing the original post (from October 10, 2013) back to...
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David Heinemeier...
Villains may live long enough to become heroes The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of...
a year ago
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Villains may live long enough to become heroes

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

a year ago
The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of "cutting off the air supply", of embrace-extend-extinguish, of open source as a "cancer", and of Bill Gates before he sought reputational refugee in philanthropy. What made the...
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Don't Worry About...
They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
3 months ago
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They Took MY Job?

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3 months ago
No, they didn’t.
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Calculated Risk
Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in January; Up 3.9% Year-over-year Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in...
4 months ago
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Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in January; Up 3.9% Year-over-year

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

4 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased in January; Up 3.9% Year-over-year A brief excerpt: Freddie Mac reported that its “National” Home Price Index (FMHPI) increased 0.41% month-over-month on a seasonally adjusted (SA)...
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Articles
SaaS is ripe for disruption
over a year ago
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SaaS is ripe for disruption

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over a year ago
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Rick Rubin on Listening If it’s music you’re listening to, consider closing your eyes. You may find yourself getting lost in...
12 months ago
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🔗 Rick Rubin on Listening

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

12 months ago
If it’s music you’re listening to, consider closing your eyes. You may find yourself getting lost in the experience. When the piece ends, you might be surprised by where you find yourself. You’ve been transported to another place. The place where the music lives. — Rick...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
a year ago
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned

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

a year ago
It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
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Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
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Guide to content creation with Sanity

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over a year ago
We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in South Carolina South Carolina’s history is deeply intertwined with the founding of America, the Revolutionary War,...
3 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in South Carolina

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
South Carolina’s history is deeply intertwined with the founding of America, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. It was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860, setting the stage for the nation’s most defining conflict. Battles such as those in Camden and Cowpens...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
over a year ago
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
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Marc Astbury
Mini Programs v.s. Native Apps After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of...
11 months ago
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Mini Programs v.s. Native Apps

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

11 months ago
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of mini-programs. Every restaurant has a menu mini-program sitting on top of WeChat or Meituan. Hello Ride the bike-sharing startup is a mini program on top of Alipay. Here is a diagram...
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Jonas Hietala
The killer features of the Steam Deck In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for...
a year ago
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The killer features of the Steam Deck

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

a year ago
In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for myself. There were two main reasons I decided to buy it: burnout and depression by picking up gaming again. And boy did it deliver. The Deck is probably the most impressive thing I can...
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Computer Things
What if the spec doesn't match the code? Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question: Can I use the spec to generate my...
a year ago
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What if the spec doesn't match the code?

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

a year ago
Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question: Can I use the spec to generate my code? People are worried about two things. One, that they'll make a mistake implementing the specification and have bugs. Two, that over time the implementation will "drift" and...
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A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
over a year ago
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
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Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &... In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
6 months ago
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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” & “Ithaca”

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

6 months ago
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
over a year ago
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SSH failing on macOS Sierra

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

over a year ago
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
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The Forney Flyer
Recent Stuff A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a...
over a year ago
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Recent Stuff

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
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The Works in...
The bad science behind expensive nuclear How an arcane model makes nuclear power expensive and why it's time might be up
a month ago
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The bad science behind expensive nuclear

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
How an arcane model makes nuclear power expensive and why it's time might be up
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Musings on Maps
Swing States, Battleground States and Hot Spots Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of...
8 months ago
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Swing States, Battleground States and Hot Spots

from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

8 months ago
Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of disaffection? The sudden partisan shift of voting maps suggest a dark undercurrents in American politics. Continue reading →
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Vitalik Buterin's...
What I would love to see in a wallet
7 months ago
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What I would love to see in a wallet

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7 months ago
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Charlie Becker
The Scrutiny Gap Critical Thinking at Critical Times
over a year ago
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The Scrutiny Gap

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

over a year ago
Critical Thinking at Critical Times
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TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
a year ago
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Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
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David Heinemeier...
Self-driving is finally happening I still remember how the car industry got all excited back in 2017 about how steering wheels would...
a week ago
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Self-driving is finally happening

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

a week ago
I still remember how the car industry got all excited back in 2017 about how steering wheels would soon be obsolete. Every concept car then was a living room on wheels, seats facing inwards. The self-driving revolution was imminent, they said. Well, it wasn't... but now it...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Mesa goodie Day 23: Oct 2, 2023 — Thunderstorms roll in and out most of the night, and the morning is dark and...
a year ago
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✏️ Mesa goodie

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

a year ago
Day 23: Oct 2, 2023 — Thunderstorms roll in and out most of the night, and the morning is dark and moody. We all rise, and the dimmer lights come on, keeping a warm glow intact. Grant starts coffee, Jen straightens up our makeshift sleeping area, and I capture a few...
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Eric Bailey
So you wanna create an eco-friendly website
over a year ago
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So you wanna create an eco-friendly website

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./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
9 months ago
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer

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9 months ago
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
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The Works in...
The ultra-selfish gene Genetically modifying malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly...
8 months ago
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The ultra-selfish gene

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

8 months ago
Genetically modifying malaria-carrying mosquitoes could allow us to wipe out humanity’s most deadly killer.
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On the Arts
The Sea Has Always Looked the Same A View of the Ocean as a Connection to the Past
a year ago
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The Sea Has Always Looked the Same

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a year ago
A View of the Ocean as a Connection to the Past
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Fatih Arslan
A month in Munich We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of...
10 months ago
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A month in Munich

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

10 months ago
We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of photos. Here is how it went.
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1...
over a year ago
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Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already

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

over a year ago
What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1 million recorded matches and 44 marriages.
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sbensu
The Perfectionists (book) A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.
11 months ago
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The Perfectionists (book)

