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journal – Winnie Lim
pretension Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself...
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9 months ago
Lately I am trying to have more compassion for myself, but it has been a struggle. I tell myself just like I wouldn’t expect someone without a leg to run a marathon,...
Rest of World -...
How to become an #Influencer in India Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a...
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a year ago
Many middle-class Indians aspire to be the next Kusha Kapila or Ranveer Allahbadia. But there’s a real struggle to monetize from Instagram.
CommitStrip
M3RRY CHR1STMAS 2021
over a year ago
Passing Time
Backyard Skiing You don’t have to go far from home for adventure
9 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Anti-capitalism 101
over a year ago
Maps Mania
How Smooth is the Earth?
3 months ago
The Rational Walk
In the Zone Biohacking can be taken too far, but the intelligent use of modern technology has the potential to...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Biohacking can be taken too far, but the intelligent use of modern technology has the potential to provide valuable insights about our health.
Handprinted - Blog
Using Pearl Ex Metallic Pigments to Enhance Linocuts Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics,...
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9 months ago
Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics, oils, encaustics and loads more. As printmakers we were keen to see how they could be used in various printmaking applications, starting with linocut.    We began by mixing Apple...
Seth's Blog
PW 4: Productivity and tools Adam Smith and Karl Marx both wrote about the pin-making machine. Not too long ago, pins (for hats,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Adam Smith and Karl Marx both wrote about the pin-making machine. Not too long ago, pins (for hats, to hold shirts in place, etc.) were incredibly expensive. They were a luxury item, and a handmade pin might cost more than buying lunch. The pin-making machine changed this. It...
somenice
Generative 3D Modeling Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as...
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Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as reviews had been quite favourable with results creating 3D models with “AI”. The website describes the technology as unified Structured LATent (SLAT) representation and there is a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m...
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a year ago
Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m here to propose another: .well-known/avatar The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location. I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #16 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800. Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken So I'm begging the tech overlords to let us opt out from their dystopia
7 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
Seth's Blog
Take good notes Facts are important, but facts don’t create learning. Stories do. A story fits into (and changes)...
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a month ago
Facts are important, but facts don’t create learning. Stories do. A story fits into (and changes) our understanding of the world. Good teachers are storytellers, and storytellers are teachers. Notes, then, aren’t recitations of facts. They’re story prompts. A good note reminds...
Max Rozen
Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500 I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently bought a cheap, used Thinkpad T480, replaced a bunch of parts. Some folks were asking how they could do the same thing, so I figured I'd write about it
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
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over a year ago
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
Londonist
Two 24-Hour Tube Strikes Planned For April And May 2024 Aslef members say they're 'working harder and longer for less'.
9 months ago
The Ruffian
Is Culture Dying? And if it is, should we mourn it?
3 months ago
Computer Things
Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
Devmoh
Why did Meta open-source Llama 2? Meta seems to be all in on open-source AI. They released Llama 2, which features some impressive...
a year ago
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a year ago
Meta seems to be all in on open-source AI. They released Llama 2, which features some impressive benchmarks compared to other open source language models. Why does Meta keep releasing open-source models? What is their incentive? To attract and retain top AI talent.
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
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a year ago
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
The Marginalian
Youth and Age: Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what...
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a year ago
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius ... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
Math Is Still...
‘Embryo Models’ Challenge Legal, Ethical and Biological Concepts With embryolike constructs built entirely from stem cells, researchers can revolutionize our...
a year ago
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a year ago
With embryolike constructs built entirely from stem cells, researchers can revolutionize our understanding of development. But how close to an embryo is too close? The post ‘Embryo Models’ Challenge Legal, Ethical and Biological Concepts first appeared on Quanta...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
U.S. Launches Passport Fairs to Help Speed Up Applications
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the experience of completing a sketchbook for my japan trip Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on...
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11 months ago
Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on my travels. I did the same when I went to Japan, except a...
