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Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
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One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
CONTEMPORIST
A Vaulted Ceiling Is A Dramatic Feature Inside This Modern Barn House BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium...
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BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium space that encourages activity and connectivity for a young family in British Columbia, Canada. The home sits on an irregular site located at the end of a cul-de-sac, and is designed...
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Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
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> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Maps Mania
A Bird's Eye View of America
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Moneyness
How to debase the coinage in order to pay for wars Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein the Younger It's fun to imagine traveling back in time and engaging...
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Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein the Younger It's fun to imagine traveling back in time and engaging with the then-prevailing technologies. Would you be able to ride a boneshaker or use a counting board? It's probably harder than you think: kids today can't even use a 1980s rotary...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console....
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For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is...
History Today Feed
‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review ‘Spice’ by Roger Crowley review JamesHoare Tue, 06/18/2024 - 09:03
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diamond geezer
Lessons learned 40 things I've learnt about sex over the last 40 years 1) Nothing ever prepares you for the first...
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40 things I've learnt about sex over the last 40 years 1) Nothing ever prepares you for the first time... 2) ... not even the fact that the biology textbook always falls open at the same page 3) The first time is always a ghastly mistake (I'm extrapolating this from a single...
Steve Blank
Is a $100 Million Enough? Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
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Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
Londonist
When Are London's Christmas Lights Switched On For 2023? Three...two...one... CHRISTMAS!
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Afterlives of the Soul: Sister Nivedita on Love and Death "To the soul, time does not exist. Only her own great purpose exists, shining clear and steady...
a year ago
Maps Mania
Global Heating
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Quanta Magazine
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its...
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There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants. The post Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine
CONTEMPORIST
Large Windows Give This Home A Lantern-Like Appearance At Night Swatt | Miers Architects has shared photos of a house they designed in the town of Atherton,...
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Swatt | Miers Architects has shared photos of a house they designed in the town of Atherton, California, that replaces an earlier mid-century structure that the family had owned for many years. The home, with its white exterior, has an abundance of windows, allowing the home to...
Citation Needed
Substackers Against Nazis A collective letter to Substack leadership.
a year ago
McMansion Hell
every small city has that one dictator chic house I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking...
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I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking McMansion somewhere outside the city limits. If you sort your Zillow results as Price: High - Low, this house will pop up first. It costs something like $5,000,000. It is 10,000 square...
TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough? undefined
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
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Vadim Kravcenko
What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I...
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Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I understand it’s also […] The post What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
xkcd.com
Earth Formation Site
8 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
The Honest Broker
A Look at Bill Evans's 15-Year-Old Pianist Grandson And other updates on previous posts
11 months ago
Maps Mania
3D Middle-earth
a year ago
ToughSF
Particle Beams in Space Science fiction is missing a realistic and grounded look at particle beams. We plan to do just that...
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Science fiction is missing a realistic and grounded look at particle beams. We plan to do just that now.   After reading this, you might decide to give particle beams their rightful place alongside lasers as a means of transmitting power, propelling spacecraft or dealing damage...
nanoscale views
Favorite science fiction invention? In the forward-looking spirit of the New Year, it might be fun to get readers’ opinions of their...
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In the forward-looking spirit of the New Year, it might be fun to get readers’ opinions of their favorite science fiction inventions.  I wrote about favorite sci-fi materials back in 2015, but let’s broaden the field. Personally, I’m a fan of the farcaster (spoiler warning!) from...
Seth's Blog
The run-on sentence Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on...
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Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention. The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences shorter. I was reading a magazine article yesterday and was rapidly losing interest....
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil? undefined
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TheCollector
5 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes Explained undefined
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L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America undefined
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens “Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954     On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
Musings on Markets
A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business! It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting...
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It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting businesses.  The strike by screen actors and writers which started in July is now into almost into its third month, with no end in sight, putting at risk the pipeline of movies and...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker - Angela Hall My name is Angela Hall, I’m an artist and silkscreen printer based in North Yorkshire, and I have...
