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Paul Graham: Essays
How to Fund a Startup
over a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
Maps Mania
The Daily Explorer
11 months ago
Old Structures...
A Striking Row I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye. That’s 690 to 700 Madison Avenue, just north of 62nd Street. While there’s an obvious alteration – the facade of the first two floors of each house was replaced at some point […]
Common Edge
Picturing an Exhibition: Closing the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale Much in the architecture world, and the world at large, has changed since the exhibition opened.
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Olmsted Trees Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, Mindy Thompson Fullilove Hirmer Publishers, August 2022 Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 160 pages | 100 illustrations | German/English | ISBN: | $X.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Central...
Liz Denys
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District: Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull But she wasn't...
The American Scholar
We Are the Borg Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us? The post We Are the Borg appeared first on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us? The post We Are the Borg appeared first on The American Scholar.
A Weekly Dose of...
Learning from the 2023 Book Fair This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book...
a year ago
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a year ago
This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Three hardly makes me an expert, even in my specialization of architecture books, but it does help with gauging the value given...
The DESK Magazine
Breaking the algorithm The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
a year ago
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a year ago
The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to pursue, what to worry about. And it's easier to let it.
Irrational...
Executive
5 months ago
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
Blog posts of...
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor. How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in...
over a year ago
Open Culture
Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do so, we may or may not be thinking of where the concept originated: Dante’s Divina Commedia, or Divine Comedy. We each imagine the circles in our own way — usually filling them with...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Building a GUI for Insphex <![CDATA[I added a GUI to Insphex, the hex dump tool I'm writing in Common Lisp on the Medley...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
<![CDATA[I added a GUI to Insphex, the hex dump tool I'm writing in Common Lisp on the Medley Interlisp environment. The initial version printed the hex dump only to the standard output, now optionally to a separate TEdit window with a command menu. The menu has items for...
Maps Mania
Quiz Around the World
a year ago
Mazdak
Capital Gains Tax Hike: Sell Now or Hold On? A Canadian Investor's Guide Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities....
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Canada's recent federal budget has sent ripples through the investment and real estate communities. A key change: a looming increase in capital gains tax on sizeable transactions. This has many wondering – should I sell assets before June 25th, 2024, to avoid the taxman's bite?...
Christopher Butler
Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Or, Technology vs. Taste The first search engine wasn’t one at all. It was a webpage with a list of links on it. There were many of these, some freely accessible, and others within the first walled-gardens of America Online, Prodigy, and so on. But the most famous one is...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Photographs by Ansel Adams undefined
a month ago
Castles in the Sky
Statistics are people, too. What we celebrate is what we value, and what we ignore is what we normalize.
2 months ago
Archinect - Features
Freelancing and Architecture: A Complicated Relationship For many salaried workers, freelancing and contracting may once have been a scary proposition,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
For many salaried workers, freelancing and contracting may once have been a scary proposition, little more than placeholder labels as one moved between secure, salaried positions. However, the past decade has seen a notable increase in skilled workers and professionals becoming...
Nat Eliason's...
The Bad Goal of $5m by 30 And perhaps a better framing
a year ago
Commoncog
Focus Doesn't Mean Doing One Thing at a Time Focus may be about saying no to good ideas, but it certainly doesn't mean doing one thing at a time....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Focus may be about saying no to good ideas, but it certainly doesn't mean doing one thing at a time. This is what focus looks like at an organisational level, told through the story of a business turnaround and the Marine Corps approach to war.
Platformer
Here come the ChatGPT bans Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
a year ago
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England undefined
4 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Architectural Wonders: 5 Cities You Must See
6 months ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
2 months ago
Maps Mania
Mapping the Colors of Autumn
a year ago
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Monoids for analytics This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a short post on the elegance of using abstract algebra for analytics in Scala. A monoid is a set that is closed under an…
Math Is Still...
The Year in Math Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Ognjen Regoje •...
