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The Marginalian
Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden “Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone,”...
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a year ago
“Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone,” the poet and passionate gardener May Sarton wrote as she contemplated the parallels between these two creative practices — parallels that have led centuries of beloved writers to...
The Elysian
The "letters to an anarchist" post-mortem Peter and I discuss our letter writing series.
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans? undefined
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Concrete Ceiling Floats Above This Round Hotel Bar Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project...
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Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project to renovate the terrace and galleries of the Ritz Four Seasons Hotel Lisbon. The bar has an organic design and total openness to the terrace, with walls of glass allowing the...
TheCollector
What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon? undefined
5 months ago
The American Scholar
Hot and Cold The post Hot and Cold appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
Old Structures...
Two Anachronisms I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It implies a drama that may never have existed. In this case, the west block-front of Trinity Place between Edgar and Rector Streets provides a nice contrast of building ages. From...
TheCollector
British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection undefined
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
Old Structures...
180 Years I found myself in Greenport NY for a project and was pleasantly surprised by the presence of the old...
4 months ago
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I found myself in Greenport NY for a project and was pleasantly surprised by the presence of the old train station there. It’s not the current station, which is a bare concrete platform off to the right of the picture, and it’s not the original station, but that’s okay. As you...
Engineers Need Art
SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
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over a year ago
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Already Use Types _[Published on Freecodecamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/you-already-use-types/)_
over a year ago
Platformer
Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
a year ago
Adventures In...
How to add mist to terrain in ArcGIS Online There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are lots of reasons to cloak your terrain in a fluffy ephemeral layer of mist. It gives an overall sense of the slope and elevation trends in your view, it showcases meandering river valleys in a charming realism, hilltops peak through with clarity and drama…and it just...
Map of the Week
The Film Industry's Nine Dash Line Problem This summer's hit movie Barbie has been banned in Vietnam for its portrayal of the Nine Dash Line on...
a year ago
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a year ago
This summer's hit movie Barbie has been banned in Vietnam for its portrayal of the Nine Dash Line on a world map. Note: I have not (yet) seen any of the movies or shows listed below. This line represents China's claims in the South China Sea. These claims have been rejected by...
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
Seth's Blog
The perfect conditions Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or...
a year ago
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a year ago
Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or the most romantic sunset for a proposal. But it’s not right here and it’s not right now. Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
99% Invisible
The Double Kick [EPISODE] Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is...
xkcd.com
Circuit Symbols
a year ago
TheCollector
Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes in 335 BCE (Battle & Aftermath) undefined
6 months ago
A Weekly Dose of...
On the Future of Cities The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together: Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies by Jonathan Barnett, published by Routledge, June 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop) Renewing the Dream: The...
The Marginalian
Favorite Children’s Books of 2023 Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.
TheCollector
Who Was the Real Mona Lisa? undefined
10 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Having a shit blog has made me feel abundant From Giacometti’s sketch book
3 months ago
Daniel Bourke
Introducing Nutrify 1.2: Calorie and Macronutrient Goals, Breakdowns and 57 New Foods Nutrify 1.2: Track calories and macronutrients with custom goals, detailed food breakdowns, and 57...
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Nutrify 1.2: Track calories and macronutrients with custom goals, detailed food breakdowns, and 57 new foods in Nutridex. Available on the App Store.
Map of the Week
My Favorite New Jersey Drone Map Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram...
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4 days ago
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram user wmh_x_0, aka Oona Harrigan.   It is based on these maps of drone sightings that have been going around the internet. The “globe” text is there because she is known for designing sad...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Information Theory Recap A small detour to catch up on the basics of Information Theory we'll need
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Best New Orleans Neighborhoods for Visitors
a year ago
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
TheCollector
American Tourist Smashed Roman Artifacts at the Israel Museum undefined
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
The roadmap is not the territory Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of my consulting work connects to “marketing strategy” in some way - clients come wanting to talk about growing their business. But the funny thing about growth and marketing is that each component is like a thread that, once pulled, unravels the whole spool.
mtlynch.io
Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment processing. When I needed paid subscription functionality for my new web app, Stripe felt like the natural choice. After integration, however, I discovered that Stripe’s official...
