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Christopher Butler
The Top Ten Hitchcock Films This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Rear Window North by...
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a month ago
This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Rear Window North by Northwest Vertigo Rebecca Rope The Man Who Knew Too Much Spellbound Notorious To Catch a Thief Strangers on a Train
Louwrentius
HP Procurve "auto DoS" feature causing network problems A feature on more recent HP Procurve models (18xx series, such as 1810G etc.) is called "Auto DoS"....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A feature on more recent HP Procurve models (18xx series, such as 1810G etc.) is called "Auto DoS". You can find it in the section "Security" and then "Advanced security". If you enable the Auto DoS feature, traffic is blocked based on one of these conditions: the source port...
TheCollector
The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide undefined
2 months ago
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 6 (End Sound) This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet.
8 months ago
Retail Design Blog
CAAA restaurant by External Reference The restaurant CAAA by Pietro Catalano, located in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland, is a project...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The restaurant CAAA by Pietro Catalano, located in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland, is a project that not only...
Seth's Blog
In search of chatoyancy A cat’s eye is smooth but doesn’t seem to be… there’s a mystery of depth. That illusion is called...
a year ago
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a year ago
A cat’s eye is smooth but doesn’t seem to be… there’s a mystery of depth. That illusion is called chatoyancy. The same is true for some sorts of woods (cedar is an exception). The digital age makes it more and more likely we’re experiencing things through a flat screen, and as a...
bt RSS Feed
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
10 months ago
Seth's Blog
The paradox of lessons The people most likely to sign up for coaching or additional learning are the folks who are already...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The people most likely to sign up for coaching or additional learning are the folks who are already good at their craft. “I’m terrible at this,” can lead to, “and I don’t want to be reminded of it.” Or perhaps, “I don’t want to waste their time,” or, “I’m never going to get...
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
History Today Feed
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review ‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review JamesHoare Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
Arduino Blog
Easily build an energy meter with the Arduino Nano Matter The primary appeal of microcontrollers is their versatility. They are, essentially, the embedded...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The primary appeal of microcontrollers is their versatility. They are, essentially, the embedded equivalent of computers — general purpose devices that can perform a wide range of functions. And to get the most out of a microcontroller, you’ll also want connectivity suitable for...
Londonist
Hither Green Rail Crash: 1967 Disaster Was One Of London's Worst "I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
a year ago
TheCollector
Who is Mierle Laderman Ukeles? undefined
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
Work is a Place My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
My buddy Luke recently started a band called Tattoo Mustache. While we were chatting, his eyes lit up talking about jamming in the studio with his bandmates - his arms were flailing and you could feel the energy coming off him like steam from a hot pan. These weekly jam sessions...
On Life and Lisp
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
TheCollector
The Great Emu War: When Australians Lost to Flightless Birds undefined
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Latest from Uganda Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on Sunday, on a remote strip in South Sudan. It's not normal for us to do flights on Sundays, but we've had an aircraft stuck in that location for a long time now, requiring some TLC...
abdz.do - Have you...
RLY Network, a token protocol platform, and brand identity by Serious.Business RLY Network, a token protocol platform, and brand identity by Serious.Business ...
a year ago
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a year ago
RLY Network, a token protocol platform, and brand identity by Serious.Business AoiroStudio0206—23 serious.business is a digital design studio that specializes in creating innovative and impactful designs for clients from a variety of...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Aristotle on Friendship
a year ago
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
Light from Space
Lunar Eclipse Triptych A total lunar eclipse is (next to the much rarer solar eclipses) a spectacle to behold and one of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A total lunar eclipse is (next to the much rarer solar eclipses) a spectacle to behold and one of the few celestial events that happen in human timescales in the course of a few hours. In mid-May 2022 there was a beautiful eclipse visible from North America and I have
History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican How the South Became Republican JamesHoare Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
3 months ago
High Signal
$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
Open Culture
A Short Visual History of America, According to the Irreverent Comic Artist R. Crumb As a founder of the “underground comix” movement in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered as a...
a month ago
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a month ago
As a founder of the “underground comix” movement in the 1960s, R. Crumb is either revered as a pioneering satirist of American culture and its excesses or reviled as a juvenile purveyor of painfully outmoded sexist and racist stereotypes. Crumb doesn’t apologize. He keeps...
A Weekly Dose of...
A Modernist Reads About Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is....
a year ago
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a year ago
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is. Although a famous name, Lutyens was not an architect I had much familiarity with before I received a review copy of the first volume of The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens....
Vitalik Buterin's...
Soulbound
over a year ago
Identity Designed
Norfolk Coast Designed by Lantern, London.
a year ago
tonsky.me
Logo: Squint Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is that when you squint, it still looks like CLJS”.
PostHog's RSS Feed
We ship whenever PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog ships every two weeks, unless it makes more sense not to. Why? Iterating frequently helps improve our product. We get features in users’ hands…
Computer Ads from...
