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Debugging my wife's alarm clock
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately.
Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't...
2 months ago
My wife's alarm clock has been acting up lately.
Sporadic at first but then every day, it wouldn't blare in the morning at the set time.
Instead, when it was supposed to go off it would... reset itself.
The time would start flashing in that "I'm confused because the power went...
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
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I have a 'Dall UD19PB ThundeRbglt Dock': my experience with the HP Elitebook 845 G9
I’ve decided to give a new laptop a test drive, mainly because I had the
opportunity at work, and...
over a year ago
I’ve decided to give a new laptop a test drive, mainly because I had the
opportunity at work, and also out of morbid curiosity.
It’s the HP Elitebook 845 G9, and it has pretty good specifications:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
RAM: 2x16GB DDR5
Storage: 512GB KIOXIA NVMe SSD...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
nanoscale views
Continuing Studies course, take 2
A year and a half ago, I mentioned that I was going to teach a course through Rice's Glasscock...
10 months ago
A year and a half ago, I mentioned that I was going to teach a course through Rice's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, trying to give a general audience introduction to some central ideas in condensed matter physics. Starting in mid-March, I'm doing this again. Here is a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on JS Party #288
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he...
a year ago
My frequent ramblings on this blog garnered enough of the attention of Jerod Santo that he graciously invited me to come on the JS Party podcast to talk about, well, my blog posts.
Which ones? To name a few:
Language-Level Toll Roads
The Art of Knowing When to Quit
Subscribe...
Many Worlds
A Real ET Discovery With Promise, Amid Some Other Quite Questionable Claims
Beware easy answers to the question of whether life exists beyond Earth. Be they “alien” skeletons...
a year ago
Beware easy answers to the question of whether life exists beyond Earth. Be they “alien” skeletons in Mexico City, interstellar probes that briefly pass through our solar system, UFOs of all sorts and claims to have found “biosignature” chemical byproducts of life around planets...
Noahpinion
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
We have public schools for a reason.
a year ago
We have public schools for a reason.
TheCollector
Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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a year ago
Rest of World -...
Shein and MercadoLibre are fighting over vendors in Brazil’s largest garment market
After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses,...
8 months ago
After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses, e-commerce platforms began pulling out all the stops to lure vendors.
Notes on software...
Exploring a Postgres query plan
I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query
execution. You can hook into...
a year ago
I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query
execution. You can hook into the execution layer so you're given a
query plan and you get to decide what to do with it. What rows to
return, if any, and where they come from.
That's very interesting. So I...
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
TheCollector
7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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a year ago
Liz Denys
Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
5 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
TheCollector
Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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10 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
11 months ago
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Merit Interactive Headquarters by LYCS Architecture
LYCS Architecture designed Merit Interactive Headquarters in Hangzhou, integrating architecture,...
6 months ago
LYCS Architecture designed Merit Interactive Headquarters in Hangzhou, integrating architecture, exhibition design, and a marine-inspired theme for a dynamic and...
TheCollector
The Story of the Antichrist Pope
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a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on Netscape | Larry Page and YouTube
I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want...
a year ago
I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want to learn a lot of facts - most of which I don't already know.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most useful B2B SaaS product metrics
So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This...
over a year ago
So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This is not news. What, why, and how? These are the…
TheCollector
What Is Hindutva? A Look at Hindu Nationalism
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3 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
over a year ago
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes:
<fieldset id="group_1">
<input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" />
<input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Signs His Name in Sparks'
By trade my
father was an ironworker for the City of Cleveland’s Municipal Light, always
called...
5 months ago
By trade my
father was an ironworker for the City of Cleveland’s Municipal Light, always
called “Muny Light." At home he was a welder, specializing in wrought-iron
railings. His aesthetic sense could be summarized in a single word: big. Or heavy. Everything he built was...
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Retail Sales, Industrial Production, Homebuilder Survey
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start New Week With Some Hope
Last week...
5 days ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start New Week With Some Hope
Last week wasn't great for mortgage rates. They moved higher on each of the 5 days. Moreover, there was a distinct lack of logical motivation from the economic data. In fact, on a few...
Passing Time
Reasons Not to Burn Coal That Have Nothing to Do with Climate Change
You don't need to talk about CO2 to have reasons to stop using coal for electricity generation
over a year ago
You don't need to talk about CO2 to have reasons to stop using coal for electricity generation
David Heinemeier...
Keeping the lights on while leaving the cloud
It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud....
11 months ago
It was a big year for ops at 37signals. In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud. Including HEY, our email service, which had been born there, and has an extremely high level of uptime criticality. Moving out of the cloud could not interfere with that...
Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
4 months ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
diamond geezer
London's triple points
There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties...
a year ago
There are six points around the Greater London boundary where three counties meet.
London/Kent/Surrey
Specifically: Biggin Hill/Westerham/Tatsfield
Location: Rag Hill
To get here take a walk along the quiet twisty country lane that wends between Tatsfield Green and the...
Steve Klabnik
ActiveRecord considered harmful
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
a year ago
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
The Pragmatic...
