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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Subprime AI Crisis None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
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None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
Londonist
Cycle All Day For £3, As Santander Cycles Introduces New Day Pass We feel a challenge coming on...
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Blade Runner 2024 Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
4 months ago
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Generosity “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful essay on generosity. “You open your safe and find ashes.” I feel this truth deeply, daily — for nearly two decades of offering these writings freely, I have lived by the...
Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
The Honest Broker
Notes Toward a New Romanticism Or why it's 1800 all over again
a year ago
Londonist
Ramadan And Eid Events In London 2024 Illuminations, shopping festivals and Eid celebrations.
10 months ago
The Modern House
How Cobbie Yates and Joseph Hyland maximised space in their compact Deptford apartment
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Everyone’s An Owner Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day, there are a lot of close relationships within Automattic, and goodbyes are always hard. On Monday, I got to be Oprah for a few minutes. We had scheduled a town hall for leaders...
computers are bad
2024-04-26 microsoft at work I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to...
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I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to...
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
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4 months ago
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
Josh Thompson
An announcement, and a teaser (for you rock climbers) Here’s a clip from a video I shot today.  Can you guess what’s coming? (This is all going to happen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s a clip from a video I shot today.  Can you guess what’s coming? (This is all going to happen on The Climber’s Guide) (Warning to mobile users: big gif) In case you didn’t guess, or you guessed wrong… I’m shooting tons of video for a course. It’s going to be awesome. It’s...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Want Better Design/CSS Skills? Spot the Difference! A quick exercise to improve your attention to detail when implementing/designing with CSS.
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to me (those are...
Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers Sign up now for new fireside chat
a year ago
Cremieux Recueil
The Ottoman Origins of Modernity Would we have the modern world without Islamic incursion into Southeastern Europe?
3 months ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London undefined
9 months ago
The Gradient
What Do LLMs Know About Linguistics? It Depends on How You Ask On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and categorize how specific prompting choices can affect the model's behavior.
ntietz.com blog
Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating webcams on student laptops1. When they were at home. In their bedrooms. They captured photos while students were in private spaces, where they never expected to be watched. A few days...
Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Immeasurable Impact Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
Open Culture
Download Issues of “Weird Tales” (1923–1954): The Pioneering Pulp Horror Magazine Features Original... We live in an era of genre. Browse through TV shows of the last decade to see what I mean: Horror,...
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7 months ago
We live in an era of genre. Browse through TV shows of the last decade to see what I mean: Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, futuristic dystopias…. Take a casual glance at the burgeoning global film franchises or merchandising empires. Where in earlier decades, horror and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Stood There and Stared at Silence, Silent Too' St. Augustine observes of St. Ambrose in Book VI, Chapter 3 of his Confessions:   “When he...
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11 months ago
St. Augustine observes of St. Ambrose in Book VI, Chapter 3 of his Confessions:   “When he was reading, his eyes ran over the page and his heart perceived the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent. . . . Very often when we were there, we saw him silently reading and never...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Family: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/f4sPP8SkiYQ Family was, without a doubt, an important element in the lives of the ancient Stoic philosophers. While Stoicism teaches that we shouldn't become too attached to people and that we should remember everyone can be taken from us, it also...
diamond geezer
The 47th President Two months ago I asked you the following question. Who do you think will be the next American...
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2 months ago
Two months ago I asked you the following question. Who do you think will be the next American President? (poll closed) Kamala HARRIS comments (71) Donald TRUMP comments (29) And now here we are the morning after the election. A red dawn is rising. 10 comments from readers...
Josh Collinsworth
A decade of code A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
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8 months ago
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
journal – Winnie Lim
my favourite things in hanoi I thought I’ll document my favourite things in hanoi in case some internet stranger finds it useful,...
a year ago
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I thought I’ll document my favourite things in hanoi in case some internet stranger finds it useful, else I’ll just drown in nostalgia some time later when I look back upon this...
Stephen Wolfram...
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems
over a year ago
Stephen Diehl
A Sticky Stringy Quandary
over a year ago
diamond geezer
The University Challenge The University Challenge My university adventure started with a car journey to destiny, and a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The University Challenge My university adventure started with a car journey to destiny, and a selection of my worldly belongings packed into the boot. It had looked like a reasonable number of belongings when piled up in my bedroom, a stack of clothes and books and gadgets I...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
a week ago
Rest of World -...