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11 months ago
A great book that covers the ideas and people behind modern industry.
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DYNOMIGHT
Let’s stop counting centuries Here’s a sentence from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Enlightenment is conventionally placed...
a year ago
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Let’s stop counting centuries

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Here’s a sentence from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Enlightenment is conventionally placed in the last two-thirds of the 18th century, though it flowed out of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Reason in the 17th century and spilled into the heyday of classical...
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Open Culture
16th-Century Japanese Historians Describe the Oddness of Meeting the First Europeans They Ever Saw Go to Japan today, and the country will present you with plenty of opportunities to buy pan, tabako,...
a year ago
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16th-Century Japanese Historians Describe the Oddness of Meeting the First Europeans They Ever Saw

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a year ago
Go to Japan today, and the country will present you with plenty of opportunities to buy pan, tabako, and tempura. These products themselves — bread, cigarettes, and deep-fried seafood or vegetables — will be familiar enough. Even the words that refer to them may have a...
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Epic Web Dev
The future of react-router just got a lot brighter (tip) Today we go over the recent announcement blog post of react-router where they talk about their open...
a month ago
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The future of react-router just got a lot brighter (tip)

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a month ago
Today we go over the recent announcement blog post of react-router where they talk about their open governance model and what the future will look like
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
over a year ago
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Building an all-remote company from scratch

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

over a year ago
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
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AFAR Media - Travel...
In-Depth Review of Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape, a hotel in Bali, Indonesia
a year ago
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In-Depth Review of Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape, a hotel in Bali, Indonesia

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a year ago
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Josh Thompson
Rules for Fighting Fair When a friend tells me they want to date someone, I ask them why. They always say “she’s pretty,...
over a year ago
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Rules for Fighting Fair

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

over a year ago
When a friend tells me they want to date someone, I ask them why. They always say “she’s pretty, funny, and kind”, or “he is handsome, funny, and cares for me”. Obviously. Have you ever wanted to date someone because they are ugly, boring, and mean? So, rather than asking more...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
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Building a Magical 3D Button

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high” I recently had a number of conversations with CEOs of later-stage startups (generating significant...
over a year ago
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Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high”

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

over a year ago
I recently had a number of conversations with CEOs of later-stage startups (generating significant revenue) that went something like this…
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Long web pages benefit from having a table...
10 months ago
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Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents. Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation. This article describes how I...
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Ink & Switch
Summit 010 Berlin Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
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Summit 010 Berlin

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over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
8 months ago
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Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand

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

8 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Northern Lights Could Appear in the Lower 48 This Week
over a year ago
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The Northern Lights Could Appear in the Lower 48 This Week

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
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Christopher Butler
object – Carved Nupe Door This door was made as a gift for my grandparents, who worked with a variety African artisans during...
over a year ago
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object – Carved Nupe Door

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
This door was made as a gift for my grandparents, who worked with a variety African artisans during the mid-twentieth century to preserve indigenous art forms and support modern artisan businesses. Some days, if the temperature and humidity are just right, this door opens...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, Sally is replaced by an inexpensive human...
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI

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

4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, Sally is replaced by an inexpensive human made overseas. Today's News:
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Terrible things are going down Shit hits the fan View on my website
a year ago
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Terrible things are going down

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Shit hits the fan View on my website
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bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
a year ago
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech

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

a year ago
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
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The American Scholar
The Importance of Being Different A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The...
a year ago
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The Importance of Being Different

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a year ago
A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Seth's Blog
Patience It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find.
a year ago
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Patience

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a year ago
It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find.
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Articles
What Amy Hoy taught me about starting a business
over a year ago
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What Amy Hoy taught me about starting a business

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over a year ago
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ingredients from Alex's Studies This page summarizes a bunch of studies that I’ve done in the past few months. Rather than discuss...
over a year ago
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Ink Note June 2023: Ingredients from Alex's Studies

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This page summarizes a bunch of studies that I’ve done in the past few months. Rather than discuss each study separately, I group them into “ingredients” (each explored in one or more studies) that may turn out to be useful for upcoming projects.
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The Wandering...
Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84 Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of...
a year ago
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Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84

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

a year ago
Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of WW1, teams of American military surveyors produced these as they went around France mapping the grave sites of fallen soldiers. On this plat we can see a number of bearings and...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Boldly Colored Pasta Shop Brightens Up The Street In Athens Design firm Studio Materiality has shared photos of Macaroni, a pasta shop they completed that’s...
over a year ago
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A Boldly Colored Pasta Shop Brightens Up The Street In Athens

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Design firm Studio Materiality has shared photos of Macaroni, a pasta shop they completed that’s located in the heart of Athens, Greece. The designers drew inspiration from the 1970s, with a boldly colored design, complete with a font from that era to create the logo. The...
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Seth's Blog
Where are you? When you’re reading a good historical novel, you might be there and then. When you’re checking your...
a year ago
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Where are you?

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

a year ago
When you’re reading a good historical novel, you might be there and then. When you’re checking your email, you are in a conversation between and among, over there, not here. When you’re imagining what went wrong in that conversation yesterday, you are living in yesterday. And...
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Simply Explained
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
over a year ago
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Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube

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over a year ago
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
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David Heinemeier...
Be less precious The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best...
a year ago
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Be less precious

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

a year ago
The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
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The Forney Flyer
Rib Day - 2 Year Anniversary Celebration! Two years ago, on October 17th, this happened... Long story short, I got knocked off my...
over a year ago
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Rib Day - 2 Year Anniversary Celebration!