ViaGrafix Computer Training Videos Learn...by Simply Watching TV
a month ago
Retail Design Blog
The Visitor by Altavia ODG The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
Anecdotal Evidence
'How It Sounds When Read Out Loud' Our eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem written...
a month ago
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a month ago
Our eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem written seventy-five years earlier and picked students to read aloud each of its four, eight-line stanzas. She suggested we pay attention to who is speaking, as the poem is written as a dialogue...
David Perell
Lifting Alone Gyms were once communal places. Nobody wore headphones. People helped each other out and talked...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gyms were once communal places. Nobody wore headphones. People helped each other out and talked between sets.  Today, things have changed. Everybody is plugged into their own virtual reality world where they craft their desired mood and intensity level, which definitely gives...
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis? undefined
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Math Is Still...
Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t...
a year ago
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a year ago
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults. The post Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Retail Design Blog
RIDET office by RooMoo Design Studio Shanghai RIDET Technology is a pioneering company specializing in developing life sciences...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Shanghai RIDET Technology is a pioneering company specializing in developing life sciences instruments. RIDET’s office space on the first floor...
Open Culture
Carl Jung Offers an Introduction to His Psychological Thought in a 3‑Hour Interview (1957) In the 1950s, it was fashionable to drop Freud’s name — often as not in pseudo-intellectual sex...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In the 1950s, it was fashionable to drop Freud’s name — often as not in pseudo-intellectual sex jokes. Freud’s preoccupations had as much to do with his fame as the actual practice of psychotherapy, and it was assumed — and still is to a great degree — that Freud had “won” the...
Stephen Diehl
A Vim + Haskell Workflow
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic. He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to learn coding without a degree? Hey there, I’m always happy when someone new decides to join the software engineering field. If...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Hey there, I’m always happy when someone new decides to join the software engineering field. If you’re used to browsing […] The post How to learn coding without a degree? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Practical Eschatology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will...
a year ago
Probably...
Rip-off ETF? An article in a recent issue of The Economist suggests, right in the title, “Investors should avoid...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
An article in a recent issue of The Economist suggests, right in the title, “Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs”. An ETF is an exchange-traded fund, which holds a collection of assets and trades on an exchange like a single stock. For example, the SPDR S&P...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t your usual advice, and I found it...
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers
a year ago
Farnam Street
Reciprocity: Getting What You Give This article is an excerpt from the bestselling book The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics,...
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over a year ago
This article is an excerpt from the bestselling book The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology Reciprocity teaches us why win-win relationships are the way to go, why waiters leave candies with the bill, why it’s a good idea to use the least force possible...
Herbert Lui
Some notes on a return visit to Hong Kong In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended up staying nearly a year and a half. We moved to New York City shortly after that, and I started my job at Figma.  I always thought I’d document the trip some other […] The post...
Old Structures...
Understanding The Underbelly Hardcore bridge geeks will immediately recognize this photo. Everyone else, and hardcore bridge...
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7 months ago
Hardcore bridge geeks will immediately recognize this photo. Everyone else, and hardcore bridge geeks with a sense of modesty, will ask “what is it?” It’s the underside of the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, on the side span between the Manhattan tower and anchorage. Starting with...
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy undefined
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
Forget a U.S. ban — TikTok is thriving in its second-biggest market TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is...
a year ago
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a year ago
TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower j.hoare Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
Mind Mine
being more available to myself requires me to be less available to others & other patterns i am trying to notice and break within myself
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism undefined
11 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
"I'm on the edge of revolt" I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all these years, but I must say I'm on the edge of revolt now that Google's actions are so punitive, not just for Expedia, but also for IAC and all the players that depend upon something...
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles undefined
5 months ago
diamond geezer
The five smallest parks in Barking & Dagenham Join me on a journey of data-driven disappointment as I attempt to answer a question nobody else is...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Join me on a journey of data-driven disappointment as I attempt to answer a question nobody else is asking. What are the five smallest parks in Barking & Dagenham? map. "We're so proud Barking and Dagenham has 28 brilliant parks and open spaces which are much loved by so many...
Matt Blewitt
Sensibly Default There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.
./techtipsy
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit Flower Fountain for my two adorable cats. The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd, but having one really helps with cats staying hydrated and that alone avoids all sorts...
Platformer
Susan Wojcicki makes her exit She had a legendary run. Will YouTube's end with it?
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
MAM Competence Center by INNOCAD Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Since MAM is similar to a growing organism, its new competence center resembles one as well, with the intention of...
ntietz.com blog
Books I Read in 2018 Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #42: An Elizabeth Line extension, some mad planning law nonsense, and the world's most... Your regular round-up of interesting links
a month ago
mtlynch.io
Guidelines for Freelance Developers Working with Me I’ve been hiring software developers and other freelancers for the past seven years. Even though I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been hiring software developers and other freelancers for the past seven years. Even though I write most code myself, hiring other developers is a tremendous force multiplier that frees up time for other parts of my business. Freelancers work well if you manage the...