Light from Space
The Helping Hand of LDN 1355 LDN 1355 is a dark nebula in Cassiopeia, vaguely in the shape of an outstreched human hand—the dark...
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over a year ago
LDN 1355 is a dark nebula in Cassiopeia, vaguely in the shape of an outstreched human hand—the dark dust obscuring the reflection nebula behind it. Total exposure time: 58h 50' (211,800s) Image resolution: 5,216 × 3,909px (1.924″/px) Shot from my driveway
Both Are True
i guess i wrote a song??? a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
8 months ago
The Marginalian
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem... “Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson lamented in a love letter. In his splendid short poem about the secret of happiness, Kurt Vonnegut exposed the taproot of our modern suffering as the gnawing sense that what we...
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction undefined
3 months ago
Diaries of Note
Mr. Daniels took a picture just as it left the tracks At 10:35 a.m. on 17th December 1903, Orville Wright, alongside his brother Wilbur, embarked on a...
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a year ago
At 10:35 a.m. on 17th December 1903, Orville Wright, alongside his brother Wilbur, embarked on a historic journey that would change the course of human history. They achieved the first powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina....
The Honest Broker
The 6 New Rules of Communicating The era of teleprompters and talking points has come to an end
a month ago
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
Maps Mania
Explore the World with Shadows
a year ago
The American Scholar
All in Your Head The post All in Your Head appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
./techtipsy
My server setups throughout the years My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself a decent used laptop (ThinkPad T430) that had more than 3GB of RAM that my ThinkPad T60 had, I could use some of my older hardware as testbeds for any of the stupid ideas that I...
David Heinemeier...
The origin of Ruby on Rails I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was...
a year ago
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a year ago
I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was just released today. Looking back on those early, formative years of Ruby on Rails with Tobi, Jamis, Jeremy, and Jason was actually kind of profound. I usually don't spend much time...
Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
Open Culture
Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious... A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further...
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4 days ago
A month ago, drones were spotted near Morris County, New Jersey. Since then, reports of further sightings in various locations in the region have been lodged on a daily basis, and anxieties about the origin and purpose of these unidentified flying objects have grown apace. “We...
Rest of World -...
The Book of Unexpected Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Make way for the robot elephants: Technology is providing surprising updates to long-standing traditions.
Simply Explained
Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small, powerful, have a ton of onboard features, and they're relatively easy to program.However, when using it together with Arduino, all your code runs on a single core. That seems a bit...
The Forney Flyer
Our Summer Plans up in the Air... And a Motorcycle Adventure from Late Last Year I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the latest updates regarding our plans to be in the U.S. briefly this summer. Well, as you can imagine, those plans are totally muddled right now because of all the Covid-19 related...
diamond geezer
Secret river quiz Congratulations, you've found my secret river quiz. (completed in seven hours, thanks)
a month ago
SatPost by Trung...
Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery Notes from the 1987 Esquire magazine issue that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to "pursue mastery [because]...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Notes from the 1987 Esquire magazine issue that inspired Jerry Seinfeld to "pursue mastery [because] that will fulfill your life".
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t JamesHoare Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
9 months ago
The Marginalian
Your Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes’s Wondrous Victorian Visualizations of Sound “I hear bravuras of birds… I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,” Walt Whitman...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“I hear bravuras of birds… I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,” Walt Whitman exulted in his ode to the “puzzle of puzzles” we call Being. How puzzling indeed, and how miraculous, that of the cold silence of spacetime voice emerged, in all its warm loveliness —...
A Weekly Dose of...
Changing Ideals in Architectural Criticism On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism edited by Wilfried Wang, published by Park Books...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism edited by Wilfried Wang, published by Park Books and University of Texas at Austin, 2022 (Amazon / Bookshop) Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago by Blair Kamin with photographs by Lee Bey,...
TheCollector
Ancient Pathways: What Are Ley Lines? undefined
7 months ago
Noahpinion
How do you deal with real, actual Nazis? They come back every few decades, spreading the same old lies.