Meta’s historic growth challenge
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
over a year ago
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
Daniel Miessler
Custom Models Are AI’s Killer App
The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or...
a year ago
The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or your whole life experience. Every text. Every Slack. Every journal entry. Every blog post. Everything you’ve said or written publicly. All your logs. All your documentation. Turn...
Open Culture
The First Professional Footage of Pink Floyd Gets Captured in a 1967 Documentary (and the Band Also...
British filmmaker and novelist Peter Whitehead has been credited with inventing the music video with...
7 months ago
British filmmaker and novelist Peter Whitehead has been credited with inventing the music video with his promo films for the Rolling Stones in the mid-60s. According to Ali Catterall and Simon Wells, authors of Your Face Here, a study of “British Cult Film since the Sixties,”...
TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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2 months ago
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology.
Between the developer...
over a year ago
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology.
Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced
negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and
the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter
and...
Commoncog
Eric Nehrlich on the Art of Executive Coaching and Forecasting
Cedric talks to Eric Nehrlich about driving down the error rate for Google's revenue forecasting...
a year ago
Cedric talks to Eric Nehrlich about driving down the error rate for Google's revenue forecasting from 10-20% down to 0.5%, his approach to executive coaching, and how to come up with small experiments for personal growth.
Spoon & Tamago
A Weathered Copper Facade Oxidized by Soy Sauce Defines Suetomi’s New Kyoto Cafe
Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a...
a year ago
Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a café business named AoQ
Related posts:
Kaikado’s Tea and Coffee Cafe in Kyoto
Cafe Fang: An Oasis of Books and Coffee in Kyoto
Discover Souvenirs Galore at Kyoto’s Newest Gift...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns to Visit in Georgia
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3 days ago
Quanta Magazine
The New Quest to Control Evolution
Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it. ...
a year ago
Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it.
The post The New Quest to Control Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
Brent Cross West, West and East
The new Brent Cross West station serves two very different communities either side of the tracks....
a year ago
The new Brent Cross West station serves two very different communities either side of the tracks. You could call them Brent Cross West West and Brent Cross West East. Neither is buzzing with potential passengers.
Brent Cross West West is commercial and car-dominated, as befits...
Retail Design Blog
Audemars Piguet office by Studio Banana
Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle,...
a month ago
Studio Banana designed an avant-garde work environment at Audemars Piguet Manufacture Le Locle, blending high-end manufacturing with biophilic design principles...
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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11 months ago
Open Culture
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print
The most widely known work by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai,...
6 months ago
The most widely known work by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese artist Hokusai, 神奈川沖浪裏, is usually translated into English as The Great Wave off Kanagawa. That version of the title reflects the iconic scene depicted in the image well enough, though I can’t help but...
The Thinking Cap
Can We Build Scenius From Scratch?
On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
over a year ago
On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.
TheCollector
Religious Symbolism & Traditions of Easter Beyond the Bunny
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8 months ago
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Why Startups Should Build Their Own Models
The importance of startups training their own AI models for differentiation and control.
8 months ago
The importance of startups training their own AI models for differentiation and control.
The Ruffian
Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster
What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
9 months ago
What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
This Space
"And no real fate" – reading in the interval
A sportswriter on the radio said that the lack of football in covid lockdown has disrupted the...
over a year ago
A sportswriter on the radio said that the lack of football in covid lockdown has disrupted the rhythm of the lives of those who follow the sport. The word stuck in my mind. Does rhythm differ from routine? When a routine is broken, there is an interval of confusion and anxiety,...
TheCollector
Who Is Zeus? The King of the Greek Gods
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11 months ago
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube.
Obsidian...
6 months ago
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube.
Obsidian Freeform is an extremely
small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom
JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use
Obsidian as my note-taking...
High Signal
Selling a website after learning to code with AI
Andrew Davison is a British founder who built and sold an app by learning to code with ChatGPT. He...
a year ago
Andrew Davison is a British founder who built and sold an app by learning to code with ChatGPT. He had a problem with exporting multiple tables from Airtable databases so he built a tool to help him automate the process. Andrew used new tools like ChatGPT and Replit to a)
Contemporist...
A Lot Of Plants Have Been Integrated Into The Design Of This Home In Singapore
Wallflower Architecture + Design has sent us photos of a home they recently completed in Singapore,...
11 months ago
Wallflower Architecture + Design has sent us photos of a home they recently completed in Singapore, that features an exterior covered in plants.
The Marginalian
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both...
a year ago
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged."
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Much Info Should A Patient Get? | Out-Of-Pocket
A discussion question
a year ago
Probably...
We Have a Book!
My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived! If you want a copy for yourself, you can get a 30%...
a year ago
My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived! If you want a copy for yourself, you can get a 30% discount if you order from the publisher and use the code UCPNEW. You can also order from Amazon or, if you want to support independent bookstores, from Bookshop.org. The official...
NeuroLogica Blog
About Those Lab Leak Documents
It was recently revealed that the House subcommittee probing the origins of COVID-19 accidentally...
a year ago
It was recently revealed that the House subcommittee probing the origins of COVID-19 accidentally released a “trove” of documents related to their investigations. The documents include e-mails and internal communications among the scientists and experts who put together the first...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
7 months ago
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub.