Tracking the cursor in Selenium driven Chrome From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> ...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> .dot { background: red; position: absolute; width: 2px; height: 2px; z-index: 10000; } </style> (function () { "use strict"; document.onmousemove =...
CONTEMPORIST
This Coastal-Inspired Interior Is Soft And Calming Melling Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a duplex in Vancouver, turning it...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Melling Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a duplex in Vancouver, turning it into a warm and effortlessly coastal home for a young, active family. The home was completed in January 2023 and truly embodies the considered yet breezy essence of Kitsilano...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Luxury Hotels to Book in France in 2023
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
How Amazon Is Changing the Future of Robotics and Logistics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you have a good idea,” said Valerie Samzun, a leader in Amazon’s Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics (FTR) division. “It happens because you have the right team, the right...
Common Edge
What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station? A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New...
a year ago
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a year ago
A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.
Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million Annual Rate in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million Annual Rate in November A brief excerpt: Total housing starts in November were below expectations, however, starts in September and October were revised up slightly, combined. Total...
brr
Pressure Altitude Day-to-day variability at the South Pole.
a year ago
Probably...
Small percentiles and missing data Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. low_percentile Bootstrapping percentiles¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. I’m trying to figure out how to...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Safely surfing the web Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
The Modern House
The feel-good studio of Office S&M in Dalston, east London
a year ago
AVC
AIVC I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
diamond geezer
Not very interesting transport news Friday's not very interesting transport news The Overground lines still haven't been...
a month ago
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a month ago
Friday's not very interesting transport news The Overground lines still haven't been renamed double-sided Mildmay line panel was revealed at one end of platforms 1 and 2 (click to embiggen), while a separate sign directed passengers up to the Mildmay line from the subway. These...
diamond geezer
Moor Park One Stop Beyond: Moor Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
One Stop Beyond: Moor Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Moor Park, one stop beyond Northwood on the Metropolitan line, a Hertfordshire halt which exists thanks to a golf...
Londonist
An A-Z Of The London Underground X was tricky but we think we sorted it.
11 months ago
Casey Handmer's blog
Anti-aging tech fixes demographic collapse With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
With the latest studies on GLP-1 drugs showing not just a drop in all-cause mortality but also an apparent slowing of aging, I thought I’d write a quick note on how I think this technology, if it replicates, can drastically improve our lives. It’s hard to believe I’m writing...
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?) I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
ntietz.com blog
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
Unpacked
2024 Predictions: AI, Media, Advertising & more They say predictions is a bad business - You get it right, people say "duh". You get it wrong, you...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
They say predictions is a bad business - You get it right, people say "duh". You get it wrong, you are terribly wrong. So, of course we are kicking off with 2024 tech predictions. Listen in for hot takes across AI, Media, Advertising & more.
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
a year ago
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a year ago
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Muffins Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: +10 internet points to anyone who builds this....
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: +10 internet points to anyone who builds this. -1,000 ethics points, but +10 internet points. Today's News: Monnnnnnnday
Anecdotal Evidence
'For My Small Ailments' Empathy, in some quarters, is becoming quite fashionable. Clearly, my doctor has been...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Empathy, in some quarters, is becoming quite fashionable. Clearly, my doctor has been benefiting from professional development. When he enters the examination room we shake hands, he moves a chair to face me and sits almost knee-to-knee. This is to eliminate any suggestion of...
macwright.com
Takeaway from using CO₂ monitors: run the exhaust fan For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly expensive gadgets that I have no regrets purchasing – I love a little more awareness of things like temperature, humidity, and air quality, it’s ‘grounding’ in a cyberpunk way. But...
Londonist
Why The Hammersmith & City Is (Arguably) London's Newest Tube Line It's only been around since 1990 (sort of).
10 months ago
Blog - Practical...