The best articles we didn’t publish in 2023 Our favorite global tech stories from publications not named Rest of World.
a year ago
The Marginalian
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship "A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet...
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4 months ago
"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us."
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
Asterisk
The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.
Noahpinion
The Roaring 20s are back on track A healthy economy, strong productivity growth, and a continuing tech boom.
a year ago
TheCollector
René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen? undefined
a year ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Northern Line London's first deep-level tube.
a year ago
AVC
The Daily Bolster USV is an investor in Bolster, a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for...
a year ago
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a year ago
USV is an investor in Bolster, a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for startups and growth companies. This week Bolster launched a daily short (5min) podcast and email with actionable insights and advice from founders, operators, and investors. It is...
Diaries of Note
My love of solitude is growing with my growth Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume...
a year ago
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a year ago
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume collection, Poems, published in 1844, and the verse novel Aurora Leigh, which came out in 1856. It was in 1831, three years after the death of her mother, that Barrett Browning kept...
Identity Designed
BERA Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The Chinese app where women socialize over their menstrual cycles On Meet You, women track, discuss, and pray for their periods.
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Ben Borgers
Website Rewrite 2
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The Joy-Plot Map of Europe
a month ago
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Trade Deficit, Job Openings, ISM Services From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Barely Budge to Start New Week The bond...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Barely Budge to Start New Week The bond market and interest rates have arrived at the first full week of the new year almost exactly where they left off before the X-mas/New Year holiday weeks. ... Although the past 2...
Seth's Blog
The Santa problem An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from...
a year ago
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a year ago
An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Beauty of Science Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This comic based directly on my gross biologist...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This comic based directly on my gross biologist wife. Today's News: WELP, looks like a bunch more bonus strips go up today thanks to buyers of A City on Mars. More soon and thank you all for your preorders!
Seth's Blog
Embodied energy It might only cost $2 in the vending machine, but that can of soda is a complicated battery. It...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It might only cost $2 in the vending machine, but that can of soda is a complicated battery. It stores the energy of the machines that were used to mine the bauxite, the ship that brought the ore to Iceland, the astonishing temperatures used to create the aluminum, then more...
Ben Borgers
My Office Makes Me Feel Stupid
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The Rise & Fall of the Irish Railway
a year ago
Notes on software...
Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tickle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First person to build and film the autotickler gets...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First person to build and film the autotickler gets 3 SMBC points. Today's News:
Londonist
A Farewell To Wilko "I thought this was the new Woolworths to be honest."
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #191 The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The dopamine loop, Berkshire Hathaway's annual report recap, Tom Gayner's letter to Markel shareholders, Investing lessons from Earnest Shackleton, Google's Gemini AI goes off the rails
Home on Erik...
On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm going to go out on a limb here claiming that the US has a pretty dumb banking system.
The Works in...
Issue 16: I dream of genes Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and...
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Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and how America's favourite type of coffee got really, really good.
The Map is Mostly...
Resist Summary painfully quick thoughts about AI
a week ago
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop It's been an eventful year
a year ago
Old Structures...
The Easy Route On Sunday, I mentioned in passing that Ridgewood and Glendale, which are in southwest Queens as much...
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On Sunday, I mentioned in passing that Ridgewood and Glendale, which are in southwest Queens as much as there is a southwest Queens (that corner isn’t very big because most of where it might have been is Brooklyn) used to have service on the Long Island Railroad and now don’t. I...
How to Be a Stoic
Were the ancient Stoics feminist? Should the modern ones be? The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the...
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over a year ago
The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the conclusion of a detailed analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and feminism published in a paper by Scott Aikin and Emily McGill-Rutherford in Symposion, 1, 1 (2014): 9-22....
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit undefined
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Gen Digital Offices by HKS HKS Inc transformed a dormant building into Gen Digital’s vibrant Mountain View office, embodying...
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a month ago
HKS Inc transformed a dormant building into Gen Digital’s vibrant Mountain View office, embodying the company’s mission emphasizing innovation, hospitality,...
The Modern House
Why modern living is easy at Farnley Hey – Peter Womersley’s first domestic dwelling
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
Buy-now-pay-later plans lead to rampant scams and bad debt across Southeast Asia From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is...
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Rail & Heritage Loop A Nice Walk?: Rail & Heritage Loop (18 miles) Buro Happold, in association with social enterprise...