A Smart Bear
When customers are "willing" to pay This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to...
a year ago
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a year ago
This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world.
The Marginalian
The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest... "We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or...
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Learnings from Elon People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over Christmas and here are some lessons that we can take from…
SOCKS
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921) American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
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over a year ago
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
Musings on Markets
A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business! It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting...
a year ago
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a year ago
It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting businesses.  The strike by screen actors and writers which started in July is now into almost into its third month, with no end in sight, putting at risk the pipeline of movies and...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…
Retail Design Blog
The Only Drop A one-of-a-kind whisky by STCKMN For the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s inaugural contribution to the Sotheby’s auction, STCKMN was...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
For the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s inaugural contribution to the Sotheby’s auction, STCKMN was commisioned to lead on the design...
xkcd.com
Slingshots
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Co-Op Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's a little unfair that he always has God mode...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's a little unfair that he always has God mode switched on, though. Today's News: Final 4 hours. So relieved to stop posting about it.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
CrowdStruck Soundtrack: EL-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (feat. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala) When I...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Soundtrack: EL-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (feat. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala) When I first began writing this newsletter, I didn't really have a goal, or a "theme," or anything that could neatly characterize what I was going to write about other than that I was
Weighty Thoughts
The EU is making itself an economic backwater Regulation is not a real export
5 months ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
a year ago
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a year ago
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
TheCollector
4 Works by Franz Kafka That You Should Know undefined
a year ago
Arduino Blog
You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in World War II? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Singed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL humans, the notion of sadness ceases to have meaning, so it's all good. Today's News: Fun interview about A City on Mars with Jordan Harbinger.
charity.wtf
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
TheCollector
What Is the Correspondence Theory of Truth? undefined
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Silly little rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
6 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
There is a deep rot at the heart of Australian tech. Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record as saying that I am a man pretending to be a woman. It's an old, outdated, obsolete and uninteresting transphobic trope. In itself, it's almost not worth mentioning. But...
TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968? undefined
a week ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
a year ago
Maps Mania
How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?
a year ago
Seth's Blog
What happened vs. what we do about it It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
This Space
Wall by Jen Craig “This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a...
a year ago
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a year ago
“This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a long time” – Talking Big "... combines exactitude and vagueness, immediacy and distance, to approximate how scatty, worm-like human thought might be represented on the page" – The...
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […] The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seth's Blog
A long time is not the same as never It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how...
a year ago
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a year ago
It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how long it took to get here. Often, we assume that today’s snapshot is actually the entire movie, but it rarely is.
The Modern House
Outside chance: six homes with spectacular gardens “Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the...
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4 months ago
“Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the pioneering Dutch garden designer. “It doesn’t have to be there. You’re looking for what will be there.” From a particularly pastoral front garden in Brixton, to a transportive Cornish...
Noahpinion
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity We have public schools for a reason.
a year ago
alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
Data Boutique
Using Historical Data: Basic Knowledge Elements to consider when using historical data from web scraping
5 months ago
Working Theorys
The Prestige-Prosperity Gap We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
5 months ago
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We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore? undefined
8 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Without looking it up, what do you think? + links
2 months ago
Arduino Blog
This DIY guitar transmitter sends digital audio to the amp When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer....
4 months ago
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When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer. But that cable can become tangled or get in the way, which is a problem for some of the more animated musicians out there. Wireless transmitters exist for them to express themselves...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel...
over a year ago
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The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…
Maps Mania
No Local News
a month ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Jubilee Line Including why they abandoned the name Fleet line.
a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs) playing chess. Word was that...
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A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs) playing chess. Word was that if you trained a big enough model on enough text, then you could send it a partially played game, ask it to predict the next move, and it would play at the level of an advanced...
Londonist
The 1930s: When London Was Really Put On The Map Tube map, Monopoly and A-Z were a 1930s supergroup.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Want to join the Rust docs team?
over a year ago
Laetitia@Work
Looking for precious time Laetitia@Work #49
over a year ago
TheCollector
Emperor Lucius Verus: Life, Death, Reign undefined
2 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes." Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
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How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House? undefined
a month ago
xkcd.com
UFO Evidence
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Running NixOS on Proxmox One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under...