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method? undefined
8 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Seth's Blog
Practical approaches for more effective teamwork Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it Agree on a budget Keep a calendar Don’t hold a grudge Speak up clearly and generously Show your work Share your fears Make promises and keep them Do the reading Talk about people...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
Archinect - Features
Creativity Won’t Protect Architects from Automation — But Labor Unions Might The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held assumptions that artificial intelligence would not threaten creative disciplines. In an effort to balance the opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence in the architecture...
haseeb qureshi
The Life and Death of Plasma By Haseeb Qureshi and Ashwin Ramachandran It was August 2017. The price of Ether was near an all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By Haseeb Qureshi and Ashwin Ramachandran It was August 2017. The price of Ether was near an all time high, the Ethereum blockchain was exploding with usage, and the chain was buckling under the ever increasing demand. Researchers and developers were frantically searching for new...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that definitely for sure has a ferrari you might be worse off because there is information embedded in... Today's News:
Society's Backend
Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
6 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip) Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical products. I didn’t find many business insights, but it was still an engaging and funny story.
diamond geezer
London's Monopoly streets New year, new blog series. I speak of visiting all the streets in Monopoly.       OLD...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
New year, new blog series. I speak of visiting all the streets in Monopoly.       OLD KENT ROAD £60    →        MAYFAIR £400   I'm using the London version of the board, obviously, and the original 1935 streets rather than any of the silly thematic...
The Beauty of...
Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK) Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you, just as it was when I accidentally ended up in Workington a couple of months ago. With poor weather forecast on one of the days of a trip to the Lake District, I spent the day...
Open Culture
The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s... Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not long before the company ceased to hire regularly. Miyazaki’s equally retirement-resistant contemporary Tetsuya Chiba, already well on his way to fame as a mangaka, or comic artist,...
Irrational...
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis. These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over...
a year ago
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a year ago
These are speaking notes for my October 4th, QCon talk in San Francisco. Slides for this talk. Over the course of my career, I’ve frequently heard from colleagues, team members and random internet strangers with the same frustration: the company doesn’t have an Engineering...
Light from Space
The Space Lobster Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus shows a complex pattern of Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen-III regions. It's quite far south in the sky at a declination of −34° 20′ and here in Tucson it barely
Arduino Blog
Enjoy a perpetual solar eclipse with this machine Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A total eclipse will occur somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so, but that is more likely to track across the middle of the Pacific Ocean than wherever you happen to be....
Beautiful Public...
All of the 8,291 License Plates in America States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations,...
a year ago
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a year ago
States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations, professions, sports teams, causes and other groups.
Maggie Appleton
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This Arduino-controlled Spin Meister helps spin up the perfect pizza Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher heat that many find more preferable than a conventional kitchen oven. But even a nice gas-powered pizza oven like the Ooni Koda 12 will have some hot spots and cold spots. To get an...
Common Edge
How the Global Business Class Has Transformed the Home They’re bringing the aesthetics and lifestyle expectations of the hospitality industry into their...
2 months ago
Founder's blog
Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
The American Scholar
The Scales The post The Scales appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint...
a year ago
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a year ago
The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint meets creation. The post Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding undefined
10 months ago
Blog - Practical...
How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On March 26, 2024 (just a few...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On March 26, 2024 (just a few weeks ago, if you're watching this as it comes out), a large container ship struck one of the main support piers of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsing...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search features *New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
Julia Evans
Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records. I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementation though (to quote the release blog post: “following the DNS RFCs? not exactly”),...
Engineers Need Art
Kim-1 User Manual For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
a year ago
TheCollector
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Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
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A small freedom area...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large...
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As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
IEEE Spectrum
The Lisa Was Apple’s Best Failure Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the...
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Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the Computer History Museum has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa, including its system and applications software. You can access the Lisa source...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
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Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
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Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian? Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks No hired help, no gimmicks, no fancy gear. Just vibes.
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Astral Codex Ten
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What I’ve been reading, June 2023 A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find...
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A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find them in my links digests. In all quotes below, any emphasis in bold was added by me. Books Thomas S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948). A classic in the field,...
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy undefined
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
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The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
Inverted Passion
Don’t sell your soul to the algorithm The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to...
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The danger of pleasing the algorithm to go viral is that gradually you end up selling yourself to big tech companies. This is how it works: This loop has two sinister effects: All this to make the richest companies and their shareholders even richer. This is why we must refuse to...
Gwern.net Newsletter
May 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI hardware, diffusion models, optogenetics, brain scanning.
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Breaking Barbarian This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160),...
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This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Monsters and Myths
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The American Scholar
To Catch a Sunset Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset...
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Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset appeared first on The American Scholar.
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
The Thinking Cap
Don't Major in Computer Science Or put less provocatively: college students should probably explore more than they currently do
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
AI tutoring; what works? It's 2024 and LLMs are still the "hot new thing". Looking back on 2023, I'm surprised how quickly I...
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It's 2024 and LLMs are still the "hot new thing". Looking back on 2023, I'm surprised how quickly I went from, "Wow! My computer is speaking to me in fluent and comprehensible English," to, "Eh, that could have been phrased/executed/generated better." Back in the early 2010s, my...
Arduino Blog
How makers can use AR and VR Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in...
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Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity, with the combined market expected to reach $77 billion by 2025, from just $15.3 billion in 2020. For makers, AR and VR represent exciting opportunities to build new...
