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The Elysian
Yes, Taylor Swift is just as genius as Mary Shelley The video from our live event.
2 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
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One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
Louwrentius
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS) To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
over a year ago
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Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you’re selecting a pricing plan during a site’s sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History undefined
3 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
Automated Hachuring in QGIS I seem to have accidentally come up with a method for duplicating a centuries-old terrain...
5 months ago
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I seem to have accidentally come up with a method for duplicating a centuries-old terrain representation technique. If you’ve looked at old maps, you’ve probably seen hachures: lines that run up and down along the slope of terrain features. There were a wide variety of approaches...
IEEE Spectrum
Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search...
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The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The sensor measures shaking and shifting in continental plates that will eventually unleash...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising For 10 years, Yahoo was my default home page.  Now I can barely stand using the site.  I still use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For 10 years, Yahoo was my default home page.  Now I can barely stand using the site.  I still use it for Finance and Flickr, but that’s it…
Maggie Appleton
A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites. It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier. And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
6 months ago
Map of the Week
The Auschwitz Exhibition This past weekend I saw a traveling exhibition in Boston about the Auschwitz concentration camp. It...
3 months ago
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This past weekend I saw a traveling exhibition in Boston about the Auschwitz concentration camp. It contains over 700 objects from shoes to gas masks to implements of torture and experimentation. The exhibit was co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and has been in...
Anarchy Unfolds
The big picture, AI, chemophobia, rocket mass heaters Green Gatherings #1
2 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World - part 2
over a year ago
Old Structures...
The Back Side I’ve discussed the old Croton Distributing Reservoir several times before. It was the southernmost...
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I’ve discussed the old Croton Distributing Reservoir several times before. It was the southernmost visible part of New York’s first really good water system, and occupied the same spot that the New York Public Library does today: 40th to 42nd Street, from Fifth Avenue to a little...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Londonist
Stratford Market Village To Reopen - Following Shock Closure In January "We are so glad to be back."
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages? undefined
3 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Built-In Furniture Makes The Most Of This Renovated Home’s Interior Nook Architects has shared photos of a home interior they remodeled in Barcelona, Spain, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nook Architects has shared photos of a home interior they remodeled in Barcelona, Spain, that includes a lot of built-in elements. This home was originally designed by architect Joan Bosch Agustí in 1978 as a cooperative housingproject, with the units sharing a swimming pool,...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting? undefined
12 months ago
The Modern House
Tim Ross: the Australian broadcaster on the life-enhancing effect of modest, modernist buildings –... Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was...
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Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was often left to his own devices. A daydreamer with an eye for design, his passion for modernist buildings took root and caught up with him following his early […]
Seth's Blog
Pavlonian coincidence There are two kinds of coincidences. The first is the one that we often talk about. It’s the...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are two kinds of coincidences. The first is the one that we often talk about. It’s the make-believe magic of two things occurring that we didn’t expect to occur. When you and your long-lost college roommate end up randomly sharing adjacent bowling lanes when you’re...
TheCollector
What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome? undefined
10 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #158 Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure...
a year ago
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a year ago
Claude Shannon's mighty mouse, Ben Graham's father, Doomberg quits Twitter, FASB segment disclosure rules, Podcasts on old annual reports, Henry Ford's road trips, Jony Ive, Sal Kahn
Dreams of Space -...
Satellites As A Hobby (1962) Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and...
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Satellites as a Hobby was a children's book from Hammond (the atlas people) They commissioned and created a space map in 1958 (see Sept 8, 2011 blog post). They reused these illustration in several publication which may explain why they seem a little "dated" for 1962. This book...
Simply Explained
Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistant I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener had to follow. But instead of swapping it out for a new unit, I used a Shelly 1 and a cheap door contact sensor to make it smart for less than $20!It runs ESPHome (open-source, no...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Stoic Simple
How to Apply Stoicism in the Workplace for Increased Productivity In today's fast-paced, high-stress work environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed and succumb to...
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a year ago
In today's fast-paced, high-stress work environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed and succumb to emotional outbursts or impulsive decision-making. The ancient philosophy of Stoicism, however, offers a practical and effective approach to managing workplace challenges, improving...
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
Map of the Week
A Blue Map of China This past weekend I finally got to the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to see...
3 months ago
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This past weekend I finally got to the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to see their exhibit, Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China on one of its final days. Yes, I should have visited months ago when I could have encouraged readers to see it but though they...
Math Is Still...
A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics So-called “higher symmetries” are illuminating everything from particle decays to the behavior of...
a year ago
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So-called “higher symmetries” are illuminating everything from particle decays to the behavior of complex quantum systems. The post A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many people throughout history,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 34 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Nat Eliason's...
Slow Habits Change without Force
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
The Western Union trap When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get even better at sending telegrams.
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know undefined
2 months ago
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Platformer
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation undefined
3 months ago
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
4 weeks ago
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Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
The Pragmatic...