“This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!”
So I start...
Paul Cudenec
Grenfell Tower: a chemicals cover-up
This is a news report I wrote for the latest Acorn bulletin over on the Winter Oak site.
a month ago
This is a news report I wrote for the latest Acorn bulletin over on the Winter Oak site.
Basta’s Notes
Things nobody taught me about money
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
a year ago
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
Christopher Butler
What Eyes Want
South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss.
Today, over 175 South of the Border signs...
over a year ago
South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss.
Today, over 175 South of the Border signs remain along the interstate; when I was a child making a two-day road trip from Boston to Florida, there were more than 250. Spotting them, reading them, and counting them made...
Stoic Simple
What’s the Difference Between Stoicism and Existentialism?
Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and...
a year ago
Philosophy is a discipline that seeks to understand the nature of existence, reality, knowledge, and ethics. Two important philosophical schools of thought that have influenced Western intellectual tradition are Stoicism and Existentialism. Both of these philosophies share some...
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
a year ago
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
Londonist
The Absolute Worst Things You Can Say To A Londoner
"I bought my flat in the early 2000s for 150k."
a year ago
"I bought my flat in the early 2000s for 150k."
The Modern House
Rosh Mahtani: the Alighieri founder’s inspiring journey from school outcast to acclaimed...
Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but...
a year ago
Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but partly because she’s very, very good at what she does. Despite the joy it brings, Rosh started her cult jewellery brand, Alighieri, when she was in an […]
TheCollector
Women Portraitists of the Renaissance: A League of Their Own
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5 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-11
Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-11
Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine.
I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
Stoic Simple
The Stoic’s Guide to Achieving Lasting Contentment
Are you tired of constantly searching for happiness? Do you find yourself feeling unsatisfied,...
a year ago
Are you tired of constantly searching for happiness? Do you find yourself feeling unsatisfied, regardless of your accomplishments and possessions? If so, you might benefit from adopting the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. In this guide, we will explore the principles of Stoicism...
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Liked to Hold Ideas Up to the Light'
The single most
influential book in my life, the one that with time altered the way I think, not...
11 months ago
The single most
influential book in my life, the one that with time altered the way I think, not just what I think, is Guy’s Davenport’s The Geography of the Imagination (North
Point Press, 1981). I bought it that year in a lesbian bookstore in Manhattan. Over
the previous decade...
Both Are True
anxiety at work!!
hey boss, are you mad at me?
8 months ago
hey boss, are you mad at me?
The Marginalian
Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives
"Human lives... are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a...
a year ago
"Human lives... are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence... into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life."
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if your Index Page was Smart?
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
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....
a year ago
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...
David Gerrells
journey before destination
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
Londonist
London's Cosiest Hotels
Because baby it's cold outside.
a year ago
Because baby it's cold outside.
Max Rozen
Understanding useState's initial value
If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first....
over a year ago
If you're used to class components and setState, the useState Hook might be confusing at first. Let's learn more about it in this article.
Seth's Blog
Quietly change it
When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to...
a year ago
When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to notice. In fact, almost no one will. That’s because no one cares about the noise in our head (or the actions we take) nearly as much as we do. You...
Liz Denys
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: homemade pumpkin spice latte
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning,...
over a year ago
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning, and pumpkin spice lattes are abundant.
Being a coffee fan, I caved about a year ago and bought pumpkin spice latte syrup. It made for a delicious replica of the coffee shop classic,...
Retail Design Blog
Dynamic Frame office by balbek bureau
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich,...
3 weeks ago
Dynamic Frame is the office of the eponymous film production company in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. At the request...
Unpacked
NVIDIA Explained: Origins, GPUs and AI stock bump | EP8
NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In...
8 months ago
NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In the latest episode, we dive a few layers deep into the company. We start with the origin of the company and the launch of their first GPU in 1999 which unlocked several...
High Signal
Making $200k/year at 25 from online startups
Ch Daniel is a 25 year old founder who is making $200,000 in annual revenue from a variety of...
a year ago
Ch Daniel is a 25 year old founder who is making $200,000 in annual revenue from a variety of websites.
Infinite Scroll
Flat Earthers and Belief in Belief
What flat earthers can teach us about politics
2 days ago
What flat earthers can teach us about politics
TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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2 weeks ago
Blog - Practical...
What’s the Deal with Base Plates?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
A lot of engineering focuses...
2 weeks ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
A lot of engineering focuses on structural members. How wide is this beam? How tall is this column? But some of the most important engineering decisions are in how to connect those members together. Take a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Symmetry
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Later they place Taylor Swift in a jar of...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Later they place Taylor Swift in a jar of ethanol.
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The Elysian
Week 4: One pitch several places
8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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3 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Why you can't meditate
You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special
cushion. But you can start to...
4 days ago
You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special
cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving
distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see
how.
mtlynch.io
Experimenting with Lllama 3 via Ollama
I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to...
8 months ago
I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try.