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
Two years ago, on October 17th, this happened... Long story short, I got knocked off my motorcycle by a drunk driver, and then a different vehicle, a large Toyota Landcruiser (SUV) promptly drove over me, right across my torso. I should have died right then and there, and...
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Articles
Wait and see
over a year ago
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Wait and see

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Quantum Frontiers
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...
6 months ago
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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for … Continue reading →
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mate

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

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place. Today's News: More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
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Open Culture
The Original Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll... On a summer day in 1862, a tall, stammering Oxford University mathematician named Charles Lutwidge...
a year ago
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The Original Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll (1864)

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

a year ago
On a summer day in 1862, a tall, stammering Oxford University mathematician named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a boat trip up the River Thames, accompanied by a colleague and the three young daughters of university chancellor Henry Liddell. To stave off tedium during the...
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Applied Cartography
Order, Tailwind, DRY (Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating...
6 months ago
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Order, Tailwind, DRY

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
(Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Buttondown's admin UI away from the autogenerated Django admin and into some more bespoke components. Take, for instance, this rather...
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journal – Winnie Lim
“ugly” drawings from korea The first couple of days in korea we stumbled into a 3-storey stationery shop called Object. There...
11 months ago
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“ugly” drawings from korea

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago
The first couple of days in korea we stumbled into a 3-storey stationery shop called Object. There was a particular section where they sell stationery and stickers by a particular artist with...
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Anecdotal Evidence
Compatible Observations of Great Men Andrew Taylor on Charles Montagu Doughty, author of Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888): “He appealed...
a month ago
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Compatible Observations of Great Men

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
Andrew Taylor on Charles Montagu Doughty, author of Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888): “He appealed instinctively to the past, against what he saw as the corruption of language, manners and morality of his own time, but Travels in Arabia Deserta is not backward-looking for its own...
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Simply Explained
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
over a year ago
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Race Question As a scientific concept – does race exist? Is it a useful construct, or is it more misleading than...
2 months ago
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The Race Question

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

2 months ago
As a scientific concept – does race exist? Is it a useful construct, or is it more misleading than useful? I wrote about this question in 2016, and my thinking has evolved a bit since then. My bottom line conclusion has not changed – the answer is, it depends. There is no fully...
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Rest of World -...
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning...
7 months ago
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Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes

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

7 months ago
To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning to so-called “family warehouses.”
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Platformer
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
a year ago
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How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
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./techtipsy
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
over a year ago
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ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s?

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

over a year ago
I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
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Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The...
over a year ago
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Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity

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

over a year ago
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs: The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English. I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity: Over Memorial Day...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Lost in Sawdust Most personal development takes the form of blade sharpening. You see an edge, take a class, and add...
over a year ago
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Lost in Sawdust

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Most personal development takes the form of blade sharpening. You see an edge, take a class, and add a bullet point to your resume. You polish that blade, perfect it, and imagine yourself as a Samurai. Then you step out into the woodworking shop where a sword is not just...
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Arduino Blog
This beautiful table creates art in the sand Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen...
10 months ago
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This beautiful table creates art in the sand

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

10 months ago
Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes...
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
6 days ago
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Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International

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6 days ago
AI and everything in between.
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Diaries of Note
Why have children or plant trees? M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the...
over a year ago
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Why have children or plant trees?

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over a year ago
M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the realm of literature. From the age of nineteen she kept a journal, and this entry comes thirteen years down the line as she cared for her beloved husband, the writer and artist...
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Posts on Made of...
Some musings on ORMs I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application,...
over a year ago
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Some musings on ORMs

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over a year ago
I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the one hand, ORMs are vastly more pleasant to work with than code that constructs...
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On the Arts
Modern Culture is Too Escapist, Part 1: Isolated vs. Integrated Arts Too much creative energy is focused on escaping the world, not on enhancing it.
a year ago
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Modern Culture is Too Escapist, Part 1: Isolated vs. Integrated Arts

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a year ago
Too much creative energy is focused on escaping the world, not on enhancing it.
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Wuthering...
The Bacchae by Euripides - O gods, I see the greatest grief there is. Reading Euripides chronologically, it would be fair to think that however ingenious and inventive...
over a year ago
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The Bacchae by Euripides - O gods, I see the greatest grief there is.

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over a year ago
Reading Euripides chronologically, it would be fair to think that however ingenious and inventive Euripides was, he did not write a play quite at the level of Agamemnon or Oedipus the King, at least until his brief exile in Macedon, where he wrote The Bacchae just before his...
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Herbert Lui
Three stories about emotional reactions 1. Anthony de Mello writes in Awareness: Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what...
5 months ago
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Three stories about emotional reactions

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
1. Anthony de Mello writes in Awareness: Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from. The doctor says, “Very well, I’ve understood your symptoms. Do you know what I will do? I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!” The patient replies,...
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IEEE Spectrum
How Tech Automated the January 6 Investigations Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on...
a year ago
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How Tech Automated the January 6 Investigations

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

a year ago
Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on 6 January 2021, and no one has ever stepped forward to identify him as one of the mob that stormed the US Capitol that day. Oregon, Ohio, with five counts connected to the failed...
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David Perell
What’s Up with Austin? Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared...
over a year ago
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What’s Up with Austin?