Philadelphia I-95 Bridge Collapse Explained [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On Jun 11, 2023, a fuel tanker...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On Jun 11, 2023, a fuel tanker truck caught fire on an exit underneath Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia. The fire severely damaged the northbound bridge, eventually causing it to collapse. Sadly, the...
xkcd.com
Sandwich Helix
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pick Up What They Put Down > Translations welcome!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/aprenda-em-publico-hack.html))
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London In November 2023 David Hockney, Antony Gormley and some strange creatures.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of...
a month ago
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a month ago
Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of boutique hotel villas in Thailand. The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic...
Castles in the Sky
Those who support you may not support your art. Castles in the Sky #43
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Without chocolate, life would be a mistake — not a paraphrasing of Nietzsche he would have easily envisioned, for he was a toddler in Germany when a British chocolatier created the first modern version of what we now think of as chocolate: a paste of sugar, chocolate liquor, and...
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
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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.”
TheCollector
5 Iconic Quotes by the Duke of Wellington undefined
a month ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The importance of predictability for platform developers A platform is a technology or product upon which many other technologies or products are built. Some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A platform is a technology or product upon which many other technologies or products are built. Some platforms are controlled by a single…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Caveman Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This caption works for most comics, and makes them...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This caption works for most comics, and makes them a lot nicer. Today's News: I'll be at CulpeperCon today, if you're in central Virginia and want to say hi.
Wanderingspace
The First Ever Real-Time Video from Another Planet When you watch this video, if you find yourself thinking of the Apollo moon landings— here is why:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you watch this video, if you find yourself thinking of the Apollo moon landings— here is why: this is the first real-time video taken from another world since 1972, and this is the first ever taken on another planet. Most “video” you see from other planetary missions are...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🤠 Democratize Luxury
3 months ago
Computer Things
Nondeterminism in Formal Specification Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to come from randomness, concurrency, or external forces (like user input or other systems). In specification languages, we also have nondeterminism as a means of abstraction. Say...
Noahpinion
Biden should run on a message of abundance Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
10 months ago
./techtipsy
Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago. For legal reasons, all of this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago. For legal reasons, all of this is made up and no such service ever existed. Once upon a time, we had this Java service that handled all the backend work that you’d expect to occur for a product with a web...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer Seven weeks down, five weeks to go! It's flying by quickly. On the one hand, I want it to last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go! It's flying by quickly. On the one hand, I want it to last forever. On the other hand, I know it can't, and I'm looking forward to talking to coworkers again at my day job when I go back. RC has given me a renewed appreciation for what I get at...
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review ‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review j.hoare Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Life Which Is Spent in a Kind of Limbo' A reader has taken my suggestion that she read the fiction of the English writer Francis Wyndham...
a year ago
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a year ago
A reader has taken my suggestion that she read the fiction of the English writer Francis Wyndham (1924-2017), and reports she’s enjoying herself. “I see a little Henry James in his stories,” she writes, “but he’s really not like anybody else.” Exactly right.   Wyndham’s writing...
Julia Evans
A list of programming playgrounds I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about...
a year ago
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a year ago
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about how I didn’t have a great list of playgrounds to refer to. So I asked on Mastodon for links to cool playgrounds. Here’s what I came up with. I’d love to know what I...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Two practical uses for capture event listeners Normally, JS event are handled while bubbling up the DOM tree, and we've all had the pleasure to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Normally, JS event are handled while bubbling up the DOM tree, and we've all had the pleasure to catch an event from a child node on its parent. You'd even be excused for thinking that's the only way DOM events move. Many also know there's something else — events start at the...
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience. › Guiding...
devonzuegel.com
Part 3: The first walkable city in America in a century A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. As an urbanism nerd, the aspect of California Forever’s plan that I was...