I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I didn’t see a lot of documentation about how to run them. I tinkered with it for a few hours and got...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: Thinking like a dog
How dog brains could save us from dementia
over a year ago
How dog brains could save us from dementia
The Ruffian
20 Observations On Friendship
Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
4 months ago
Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Sartre Explained: What These Words Mean for Us Today
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5 months ago
Common Edge
How Architects Deal With Demolished Designs
Buildings don’t belong to architects, but to the culture that created them.
a year ago
Buildings don’t belong to architects, but to the culture that created them.
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
a year ago
Ancient Philosophy for Children
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stop Being Fancy
This is a note to self:
Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy.
When confronted with,...
a year ago
This is a note to self:
Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy.
When confronted with, “Can this be done?”
If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that.
But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…"
Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Prayer
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really, if you go to a temple with excellent...
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Really, if you go to a temple with excellent customer service, you should wonder which branch of the afterlife is in charge.
Today's News:
Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks
If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a...
over a year ago
If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a virtual 🏦 branch.
That’s fitting, because you know what my impression of meem is as a user? When I open up their app, it feels like walking into a crowded butcher shop, with...
TheCollector
Alexander the Great’s Legendary Horse: Who Was Bucephalus?
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8 months ago
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources
Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
8 months ago
Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
Arduino Blog
Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited...
3 months ago
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Guerrillas in the Midst: Crowdsourcing Cartography
When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new...
3 months ago
When I think about what Guerrilla Cartography does, I think of building and creating something new from many different pieces, like a puzzle that only makes sense once it’s put together. But unlike a puzzle, there is no single correct way to put the pieces together, as they can...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
Moneyness
How is the foreign expansion of Canadian banks going?
With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd...
a year ago
With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd take a step back and try to visualize the last few decades of Canadian bank expansion outside of the country.
What I've done is go through the annual reports of the big-5 banks at...
Retail Design Blog
Spirits packaging design by BXL creative
The bottle has a special emblem with an illustration of the Latin motto meaning “holy guardian of...
2 months ago
The bottle has a special emblem with an illustration of the Latin motto meaning “holy guardian of peace”. What other...
TheCollector
Sutton Hoo: Inside an Early English Ship Burial
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Korea’s War of Prisoners
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
6 months ago
Korea’s War of Prisoners
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:01
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022.
I've...
over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022.
I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The future of self-driving
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful...
10 months ago
Modern self-driving technology still has a way to go before it becomes generally safe, and useful enough for broader adoption. While I do believe that at some point in my lifetime I'll be able to hail an eTaxi, it'll really depend on where I am, the road infrastructure, and the...
Maggie Appleton
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
over a year ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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2 months ago
Rest of World -...
The World’s Last Internet Cafes
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
a year ago
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
Applied Cartography
The taste of beer
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
There’s a...
6 months ago
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
There’s a relatively famous line from Bezos, circulated first at YC in ’08 and then more recently by the folks at Acquired (a great pod!):
Jeff uses this analogy for AWS. He talks about...
David Heinemeier...
Picking a purpose
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War...
12 months ago
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War II. He observed the outer extreme of what happens to people who no longer have a WHY to live for. They’d wither and die in the camp. Even the most dire rations and punishing labor...
Castles in the Sky
The Bookseller's Register #2
My favorite section in the bookstore
a year ago
My favorite section in the bookstore
TheCollector
6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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3 weeks ago
ntietz.com blog
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling
Another week, another paper!
This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
over a year ago
Another week, another paper!
This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny.
It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
latest projects -...
Hand-cranked Flux Capacitor
[Concept] Control the flow of time
a year ago
[Concept] Control the flow of time
Seth's Blog
Lost on purpose
…of course, if you’re lost on purpose, you’re not lost. Lost is only possible if you are fixed on...
a year ago
…of course, if you’re lost on purpose, you’re not lost. Lost is only possible if you are fixed on getting somewhere specific.
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Red Hat
The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
a year ago
The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
Old Structures...
Small Trusses
For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student...
a month ago
For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student competition run by the Preservation Engineering Technical Committee. This year, In Montreal, was no exception. This year, I had no role in the competition, which frees me to say...
The American Scholar
“The Pulley” by George Herbert
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Pulley” by George Herbert appeared first on The American...
2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Pulley” by George Herbert appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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7 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Exhausted By Their Long Dying'
Isaac
Bashevis Singer’s Shadows on the Hudson
is a novel of endless conversation, much of it...
a year ago
Isaac
Bashevis Singer’s Shadows on the Hudson
is a novel of endless conversation, much of it passionate and grief-stricken,
spoken by well-educated, middle-class Jewish characters in New York City
shortly after World War II. Chief among the title’s Shadows are the victims of the...
Old Structures...
The Grenfell Report
The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel:...
3 months ago
The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel: here. The New Civil Engineer has a good short summary here: “Grenfell disaster: ‘culmination of decades of failure by government and construction industry’” In one sense there are few...
TheCollector
The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradise
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It's okay, nobody finished the first book...
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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It's okay, nobody finished the first book anyway.
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky
Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky
2024-02-23
I often stumble upon large data sets or table...
10 months ago
Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky
2024-02-23
I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll…
This should be a header
Look at that table header...