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Austin is a mediocre city, but a great place to live.  The post What’s Up with Austin? appeared first on David Perell.
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Enjoying the stability of Linux <![CDATA[I initially used Linux from the mid 1990s to 2015, first as dual boot with Windows 95 and...
4 months ago
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Enjoying the stability of Linux

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
<![CDATA[I initially used Linux from the mid 1990s to 2015, first as dual boot with Windows 95 and then as my only desktop operating system. Back then my PC had an Nvidia graphics card and system updates frequently broke X11 on Linux, leaving me at the text console with no idea...
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Old Structures...
More Blatant Fakery First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about...
a year ago
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More Blatant Fakery

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

a year ago
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
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The Marginalian
The Broadest Portal to Joy "Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in...
over a year ago
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The Broadest Portal to Joy

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

over a year ago
"Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in the midst of rhizomatic care that extends in every direction, spatially, temporally, spiritually."
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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...
9 months ago
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Stuff I've been working on

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
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...
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Escaping Flatland
Talking to part of a friend Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
a year ago
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Talking to part of a friend

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
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Birchtree
Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have... Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC...
4 months ago
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Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have hope)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC&
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The personal website...
Really bad design exercises As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring1, I’m reminded of my least favorite...
over a year ago
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Really bad design exercises

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
As we at the Wall Street Journal kick off a new round of hiring1, I’m reminded of my least favorite practice in design hiring: the Exercise. Why do we put ourselves through it? Why do we put each other through it? What could we possibly gain from it? I’d like to hazard an answer...
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Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
a year ago
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

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

a year ago
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
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Adventures In...
The Geoholics Podcast I got to join The Geoholics podcast this week and had a fun conversation with Kent Groh, Ryan Kelly,...
over a year ago
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The Geoholics Podcast

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
I got to join The Geoholics podcast this week and had a fun conversation with Kent Groh, Ryan Kelly, and Nik Smilovsky Here is a link to the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sHBwsGyfAoZE3ra5RaeVB?si=f1f3bdf9ab3b4695 Here’s the episode’s description: Raised by two...
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Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In Stratford Eats in E20.
a year ago
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Where To Eat And Drink In Stratford

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a year ago
Eats in E20.
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journal – Winnie Lim
restarting from scratch I’d finally tested negative on may 2nd the 13th day of my infection, in time to have a mini...
over a year ago
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restarting from scratch

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I’d finally tested negative on may 2nd the 13th day of my infection, in time to have a mini celebration with my partner. I am not sure if I overdid it, but...
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Open Culture
Why You Can Never Tune a Piano Grab a cup of coffee, put on your thinking cap, and start working through this video from Minute...
10 months ago
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Why You Can Never Tune a Piano

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

10 months ago
Grab a cup of coffee, put on your thinking cap, and start working through this video from Minute Physics, which explains why guitars, violins and other instruments can be tuned to a tee. But when it comes to pianos, it’s an entirely different story, a mathematical impossibility....
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Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
over a year ago
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reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

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

over a year ago
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
The Internet Will Pay You More for Your 9-5 Skills than an Employer Ever Will (Few Understand) Stop stealing from yourself
8 months ago
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The Internet Will Pay You More for Your 9-5 Skills than an Employer Ever Will (Few Understand)

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

8 months ago
Stop stealing from yourself
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Londonist
The Iconic Harry Beck Map But Make It Aeroplanes But is everything as it seems?
a year ago
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The Iconic Harry Beck Map But Make It Aeroplanes

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a year ago
But is everything as it seems?
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TokyoDev
How to Pass the Resume Screening Stage in Japan Do you feel that the number of applications needed to land a role has skyrocketed? If so, your...
a month ago
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How to Pass the Resume Screening Stage in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Do you feel that the number of applications needed to land a role has skyrocketed? If so, your instincts are correct. According to a Workday Global Workforce Report in September 2024, job applications are growing at a rate four times faster than job openings. This growth is...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Bookmark to Bear Recently, I discovered that the creator of Pinboard posted transphobic views from that account on...
10 months ago
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✏️ Bookmark to Bear

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

10 months ago
Recently, I discovered that the creator of Pinboard posted transphobic views from that account on (RIP) Twitter. This is disappointing, and a little digging revealed that it wasn't his first time espousing such views. I don't have time nor tolerance for this. I swiftly exported...
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The Marginalian
Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music Through Silence "We make our lives by what we love."
a year ago
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Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music Through Silence

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a year ago
"We make our lives by what we love."
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Rest of World -...
As muggings spike, phone thieves in Brazil have an easy target: Gig workers Losing a phone can devastate gig workers’ ability to make a living, while the apps they work for...
over a year ago
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As muggings spike, phone thieves in Brazil have an easy target: Gig workers

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

over a year ago
Losing a phone can devastate gig workers’ ability to make a living, while the apps they work for provide little support.
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Rest of World -...
At home with Asia’s shopping influencers In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
a year ago
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At home with Asia’s shopping influencers

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

a year ago
In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
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bt RSS Feed
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to...
over a year ago
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Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux

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

over a year ago
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily...
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Seth's Blog
Pay what you want It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost...
over a year ago
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Pay what you want

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

over a year ago
It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost of one more sale approaches zero, “pay what you want” exposes how complicated the story we tell about money can be. When we add in the charity component, it becomes even more...
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Seth's Blog
Two chicken jokes “Why did the chicken cross the road” tells us a bit about jokes. It’s a joke about jokes. The first...
a year ago
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Two chicken jokes

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

a year ago
“Why did the chicken cross the road” tells us a bit about jokes. It’s a joke about jokes. The first half is a setup, reminding us that an absurd question creates tension, which is then relieved by the punchline. But the second half undoes this by refusing to release the tension....
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
over a year ago
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Keep a React component mounted

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

over a year ago
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
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Spoon & Tamago
Kamon Reinvented: Food-Inspired Family Crests by So Terada Japanese family crests, or kamon, are visual symbols that have represented family lineage and...
5 months ago
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Kamon Reinvented: Food-Inspired Family Crests by So Terada

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
Japanese family crests, or kamon, are visual symbols that have represented family lineage and identity sometimes for centuries. While they are often associated with tradition and cultural heritage, their meanings, usage, and significance can vary widely. Some kamon hold profound...
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Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
3 months ago
33