Amazon doubling down on RTO (return to office) The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office...
a year ago
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The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
diamond geezer
Behind The Red Moon Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of the millennium. There's also the giant artwork in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which over the years has been amazing, tedious, thought-provoking, bland, must-see, involving,...
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget Why do we film concerts?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed undefined
4 months ago
Noahpinion
Interview: Jean Twenge, psychologist In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social...
a year ago
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a year ago
In which we talk all about generational differences, Millennial angst, and the effects of social media and cell phones
A small freedom area...
From roots to polynomials Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of...
over a year ago
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Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the "root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
journal – Winnie Lim
precarious health, and bringing the whole self to every encounter I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my heart rate and heart rate variability every morning when I wake up to...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some more thoughts on telemedicine | Out-Of-Pocket a collection of the best audience responses
a year ago
The Marginalian
Love and the Sacred "I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening."
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"I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening."
Commoncog
What Process Improvement in Education Looks Like What rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
What rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should be able to do this in your own org contexts.
TheCollector
What Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Think of Poetry? undefined
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Grandiosity as a form of hiding A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and...
a year ago
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a year ago
A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and neighborhoods,” can spend a lot of time doing not much of anything before they realize that they’re not actually creating value. A non-profit that seeks to create “fairness and...
Irrational...
Poking around OpenAI. I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing...
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I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing so. I was particularly curious about the usecase of using embeddings to supplement user prompts with additional, relevant data (e.g. supply the current status of their recent...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
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a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Trouble with the Segway
over a year ago
Londonist
A Map Of Westminster Place Names And Where They Come From From Maida Vale to Covent Garden.
8 months ago
The American Scholar
Bastienne Schmidt The fabric of life The post Bastienne Schmidt appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Aaron's Essays
Don't focus on the NASDAQ While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the world started relative to NASDAQ. At first, I thought I'd find no correlation between how well the index was doing and when successful companies were founded. I love...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites to Visit in Madrid undefined
4 months ago
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Anecdotal Evidence
'No Secret Element of Gusto Warms Up the Sermon' Gusto is one of my favorite virtues, especially among writers. Italo Svevo has it. John Steinbeck...
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a month ago
Gusto is one of my favorite virtues, especially among writers. Italo Svevo has it. John Steinbeck does not. A.J. Liebling has it. Woodward and Bernstein have never heard of it. Gusto is taking pleasure in the job at hand. About writers it suggests energy and enjoyment in playing...
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
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In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
diamond geezer
A nice Starbucks walk A Nice Walk: Tottenham Court Road (½ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A Nice Walk: Tottenham Court Road (½ mile) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, lots to see, centrally located, historic buildings, well connected, retail proximity, easy to follow, multiple refreshment opportunities, won't take...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
The Elysian
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
4 months ago
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for? undefined
10 months ago
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
8 months ago
Passing Time
Sweatshop Labor and the Exploitation Problem Labor faces a coordination problem: the actors involved can’t reach a better moral position via...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Labor faces a coordination problem: the actors involved can’t reach a better moral position via unilateral action.
NeuroLogica Blog
Have Current AI Reached Their Limit? We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications,...
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We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications, specifically the large language models and so-called “transformers” like Chat GPT. Transformers are a deep learning model that use self-attention to differentially weight the...
Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Val Town Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If...
a month ago
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a month ago
Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If you haven't used Val, well, watch the stream — think live, zero-deploy code snippets that can be arbitrarily extended and executed.) Reflecting on the experience, the most exciting...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy Instagram The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing...
3 months ago
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The process began with you asking if we'd do this at $500m, but then you didn't want to end up doing it at that valuation. I am curious to know at what valuation you would do this, and then I can just let you know whether we'd do that.
bt RSS Feed
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC undefined
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Robot John Searle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am posting this from a train and can't make...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am posting this from a train and can't make edits, so you'lll just have to dealll with the extra L. Today's News: Jazzed to have been read and found convincing by Tyler Cowen.
Seth's Blog
When the media is ready (Bongo part 2) Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to...
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Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to it with leverage. There are three elements to consider in a media system that’s worth a professional creator’s time: Systems are changed by technology. When desktop publishing...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 3: Fool Me Three Times This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the Warr…iors... sob… It’s just one game, right? 1. No One Likes a Giveaway Who doesn’t love a good pickle? Well that didn’t happen. There were no entries to last week’s giveaway. If you...
NeuroLogica Blog
Deepfake Doctor Endorsements This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a...
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This kind of abuse of deepfake endorsements was entirely predictable, so it’s not surprising that a recent BMJ study documents the scale of this fraud. The study focused on the UK, detailing instances of deepfakes of celebrity doctors endorsing dubious products. For example,...
Seth's Blog
On choosing a college For some fortunate 17 year olds, the end of the year is the day for a momentous decision, one that’s...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For some fortunate 17 year olds, the end of the year is the day for a momentous decision, one that’s largely out of the comfort zone of a 17 year old. A four-year college education in the US can cost nearly half a million dollars once we count the expenses and foregone...