Seth's Blog
Becoming intentional about virtual meetings A manual I recently read listed the “cons” of having a meeting virtually: To be accurate, every one...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A manual I recently read listed the “cons” of having a meeting virtually: To be accurate, every one of these points should have “so far” added. The videogame market is far bigger than the box office of Hollywood films. The people who play video games at home for hours at a time...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Dead Wall or a Thick Mist' Reading occasionally reveals a pleasing convergence of thought between one writer, separated by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Reading occasionally reveals a pleasing convergence of thought between one writer, separated by centuries and continents, and another. The happy reader is their ambassador and beneficiary. I was again reading Nabokov’s brief, death-haunted novel from 1972, Transparent Things. Its...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
The Thinking Cap
Please Build More Silly Things Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Evidence Suggests Lunar Cave Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Astronomers have discovered multiple “pits” on the surface of the moon – these look superficially like craters, but on closer inspection are actually vertical pits. There has been considerable speculation that these pits might be cave openings. Now, an analysis of data from the...
beep.blog
Rolumns 1.3 & Recompose 1.0 I built them, and now you're going to hear about it.
a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Retail Design Blog
Shisui hotel by TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers + Kengo Kuma & Associates Nara is known worldwide as the place where Japanese culture originated. Located at the western edge...
4 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
Flashbak
I’m Not a Look-Alike: François Brunelle’s Doppelgänger Photos doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as...
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doppelganger (n.) Wraith. literally: double-goer. Apparition of a living person, 1826 (from 1824 as a German word in English). – OED     We are more alike than many of us hope. Photographer François Brunelle has spent years tracking down real-life doppelgängers — people who are...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Now of course you gotta consult this year's hog's...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Now of course you gotta consult this year's hog's dram consortium on what they mean by 15 this year, and... Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
The Great Discontent...
Beatie Wolfe Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and pioneered new formats for art that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe's latest projects include a visualization of 800,000 years worth of climate data, a collective postcard art...
Math Is Still...
A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies...
a year ago
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a year ago
On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies a wealth of mathematics. The post A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
What Is Traditional Lakota Art of the Great Plains? undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US undefined
8 months ago
Noahpinion
Nobody knows how many jobs will "be automated" Whatever that even means.
a year ago
The Marginalian
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do...
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One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in...
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The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities by Erin Davis shows the streets of various cities in the United States color coded by suffix - (street, road, avenue, etc).  From where I've lived there seemed to be a clear logic to streets, avenues, boulevards and others. In my mind...
Anecdotal Evidence
'One Realises How Absolutely Modern the Best of the Old Things Are' My late father-in-law left me The Works of Rudyard Kipling in twenty-three volumes, the American...
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My late father-in-law left me The Works of Rudyard Kipling in twenty-three volumes, the American edition published by Scribner’s in 1899 when the author was thirty-four years old. As a writer, Kipling was a wonder of nature, as prodigious as Shakespeare and Dickens. To put...
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It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
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Blame the clients. And blame the conditions. But then, you’re on the hook to get better tools, find better clients and work in better conditions. It’s not convenient, but it’s possible. If it’s not worth the effort, we can simply accept what we’ve chosen and get back to work.
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Planned closures An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's...
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An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
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Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A...
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Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. The post Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem first appeared on Quanta...
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“As two men sit silent, after having exhausted all their topics of conversation; one says, ‘It is very fine weather,’ and the other says, ‘Yes;’—one blows his nose, and the other rubs his eye-brows; (by the way, this is very much in Homer’s manner;) such seems to be the case...
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Can Stoicism Help Us Improve Our Mental Health? . Stoicism is an ancient philosophical school of thought that originated in Athens, Greece, in the...
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. Stoicism is an ancient philosophical school of thought that originated in Athens, Greece, in the early 3rd century BCE. It emphasizes the importance of self-control, rational thinking, and resilience, which are all essential qualities for promoting mental well-being....
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On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much detail as I can. This post would not have...
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We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity market, so this was less about pining for a specific feature or even working to reduce the bill. This was about buying from Tom Rossi, the technical cofounder of HigherPixels (who...
The Marginalian
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There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…
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Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the thrill of bringing a new IoT project to life. But we also understand the frustration of repetitive setup processes and the time sink of configuring the same elements over and over...