Self-avoiding Walk

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
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Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
over a year ago
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge

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

over a year ago
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
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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...
a year ago
28

Stumbling in the dark

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

a year 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...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Ways Pharma Subsidizes Care | Out-Of-Pocket Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it just hard to track?
2 months ago
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The New Ways Pharma Subsidizes Care | Out-Of-Pocket

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

2 months ago
Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it just hard to track?
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The Marginalian
“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single "Liberty is a better husband than love."
a year ago
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“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single

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a year ago
"Liberty is a better husband than love."
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Josh Thompson
HTTParty and to_json I was having some trouble debugging an HTTParty POST request. A few tools that were useful to...
over a year ago
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HTTParty and to_json

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

over a year ago
I was having some trouble debugging an HTTParty POST request. A few tools that were useful to me: post DEBUG info to STDOUT netcat to listen to HTTP requests locally I had this code: options = { headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", authorization: "Bearer...
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Common Edge
The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
11 months ago
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The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
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Daniel Miessler
The 2 Current Major AI Bottlenecks I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve...
over a year ago
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The 2 Current Major AI Bottlenecks

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

over a year ago
I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current tech. I’m not complaining. This stuff is brand-new. Here are the current...
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Old Structures...
It Is Sorely Missed Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun...
a year ago
24

It Is Sorely Missed

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

a year ago
Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun themselves lying on towels in Central Park while wearing quite brief bathing suits would seem as weird to people in the 1870s, when the park was new, as the presence of sheep in the Sheep...
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Posts on Made of...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
over a year ago
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

over a year ago
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
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Londonist
Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: March 2024 Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
a year ago
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Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: March 2024

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
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the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
over a year ago
27

More people should write

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
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A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
over a year ago
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Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess

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

over a year ago
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
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Diaries of Note
Arrived in Peking today As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key...
a year ago
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Arrived in Peking today

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a year ago
As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key instrument in the murderous machine of the Third Reich, a role for which he was rightly convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials. During his...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Designer’s Invisible Skill Set How some designers become magicians while others remain stylists
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The Designer’s Invisible Skill Set

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over a year ago
How some designers become magicians while others remain stylists
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The personal website...
Consequentialism Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment....
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Consequentialism

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over a year ago
Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment. Writers in the late 18th and early 19th century saw how strict, rule-based, duty-bound theories of ethics resulted in contradictory and often destructive behavior. After Napoleon’s...
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Letters of Note
I’m amputating you It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera,...
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I’m amputating you

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over a year ago
It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
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Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
6 months ago
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Decision Selection Bias

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6 months ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
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Platformer
Meta seeks to hide harms from teens But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
a year ago
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Meta seeks to hide harms from teens

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a year ago
But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
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The Pragmatic...
PagerDuty alternatives 12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
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PagerDuty alternatives

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over a year ago
12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
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CrimethInc.
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for... Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of...
8 months ago
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History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy : Why the Democrats Are Responsible for Donald Trump’s Return to Power

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8 months ago
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here. The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again We...
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Film? Ancient Greek philosophers were among the first thinkers to introduce art to philosophy. Plato, in...
a month ago
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What Is the Philosophy of Film?

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a month ago
Ancient Greek philosophers were among the first thinkers to introduce art to philosophy. Plato, in his famous Socratic dialogues, talked extensively about painting, sculpture, and poetry. In Poetics, Aristotle delved into the art of tragedy, comedy, and epic poetry. Although...
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Abhishek Chakraborty
The Perks of Being Resourceful Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his...
over a year ago
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The Perks of Being Resourceful

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over a year ago
Mark Watney is hands down one of my favourite characters from a movie or a book. Apart from his one-liners and uplifting sense of humour (even in the direst of situations), what makes Mark Watney standout from the rest of us is his limitless resourcefulness.
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John Reynolds -...
Homepage Designer & Creative Director in Dallas, TX X/Twitterread.cv Instagram vimeo are.na LinkedIn
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Homepage

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over a year ago
Designer & Creative Director in Dallas, TX X/Twitterread.cv Instagram vimeo are.na LinkedIn
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Making software...
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
over a year ago
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin

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over a year ago
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I'd like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
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History Today Feed
The Ghosts of Gaelic The Ghosts of Gaelic JamesHoare Thu, 04/17/2025 - 09:07
2 months ago
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The Ghosts of Gaelic

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2 months ago
The Ghosts of Gaelic JamesHoare Thu, 04/17/2025 - 09:07
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Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art ”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
a year ago
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How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art

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a year ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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Articles
You want more than product/market fit
over a year ago
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You want more than product/market fit

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over a year ago
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Push to Prod
4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I...
10 months ago
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4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively

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10 months ago
In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I evolved to navigate these situations more fluidly.
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99% Invisible
The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat Everyone grows up learning the same story about the RMS Titanic, that when the ship set out on its...
2 weeks ago
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The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat

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2 weeks ago
Everyone grows up learning the same story about the RMS Titanic, that when the ship set out on its maiden voyage in 1912, the owners and authorities, confident that the ship was unsinkable, did not require it to carry a full complement of lifeboats. So when the Titanic sank in...
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Paul Graham: Essays
The Top of My Todo List
over a year ago
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The Top of My Todo List

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over a year ago
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values) Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
a year ago
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)

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a year ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
I just want to make art, man. My nostalgic love letter to my first design class described how professors open our eyes to an...
over a year ago
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I just want to make art, man.