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My name is Angela Hall, I’m an artist and silkscreen printer based in North Yorkshire, and I have been making and selling my limited-edition prints for the last 5 years from my studio, specialised print events and regional galleries.   My creative journey started with a degree in...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Ins-and-Outs of Cancer Care Navigators With Laura Stratte | Out-Of-Pocket What are cancer care navigators and what issues do they face?
a year ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Improved Cercanías Madrid Map by Jace Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review...
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Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review is here – Cam], and, as a regular user of the system, I too find the map quite bad: Uneven distances between lines, mismatched fonts in the route bullets, and overall lack of...
Tom Blomfield
When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
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Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
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...
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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....
xkcd.com
Periodic Table Regions
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Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
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Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984 We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
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We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
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The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine Or: How we weaponised serendipity
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Words and Buttons...
Circles and lines vs. polynomial splines Usually, when you want to make a parametric curve, you should go for a polynomial spline. But...
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Usually, when you want to make a parametric curve, you should go for a polynomial spline. But sometimes, for the reasons mentioned only in the second half of this page to keep you intrigued, you are not satisfied with polynomials. You have to look elsewhere. This page shows you...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
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How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Fund a Startup
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The Turn Signal RSS...
Guidelines for Designing an In-Car Voice Assistant I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction...
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I turned all the research that I did for my previous article, about the impact of voice interaction on driver distraction, into concrete…
Anecdotal Evidence
‘Of Course’ “Auden says, Wordsworth says, Valery says, Shakespeare says. Always the present tense. Of...
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“Auden says, Wordsworth says, Valery says, Shakespeare says. Always the present tense. Of course.” —Geoffrey Grigson, The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook (Allison and Busby, 1982).
Escaping Flatland
After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is...
11 months ago
Blog - Practical...
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In March of 1989, Earth...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In March of 1989, Earth experienced one of its strongest geomagnetic storms in modern history. It all started when scientists observed a cluster of sunspots—active, magnetic areas on the sun's surface—emerging...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
Laetitia@Work
What's not to like about work-life balance? Laetitia@Work #43
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Maps Mania
Racial Profiling in Redlining Maps
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'If the Nation Is to Be Saved From This Menace' “To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming...
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“To the thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we are becoming a nation of minor poets.”  P.G. Wodehouse is being kind. He wrote “The Alarming Spread of Poetry” in 1916 when the blight was fresh and perhaps still reversible. His Exhibit A is...
balajis.com
Global Crypto Regulation: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a...
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a...
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School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who might not (yet) have the physical attributes necessary to win, or they build huge stadiums, go on long road trips, berate students that make an...
Maps Mania
The Taco Bell Interstate Map
yesterday
Old Structures...
Boarding Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different...
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Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different catches me by suprise. I was in the far west Village a few days ago and this building caught my eye. It’s a nice 1890s semi-industrial building turned into apartments There’s a sign...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about...
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I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34 keyboard layout A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
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A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Local Artist's Guide to Dallas, Texas
5 months ago
Maps Mania
Geolocating Visual Media in Conflict Zones
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“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform… “Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform...
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The Ruffian
Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
2 months ago
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
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Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Londonist
See A Flock Of 50 Sheep Herded Over Southwark Bridge This September By a celebrity.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I shan’t worry about my girth Born in Minnesota in 1882, Dorothea Moulton Balano was no ordinary ‘skipper’s wife.’ At a time when...
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Born in Minnesota in 1882, Dorothea Moulton Balano was no ordinary ‘skipper’s wife.’ At a time when women were expected to remain ashore, she joined her husband, Captain Fred Balano, on maritime adventures aboard the schooner R. W. Hopkins, and her diaries, kept between 1910 and...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Noise The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of...