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings “When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
TheCollector
10 Countries With the Best Second-Language English Proficiency to Relocate To undefined
3 weeks ago
Asterisk
The Art of Asking Questions Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other inaccuracies. We all use them anyway. How can we ask them better?
Opsbros
The past lives again! I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons ago and bring them to the era of the internet.
FIRE v London
Sep ’24: Ominous politics, juicy economics September was fairly action-packed. I enjoyed getting out on a friend’s boat around Poole and the...
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September was fairly action-packed. I enjoyed getting out on a friend’s boat around Poole and the Solent. I made it to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, which was fascinating albeit wet. I am apparently firmly in the tax-raising sights of the Government, but I wasn’t the...
Old Structures...
Now The Good Side A few years ago, I wrote a fairly snarky and negative piece on the Park Avenue Hotel. The building...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A few years ago, I wrote a fairly snarky and negative piece on the Park Avenue Hotel. The building is physically of interest to me because it was a rare example of a residential building with cast-iron facades and a good example of the common approach (in the mid-nineteenth...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing metadown
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism "Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so."
a year ago
Londonist
The Dreamlike Tower Bridge From Poor Things Was Almost Real Yorgos Lanthimos revives Horace Jones' original design.
9 months ago
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
a month ago
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
xkcd.com
Treasure Chests
10 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
What Is Orbitronics You have definitely heard of electronics. You may (if you are a tech nerd like me) have heard of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You have definitely heard of electronics. You may (if you are a tech nerd like me) have heard of spintronics and photonics. Now there is also the possibility of orbitronics. What do these cool-sounding words mean? Electronic technology is one of those core technologies that has...
Calculated Risk
The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 A brief...
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a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 A brief excerpt: During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent...
The Ruffian
The Six Million Dollar Banana Why I Find Conceptual Artists Inspiring
3 weeks ago
Sean Carroll
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of momentum, effective field theory, the error bar, gauge...
Stoic Simple
How to Use Stoicism to Enhance Your Logical Decision Making Abilities When it comes to decision-making, it can be challenging to navigate the multitude of options and...
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to decision-making, it can be challenging to navigate the multitude of options and complexities we face. Whether it's selecting the right career path or deciding between two potential love interests, making informed and strategic decisions is crucial for achieving...
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
a year ago
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Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
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There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
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NeuroLogica Blog
Nuclear Microreactors The first nuclear powered vessel was completed in 1959. Since then there have been nuclear powered...
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The first nuclear powered vessel was completed in 1959. Since then there have been nuclear powered vessels in the oceans, including many nuclear submarines. The obvious advantage is that is such vessels can stay at see for long periods of time without refueling. These ships use...
Rest of World -...
The viral AI portrait app sweeping across China Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that...
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Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that many say are shockingly accurate.
Maps Mania
MapLibre Adds WebGL2 Support
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 21-22 October 2023 Exhibitions, tours, live music, and half term fun.
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Helium Synthesis
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Math Is Still...
How Simple Math Moves the Needle The spatial intuition behind a three-point turn offers an on-ramp to a century-old geometry problem....
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The spatial intuition behind a three-point turn offers an on-ramp to a century-old geometry problem. The post How Simple Math Moves the Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
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I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
Seth's Blog
Defending the apostrophe Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local...
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Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local merchant adds a note to some receipts that says, Your awesome. It’s tempting to speak up and point out that the sky comma is showing up where it shouldn’t. And missing when it...
Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
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The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples. These maps illustrate the things...
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Array 1.5.0 Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This...
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Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This week's highlights include a new website, multiple…
Castles in the Sky
Original Castles in the Sky Art This is the home for all the original art in Castles in the Sky that is an AI generation, original...
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This is the home for all the original art in Castles in the Sky that is an AI generation, original commission, or some collage of the two. When the art is AI-generated, I will link to the first time it appeared in Castles in the Sky along with the prompt I used.
Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail...
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California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail project. When voters first approved the $10 billion dollar bond issue for the project in 2008, it was projected to be completed by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. Instead, its costs have
History Today Feed
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic JamesHoare Thu, 09/19/2024 - 06:00
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Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The hard parts (and the important parts) The hard parts of what you do all day can feel fraught. It’s heavy lifting. Emergencies. Dangerous...
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The hard parts of what you do all day can feel fraught. It’s heavy lifting. Emergencies. Dangerous labor. The stakes are high and the work can be difficult. The important parts of what you do all day are valuable to someone else. This is what you’re getting paid for–solving a...
TheCollector
What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy? undefined
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The Diff
Initiations Plus! Alternative Data; Size and Momentum; The Full Audience; Same-Day
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RhysTranter.com
The Life of Saint Pambo Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390)...
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Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390) thought to be a disciple of St Antony. I was struck by the following passage...
Light from Space
Andromeda: Our Galactic Neighbor Many things have been said about the Andromeda Galaxy, arguably the most majestic galaxy that...
