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Get $160 Off a Year of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses in Data Analytics,... A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40%...
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A heads-up on a Black Friday special: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one...
High Signal
The best communities for founders Communities are popular amongst founders for lots of reasons. It's usually pretty lonely to be a...
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Communities are popular amongst founders for lots of reasons. It's usually pretty lonely to be a founder, especially if you don't live in a tech hub. Most of your friends and family don't get why you aren't just doing a job. So
TheCollector
What Are the Top 5 World Heritage Sites in the Philippines? The Philippines is one of the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. Connecting 7640 islands, it...
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The Philippines is one of the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. Connecting 7640 islands, it is a canvas where nature has painted some of its most magnificent wonders. With a history spanning hundreds of years, the country attracts tourists from all over the world for its...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Rediscovering Your Stride I felt the pain before I could see the wart. I thought it was a bruise, one of the many little tiny...
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I felt the pain before I could see the wart. I thought it was a bruise, one of the many little tiny injuries that come and go as part of any runner’s training routine. But the little nemesis on the ball of my foot stuck around. It put up a good fight, injecting pain into my runs,...
Asterisk
The Devil in the Details: Matthew Desmond’s Poverty by America Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America is one of the most celebrated books on the subject....
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Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America is one of the most celebrated books on the subject. Unfortunately, carelessness about the ways we measure poverty undercuts its main argument.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cult Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Today's News:
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Biblioteca Vasconselos In the Buenavista neighborhood resides this impressive library that spans 409,000 sq ft, designed by...
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In the Buenavista neighborhood resides this impressive library that spans 409,000 sq ft, designed by Mexican architects Alberto Kalach and Juan Palomar. Adored by those that appreciate architecture, and those looking for Instagram fodder, the space feels like you’re in the...
Christopher Butler
The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. As of last year, half of the...
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Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. As of last year, half of the internet’s traffic came from bots. This is a headline that has been repeated many times because it sounds important, but without much in the way of helpful context, it doesn’t carry much...
Noahpinion
How Paul Krugman changed the public face of economics He's a great economist, but he also changed how we talk about the subject.
3 months ago
Wuthering...
You drool from it. You are happy. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English...
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Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English as Journey to the End of Night.  That “end of night” is death.  The existence of death makes everything hateful and nullifies the value of anything else.  I gotta say that the...
The Marginalian
2,000 Years of Kindness From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
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From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
The personal website...
Flight crews don't decide where to fly Airbus A320 - Photo from Wikimedia When an Airbus A320 takes off, there are typically 10 people who...
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Airbus A320 - Photo from Wikimedia When an Airbus A320 takes off, there are typically 10 people who are operating it. Between the pilots and cabin crew, their responsibilities include: Understanding how the plane works Monitoring the flight’s progress Evaluating the weather...
abdz.do - Have you...
Drive-In, lights, action! Cars in movies get a cool illustration twist Drive-In, lights, action! Cars in movies get a cool illustration twist ...
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Drive-In, lights, action! Cars in movies get a cool illustration twist abduzeedo0211—23 Cars have always been a staple in movies, from the classic muscle cars in "Grease" to the futuristic rides in "The Fifth Element". And let's not forget the...
The Elysian
No one buys books Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 104: Deep Research February 7, 2025.
a month ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Gist That Keeps On Giving I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo. Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
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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...
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024 This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
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This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract: Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
On being “currently based anywhere” Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating...
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over a year ago
Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating that I was based out of Atlanta. I…
xkcd.com
Tall Structures
a week ago
Platformer
Here come the ChatGPT bans Blocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
over a year ago
sbensu
Twitter's Sith and Jedi In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can...
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a year ago
In Star Wars, hate gives the Sith power from the dark side of the Force beyond what the Jedi can reach. But when they lean into hate, they lose their soul to it. Twitter offers the same bargain as the Force.
Noahpinion
Repost: Weebs! Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the non-Japanese people who love Japanese pop...
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Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the non-Japanese people who love Japanese pop culture.
Londonist
Around London In 10 Foxes Including the one who got up the Shard.
11 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Founder Control
over a year ago
macwright.com
CSS Roundup I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
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a year ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
xkcd.com
Bloom Filter
10 months ago
FIRE v London
Dec ’24 – 2024 in review And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024....
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And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024. I’ll follow the 7 point approach I’ve used for the last few years, starting with the wider market context. Q1 How did markets do? December saw falls across most asset classes –...
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Hanging on to 'stuff' Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on...
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Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on old pieces of furniture and belongings that are just cluttering our life and no longer needed. But this is a surprisingly difficult task. Almost every time we go to get rid of a...
Himanshu Mishra |...
The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their...
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It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
Seth's Blog
Further vs. faster Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is...
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Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is different, and so is the technique. Which one are you signing up for? What about the thing you sell? Are we trying to get there faster, or do we promise to go further?
Maggie Appleton
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
What Happened to My Search Engine? Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades
a year ago
Mazdak
The $50 Billion TikTok Dilemma: ByteDance’s Next Move in the U.S. In the world of social media, few platforms have experienced a meteoric rise like TikTok.
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Social Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots! Today's News: We're a best book of the year!
Sean Carroll
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | 24. Science For the triumphant final video in the Biggest Ideas series, we look at a big idea indeed: Science....