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The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of how cool the printer is. But there’s one thing that sucks: it’s damn loud. I knew that it wouldn’t be silent, but I wasn’t prepared for this kind of noise. Silent controller...
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
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JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
The Marginalian
Kate Sessions and the Devotion to Delight: The Forgotten Woman Who Covered California with Trees and... In May 1941, next to news of the Nazi savagely bombing London, The Los Angeles Times published a...
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In May 1941, next to news of the Nazi savagely bombing London, The Los Angeles Times published a memorial profile of “California’s Mother of Gardens” — a hopeful antidote to the undoing of the human world, celebrating the woman who covered Southern California with the loveliest...
TheCollector
Why Is Socrates’ Legacy Vital? undefined
a year ago
Left To Write
#8 Writemas: 3 Lessons from Steve Jobs' Biography Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex...
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Last week, I finished Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson portrays Jobs as a complex character with many paradoxes and personal contradictions. For example, he was adopted and struggled with ‘rejection’, yet rejected his own daughter, Lisa Jobs.
NeuroLogica Blog
Is Music Getting Simpler I don’t think I know anyone personally who doesn’t have strong opinions about music – which genres...
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I don’t think I know anyone personally who doesn’t have strong opinions about music – which genres they like, and how the quality of music may have changed over time. My own sense is that music as a cultural phenomenon is incredibly complex, no one (in my social group) really...
AI Snake Oil
Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias Benchmarks allow us to dig deeper into what causes biases and what can be done about it
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
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Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland? undefined
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Londonist
Explore A Lost Victorian London In This Free Exhibition A London Disappeared at LMA.
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness for conspiracy theories that don't involve politics. Today's News:
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...
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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.
Londonist
57 Magnificent Things To Do In London This Month: March 2024 Art fairs, Comic Con, the Boat Races, and other March events.
9 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
open-air dining in hong kong When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got...
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When I wrote about open-air dining in seoul I thought nobody would care, but surprisingly I got quite a bit of comments and DMs from fellow covid-cautious travellers. I would keep on...
AI Snake Oil
Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good. Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Why is my file so huge? My latest game was absolutely huge! And I’m not talking about the music (which was pretty huge too -...
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My latest game was absolutely huge! And I’m not talking about the music (which was pretty huge too - roughly 20mb) but the little .exe file. It was 14,6mb!! Now every way you look at it, that’s incredibly huge. It’s like comparing an ant to a human. Normally the little ant is the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Organic Intelligence Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
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Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them: If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
TheCollector
Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” That Almost Weren’t undefined
a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Open Culture
Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our...
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We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our imagination. These days, this notion tends to refer to artificial intelligence-powered systems that generate visual material from text prompts, like DALL‑E and the many others that...
symmetry magazine
Physics fashion and collider couture Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome? Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by...
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Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
Wuthering...
Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and their Stoic self-help books - I shall not be afraid when my last hour... The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at...
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The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at least until I read Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (1st C.) several years ago and discovered that it was a self-help book, one of the founding self-help books.  The Meditations of...
CONTEMPORIST
Two Shingle Covered Cottages Connected By A Living Room And Kitchen In Between Bates Masi + Architects has designed a house in Montauk, New York, that’s built on land that was...
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Bates Masi + Architects has designed a house in Montauk, New York, that’s built on land that was once home to early settlers in the 17th century. Remnants of horse stables, barns, and workers’ cottages scatter the landscape, however, one such cottage, a late addition built in the...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
Probably...
Logarithms and Heteroskedasticity Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. log_heterosked Logarithms and heteroskedasticity¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. Is it correct to use...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Graphs It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks...
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It has become customary to use “graph” to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. (Computer scientists…
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
fast.ai
AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...
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In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Taste Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, without the heart medication and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, without the heart medication and microplastics you don't get the proper terroire. Today's News:
The Ruffian
The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever On the Real Alignment Problem
9 months ago
This Space
"When now?" Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on...