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A Nice Walk?: Rail & Heritage Loop (18 miles) Buro Happold, in association with social enterprise Footways, have just launched a new circular walking route linking 10 central London rail termini. It's not meant for speedy connections, more for recreational wandering, and ticks...
Anecdotal Evidence
'For Grief and Lost Belief' In the U.S., Memorial Day is observed on the final Monday in May – this year, May 27....
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7 months ago
In the U.S., Memorial Day is observed on the final Monday in May – this year, May 27. Formerly called Decoration Day, it started after the Civil War as commemoration of the nation’s war dead. The meaning and observance of holidays tend to dilute with time. When I was a boy, the...
Spoon & Tamago
Art & Coffee: Our Favorite Museum Cafes Across Japan Come for the art, stay for the coffee. Japan’s numerous museums offer a little bit of everything....
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Come for the art, stay for the coffee. Japan’s numerous museums offer a little bit of everything. Whether it’s cutting edge, contemporary art in Tokyo or a tiny museum in the countryside dedicated to a single sculptor, seeking them out is always rewarding. What’s also rewarding...
Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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a month ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Retail Design Blog
Contentful Workplace by toi toi toi creative studio toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was...
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3 months ago
toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was applied to the 8,215 sq.m...
Willem's Blog
Tudor Black Bay 36 long-term review For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, every day and night. Read along to learn...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, every day and night. Read along to learn what makes the Tudor Black Bay 36 the perfect every day watch.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - IE Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also I'm pretty sure 'et cetera' means 'I'm out of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also I'm pretty sure 'et cetera' means 'I'm out of examples but there are probably more.' Today's News:
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog feed update I've got a new feed for my linkblog. It's at https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom old feed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've got a new feed for my linkblog. It's at https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/index.atom old feed at Pinboard will still work but isn't as fancy.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will never close that paren. Never. In fact,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will never close that paren. Never. In fact, here's an open one: ( Today's News:
Stories by Andrej...
Software 2.0
over a year ago
Eukaryote Writes...
Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really...
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Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really deep into the weeds of invertebrate sentience and fish welfare and the scale of factory farming, what do you do with that information vis-a-vis what you feel comfortable eating?...
Commoncog
Commoncog's Next Phase Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains...
a year ago
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Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains series free, and one more thing.
Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973) “Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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9 months ago
“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955     …...
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future undefined
a year ago
AVC
CEO 360s I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards often discuss CEO performance without really knowing how things work inside the company. And CEOs often have very little visibility to how they are doing and what the board thinks...
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft's gaming strategy we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film...
a year ago
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a year ago
we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn't growing its TAM (analogous to film photographers) while mobile gaming MAU is growing WW at a significant rate (like digital photography was growing).
David Heinemeier...
Be less precious The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
xkcd.com
Towed Message
a year ago
Julia Evans
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative where I’ve been spending...
a year ago
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a year ago
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative where I’ve been spending most of my time recently, mostly because the Fediverse is where a lot of the Linux nerds seem to be right now. I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because...
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed undefined
5 months ago
Ryan Mulligan
Scrollspy Navigation Web Component Just here for the code and demos? Check out the scrollspy-nav repository on GitHub and its...
a year ago
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a year ago
Just here for the code and demos? Check out the scrollspy-nav repository on GitHub and its corresponding demo page. The backstory A "scrollspy" is a method of tracking which link in a menu is active based on a relevant section of information being visible in the viewport....
Londonist
How (And Why) To Get Tickets To The London Railway Station You've Never Heard Of London International (CIV).
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
3 months ago
ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was...
Probably...
Comparing Distributions This is the second is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
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This is the second is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 8, which is about representing distribution using PMFs and CDFs. This section explains why I think CDFs are often better for plotting...
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
over a year ago
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[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Teaching tax in school On becoming an adult, one thing has stuck out to me as a huge oversight in the high school system is...
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On becoming an adult, one thing has stuck out to me as a huge oversight in the high school system is that we never learnt about tax. I'm constantly shocked by the lack of tax literacy in the broader population. I'm not even talking about the logistics of filing tax returns, but...
Nat Eliason's...
Make Big Money Mistakes Early It's just a cafe, how hard can it be?
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system...