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For the triumphant final video in the Biggest Ideas series, we look at a big idea indeed: Science. What is science, and why is it so great? And I also take the opportunity to dip a toe into the current state of fundamental physics — are predictions that unobservable universes...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to harness the awesome power of growth loops A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs...
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A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs repeatedly power the series to exponentially grow…
Retail Design Blog
Matraz Gin by MABA A floral bottle. Matraz is the new concept of this premium gin with 13 botanicals and five...
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7 months ago
A floral bottle. Matraz is the new concept of this premium gin with 13 botanicals and five distillations, bottled in...
The Marginalian
The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison "We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living,...
11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing "I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
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"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
Retail Design Blog
Dior store Dior has had a presence in Japan for many decades, and in Osaka, the fashion house manages no less...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Dior has had a presence in Japan for many decades, and in Osaka, the fashion house manages no less than...
xkcd.com
Heat Pump
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Drypoint with Aluminium Plates Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a...
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Drypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool. These lines create a burr that holds ink, meaning that the print reveals the drawing. Drypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Masuję powięź, by uwolnić napięcia
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sunset Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you did you're using up around .01% of your laughs on just this one comic. Today's News: Thank you, thank you, thank you, I cannot thank you enough times. The response to Bea Wolf has...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Digital Trees Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow...
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Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow fruit, and they’re aesthetically pleasing. What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI). It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2022 updates: 4K MRR, new release, new features, new learnings Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of...
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of features for Black Magic, reached $4K MRR, and learned a ton! Here comes the monthly update! Hope you like it! 🧩 New DevUtils release: 1.13 The latest release of DevUtils comes...
Josh Comeau's blog
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really,...
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Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking...
Rest of World -...
Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
5 months ago
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
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A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built!...
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5 months ago
I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
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In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
Seth's Blog
On the way to professionalism Professionals make choices. Including: Don’t exploit friends and family. Surgeons shouldn’t do...
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3 months ago
Professionals make choices. Including: Don’t exploit friends and family. Surgeons shouldn’t do surgery on their kids, and investment advisors shouldn’t manage their dad’s retirement fund. It doesn’t matter if you’re sure you’re the best in the world. Swap with the person who’s...
Matt Mullenweg
Falling Snow The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his...
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2 months ago
The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your...
Passing Time
Sometimes It's About the Destination Trying & failing to seek extrinsic motivation
4 months ago
Working Theorys
The Generational Business Trap | Theory No. 11 On the varied longevity of businesses & why we shouldn't idolize permanence.
a year ago
Asterisk
Rat Traps Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update?
4 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
8 Amazon Prime Day Alternative Sales to Shop
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
AMD in everything Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby...
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Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby on a budget. So instead of getting a top-of-the-line Intel Pentium machine, he bought two AMD K5 boxes, and got a faster rendering flow for less money. All I cared about in the 90s...
Avestura's Blog
Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D...
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By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D materials might self-assemble. The post The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
mtlynch.io
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One) Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these...
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Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just...
Essays - Benedict...
TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest...
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Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
xkcd.com
Label the States
a year ago
Irrational...
Llm
9 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful...
a year ago
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For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools. I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
Daniel Miessler
Welcome to Unsupervised Learning Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
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Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
Sarah Parmenter
Adobe XD Contest – Prototype your City. I‘ve had the absolute joy of working on a couple of collaborations with Adobe this year already;...
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I‘ve had the absolute joy of working on a couple of collaborations with Adobe this year already; something I feel very honoured to be a part of; as at least one element of the Creative Cloud Suite has been a part of my workflow since I started in this industry in 2003. What I...
devonzuegel.com
OSS lazy-loads governance A special characteristic of open source software (OSS) is that you don't need institutional support...
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A special characteristic of open source software (OSS) is that you don't need institutional support to get started. It's interesting to compare this to physical infrastructure, like dams or railroads. Before you can begin those projects, you need upfront capital, permits,...
Birchtree
Netflix accidentally gave us something nice Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a...
3 weeks ago
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Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Deceptive Simplicity All design should be simple for users to understand. However, simplicity in design is one of the...
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All design should be simple for users to understand. However, simplicity in design is one of the most difficult things to do well—to find a balance between intuitive functionality and aesthetics. And yet ironically, design that appears effortless often takes far more work than...
Retail Design Blog
Paulista Store by Contract Workplaces Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has...
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Paulista is an exclusive Brazilian-origin multi-brand women’s clothing store. The brand has established itself in Montevideo to bring a limited...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
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This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
Artificial Ignorance
How Shopify is making AI Magic A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
a year ago
Probably...
Migration and Population Growth On a recent run I was talking with a friend from Spain about immigration in Europe. We speculated...
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On a recent run I was talking with a friend from Spain about immigration in Europe. We speculated about whether the population of Spain would be growing or shrinking if there were no international migration. I thought it might be shrinking, but we were not sure. Fortunately, Our...
The Elysian
If you have a social mission, go into business An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative,...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative, and building social companies.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024 Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
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Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Happiness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal pleasure in movies?! It makes no sense! Today's News:
dthompson
Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-syntax-highlight 0.2.0 has been released! This is a pretty slow moving project but the last (and only) release was in 2018 so this release is long overdue. Guile-syntax-highlight is a general-purpose syntax highlighting library for GNU Guile. It...
A Smart Bear
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
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over a year ago
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
The personal website...
Delight comes last Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes]...