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Many things have been said about the Andromeda Galaxy, arguably the most majestic galaxy that amateur astronomers can image due to it's sheer size in the sky—many times larger than the Moon appears to us, but also many times dimmer. With the naked eye, even in
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
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This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant — Beauty Why is beauty so important? It leads us to truth and goodness, says Immanuel Kant. How? Beauty  To...
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Why is beauty so important? It leads us to truth and goodness, says Immanuel Kant. How? Beauty  To uncover the secret of beauty, let us first examine how we usually view the world. This is what happens when we see something: 1. Our senses receive a lot of raw data from the...
AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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Acko.net
Climbing Mount Effect Declarative Code and Effects This is a series about incrementalism in code and coding. On the one...
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Declarative Code and Effects This is a series about incrementalism in code and coding. On the one hand, I mean code that is rewindable and resumable. On the other, I mean incremental changes in how we code. This is not an easy topic, because understanding some of the best...
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Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
over a year ago
diamond geezer
The refillable water bottle tube map If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water...
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If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water bottle? It's always obvious retrospectively. Overground network, hence the map is titled "London Overground stations with free drinking water fountains". The new symbol thus...
Open Culture
Bringing Tsarist Russia to Life: Vivid Color Images from 1905–1915 History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective...
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History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective memory. If we’re pointing fingers, we might point at educational systems that fail to educate, or at huge historical blind spots in mass media. Maybe another reason the recent past...
TheCollector
10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever undefined
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TheCollector
6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel undefined
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Steve Klabnik
Some people understand REST and HTTP
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Seth's Blog
What spoiled wrecks There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a...
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There’s nothing wrong with abundance and joy. But being spoiled causes two real problems: As a community increases in wealth, the number of spoiled citizens increases as well. It’s often the acid that corrodes the magic that created the wealth in the first place. Whining is a...
Rest of World -...
These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
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TheCollector
UK Exhibition to Pair Pre-Raphaelite Art and Aromas undefined
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NeuroLogica Blog
AI As Legal Entities Should an artificial intelligence (AI) be treated like a legal “subject” or agent? That is the...
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Should an artificial intelligence (AI) be treated like a legal “subject” or agent? That is the question discussed in a new paper by legal scholars. They recognize that this question is a bit ahead of the technology, but argue that we should work out the legal ramifications before...
ntietz.com blog
Fiction as a lens into technological change The world is changing right now. We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact...
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The world is changing right now. We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact on almost every field, and we could see anything from minor efficiency gains to catastrophic AI apocalypses to mass disruption of many jobs. The cone of possibility is wide, and...
Londonist
Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London "Now pay attention..."
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Making software...
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
NeuroLogica Blog
DNA Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials Arguably the type of advance that has the greatest impact on technology is material science....
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Arguably the type of advance that has the greatest impact on technology is material science. Technology can advance by doing more with the materials we have, but new materials can change the game entirely. It is no coincidence that we mark different technological ages by the...
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Bakerloo Line A chronology of the brown line.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Overground line factfile Overground line factfile (because all the stats have changed) Windrush line...
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Overground line factfile (because all the stats have changed) Windrush line              Operates: Highbury & Islington to New Cross/Clapham Junction/Crystal Palace/West Croydon Colour on map: red parallel lines Joined the Overground: 2010 Length: 24 miles Zones: 1-5 Number...
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism undefined
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the reality that exists in me I just had my period, so I am feeling a little more fatigued than usual. Every month around this...
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I just had my period, so I am feeling a little more fatigued than usual. Every month around this time I tend to wonder why the body finds it so difficult to...
Asterisk
A Chinese Internet Phrasebook The latest slang on Weibo reveals a world of cynicism, ennui — and concrete pasta.
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CONTEMPORIST
Arched Geometry Adds Personality To This Office Building Lobby Architect and interior design firm Atelier Cho Thompson, has shared photos of the lobby in a...
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Architect and interior design firm Atelier Cho Thompson, has shared photos of the lobby in a building in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally constructed as a shoe factory, the exterior of the building has an ornate stone facade, decorated with imagery depicting shoe manufacturing,...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
nanoscale views
Faculty positions at Rice - follow-up I had mentioned about 6 weeks ago that my department at Rice is searching in the quantum/AMO space...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had mentioned about 6 weeks ago that my department at Rice is searching in the quantum/AMO space for experiment and theory.   Now I want to put the larger context of this out there - Rice has four quantum-related searches going on right now: Quantum theory (PHYA):...
Retail Design Blog
Moji – Feni Branding & Packaging Design Moji’s brand identity is thoughtfully crafted, drawing inspiration from the ornate Portuguese...
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Moji’s brand identity is thoughtfully crafted, drawing inspiration from the ornate Portuguese ‘Azulejos’ patterns. At its core is a unique...
devonzuegel.com
Book review: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C....
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The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C. Scott. It explores how the unique characteristics of grain-based agriculture shaped the early history of states. While I did learn many interesting historical facts and trends from...
Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
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The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
NeuroLogica Blog
ChatGPT Performs At University Level We are still sorting out the strengths and weaknesses of the new crop of artificial intelligence...