3 months ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi passes an independent security audit Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teeth Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is he was originally just printing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is he was originally just printing teeth for the pure delight before he discovered the opportunity for savings. Today's News:
Arduino Blog
Giving a teenage pet turtle a synthetic pizza-ordering voice If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of some degree of training. Training is really just taking advantage of an animal’s natural inclination to adapt for survival, which is something all living organisms do. With that in...
Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About Innovations outside the AI spotlight
a month ago
xkcd.com
Modes of Transportation
6 months ago
Arduino Blog
Enjoy a perpetual solar eclipse with this machine Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A total eclipse will occur somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so, but that is more likely to track across the middle of the Pacific Ocean than wherever you happen to be....
Open Culture
How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive... These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement about some new technological development (realized or scheduled) related to space exploration. Some react to this by wondering what could possibly be out there in the universe to...
Open Culture
“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the... There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in...
TheCollector
Andrei Molodkin Holds Art Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life undefined
10 months ago
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 3 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3:...
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over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Is It Keto Month 3: Returning to a Site that Grew without Me
The Ruffian
The Wile E. Coyote Illusion Have you looked down yet?
a year ago
The Universe of...
Loki the comedian Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The Æsir have killed Skaði's father, and owe her compensation. She has been sad since her father died, she says, and demands that the Æsir make her laugh. Loki rubs his hands together...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24) Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
blag
Galloping Search I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
Noahpinion
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity We have public schools for a reason.
a year ago
Flashbak
Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters “This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming     Many … Continue reading "Dear...
Louwrentius
Creating configuration backups of HP procurve switches I've created a tool called procurve-watch. It creates a backup of the running switch configuration...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've created a tool called procurve-watch. It creates a backup of the running switch configuration through secure shell (using scp). It also diffs backed up configurations against older versions, in order to keep track of changes. If you run the script from cron every hour or...
Luxagraf:...
Notes From The Road Your browser does not support video playback via HTML5. Watch on YouTube
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024 This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
TheCollector
5 Royals Who Behaved Badly undefined
5 months ago
James Cheshire
Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Regression Drawing lines among dots and more!
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Similar Languages? undefined
3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
The Honest Broker
How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture My quest for a healthier relationship with technology
9 months ago
Maps Mania
A Bird's Eye View of America
a year ago
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Less Than The Original Construction on LEGO Notre Dame has moved ahead but will pause while I’m out of town. We’ve got the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Construction on LEGO Notre Dame has moved ahead but will pause while I’m out of town. We’ve got the apse built up to the vault level and the beginning of the crossing: I’ve been playing around to see if I can do a fly-through style photo, to give a sense of what the building...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Posts on Made of...
Property Testing Like AFL In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same practice, or at least share a lot of commonality. In this followup post, I want to explore that idea a bit more: I’ll first detour into some of my frustrations and hesitations around...
Willem's Blog
Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
The Rational Walk
The Limits of an Inner Scorecard Having an "inner scorecard" can be liberating and foster independent thinking, but ultimately human...
a year ago
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a year ago
Having an "inner scorecard" can be liberating and foster independent thinking, but ultimately human beings must also subject themselves to the judgment of key people in their lives.
TheCollector
4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Twinkie Defense? (& Other Crazy Court Arguments) undefined
8 months ago
Noahpinion
A vote for Trump is a vote for chaos Let's leave the 2010s in the past where they belong.
11 months ago
Common Edge
How FEMA’s New “Resilience Zone” Program Works “The goal is to ensure that the most at-risk...communities have the support, resources, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
“The goal is to ensure that the most at-risk...communities have the support, resources, and opportunities they need.”
Platformer
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major...
a year ago
Maps Mania
America's Disappearing Birds
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Who's winning the AI arms race? It depends whether AI is a "disruptive" or "sustaining" technology.