SatPost by Trung...
The Greatest Meme Template Ever
Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our...
9 months ago
Why does Juan Joya Borja (aka El Risitas aka “Spanish Laughing Guy”) always put a smile on our faces.
Joel Gascoigne
Creating a sleep ritual
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My first post on...
over a year ago
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My first post on this blog was one where I pondered whether exercise is a
requirement for sleep [https://joel.is/post/1636226903/exercise-sleep]. The post
was actually triggered by my inability to...
TheCollector
New Warhol Exhibition Reveals Rare Art Treasures
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11 months ago
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Maps Mania
The Sad State of Local News 2023
10 months ago
Commoncog
Power and Asian Business
The culmination of the Power in Business mini series. What it’s like doing business without the Rule...
a week ago
The culmination of the Power in Business mini series. What it’s like doing business without the Rule of Law.
David Heinemeier...
We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to...
3 months ago
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on...
Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history
George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
a year ago
George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
Spoon & Tamago
Shimmering Glass Plates Make You Feel Like You’re Eating Off Water Droplets
It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the...
a year ago
It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the detail of moving water in photography. So you can imagine the technical challenge of accurately capturing water as a three-dimensional object. Product designer Masahiko Tanoue has...
The Marginalian
William James on the Most Vital Understanding for Successful Relationships
"Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer."
a year ago
"Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer."
Retail Design Blog
ROTATE flagship store by Thibault Allgayer
Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and...
4 months ago
Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimars, and part of forward fashion...
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical candidates (was it ever)?
Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ...
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
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Networking Essentials: Routing
How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
over a year ago
How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
99% Invisible
You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark [EPISODE]
Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as...
a year ago
Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as Americans weighed in on which portrait of Elvis would be forever immortalized on a 29 cent US postage stamp. It was put to a popular vote: should the stamp feature an image of...
Arduino Blog
Making fire detection more accurate with ML sensor fusion
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable,...
4 months ago
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable, but when tasked with determining if there is cause for alarm solely using vision data, embedded AI models can struggle with false positives. Solomon Githu’s project aims to lower...
99% Invisible
Between the Blocks [EPISODE]
Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock...
10 months ago
Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock park” green spaces between big apartment structures are a defining characteristic of the city. They’re not so much “parks” in the formal sense, with fences and gates, just open...
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...
a year ago
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
Elizabeth Anderson: What is the Point of Equality?
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a year ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive explanation of marching cubes and dual contouring
Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how...
over a year ago
Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how they work, what are their differences, similarities, and limitations.
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
Retail Design Blog
Scandies by AnonymousFish
This is a redesign of the Swedish Fish packaging done for my package design class. My main objective...
a week ago
This is a redesign of the Swedish Fish packaging done for my package design class. My main objective of this...
Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2)
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
8 months ago
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early 1960s
Musings on Markets
Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!
I have made no secret of my disdain for ESG, an over-hyped and over-sold acronym, that has been a...
a year ago
I have made no secret of my disdain for ESG, an over-hyped and over-sold acronym, that has been a gravy train for a whole host of players, including fund managers, consultants and academics. In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its...
diamond geezer
Majority Sweepstake
On polling day, let's have a sweepstake on the size of the Labour majority.
comments...
5 months ago
On polling day, let's have a sweepstake on the size of the Labour majority.
comments if(postComments['51253209151424'] != null){document.write(' (' + postComments['51253209151424'] + ')')}else{document.write(' (0)')};
n.b. If you don't think Labour are going to get a majority, go...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in November 2024
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in November 2024
1) In a typical month (April 2024) TfL...
3 weeks ago
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in November 2024
1) In a typical month (April 2024) TfL issued 29,767 Under 16 Oyster Photocards, 6992 16+ Oyster Photocards, 6028 18+ Oyster Photocards and 269 Apprentice Oyster Photocards.
2) The social media management tool used by...
ntietz.com blog
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1
This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule.
But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance.
Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
Anecdotal Evidence
'In Itself and Forever Shipwreck'
I’ve just
finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in...
a year ago
I’ve just
finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in two issues of The New Yorker in 1979 and as a book the
following year. I read it in the magazine and I’ve since read the book –
Maxwell’s finest, written when he was seventy years...
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
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a year ago
Entrepreneur's Edge
Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
a year ago
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can.
You...
over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can.
You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
Tony Dinh's...
July 2023: $6K MRR – getting back on recurring revenue
small updates from me in July 2023
a year ago
small updates from me in July 2023
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
a week ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
Noahpinion
Argentina's macroeconomic situation is even worse up close
A guest post by Karl T. Muth
a year ago
A guest post by Karl T. Muth
Diaries of Note
To pay up would constitute a precedent
Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and...
a year ago
Kenneth Tynan was a towering figure in the British theatre scene, known for his sharp criticism and a remarkable ability to discern the pulse of contemporary drama. Born in Birmingham, England, in 1927, he began documenting his life and thoughts in diaries from the age of six, a...
Old Structures...