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over a year ago
My nostalgic love letter to my first design class described how professors open our eyes to an invisible world. I might have got it wrong.
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Noahpinion
Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down A repost, with some updates.
6 months ago
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Five possible reasons China's productivity slowed down

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6 months ago
A repost, with some updates.
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A Beautiful Site
Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
over a year ago
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Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess

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over a year ago
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa.  There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production. #...
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Jibran’s Perspective
Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
a year ago
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Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Baby Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cetaceans evolved because they wanted to do it in...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Baby

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cetaceans evolved because they wanted to do it in the water, secretly. Today's News:
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Society's Backend:...
Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model... Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
11 months ago
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Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model Reports, and More

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11 months ago
Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
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TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
11 months ago
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Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You

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11 months ago
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies. There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
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Contemporist...
This Home's Courtyard Uses a Circular Cut-Out to Invite Light and Sky In Tucked into a prominent corner lot in Melbourne’s leafy suburb of Armadale, this reimagined 1882...
3 weeks ago
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This Home's Courtyard Uses a Circular Cut-Out to Invite Light and Sky In

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3 weeks ago
Tucked into a prominent corner lot in Melbourne’s leafy suburb of Armadale, this reimagined 1882 Victorian-era home has been sensitively adapted into a contemporary retreat for a modern family of six. Designed by Australian firm Taylor Knights, the project balances history with...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Explore Graz's Food Scene
a year ago
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How to Explore Graz's Food Scene

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a year ago
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Open Culture
How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction Frank Lloyd Wright is unlikely to be displaced as the archetype of the genius architect anytime...
5 months ago
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How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction

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5 months ago
Frank Lloyd Wright is unlikely to be displaced as the archetype of the genius architect anytime soon, at least in America, but even he had to start somewhere. At nine years old, as architecture YouTuber Stewart Hicks explains in the video above, Wright received a set of blocks...
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Paul? A Short Biography Saint Paul authored more epistles in the New Testament than any other apostle. Most of Christian...
2 months ago
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Who Was Saint Paul? A Short Biography

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2 months ago
Saint Paul authored more epistles in the New Testament than any other apostle. Most of Christian theology builds on his writings at least in part. Few people who knew Saul (Paul) as a young man would have thought he would make such a significant impact on Christianity seeing that...
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Londonist
12 Predictions For London In 2024 What can we expect from the next 12 months?
a year ago
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12 Predictions For London In 2024

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a year ago
What can we expect from the next 12 months?
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Rest of World -...
Can the Gulf buy its way to AI supremacy? Middle East nations have committed $2 trillion to artificial intelligence, computer chips, and...
2 weeks ago
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Can the Gulf buy its way to AI supremacy?

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2 weeks ago
Middle East nations have committed $2 trillion to artificial intelligence, computer chips, and defense, chasing tech supremacy that money alone may not guarantee.
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Diaries of Note
Happy New Year It was exactly a year ago, on 1st January 2023, that I began Diaries of Note. Since then I’ve shared...
a year ago
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Happy New Year

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a year ago
It was exactly a year ago, on 1st January 2023, that I began Diaries of Note. Since then I’ve shared 365 diary entries written by 365 different people—each offering a chance to live a day in someone else’s shoes. It’s been an intense and remarkable year, filled with insights,...
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Calculated Risk
ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 50.9% in January (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.9%...
5 months ago
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ISM® Manufacturing index Increased to 50.9% in January

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5 months ago
(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.9% in January, up from 49.2% in December. The employment index was at 50.3%, up from 45.4% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 55.1%, up from 52.1%. Manufacturing PMI®...
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diamond geezer
Chocolate Digestives Experience The chocolate digestive biscuit, as manufactured aromatically in Harlesden, is 100 years old this...
2 months ago
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Chocolate Digestives Experience

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2 months ago
The chocolate digestive biscuit, as manufactured aromatically in Harlesden, is 100 years old this year. And to celebrate the centenary McVitie's have opened a pop-up experience in Piccadilly Circus inside a former Barclays bank for one long weekend only. I am not making this...
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David Crawshaw
new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
over a year ago
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new year, same plan

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over a year ago
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Content Distribution How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Content Distribution

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over a year ago
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
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Grow With Less
The Overwhelmed Business Owner's Guide to SEO What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best...
over a year ago
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The Overwhelmed Business Owner's Guide to SEO

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over a year ago
What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best friend Dave are the only people reading them? That’s the question I asked myself 7 years ago after writing dozens of articles for my new blog French Together. I followed 10,000...
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Common Edge
Urban Farming: A Sustainable Pathway Out of Nigeria’s Unfolding Food Crisis Havana, Tokyo, and Paris offer successful examples of how it might work.
11 months ago
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Urban Farming: A Sustainable Pathway Out of Nigeria’s Unfolding Food Crisis

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11 months ago
Havana, Tokyo, and Paris offer successful examples of how it might work.
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Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
6 months ago
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o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025

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6 months ago
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
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The American Scholar
Reasons for Living The post Reasons for Living appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 weeks ago
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Reasons for Living

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4 weeks ago
The post Reasons for Living appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Marcus on AI
PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge The Great Data Heist continues.
7 months ago
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PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge

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7 months ago
The Great Data Heist continues.
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99% Invisible
Single Handed (4 of 6): Pack Hack Reconfigures Roomy Rucksack for Crossbody Carry I’m a backpack person. Whether for everyday carry or for travel, I’ve always preferred backpacks to...
3 months ago
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Single Handed (4 of 6): Pack Hack Reconfigures Roomy Rucksack for Crossbody Carry

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3 months ago
I’m a backpack person. Whether for everyday carry or for travel, I’ve always preferred backpacks to sling, messenger, duffel, and, above all, roller bags. But after I severely injured my right arm, I was forced to cycle through alternatives, particularly for day-to-day purposes....
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Commoncog
The Deming Paradox: Operationally Rigorous Companies Aren't Very Nice Places to Work Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same...
over a year ago
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The Deming Paradox: Operationally Rigorous Companies Aren't Very Nice Places to Work

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over a year ago
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Secret Hidden From Yourself' Howard Nemerov was born on Leap Year Day in 1920 – February 29 -- meaning his birthday can be...
4 months ago
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'The Secret Hidden From Yourself'

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4 months ago
Howard Nemerov was born on Leap Year Day in 1920 – February 29 -- meaning his birthday can be accurately observed only every fourth year – a nice metaphysical conundrum. This reminds me of a cousin who was bitter because she was born on Christmas Day and felt she was getting less...
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A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
over a year ago
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But we haven't even mastered Acid2!

