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TheCollector
Hygge, Lagom, Wabi-Sabi: Life Philosophies To Help You Find Harmony undefined
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
The rock star conundrum Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the fastest-selling singles of all time. The documentary of the event is just okay, but it’s fascinating in how it shows us just how deep imposter syndrome lies. Only a few stars seemed at all...
Cheese and Biscuits
Kachori, Elephant and Castle There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
The Elysian
Asia and the future of the nation state A discussion with Benjamin Perry.
a month ago
James Vaughan's blog
Jay Kamat
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How to Steal From Homer Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome
11 months ago
HTMHell
The road to HTMHell is paved with semantics by Vadim Makeev HTML semantics is a nice idea, but does it really make a difference? There’s a huge...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Vadim Makeev HTML semantics is a nice idea, but does it really make a difference? There’s a huge gap between HTML spec’s good intentions and what browsers and screen readers are willing to implement. Writing semantic markup only because the good spec is a spec, and it is good,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to the Best Food in Kansas City
a year ago
Old Structures...
Repetition Back to my travelogue of the tour of Swiss and German bridges. This is an overall view of the rail...
5 months ago
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Back to my travelogue of the tour of Swiss and German bridges. This is an overall view of the rail viaduct across the Thun River valley at Ossingen, Switzerland. It was completed in 1874, and is still in use, carrying trains over the valley. Most of the sources I found are very...
Map of the Week
Seoul Maps I found this nice collection of maps of Seoul, South Korea's largest city and capital from...
a year ago
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a year ago
I found this nice collection of maps of Seoul, South Korea's largest city and capital from theSEOULlive. This is a website/magazine of Korean culture that "focuses on unraveling the hidden jewels of Seoul that can only be found with rumination."  Unfortunately these maps are...
Escaping Flatland
In praise of insular groups Last spring, as we were exploring the coastline of our island, Johanna, the kids, and I crossed a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Last spring, as we were exploring the coastline of our island, Johanna, the kids, and I crossed a meadow where two men were artificially inseminating a longhaired cow. We stopped to observe the work. When it was done, one of the men came over to where we stood by the electric...
Londonist
It Wasn't Fun Unwrapping Christmas Parcels At Mount Pleasant In 1927 "We are absolutely fed up with Christmas" complained staff.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Lindt Premium Collection by Derek&Eric Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent...
a month ago
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a month ago
Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent chocolate, elevating technical skill to...
lcamtuf’s thing
Analog filters, part 2: let it ring A continuation of the gentle intro to analog signal filtering. In today's episode: the Sallen-Key...
2 months ago
TheCollector
Heimdall: Get to Know the Viking Superhero and Guardian of Asgard undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass? undefined
10 months ago
Bits about Money
Demystifying financial leverage Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
Seth's Blog
Is it a skill? If so, it might be worth learning. If so, it might pay to let someone who has learned it take care...
a year ago
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a year ago
If so, it might be worth learning. If so, it might pay to let someone who has learned it take care of it. Coding is a skill. But it’s not clear that the person who knows how to code should be doing your design. Teaching is a skill. But simply because someone is good at […]
Stoic Simple
Stoicism & Modern Therapy: Is Stoic Philosophy a Form of CBT? Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca,...
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a year ago
Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius as some of its founding figures. However, it wasn't until the emergence of modern therapy that the principles of Stoicism were integrated into the psychological...
Steve Blank
How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It “Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet...
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2 months ago
“Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” coffee with Rohan, an ex-student. His three-year-old startup had been slapped with a notice of patent infringement from a Fortune 500 company. “My lawyers said defending this...
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World” undefined
11 months ago
Old Structures...
Subtle Design and Not Two buildings on a single block, separated by about 110 years and a huge difference in design...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Two buildings on a single block, separated by about 110 years and a huge difference in design philosophy… First up, how do you turn the corner from a busy avenue to a quiet side street? The one-story red-brick building on the far left is a modern replacement for an old commercial...
Rest of World -...
Netflix and thrill: the hunt for the next Squid Game in Southeast Asia As Amazon and Disney step back, Netflix invests in “locally authentic” content to grab subscribers...
3 months ago
Castles in the Sky
Dreams Over Goals in 2024 More dreams, less goals, and some commitments for the year
11 months ago
Archinect - Features
Five Big Factors Behind the Architecture Industry’s Economic Slowdown Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which...