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Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and have appeared multiple times in newspaper Books of the Year choices and on prize shortlists, and one that even won a prize. I wanted to see...
TheCollector
5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know undefined
8 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Range and Liveliness of Poetry' I heard from a high-school classmate who remembered the time in A.P. English our senior year when...
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I heard from a high-school classmate who remembered the time in A.P. English our senior year when the teacher had us form small groups, select a poem and prepare a discussion. At my suggestion, our group picked “The Groundhog” (1934) by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005). Note its...
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Applied Cartography
Mass renaming files in fish on macOS One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install...
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One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install rename rename "s/.mdx/.md/" **.md
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The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
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Platformer
Biden seeks to rein in AI An executive order gives AI companies the guardrails they asked for. Will the US go further?
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Using Genetic Engineering To Fight Malaria Despite robust efforts to fight it, malaria remains one of the most significant infectious diseases...
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Despite robust efforts to fight it, malaria remains one of the most significant infectious diseases affecting humans. According to UNICEF – ” In 2021, there were 247 million malaria cases globally that led to 619,000 deaths in total. Of these deaths, 77 per cent were children...
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Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
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Commit to competence in this coming year It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to...
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It’s that time of year where people often start thinking about new year’s resolutions. I want to loose 10 lbs, I want to read more books, I want to x, y, and z. Often, it’s just a fantasy. They’re not actually going to loose 10 lbs or they might order some more books but never...
The Modern House
Listing of the Week: a Norfolk beauty that ushers the natural world in
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Musings on Markets
Dealing with Aging: Updating the Intel, Walgreens and Starbucks Stories! A few weeks ago, I posted on the corporate life cycle, the subject of my latest book. I argued that...
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A few weeks ago, I posted on the corporate life cycle, the subject of my latest book. I argued that the corporate life cycle can explain what happens to companies as they age, and why they  have to adapt to aging with their actions and choices. In parallel, I also noted that...
TheCollector
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This Space
Literature likes to hide Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision, Geoffrey Hartman's...
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Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision, Geoffrey Hartman's first book, published in 1954. It is difficult to find a copy now but you can download a digital version of the book via the link. The opening chapter is a 50-page study of "Tintern...
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Decay Modes
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Diaries of Note
It was so horribly fascinating that I felt spellbound During World War I, the skies over Britain were periodically lit up by German Zeppelins in what...
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During World War I, the skies over Britain were periodically lit up by German Zeppelins in what would become known as “The First Blitz.” These enormous airships seemed almost invincible as they loomed over cities, striking terror into the hearts of civilians below, and between...
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The Blackbird Platform The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends...
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The first project launched this week on our portfolio company Blackbird‘s platform. It is a friends and family program at a restaurant in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Gertie. Blackbird wrote about it today on their excellent Supersonic blog: Throughout, when you tap Gertie’s...
Citation Needed
Issue 45 – I'm the director now Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker...
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Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.
The Rational Walk
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Thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's second quarter results with a focus on GEICO, BNSF, HomeServices, Clayton Homes, Apple, and share repurchases.
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People? Symposium on the Seas...
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TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US undefined
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This Space
Proust regained I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's...
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I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's The Swann Way, the first volume in a new translation of the entire novel by diverse hands, in this fine paperback from Oxford World's Classics. His translation of the chapter Swann...
Old Structures...
Always Something New No matter how many buildings you’ve seen, you can always find something that will surprise you. The...
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No matter how many buildings you’ve seen, you can always find something that will surprise you. The picture above is not an underwater shot from the Titanic, it’s the cellar of a circa-1900 rowhouse. This was a house of some pretension when first built. As in most wider...
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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One Useful Thing
"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat." What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 14 Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a...
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Highlights A redesign of TinyPilot’s website seems to have increased sales. TinyPilot now has a European distributor. After three years, I’ve earned back my investment in Zestful (and I might sell it). I’m still ruthlessly delegating every task I can. Goal Grades At the start of...