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over a year ago
Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes] haven’t been resolved first … [but] sometimes it’s just more fun to draw nice pictures and bury oneself in pixels than deal with complicated business decisions and people with...
The American Scholar
Part of the Parade The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Astral Codex Ten
Bureaucracy Isn't Measured In Bureaucrats ...
2 months ago
Both Are True
lord bless the partners of comedians a video and a story watch the video tho its 1 min long come on
a year ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
JokeBomb - Series One This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans...
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This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans starring a handsome man named Gene. View on my website
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
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If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
The American Scholar
Poco a Poco The post Poco a Poco appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Archinect - Features
AI, Climate, and Advice for the Next Generation: Watch Our Roundtable with SCI-Arc Program... In November 2024, Archinect brought together four program chairs from the Southern California...
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In November 2024, Archinect brought together four program chairs from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) for a wide-ranging roundtable conversation.  The questions up for debate and discussion were among the most pressing facing the architectural...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Lost in the desert and all I got was this lousy RV brochure I am in a rental car outside Las Vegas heading toward the sand dunes they told me are popular with...
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I am in a rental car outside Las Vegas heading toward the sand dunes they told me are popular with local dune buggy enthusiasts. I find the arrow drawn on faded neon paper pointing off the road. For a popular destination there sure aren't many people around. None in fact.
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics History of the Games
7 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
YouTube: The Learning Machine Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Can YouTube have a similar impact on education as the printing press did? Yes, and the explosion of sports footage on the platform helps to explain why.
David Heinemeier...
The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen! The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately...
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The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately liked a lot about it. The keyboard is a big step up over the MacBook Pro, primarily because of the 50% longer key travel. And I love the matte screen and 3:2 aspect ratio. Both feel...
oftwominds-Charles...
The Crises Yet to Come "Controlling the narrative" to justify destabilizing asymmetries won't change the consequences. ...
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"Controlling the narrative" to justify destabilizing asymmetries won't change the consequences. That the Trump Reformation / Counter-Reformation is disrupting various nodes of the status quo is viewed as an existential crise by many. The choice between Reformation /...
Old Structures...
Overgrowth It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900:...
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It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900: Second, 1936, from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project. We have the same line-up in both pictures, from left to right: The World Building, the Tribune Building, the New...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The one number you should know about your equity grant The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being...
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The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever…
Trying to Understand...
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In a prior role, I experienced friction with my sales team’s leadership: They emphasized the needs of the economic buyer and neglected the end-users. They withheld key performance indicators from prospects (i.e. pricing, number of customers, customer satisfaction). They demeaned...
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When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
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There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that requires us to realize that our doubt might be unfounded. Systems that assume goodwill create possibility, connection and utility far easier than those that don’t. Being invited to...
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The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens.
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I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful. Some of you, many of you, have blessed me and cared for me in kind ways, sometimes with very little knowledge of what was going on, or why I was the way that I was. Thank you. I’ve been...
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Feedback is essential for business success. It can help you identify areas for improvement, get new ideas, and stay ahead of the competition. But not all feedback is created equal. If you want to get the most out of feedback, you need to ask the right people.
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The computing deployment phase Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment...
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Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent…
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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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My Free Introductory Astronomy Textbook Hits a Milestone This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of...
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This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of a nonprofit experiment to help students with the costs of college. Here is the news from our publisher: OpenStax, the open textbook publisher based at Rice University, is pleased...
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Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved, without fanfare or closure) cough and a dearth of time to write as I started to explore easing back into full-time work. Still, some writing (and selfishly, I'm excited to end the...
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It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other stuff. I’ve thought about you but I just never really picked up emacs to write to you. I know it’s my fault but I beg of your mercy mr. Blog. You know that I had laid off school for...
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Phone Setup Ever since I moved from the iPhone to the Blloc Phone, I wanted to further reduce the number of apps...
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Ever since I moved from the iPhone to the Blloc Phone, I wanted to further reduce the number of apps I had installed. Not just because I wanted to reduce my screen time and have fewer distractions, but because I wanted to remove my digital clutter, and where better to start than...
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The precise craft of making celadon ceramics in Korea from the 10th century until the 14th century produced timeless art objects that are still admired today. They were created with a jade-green glaze on top of painstakingly etched inlay, the pinnacle of technological advancement...
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From the NAR: Existing-Home Sales Ascended 2.2% in December Existing-home sales climbed in December, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Sales advanced in three major U.S. regions and slipped in the Midwest. Year-over-year, sales accelerated in all four...
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Let’s say you could load 2020 into a simulation that you could replay on your computer over and over. I know that sounds like torture but stick with me.
Calculated Risk
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From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary The number of job openings was little changed at 8.1 million on the last business day of November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, hires and total separations were little changed at 5.3...
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Founded in London a decade ago by sound engineer-turned-entrepreneur Paul Noble, Spiritland is a multi-faceted endeavour comprising a listening café,...
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“CISHAN” is a catering company that possesses several catering brands. The office is located on the top floor of a...
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Preacher & Religious Author: Who Was John Bunyan? Among the written works which came out of the Protestant Reformation, probably the most surprising...
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Among the written works which came out of the Protestant Reformation, probably the most surprising is the widely popular work The Pilgrim’s Progress, a work of fiction from an untrained preacher called John Bunyan. His book was not any sort of treatise of theology; instead, it...