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We are still sorting out the strengths and weaknesses of the new crop of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the poster-child of which is ChatGPT. This is a so-called large language model application using a “generative pre-trained transformer”. Essentially these types of...
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
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This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Rest of World -...
How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a...
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Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.
Antoine Mayerowitz
A Journey Into Shaders
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Res Obscura
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
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Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
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In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!” Concept A couple of years ago I came up with...
One Useful Thing
Change blindness 21 months later
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bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website...
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Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
African History...
The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916. The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
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This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
Seth's Blog
Jevons paradox is not surprising When a resource can be used more efficiently, we end up using more of the thing, not less. So, when...
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When a resource can be used more efficiently, we end up using more of the thing, not less. So, when cars get better gas mileage, people drive more, and consumption can actually go up. When AI learns to write computer code, the demand for programmers goes up, because more...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To (Properly) Text Patients | Out-Of-Pocket Do’s and don’ts + tactical tips from an actual doctor
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Geometry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke conceived while reading Tarski's...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This joke conceived while reading Tarski's biography, a fact which will cause four of you to laugh politely. Today's News: Hey guys, ask us anything because WE TOOK OVER THE BARNES & NOBLE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
Open Culture
Leonard Bernstein Introduces the Moog Synthesizer to the World in 1969, Playing an Electrified... When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque...
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When Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach in 1968, her “greatest hits” compilation of the Baroque composer’s music, played entirely on the Moog analog synthesizer, the album became an immediate hit with both classical and pop audiences. Not only was it “acclaimed as real music...
journal – Winnie Lim
open-air dining in seoul It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I...
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It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I conducted my own research prior to the trip it was challenging for me to find...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro undefined
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Nelson's Weblog
Back to Goodreads I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a...
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I’m back to using Goodreads but I lost my friends list, if you use Goodreads please add me as a friend. After Goodreads lost my account I was furious and of course intended to never use it again. But to their credit, Goodreads did some extra work and managed to get me a copy of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
American Airlines’ Top Credit Card Offers 100K Mile Bonus
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Old Structures...
Old Adventures In Photo-Bombing Someone occasionally notices that most of Manhattan has little open space to create picturesque...
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Someone occasionally notices that most of Manhattan has little open space to create picturesque vistas. Or to put it another way, it’s difficult to get decent pictures of a lot of buildings here because there’s so much stuff in the way. There’s also stuff in the background, which...
One Useful Thing
Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI Technological change brings organizational change.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Mokkado café by MUKU design studio “Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama...
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“Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture. The café is a...
Christian Selig
A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
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People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk. Turns out there were...
The Ruffian
Threads Isn't Toxic Enough Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Green Roof Covers The Pool House At This New Home Robert Young Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Hither Hills, a rolling...
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Robert Young Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Hither Hills, a rolling topography of dunes between Montauk and Amagansett, New York, for a family that wanted a year-round retreat. Located on a steep site, the home features multiple levels, a swimming pool,...
Seth's Blog
Headwinds When it’s tough going and it feels fraught, it’s easy to imagine that the headwinds will never end....
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When it’s tough going and it feels fraught, it’s easy to imagine that the headwinds will never end. And yet, when all is going well and the wind is at our back, it’s tempting to imagine that this is the way it’s going to stay. Neither is true. The reason we see them as headwinds...
TheCollector
What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism undefined
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SatPost by Trung...
5 Good Evergreen Podcasts Baller topics include food, explorers, record labels, Vietnam War films and iconic sounds.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Shaping Tombs in Words' At KaboomBooks a man about my age was standing in front of the “S” shelves in fiction. I routinely...
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At KaboomBooks a man about my age was standing in front of the “S” shelves in fiction. I routinely stop there hoping to find hardback copies of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novels to replace my disintegrating paperbacks. On a nearby step-ladder I noticed a stack of such Singer titles...
Calculated Risk
Personal Income increased 0.3% in November; Spending increased 0.4% The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for November: Personal income increased...
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The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for November: Personal income increased $71.1 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in November, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income (DPI), personal...
Making software...
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be "injected" via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one's hands. So, the least I can do is...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Race And Healthcare: Recognizing And Addressing the Issues Facing Black Patients | Out-Of-Pocket The systemic issues that plague black communities are extremely prevalent in healthcare, and we...
a year ago
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide undefined
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Spoon & Tamago
Japan Quietly Shines at Milan Design Week Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the...
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Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the biggest names and brands in the design world descend upon the Italian city, which sees its population swell by nearly 25%. Now in its 62nd iteration, the design extravaganza is an...
Artificial Ignorance
Milestones, motivations, and miscellany Some thoughts on the future of this newsletter.
6 months ago
Drew Ex Machina
Rockets Falling from Orbit: The Saturn V That Launched NASA’s Skylab In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new...
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In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
Arduino Blog
Meet the CapibaraZero, a multifunctional security and hacking tool based on the Nano ESP32 In recent years, tools such as the FlipperZero have become quite popular amongst hobbyists and...