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over a year ago
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
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The Beauty of...
My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK) A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is...
over a year ago
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My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK)

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over a year ago
A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is the hush of the parkway station between train services, and the station it has just departed from is Worcestershire Parkway. Though one of the best designed parkway stations, and a...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020 Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
over a year ago
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“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020

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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
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Both Are True
BETH SPENCER will draw my face also we will maybe do some improv, I haven’t told Beth about that yet... A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
3 months ago
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BETH SPENCER will draw my face also we will maybe do some improv, I haven’t told Beth about that yet lol

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3 months ago
A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
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Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine

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

over a year ago
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and when?
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Retail Design Blog
Gatestone Offices by Sensyst Sensyst designed and transformed a dated 90’s financial office into Gatestone & Co’s stunning 55,000...
11 months ago
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Gatestone Offices by Sensyst

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11 months ago
Sensyst designed and transformed a dated 90’s financial office into Gatestone & Co’s stunning 55,000 square-foot contact centre in Montreal,...
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Archinect - Features
How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably...
11 months ago
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How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent

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11 months ago
As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beeing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever think about how many STDs would go down...
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beeing

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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever think about how many STDs would go down with us if there were an AI apocalypse? Today's News:
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Eukaryote Writes...
Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really...
over a year ago
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Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup

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over a year ago
Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really deep into the weeds of invertebrate sentience and fish welfare and the scale of factory farming, what do you do with that information vis-a-vis what you feel comfortable eating?...
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech Secrets from Cicero
10 months ago
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How to Give a Speech

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10 months ago
Secrets from Cicero
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The American Scholar
The Support Ship The post The Support Ship appeared first on The American Scholar.
11 months ago
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The Support Ship

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11 months ago
The post The Support Ship appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Common Edge
“Boston Is A Red City” Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and...
over a year ago
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“Boston Is A Red City”

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over a year ago
Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and colors.
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
over a year ago
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Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship

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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
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Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
a year ago
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Every product needs an architecture vision

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a year ago
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
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Isabel Unraveled
Discussing King, Warrior, Magician, Lover with Co-Author Douglas Gillette masculine archetypes, understanding our shadow, and how we can raise the collective consciousness
7 months ago
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Discussing King, Warrior, Magician, Lover with Co-Author Douglas Gillette

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7 months ago
masculine archetypes, understanding our shadow, and how we can raise the collective consciousness
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IEEE Spectrum
Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution Edith Clarke was a powerhouse in practically every sense of the word. From the start of her career...
12 months ago
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Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution

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12 months ago
Edith Clarke was a powerhouse in practically every sense of the word. From the start of her career at General Electric in 1922, she was determined to develop stable, more reliable power grids. During her first years at GE she invented what came to be known as the Clarke...
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The Honest Broker
In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War And I can already tell you who will win
a year ago
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In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War

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a year ago
And I can already tell you who will win
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Maggie Appleton
Command K Bars Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut
over a year ago
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Command K Bars

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over a year ago
Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut
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Irrational...
Advancing the industry. Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious...
a year ago
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Advancing the industry.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
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Retail Design Blog
City of Inspiration by Fun Connection Located in Chongqing’s Yuelai District, City of Inspiration blends lifestyle and commerce in a...
a week ago
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City of Inspiration by Fun Connection

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a week ago
Located in Chongqing’s Yuelai District, City of Inspiration blends lifestyle and commerce in a vibrant urban complex. Designed by fun...
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Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
a year ago
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Unusual basis types in programming languages

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

a year ago
TLA+ Workshop TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy! Unusual basis types in...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Mind the Gap
over a year ago
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Mind the Gap

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A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
over a year ago
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Bulletproof Components

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

over a year ago
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
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Home on Erik...
Machine, Platform, Crowd I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it...
over a year ago
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Machine, Platform, Crowd

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

over a year ago
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters. Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
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Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
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Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition

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over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
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IEEE Spectrum
Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might...
8 months ago
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Why the Art of Invention Is Always Being Reinvented

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8 months ago
Every invention begins with a problem—and the creative act of seeing a problem where others might just see unchangeable reality. For one 5-year-old, the problem was simple: She liked to have her tummy rubbed as she fell asleep. But her mom, exhausted from working two jobs, often...
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computers are bad
2024-10-19 land art and isolation Prescript: I originally started writing this with the intent to send it out to my supporter's...
8 months ago
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2024-10-19 land art and isolation

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
Prescript: I originally started writing this with the intent to send it out to my supporter's newsletter, EYES ONLY, but it got to be long and took basically all day so I feel like it deserves wider circulation. You will have to tolerate that it begins in the more conversational...
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Rest of World -...
Who is Bhavish Aggarwal, the Indian EV founder compared to Elon Musk? Ola Electric’s IPO made Aggarwal one of India’s youngest billionaires, but his towering ambition and...
2 months ago
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Who is Bhavish Aggarwal, the Indian EV founder compared to Elon Musk?