The Works in...
Works in Progress: 2023 Wrapped Our most read work of the year
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Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
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Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same. ...
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A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same. The post Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Platformer
Susan Wojcicki makes her exit She had a legendary run. Will YouTube's end with it?
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David Heinemeier...
What is HiFi I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless...
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I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inversion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of that book. Today's News: I am signing at Telegraph in Charlottesville: Today at 2! If you want a signed copy, this is my only remaining scheduled signing right now so please come...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are Many Real Things of Beauty Here' A reader sent me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating...
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A reader sent me a screed against beauty he had found online. The writer wasn’t advocating its opposite, ugliness, exactly, though his prose definitely leans in that direction. Only a graduate-school alumnus could come up with such silly ideas. Rather, he seemed to be saying that...
diamond geezer
The 47th President Two months ago I asked you the following question. Who do you think will be the next American...
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Two months ago I asked you the following question. Who do you think will be the next American President? (poll closed) Kamala HARRIS comments (71) Donald TRUMP comments (29) And now here we are the morning after the election. A red dawn is rising. 10 comments from readers...
Mazdak
Amazon Glasses: Seeing the Future of Delivery Amazon is developing smart glasses for their delivery drivers to navigate routes, locate packages,...
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Amazon is developing smart glasses for their delivery drivers to navigate routes, locate packages, and even take photos of deliveries as proof for customers.
Diaries of Note
How beautiful that leaf was, so simple in its death Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher and spiritual leader who spent much of his adult life teaching and sharing his insights on self-awareness, freedom from conditioning, and the importance of living in the present moment. He traveled the world, engaging in dialogues with...
Noahpinion
Can unions and industrial policy coexist? They had better learn how to, and quickly.
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TheCollector
Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor undefined
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day A few comments about today’s holiday. First, if you’re so inclined, the city Parks Department has...
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A few comments about today’s holiday. First, if you’re so inclined, the city Parks Department has opportunities for public service: here. Otherwise, memorials and celebrations: here. Some of the permanent memorials to King in New York: here. Some of his relationship to New York...
Mazdak
The Big News: ChatGPT Pays Up for Content, Ushering in a New Era for Media & AI Get ready for a paradigm shift, folks! News just dropped that OpenAI, the brains behind ChatGPT, has...
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Get ready for a paradigm shift, folks! News just dropped that OpenAI, the brains behind ChatGPT, has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Axel Springer, the media giant behind Politico and Business Insider. This isn't just any deal, it's a game-changer
Cheese and Biscuits
Caravel, Regent's Canal It makes perfect sense that with London commercial property rents sky-high, wiley restaurateurs...
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It makes perfect sense that with London commercial property rents sky-high, wiley restaurateurs should look further afield and towards quirkier, more unusual spaces to set up shop. I have had mixed experiences dining on a boat (the London Shell Company: great fun; our office Xmas...
TokyoDev
The 2020 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a...
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In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a picture of what the typical foreign developer life is like. [The results are now live](/insights/2020-developer-survey), please check them out! With 362 people responding, I...
Quanta Magazine
What Is the Nature of Time? Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of...
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Time is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of the future. But what exactly is it? The physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek joins Steve Strogatz to discuss the fundamental hallmarks of time. The post What Is...
Roberto Vitillo's...
The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
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In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
A Beautiful Site
Hide the mouse cursor with CSS I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it...
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I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether. .no-cursor { cursor: none; } Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
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Trust Models
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019 It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book! Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.
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Musings on Markets
The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor! If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums,...
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If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. As part of that obsession, since September 2008, I have estimated an equity risk premium...
TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition undefined
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Trying to Understand...
Candles and Kalshnikovs. Please help us not to understand.
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Mayday Mayday London has just two streets called Mayday Something. I've been to both. Mayday Road Thornton Heath...
