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TheCollector
Wittgenstein & Mysticism: Grasping What Cannot Be Said undefined
a year ago
Londonist
Best Of London 2023: It's The Annual Londonist Awards! Dust off your tux - it's trophy time!
a year ago
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian...
7 months ago
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7 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...
The Modern House
Old meets new at a masterfully renovated 400-year-old farmhouse in the South Downs
a year ago
Mazdak
Understanding Family Trusts in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide What is a Family Trust?
a month ago
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
Maps Mania
The Kessler Syndrome
a year ago
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists undefined
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I took Olga to her first bull fight It was on his sixteenth birthday in 1902 that pioneering photographer Edward Weston held his first...
a year ago
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a year ago
It was on his sixteenth birthday in 1902 that pioneering photographer Edward Weston held his first camera—a Kodak Bull’s-Eye No. 2 given to him by his father that sparked his fascination with capturing the world around him, the style that developed eventually seeing him become...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin] Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
IEEE Spectrum
The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper “Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. If you watched any amount of American television back then, you probably saw the...
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions? undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moderating AI Conferences I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Stephen Diehl
Haskell Poll Results
over a year ago
Contemporist...
This Sculptural Home Is Full Of Curves And Surrounded By Landscaping Niko Architect has shared photos of a sculptural home with curves they designed that's been built...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Niko Architect has shared photos of a sculptural home with curves they designed that's been built into an artificially created landscape.
Cheese and Biscuits
Oren, Dalston Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mumbling and grumbling during my journey to Dalston the other night, as the 38 bus did an average speed of just less than walking pace all the way from Holborn in the pouring rain, just helped to highlight how I end up travelling to some parts of town for dinner over and over...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
Maps Mania
GeoGuessr for Art
9 months ago
Wait But Why
The Second Presidential Debate In case you missed it, here's what happened. The post The Second Presidential Debate appeared first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In case you missed it, here's what happened. The post The Second Presidential Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
HTMHell
The hidden depths of the input element by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
The Modern House
Water's Edge: five homes that take in Britain’s rugged coastline  In the UK, you’re never more than 70 miles from the sea, but why put any distance between your home...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In the UK, you’re never more than 70 miles from the sea, but why put any distance between your home and the shifting shoreline? The pull of our luminous and varied coastline is undeniable, which is why we’ve found five homes a stone’s throw from […]
Old Structures...
A Deservedly Unknown Truss There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad)...
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10 months ago
There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad) tracks just south of the Dobbs Ferry Station: For now, ignore the big white pipe at the bottom of the side truss: it’s a utility line, not part of the truss. That leaves us with...
TheCollector
The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know undefined
3 months ago
This Space
The end of literature, part five "Stupid" and "a marketing exercise" were the first two descriptions I saw of the New York Times' 100...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
"Stupid" and "a marketing exercise" were the first two descriptions I saw of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century polled from hundreds of "literary luminaries" offering ten choices each, and while it is both of those things, "parochial" is the first word that...
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call How the kernels implement the fork system call
a month ago
The personal website...
Designing with code We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released, there’s been a wave of competition among traditional design tools. And as the number of tools available to designers grows exponentially, ideas that were once considered fringe are...
Londonist
29 Things To Do In London On 29 February Use your extra day of 2024 wisely.
11 months ago
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981 “Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s  ...
Londonist
60 Of The Best Things To Do In London This Spring Your March-May diary, sorted.
10 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more detailed […] The post My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov undefined
3 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Louwrentius
Using ncat to provide SSL-support to non-ssl capable software Sometimes, people are using software that does not support encrypted connections using SSL. To...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes, people are using software that does not support encrypted connections using SSL. To provide SSL-support to such a client, ncat can be used. Ncat is part of nmap, the famous port-scanner. The main principle is that the non-ssl capable software does not connect to the...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Confession from Ghost-O-Meter’s Creator I released Ghost-O-Meter with a secret. I realize now that it was a mistake.
over a year ago
ribbonfarm
Intellectual Menopause I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John Gall’s...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John Gall’s Systemantics, and it naturally stuck in my brain given I’m pushing 50 and getting predictably angsty about it. The phrase conjures up visions of a phenomenon much more profound and unfunny...