General Robots
Coming soon This is General Robots.
a year ago
Noahpinion
The death (again) of the internet as we know it A few big changes are making the online world a more boring place to hang out.
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Londonist
Hammersmith Bridge Is Reopening To Cyclists... But Only For 10 Weeks And it's got something to do with West Ham fans.
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Drew Ex Machina
Catching Up: Talking about the Weather After an unintended four-month hiatus publishing new work on the Drew Ex Machina website, I figured...
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After an unintended four-month hiatus publishing new work on the Drew Ex Machina website, I figured it was time to catch up on what I’ve been […]
Nela Dunato Art &...
Why people avoid social media detox (let’s bust those excuses) I truly believe everyone would benefit from taking a long break from social media at least once a...
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I truly believe everyone would benefit from taking a long break from social media at least once a year. In my many articles on this topic I gushed about the benefits of digital media sabbaticals, and my own experiences with increased mindfulness, focus, and productivity. So let’s...
TheCollector
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Scott Jenson
Guidelines for Discussing UX A short and simple set of  guidelines to encourage better UX discussions. This (or a variation)...
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A short and simple set of  guidelines to encourage better UX discussions. This (or a variation) could be posted near your code of conduct in your repos. It’s not a silver bullet, but allows teams to level up how they discuss UX. (It helps in discussing other things too!)  1....
diamond geezer
Philips 9TC 2100 40 years ago this week I bought my first television. It was only black and white and only had a...
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40 years ago this week I bought my first television. It was only black and white and only had a nine inch screen, hence the model name, but it showed all the same channels as a normal television and most importantly it was mine. Back in 1983 there were only four channels to...
Epic Web Dev
Turn Progressive Enhancement up to 11 (tip) Learn how to create a progressive enhancement image uploader that works for users with or without...
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Passing Time
Valuable, but not productive Consulting & finance as black holes of elite human capital
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Grow With Less
The 8 Best Free Blogging, SEO and Marketing Courses Blogging is hard and the COVID-19 epidemic is not making things easier. Luckily, several businesses...
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Blogging is hard and the COVID-19 epidemic is not making things easier. Luckily, several businesses have started offering their blogging, SEO or marketing courses for free to help bloggers and small business owners who are struggling because of the pandemic. This page lists the...
Maggie Appleton
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments) Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this...
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Fireside this week! I am spinning up to write a Teaching Paradox series on Imperator later this week, but not quite ready to get started yet. I’m also thinking, perhaps before that, of doing a short post or set of posts on the organization of non-state ‘tribal’ societies in...
ntietz.com blog
Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
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Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Unpacked
NVIDIA Explained: Origins, GPUs and AI stock bump | EP8 NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In...
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NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In the latest episode, we dive a few layers deep into the company. We start with the origin of the company and the launch of their first GPU in 1999 which unlocked several...
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Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
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TheCollector
Umberto Boccioni: 11 Facts About the Italian Futurist undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was in a train station a few years ago and all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was in a train station a few years ago and all the women were dressed like it was the eighties. Went back to my farm and emerged a year later to see all the men had developed mustaches as a kind of reflexive mating...
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Maps Mania
How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?
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TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary? undefined
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays undefined
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Old Structures...
What’s Not Stated This newspaper clipping in one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks has no explanation, but...
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This newspaper clipping in one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks has no explanation, but I’m pretty sure I know what it’s about. The somewhat ominous caption “Park Avenue Tunnel Choked With the Debris” is probably describing the aftermath of the January 1902 crash...
Seth's Blog
Ice sculpture There are very few activities that are fully reversible. Ice sculpture might be one of them. Once...
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There are very few activities that are fully reversible. Ice sculpture might be one of them. Once the ice melts, all the effort and information is lost, and refreezing lets you begin again with a new, fresh block of ice. Of course, it’s not completely gone. The thing you made...
Tech and Tea
Progress can be slow We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
The leaping curve The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations...
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The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations (and people) work their way up it, one step at a time (it’s the black line in the graph below). But there’s rarely a continuous learning curve. Instead, it’s often interrupted by...
TheCollector
What Were the Major Battles and Conflicts of the Medieval Period? undefined
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Retail Design Blog
Alain Milliat – Les Concentrés by Studio Boam Today, this well known brand of natural fruit nectars and gourmet fruit juices is launching Nolow....
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Today, this well known brand of natural fruit nectars and gourmet fruit juices is launching Nolow. Alain Milliat fruit concentrates...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Span Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious....
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious. I wonder if it's incorrect to think of attention span as a single parameter. Maybe we have attention spans for particular sense modalities or even particular activities. Today's...
Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate increased Year-over-year From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 7 December The U.S. hotel industry reported positive...
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From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 7 December The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year performance comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 7 December. ... Occupancy: 59.0% (+0.5%) emphasis added The following graph shows the seasonal...
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon! oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Cruel Changes at Twitter The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks...
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The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks after Elon Musk bought the company. Managers will have 20+ reports and are expected to code at least 20% of the time.
Rest of World -...