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In recent years, tools such as the FlipperZero have become quite popular amongst hobbyists and security professionals alike for their small size and wide array of hacking tools. Inspired by the functionality of the FlipperZero, Project Hub user ‘andreockx’ created a similar...
Noahpinion
Progressives need to learn to take the W Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost.
3 months ago
Old Structures...
Metaphorical Significant Figures Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code?...
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Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code? (I’m going to say now, at the beginning of this post, and I’ll repeat at the end: we can and should use the current codes. I use current codes in analysis and design; I use old codes...
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
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I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
Seth's Blog
Don’t know, don’t care Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t...
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Clients and customers can be frustrating. Perhaps they don’t know what you know. Perhaps they don’t care. It’s possible to educate and inspire. It might be more productive to find the few that want to go where you do.
TheCollector
4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of undefined
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Notes on software...
Obsession In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having...
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In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible. "I want to read more books but nobody reads...
SOCKS
A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018) Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made...
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Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made editions. She investigates urban and suburban territories through slow, long walks immersing herself in mutating environments. In December 2018, after the first demonstration by the...
Common Edge
The Art and Angst of Architecture in Southern California An excerpt from An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self.
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TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy? undefined
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bt RSS Feed
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own personal “reading list” of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
journal – Winnie Lim
100 days of post-covid infection: state of mind, health & writing It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally...
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It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally in my morning pages. If I do develop long covid it would be...
xkcd.com
Númenor Margaritaville
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The War Had Won' “The war had taken his innocence and replaced it with something else. That something – ‘the destined...
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“The war had taken his innocence and replaced it with something else. That something – ‘the destined anguish’ - revealed itself gradually and became a presence in his poetry for the rest of his life.”  Margi Blunden, speaking in 2014, is remembering her father, the poet and Great...
Londonist
Kong And Godzilla Appear By/In The Thames For Epic Selfie Op! They're only here till tonight.
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon supporter Mudag points out this is the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon supporter Mudag points out this is the SECOND comic on this theme. A little math suggests I'll have a full collection some time in the 2040s. Today's News:
Mind Mine
make more, care less what if i just published waaaaay more?
3 weeks ago
Construction Physics
A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft "There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure...
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"There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure risked by an American airframe company" – George Ball, managing director at Lehman Brothers, 1982 "You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit" – Jean Pierson, former CEO of...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness "Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
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a year ago
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
a year ago
Old Structures...
A Desperately-Needed Addendum My intention with the last blog post, The More Things Stay The Same was not to leave everyone with a...
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a year ago
My intention with the last blog post, The More Things Stay The Same was not to leave everyone with a cliff-hanger. Dan Eschenasy asked the obvious question: did the building in question fall down? The answer is no, it did not. 428 West 29th Street shows up on the land use maps in...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast...
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over a year ago
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas: Anonymous sync by default Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
Commoncog
Focus on the Cases Professor Rand Spiro on why (and how!) business cases are more important to learn from than...
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Professor Rand Spiro on why (and how!) business cases are more important to learn from than synthesised business concepts.
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2023 Days 3 9 Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts...
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Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts listed. Day 3 - Polygons This is not exactly a hand made map, more having fun with cutting boards. My wife gave me the Pennsylvania board a few years ago and I used it in the 2021...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Back of the envelope estimation hacks There are two types of engineers, the ones that can quickly do estimates and the ones that can't....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are two types of engineers, the ones that can quickly do estimates and the ones that can't. Are these people just smarter, or is there…
Rest of World -...
The exclusive network behind India’s global tech success How IIT school degrees became a fast track to tech royalty.
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TheCollector
How Did the 1979 Iranian Revolution Influence Iran’s Economy? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Bangkok undefined
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TheCollector
7 Famous Cubist Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
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Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960) So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Exciting New Electric Camper Vans
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Underwear Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later this turns out to be foreplay. Today's News:
9 months ago
xkcd.com
Lymphocytes
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Aaron's Essays
Raise less money Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves...
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Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One would expect the opposite correlation. Strong founders who command high prices should...
computers are bad
2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad...
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A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components: An Example In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop. There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it. Then...
The Marginalian
Center of the Universe: Non-Speaking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson’s Extraordinary Poem About How to... "Please try to go to hell frequently because you will find the light there."
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Oldey-Timey From a 1944 newspaper comic strip called Miss Fury – the title character is about two-thirds...
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From a 1944 newspaper comic strip called Miss Fury – the title character is about two-thirds Catwoman and one-third Batman – a taxi trip through Manhattan, past Washington Square, and to a Greenwich Village rowhouse: The car speeding through below the arch is not a mistake:...
Christopher Butler
Know What You Need Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful...
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Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful people that they “know exactly what they want.” I’m sure this is true, because in our modern culture, where we are constantly made aware of new choices and possibilities, knowing...
Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
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a year ago
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
Paul Graham: Essays
What Startups Are Really Like
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
nanoscale views
A couple of links + a thought experiment about spin A couple of interesting things to read: As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also...