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5 months ago
Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which invited you to share how you were feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and sector. Our analysis found that across the United States, architects have seen business...
diamond geezer
Decorations up It was St Nicholas Day yesterday so I put my Christmas decorations up. It's not a date-related...
a year ago
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a year ago
It was St Nicholas Day yesterday so I put my Christmas decorations up. It's not a date-related tradition or anything, certainly not my tradition, but this year the day I spotted the box of decorations was 6th December so out they came and up they went. It would've been more...
Wuthering...
Thou hast devourd thy sonnes - some notes on Seneca's horror plays My Seneca reading in March: Medea, tr. Frederick Ahl The Trojan Women, tr. E. F. Watling Thyestes,...
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a year ago
My Seneca reading in March: Medea, tr. Frederick Ahl The Trojan Women, tr. E. F. Watling Thyestes, tr. Jasper Heywood Hercules Furens, tr. Heywood The Madness of Hercules, tr. Dana Gioia The plays themselves are all from the mid-1st century, perhaps written when Seneca was in...
Maps Mania
Finding Shade from the City Heat
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Custom Elements, At Minimum, Only Need End With a Hyphen Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Scott Jehl reached out to help me resolve a conundrum in my post about what constitutes a valid custom element tag. The spec says you can have custom elements with emojis in them. For example: <emotion-😍></emotion-😍> But for some reason the Codepen where I tested this wasn’t...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
Maps Mania
Indian Election Maps
6 months ago
Common Edge
What L.A. 2028 Can Learn From the Paris Olympics Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
A Beautiful Site
How to remove box shadows from input controls on iOS Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying, especially if you're going for a flat or subtle look. Here's how to remove them. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as setting the box-shadow property to none. Instead, you have to...
Common Edge
Havana’s Evolving Public-Private Landscape Can Cuba’s creative class become agents for political change?
10 months ago
Flashbak
How Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Met And Created Their Two-Heads, Four-Hands Art ”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.” — Andy Warhol’s longtime studio...
Old Structures...
The Personal Connection A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame, glass-facade office building, remarkable to me for the simple reason that I had my first more-or-less real engineering job there. Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, later known as TAMS...
ntietz.com blog
Different topologies for an org chart, wrong answers only Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Traditionally, an org chart is represented as a tree. You start at the top with the root of the tree, probably the CEO. And then everything comes down from there hierarchically. It doesn't have to be that way, though! We can imagine other topologies for companies which would...
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
11 months ago
the singularity is...
nuke/acc I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be discussed there. Nuclear weapons are the Chekhov’s gun on the world stage. When, if ever, are they going to be fired? When should they be? I suspect this is not a question a lot of people...
AFAR Media - Travel...
In-Depth Review of Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape, a hotel in Bali, Indonesia
a year ago
99% Invisible
Rocket Man [EPISODE] In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’ Appearing in cartoons and magazines, it felt like a matter of time before people could ride a jetpack to work. But jetpacks never became a mainstream technology, leaving many to...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
I don't know how to build software and you don't either Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it...
a month ago
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a month ago
Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it better to have that dictated by some…
Math Is Still...
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics? Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine and mathematics. John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert, talks with Steven Strogatz about what jellyfish can teach us about going with the flow. The post What Can...
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
a month ago
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a month ago
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
xkcd.com
Alphabetical Cartogram
7 months ago
Notes on software...
1 million page views I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since Murat wrote about his 1M page view accomplishment at the time, I felt compelled to now too. I started regularly blogging in 2018. For some reason I decided to write a blog post...
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
Seth's Blog
“This time will be different” Why is that? The new diet. The fundraising after a natural disaster. The relationship. The hype...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Why is that? The new diet. The fundraising after a natural disaster. The relationship. The hype cycle of a new technology or the media frenzy around a hot new fad or candidate… It always feels like it will be different this time. It rarely is. If it’s going to be different, the...
The Roots of...
The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements On May 24, 1847, a bridge over the Dee River in Chester, England, collapsed. A passenger train...
a year ago
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a year ago
On May 24, 1847, a bridge over the Dee River in Chester, England, collapsed. A passenger train plunged into the river; five people were killed and nine seriously injured. The subsequent investigation blamed the bridge’s cast iron girders. Cast iron, like concrete but unlike...
Seth's Blog
Fire inspectors Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably.
Internal Tech Emails
Apple exec on App Store complaints In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to distribute apps on their own, bypassing our store.
Mazdak
The Rollercoaster Ride of Long-Term Rates: What it Means for You and the Economy Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that had everyone from policymakers to financial analysts glued to their screens? Well, guess what? It's mostly reversed! What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means a sigh of relief...