Retail Design Blog
Donut of Curiosity store As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring...
a week ago
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a week ago
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring a...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
over a year ago
TheCollector
Are Supernatural Beliefs Real? undefined
a week ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'As Sensitive As Anyone Else' “In common with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people are as...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“In common with James Jones, Gina Berriault knows that ill-educated or inarticulate people are as sensitive as anyone else. She renders their speech with a fine and subtle ear for the shy or strident inaccuracies, for the bewilderment of missed points and for the dim, sad rhythms...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
On the Arts
How to Write a Proper Haiku A Starter's Guide to the Deceptively Simple Poetic Form
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Things That Pass' Among the books and magazines for sale in our neighborhood library I found the Winter 1985 issue of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Among the books and magazines for sale in our neighborhood library I found the Winter 1985 issue of The American Scholar, which I bought for a quarter. Joseph Epstein was still the editor. On Page 97 is a poem, “Old Man Sitting in a Shopping Mall,” by a writer whose name was...
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe" Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ultimate Guide for Solo Travelers: Exploring This Beach Destination
7 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s Reports Decline in Auction Sales For First Half of 2024 undefined
6 months ago
The American Scholar
The Fair Fields Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous...
a month ago
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a month ago
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil The post The Fair Fields appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - HUGE Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On second thought this comic is way funnier without...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On second thought this comic is way funnier without the caption. Today's News:
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Free Will Vs Determinism
3 months ago
Mazdak
OpenAI in Turmoil: Altman and Brockman Join Microsoft, Employees Revolt In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the ousted CEOs of OpenAI, the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the ousted CEOs of OpenAI, the non-profit research company behind groundbreaking artificial intelligence advancements, are joining Microsoft to lead a new research unit. This move comes after failed talks to reinstate...
High Signal
Michael's app makes your phone dumb Michael Tigas is the founder of Dumb Phone, an app that makes your smart phone into a minimal...
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
8,000 Discs Were Suspended To Create This Artistic Installation Canadian-based Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has shared photos of Binary Spectrum, a site-specific...
a year ago
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a year ago
Canadian-based Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has shared photos of Binary Spectrum, a site-specific art installation they created for a lobby atrium inside a building in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Comprised of 8,000 translucent discs, Binary Spectrum is a poetic expression of...
Joel Gascoigne
Giving your startup a point of view * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post [https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup] is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
Wuthering...
Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and their Stoic self-help books - I shall not be afraid when my last hour... The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at...
a year ago
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a year ago
The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at least until I read Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (1st C.) several years ago and discovered that it was a self-help book, one of the founding self-help books.  The Meditations of...
xkcd.com
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
10 months ago
symmetry magazine
Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial holiday devoted to dark matter.
NeuroLogica Blog
Trust in New Technology In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are generally not “optimally rational”. It’s therefore an interesting thought experiment – what would be optimal, and how does that differ from how people actually assess risk? Risk is...
Left To Write
#12 Writemas: All The Pieces of You There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s a quote by Jorge Luis Borges I came across that I think about a lot. It goes like this: “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Seth's Blog
Is it a skill? If so, it might be worth learning. If so, it might pay to let someone who has learned it take care...
a year ago
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a year ago
If so, it might be worth learning. If so, it might pay to let someone who has learned it take care of it. Coding is a skill. But it’s not clear that the person who knows how to code should be doing your design. Teaching is a skill. But simply because someone is good at […]
Ognjen Regoje •...
As silly as it sounds, system design interviews are about systems and design Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and have two somewhat subtle observations that would help some candidates. 1. The word system has two meanings The definition most engineers reach for immediately is the one relating...
Mazdak
Elon Musk: All In He's the richest man in the world, a tech titan, and now...
2 months ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All? Richard III and Kingly Justice for All? JamesHoare Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
5 months ago
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
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a year ago
This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
SatPost by Trung...
11 types of cross-industry innovation PLUS: AI spam, Disney vs. BuzzFeed.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Father's Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you. Today's News: This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
Making software...
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it's a half-way decent copy...
Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status “All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec? John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown I recently...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inaccurate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive for the duration of this conversation. Today's News:
Flashbak
Visualising The Revolution: A Gallery of Posters from the Paris Uprising of May 1968 The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed...
a month ago
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a month ago
The politics of anarchists and communists was marked in hundreds of posters and flyers distributed around France in May 1968. The movement’s visual culture is key to its understanding.     These artworks and others like them were distributed in Paris and parts of the country amid...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 082: System prompts August 30, 2024.
4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bluster (New Style) Invokes the Public Good' I write about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand that...
a year ago
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a year ago
I write about money more often than ever before at my day job. I’m not naïve and understand that research can be costly and professors don’t work for the love of it, but money has become the barometer of worth. Small grants can be ignored regardless of the intrinsic worth of the...
The Pragmatic...
Uber’s engineering level changes Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time...
a year ago
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a year ago
Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time to change, and what were they? I’ve collected details.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Static Svelte: JavaScript Blogging with 93% less JavaScript This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where it [previously used React & Gatsby](https://5d7699e172ae430007210374--scout-videos-51664.netlify.com/writing/moving-to-novela). This is achieved through [Sapper's `sapper export`...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1) ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
Mark Manson
An Unconventional Guide to Happiness Every day, we're bombarded with messages telling us that we need to be happy all the time—and that,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every day, we're bombarded with messages telling us that we need to be happy all the time—and that, in order to be happy, we need the perfect job, the perfect partner, the perfect life. And we're made to think that anything less than perfect happiness is a failure. But the...
Retail Design Blog
The hinc Hair Salon by Hitotomori Architects + arinco architects This project is the interior design of a hair salon renovated from the first floor of a Showa-era...
3 months ago
Calculated Risk
January 12th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
a week ago
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a week ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
ToughSF
Advanced Solar Energy in Space: Part I Solar Thermal Rockets can be efficient and have high performance. However, they remain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Solar Thermal Rockets can be efficient and have high performance. However, they remain temperature-limited to an exhaust velocity of 12km/s. How do we surpass this limit? The limits NASA's Suntower concept. Solar Thermal Rockets have been shown to have great potential if...
diamond geezer
Unblogged February 29 unblogged things I did in February Thu 1: While I was in Trafalgar Square today I stood in the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
29 unblogged things I did in February Thu 1: While I was in Trafalgar Square today I stood in the shadow of Nelson's Column and took a photo of it stretching towards the National Gallery. It's much better than the photo I used last week in my post about the shadow of Nelson's...
Flashbak
William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure “We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place”...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs   It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
xkcd.com
A Halloween Carol
a year ago
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI. He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder. I’ve written a couple of similar...
Azad's Blog
Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
Steve Klabnik
Rails 4.0.0-beta1 to Rails 4.0.0-rc1
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Au revoir, Invoke It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we unshipped the last remaining Invoke commands and ported them over to just. I think Invoke is a good, cool project, and I wish it well. If you're at the precise intersection of "you have...
Flashbak
Emma Willard’s Time Maps “Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“Education cannot prosper in any community unless…the best and most cultivated talents of that community can be brought in to exercise the way.” – Emma Hart Willard   Emma Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was a trailblazing American educator who founded the first...
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars A history of the monastic high life
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
LOADMORE "loadmo.re is a mobile-websites showcase initiated by DVTK. The curation was initially based on our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"loadmo.re is a mobile-websites showcase initiated by DVTK. The curation was initially based on our own selection and is now meant to grow through submissions from our online community. From its earliest days, digital design practice has been focused on creating interfaces for...
Anarchy Unfolds
We Don't Need Conspiracies The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 055: Race conditions February 23, 2023.
11 months ago
Wuthering...
The books I read in November 2024 - like a hideous spinster who has learned the grim humor of the... Thank goodness I write these down. FICTION The Story of the Stone, Vol. 2: The Crab-flower...
a month ago
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a month ago
Thank goodness I write these down. FICTION The Story of the Stone, Vol. 2: The Crab-flower Club (c. 1760), Cao Xueqin – written up long ago. Cartucho (1931) & My Mother's Hands (1938), Nellie Campobello – Brutal vignettes of the Mexican revolution by a diehard partisan, a...