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Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Than One Book at a Time?' We have acquired new, smaller bedside tables. More than a third of the surface area is occupied by...
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We have acquired new, smaller bedside tables. More than a third of the surface area is occupied by the alarm clock and a lamp, leaving less space for reading matter. All further accumulation of books and magazines will, of necessity, be vertically arranged, a single stack, which...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2020.
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Asymmetrical symmetry Go intrigues me. It is lauded in most circles as the thinking man’s chess, a game played by...
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Go intrigues me. It is lauded in most circles as the thinking man’s chess, a game played by luminaries for 2500 years. It is used in movies and TV shows to hint at the ideas of Zen and east Asian religion. I have never successfully played a complete game, though I enjoy reading...
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Google has just dropped a major announcement that’s set to reshape how we use AI-powered productivity tools.
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In February 2024, Brett Steele took up the position of Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture. Since then, Steele has been busy capitalizing on the opportunities and responsibilities that come with leading a Los Angeles design school in a city known...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Infinite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science. Today's News: Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
Hixie's Natural Log
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I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
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Equity value Warren Buffet once said: Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because...
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Warren Buffet once said: Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because sooner or later, one will. This is a useful…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and going quick” is: I can burp some npm commands into my terminal, burp some more to setup a deployment pipeline and blam! Website. The time to product demo is so low. But there’s...
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The Shard Is Lighting Up With The St George's Cross For The Lionesses Turns out The Shard is an England supporter.
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The chilling dawn of multiracial fascism WOKE DOOD: WAT NOU?
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On being missed Some friends moved away, and the cake at the party read, “We’ll miss you.” Perhaps it would have...
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Some friends moved away, and the cake at the party read, “We’ll miss you.” Perhaps it would have been more accurate for it to say, “You’ll miss us.” Because, after all, what’s mostly being missed is the community of friends and neighbors. Even when someone moves away, the...
Flashbak
Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at...
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England.   “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
Louwrentius
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
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RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
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Rethinking organization structures | Out-Of-Pocket Is there something beyond top-down hierarchies?
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic and I simply have to accept it. Today's News:
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Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors
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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.15 million SAAR in November Housing Starts Decreased to 1.289 million Annual Rate in November 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in November Lawler:...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie titles Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: annyas.com License: All Rights Reserved. “Rankin/Bass present” is lettering based on Weiß-Initialen Serie II, or Weiss Initials Series II, with the alternate forms for A and E, rendered bolder, with rough contours and a bouncing...
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The idea maze The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea....
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The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is…
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Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
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TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready? Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
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Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
Seth's Blog
Embracing externalities Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our...
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Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our passions and our dreams. And organizations in search of efficiency, shortcuts or profits often argue for freedom as well. The freedom to organize their production and to go to market...
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The block button is the ultimate source of dopamine. Use it. I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so...
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I’m seeing this debate pop up on Threads and Mastodon, and I’ve speed-run the whole discourse so many times from Twitter to Bluesky that I’m exhausted. But let me be clear. It's perfectly okay to use the block function on any and every single platform. Block whoever you...
Common Edge
In Praise of a Great Mentor: Working With Geoffrey Bawa Life-long lessons from the father of Tropical Modernism.
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Date me if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
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Simply Explained
Monitoring my 3D printer with a Pi Zero, Home Assistant and TinyCore Linux Many devices in my home have become "smart" over the last couple of months, with one big exception:...
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Many devices in my home have become "smart" over the last couple of months, with one big exception: my trusty 3D printer. It's a super reliable Prusa i3 MK3, but it lacks an internet connection.So I decided to use a Pi Zero to keep track of my 3D prints and send the progress to...
Ben Borgers
Hands Occupied
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The personal website...
Make it 'til you make it In 2009, back when I was the creative director of a music magazine, I sat on a panel of music...
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In 2009, back when I was the creative director of a music magazine, I sat on a panel of music industry professionals. The audience was mostly comprised of bands and curious non-music-industry people, so when it came to the Q&A part of the evening, the questions were predictable....
Seth's Blog
“Usualing” This is not a real word, but it’s useful nonetheless. When we default to doing what we did without...
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This is not a real word, but it’s useful nonetheless. When we default to doing what we did without examining our options, we’re ‘usualing.’ It’s a helpful way to save time, because we can’t re-examine every possible option or we’d never get out the door in the morning. We wear...
Josh Thompson
Illdefined Success is Unattainable We all probably have a few projects floating around our head, but they seem daunting. If it doesn’t...
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We all probably have a few projects floating around our head, but they seem daunting. If it doesn’t seem daunting, it’s not much of a project, and you should either ramp it up until it’s daunting, or discard it. So - we have a daunting project. Now what? If you’re like me, you’ll...
FIRE v London
The richest person you know What’s it like to be in the top 1%? According to the statistics, most of the readers of my blog are...
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What’s it like to be in the top 1%? According to the statistics, most of the readers of my blog are among the highest earning and/or richest people in the UK. I bet however that not many of you feel that way. Let’s start with income To be in the top 1% of earnings in… Continue...
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DYNOMIGHT
I am offering mentoring What is this? I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d...
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What is this? I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful. How will it work? We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Then I’ll sit back and...