Seth's Blog
Are you weather? The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or preventing a storm, because it isn’t caused by our actions. Metaphorical weather is tempting to mistake as a response. When someone cuts us off in traffic or doesn’t engage with us the...
xkcd.com
Frankenstein Claim Permutations
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'For a Dream's Sake' Interviewer: “Do you feel you could have had a much happier life?”  Philip Larkin: “Not without...
a year ago
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a year ago
Interviewer: “Do you feel you could have had a much happier life?”  Philip Larkin: “Not without being someone else. I think it is very much easier to imagine happiness than to experience it. Which is a pity because what you imagine makes you dissatisfied with what you experience,...
TheCollector
The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers undefined
a year ago
elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
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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over a year ago
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...
Paul Graham: Essays
Charisma / Power
over a year ago
David Perell
Nik Sharma: Building DTC Companies My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and Cha Cha Matcha. Nik is one of my very best friends and my go-to person for all things commerce. Since we first met, we’ve spent hours exploring the future of marketing and...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21) Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian...
a year ago
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a year ago
Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian industrialization, and Chinese urbanism
Londonist
Dive Into This Free Exhibition About Billingsgate Fish Market Living the bream.
10 months ago
The Modern House
Best Buds: the most beautiful garden centres in London
a year ago
Contemporist...
Pitched Roofs Cover This Dark And Moody Farmhouse Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Atlas Architects has shared photos of a modern house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, that was once a brown-brick, pitched-roof farmhouse built in the 1980s.
nanoscale views
What do we want in a conference venue? The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who...
a year ago
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a year ago
The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who liked that decision in hindsight.  In brief, the conference venue seemed about 10% too small (severe crowding issues in hallways between sessions); while the APS deal on hotels was...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
Louwrentius
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
TheCollector
What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda? undefined
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ancient times Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as if summer storm had rainbowed the world, yet passed over your home as you dwelt in twilight and sorrow. Today's News:
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my...
a year ago
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a year ago
THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat printer The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built for nerds. From the first announcement, Beepy’s creator—SQFMI—was candid about the device’s lack of...
Both Are True
WANTED: Happiness, dead or alive Alex is back with a brand new invention (an essay)
9 months ago
Max Rozen
Stop useEffect from running on every render with useCallback Did ESLint tell you to add a function to your dependency array, and now you're getting infinite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Did ESLint tell you to add a function to your dependency array, and now you're getting infinite re-renders? Let's learn how useEffect can help.
FIRE v London
Feb ’24: Envyidia I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations rugby, I’ve been to two shows – one in London’s Royal Opera House and one on the south coast. Both events were either full or practically full. Covid feels fully behind us now. But...
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Die? undefined
a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary 2. system calls In this post we'll create a small virtual machine in JavaScript and use it to run a simple C program compiled...
diamond geezer
Replacing Overground signage The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The original intention was for the changeover to be in August in conjunction with a new tube map, but that's not happened so technically it's late. That said, an awful lot of signage on...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 16-22 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
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...
Scarlet Ink
Stories of Good and Bad Feedback Dave Received From His Managers A few anecdotal stories of times I received feedback from the senior leaders in my life
2 months ago
Common Edge
The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess City council is expected to vote on the controversial proposal soon.
a month ago
Maps Mania
How Good is Your Map Memory?
a week ago
TheCollector
Monet’s Favorite French Cathedral Catches Fire undefined
5 months ago
The Works in...
Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 2020 It may be a sign of something that I read Louis-René des Forêts's Poems of Samuel Wood several years...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It may be a sign of something that I read Louis-René des Forêts's Poems of Samuel Wood several years after reading A Voice from Elsewhere in which Maurice Blanchot dedicates three unusually personal (and often bewildering) essays to them. The book's title is adapted from a line...
Max Countryman
Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
a year ago
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a year ago
Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art undefined
5 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
over a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 7-8 October 2023 Oktoberfest parties, rugby screenings, and an open day at a rather niche museum.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Adult Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down his shirt. Today's News:
Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
GitButler
GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball" It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases, adding lots of small features, bug fixes, performance improvements and experiments. Last week we released GitButler 0.13, which is our first release with our new Fearless Rebasing...
Christopher Butler
object – 1999 Qualcomm QCP-860 This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was the Qualcomm QCP-860. It was marketed at the time as a “thin phone.” By today’s standards, that might seem silly, but at the time, phones were generally much chunkier. Like this...