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10 months ago
A couple of interesting things to read: As someone interested in lost ancient literature and also science, I really liked this news article from Nature about progress in reading scrolls excavated from Herculaneum.  The area around the Bay of Naples was a quite the spot for posh...
TheCollector
New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague undefined
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TheCollector
London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations undefined
a year ago
Old Structures...
Reflections That’s 21 (left) and 20 West Street, with 17 Battery Place off to the right. This was taken early in...
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That’s 21 (left) and 20 West Street, with 17 Battery Place off to the right. This was taken early in the morning and the facades facing me are the west facades of the buildings. Across West Street, to my right, is a modern apartment house with a mostly-glass facade. It doesn’t...
xkcd.com
Minnesota
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
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a year ago
I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
Diaries of Note
A wet day and all its luxuries Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker...
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Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker family—her father, Robert Were Fox, was a scientist and respected member of the community. Fox was sixteen when she began keeping the diary for which she is now known, posthumously...
Retail Design Blog
Baby, it’s cold inside by Pavla Chuykina When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to...
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When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to enjoy it—like keeping...
Open Culture
Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful,... When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the...
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7 months ago
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The eHMI: How Autonomous Cars Will Communicate With the Outside World Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down...
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over a year ago
Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down the street. You observe the behavior…
The Marginalian
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain "Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of...
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8 months ago
"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation — then we are led to everything we see, and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences...
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8 months ago
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
Seth's Blog
(Without the bad parts) That makes it easy. “I’m in favor of unfiltered online commentary (without the misogyny, racism and...
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That makes it easy. “I’m in favor of unfiltered online commentary (without the misogyny, racism and mob manipulation.)” “I’d like to run a marathon (without getting tired).” “I’m in favor of strict copyright law (except for the endless © trolls and with just the right amount of...
Seth's Blog
Confusion about performance The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two...
a year ago
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a year ago
The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two components: –The story and expectations and cultural impact of what you do (the story). –The deliverables that are objectively measured (the spec). It helps to have both. Many...
The Works in...
How America Made Machines Make Machines A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
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Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
over a year ago
Map of the Week
Harry Beck's Famous Subway Map Goes Airborne This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already...
a year ago
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a year ago
This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation… A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror (and, to be honest, disdain) every time I encountered the...
diamond geezer
Bonfire of the bonfires Time was when bonfires and fireworks were the done thing on 5th November. Be it Jacobeans haranguing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Time was when bonfires and fireworks were the done thing on 5th November. Be it Jacobeans haranguing Catholics, Victorians burning effigies or Elizabethans lighting Roman Candles, the day has been celebrated for centuries. But it used to be hugely more important.  Monday,...
Archinect - Features
From the Editors: What We're Thankful for in 2023 In a year marked with highs and lows, the Archinect editorial team has spent another year watching,...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a year marked with highs and lows, the Archinect editorial team has spent another year watching, listening, and reporting on the events of 2023. With the holidays drawing near and the year coming to a close, we pause to extend our gratitude to our dedicated readership and...
mtlynch.io
About Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in...
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over a year ago
Michael Lynch is a developer and blogger. He graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a BS in Computer Science. He has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google and as a security engineer at NCC Group. Michael is available for weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and...
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
alexwlchan
Splitting a class into balanced groups Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem. She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem. She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions. In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
Common Edge
Worshiping the Old Isn’t Historic Preservation To keep buildings alive and relevant, some flexibility is required.
a month ago
TheCollector
7 Most Impressive Villas and Palaces to Visit in Rome undefined
11 months ago
Unpacked
AI-enabled SaaS vs Moatless AI Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct...
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Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct threat to AI startups that lack sustainable competitive advantage
Anecdotal Evidence
'What American Beauty Should Be' An old friend called and reminded me of the September almost forty years ago when we hiked along...
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3 months ago
An old friend called and reminded me of the September almost forty years ago when we hiked along Otter Creek in southern Vermont near Dorset. Often we hiked in Otter Creek, which is filled with granite boulders. It was less hiking than climbing horizontally. Between the stones...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some ideas for native bitcoin apps Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
TheCollector
What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames undefined
a month ago
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
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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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...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoics should be vegetarian Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy...
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over a year ago
Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in 1975. In truth, utilitarians have been very clear on the subject from the beginning. The...
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
Diaries of Note
God help our poor planet in the grip of this madness! World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star...
a year ago
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a year ago
World-famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren is best known for creating Pippi Longstocking, the star of a series of children’s books first published in 1945 that has since been translated into dozens of languages and enjoyed by millions. But before Pippi captured the imaginations...
CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Beams Create A Rustic Yet Modern Aesthetic For This Accessory Dwelling Unit Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling unit) in Carpenteria, California, whose design curves around a circular patio. The semicircular cutout that envelops the dwelling, invites an abundance of natural light into every...
TheCollector
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War: Power and Proliferation undefined
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Manifesting My Dream Clients & Projects for 2024 New year, new me, new clients am I right?