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2 months ago
Ola Electric’s IPO made Aggarwal one of India’s youngest billionaires, but his towering ambition and brash management style have come under fire. Sound familiar?
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The Works in...
Flipping the switch on far-UVC We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
4 months ago
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Flipping the switch on far-UVC

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?
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Common Edge
Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible? The city is rolling out an ambitious effort to divert organic waste from landfills. Is it set up for...
6 months ago
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Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible?

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6 months ago
The city is rolling out an ambitious effort to divert organic waste from landfills. Is it set up for success?
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Benny Kuriakose
Sustainability in School Design Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the ...
a year ago
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Sustainability in School Design

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a year ago
Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by efficient and moderate use of...
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The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
over a year ago
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The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant. In
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AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Outdoor Adventures Near Marriott Hotels in Florida
11 months ago
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4 Outdoor Adventures Near Marriott Hotels in Florida

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11 months ago
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Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
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Why I blog

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a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
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Yale e360
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
over a year ago
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot enacts a global state that refers...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI

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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot enacts a global state that refers to but is not equivalent to anger. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will be nagging about this book for the next...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will be nagging about this book for the next while, and I apologize for that. Good news though - the main form of nag will be bonus SMBC comics. Also, HOLY SHIT GUYS, ANDY FUCKIN WEIR! Today's News: Good morning, friends. Today...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Transgene-Free Gene Editing in Plants Regulations are a classic example of a proverbial double-edged sword. They are essential to create...
2 months ago
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Transgene-Free Gene Editing in Plants

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

2 months ago
Regulations are a classic example of a proverbial double-edged sword. They are essential to create and maintain a free and fair market, to prevent exploitation, and to promote safety and the public interest. Just look at 19th century America for countless examples of what happens...
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Calculated Risk
Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress This testimony will be live here at 10:00 AM ET and also on C-SPAN 3. Report here. An excerpt: The...
4 months ago
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Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress

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

4 months ago
This testimony will be live here at 10:00 AM ET and also on C-SPAN 3. Report here. An excerpt: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is firmly committed to fulfilling its statutory mandate from the Congress of promoting maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate...
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Engineers Need Art
SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
over a year ago
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SystemSix

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
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Kagi Blog
Updates to Kagi pricing plans - More searches, unrestricted AI tools We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect...
over a year ago
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Updates to Kagi pricing plans - More searches, unrestricted AI tools

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over a year ago
We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect immediately.
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AI Snake Oil
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
a year ago
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A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming

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a year ago
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
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IEEE Spectrum
The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the...
5 months ago
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The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project

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

5 months ago
It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been...
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The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton How I tracked down the most mysterious musician in the history of West Coast jazz
a year ago
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In Search of Dupree Bolton

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a year ago
How I tracked down the most mysterious musician in the history of West Coast jazz
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Ferd.ca
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems 2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at...
over a year ago
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The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
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Jason Fried
You couldn't know Have you ever been asked "What do you wish you knew then that you know now?" I have. And I hate...
a year ago
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You couldn't know

from Jason Fried [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Have you ever been asked "What do you wish you knew then that you know now?" I have. And I hate the question. It's usually framed in a way that encourages you to pretend to place yourself in the nascent days of your career, or early adulthood. Back when you didn't know much,...
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Blog - Bitfield...
What is 'iota' in Go? iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary...
a year ago
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What is 'iota' in Go?

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

a year ago
iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary values. Let’s find out how to use iota, with this quick tutorial.
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A Smart Bear
Not disruptive, and proud of it I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about...
a year ago
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Not disruptive, and proud of it

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

a year ago
I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
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Quanta Magazine
Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the...
a year ago
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Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

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

a year ago
The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. The post Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Scott Jenson
The invisible problem Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares...
a year ago
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The invisible problem

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?” Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible...
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Fatih Arslan
Why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook I had to bring my MacBook instead of my iPad during a recent trip. For the whole time, I missed my...
a year ago
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Why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
I had to bring my MacBook instead of my iPad during a recent trip. For the whole time, I missed my iPad. Here are the reasons why I prefer the iPad over a MacBook.
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Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11 A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
5 months ago
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Hands-on graphics without X11

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5 months ago
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
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Sharding Yourself

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

over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Chaos Blitz edition (#59) Trump's chaos blitz; Econ data isn't fake; China's tech cluster; Abundance ideas; AI and antitrust;...
4 months ago
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At least five interesting things: Chaos Blitz edition (#59)

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

4 months ago
Trump's chaos blitz; Econ data isn't fake; China's tech cluster; Abundance ideas; AI and antitrust; AI in science
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Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
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Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums

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I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
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Yale e360
How a Former Herder Protected Mongolia's Vast Grasslands Batmunkh Luvsandash has fought to protect more than a million acres of steppe lands in his native...
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How a Former Herder Protected Mongolia's Vast Grasslands

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Batmunkh Luvsandash has fought to protect more than a million acres of steppe lands in his native Mongolia. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how, by drawing on the knowledge of local herders, he was able to take on the powerful mining industry and win. Read...
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Londonist
15 Pictures Of London's Beautiful Shopfronts From floating Chinese restaurants to everyone's favourite foliage-smothered boozer.
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15 Pictures Of London's Beautiful Shopfronts

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From floating Chinese restaurants to everyone's favourite foliage-smothered boozer.
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abdz.do - Have you...
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Branding and visual identity for AI powered recruitment platform

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Branding and visual identity for AI powered recruitment platform abduzeedo0126—23 Halo Lab, a design studio based in Ukraine, shared a branding and visual identity project for Casefair,  a cutting-edge recruitment platform that utilizes AI to...
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Catching a break: How gig workers find rest Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
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Catching a break: How gig workers find rest

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Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
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Unsolved Chemistry Problems
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Unsolved Chemistry Problems

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