6 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt. Today's News:
Scarlet Ink
Fake It Till You Make It — To Become a Leader, Act Like One I found, rather than waiting for my promotions at Amazon, I was more fulfilled and grew myself as a...
a month ago
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a month ago
I found, rather than waiting for my promotions at Amazon, I was more fulfilled and grew myself as a leader by pretending I had already been promoted.
The Honest Broker
How to Read Plato And other remarks on teaching yourself great books
6 months ago
TheCollector
Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals undefined
a year ago
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Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
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You’ll Never Be a Millionaire with a Salary Here's the quiet path to become a different type of millionaire
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Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
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Bow Street BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price:...
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BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 n.b. This is Bow Street in Covent Garden which is nowhere near Bow Road in Bow, nor close to the church of St-Mary-le-Bow...
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How We Lost the Ability to Listen In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources...
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In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources of wisdom and guidance
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5 things you need before raising your prices Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that...
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Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that happen. The hard truth is, you may not be able to raise your prices overnight. But in this article I'll tell you exactly what you need to do in order to become appealing to higher-paying...
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Pall Mall PALL MALL £140   London's Monopoly Streets PALL MALL Colour group: pink Purchase price:...
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PALL MALL £140   London's Monopoly Streets PALL MALL Colour group: pink Purchase price: £140 Rent: £10 Length: 500m Borough: Westminster Postcode: SW1 Pall Mall is the first of the pinks, all of which lead off Trafalgar Square, and a classically posh street to boot. At less...
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Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it....
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Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
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Republic Dumpster Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire,...
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Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, wire, plastruct, paint markers. Created for VOLTA Art Fair, New York City, March 2017. Photo Credit: Andrew Beveridge/ASB Creative The post Republic Dumpster appeared first on Joshua...
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thoughts on the suicidal mind [tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
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[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
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Space to do whatever, at work why it's important to make space for not-the-highest-priority things at your job
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There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development You’re doing great at it. (❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race) Email, Twitter, Mastodon
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Christmas Carol Concerts In London To Make You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy Inside This December Including one with dogs. Woof!
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Is It Keto - Month 10 Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for...
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Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for increasing sales. Is It Keto’s revenue dropped for the month as I redirected resources toward its failing meal plans. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
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Don't Work Faster. Transition Faster. A secret to creative output from endurance sports
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Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#13) Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness,...
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Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness, historical data, and some Star Trek recommendations
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Manifesting My Dream Clients & Projects for 2024 New year, new me, new clients am I right?
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Willem's Blog
Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
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The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
Christopher Butler
Periodical 15 All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short...
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All art is a copy of something. Hello from the art room. My older kiddo and I watched a short documentary about artist and engineer Peter Vogel this morning. I learned about him from flipping through an old issue of OMNI from the early 80s which reviewed a gallery showing...
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RTL Office Meeting Hubs by Evolution Design Evolution Design has completed the interior design for two vibrant informal meeting hubs at the RTL...
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Evolution Design has completed the interior design for two vibrant informal meeting hubs at the RTL Germany’s broadcasting centre in...
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LattePanda V1 - my experience with a Raspberry Pi alternative As with many homelab experiments around 2022/2023, it all started with Raspberry Pi-s being either...
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As with many homelab experiments around 2022/2023, it all started with Raspberry Pi-s being either out of stock or absurdly overpriced. I once noticed a listing for a LattePanda V1 on a local auction site. The price was reasonable at 45 EUR, and after I looked at the...
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You can own more than one type of computer! I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they...
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I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they were killing progressive web apps (PWAs) on the iPhone in the EU. Most people don't switch operating systems willy-nilly, and for good reason: They're different! And different is...
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates: "The quality is giving us a bad name" I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it...
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I don’t know how unique I am but my experience in clicking on streaming media stuff and seeing if it works is still less than 50%.
Engineers Need Art
Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
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Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
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A Modern Addition For An 1830s Brick Farm House Hollaway Studio has shared photos of a modern home addition they have completed for a former...
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Hollaway Studio has shared photos of a modern home addition they have completed for a former farmhouse in Kent, England, that dates back to the 1830s. The original home comprises of formal brick walls, a slate roof, white sash windows with views across the landscape, an original...
Moneyness
Who are the money launderers in the Tornado Cash stack? Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing...
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Over the last few years I've written a bunch of posts about Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, because I find it to be a fascinating tool. With the recent indictment of two people involved in the Tornado Cash "stack" for money laundering, here's another post to add...