Avestura's Blog
Explaining The Postgres Meme Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
a year ago
pcloadletter
My articles don't belong on certain social networks I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites like Reddit and Hacker...
Seth's Blog
Avert your eyes There are things we avoid looking at too closely. If we looked, really saw what was happening, we’d...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are things we avoid looking at too closely. If we looked, really saw what was happening, we’d have to change our minds, admit we were mistaken, refactor our priorities or take action. It’s so frightening that we even hesitate to make a list of the things we don’t want to...
Louwrentius
'Tip of the day: Scrolling in GNU screen' Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can be changed in the .screenrc file in your home directory. The following example sets the scroll back buffer to 5K lines. defscrollback 5000 Set the scroll back buffer on the fly with: First...
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 22 Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important...
over a year ago
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Highlights TinyPilot generates $58k/month in revenue yet somehow loses money. It’s more important than I thought to have low-latency insight into developers’ hours. I’m trying paid advertising again for the first time in almost two years. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
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Highlights I’m struggling to get unstuck in two areas that have stalled for months: hardware development and hiring. I’m partnering with a distributor in Germany to begin selling TinyPilot within the EU. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
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At Doist we believe that open and sincere communication improves our decision-making process. That’s why we’ve built a culture that encourages feedback at all levels of decision-making: from purely technical solutions to team and product management. We built our team...
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Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
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"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
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Some notes on The Story of the Stone, Volume 1: The Golden Days (c. 1760 or maybe 1792) by Cao Xueqin, the first of the five volumes of the Penguin edition of the greatest Chinese novel. I don’t like writing about a book before I have finished it, but in a sense I did finish a...
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LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience, blending the company’s culture with a focus on...
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Wallflower Architecture + Design has sent us photos of a home they recently completed in Singapore, that features an exterior covered in plants.
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Start With Creation Not knowing what one is doing is no prohibition on doing it. We all grope ahead. — Anne Carson
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Presenting Founder Collective As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a...
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As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a sometimes critic of how the venture capital…
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The most advanced portfolio system yet: Semplice 6 is here They say it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at a chosen field. We've been building Semplice...
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They say it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at a chosen field. We've been building Semplice for nearly 10 years.
Handprinted - Blog
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I am Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist. I was born in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, but I moved to Ukraine as a child. Now I live in Kyiv. Despite the war, I am staying in Ukraine and continue to work. I am an active member of the international printmaking community,...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Flashbak
Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV...
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In case of fire, 82% of 20th Century Americans surveyed in the pre-Internet era would rescue the TV set. In the Soviet Union, the figure could well have been higher. When we shared found photos of Americans by their TVs (here and here). And now thanks to collectors Anna Pilipyuk...
Anecdotal Evidence
'What Will Become of My Diary?' “During the morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland...
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“During the morning hours of the first of September 1939, war broke out between Germany and Poland and indirectly between Germany and Poland’s allies, England and France. This war will indeed bring destruction upon human civilization which merits annihilation and destruction....
Math Is Still...
New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always...
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For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always be unstable. The post New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Citation Needed
Issue 44 – Four The Justice Department's interest in Binance isn't just "FUD" anymore.
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves...
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Having featured pictures of people meeting statues of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Jackson now delves into his fabulous collection of snapshots to show us people posing with other statues. Most are having a laugh, mimicking the poses, affecting some romantic clinch (groping,...
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TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
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Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
NeuroLogica Blog
Cities on Fire Most major cities in the US experienced a major fire sometime between 1860 and 1920. Actually these...
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Most major cities in the US experienced a major fire sometime between 1860 and 1920. Actually these fires, called conflagrations, have been occurring since colonial times and into the middle of the 20th century, but saw a peak in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many cities...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap...
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I was reading Baldur’s article (which I took notes on) and he suggests an interesting overlap between AI enthusiasts and “idea people”: That algogen fans are predominantly idea people—the lot who think that 99% of the value delivered by any given form of media comes from the...
Construction Physics
Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail? Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’...
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Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’ flight in 1903, aircraft speeds steadily increased each decade, and increasing aircraft speeds was one of the primary goals of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA’s...
Archinect - Features
Discussing Paid Research Opportunities for M.Arch Students at the UW-Milwaukee SARUP In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture &...
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In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).  For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
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The New Simose Art Garden Villa: Where Art & Hospitality Meet at the Sea All images © Simose Art Museum Stretching over an area of 4.6 hectares and situated alongside the...