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One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under Proxmox, my preferred virtual machine server. Through some trial and error, I figured out how to install NixOS as a Proxmox container. Download the NixOS container image First, download...
devonzuegel.com
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the...
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over a year ago
Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several things from writing this piece, and none of them had to do with Dropbox: I learned, for instance, that a great way to get...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Love Letter Back Home Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer...
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Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer Spotlight (May 2019), my career has been a diverse mix of my two professional passions, cartography and participatory mapping. Cartography is about the place; it’s top-down, it’s...
Probably...
Density and Likelihood It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. If you get this post by email, the formatting might be broken — if so, you might want to read it on the site. likelihood Density and...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Fixing URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When...
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<![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When creating a new card, the function WCD.AskURL brings up a dialog and loops prompting for a URL to go with the card until the input is valid. After the fix the input dialog looks like...
TheCollector
The Stars of Sun Records: 4 Famous Singers undefined
8 months ago
Math Is Still...
Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum behaviors of semiconductor nanocrystals. The post Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat? undefined
a year ago
Louwrentius
Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up creating an automated deployment platform for your Windows clients. You may implement something like Windows Deployment Services. I used WDS to create a fully automated installation of...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Duncan Tattersall I’m an artist and maker from southern Scotland, designing and hand printing bespoke textiles for...
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I’m an artist and maker from southern Scotland, designing and hand printing bespoke textiles for interiors. My work focuses on the relationship between pattern & place; all of my designs are inspired by a particular location and aim to interpret the story of their surroundings....
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Bringing markers back to UI design Many designers know: the best design tool is a marker. Not Figma, not Sketch and no, not a pencil....
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
What comes after open source
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Dramatic Upward-Sloping Roof Covers This Rural Home Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they have designed...
7 months ago
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Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they have designed in Winthrop, Washington, perched atop a steep river bank. The home’s design includes an upward-sloping roof form that motions toward the river and shelters an outdoor room....
TheCollector
5 of the Most Famous Constructed Languages undefined
11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Is Google Analytics HIPAA compliant? HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how...
over a year ago
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HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how individuals and organizations are required to secure…
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Copper Sulphate Mordant Solution Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio...
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Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio printmaking. Copper sulphate is a safer alternative to acids - and we always opt for safer solutions here at the Handprinted studio! Metal plates are traditionally etched using...
Anecdotal Evidence
'New Eyes Each Year' From 1955 until his death in 1985, Philip Larkin worked as a librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
From 1955 until his death in 1985, Philip Larkin worked as a librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, eventually becoming its director. Although Larkin complained about the time-consuming nature of the job, taking him away from poetry and other writing,...
The Honest Broker
"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life" A story from the comments section
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
Fake Russian influencers are going viral on Chinese social media They are bolstered by growing pro-Russia, nationalist sentiment on the Chinese internet.
a year 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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4 weeks ago
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...
Spoon & Tamago
Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Randoseru For Dogs Tsuchiya Kaban, the 58-year old Japanese leather bagmaker known for their highly-specific bags, has...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tsuchiya Kaban, the 58-year old Japanese leather bagmaker known for their highly-specific bags, has released their very first line-up of pet products. And their doggy randoseru is absolutely adorable. For those who aren’t familiar, randoseru are backpacks for kids. Typically made...
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Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
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If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods. The class is incredibly simple to use.  The following two lines will...
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Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
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Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
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Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library. This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
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Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O’Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're gonna wish the conditions of your birth were altered so ass to prevent this unpleasant occurrence while leaving your identity largely intact, bro! Today's News: OK, so my new favorite compliment to receive is 'I tried to...
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Species such as Dunlin and Knot are well-served by conservation measures that aim to protect estuaries but the same is not necessarily true for Black-tailed Godwits. In a 2022 paper in the journal Wader Study, Clément Jourdan and colleagues describe the movements of ten tagged...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Imagine this scenario: You have a diesel-powered generator on a stand that is electrically isolated from the ground. Run a wire from the energized slot of an outlet to an electrode driven into the ground. Don’t...
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Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
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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...