Maps Mania
Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes?
5 months ago
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Old Structures...
A Rabbit Hole I Did Not See Coming As a structural engineer, I do not examine old boilers, but I do see them quite often. The older...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As a structural engineer, I do not examine old boilers, but I do see them quite often. The older ones tend to be abandoned in place because (a) they are huge and heavy, and will have to be cut into many small pieces to be removed form the cellars and sidewalk vaults where they...
David Perell
Ash Fontana: Building Artificial Intelligence Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early employees at an online investing platform called AngelList. From there, he became the Managing Director at Zetta, the first investment fund focused on artificial intelligence. Now,...
CONTEMPORIST
Corrugated Metal Covers The Barrel Shaped Roofs Of This Portable Home William Samuels Architects has sent us photos of a small home they designed and built in Nelson, New...
a year ago
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a year ago
William Samuels Architects has sent us photos of a small home they designed and built in Nelson, New Zealand, that includes a single bedroom. The project was created out of a desire by architect William Samuels and his partner, Hannah D’Arcy, to own their first home. Building...
xkcd.com
Beamsplitters
3 months ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
Readymade Thermal Obfuscation - A few quick tests with a consumer product. Using the Ikea FREKVENS Raincoat to hide from thermal imaging.
over a year ago
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
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Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers and floating point numbers work. Whenever I make a zine I like to release a playground to go with it, like mess with dns for the DNS zine or the sql playground. For this one, I made a simple playground...
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As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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Ahhh… Finally another game! Theme of this beauty is Failure and your mission here is to avoid the bugs. As a programmer the fight with those nasty bugs are a daily occurrence and now I’ve brought you a chance to kill those nasties too! The gameplay wasn’t what I was planning on -...
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This book is a timeless classic that had a significant impact on deepening my understanding of the masculine. Published in 1990, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover introduces readers to the concept of mature masculine archetypes and their immature shadows. The authors, Robert...
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Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
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It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience. Browser behavior Most...
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It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases, adding lots of small features, bug fixes, performance improvements and experiments. Last week we released GitButler 0.13, which is our first release with our new Fearless Rebasing...
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So I participated in the Ludum Dare for the first time and this is a postmortem of my game Beebop The Island Hopper for the theme Islands. About Ludum Dare Ludum Dare is a competition which runs maybe two times a year and the competition is 24 hours long with a specific theme....
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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...
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2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
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Carl Jung Offers an Introduction to His Psychological Thought in a 3‑Hour Interview (1957) In the 1950s, it was fashionable to drop Freud’s name — often as not in pseudo-intellectual sex...
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In the 1950s, it was fashionable to drop Freud’s name — often as not in pseudo-intellectual sex jokes. Freud’s preoccupations had as much to do with his fame as the actual practice of psychotherapy, and it was assumed — and still is to a great degree — that Freud had “won” the...
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I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast. Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
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If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller setups, many people do employ multiple VMware hosts, but the SAN is a single point of failure. SANs are often fully redundant devices, with redundant PSUs, storage controllers,...
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it... People love to focus on horse races:  NYC vs Silcon Valley, Facebook vs Twitter, IPO markets vs...
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In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had an excellent "scrollytelling" graphic story on these languages and where they are spoken within New York City. as you scroll down the page languages appear down Manhattan...
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Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on The American Scholar.
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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...
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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...
Asterisk
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The journalistic and public health response to the US monkeypox outbreak was noisy and contentious. What tools do we have for predicting its spread?
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Old is new again I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative WebGPU framework, now at version 0.8. My goal is to make GPU rendering easier and more sane. I do this by applying the lessons and patterns learned from the React world, and...
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📰 Highlights Inflation is finally starting to show signs of easing on both sides of the Atlantic. The moderation of inflation is a significant development that alleviates pressure on consumers and provides central banks with some breathing room. Core PCE, the Federal Reserve's...
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This is the twelfth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. We’ve waited until the evening to see how splendid the day has been, and for this final installment, there was only one guest...