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review ‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review JamesHoare Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is shown below. Just a small portion of the ware is shown here to make...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is shown below. Just a small portion of the ware is shown here to make things a bit more challenging. If after a week it turns out to be too hard to guess based on the subtle details included in this image, I’ll add another image to this post with […]
Londonist
Easter 2024 Transport In London: Which Train And Tubes Are Running, And Which Stations Are Closed? Got an egg hunt to go to? Read this first
9 months ago
Old Structures...
That Looks Old I was on my way to a site in Greenwich Village and came across this group at 12th Street and Hudson...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I was on my way to a site in Greenwich Village and came across this group at 12th Street and Hudson Street: This is in the Greenwich Village Historic District, so I knew I could find a capsule history of the buildings with minimal effort, but I took a look at the usual fire maps....
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero undefined
7 months ago
Londonist
The Elysian Arcs: Giant Rainbows And Bubbles Appear Beneath Cheesegrater Free installation bring colour to City.
9 months ago
Maps Mania
What is Your Neighborhood Scare Score?
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
Cricket, influencers, layoffs: Alibaba’s risky bet in Pakistan Since its acquisition by the Chinese giant, e-commerce site Daraz has been experimenting to reach...
a year ago
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Since its acquisition by the Chinese giant, e-commerce site Daraz has been experimenting to reach new buyers amid an economic crisis.
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
9 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
7 months ago
Math Is Still...
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques...
a year ago
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In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques known as “resurgence” points toward an escape. The post How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
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At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector maps in Figma, the graphic design tool. Since then I’ve been maintaining that plugin for fun, and introduced another one, Placemark Globe. They’ve been somewhat successful! The...
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…choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but there’s little that matters more. There are two key elements: At one extreme is the first few years of Google’s growth. The salesforce didn’t matter–the customers showed up on their own,...
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In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best", you just need "good enough".
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About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of...
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As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to manage projects, I do think there are some methods that can yield better results. I’m hardly an expert in this area, but I’d like to share some of the...
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Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, one of Japan’s most-historically and culturally significant shrines, will undergo a massive renovation beginning in May of 2023. And for three years the honden main hall will be completely closed off to the roughly 10 million visitors who come to the...
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I made my daughter a toy tree house thing for Christmas out of old firewood (and a slice of cedar donated by a neighbour). It’s a bit clunky in places — “rustic” shall we say? But I probably enjoyed making this, over a few weeks of lunchtimes and evenings, more than anything I’ve...
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We’ve all harboured a fantasy of a DIY project – and the hard-earned sense of achievement that comes with self-building. After all, what could be more rewarding than a home constructed by you, entirely for you? Well, it’s time to stop dreaming and start doing, […]
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Epoch after epoch, we humans have tried to raise ourselves above other animals with distinctions that have turned out false — consciousness is not ours alone, nor is grief, nor is play. If there is anything singular about us, it is our capacity to be wonder-smitten by the world...
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For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
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I have watched so many leaders over the years in my various roles as lead investor, board member, board chair, investor, and advisor. And one thing I have learned from this front-row seat is that leading from the heart is very powerful. A leader can be the most brilliant product...
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I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
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OON ARCHITECTURE has designed a modern home in Benavidez, Argentina, that features a stone, wood, and concrete facade, that also includes a round window. The round window is recessed into the stone wall and is an eye-catching design element that can be seen as one walks along the...
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SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups Many of the today’s most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor...
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Many of the today’s most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor relied heavily on SEO for their initial…
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Last week, I passed 800 people as I walked my way through New York. I decided to look at the folks I was walking near. Of those 800 people, not one was as conventionally attractive as a movie star. Few looked like the images I saw on the billboards I passed. Most wouldn’t be cast...
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Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
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There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
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Important problems Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower,...
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Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower, resources and coordination. Some problems have simple solutions, while others are complex in what it takes to move forward. The trivial problems are fun. They’re simple to solve and...