Spoon & Tamago
Myaku-Myaku Footwear, Inspired by the Googly-Eyed Mascot for the Osaka Expo Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has...
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Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has inspired numerous spinoffs, both official and unofficial. And with exactly 1 year to go before the Expo, we should all expect to see a lot more. The latest iteration comes in the form...
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Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
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The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
The Elysian
The "letters to an anarchist" post-mortem Peter and I discuss our letter writing series.
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VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching VCs is to argue that their startup is likely to...
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The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching VCs is to argue that their startup is likely to succeed.  Instead, they should argue…
Jonas Hietala
Migrating to rocks.nvim My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At...
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My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931) On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
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The winners of Rest of World’s first photography contest From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the...
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Daniel Bourke
A Learners Fight: Adaptation vs. Education Education saves time. Adaptation sharpens instincts.
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Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
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Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
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How to disrupt Wall Street Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she argues that the internet is finally...
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Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she argues that the internet is finally starting to disrupt Wall Street. I’d love…
Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
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Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
Raptitude.com
Feedback is What Makes Everything Work The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about...
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The other day I closed a savings account at a tiny credit union branch. I expected it to take about five minutes, but the teller took so long that I started to experience time distortion. I knew it had been at least fifteen minutes, but perhaps it was much longer. Twenty-five...
Seth's Blog
The Jenga situation When an organization first sets out to have an impact, it discovers that it has no customers, no...
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When an organization first sets out to have an impact, it discovers that it has no customers, no clients, no constituents. So it shows up, it makes an offer and it listens. The early days are exciting. Customers are seen and heard and served. Variations are created and value is...
The personal website...
The design system you already have With beautiful design systems like Polaris, Lightning, and Carbon for inspiration, it’s tempting to...
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With beautiful design systems like Polaris, Lightning, and Carbon for inspiration, it’s tempting to open up a Sketch file and start your own. A fresh start: all the freedom in the world. Finally, a great-looking date picker. But wait! You already have a design system. If you look...
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...
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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...
Luxagraf:...
Goodbye Florida In the evenings the song of whippoorwills echoes on all sides. Spring peepers croak and creak in the...
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In the evenings the song of whippoorwills echoes on all sides. Spring peepers croak and creak in the marsh reeds. Here and there through the trees I can catch a glimmering flicker of flames from a campfire. Only the truly committed are having fires in this heat. The air is still...
Londonist
Which Tube Station Is Furthest From Its Namesake? How far is it from Kew Gardens to Kew Gardens?
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Alex MacCaw
Advice to my younger self I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
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I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full: If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say? That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
Society's Backend
LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
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Four predictions for 2024 It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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Noahpinion
New technologies, new totalitarians Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind...
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Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind of opponent.
Map of the Week
Countries with Women Leaders Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as...
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Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as heads of state. Click it (and then again) for higher resolution. We in the United States like to think we are the most advanced country in the world but by this metric we are well...
TheCollector
Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art undefined
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Applied Cartography
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay...
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I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay (RIP), Klarna, et al — not for any particular sin I feel that they are committing, but because they in my mind are much less interesting companies with less volatile upside than the...
Farnam Street
Lessons on Leadership: Michael Abrashoff on Turning the Worst Ship in the Navy into the Best Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile...
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Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile destroyer and one of the worst-performing ships in the navy. Despite her potency, the “dysfunctional ship had a sullen crew that resented being there and could not wait to get out...
Ben Borgers
FileCopy
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Archinect - Features
Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners? In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct...
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In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
Josh Thompson
Pry-ing into a Stack Trace I was recently working on a feature, committed what I thought was clean code, and started getting...
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over a year ago
I was recently working on a feature, committed what I thought was clean code, and started getting errors. I git stashed, and re-ran my tests, and still got errors. Here’s the full stacktrace: > b ruby -Itest test/models/model_name_redacted_test.rb -n=/errors/ # Running tests...
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
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As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Rest of World -...
What’s trending on Spotify in Africa? Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy talks about the most surprising user behavior on the music streaming app.
7 months ago
nanoscale views
Guide to faculty searches, 2024 edition As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing...
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As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing about more condensed matter and nano science soon.   In the meantime, I realized that I have not re-posted or updated my primer on how tenure-track faculty searches work in physics...
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Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
FIRE v London
Feb ’23: taking profits February was cold, but mercifully dry. The days are becoming a welcome bit longer. London is filling...