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London has just two streets called Mayday Something. I've been to both. Mayday Road Thornton Heath CR7 Saints and Sinners pub (which you can tell closed three years ago because it's still advertising a pint for £2.99). Perhaps dodge the ambulances. And here you'll find Mayday...
Maps Mania
The Future of Street View
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The Marginalian
Kamau & ZuZu Find a Way: A Tender Lunar Fable about the Stubborn Courage of Prevailing Over the Odds... "But we will have to find a way to live, as people do."
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Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959) Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with...
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Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O’Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates,...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
"We Should Sell To Self-Insured Employers" | Out-Of-Pocket Six Stages Of Health Tech Grief Pt. 2
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Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
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One Useful Thing
What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴ Siri versus the machine god?
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Stoic Simple
Becoming a Better Leader with Stoicism: The Stoic Leadership Lessons Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a...
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Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that originated in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. It is a philosophy that emphasizes the development of emotional resilience, personal ethics, and wisdom. Stoicism has gained popularity in recent years as an effective tool for personal growth,...
CONTEMPORIST
Distillery-Inspired Materials Are Featured Throughout The Interior Of This Gin Bar Architecture and experimentation office Grizzo Studio together with Rocio Martinez Serra, has sent...
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Architecture and experimentation office Grizzo Studio together with Rocio Martinez Serra, has sent us photos of the Moretti Gin Bar that they have recently completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The design of the bar incorporates elements that have been inspired by the gin...
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Thanks… I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8.   I got my second computer – an...
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I got my first computer (TRS-80 Model 1) in 1980 at the age of 8.   I got my second computer – an Atari 800 – two years later.   I was…
Open Culture
What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself More than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or...
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More than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or less accurate cultural memory of the Victorians themselves: of their social mores, their aesthetic sensibilities, their ambitions great and small, their many and varied hang-ups. Some...
Arduino Blog
This DIY smart chicken coop features AI-based predator detection Raising chickens can be a very rewarding endeavor, as they can provide fresh daily eggs and help get...
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Raising chickens can be a very rewarding endeavor, as they can provide fresh daily eggs and help get rid of pests in the yard. But, like all animals, they require care. Most importantly, you’ll need to ensure that they have regular food and water, and you’ll need to protect them...
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children undefined
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Are We Watching The Internet Die? Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered...
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Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
Tech and Tea
I spent my morning talking to an AI chatbot A tech "late-adopter" plays around with chat-gpt and other chatbots and is blown away by some use...
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A tech "late-adopter" plays around with chat-gpt and other chatbots and is blown away by some use cases and underwhelmed by others.
Archinect - Features
Meet NYIT School of Architecture & Design's New Faculty Members The School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), with campuses in...
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The School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), with campuses in New York City and Old Westbury, Long Island, delivers a technology-driven, design-focused education across its Architecture, Interior Design, and Digital Art & Design programs.  As...
CONTEMPORIST
Arched Geometry Adds Personality To This Office Building Lobby Architect and interior design firm Atelier Cho Thompson, has shared photos of the lobby in a...
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Architect and interior design firm Atelier Cho Thompson, has shared photos of the lobby in a building in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally constructed as a shoe factory, the exterior of the building has an ornate stone facade, decorated with imagery depicting shoe manufacturing,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flourishing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent me, but I didn't know if he'd want to be associated with with it technically called Choculatio. Email me sir, if it is otherwise. Today's News: Somehow this feels like peak SMBC,...
Making software...
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
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Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu 2019-04-26 I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let's build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element. Interesting facts about our final CSS menu: Total weight 121 bytes...
TheCollector
Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great? undefined
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The Honest Broker
How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop Let's look at the warning signs
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Old Structures...
A Metaphor When I was maybe ten years old, visiting the observation deck of the Empire State Building, I heard...