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During the Hellenistic period, Epicureanism and Stoicism replaced Plato and Aristotle as the dominant philosophical movements (Plato would make a big comeback; Aristotle would have to wait for the great Arabic philosophers).  Both movements were popular in the Roman Republic as...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
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Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa was looking for a way to incorporate some of the technologies and techniques he learned into a useful project. Given that he lives in an area which experiences elevated levels of...
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Office of Ordinary Architecture has shared photos of two backyard getaways they designed for a home in Seattle, Washington, that created space for a yoga studio and an office.
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I came late to the poet Henri Coulette, long after his death in 1988 at age sixty, and promptly fell for his charms. Chief among them are elegance, technical virtuosity, wit and devotion to his native turf, Southern California. Like one of his favorite writers, Raymond Chandler,...
Artificial Ignorance
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Michel Siffre’s intrigue with caves took root when he was just ten, and in 1962, aged twenty-three, he embarked on a bold experiment in the French Alps. Descending deep into an ice cavern via a staggering 130-foot vertical pothole, he found himself in an environment devoid of...
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Conkers In London: Where To Find Them, Where To Play Our hard-hitting guide.
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon yesterday. Today's News: 6 days!!
Herbert Lui
A place and its magic When my partner and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii earlier this year, a driver told us about how...
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When my partner and I were on our honeymoon in Hawaii earlier this year, a driver told us about how the island had lost its magic to him. After he spent a couple of years there, he naturally stopped noticing the beauty of the island. He felt wistful about this, and while his...
Londonist
Things To Do In London Between Christmas And New Year For when you can't take any more festive TV.
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Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive. I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
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I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers, which I turned down to join Uber. It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role. If you start...
The Modern House
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.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
Musings on Markets
META Lesson 3: Tell me a story! In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market...
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In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. I started by examining corporate governance, or its absence, and argued that some of the frustration that...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
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There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
Archinect - Features
AI Bias and Digital Colonialism; A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of...
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Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of emotions among its audience. There is wonder and intrigue at her reinterpretation of centuries-old Middle Eastern stories, images, and artifacts. There is introspection on our...
Posts on Made of...
Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
over a year ago
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I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
TheCollector
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Flashbak
William Gedney: Watching America At Night (1960-1973) “Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she...
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“Once upon a time there was a pretty fly. He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly. But one day she flew away, flew away. She had two pretty children, but one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away, into the sky, into the moon.” – Night of the Hunter, 1955     …...
Noahpinion
Realistically, how much damage could Trump do to the U.S. economy? The biggest risks are all about debt and inflation.
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A Smart Bear
Procrastinate for Success! Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select the year that the sun swallows the Earth and work backward? Today's News:
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TinyPilot: Month 33 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from? This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
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a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my computer get the time from? The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough and...
Paul Graham: Essays
Modeling a Wealth Tax
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Mazdak
Trump's Antitrust Agenda: Big Tech in the Balance Will Big Tech face a reckoning or a reprieve?
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Flashbak
François Brunery’s Portraits of Pontificating, Pissed and Pouting Priests – c. 1890-1926 These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François...
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These photographs of priests and cardinals were taken by Francesco Bruneri, known as François Brunery (1849 – 1926), and used as the basis for his work as a painter of so-called “Cardinal Paintings”. His work depicting cardinals of the Catholic church in comical or embarrassing...
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal) Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
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Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Two - Stabilization In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is...
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In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is part two of a three-part series about how I resurrected ingredient-phrase-tagger, a library that uses machine learning to parse cooking ingredients (e.g., “2 cups milk”) into...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Resurrection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It gets even weirder when you realize God has been...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It gets even weirder when you realize God has been saving the brains, so the blogs are sapient. Today's News:
Open Culture
High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Scroll Reveals Plato’s Burial Site and Final Hours Even if you can name only one ancient Greek, you can name Plato. You can also probably say at least...