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
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> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
99% Invisible
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Here it is: our second and final set of mini-stories for the season, cooked up in advance of the holidays with finishing touches added after the new year. We’ll be covering upside-down construction, the linguistics of filler and a fire that has been burning for decades. Top-Down...
The Honest Broker
"This Is a Hell of a Statement I'm About to Make—But He Superseded Miles" More on the mystery of Dupree Bolton, and updates on other recent articles.
a year ago
One from Nippon
A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in...
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Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are open. “Disneyland isn’t our land of dreams, this is!” says one 20-something woman.
Casey Handmer's blog
Dittemore’s Law A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization dysfunction. The Space Mirror...
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A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization dysfunction. The Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center in Florida commemorates the 25 US astronauts who have died in flight.  Ron Dittemore is the retired former Space Shuttle program manager who was...
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
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Tony Finch's blog
More random floating point numbers I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on...
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I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on Lobsters, Dreamwidth, and from Pete Cawley on Twitter. Here’s an addendum about an alternative model of uniformity. There are 2^62 double precision floats between 0.0 and 1.0, but as...
Diaries of Note
The instinct explains so much Born in Dorset in 1890, Mary Butts was a modernist writer who fused spirituality, mythology, and...
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Born in Dorset in 1890, Mary Butts was a modernist writer who fused spirituality, mythology, and reality in that were largely unappreciated during her lifetime. Twice married, first to writer John Rodker in 1918, and later to artist Gabriel Atkin in 1930, Mary navigated...
Mark Manson
14 of the Best Nonfiction Books You Should Read All ye readers, buckle up. Today, I'm giving you 14 non-fiction books I believe everyone should...
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All ye readers, buckle up. Today, I'm giving you 14 non-fiction books I believe everyone should read. For each book, I've provided a brief summary. Now it's up to you to decide if it's worth your time. Let's dig in. This book dives deep into the world of trauma, discussing its...
Flashbak
Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Good Enough In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best",...
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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".
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theodicy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for more updates and check the blog for more info! Today's News: BOOOOOOOOOOOK
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
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This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Mazdak
OpenAI Launches o3-mini: A Faster, More Affordable AI Reasoning Model OpenAI has just unveiled o3-mini, the latest addition to its "reasoning" model family.
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Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something...
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I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal. Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser! Drawing Read more..
Paul Graham: Essays
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Christopher Butler
What I Want From The Internet Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today. I’m sitting in a small room...
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Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today. I’m sitting in a small room in an old house in Durham, North Carolina, USA. When I look out the window, I can see the edges of homes nearby, peeking out through the even older trees between us. I’m far enough...
Ink & Switch
OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing...
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In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
Diaries of Note
I did so want to be a great actress Rachel Roberts was a formidable Welsh actress whose performances on stage and screen garnered praise...
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Rachel Roberts was a formidable Welsh actress whose performances on stage and screen garnered praise and awards, her name often spoken with a mix of reverence and endearment within theatrical circles. Sadly, her personal life was at odds with her professional one, and in the last...
High Signal
Making $20k from a job board directory Rod is a founder who has successfully monetized a directory showing websites for finding a job. He...
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Rod is a founder who has successfully monetized a directory showing websites for finding a job. He has made $20k from his Job Board Search site.
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
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Seth's Blog
Listening to organizational decline Great companies and teams often get stale and then fade away. Here’s what we hear as it happens:...
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Great companies and teams often get stale and then fade away. Here’s what we hear as it happens: “I’m way too important to listen to customers. Send them to the call center.” “It wasn’t a bad idea when we implemented it, so it’s not a bad idea now.” “My boss won’t let me.” “The...
IEEE Spectrum
Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly Un-Fakeable To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a...
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To make something hard to fake, you can use exotic materials or clever tricks. Benjamin Franklin, a printer by vocation, a scientist by avocation, leaned on cleverness, developing measures that are still in use. Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical...
Jonas Hietala
Good and Bad Programmers Every now and day blog posts about what it takes to be a good programmer or how you figure out if...
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over a year ago
Every now and day blog posts about what it takes to be a good programmer or how you figure out if someone is a bad programmer arrives. There’s always talk about how you find the good programmers in interviews and the topic is always hot in schools and universities. Today I read...
Data Boutique
The Web Data Landscape Map: Visualizing The Ecosystem Mapping actors and solutions
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Rest of World -...
How this startup bounced back from a crisis ThriveAgric fell into a crisis when the pandemic hit. Three years later, it has found its way back...
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"The dawn of trustworthy computing" Nick Szabo: On the Internet, instead of securely and reliably handing over cash and getting our...
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Nick Szabo: On the Internet, instead of securely and reliably handing over cash and getting our goods or services, or at least a ticket, we…
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
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The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Age of the Essay
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Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
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Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
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Found-Money Startups 'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
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'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
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Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees The simplest form of Classification algorithm
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How Does World Population Grow? Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially,...
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Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially, quadratically, linearly, or logarithmically?” Here are the responses: By a narrow margin, the most popular answer is correct — since 1960 world population growth has been roughly...
Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Latest MBA Weekly...
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 21.9 percent from two weeks earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week...
Mazdak
Four Dumb Things You're Doing That Are Making You Lose Money in the Stock Market Navigating the stock market can be a daunting task, especially for those new to investing. While...