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When I was maybe ten years old, visiting the observation deck of the Empire State Building, I heard someone describe the view as being like the buildings were a beard and Central Park a shaved strip. In 1952, there were far fewer high-rises on the Upper East and Upper West Sides,...
The Works in...
Where inflation comes from How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences...
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How we calculate inflation has always been contested with small changes leading to large differences in how well-off we think we are.
The DESK Magazine
The illusion of productivity "Productivity" is dead.
a year ago
The American Scholar
Bubble Girl The kidnapping that once riveted the nation The post Bubble Girl appeared first on The American...
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The kidnapping that once riveted the nation The post Bubble Girl appeared first on The American Scholar.
Londonist
Victorian Society "Very, Very Sad" About Development Around Turkish Bathhouse City of London Corporation has green-lit Landsec's £500m plan.
a year ago
Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
NeuroLogica Blog
Journalists Fail on UAP Story Nothing about the recent resurgence in interest in UFOs (now called UAPs for unidentified anomalous...
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Nothing about the recent resurgence in interest in UFOs (now called UAPs for unidentified anomalous phenomena) is really new. It’s basically the same stories with the same level of completely unconvincing evidence. But what is somewhat new is the level of credulity and outright...
Diaries of Note
A wet day and all its luxuries Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker...
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Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker family—her father, Robert Were Fox, was a scientist and respected member of the community. Fox was sixteen when she began keeping the diary for which she is now known, posthumously...
The Honest Broker
A Landlubber’s Guide to Sea Shanties You don't need to be a sailor to put these songs to work
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TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side? undefined
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Collectible Toys Worth $1000s: Rare Finds With High Prices undefined
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My first ever app I made and sold... I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially...
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I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this. It...
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy” undefined
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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diamond geezer
London's weekly local papers In Motspur Park I saw a newsagent that still has an advert for the Surrey Comet above the awning. Is...
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In Motspur Park I saw a newsagent that still has an advert for the Surrey Comet above the awning. Is that still going, I wondered. And yes, it turns out it still publishes, though now as the Epsom & Surrey Comet. weekly local newspapers London still has. Barnet Borough...
Notes on software...
btest: a language agnostic test runner btest is a minimal, language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing compilers. Brian,...
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btest is a minimal, language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing compilers. Brian, an ex- co-worker from Linode, wrote the first implementation in Crystal (a compiled language clone of Ruby) for testing bshift, a compiler project. The tool accomplished exactly...
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
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The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
Seth's Blog
Fingerprints If a jacket is made by Patagonia or a piece of hardware is made by Teenage Engineering, you can...
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If a jacket is made by Patagonia or a piece of hardware is made by Teenage Engineering, you can probably tell who made it the first time you see it, even without a logo. A painting by Sonia Delaunay doesn’t need to be signed to know who it’s by. On the other hand, AppleTV streams...
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
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Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
elementary Blog
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next! This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
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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...
Londonist
Ever Spotted Covent Garden's Anne Frank Tree? An arboreal memorial.
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment <![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
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<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC. Nine months later I know...
General Robots
Nailing the Demo So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
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So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
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I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
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You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s Ogun State wants to lead the country’s EV revolution But experts fear long-term success may not follow as Nigeria lags other African countries when it...
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Flashbak
Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883) ‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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.
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Cezanne and Zola? undefined
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Rest of World -...
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IE11 is not dead yet, and our library is supposed to run there and make russian grandmas happy. As you can guess, we rely on babel's preset-env a lot. We also don't want our code to be 55% babel helpers, so we use babel's transform-runtime — it should make babel import someHelper...
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Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
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When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I write about a 350-page novel last read 17 years ago without taking several days to reread it? Answer: not at all, so I started reading. What good fortune! How well Hugo Wilcken...
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A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
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In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump in news media content (see here). I have recently updated that previous analysis. Briefly stated, no U.S. president in recent history has received a similar amount of media...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an original sin, we can get it to feel guilty. Today's News:
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Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I...
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I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
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