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All images © Simose Art Museum Stretching over an area of 4.6 hectares and situated alongside the picturesque Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima is the Simose Art Garden Villa. Designed by architect Shigeru Ban (previously), the newly opened destination comprises ten villas, a...
Rest of World -...
How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its...
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Sam Altman’s India comments spark a heated backlash The OpenAI CEO’s dismissal of an Indian competitor launched a debate over the country’s tech...
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Greenwich's Old Town Hall To Become Flats And Viewing Gallery Art deco landmark gets green light for regeneration.
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Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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Profitable on day one! You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
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You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Kind of Masochism Afoot in Modern Aesthetics' “Is there a kind of masochism afoot in modern aesthetics whereby the leaden and the dull acquire...
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“Is there a kind of masochism afoot in modern aesthetics whereby the leaden and the dull acquire significance simply because the beaten spirit would seem to claim more seriousness than a more robust struggle with the exigencies of things?”  This elegantly crafted question, at...
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Anecdotal Evidence
"A Fury of Self-Deception, Malice, and Conceit' There’s no getting away from the din. Who knew the human voice, individually and in the collective,...
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There’s no getting away from the din. Who knew the human voice, individually and in the collective, could carry on this way? An innocent question or observation prompts a sonic explosion. I’m unable to get that angry and loud so quickly. Perhaps if my family were threatened....
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Arrived in Peking today As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key...
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As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key instrument in the murderous machine of the Third Reich, a role for which he was rightly convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials. During his...
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Take the 2024 Freelance Mapper Survey Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every...
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Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every two years. We ask people who do freelance mapping work about their fees and other business practices, in order to help bring more transparency to our little niche of the world, and...
Calculated Risk
Ten Economic Questions for 2025 Here is a review of the Ten Economic Questions for 2024. I'll follow up with some thoughts on each...
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Here is a review of the Ten Economic Questions for 2024. I'll follow up with some thoughts on each of these questions. We can assume the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will be extended.  That larger tariffs will be imposed on some imports, and there will be some...
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
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Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
journal – Winnie Lim
am i actually autistic? Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic...
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Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic without admitting it. It surprised me, since the traits of HSPs as I know it seem to be the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The new economy According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To...
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According to the Business Insider, Facebook is “‘Beating The S— Out Of Its Numbers’ Thanks To Zynga’s Virtual Goods.”  I wanted to try to…
Making software...
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
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Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
HTMHell
Native HTML light and dark color scheme switching by Vadim Makeev It’s getting dark early in Berlin in the winter. It’s not even close to evening, but...
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by Vadim Makeev It’s getting dark early in Berlin in the winter. It’s not even close to evening, but my OS and all apps have already switched to dark mode. Well, not all of them, unfortunately. And that’s the thing: dark mode has become a quality-of-life feature for many users,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are No Millers Any More' I’ve just learned of the suicide of a woman I knew casually a long time ago. Such news is always...
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I’ve just learned of the suicide of a woman I knew casually a long time ago. Such news is always unsettling, as though a fundamental law of nature had been violated. Given what we know of the person, and it may be very little, we apply her circumstances to our own and conclude,...
haseeb qureshi
Ethereum is now unforkable, thanks to DeFi By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with...
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over a year ago
By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with an existential quandary: should the community roll back the chain to revert the DAO hack, or let the hacker get away? Those who said yes forked away to what is now called Ethereum....
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NATO's Phantom Armies. And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
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4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers Answering Q&A's
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Old Structures...
Very Urban Angelo Rizzuto’s title for this photo is “Cityscape – New York City”. Don’t feel embarrassed if you...
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Angelo Rizzuto’s title for this photo is “Cityscape – New York City”. Don’t feel embarrassed if you can’t recognize anything New Yorkish in it – it took me a minute. The arch bridge in the background is the Henry Hudson Bridge, carrying the Henry Hudson Parkway (the northern...
diamond geezer
London Heritage Quarter Summer Trail What is this bolx? London Heritage Quarter 'Journey Through Time' Summer Trail and it's bolx. It's...
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What is this bolx? London Heritage Quarter 'Journey Through Time' Summer Trail and it's bolx. It's been organised not to inspire and delight but to drive footfall to four commercial districts. It kicked off last week and runs all summer. It's lowest common denominator art. It's...
Internal Tech Emails
Samsung vs. iPhone | Elon Musk's schedule Steve Job's passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple's and iPhone's "superiority",...