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In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff struck up a correspondence with Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop nestled at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. These letters, filled with Hanff’s...
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Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
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I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
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The Mechanical Turk was a fraud. The chess-playing automaton, dressed in a turban and elaborate Ottoman robes, toured Europe in the closing decades of the 18th century accompanied by its inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen. The Turk wowed Austrian empress Maria Theresa, French emperor...
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I'm not frequently a fan of flavored lattes. I like an occasional pumpkin spice latte near Halloween, an occasional vanilla latte if it's exceptionally well made, but I usually just stick with the simple unflavored latte. Furthermore, I'm definitely not a fan of mochas: I'd...
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Knowledge and technique used to be closely guarded secrets. Admission to the guild was reserved for a few, and crafts like typesetting, plumbing and medicine were off limits to most folks. One of the reasons for the explosion in productivity and innovation in the last century is...
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Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
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"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
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<![CDATA[Managing Lisp code in the residential environment of Medley differs from similar tasks in traditional file based Common Lisp systems. In a previous post I explained how the residential environment of Medley works, discussed some of its facilities and tools, and...
diamond geezer
20 questions hide and seek I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there...
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I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there from 10am to 11am. I shall have Squeezy Pig with me. Your questions go in this comments box. comments if(postComments['89451144195511'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - (Mathematics) Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Come on Depths of Wikipedia, where's your...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Come on Depths of Wikipedia, where's your topological Pair of Pants post? Today's News:
Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
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Tech + Economics +...
The internet is broken. Here’s how we fix it. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the...
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In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the Internet — sent the first email. The message was nothing profound; it was a series of random characters that looked more like the utterance of a toddler on a typewriter than a...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature? Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
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Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life undefined
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Why I run Black Friday deals (things I learned) I also curated 300+ Black Friday deals for you
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Mazdak
The 4% Rule: A Guide to Retirement Withdrawals, Not a Golden Ticket For many approaching retirement, the question of "how much can I safely withdraw?" looms large....
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For many approaching retirement, the question of "how much can I safely withdraw?" looms large. Enter the 4% rule, a popular guideline that suggests retirees can withdraw 4% of their retirement savings in the first year and adjust for inflation thereafter. But is it a guaranteed...
HTMHell
Meaningful labels using ARIA – or not. If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an...
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If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an interactive control that has actual visible text, I could have bought Twitter! As a former developer and current accessibility consultant, it is my sincere hope that by reading this article,...
Noahpinion
At least five things for your weekend (#30) "Are we better off", the economy of Dune, energy abundance, wacky polls, doomscrolling, anger about...
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"Are we better off", the economy of Dune, energy abundance, wacky polls, doomscrolling, anger about interest rates, and visualizing urban density
Retail Design Blog
FREITAG store Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local...
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Following the opening in 2017 of FREITAG‘s first store Down Under, in collaboration with local retailer Keoma, the innovative Zurich-based...
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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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,...
nanoscale views
Some interesting links - useful lecture notes, videos Proposal writing, paper writing, and course prep are eating a lot of my bandwidth right now, but I...
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Proposal writing, paper writing, and course prep are eating a lot of my bandwidth right now, but I wanted to share a few things: David Tong at Cambridge is a gifted educator and communicator who has written lecture notes that span a wide swath of the physics curriculum, from...
Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
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The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
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TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Gradient Nanostructured Steel Science fiction writers, who have to think deeply about the possible nature of future technology,...
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Science fiction writers, who have to think deeply about the possible nature of future technology, often invent new sci-fi materials in order to make their future technology seem plausible. They seem to understand the critical role that material science plays in advancing...
Londonist
Plunge Into An Icy Brockwell Lido For Charity This Christmas The Icebreaker challenge is back.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers June 7, 2024.
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The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics History of the Games
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Making software...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Math Is Still...
Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help...
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New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets. The post Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism first...
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Five Destinations to Explore Beyond the Ordinary on Your Next Journey
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Steve Blank
Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for...
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Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for almost a year. And if you can’t pass a security clearance your offer is rescinded. Or you get offered an internship but can’t work on the most interesting part of the project. Sounds...