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Navigating the stock market can be a daunting task, especially for those new to investing. While there are many strategies that can help you achieve your financial goals, there are also some surefire ways to lose money. Here are four of the most common mistakes investors make:
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Design and art In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too...
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In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too concerned...
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gRPC is easy to misconfigure Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
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Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
Scott DeLong
AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do...
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It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do about it except adapt. The post AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses appeared first on Scott DeLong.
The Last...
Ten Extra Seconds Would Have Saved True Detective's Finale what could it mean? You just watched a historical TV moment: never before has the audience for a...
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what could it mean? You just watched a historical TV moment: never before has the audience for a show been smarter than its writer.   I submit as second evidence the season finale for The Bachelor that was on yesterday, for three hours, drawing ten million "people".  Just...
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What is a Dahabiya? A Guide to This Nile Cruise Option
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ui (a short story) “Wake up, Computer”
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CommitStrip
A radical solution
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Cremieux Recueil
The Ottoman Origins of Modernity Would we have the modern world without Islamic incursion into Southeastern Europe?
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The Ruffian
Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
I designed a Christmas gift I love the idea of charity donations as gifts, but I find they lack something. I don’t know about...
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I love the idea of charity donations as gifts, but I find they lack something. I don’t know about you,...
Open Culture
Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959) Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with...
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Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O’Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates,...
Seth's Blog
Portfolio theory One show can make Netflix’s year. One stock can make the numbers for an investor. One player can...
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One show can make Netflix’s year. One stock can make the numbers for an investor. One player can drive a team to victory. The key is, “I’m not sure which one it’s going to be, but it’s going to be one of these.” The challenge with falling in love with the potential of just one...
Diaries of Note
I will strive not to lose my temper easily Born in The Netherlands in 1926, Moshe Ze’ev Flinker was a Jewish teenager whose family fled to...
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Born in The Netherlands in 1926, Moshe Ze’ev Flinker was a Jewish teenager whose family fled to Brussels in 1942 to escape Nazi persecution. It was there, in November, that 16-year-old Flinker began to keep the diary for which he is now remembered: a deeply personal record of the...
Melissa Penfold
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The...
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You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The kitchen could use a face-lift and the lawn has seen better days. Every seller has to decide whether to sink money into their home before listing it, and how much. Lately, the stakes...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
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The personal website...
All the books I read in 2018 I read 20-ish books in 2018. I think this is a personal record, and I owe it largely to a group of...
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I read 20-ish books in 2018. I think this is a personal record, and I owe it largely to a group of friends called the “Asynchronous Book Club,” or ABC for short. To wrap up the year, and to help my poor swiss-cheese memory, I’d like to share a quick comment on each in case you’re...
Ink & Switch
11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
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Londonist
Modern London Is Beautiful In This New Photographic Book London: A Modern City in Photographs by Mathew Browne.
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
Navigating Change: The Midlife Journey Laetitia@Work #76
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David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
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Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
Construction Physics
When did New York start building slowly? (Note: the analysis below of floor plate size vs construction speed is incorrect due to...
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(Note: the analysis below of floor plate size vs construction speed is incorrect due to autocorrelation effects. For a correct analysis, see the subsequent post here) It’s good to be able to build things quickly. The faster you build something, the quicker the benefits from it...
Grant Slatton
Internet Fiction Collection of amateur stories — mainly sci-fi — that I like
8 months ago
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How To Understand Things The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
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CONTEMPORIST
Vertical Fins Surround The Exterior Of This House Giving It A Distinct Appearance Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a...
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Architecture and design studio MDAMMM, has recently completed the remodel of a home that had a nondescript appearance and little aesthetic appeal. The original home had an exposed brick facade in ochre tones and all other elements featured different grey tones and finishes. The...
Math Is Still...
How Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better Erasing key information during training results in machine learning models that can learn new...
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Erasing key information during training results in machine learning models that can learn new languages faster and more easily. The post How Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear? This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
over a year ago
Mazdak
AI Energy Fears: Overblown or the Next Crisis? Is the fear of AI's energy consumption a tempest in a teapot or a sign of a looming energy crisis?
3 months ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Alternate Past Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create...
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Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create alternate pasts and futures. Above, a panel from “Gotham By Gaslight” in which a nineteenth-century version of Batman searches for Jack the Ripper. Note the building in the center...
Arduino Blog
Team Ikaro scores success with the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect! Team Ikaro is a vibrant group of high school students from the Pacinotti Archimede Institute in...
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Team Ikaro is a vibrant group of high school students from the Pacinotti Archimede Institute in Rome, sharing a strong passion for electronics and turning heads in the world of robotics! Specializing in Soccer Lightweight games (where robot-soccer players compete to score goals...
Contemporist...
Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
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Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences...
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From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzyme gave you a wrapper with a bunch of (overly) helpful (dangerous) utilities for interacting with rendered elements, Testing...
Hundred Rabbits
captain what is this After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
Retail Design Blog
Yiwu Place Public Shopping Precinct The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has...
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The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has witnessed great historical...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: FamousAdolf My name is Adolf, like the famous one. I was born in Barcelona 37 years ago and I spent my childhood...
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My name is Adolf, like the famous one. I was born in Barcelona 37 years ago and I spent my childhood watching TV and eating lots of bread and chocolate. When I got older I got a degree in Advertising and Public Relations that I never really used. I worked as a Graphic Designer in...