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We redesigned Tequila Socorro, respecting its original essence and, through textures inspired by the richness of Mexican culture, infused key...
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Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “How Happy Is the Little Stone” by Emily Dickinson appeared first on The American Scholar.
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I am building a personal web. My name is Chris and I am a data hoarder personal archivist. Current status of my “_archive” volume: 741,637,054,464 bytes (741.64 GB on disk) Audio: 267,269,859,244 bytes (267.29 GB on disk) for 8,902 items Images: 24,176,297,844 bytes...
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You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
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Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal. They should be universal, though. Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible. They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
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Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
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Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
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I built a castle to save the economy You're welcome.
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Danglewatch (4) Dangleway dining North Heroica Pizza Bus is emblazoned with murals and 'hilarious' signs ("Unattended Children Will Be Given an Espresso And A Free Puppy"), so could hardly scream 'tourists welcome' any louder. cafe of the decent but dull variety, but it's...
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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Blockchain’s real world problem A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
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A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
nanoscale views
Science and how it will be practiced in the future I just registered for an event that celebrates the 35th anniversary of a particular science and...
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I just registered for an event that celebrates the 35th anniversary of a particular science and engineering program, and one question they posed was, to paraphrase, "Science has changed a lot in the last 35 years.  Please make three predictions about science in the next 35...
Stoic Simple
Self-Help Books & Stoicism: Why Stoic Thought is Having a Resurgence In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism as a philosophy for personal...
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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism as a philosophy for personal development. Once considered a relic of ancient Greece and Rome, its teachings are being rediscovered and repackaged for modern audiences. In this article, we'll explore the origins of...
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A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
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Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
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Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
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The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
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Clickworkers are turning against each other Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are...
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Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI training, are increasingly wary of newcomers.
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Red Giant & Maxon, Sitting in a Tree Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking...
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Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking tools for you for 17 years, is merging with Maxon, makers of Cinema 4D. From the Red Giant blog: Hi folks — by now you’ve probably heard the news that Maxon and Red Giant are...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Will Your Birds Be Always Wingless Birds' A questionnaire sent to Louis MacNeice in 1934 – that “low dishonest decade” was big on...
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A questionnaire sent to Louis MacNeice in 1934 – that “low dishonest decade” was big on questionnaires to writers – asked, “Do you take your stand with any political or politico-economic party or creed?” The Irishman replied: “No. In weaker moments I wish I could.” Never a...
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The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not...
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Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let's find out if it's true.
Epic Web Dev
Quickly Determine Whether a Module is Bundled (tip) There's a faster alternative to using source-map-explorer to examine your client bundle for unwanted...
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Startup Series Part 1: Interviewing Engineers There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and...
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There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
alexwlchan
Creating a Python dictionary with multiple, equivalent keys In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times...
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In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together. I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs: pairs = { 'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …}, 'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
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Socrates and the Soul And the Immortal Soul
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Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle able to push probes towards the farthest objects in our Solar System.  What other missions could the Starship ‘Lite’ do, and how quickly? Near SSTO Rockets performance scales...
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Actress Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) once recalled how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) convinced her to remain on Star Trek after she had decided to leave the series for a starring role on Broadway. In 1966, Star Trek creator...
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This Small Home With A Green Roof Curves Around A Pond Architect office Hello Wood has sent us photos of a small modern house they completed tucked away in...
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Architect office Hello Wood has sent us photos of a small modern house they completed tucked away in Hungary’s lush rural landscapes. Situated next to a fishing pond, the home is a retreat for the owners and is dug into a mound, peeking out just enough to blend with the horizon....
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
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Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized. This is meant to prevent naive users from installing malware while running software from unknown sources. Since this process is convoluted, it stops many indie game developers from releasing their Godot...
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The legendary composer on the creative process, importance of deadlines, problem with software in arts and what is art actually for?