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4 Outdoor Adventures Near Marriott Hotels in Florida
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Londonist
Live Music, Lederhosen, And Lashings Of Beer At London Oktoberfest Time to let loose, Bavarian-style.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Where's WHS? I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so...
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I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so I went to Canary Wharf instead. Except it turned out there isn't a Canary Wharf branch, there hasn't been for years, despite Google telling me it existed and was open. I did some...
Astral Codex Ten
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Max Rozen
Understanding your webpack config webpack is a complicated beast. The more you get to know it though, the better it can serve you.
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The Modern House
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History Today Feed
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Old Collections Persist Somewhere' Speaking of anthologies, I again picked up Books and Libraries (2021), published as part of the...
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Speaking of anthologies, I again picked up Books and Libraries (2021), published as part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series. I’ve browsed in several of these attractively compact volumes and they are a very mixed bag, as any thematic anthology must be. You can sense...
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot S10 Review​: “This Is the Future of Home Robots” I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. It’s been...
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I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. It’s been astonishing how the technology has evolved, from the original iRobot Roomba bouncing off of walls and furniture to robots that use lidar and vision to map your entire house and...
Old Structures...
Ins And Outs Of Development In 1891, Corydon Purdy published a four-piece article in the Engineering News on “The Steel Skeleton...
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In 1891, Corydon Purdy published a four-piece article in the Engineering News on “The Steel Skeleton Type of High Buildings.” Skeleton framing, as we understand it today, was about a year old; using some of the older and looser definitions floating around in the 1880s and 90s, it...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
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For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
Artificial Ignorance
The Industrial Content Revolution A fundamental change in the structure the internet.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Havant Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way...
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Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way to Portsmouth. They Havant got many old buildings because most of the town burnt in a fire in 1760. Only the church and a row of cottages survived. St Faith's and they found...
Inverted Passion
Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
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a year ago
Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Ieuan Edwards I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which...
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a year ago
I’m a linocut printmaker and illustrator based in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, which is home to a good few other lino folks and a thriving and supportive art scene in general. Describe your printmaking process. I tend to print fairly small runs of reduction linocut...
IEEE Spectrum
How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The...
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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. Invented by computer scientists Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, Ethernet has been extraordinarily impactful. Metcalfe, an IEEE Fellow, received the 1996 IEEE Medal of...
TheCollector
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The American Scholar
Divided Providence Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War The post Divided Providence appeared first on...
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Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War The post Divided Providence appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’? undefined
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Adventures In...
Boost the Human Footprint in Imagery The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales....
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The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales. If you want to add a level of context you can always add a reference overlay. But what about baking a reference overlay into the imagery in a way that makes it look, like, sort of...
Rest of World -...
The Book of Unexpected Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing...
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Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing traditions.
Londonist
45+ Action-Packed Things To Do In London In April 2024 The best events in London this month.
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The Ruffian
Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy? The Ideological Well-Being Gap
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The Modern House
The Green Series: how to re-create the five principles of Passivhaus design on a budget If The Modern House had a Word of the Year, then Passivhaus would probably be it. Passivhaus emerged...
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If The Modern House had a Word of the Year, then Passivhaus would probably be it. Passivhaus emerged as a set of design principles in the 1980s and has come to represent the world-leading standard in energy-efficient homes. It guarantees a happy balance of sustainability […]
Londonist
The Massive (And Massively Controversial) Stratford Sphere Is Vegas coming to east London?
a year ago
Home on Erik...
What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business? In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free...
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In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the...
Math Is Still...
Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum...
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Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones. The post Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Diaries of Note
In the multitude I become bewildered When he wrote the following entry in his journal in October 1940, André Gide was living through a...
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a year ago
When he wrote the following entry in his journal in October 1940, André Gide was living through a chaotic period in history. A French literary titan known for probing works like The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters, Gide now found himself grappling with the profound impact that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Status Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the wrong side of the book but *I* say that's in THEIR in-group. Today's News:
How to Be a Stoic
The Ethics of the Family in Seneca, VI: rewriting the family Seneca wrote his famous letters to Lucilius near the end of his life. They are not just...