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February was cold, but mercifully dry. The days are becoming a welcome bit longer. London is filling up again, post covid, though Mondays and Fridays remain subdued to put it mildly. Market movements in February In the markets, February started strongly, but then something...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature? Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Seamus Heaney A Lifetime of Ancient Poetry
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Gadgets and Computers From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
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From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few…
Musings on Maps
Gaza, Again–and Again The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of...
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The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. The perimeter around the Gaza Strip was in a … Continue reading →
Seth's Blog
The illusion of concern When organizations reach scale, digital interactions belie our expectation that someone in charge...
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When organizations reach scale, digital interactions belie our expectation that someone in charge actually gives a damn. Once there’s math to do, the CFO does the math. It quickly reveals that no, the search engine shouldn’t bother having a customer support team. That UPS or...
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The Journey of a Vampire
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Weekend Roundup Aristotle on Friendship
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Ever Been To This Free London Yew Maze? A tree-ific day out, right alongside the Elizabeth line.
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Guidelines for Designing an In-Car Voice Assistant I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction...
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I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction on driver distraction, into concrete…
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities for Expats Around the World undefined
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Good Enough
TIL: Overriding Permalink Generation in FriendlyId FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails...
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FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails applications. In Pika we're using it to help with generating permalinks for blog posts and pages as well as slugs for tags. When a customer wrote in with a request to modify the behavior of...
diamond geezer
BustopMas Now that December's here the festivity in London is palpable! And as Christmas grows closer our...
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Now that December's here the festivity in London is palpable! And as Christmas grows closer our appetite for seasonal treats grows ever stronger. It can mean only one thing: winter is upon us and Christmas has officially arrived. This year's big ticket event is BustopMas, a...
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How to Explore Dallas’ Culturally Diverse Arts Scene
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The Ruffian
My Year In Reading Books I Read Or At Least Picked Up In 2023
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The Changelog
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable,...
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I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable, excellent battery life, and a servicable keyboard. For a while, I tried a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. It meets the hardware requirements, well sort of. The problem is with performance and...
xkcd.com
Wish Interpretation
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Rest of World -...
Sam Altman’s India comments spark a heated backlash The OpenAI CEO’s dismissal of an Indian competitor launched a debate over the country’s tech...
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Max Rozen
How to choose a median result when running Google Lighthouse multiple times Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you...
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Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you figure out which run is the median?
IEEE Spectrum
50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World I’m sitting in front of a computer, looking at its graphical user interface with overlapping windows...
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I’m sitting in front of a computer, looking at its graphical user interface with overlapping windows on a high-resolution screen. I interact with the computer by pointing and clicking with a mouse and typing on a keyboard. I’m using a word processor with the core features and...
Data Boutique
Problems When Disclosing How Data Is Collected Recent news highlights how in-house data collection might not be taken well by users.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Horizon 22 These are great times for going up very tall buildings. Last month 8 Bishopsgate opened its rooftop...
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These are great times for going up very tall buildings. Last month 8 Bishopsgate opened its rooftop viewing platform to the public, free of charge, and on Wednesday 22 Bishopsgate followed suit. Its viewing platform is called Horizon 22, and at 254m above ground level it's two...
Open Culture
Behold a Creative Animation of the Bayeux Tapestry In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a...
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In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a merchant guild, your chances of spending any significant amount of time with a Medieval tapestry were slim. Though “much production was relatively coarse, intended for decorative...
Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 23.5% YoY What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
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What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For November, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 26.2% YoY, but still down 21.5% compared to the 2017 to...
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Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to...
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It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been...
Common Edge
Braids by Jade: L.A. Street Art Through Two Lenses Artist Lauren Halsey's visual chronicles of her changing neighborhood.
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The biggest data protection fight you’ve never heard of Big tech is lobbying around another international trade deal.
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Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author! Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
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Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
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I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Diaries of Note
Then, no more English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland lived together for almost 40 years, their...
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English poets Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland lived together for almost 40 years, their partnership both a romantic and literary alliance that formed in 1930. It was in the 1960s that Ackland’s health began to decline, and on 9th November 1969, at their home in...
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said? Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said? JamesHoare Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape....
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Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape. The post Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Waterloo & City Line A very peculiar line.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a...
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Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a 32-bit processor but also switching to a CMOS implementation. I've been reverse-engineering parts of the 386 chip and came across two interesting and completely different circuits...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Cal Russell I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied...