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Steve Job's passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple's and iPhone's "superiority", all created by the, "passionate, tireless, perfectionist..." The point here is that there is an unintended benefit for Apple, since the external messages by 3rd parties are all...
TheCollector
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Learning from the 2023 Book Fair This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book...
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This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Three hardly makes me an expert, even in my specialization of architecture books, but it does help with gauging the value given...
brr
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Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
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In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
The Rational Walk
A Seamless Web of Deserved Trust Trust is earned over many years. Seamless trust requires decades.
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A transformative summer Living indoors, connected to a screen, it’s easy for the months and years to blur together. The...
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Living indoors, connected to a screen, it’s easy for the months and years to blur together. The seasons used to matter more. But for young adults, they still do. Transitions are built around the seasons, and the headlong rush to a career is still sometimes interrupted by months...
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Rattle Bag Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
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Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
Maps Mania
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My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34 I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
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ARIA: Betting on science An inside look at Britain's new DARPA
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
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The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 3: Lagoon Shorebirding February 28, 2023 Our first few days in Uruguay had been very successful. We had been able to...
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February 28, 2023 Our first few days in Uruguay had been very successful. We had been able to experience a few days in the beautiful rural countryside, staying at a wonderful hacienda. We had found our first Uruguayan snake. And we had found most of the potential bird lifers that...
Math Is Still...
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of...
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John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. The post Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus? Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
Mazdak
Finance News Roundup - Wednesday, 29th November 😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire...
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😢 Investing Legend Charlie Munger Passes Away Charlie Munger, a longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and a close associate of Warren Buffett, has passed away at the age of 97. Munger was known for his wit, wisdom, and contrarian investment style.
Noahpinion
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Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
The Turn Signal RSS...
A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and...
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When looking around in traffic, the number of people being distracted by their phones and infotainment systems is alarming. The latter is a…
Inverted Passion
Not everything is physics The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that...
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The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that I re-read it 8 times. As a young boy, the book had made a lasting impression on me, making me fall in love with ideas such as the arrow of time, black holes, entropy,… Read...
Explorations of an...
Final Argentina Post - Hudson's Canasteros, Shorebirds and Jaegers at Punta Rasa February 20, 2023 As we traveled south from Buenos Aires, the landscape opened up. The small towns...
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February 20, 2023 As we traveled south from Buenos Aires, the landscape opened up. The small towns and communities became less frequent, giving way to vast expanses of pasture and agriculture with nary a tree in sight, other than the occasional hedgerow. Several hours later, and...
Contemporist...
This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you should wake up every morning and check the integral of happiness over time. Today's News:
Open Culture
Mary Tyler Moore Accidentally Nails a Perfect Pool Shot on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962) Let’s rewind the videotape and revisit a classic moment in The Dick Van Dyke Show. In the 1962...
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Let’s rewind the videotape and revisit a classic moment in The Dick Van Dyke Show. In the 1962 episode called “Hustling the Hustler,” Mary Tyler Moore (as Laura Petrie) plays pool and sinks three balls in a single shot. The original plan was to splice in footage of a professional...
Mazdak
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Building wealth is a long-term goal that requires time, discipline, and consistency. But it is possible for anyone who is willing to put in the work. Here are 5 key principles to help you build wealth: Live below your means. This is the single most important thing you can do to...
TheCollector
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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...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is one of those frustrating comics where the votey, made in 4 seconds, is funnier than the whole comic. Today's News: Bea Wolf is available now!
Seth's Blog
Customer service is a choice It’s either part of your strategy or you’re paying for your mistake. 800 numbers changed the way...
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It’s either part of your strategy or you’re paying for your mistake. 800 numbers changed the way large brands dealt with the public. Instantly, and for free, a consumer could contact a company about a product or service and they would work to make it right. It was more than...
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Subscribe now to get a dose of London transport news in your inbox every Thursday. Four stations miss out on 4G can't ring a friend and have a very loud conversation and they are Paddington, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf and Woolwich. These will be added to the roster next year,...
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The candidate running for re-election offers truth. This is what I did, I would like to do it again. The candidate coming out of nowhere offers hope. We can’t know but we can imagine. Kickstarter offers hope. No reviews, no tests, simply a promise of what might be. Book...
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A lot shifted when the Apple Macintosh was introduced, and it wasn’t about the RAM, the chips or the processor speed. Our world changed forty years ago today. Marketing, technology, commerce, luxury brands, communities, communication and our expectations for how we might spend...