A Hidden Surprise, But Not Really
The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and...
a year ago
The picture above shows the nearly-complete Astor Court Apartments, on Broadway between 89th and 90th Street, in 1915. (As a side note, we’ve got some heavy hitters involved: the architect was Charles Platt, the contractor was Marc Eidlitz & Son, and the photographer was Irving...
A Smart Bear
"Authentic" is dead. And so is "is dead."
It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative,...
4 months ago
It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative, so your website wins, and you can be proud of it.
TheCollector
The Rembrandt Painting to Sell For $18.4 M. at Auction
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a year ago
The Honest Broker
Were the First Laws Sung?
I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
a year ago
I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 1
Ahh, Las Vegas. I will say, I think every APS March Meeting from now on should have a giant Ferris...
a year ago
Ahh, Las Vegas. I will say, I think every APS March Meeting from now on should have a giant Ferris wheel right by the registration lobby.
Here are a few highlights from what I saw after I arrived around lunchtime today:
Given some of my current research, I spent a fair bit...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The “Sisterhood is Blooming / Springtime Will Never Be the Same” poster was originally produced in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, an organization founded...
Classical Wisdom
Rome's Worst General?
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
9 months ago
And the Mystery of the Cursed Gold
Rest of World -...
Apple’s biggest competition in India? Used iPhone sellers
“We give them the same phone, in the same brand-new condition,” says one seller.
a year ago
“We give them the same phone, in the same brand-new condition,” says one seller.
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240701
Another correction
5 months ago
Left To Write
№ 64: How I Make A V60 Pourover Coffee
My morning coffee ritual - Choosing intention - Mother's cooking - Finding passion & purpose
a year ago
My morning coffee ritual - Choosing intention - Mother's cooking - Finding passion & purpose
Platformer
Winners and losers in the race to add AI
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining...
a year ago
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Lasting Vivification of a Word'
I’ve read
Walter de la Mare’s essay “A Book of Words” (Pleasures and Speculations, 1940) for the...
9 months ago
I’ve read
Walter de la Mare’s essay “A Book of Words” (Pleasures and Speculations, 1940) for the second time in a week,
and have decided one might easily write a book about it. The prose is dense
with interesting and useful ideas:
“The
prevalent weakness, too, of many minds–the...
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
Made by Ollin
Game Emulation via Neural Network
over a year ago
Jake Zimmerman
Bug squash: An underrated interview question
4 months ago
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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6 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Helping dementia patients, Family Heirloom as a Service, Figma for architecture, asking for what you...
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities The CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund
Spoon & Tamago
All 54 Playing Cards Reinterpreted Through Still Life Photography by Yuni Yoshida
Flower petals, leaves, foods and other objects have all been meticulously arranged and then...
a year ago
Flower petals, leaves, foods and other objects have all been meticulously arranged and then photographed to create a set of 54 playing cards, including 2 jokers. It’s the latest work by art director Yuni Yoshida (previously), who’s penchant for analog techniques that shun digital...
NeuroLogica Blog
Flow Batteries – Now With Nanofluids
Battery technology has been advancing nicely over the last few decades, with a fairly predictable...
10 months ago
Battery technology has been advancing nicely over the last few decades, with a fairly predictable incremental increase in energy density, charging time, stability, and lifecycle. We now have lithium-ion batteries with a specific energy of 296 Wh/kg – these are in use in existing...
Rest of World -...
South Africans are using a power outage notification app to sell weed, find odd jobs
With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a...
a year ago
With blackouts devastating the country’s economy, EskomSePush’s AskMyStreet feature has become a rare bright spot for gig workers.
Stoic Simple
Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome?
Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Components and LEGOs
“We’re going to build a component library — which are like a bunch of LEGOs — so...
a year ago
“We’re going to build a component library — which are like a bunch of LEGOs — so designers/developers can just pick a prefabricated component off the shelf and build with consistency and coherence.”
It’s a nice thought, if you don’t think about it too much. But I recently read...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 054: Ten million tokens
February 16, 2024.
10 months ago
Citation Needed
Follow the Crypto
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024...
5 months ago
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
From Skyline to Valley
A family friend had a big round-number birthday recently and we drove down to Central Virginia for...
over a year ago
A family friend had a big round-number birthday recently and we drove down to Central Virginia for the celebration. Meanwhile, I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to add to my various travel lists so I wondered how might I combine the two. I thought about county counting...
Anecdotal Evidence
'By Studying Little Things'
“He advised
me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised.”
So did my high-school
English...
5 months ago
“He advised
me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised.”
So did my high-school
English teacher two centuries later. Boswell took Dr. Johnson’s advice and
later mined the resulting journal when assembling his Life of Johnson (1791). Much of Boswell’s London Journal...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The secrets of PostHog query performance
We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users...
over a year ago
We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users should have a smooth experience exploring their…
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
over a year ago
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
Quanta Magazine
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that...
a year ago
The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded.
The post An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Marginalian
Love and the Sacred
"I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening."
11 months ago
"I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening."
TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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10 months ago
The Modern House
With the rolling South Downs on its doorstep, the award-winning Black Timber House by HAPA...
8 months ago
Blog System/5
Kyua graduates
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
4 months ago
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
Classical Wisdom
The Cyclops
A Misunderstood Monster?
a year ago
Rest of World -...