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I'm an artist living in Edinburgh working mainly in papercutting and linocut printmaking. I studied Illustration at Falmouth School of Art and did a Masters in Contemporary Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. I mostly work independently and sell my prints and originals online or...
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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Notes on Progress: In pursuit of decent coffee No great stagnation in home espresso
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Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 2 (Linting) The second in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
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Map of the Week
Lenapehoking-The Delaware Watershed A more modern take on last week's Coaquannock map, Lenapehoking is a map of the Delaware Watershed's...
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A more modern take on last week's Coaquannock map, Lenapehoking is a map of the Delaware Watershed's natural environment. The title means land of the Lenape people. The map was created by Illustrator Meg Lemieur and is available on Etsy. The map is beautifully illustrated with...
TheCollector
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How to Explore Graz's Food Scene
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The “Vue de la Nouvelle Yorck” is listed at the New York Public Libarry as being probably from 1775. It’s definitely from that era, just based on the ships, which are far more accurately drawn than the buildings are. A lot of these illustrations appear to have been made by...
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Two years ago a Navy destroyer was ripped open by the nose of a Liberian tanker. Ten sailors were crushed or drowned as their sleeping quarters filled with water after the collision. At the heart of the tragedy is a single checkbox on a touchscreen. This is the untold story of...
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While looking for unrelated items I came across this 1920's Protein Survey Map of Western Canada. Wondering what any of this means, I did some research and discovered that protein refers to the gluten content of wheat. In the early 1900's flour mills began classifying their...
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My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
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The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September 1912: This story, The Judgment, I wrote at one sitting during the night of the 22nd-23rd, from ten o'clock at night to six o'clock in the morning. I was hardly able to pull my legs...
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I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time someone exposed the babble for what it is, manipulation.
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I was recently working on a way to serialize and deserialize a Faraday connection that uses HTTP::CookieJar to manage persistent cookies across requests. I needed to do this because I wanted a way to “freeze” an HTTP connection instance, and later “thaw” it to resume the...
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Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a defense contract. This has led to claims Silicon Valley is no longer engaging in defense tech, despite tech's roots working with the Department of Defense
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Nice update to an old Voyager image with colors added based on actual colors captured in other images. See original post here by Jason Major.
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC permit (PDF) only allows services in light rain. I’ve always wondered how they implement this operationally. For example, Waymo preemptively launches all cars with operators in the...
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Born in 1741 in Caernarvonshire, Wales, Hester Thrale belonged to the esteemed Salusbury family. Famous for her friendships with such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick, Thrale was a prominent figure of the period, and her writings, particularly the...
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The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
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The Ware for July 2023 is a “KUP 10” by aditec. Also, thanks to FETguy, we now have a schematic of the ware: The spirit of Name that Ware is about demystifying electronics and encouraging people to learn by taking things apart. Drawing a schematic from an image of a circuit board...
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A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package that also includes imperiousness, skittishness and a fair amount of unpredictable drama. It’s tempting to imagine that CEOs, painters or poets that bring the noise must also have...
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The multi-storey flagship store on the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City has closed for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna whoopsie an AGI into existence trying to create a highly multimodal porn-bot. Today's News:
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”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
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I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component. The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
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The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on the right (to the north) to New York City on the left. The new aqueduct runs on a much straighter line than the old, which required more tunneling, and therefore reflects the more...
Marcus on AI
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OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
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Calculated Risk
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. More manpower !== more innovation. design innovation isn’t generally a question of team size but more about having the resources and freedom to experiment...
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
diamond geezer
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is 10 years old this weekend. A chunk of the North Park opened more quickly in the summer after the Games but the rest was only fully revealed on 5th April 2014, including all the good stuff round the Stadium. This was the moment that created a...
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As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now.
Saturday Morning...
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Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
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Engineering is the powerful practice of being able to deliver artifacts that do what they’re supposed to. Bridges that don’t fall down, software that runs, IV leads that don’t get infected. But if we want to create something, it helps to know what it’s for. That simple question,...
The Pragmatic...
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Two months after the startup went bankrupt, administrators have summarized the $80M+ debt the company has accumulated, most of which will not be paid. The highest offer to buy Pollen’s business assets - but without its liabilities - currently stands at only $250K. Details.
sancho.dev
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It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.