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Seneca wrote his famous letters to Lucilius near the end of his life. They are not just philosophical letters to a friend, but a structured curriculum in Stoic philosophy, as the entries are meant to be read in sequence, with the reader assuming the role of Lucilius. Moreover,...
Maps Mania
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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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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...
The Rational Walk
Inflation Expectations There's no reason for anyone to care what I think about inflation and interest rates, but readers...
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There's no reason for anyone to care what I think about inflation and interest rates, but readers should pay close attention to Warren Buffett's statements and actions.
Platformer
Meta seeks to hide harms from teens But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
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10 Best Places to Travel in September 2023
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3 Great California Travel Itineraries to Inspire Anyone
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TheCollector
Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy undefined
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Neil Panchal
Neofetch – Server Administration System I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the...
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over a year ago
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the system as soon as I log in and with zero friction. I am obliged to use the one and only tool: neofetch. Neofetch is a pillar of
The Modern House
Green note: six energy-efficient homes with impressive EPC ratings  Until a few years ago, casting your eye over a home’s Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) was...
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Until a few years ago, casting your eye over a home’s Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) was little more than a slightly boring formality. But, with the mounting energy crisis, these somewhat obtuse, multi-coloured charts have started to come into their own. (In fact, we have...
TheCollector
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Maggie Appleton
Neologisms
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Nela Dunato Art &...
My art studio renovation (that took 4 years to complete) Having a dedicated office or studio is not a requirement for creating great art, but I think we can...
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Having a dedicated office or studio is not a requirement for creating great art, but I think we can all agree that it helps. After years of moving around and making the best of what I had, I embarked on a mission to turn a tiny, cluttered space into a beautiful art studio and...
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED     We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
4 months ago
mtlynch.io
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The book contains many interesting examples of common biases and logical fallacies, but it’s buried...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The book contains many interesting examples of common biases and logical fallacies, but it’s buried in a lot of bluster and fluff about how smart the author is. While it was likely groundbreaking when it was published in 2004, its ideas have since permeated into the mainstream....
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
4 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
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a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Paolo Amoroso's...
Planning the next steps for WebCard <![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm...
2 months ago
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<![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm satisfied with what the system does. Since WebCard is nearly feature complete it's a good time to chart the next steps for wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project. Aside from some...
Passing Time
On For Grantedness Finding secular thankfulness
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Which sort of sinecure? Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That...
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Sooner or later, we find a place to hide. A place of security or sustenance. A place of safety. That sort of foundation can give us peace of mind and open the door to possibility. But, it’s possible that we can turn it into a trap as well. A situation so perfectly created that...
Londonist
Punk Bands In 1970s London: Rescued And Never-Before-Seen-Photos Free exhibition only on for a month.
a year ago
Liz Denys
My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
History Today Feed
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TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn? undefined
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Res Obscura
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor? Arcadio Huang is ill in 1710s Paris. Can GPT-4 and Gemini find a cure?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex...
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Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
Commoncog
How to Use Power How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect...
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How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.
computers are bad
2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation...
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Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was referring to the...
Making software...
Text Align: Justify Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS,...
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over a year ago
Text Align: Justify 2019-05-22 The text-align property is fairly well known in the world of CSS, even among those just starting out with the language. Values such as center, left and right are used often with this property, but a more forgotten option is justify. What does...
Arduino Blog
Using Arduino UNO to sync a visual neuroscience lab Common research methods to study the visual system in the laboratory include recording and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Common research methods to study the visual system in the laboratory include recording and monitoring neural activity in the presence of sensory stimuli, to help scientists study how neurons encode and respond, for example, to specific visual inputs.  One of the biggest technical...
Transit Maps
Project: My UTA Rail and BRT Design Exploration I teased this in yesterday’s review of the new official UTA diagram, so here’s my exploration of a...
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a year ago
I teased this in yesterday’s review of the new official UTA diagram, so here’s my exploration of a few design ideas for an alternative version. As always with this type of project, I look for ways to approach the design problems for the diagram that are intentionally different to...
Good Enough
Jelly was #1 on Hacker News Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious...
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a month ago
Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious for it's mercurial population of tech-maybe-too-saavy experts. Jelly is a tough sell for some of them, those with the technical skill to pipe email at a low level through...