Louwrentius
'Linux: using disk labels to counter storage device name changes' My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped for /dev/sdd and vice versa. The result was some file system corruption on /dev/sdc, because it was used on a remote system through iSCSI, using a different file system from...
Both Are True
I always (always!) tell people to write like they’re texting a best friend who loves them And now I can basically do just that cuz Substack lets me write posts from my phone.
7 months ago
Nothing Human
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out the actually scary thing about social media
2 months ago
The Ruffian
Jemima Kelly on Trump: Part II On Melania, and Trump's Taste In Music
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re All Content Creators for Machines Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
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Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
Seth's Blog
The perils of doing it live [Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days...
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11 months ago
[Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days caused by my provider. If you ever see a broken link or something that doesn’t render, you can visit the blog. It always has the latest version, typos fixed. It’s much easier to fix...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Indie Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Greatest votey panel of my life. Today's News:
7 months ago
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: FOMC Statement Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
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a month ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. FOMC Meeting Announcement. No change to policy is expected. Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC announcement.
brr
Last Flight Out Good-byes, and the beginning of winter isolation.
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A House Designed Like Two Barns Beside Each Other Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that...
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Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that has a layout similar to two barns positioned side-by-side. The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 11 Best Airbnbs for Stargazing
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Quiz Plus Roundup of Resources
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Seth's Blog
The illusion of concern When organizations reach scale, digital interactions belie our expectation that someone in charge...
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When organizations reach scale, digital interactions belie our expectation that someone in charge actually gives a damn. Once there’s math to do, the CFO does the math. It quickly reveals that no, the search engine shouldn’t bother having a customer support team. That UPS or...
anderegg.ca
An update on Mastodon and referer headers Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys...
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Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys following web analytics, it seemed a shame that Mastodon appeared never to send any traffic. I knew this wasn’t the case, but that lack of traffic data certainly wasn’t doing...
The Universe of...
Polish Spam Content warning: mass killing of farmed animals Today I complained that my email provider had...
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Content warning: mass killing of farmed animals Today I complained that my email provider had delivered a spam message to me that was in Polish. I understand that spam can be hard to identify, but Polish isn't, I don't know Polish, and any message sent to me in Polish can be...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Die on It Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot learns to nod its head and keep...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, the robot learns to nod its head and keep the truth inside. Today's News:
Luxagraf:...
Repair Fail One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are...
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One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are repair wizards and there are newbies and there are the rest of us, somewhere between those two poles. This hierarchy of skill and experience requires that you earn your way to the...
Diaries of Note
I am absolutely convinced that George is going to lose When she wrote the following diary entry in October of 1992, First Lady Barbara Bush had been living...
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a year ago
When she wrote the following diary entry in October of 1992, First Lady Barbara Bush had been living at the White House for more than three years and was accustomed to the constant scrutiny and pace of political life. Exactly a month later, as she predicted, Bill Clinton won the...
Seth's Blog
Don’t rush …but hurry. The words matter. Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship...
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…but hurry. The words matter. Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk. But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: C'monnnnnn hatemail. Today's News:
a year ago
Daniel Bourke
Where’s the magic? I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old...
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I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old cricket coach told me about the laws of motion. And I never forgot. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It helped fix my right arm leg spin. I later
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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* 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...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
10 Years of Minimalissimo Has Minimalissimo really been running for 10 years?! It's a question I've asked myself more than...
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Has Minimalissimo really been running for 10 years?! It's a question I've asked myself more than once. It's something I'm incredibly proud of actually. Running and sustaining a high-calibre site like this is not easy. It requires a lot of dedication, love, and most importantly,...
Odds and Ends of...
WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
3 months ago
Math Is Still...
Does Nothingness Exist? Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost...
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Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost every facet of physical reality. The theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia explains to Steven Strogatz why it’s so important in modern physics to understand what a true vacuum...
Josh Thompson
On Fables: Finishing up Antifragile I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in...
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I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile, says: The great economist Ariel Rubinstein gets the green lumber fallacy - it requires a great deal of intellect and honesty to see things that way. Rubinstein refuses to...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem. In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride...
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In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt Large Language Models (LLMs). Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of the LLM ecosystem, which we’ve build a...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Jackson Pollock Found in Dumpster The world was beautiful before, back in my dumpster diving days. I remember standing knee-deep in...
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The world was beautiful before, back in my dumpster diving days. I remember standing knee-deep in garbage in an alley behind a grocery store. There, splattered on the side of a dumpster was a Jackson Pollock.
Rest of World -...
Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning...
3 months ago
Data Boutique
The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data Market components to consider when selling pre-scraped datasets
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry The government and internet service providers blame each other for the blackout amid massive...
7 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Never launch, AI as an anti-signal, slow news, zero shame in pulling the plug. Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Billing for software is broken. Stripe is REALLY good...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The eHMI: How Autonomous Cars Will Communicate With the Outside World Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down...
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Even if you may not be aware of it, a lot of non-verbal communication takes place when you walk down the street. You observe the behavior…
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics? This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
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over a year ago
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Open Culture
The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP) This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost...
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4 months ago
This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost immediately the tributes poured in, most recognizing that Lesh wasn’t your ordinary bassist. As Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times, Phil Lesh held songs “aloft.” His “bass lines...
macwright.com
Placemark is going open source and shutting down also on placemark.io/blog The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out. Some fantastic,...