Meet the Nigerian YouTuber bringing a positive lens to African stories With 600,000 subscribers, Tayo Aina is one of Africa’s most prominent creators.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Peer support Treasure it when you find it. Offer it when you can. One of the greatest joys of being an author is...
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Treasure it when you find it. Offer it when you can. One of the greatest joys of being an author is the other authors. The game theory would indicate that authors are competitors–there are a scarce number of publishers, of bookshelf slots, of readers. But, being the only author...
99% Invisible
Backfired: The Vaping Wars [EPISODE] For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the...
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For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the downsides. Cigarettes sans the things that make smoking the biggest cause of preventable death in America like tar, carcinogens, etc. Cigarette companies tried to create “safe,”...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 1: The Loneliest Number 1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my...
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1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my family. I have tested positive for SARS Coronavirus-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. For this honor, I would like to thank our society’s collective tiring of virus mitigation. It truly...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Six Healthcare Startup Ideas | Out-Of-Pocket In collaboration with The Generalist
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Patterned Brickwork Is Featured On The Exterior Of The Ace Hotel In Toronto Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in...
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Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in Toronto, Canada, which has a red brick facade that draws guests in with a wood-lined opening. Working closely with the creative agency Atelier Ace, the architects of the hotel...
Farnam Street
[FS Members] Lessons from Rockefeller: The Upside of Patience Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you...
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Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you forego the rewards of the immediate future and position yourself for lasting success. But long-term thinking is impossible without patience; it’s what made John D. Rockefeller one...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
10 Design Rules for Programmers For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and...
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For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and we think technically. Designers are weird and artistic, they wear black sweaters and long scarves, they are no match to us. I never quite understood how you can ignore design if...
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
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Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
The Modern House
Jacqueline Rabun: the jewellery designer on leaving home aged 17 to chart her own course through... It was 1989 when a 17-year-old Jacqueline Rabun left home in California to seek her fortune in...
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It was 1989 when a 17-year-old Jacqueline Rabun left home in California to seek her fortune in London. It didn’t take long: the following year, she’d opened a jewellery studio (having taught herself how to make) and had debuted her first collection of sculptural pieces. […]
Mazdak
Minimize Taxes, Maximize Inheritance: A Canadian Guide to Estate Planning with Real Estate For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key...
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For Canadians nearing retirement, minimizing probate fees and ensuring smooth inheritance become key concerns. In this context, real estate, often the largest asset, presents unique challenges and opportunities. While strategies like adding children to titles were once popular,...
Maggie Appleton
UX London 2019 Conference
over a year ago
99% Invisible
Uptown Squirrel [EPISODE] This past fall, hundreds of people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building...
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This past fall, hundreds of people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building was once a clubhouse for famed naturalists and explorers. Now it’s an archive of ephemera and rarities from pioneering expeditions including treks to the North Pole, the moon, and...
AI Snake Oil
AI scaling myths Scaling will run out. The question is when.
5 months ago
Musings on Markets
Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and...
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After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Poem Becomes Molten with Activity' I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is...
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I’m in debt to anthologies for much of my education. When you’re young and hungry and everything is new, such collections are like well-stocked cafeterias. You push your tray down the line and sample what looks good. Once seated, if a friend recommends a dish you avoided, you can...
nanoscale views
ARPA-E Roadshow Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed...
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Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow, a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed by the director, Prof. Evelyn Wang.   It was all about the energy transition, and it was pretty fascinating, particularly hearing from leaders of startups who were making...
Old Structures...
Prefiguring The Future I want to return to the 1834 map I showed a piece of yesterday. New York in 1834 was missing much of...
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I want to return to the 1834 map I showed a piece of yesterday. New York in 1834 was missing much of the built environment that we associate with it today – no skyscrapers, no subways, no els, no tunnels, no bridges except at the Harlem River, not much in the way of water supply...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Deer Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I walk into the woods I like to think...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I walk into the woods I like to think about the millions of creatures currently being killed for food. Today's News:
The Honest Broker
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
4 months ago
Christopher Butler
Gestalt – Proximity When objects are placed near one another, the mind perceives them as a group. If the term is...
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When objects are placed near one another, the mind perceives them as a group. If the term is new to you, the German word gestalt literally means the way a thing has been placed or put together. Like many German words, there is no exact translation in English, so you may...
brr
Redeployment Part Two Station opening, and my flight out of Pole!
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Cruise for Best Way to See the Northern Lights in Alaska
8 months ago
Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, volume 3 - melodrama, drinking games, and "a convocation of bees and... I am two-thirds through Cao Xueqin’s enormous The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), volume 3 of the...
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I am two-thirds through Cao Xueqin’s enormous The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), volume 3 of the David Hawkes translation, and the next twenty chapters have arrived at the library so I had better write this chunk up. In this big middle section a number of minor or even...
diamond geezer
Oxford Street OXFORD STREET £300   London's Monopoly Streets OXFORD STREET Colour group: green Purchase price:...
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OXFORD STREET £300   London's Monopoly Streets OXFORD STREET Colour group: green Purchase price: £300 Rent: £26 Length: 2km Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Oxford Street is one of the Roman Empire's most successful roads, at least in terms of retail income. It started out as...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Clinic Buildouts | Out-Of-Pocket Has software changed what's necessary in the clinic?