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Even if you can name only one ancient Greek, you can name Plato. You can also probably say at least a little about him, if only some of the things humanity has known since antiquity. Until recently, of course, that qualification would have been redundant. But now, thanks to an...
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know undefined
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TheCollector
5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture undefined
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Charles Chen
To Comment or Not to Comment Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
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MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
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mtlynch.io
WanderJest: Month 1 Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog...
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over a year ago
Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News. Is It Keto earned its all-time-highest monthly revenue, doubling its previous record. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare...
diamond geezer
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COVENTRY STREET £260   London's Monopoly Streets COVENTRY STREET Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £260 Rent: £22 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1/WC2 Coventry Street owes its name to Charles II's secretary of state, Henry Coventry, who'd built a house here...
Londonist
Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History undefined
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David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
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The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tickle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First person to build and film the autotickler gets...
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First person to build and film the autotickler gets 3 SMBC points. Today's News:
Both Are True
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Math Is Still...
Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain...
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a year ago
In some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems. The post Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Sydney Railway Layout, c. 1940 Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights, this is quite an extraordinary find. Long-time readers may have seen the 1939 version of this diagram (and the digital recreation that I made). Here’s the thing: the general...
CONTEMPORIST
Planter Boxes Were Designed To Help This House To Blend Into Its Tropical Setting Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed a new home for their clients from Canada, who were...
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Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed a new home for their clients from Canada, who were looking to get away from the winter season and enjoy the tropical weather of Costa Rica. The home is surrounded by a tropical landscape, with the seasonal creek and wildlife of the...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Driving a Porsche Taycan for a Week, a UX review I rented the car from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. It turned out to be a brand new Porsche...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I rented the car from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. It turned out to be a brand new Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo 4S. It has a base…
Seth's Blog
Optimized or maximized? Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial,...
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Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization is finding the best set of tradeoffs. Maximization, on the other hand, seeks the solution that...
CONTEMPORIST
A Cantilever At One End Allows This Home To Project Over The Land Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of...
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Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of a modern Orcas Island home she designed for herself and her family. This small home, which cantilevers at one end, sits on the top of a ridge and is anchored to the bedrock in six...
ToughSF
Actively Cooled Armor: from Helium to Liquid Tin. We have seen designs for long ranged particle beams and powerful lasers. Could they be the end-all,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We have seen designs for long ranged particle beams and powerful lasers. Could they be the end-all, be-all of space warfare? Not if we fend off their destructive power with actively cooled armor. Let's have a look at the different cooling solutions, from high pressure gas to...
Maggie Appleton
How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?
over a year ago
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past undefined
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust? I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers. Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory. The difference between...
fast.ai
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
a year ago
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The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
5 months ago
99% Invisible
The Monster Under the Sink [EPISODE] In the middle of the 20th century, the small town of Jasper, Indiana did something that no other...
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9 months ago
In the middle of the 20th century, the small town of Jasper, Indiana did something that no other city had done before: they made garbage illegal. The city would still collect some things, like soup cans and plastics, but yucky junk, like food waste, wouldn’t get picked up. This...
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: TikTok You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
a year ago
Quentin Santos
Rust Strings for C Programmers This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code,...
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This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code, and what the str, &str, String, OsString and CString add. Arrays and Slices Rust C [T; N] (array)Example: [i32; 100]Allocated on the stack T[N]Example: int[100]Allocated on the...
Herbert Lui
Disorientation When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to...
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When you first land in a new place, where you don’t speak the language, you’re probably going to make some mistakes. You’ll get in the wrong line at the airport. Queue on the wrong side of the escalator. Realize you’ve unintentionally broken etiquette or convention of some sort....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt. Today's News:
Cheese and Biscuits
Papi, London Fields "We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Still, there's a lot to like...
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"We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Still, there's a lot to like about Papi. It's one of those places where you want to order everything on the menu, and as the menu isn't that huge, if you take a couple of friends along you probably can. We...