11 months ago
alexwlchan
Drawing repetitive radial artworks I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just...
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6 months ago
I was waiting for a meeting to start the other day, and I was idly doodling in my notebook. I’d just had a text from a friend about an upcoming trip to Ireland, and she’d sent me the four-leafed clover emoji (🍀), so I was sketching some petal-like shapes. These are a few of my...
TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza? undefined
5 months ago
Old Structures...
Cartesian I’ve written before about the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River – not to be confused with the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I’ve written before about the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River – not to be confused with the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River about a mile away – with good reason. There’s an argument to be made that this small (for NYC) bridge is the most beautiful in the...
Old Structures...
Travelog: Damage and Weirdness Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty thorough job of strapping the corners of this small building in Bath, as well as installing some kind of pinning at the middle of the side wall. It’s not clear which way the floor spans...
Platformer
Meta doubles down on layoffs The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the trend?
latest projects -...
LED Industrial Piercing [Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The third impossibility The first was radio and television. Humans around the world spending a significant portion of their...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The first was radio and television. Humans around the world spending a significant portion of their waking hours consuming audio and video recordings of other people. The second was the internet. Five to ten hours a day interacting, in real time, with other people, many of them...
Old Structures...
Randomness When you study history, one of the things that takes a while to really accept is the random nature...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
When you study history, one of the things that takes a while to really accept is the random nature of events. People think they are in control and shape, at least to some degree, the future. When some truly random event occurs, we often attribute it to someone else’s will, unable...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app. Last night I had to face the fact...
Cognitive...
Fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware - background I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need...
a year ago
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a year ago
I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need to give a little background. My basic goal was to figure out "what's the most powerful AI I can customize and run on my shiny new 4090." The answer right now is LLaMA 30b....
Wuthering...
Some lesser works of Sōseki and Tanizaki - deep in the earth directly beneath Lady Kikyō’s toilet Dolce Bellezza is running her 17th Japanese Literature Challenge.  Amazing, well done, etc. I read...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Dolce Bellezza is running her 17th Japanese Literature Challenge.  Amazing, well done, etc. I read some short works for it, which I will pile up here: three short works by Natsume Sōseki, collected in a Tuttle volume that looks like it is titled Ten Nights of Dream Hearing...
Maps Mania
Today's Global Heating Forecast
6 months ago
The Rational Walk
Claim Checks Viewing money as "claim checks" that can be exchanged for goods and services is a very useful...
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Viewing money as "claim checks" that can be exchanged for goods and services is a very useful concept.
Map of the Week
New Orleans Slave Revolt Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job...
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10 months ago
Despite what some officials in Florida want to teach, not all enslaved people appreciated the job training they were getting from their benevolent overseers. In fact there were numerous rebellions. The largest one was in 1811 outside of New Orleans.  The map above is from a...
Nela Dunato Art &...
Nela Dunato Art & Design got a brand refresh! My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But...
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a year ago
My previous brand identity design lasted from 2015 until 2023, and it has served me quite well. But my new professional photos sparked the need to overhaul the website, which led to a more substantial brand redesign including new typography and updated logo design. Come see what...
NeuroLogica Blog
Pentagon Report – No UFOs In response to a recent surge in interest in alien phenomena and claims that the US government is...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In response to a recent surge in interest in alien phenomena and claims that the US government is hiding what it knows about extraterrestrials, the Pentagon established a committee to investigate the question – the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). They have recently...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from the beginning to here. It's as a good of a thing as I can write, and I hope you enjoy it. Today's News: The most frequently asked question is the age range for Bea Wolf readers,...
diamond geezer
Tube 160 Treasure Hunt Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a surprise birthday gift from TfL? If the answer to all these questions is yes then why not take part in the Tube 160 Treasure Hunt? You even get to travel round central London for...
TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know undefined
3 months ago
Construction Physics
How California Turned Against Growth Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs, the chance to become rich and famous, or simply the comfortable climate and beautiful landscape.
Paul Graham: Essays
Why YC
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into account unreliability and unpredictability.
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); ...
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function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.style.display = 'flex'; } window.onload = () => { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.addEventListener('click', () => { ...
Vitalik Buterin's...
El recurso escaso más importante es la legitimidad
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present) Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market. Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved. Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Confess Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The belly button is the least objectionable...
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Explore underwater with this Arduino-controlled DIY ROV Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the ocean? But a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which is the kind of robot you’d use for such an adventure, isn’t exactly the kind of thing you’ll find on the shelf at your local...
High Signal
How Allison monetizes her programmatic SEO knowledge Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and...
a year ago
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Allison Seboldt is the founder of PageFactory, a service which helps websites grow their content and reach with programmatic SEO.
Daniel Miessler
Scott Kuffer of Nucleus Security | SPONSORED INTERVIEW SERIES In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...
diamond geezer
The Royal Mail Experiment Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long thought it suspicious that I go days without post then a whole batch arrives together, and that bills seem to arrive long after they were posted. But without evidence all this is...