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Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
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Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
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Why Do Heroes Always Have Theme Songs (Part 1 of 2) An excerpt from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
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Worth the wait Late is better than never, and it’s never too late. Even if the line is long, and you missed a...
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Late is better than never, and it’s never too late. Even if the line is long, and you missed a chance to join earlier. If the best time to start was yesterday, the second best time is today. Being patient is much easier than it looks.  Some lines don’t need you to be present, so...
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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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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
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Five weeks ago, I had pledged to go on a writing journey to write my truth with Foster.co. Admittedly, I wasn’t too involved in many of the Season 2 workshops. However, the few I did attend left a significant impact on how I approached the writing process. As a result, here is my...
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024 Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length. I didn't fancy spending my birthday in Upminster so left it a few days before taking a ride on the end result. • The 346 used to be one of London's shortest bus routes, a brief...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It's on the Russian Level' “I’m not a great reader of fiction. I read through all of Jane Austen with pleasure. I read through...
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“I’m not a great reader of fiction. I read through all of Jane Austen with pleasure. I read through George Eliot at school, but I was too young to appreciate her then. But about a year ago I read Middlemarch. Most marvellous book. Best thing in nineteenth-century English fiction,...
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Jurassic Punk If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven...
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If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven Spielberg began production on 1993’s Jurassic Park, he and Industrial Light and Magic’s Dennis Muren planned to execute the all-important visual effects component of the film’s...
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What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full, a level that hasn’t been...
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But what if we’re wrong? Of course, we think we’re right. That’s why we’re sharing our opinion. But when there’s a...
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Of course, we think we’re right. That’s why we’re sharing our opinion. But when there’s a disagreement, or we’re predicting the future, it’s likely that someone will turn out to be incorrect. Sometimes, being wrong is a minor embarrassment, with very little real cost. And...
Spoon & Tamago
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All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a hotel.” That’s the tagline for ‘Not A Hotel,’ a real estate start-up founded by Shinji Hamazu. The company challenges the traditional hotel model by treating it as a timeshare and...
AI Snake Oil
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
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RSA is deceptively simple (and fun) While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack...
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While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1. It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
Spoon & Tamago
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It’s an annual tradition at casa Spoon & Tamago to reflect on the year that was by taking a look back at the posts that resonated the most with our readers. In doing so, we try to make sense of the year which, for Japan, was very much a year of homecoming. Japan felt like...
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Waymo in Japan, Veo 2 AI video, Snapchat Monetization ... Google DeepMind has upped the game in AI video generation.
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What I've Been Doing Since Quitting My Job I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and...
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I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and formed my own single-person software company. That was four months ago, so I thought I’d share an update on how things are going. What’s it like not having a job? That’s the most...
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We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features…
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I hadn’t opened my copy of Raymond Sokolov’s Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling (Harper and Row, 1980) in a long time. It’s a rather skimpy biography, though the only one we have, so I hope someone, someday writes a life worthy of Liebling’s gifts. When I was a...
TheCollector
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web...
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Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.  Much…
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Messy recycled mixed media sketchbook tour video I recently completed my recycled sketchbook that I've been using for messy mixed media experiments....
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I recently completed my recycled sketchbook that I've been using for messy mixed media experiments. I originally used this notebook as my intention journal, and then painted or collaged over the text and turned it into an anti-perfectionist mixed media “junk journal”. It's a...
Rest of World -...
Indian tech CEO to ChatGPT’s Altman: India can dominate AI Tech Mahindra CEO explains why he believes India has the potential for global AI supremacy.
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Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
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It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
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If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
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An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
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Wonders of Space Travel (1954) I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space...
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I have not blogged about this pamphlet since 2010 so here is a more complete scan. Wonders of Space Travel was a pamphlet that came enclosed in the May 8th issue of Lion Weekly (#116) in 1954. Lion Weekly was a magazine for children with comics and stories. (from Wikipedia...
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The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
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I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […] The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.