What languages dominate the internet?
The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
a year ago
The one you’re reading this in, for starters.
Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
The Honest Broker
The Best Recordings of 2023 (Honorable Mention List)
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records...
a year ago
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records of exceptional merit
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 March 2024
Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
9 months ago
Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal
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9 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
nostalgia in akihabara
I’ve been to akihabara twice – once in 2008ish and another in 2018 – but back then I was more...
a year ago
I’ve been to akihabara twice – once in 2008ish and another in 2018 – but back then I was more interested in looking at the massive electronic stores like yodabashi and bic....
TheCollector
What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Enjoying the moment
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over a year ago
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work
and rest...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
How We Got To Now
I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but...
over a year ago
I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but this book stood out because 1) the…
Commoncog
Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do...
10 months ago
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.
NeuroLogica Blog
Using Plants as Biofactories
When you think about it, plants are self-reproducing solar-powered biological factories. They are...
a year ago
When you think about it, plants are self-reproducing solar-powered biological factories. They are powered by the sun, extract raw material from the air and soil, and make all sorts of useful molecules. Mostly we use them to make edible molecules (food), but also to make textiles,...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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2 months ago
Diaries of Note
Love Will Never Do without You
In the early hours of 14th August 2013, Kevin Coughlin was stunned to notice light reflecting off a...
a year ago
In the early hours of 14th August 2013, Kevin Coughlin was stunned to notice light reflecting off a mirror in his bathroom, marking the beginning of an extraordinary recovery. Having lost his sight in 1997 due to a rare genetic disorder named Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy,...
Coffee with an...
Design explained using pie charts again
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately,...
8 months ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately, this still isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE
Laetitia@Work
Single Mum By Default
Laetitia@Work #45
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Fall of Data Moats
AI actually makes most data moats weaker
a year ago
AI actually makes most data moats weaker
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
over a year ago
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
Mazdak
Google Quantum Computer, OpenAI Sora Video Generator and more ...
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
a week ago
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
Scott DeLong
Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise
Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do...
a year ago
Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do differently.
The post Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise appeared first on Scott DeLong.
The Works in...
The entrepreneurial state
How state competition – through war – can drive institutional progress
11 months ago
How state competition – through war – can drive institutional progress
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
over a year ago
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
11 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Ana Mendieta Use Blood in Her Works?
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10 months ago
diamond geezer
Tup'penny
#10003 ✅ Analysis
2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What...
a year ago
#10003 ✅ Analysis
2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What I wondered was what years my remaining 2p coins were minted in and how many years are missing.
1971 1980 1990 1991 1993 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008...
A Smart Bear
Worse, but unique
An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups...
a year ago
An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups can use this concept to beat incumbents.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Chris Sacca on the implied user contract
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what...
over a year ago
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…
Londonist
Review: Fashion City At Museum Of London Docklands
New exhibition traces fashion history from the Jewish East End.
a year ago
New exhibition traces fashion history from the Jewish East End.
Unpacked
StackOverflow's pivot: From disruption to opportunity
OverFlowAI takes the company’s core asset, exposes answers in a highly usable interface, and in turn...
a year ago
OverFlowAI takes the company’s core asset, exposes answers in a highly usable interface, and in turn creates a loop using gen AI to fire up the content engine.
The Ruffian
What's the Point Of Protests?
Maybe Not What We Think It Is
7 months ago
Maybe Not What We Think It Is
Seth's Blog
Defending the apostrophe
Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local...
a year ago
Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local merchant adds a note to some receipts that says, Your awesome. It’s tempting to speak up and point out that the sky comma is showing up where it shouldn’t. And missing when it...
Paul Cudenec
Terrorism and the demonocracy
One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by...
a month ago
One of the most shocking of all the harrowing accounts to come out of Gaza this year was provided by UK surgeon Nizam Mamode.
Cheese and Biscuits
Jeune & Jolie, Carlsbad
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a...
a month ago
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a year, Jeune & Jolie feels like it did all the work of establishing itself as one of the best restaurants in California in a metaphorical blink of an eye, a few short months...
The Great Discontent...
Giorgia Lupi
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
over a year ago
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Can you speak a little bit about where you grew up and how that place...
Weighty Thoughts
Commentary on Technology, Startups, and Investing
Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater...
over a year ago
Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater and Google X. Co-Founder Lioness. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
Working Theorys
Cool Self
There are a lot of theories about the meaning of life. About what we go through life searching for....
5 months ago
There are a lot of theories about the meaning of life. About what we go through life searching for. What we’re lucky if we find. Some of these theories give us answers, but many prompt us to ask more questions. Recently I’ve landed on my own theory, one rooted in a kind of common...
TheCollector
Who Were the Pilgrims?
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3 weeks ago
Noahpinion
Industrial policy doesn't have to succeed right away
Progressive approaches need to fail before they can change.
a year ago
Progressive approaches need to fail before they can change.
TheCollector
Who was Rasputin and Why is He Famous?
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6 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Ciitizen And The Patient Data Marketplace | Out-Of-Pocket
The path to our personal health record
a year ago
The path to our personal health record
Vitalik Buterin's...