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some Thoughts On Startups Overpromising | Out-Of-Pocket the role RFPs play, how it's difficult to define patient harm, and more
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need) Here’s what I think NYC needs to become a serious, long-term startup hub: Some extremely successful...
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Here’s what I think NYC needs to become a serious, long-term startup hub: Some extremely successful startups. We need PayPals – companies…
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy undefined
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xkcd.com
March Madness
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Notes on software...
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and...
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I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it with Arch Linux...
Inverted Passion
Review of 2023 Time is strange – 2023 simultaneously felt too long and too short. It was short because I remember...
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Time is strange – 2023 simultaneously felt too long and too short. It was short because I remember recently writing my 2022 review, and it was long because I ended up packing a lot of stuff into it. ✅ Train 5 days a week (including Mixed Martial Arts) I did manage to train 5...
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.
xkcd.com
Definitely definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard." alt="A really mean prank you can play on someone...
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definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard." alt="A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard." />
Platformer
Bluesky's big moment A new Twitter clone is surging in popularity. Could it have legs?
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can...
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Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world. The post Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try first appeared on Quanta Magazine
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
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I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
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When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
The Works in...
Growing Forests As countries develop, deforestation drops
a year ago
Left To Write
№ 66: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth? The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to...
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The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to conclusions
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consequent Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How did it become ethics month at SMBC? Today's...
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Moneyness
Crypto adoption in America Source: America Loves Crypto You may have recently come across the America Loves Crypto...
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Source: America Loves Crypto You may have recently come across the America Loves Crypto marketing campaign, sponsored by Coinbase, the U.S.'s largest crypto exchange. In an attempt to promote the voting power of crypto owners, the website makes the claim that 52 million...
This Space
39 Books: 2019 So much for this blog being labelled "the best resource in English on European modernist...
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So much for this blog being labelled "the best resource in English on European modernist literature": this year's choice is a collection of lectures delivered in the early 1960s at the University of Zürich, published in English translation in 1970, with this edition being...
NeuroLogica Blog
Trust in Science How much does the public trust in science and scientists? Well, there’s some good news and some bad...
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How much does the public trust in science and scientists? Well, there’s some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the bad news – a recent Pew survey finds that trust in scientist has been in decline for the last few years. From its recent peak in 2019, those who answered...
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Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also...
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"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The core growth process in the…
Rest of World -...
New visa programs spark brain drain fears across Africa German and Canadian visa policies could make it harder for African companies to retain talent.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops President Kuo Zhang tells Rest of World in an exclusive interview that the company is bullish about...
3 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're...
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Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
The Diff
Meta's Least-Untrusted Clone Model Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More...
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Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More YouTube AI IP
nanoscale views
The difficult need for creativity on demand Thoughts at the end of another busy year…. Good science is a creative enterprise.  Some stereotypes...
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Thoughts at the end of another busy year…. Good science is a creative enterprise.  Some stereotypes paint most scientists as toiling away, so deeply constrained by logic that they function more like automatons grinding out the next incremental advance in a steady if slow march of...
TheCollector
Who Was Vortigern? undefined
6 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding an Exec command and File Browser support to Insphex <![CDATA[I implemented the last features originally planned for Insphex, my hex dump tool in Common...
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<![CDATA[I implemented the last features originally planned for Insphex, my hex dump tool in Common Lisp for Medley Interlisp. The first new feature is an Exec command for invoking the program. The command HD works the same way as the function INSPHEX:HEXDUMP and accepts the...
Commoncog
The Secret at the Heart of Continuous Improvement Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart...
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Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 This is an extremely interesting playbook: use an expensive model to generate high quality...
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#1 💡 This is an extremely interesting playbook: use an expensive model to generate high quality training data. Then use this data to fine tune a much cheaper model you can run at scale. Also seems like there’s plenty of opportunity to build consulting/service businesses around...
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West? undefined
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Arduino Blog
Discover the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield: the quick and easy way to advanced connectivity Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and...
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Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and conference for electronics” – by introducing the Arduino UNO SPE Shield, a powerful ally to bring advanced connectivity to new and existing projects, with Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) and...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Viz.ai and why workflow > tech | Out-Of-Pocket Also ?? about AI business models
a year ago
Mazdak
OpenAI in Turmoil: Altman and Brockman Join Microsoft, Employees Revolt In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the ousted CEOs of OpenAI, the...
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a year ago
In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the ousted CEOs of OpenAI, the non-profit research company behind groundbreaking artificial intelligence advancements, are joining Microsoft to lead a new research unit. This move comes after failed talks to reinstate...
Passing Time
Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes Gross incompetence or purposeful deception?
a month ago
Seth's Blog
Updating our stuck interactions There are few sitcoms, thrillers or plays where the plot can tolerate the addition of a cell phone....