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a year ago
also on placemark.io/blog The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out. Some fantastic, friendly people used it, but I couldn’t find a way to make it work as a sustainable bootstrapped startup. Building it was incredibly fun. Failing to find success and...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more...
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#1 💡 One of the most interesting learnings after doing lead gen for 100+ b2b companies: the more directly your offer is related to one the core b2b “desires”, the easier the sales process. Many offers are only indirectly related to them. A better design might increases...
Escaping Flatland
On feeling connected generosity is potency
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
Avoiding food waste confusion Everybody eats That’s the biggest problem. While plenty of people drive or play pickleball, eating...
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a year ago
Everybody eats That’s the biggest problem. While plenty of people drive or play pickleball, eating is particularly widespread. Seven billion people multiplies into a big number… Creating the food we eat has significant climate impact. Some of the factors, in unranked order: Even...
The Ruffian
The Trump Shooting Was Fake News On Events and Non-Events
7 months ago
Avestura's Blog
An opinion on what's a good general-purpose programming language What features should a programming language have to be ideal, in my opinion?
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Versioning dotfiles in git I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines for some time. I experimented with keeping all of ~ in subversion for a while, but it never worked out well for me. I’ve finally settled on a solution that I like using git, and so...
Archinect - Features
How to Effectively Introduce Your Architecture Firm in Under 2 Minutes Recently, we explained how to create an elevator pitch for your architecture portfolio when...
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Recently, we explained how to create an elevator pitch for your architecture portfolio when searching for your next role as a job seeker. As we noted, the ability to capture a body of work as rich, complex, and varied as an architecture portfolio in a timely, clear, and succinct...
TheCollector
Augustine vs Baudrillard: Are Words Signs of Reality or Hyperreality? To say that the famous pessimist Augustine wrote prolifically because of his hope in the power of...
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To say that the famous pessimist Augustine wrote prolifically because of his hope in the power of the word is not to speak rashly. Words, Augustine thought, illuminate the ontology of human existence. Contrastingly, the French postmodern philosopher and cultural theorist, Jean...
AI Snake Oil
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
Christopher Butler
object – Coffee Cup The perfect coffee cup is about half the size of your average American mug. I bought a pair of...
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The perfect coffee cup is about half the size of your average American mug. I bought a pair of used small porcelain mugs at a thrift shop for about $1 back in 2009. I have used one of them nearly every day since. I believe them to be the perfect cup for coffee. This mug...
Epic Web Dev
Tips and Techniques for 'Pixel Perfect' Figma to Tailwind CSS Conversions (article) Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure,...
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Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure, design tokens, layouts, responsive design, and animations.
Calculated Risk
New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November Brief excerpt: The Census Bureau reported New Home Sales in November were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 664 thousand. The previous three months were...
SatPost by Trung...
Blumhouse: The Hollywood Horror Hit Machine How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Dark Retail Space Transformed Into A Bright Skincare Center ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare...
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ISENSE DESIGN has shared photos of a recently completed retail design for Beauty Technology Skincare Center in Beijing, China. The designers transformed a dark store with a red facade and awning, into a bright and open retail design with a green facade and large windows. Seizing...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
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Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
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SOCKS
Fragments of an Unknown Civilization: Works by James Lipnickas James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes...
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James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes representing small architectural stages in axonometric projection. Suspended stairwells, excavated blocks, and plinths separated, or all combined are located in deserted...
The Last...
Hunger Games Catching Fire: Badass Body Count sorry old man, I have a dress fitting to go to Number of people killed: 15 Number of...
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sorry old man, I have a dress fitting to go to Number of people killed: 15 Number of people Katniss kills: 1 Number of times she is saved by someone else: 6 Number of times she saves someone else: 0 But boy oh boy, wasn't she spectacular at practice, 9 targets in 30...
Beautiful Public...
Nuclear Weapon Test Films Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has an archive of an estimated 10,000 films of nuclear...
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has an archive of an estimated 10,000 films of nuclear weapons tests from the 1940's - 1960's.
Engineers Need Art
Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re...
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Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications. The post Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Musings on Maps
Security Walls: “This is Just the Beginning” Attending New Year’s service in an Oxford Orthodox synagogue, I paused when the ritual prayer book I...
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Attending New Year’s service in an Oxford Orthodox synagogue, I paused when the ritual prayer book I held–a Machzor-moved smoothly from prayers to George VI (it was an old one) to prayers for the Israel Defense Forces. The rabbi, who … Continue reading →
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
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In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
Retail Design Blog
OCEAN NAUTIX vodka by dsg.life We present the concept of “OCEAN NAUTIX” vodka with a unique design, which is clearly inspired by...
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We present the concept of “OCEAN NAUTIX” vodka with a unique design, which is clearly inspired by the theme of...
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My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34 I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
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Open Culture
Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc Private Snafu was the U.S. Army’s worst soldier. He was sloppy, lazy and prone to shooting off his...
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Private Snafu was the U.S. Army’s worst soldier. He was sloppy, lazy and prone to shooting off his mouth to Nazi agents. And he was hugely popular with his fellow GIs. Private Snafu was, of course, an animated cartoon character designed for the military recruits. He was an...
99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE] In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
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In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
Don't Worry About...
Economics Roundup #5 While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch...
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While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch up on the queue and look at various economics-related things.