Don't overload Ethereum's consensus
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Asheville’s French Broad River is a Must-Visit
11 months ago
nanoscale views
The fusion story of the day
There is a press conference going on right now announcing a breakthrough at the National Ignition...
over a year ago
There is a press conference going on right now announcing a breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility at Livermore. The NIF is an inertial confinement fusion facility that uses 192 laser beams to compress a fuel pellet containing deuterium and tritium. The pellet is...
alexwlchan
Drawing a better bandwidth graph for Netlify
I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per...
3 months ago
I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per month.
That’s usually plenty, and I’ve only exceeded it a few times – this site is mostly text, and I only have a modest audience.
I can see how much bandwidth I’ve used in the...
Computer Ads from...
Creative Computing Magazine Interviews Clive Sinclair (1980)
This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
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This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
Maps Mania
Out of Africa - The Story of Human Migration
6 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Double Cups by Khatabgasim
Double Cups is a charming establishment that seamlessly marries the age-old traditions of Arabian...
2 weeks ago
Double Cups is a charming establishment that seamlessly marries the age-old traditions of Arabian coffee with the contemporary trends in...
Rest of World -...
Another week, another push to “Make in India”
The Indian government mandates companies to get a license if they want to import laptops, tablets,...
a year ago
The Indian government mandates companies to get a license if they want to import laptops, tablets, and PCs. Experts call it “protectionism.”
A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke
When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
over a year ago
When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb:
A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good.
And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
2022/11/01
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
over a year ago
2022/11/01
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
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Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish
you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
3 months ago
you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
99% Invisible
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE]
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
3 months ago
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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a year ago
TheCollector
Joseph Kony & the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
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12 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jawing
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4 months ago
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Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had elaborate speech bubbles.
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Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 1, Forests
“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll...
10 months ago
“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic...
Vitalik Buterin's...
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
over a year ago
blag
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
over a year ago
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Irrational...
Who runs Engineering processes?
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
a year ago
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week.
The volume of requested reviews...
Archinect - Features
Many Architecture Firms Don’t Know How To Pursue International Work; We Spoke With Some That...
Over the past year, the number of U.S. architecture firms working on international projects has...
3 months ago
Over the past year, the number of U.S. architecture firms working on international projects has gently increased. However, a recent AIA survey found that many firms do not know how to pursue international work. In search of insights and advice on the topic, we spoke with three...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Power of the Marginal
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The Yin and Yang of a great co-founder relationship
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over a year ago
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been in a few myself, some which were not completely successful and then more
recently working with Leo for the last...
symmetry magazine
Practice makes perfect (particle detectors)
Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE...
a year ago
Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II.
When complete, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, will be the world’s most comprehensive neutrino experiment—and...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 056: Data deals
March 1, 2024.
9 months ago
Passing Time
Is a Priest Justified in Consulting a Doctor?
We must either love God or hate him; we must either believe everything or deny everything; All or...
a year ago
We must either love God or hate him; we must either believe everything or deny everything; All or Nothing.
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000
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a year ago
Max Rozen
Deploying Node and React Shopify apps on Vercel
Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this...
over a year ago
Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this article, I'll show you how.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Review
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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You get scared to do 4 stars because then they inquire how they can improve service.
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Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
a month ago
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk'
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services
that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services
that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known
service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community
string).
But there is another service that is...
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Wars and ideology simplified
Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden
What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A 1960s Split-Level Turned Three-Story Home In Seattle
Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a remodel project they completed in Seattle,...
a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a remodel project they completed in Seattle, Washington, that transformed a 1960s split-level home into an updated design for a family of five. The project’s goals were to modernize the space, add a third floor, relocate the...
The American Scholar
Katie Heller Saltoun
Tenderness and grit
The post Katie Heller Saltoun appeared first on The American Scholar.
a week ago
Tenderness and grit
The post Katie Heller Saltoun appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image Part I: Design Iterations
I blogged about my recent project omgimg.jim-nielsen.com and I figured I’d write more details about...
a week ago
I blogged about my recent project omgimg.jim-nielsen.com and I figured I’d write more details about my process behind making it.
When the idea first struck, I jumped into Figma and started working out the idea. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted: a quiz-like website that...
Stephen Diehl
The Twilight of the Securities Act
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Nature’s Oldest Mandolin: The Poetic Science of How Cicadas Sing
“The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a...
7 months ago
“The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more bittersweet than in the creature whose body is the oldest unchanged musical instrument on Earth: a tiny mandolin silent for most of its existence, then sonorous with...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover the Artistic Side of Aspen: A Guide for Culture Lovers
7 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Nuclear Microreactors
The first nuclear powered vessel was completed in 1959. Since then there have been nuclear powered...
a year ago
The first nuclear powered vessel was completed in 1959. Since then there have been nuclear powered vessels in the oceans, including many nuclear submarines. The obvious advantage is that is such vessels can stay at see for long periods of time without refueling. These ships use...
A Smart Bear
Satisficing vs Maximizing
Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural...
a year ago
Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural perfectionist.
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
over a year ago
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses.
What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
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