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There are few sitcoms, thrillers or plays where the plot can tolerate the addition of a cell phone. Once the characters have the ability to connect and clear up misunderstandings at will, a lot of tension disappears. If Juliet had had a smartphone, she and Romeo would have ended...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Fragility of Happiness' Christopher Carduff, books editor at the Wall Street Journal, asked me to review a new translation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Christopher Carduff, books editor at the Wall Street Journal, asked me to review a new translation of a Russian novel due for publication in November. The proofs arrived on Thursday and I sent Chris an email letting him know I was already reading the book. The email bounced back...
Maggie Appleton
On Openings Essays, Conferences Talks, and Jam Jars
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
Success is not an option In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your...
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In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your dreams match reality. Success is the end of imposter syndrome, stability and finally making it to the other side. By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s...
Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 2 Crypto social games, work "trials," and meeting your creations in the wild.
10 months ago
nanoscale views
Brief items - light-driven diamagnetism, nuclear recoil, spin transport in VO2 Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion...
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Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion to political madness), but here are three papers (two from others and a self-indulgent plug for our work) you might find interesting. There has been a lot of work in recent...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
Common Edge
The Challenge of Creating a Women-Friendly Architecture School in Afghanistan Years of effort have been undone by political strife, while earthquakes have further destroyed...
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon undefined
a year ago
Citation Needed
New York Times: Crypto's fragile foundations My article in the New York Times describes the common practice throughout the cryptocurrency...
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My article in the New York Times describes the common practice throughout the cryptocurrency industry that can lead to death spirals like the one at FTX.
abdz.do - Have you...
Pràctica Redesigns 9+ Wine brand identity and packaging design Pràctica Redesigns 9+ Wine brand identity and packaging design ...
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Pràctica Redesigns 9+ Wine brand identity and packaging design abduzeedo0511—23 Barcelona-based design studio Pràctica has unveiled a new label design for 9+ wines, a natural wine producer based in Catalonia, Spain. The new labels feature a...
Rest of World -...
Can a church exist exclusively on the internet? Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.
4 months ago
Noahpinion
Three more books about the technology wars "The Wires of War", "Four Battlegrounds", and "The Digital Silk Road"
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
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Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
Tom Blomfield
Getting Shit Done I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was recently talking to a handful of successful startups founders about issues they were facing as they scaled up their companies. Unanimously, hiring and retaining people who “get shit done” seemed to be their biggest problem. I’ve been thinking about this for the last few...
Seth's Blog
Giving up vs. quitting Shrug your shoulders, care less, phone it in. One software company I used to depend on has sort of...
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5 months ago
Shrug your shoulders, care less, phone it in. One software company I used to depend on has sort of given up. They have plenty of cash in the bank, but they simply stopped trying. You can feel it in their updates, their customer service, their approach to the future. Giving up is...
HTMHell
#8 anchor tag used as button Bad code <a href="#" onclick="modal.open()">Login</a> Issues and how to fix them If the a element...
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Bad code <a href="#" onclick="modal.open()">Login</a> Issues and how to fix them If the a element has an href attribute, it represents a link to another resource like a page or a PDF document. The purpose of the element in this example is to trigger an action on the same page...
Computer Things
Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering Blog Hiatus You might have noticed I haven't been updating my website. I haven't even looked at any...
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Blog Hiatus You might have noticed I haven't been updating my website. I haven't even looked at any of my drafts for the past three months. All that time is instead going into Logic for Programmers. I'll get back to the site when that's done or in 2025, whichever comes first....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jung Science Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best part of the book is his descriptions of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn't believe sex was the cause of everything. Today's News:
Common Edge
The ‘Social Landscapes’ of Lee Friedlander For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single...
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For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single image was always unique.
The Beauty of...
Riding the Steel Breeze (Port Talbot Parkway, Neath Port Talbot, UK) Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status...
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a year ago
Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status thrust upon them. Such is the explanation for an arrival at Port Talbot Parkway being such a strange experience. As passengers step out of their trains they find themselves...
The Rational Walk
GEICO Prioritizes Profits Over Market Share Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price...
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Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price of ceding market share that will be costly to regain in the future.
TheCollector
Mummification: The Ancient Egyptian Art of Embalming the Dead undefined
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
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Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
TheCollector
Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters undefined
11 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. if you look on 3M’s own website, you will see no mention of this legacy—it’s a firm that sells abrasive materials, adhesive tapes, filters, films, personal...
Simply Explained
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50% Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
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Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
Londonist
70+ Spectacular Things To Do In London This Month: September 2023 Open House London! Plus a new music festival, fashion exhibitions, pole dancing, and sheep on the...
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Magnetism, an Ardor, a Refusal to Be False' “It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s...
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“It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s notebooks, collected in Notes from Hampstead (trans. John Hargraves, 1998). While I admire the work of a handful of critics – Dryden, Johnson, Winters, Cunningham, a few others –...
Posts on Made of...
Navigating the Linux Kernel In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way...
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over a year ago
In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way around the Linux kernel. I’m not sure I have much in the way of systematic advice for tracking down the answers to questions about the Linux kernel, but thinking about what I do when...