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Adobe Firefly Express (beta) whatever “Text to Image” takes the old Colab Notebooks to a new refined level.However it’s still easy to cherry-pick “good” images for every 10 mediocre or just plain wrong images. Don’t trust the robots. PEACE. T.AKE IT IT ELASY! * All images...
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This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
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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...
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To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an...
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Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an uncompromising tactic that may combat harmful genetic parasites. The post To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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I wanted to buy a dozen stamps. For this alphabetical challenge I needed a list of London's post offices, which is awkward because the Post Office's branch finder doesn't do lists, only "closest to"s. Thankfully this is a problem other people also have, and volunteers at...
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Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last three years, the green tech revolution has accelerated dramatically. Countless companies are being created to change how food is grown, people are transported and energy is...
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The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and effective non-invasive interfaces that can deliver tiny milliamp currents to the right stimulation location on the head, neck or body. One example of the new players in this field is...
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Prince Henry's Room Open House is here again, indeed it kicked off earlier than the first official weekend which is how...
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Open House is here again, indeed it kicked off earlier than the first official weekend which is how yesterday I managed to visit an unvisitable tourist attraction. Open House: Prince Henry's Room (17 Fleet Street) Prince Henry's Room is a first-floor Jacobean chamber...
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Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
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I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a digital version. It’s called “o(m)g:image” and you can play it now: omgimg.jim-nielsen.com Here’s the idea: You have a bunch images Each image is a real-life og:image pulled from an...
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New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
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This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements. Mail The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
The Marginalian
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Emma Kunz (May 23, 1892–January 16, 1963) was forty-six and the world was aflame with war when she became an artist. She had worked at a knitting factory and as a housekeeper. She had written poetry, publishing a collection titled Life in the interlude between the two World Wars....
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Problems and the clover Systemic and existential problems dance their way through three circles: If it’s not solvable, we’ll...
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Systemic and existential problems dance their way through three circles: If it’s not solvable, we’ll pretend it’s not a problem. If the cultural cost of solving the problem is too high, we’ll pretend there’s no solution. People don’t spend a lot of time planning for death because...
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This may be the most difficult to place shot by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1958. The Library of Congress title “Aerial view of unidentified street with multiple traffic lanes in each direction, high-rise buildings line both sides of the street” doesn’t help. The clue that got...
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Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
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Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
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Collapsing Layers As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another...
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As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
Seth's Blog
On whining It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature,...
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It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature, something that all humans have a desire to do, regardless of our age or position. Let’s define whining as a complaint about a situation that’s not easily addressed, often a...
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Give All to Love: A New Documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson Debuts undefined
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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies The latest episode of my podcast Better Online is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s...
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The latest episode of my podcast Better Online is a conversation with Matt Stoller — America’s leading voice on monopoly and antitrust matters, and a thoughtful and prolific writer. You can find Matt on Twitter here, and his newsletter here. It was a timely conversation. At the
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L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme Another of my essays in French.
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The Changelog
So Many Caring People In This World When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the...
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that...
Handprinted - Blog
In the Studio 2023 We've been looking back on all our studio highlights for 2023, and what a year it's been! If you...
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We've been looking back on all our studio highlights for 2023, and what a year it's been! If you took part in one of our Fab Fridays, attended a workshop, or used the studio for open access - thanks for being a part of our studio! We hope to see you back again in 2024! Workshops...
Londonist
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Explosive logo design & brand identity for Hot Sauce abduzeedo0427—23 Logo design, brand identity, and packaging design artifacts are essential elements for any brand to establish a distinctive identity and create a lasting impression. This is...
Diaries of Note
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Éva Heyman spent much of her brief life in the company of her grandparents following the divorce of her parents when she was a young child. On her thirteenth birthday, in February of 1944, as her home country of Hungary was taken over by the Nazis, she began a diary that would...
Luxagraf:...
Everyday It&#x27;s 1984 Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying,...
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Nostalgia is commonly used pejoratively. As if the very idea of looking backward in time and saying, hmm, maybe we lost something between then and now were... bad? The American Psychological Association considers nostalgia a subset of depression, which is, ahem, depressing. But...
HTMHell
The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account by Jason Cranford Teague Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024 Note: HTML standards are developed...
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by Jason Cranford Teague Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024 Note: HTML standards are developed first in browsers, so the version might have already became the de facto standard before the official standard document is released. The story so far: In the beginning Tim...