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Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is a trap that seduces us into forgetting that time passes and debt (or assets) remain. A couple about to wed might not...
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a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying everything
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For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would be really boring if I don’t like to program, it almost is anyway, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re to create a game! Just any game will do and we’re in a group of two and we...
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<![CDATA[With the last feature of WebCard behind me I proceeded with the next task to wrap up my RetroChallenge 2024 project: documenting the system. Since WebCard enhances NoteCards with only a few simple but significant features a full manual would be overkill. So I added to...
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Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast...
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James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
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I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
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<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set foot on a tennis court when he was 18 months or so. His cousin was practicing back then, so he would tag along with his aunt to the tennis courts.</p><figure class="none"><img...
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A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with St. Bart’s in front of it; the ornate tower that seemingly ends the avenue is the New York Central Building, not yet sold by the railroad and...
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Calculated Risk
Friday: No major economic releases scheduled Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • No...
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a month ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • No major economic releases scheduled.
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes undefined
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
a month ago
👋 Hello, I'm...
Why I started consulting, why you should too, and why you need to be your own customer!...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The half-life of magic “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to...
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Try to imagine the you of twenty years ago holding a Rabbit R1, or using a cell phone or being able to listen to every song, ever recorded, for just a few dollars a month. We don’t just take...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
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The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
The Convivial...
Re-sourcing the Mind The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No.
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Holding on for dear life That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip...
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10 months ago
That’s a cliche from the movies. Dangling from a railroad bridge, only determination and firm grip can save the hero. In our modern world, we often end up holding on to ideas, to grievances or to our view of the world. Ironically, the harder we hold on to the things we’re hiding...
Yazin Alirhayim
Braindump Been having a hard time lately focusing. It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Been having a hard time lately focusing. It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any significance I get derailed, and fall into this spiral of thought where I reconsider whether what I’m about to do matters, why it would, and whether I could be doing something else that...
Paul Graham: Essays
Being Popular
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Self-leveling workbench can travel without trouble An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or...
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An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or calibrating sensors. But it is difficult enough to level a stationary workbench and that becomes a nightmare for a workbench that needs to roll around a shop on casters, as shop floors...
David Perell
The Paradoxes of Modern Life The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the...
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over a year ago
The Paradox of Reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read. The Paradox of Writing: Great writing looks effortless. But because the ideas are so clear, casual readers don’t appreciate how much time it took to...
TheCollector
Why Did Ukraine Make Stamps of Banksy’s Art? undefined
a year ago
The Marginalian
Bertrand Russell on the Salve for Our Modern Helplessness and Overwhelm "A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be...
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a year ago
"A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams."
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Home on Erik...
The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here was about the filter bubble which prompted me to formalize my own thoughts. I firmly believe that it's the role of a system to respect the user's intent.
TheCollector
10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See undefined
a month ago
Seth's Blog
Kinds of courage Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make...
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9 months ago
Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make a crank phone call. The risk involved might be actual risk (it took courage to go to the moon) or it might feel risky (raising your hand at a meeting to ask a useful question...
TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great? undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Finding a more useful umwelt Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious...
a year ago
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a year ago
Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
The American Scholar
Bitten The post Bitten appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 071: How do you like them AIs June 14, 2024.
7 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Randomevent store by Zach Architecture Design Aranya is a newly developed cultural resort which in earlier days formed part of the Chinese...
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6 months ago
Aranya is a newly developed cultural resort which in earlier days formed part of the Chinese Communist Party‘s official summer...
The Marginalian
Batter My Heart: Love, the Divine Within, and How Not to Break Our Your Own Heart There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of the heart graver than making another our higher power. This may seem inevitable — because to love is always to see the divine in each other, because all love is a yearning for the...
IEEE Spectrum
This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
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a week ago
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
NeuroLogica Blog
GMOs and Butterflies Are attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our agriculture softening? Back in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Are attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our agriculture softening? Back in 2015 a Pew survey found that the gap between public opinion and that of scientists was greatest on acceptance of GMOs (more than any other topic surveyed), with a 51% gap. But more...
Explorations of an...