TheCollector
5 Most Beautiful Greek Islands You Should Visit undefined
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
Res Obscura
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides? Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Healthcare Payments Work with Candid Health | Out-Of-Pocket A walkthrough of how money flows between payers and providers
a year ago
Maps Mania
Open Places Map
2 months ago
Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
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A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country? undefined
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam undefined
2 months ago
Maps Mania
Mapping the History of the Railway
9 months ago
TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained undefined
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Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
a year ago
High Signal
Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
a year ago
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I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
Seth's Blog
Drama at work A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package...
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A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package that also includes imperiousness, skittishness and a fair amount of unpredictable drama. It’s tempting to imagine that CEOs, painters or poets that bring the noise must also have...
Computer Ads from...
1988 Interview Between Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and MicroTimes Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
5 months ago
Max Rozen
2022: I just kept shipping Another year in review, in which I just keep shipping, with some stumbles along the way
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the large-scale smuggling of DNA between species. The post Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A Smart Bear
When should a decision be fast, or slow? Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really...
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a year ago
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge-Admiring the Work of Others For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year...
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For the past several years November for me has meant working on the 30 Day Map Challenge. This year I’ve been too busy to participate - also I really needed a break from it. Not participating means I’ve been able to admire the work of other cartographers. Here are some highlights...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fredericksburg? undefined
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Maps Mania
Spikkin Scots
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TheCollector
Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
The “Nonsense” Botanical Illustrations of Victorian Artist-Poet Edward Lear (1871–77) Since the Victorian era, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for generation upon...
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Since the Victorian era, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for generation upon generation in the English-speaking world, the kind of poem that one simply knows, whether one remembers actually having read it or not. As with most such works that seep so...
Essays - Benedict...
Unbundling AI ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to...
a year ago
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a year ago
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software?
brr
Brr Wants A Job 8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!
5 months ago
Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get an 13-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents! Now let’s...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
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For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
Quantum Frontiers
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of...
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a year ago
At the recent Quantum Thermodynamics conference in Vienna (coming next year to the University of Maryland!), during an expert panel Q&A session, one member of the audience asked “can quantum thermodynamics address foundational problems in quantum theory?” That stuck with …...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Copper • A blog...
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing) Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
Seth's Blog
The coming ubiquity The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or...
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a year ago
The fuss about AI might be mis-focused. It’s easy to point to a computer-created essay, song or illustration and find the defects or errors. Given hard work by 1,000 trained people, it’s likely that a human could make something more useful or inspired than a computer could. But...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Last Chance!
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world...
over a year ago
TheCollector
A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art undefined
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
over a year ago
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An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
Old Vintage...
Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote...
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Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote and release smoke. This is sometimes very hard to judge without a load, but they should be somewhere in the ballpark, verily, and you should get in the habit of checking any new...
Passing Time
Your Social Universe Imagine yourself as a star.
9 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Steeplejacks Top Out the Chrysler Building,' A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never...
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A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never heard of Fred Dibnah, practitioner of a trade I didn’t know was still extant: steeplejack. In the words of the OED: “a person who climbs steeples or tall chimneys to repair them.”...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Trader Joe's: The Anti-Grocer The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry...
a year ago
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a year ago
The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry best-practices (from wages to product to ads).
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Bangkok undefined
4 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: October 2024 Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
2 months ago
alexwlchan
Finding a mystery IAM access key Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I had an issue with some IAM keys. Somebody was trying to use an IAM access key to download some objects from S3, and it wasn’t working – it was giving a “permission denied” error. I wanted to inspect the permissions, but first I had to find where this IAM key came...
Seth's Blog
Generosity and fear Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech,...
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8 months ago
Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator… And generosity is about others. “How can I help?” Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from...
Seth's Blog
A bowl of rice It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It...
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It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It involved countless gallons of water, hours of labor, gallons of fuel. A complex supply chain that ensured you got what you needed, in perfect condition, just as you were ready for it. And...
Maps Mania
The Historical Movie Map
a year ago
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900. Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
Noahpinion
The U.S. needs to pay more attention to electronic warfare A guest post by Steven Glinert.
3 months ago
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8 One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
a year ago
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a year ago
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 7 (Tankfest) Finally the single event that justified our entire trip to England arrived, the renowned Tankfest....
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Finally the single event that justified our entire trip to England arrived, the renowned Tankfest. It’s everything the name implies, a festival of military tanks, and it happens only once a year on the grounds of the Tank Museum in Bovington (map). This is what the younger kid...
Map of the Week
New Sweden New Sweden was the first European colony in the Delaware Valley, established in 1638. It was a short...
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New Sweden was the first European colony in the Delaware Valley, established in 1638. It was a short lived colony meant to be Sweden's answer to the New Netherland colony (now New York).  via Wikipedia  "Nya Sverige" or "Niew Sweden" was originally proposed by Peter Minuit,...
abdz.do - Have you...
Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh abduzeedo0505—23 ...
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Lacoste 90th Anniversary web design refresh abduzeedo0505—23 Bonhomme Studio is a Paris-based creative studio that specializes in design, brand identity, and interaction design including web design, UI and UX. They have worked with a wide range...
Alex Meub
S3 Website Out Of Memory Error I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything...
over a year ago
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I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket. The command would hang for a really long...