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable) Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
Kat Snyder
Visual Attention in Virtual Reality When designing interfaces that use visual attention, we must remember that our brains do not shoot...
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When designing interfaces that use visual attention, we must remember that our brains do not shoot and store perfect photos of the world...
Left To Write
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The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to conclusions
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toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was applied to the 8,215 sq.m...
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No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of mistakes and luck so I thought I'd share some. Honestly, I feel like I've mostly benefitted from luck.
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Renting vs. Buying in Canada's Skyrocketing Market: Is Homeownership Still a Golden Ticket? The Great Canadian Housing Dilemma: Soaring prices and sky-high interest rates have transformed the...
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The Great Canadian Housing Dilemma: Soaring prices and sky-high interest rates have transformed the dream of homeownership into a distant mirage for many Canadians. But before you resign yourself to renting forever, consider this: owning a home may not be the guaranteed...
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Open Culture
Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael...
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Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael Palin may be the most English of them all. It thus comes as no surprise that the National Gallery would ring him up and invite him to make a video about his favorite painting, nor...
History Today Feed
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Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
The Tao Of Wealth
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Patalathri, commonly known as Singaperumal Koil is a very famous Narasimha Kshetra situated in Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu. This place houses a beautiful rock-cut Narasimha temple, which is situated on a small hill. The name of the place, ‘Patalathri’ also gives a similar...
diamond geezer
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Bus Route Of The Day 197: Croydon to Peckham Quadrant: London southeast Length of journey: 10 miles, 65 minutes Because it's 19th July I've been out riding the 197, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. My apologies for the repetition. Threepenny Bit building, stopping not...
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Too many bronze medals? In a recent video, Hank Green nerd-sniped me by asking a question I couldn’t not answer. At one...
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In a recent video, Hank Green nerd-sniped me by asking a question I couldn’t not answer. At one point in the video, he shows “a graph of the last 20 years of Olympic games showing the gold, silver, and bronze medals from continental Europe. And it “shows continental Europe having...
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Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
African History...
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During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
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During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
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Fourteen years Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
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Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
bunnie's blog
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a...
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I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a mandatory Microsoft account. I can’t concisely explain why being forced to create an account bothers me so much, but generally when a vendor tries this hard to get you to do something,...
Commoncog
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How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.
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The Easy Route On Sunday, I mentioned in passing that Ridgewood and Glendale, which are in southwest Queens as much...
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On Sunday, I mentioned in passing that Ridgewood and Glendale, which are in southwest Queens as much as there is a southwest Queens (that corner isn’t very big because most of where it might have been is Brooklyn) used to have service on the Long Island Railroad and now don’t. I...
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Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
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An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
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Damn Interesting
Journey to the Invisible Planet In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific...
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In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific theory that was gaining currency in Europe: universal gravitation. In correspondence with a scientific contemporary, Newton complained that it was “an absurdity” to suppose that...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This has been episode 429 of Zach Personally Antagonizes His Paying Customers Today's News:
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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...
Val Sopi
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<p><i>From all that is currently happening to us, I want to believe that we’re at the dawn of a new era </i>✊</p><hr><p>I&nbsp;am&nbsp;predicting year 2300 to be the one when we’re living the progressive dreams of today.<br></p><p>By then we have reached a new...
DYNOMIGHT
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I'm so confused TACTICAL PARENTING Written by Dynomight INT TACTICAL HOME - DAY WE OPEN on TACTICAL GUY’s house. A small tree is visible in a window. We see TACTICAL GUY staring at TACTICAL BABY on the ground. CUT TO: INT DESK - SAME DAY TACTICAL GUY uses keyboard plugged...
ntietz.com blog
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun) While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack...
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While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1. It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
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I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
Seth's Blog
The unwarranted smile When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many...
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When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we drop a plate or miss a turn or make someone late, it’s particularly delightful and memorable if we...
TheCollector
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David Heinemeier...
Why don't more people use Linux? A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza: I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
Neocha – Culture &...
Reflections on Urban Isolation
5 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the White House: The US President’s Home undefined
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections undefined
3 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
Projection Connections: A Very Nerdy Poster Friends, I’m excited to offer to you a new poster. Not a map this time around, but something...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Friends, I’m excited to offer to you a new poster. Not a map this time around, but something map-related. A 16 × 24-inch tangled web showing how 100+ different map projections are all related to each other: Projections are a niche topic even among cartographers, so I don’t...