2024 (Part 1 of 2) Another year has come and gone. As is tradition, I have written a couple of blog posts documenting...
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Another year has come and gone. As is tradition, I have written a couple of blog posts documenting some of my natural history highlights throughout the year.  January Pre-dawn on January 1, 2024 saw me heading south towards Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia in search of a Gray Heron,...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
Steve Blank
Playing With Fire – ChatGPT The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of...
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
The Ruffian
My Book of the Year Yes, I'm Calling It Early
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
The distribution of character Along the way, we have been taught to associate character skills like honesty, rationality,...
6 months ago
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Along the way, we have been taught to associate character skills like honesty, rationality, agreeableness, grit and care with surface metrics like wealth or power. That’s almost certainly incorrect. And if we make assumptions based on vague measures of class, we’re going to get...
HTMHell
#7 multiple duplicate ids and table layout Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr id="body_row"> <td id="body_left">…</td> <td id="body_middle">…</td> <td id="body_right">…</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> ...
Style over Substance
My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar folding camera sure is bang for buck! The post My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 appeared first on Style over Substance.
TheCollector
What Is the Gender Philosophy of Judith Butler? undefined
4 months ago
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
James Vaughan's blog
Thoughts on Qutebrowser
over a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Peckham Cellars, Peckham Though it's always flattering to be invited to try the latest and greatest of London restaurants,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Though it's always flattering to be invited to try the latest and greatest of London restaurants, and more often than not I'm happy to play a part in the tricky first few weeks of a new operation to help get it off the ground, or to refocus attention on an established place...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 086: Llama 3.2 September 27, 2024.
3 months ago
Archinect - Features
Archinect's Tips for Recent Graduates Navigating Architectural Employment In 2023, navigating the job market for recent graduates can be daunting. Discussions surrounding...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2023, navigating the job market for recent graduates can be daunting. Discussions surrounding portfolio advice, crafting an effective resume, and if one should follow their "dream job or a dream school" have been ongoing topics on Archinect and our forum. Within the last few...
The Works in...
Upzoning New Zealand How a small country started building a lot of homes
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gettier Problem? undefined
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin Cash needs a Specification I’m not a Bitcoin developer, I’m just some guy looking in from the outside. Lately there’s been a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m not a Bitcoin developer, I’m just some guy looking in from the outside. Lately there’s been a bunch of heated debates between the different Bitcoin Cash developer teams. Something that stood out from all the noise was problems with communications and a lack of specification...
TheCollector
10 Artworks to See at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art? undefined
12 months ago
Coffee with an...
If movies were about Architecture “Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him...
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8 months ago
“Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him and value-engineer the project, in the jungle, during a war. “It’s a wonderful life”: An architect mishandles his finances. Jumps off a bridge. Is saved by his guardian angel /...
Jonas Hietala
A friendly game of Twilight Imperium A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We were six players, most had played the third edition before. As I was quite hyped before the game, I had read up on the rules, watched a let’s play or two and listened to a podcast...
HTMHell
#27 <a6> Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6> <h6...
TheCollector
Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters? undefined
2 months ago
Londonist
Lord Mayor Demonstrates Einstein's Time Dilation Effects In The City's Tallest Skyscraper With a little help from the National Physical Laboratory.
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grandfather Paradox Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World Literature. Today's News: We hit 2000 backers! Announcement of new free stuff incoming.
Liz Denys
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
a year ago
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a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 25 September-1 October 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Asterisk
My Primal Scream of Rage: The Big Alcohol Study That Didn't Happen Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health cancelled the largest study on alcohol ever...
a year ago
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a year ago
Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health cancelled the largest study on alcohol ever planned. Here’s why — and why you should be mad too.
Tech and Tea
What I've been eating... Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating...
a year ago
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a year ago
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating food, telling people about food. Why not add it into Tech and Tea?