Elad Blog
Index Companies Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example,...
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over a year ago
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets which were clearly going to compound over time. It might have been tough to call the winners of each market early, but it was clear the markets...
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Vadim Kravcenko
Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full...
a year ago
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a year ago
Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full crazy. Test […] The post Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II? undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Fragility of Happiness' Christopher Carduff, books editor at the Wall Street Journal, asked me to review a new translation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Christopher Carduff, books editor at the Wall Street Journal, asked me to review a new translation of a Russian novel due for publication in November. The proofs arrived on Thursday and I sent Chris an email letting him know I was already reading the book. The email bounced back...
Remains of the Day
Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time. While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
2 weeks ago
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We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
Both Are True
brb everything's fine just need some air
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journal – Winnie Lim
what a physical notebook provokes I’ve been a digital-first person for as long as I can remember. Typing words on a keyboard onto a...
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I’ve been a digital-first person for as long as I can remember. Typing words on a keyboard onto a screen had always felt more intuitive than moving a pen with my hands....
Dreams of Space -...
Hombres Del Espacio (1960) So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't....
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So a fun one today. This is so silly and dated that I almost feel like apologizing, but I won't. This is the story of the exploration of space and has to be seen! It might have been assembled from stills from a Spanish film (I don't recognize it so feel free to tell me). But...
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Bouldering My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Introducing "Caffeinated Deep Dives" My new podcast.
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The Roots of...
Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any...
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Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any dramatic tragedy. The pandemic made them look prescient for warning about global catastrophic risks, including biosafety. A masterful book launch put them on the cover of TIME....
Londonist
Part Of The Northern Line Is Closing From Spring 2024 Edgware to Golders Green not running on various dates.
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Long form AI The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can...
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a year ago
The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can then ask it for criticism, summaries or other insights. I wouldn’t use it on a piece of literature, but if you’re reading for work (aren’t we all), it will dramatically increase how...
./techtipsy
About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty standard web application....
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over a year ago
Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty standard web application. The project was not a commercial success, but it did give me a good technical foundation that turned out to be very useful for my career so far. For those interested, the tech...
Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s – A Photographer’s Love story For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that...
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For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel connected to its soul, spirit and people. The camera is the tool that allows me …...
Open Culture
Stephen King Names His Five Favorite Works by Stephen King Stephen King has no doubt forgotten writing more books than most of us will ever publish. But even...
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Stephen King has no doubt forgotten writing more books than most of us will ever publish. But even now, in his prolific “late career,” if you ask him to name his own most favored works, he can do it without hesitation. Stephen Colbert tried that out a few years ago on The Late...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AGI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wait, is fire even possible? Doesn't that violate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wait, is fire even possible? Doesn't that violate conservation of fire? Today's News: Another ruinously flattering review.
Strange Loop Canon
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
11 months ago
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Tony Dinh's...
Get SOC 2 certified as an indie hacker All the details about the process and the cost of getting SOC 2
4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism undefined
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Overriding card editing with a no-op in WebCard <![CDATA[I wrote some throwaway code to experiment with editing cards of type Web in WebCard, my...
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<![CDATA[I wrote some throwaway code to experiment with editing cards of type Web in WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project. The goal is to make the card read only with the least amount of effort. In a NoteCards hypertext a Web card is a stand-in for a website, a placeholder...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - App Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There needs to be a meta-app that just takes all the apps and converts them back into Internet. Today's News:
Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953) Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today. Out of...
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Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today. Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
Citation Needed
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the...
3 months ago
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The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
Map of the Week
Pittsburgh Week This week I am attending the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) meeting in...
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This week I am attending the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) meeting in Pittsburgh so I haven't had time for a proper blog post. There's lots of great stuff here that may make for future blog posts but in the meantime here are a few random maps I've come...
Noahpinion
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
9 months ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves JamesHoare Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
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Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
2 months ago
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A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
blag
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
over a year ago