Josh Thompson
Don't Focus on the Present If you accept the premise that training  cycles are the method by which you will improve your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you accept the premise that training  cycles are the method by which you will improve your climbing, you  should be able to focus less on the day-by-day fluctuation in your performance. At least, I should be able to, since I accept that premise. Yet I still struggle to not be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff. While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
diamond geezer
Christmas trees
3 weeks ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waist Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever imagine trying to convince an alien that...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You ever imagine trying to convince an alien that there's a huge difference between various food traditions? Today's News:
xkcd.com
Ravioli-Shaped Objects
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
It's Open Mic Day: Tell Us What You're Doing Here's a chance to pitch your own project
11 months ago
42!
The folly of trying to replace spreadsheets Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice...
a year ago
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a year ago
Our very earliest marketing copy for our HR SaaS was “Replace your spreadsheet nightmare with a nice clean HR database…” We thought it was a cute and quirky tagline, and that it would immediately relatable to our target audience of business and human resource managers. After all...
TheCollector
Genoa vs. Venice: A Historic and Layered Rivalry undefined
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Binary search The page contains interactive plots to play with different strategies and distributions.
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
The Benefits of Practicing Stoic Mindfulness Are you looking to cultivate emotional resilience, improve decision-making skills, and enhance your...
a year ago
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a year ago
Are you looking to cultivate emotional resilience, improve decision-making skills, and enhance your relationships with others? Consider practicing stoic mindfulness. While mindfulness is commonly associated with Zen Buddhism and other Eastern religions, it has roots in ancient...
The Honest Broker
8 Ways of Connecting Your Wi-Fi Can't Deliver They are the pillars of a happy life. So why are they under such fierce attack?
3 months ago
Louwrentius
HighPoint RocketRAID and staggered spinup with Samsung F1 I have experienced problems using a HighPoint RocketRaid 2320 and 2340 when they are using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have experienced problems using a HighPoint RocketRaid 2320 and 2340 when they are using 'staggered spinup' in combination with Samsung Spinpoint F1, 1 (one) terrabyte disks. The problem is that the F1 disks spinup very slowly and often seem to 'hang' while making ticking...
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Rahel Stephanie
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Merry Christmas 2024 and a Happy New Year
3 weeks ago
Noahpinion
Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people GDP is not a perfect guide to wealth, but it's pretty darn good.
4 weeks ago
👋 Hello, I'm...
Why I’m leaving the Shopify Apps business
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Moody's: Retail Vacancy Rate Unchanged in Q4 Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High Multifamily Continued to Defy the Supply Shock, Office’s Vacancy Rate Broke Another Record, Retail Rents Drift Higher with Tight Supply,...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell JamesHoare Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
11 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare, but funny | Out-Of-Pocket US healthcare is a joke. Let's make it funny.
a year ago
Steve Blank
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of this article here) Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning companies. The number of patents...
xkcd.com
Types of Eclipse Photo
9 months ago
Tech and Tea
When your post hits #1 on Hacker News A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and lessons learned
Josh Thompson
The How and Why of BlockValue I wrote the following post, and built the application in question, in 2017, in my “end of Turing”...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wrote the following post, and built the application in question, in 2017, in my “end of Turing” project, before I’d ever been hired as a software developer. I really enjoyed the app that I built, and I keep wanting to get around to cleaning it up and making it work again. Maybe...
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz undefined
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TheCollector
Belgian Revolution: The Independence Movement That Surprised Europe undefined
3 months ago
Simply Explained
ESP32: Tips to increase battery life Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes great responsibility. In this post, I’ll outline how I got an ESP32 to run for over 15 weeks (and counting) on a single 1000mAh battery.
Willem's Blog
Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
nanoscale views
A few quick highlights It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the morning sessions of the DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting (pdf of agenda here).  A few quick highlights that I thought were...
History Today Feed
‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review ‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review j.hoare Tue, 12/26/2023 - 00:00
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....
8 months ago
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8 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?...
Josh Thompson
Be Gentle to You There are many types of people in the world, all with different approaches to “getting stuff done”....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are many types of people in the world, all with different approaches to “getting stuff done”. My approach to doing stuff is different from my wife’s approach. (Who’da thunk?) These two years of marriage have revealed much. One of these “revelations” was this: my sense of...
A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’ This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
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2 weeks ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
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a year ago
Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
Paul Graham: Essays
Defining Property
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Aristotle's Politics
4 months ago