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Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Weird health insurance concepts | Out-Of-Pocket Intercompany eliminations, copay shenanigans, and reference-based pricing
a month ago
Diaries of Note
Hostilities were suspended for the Night On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Yorktown effectively came to an end. Situated in Virginia, Yorktown had been a critical stronghold for the British forces led by General Charles Cornwallis. The American and French...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Keep incidents boring The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
Rest of World -...
AI moderation is no match for hate speech in Ethiopian languages New research raises concerns that moderation tools can't detect violent threats in Tigray and...
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Hands-Free Coding Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
History Today Feed
How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death? How Has Gandhi Influenced Indian History Since His Death? j.hoare Thu, 01/04/2024 - 09:36
11 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Trips to Lesser-Know Destinations by Discover Corps
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Oldest National Parks in the United States undefined
a month ago
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
AI Snake Oil
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Macedonian Wars: Rome vs the Macedonian Phalanx undefined
11 months ago
Notes on software...
Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary In this post we'll stumble toward a working emulator for a barebones C program compiled for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll stumble toward a working emulator for a barebones C program compiled for linux/AMD64. The approach will be slightly more so based on observation than by following a spec; a great way to quickly become familiar with a topic, and a bad way to...
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests? undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is a Nantucket Sleighride? undefined
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
The Death of a Mnemonist The Death of a Mnemonist JamesHoare Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:07
7 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #217 Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests, Measuring Competence, Greg Abel Interview, The Fed's Inflationary Bias, Jimmy Carter at 100, Sam Altman, Bruno Leoni, Thermopylae
IEEE Spectrum
Sci-fi and Hi-fi Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992...
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
Cremieux Recueil
The Worst Argument Against Ozempic Unfortunately, being skinny might require effort
3 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Papi, London Fields "We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Still, there's a lot to like...
a year ago
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a year ago
"We'll need your table back in an hour and a half, is that OK?" Still, there's a lot to like about Papi. It's one of those places where you want to order everything on the menu, and as the menu isn't that huge, if you take a couple of friends along you probably can. We...
The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
This Space
39 Books: 1990 The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only two...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only two more since. The second one came along this year. In 1989, I got a temporary job in the archives of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum where I met Carl Erlewyn-Lajeunesse, an...
NeuroLogica Blog
Carbon Fiber Structural Battery I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a concrete battery. The basic idea is a battery made out of material that is strong enough that it can bare a load. Essentially we’re asking the material to do two things at once – be...
Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Wood-Framed Glass Box Is The Ultimate Backyard Office Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of a backyard office they designed for their...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of a backyard office they designed for their clients in Dry Creek Valley, California. The wood-framed glass box hovers above the rugged terrain, it’s placed west of the main house, is partially above a narrow level pad, and...
Blog - Practical...
Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions: What Really Happened? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 13, 2018, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 13, 2018, a pipeline crew in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts was hard at work replacing an aging cast iron natural gas line with a new polyethylene pipe. Located just north of Boston, the...
TheCollector
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 (History & Aftermath) undefined
7 months ago
The Architectural...
The bigotry of Modernism We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse....
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7 months ago
We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Unfortunately, the architecture world, including academics and practitioners, is often unaware that it perpetuates backward and bigoted attitudes, stifling the creativity of architects and...
Dr Alun Withey
Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
a year ago
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a year ago
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
Tony Finch's blog
Random floating point numbers Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n < 1.0 using an unbiased random bit generator and IEEE 754 double precision arithmetic. Both of them depend on details of how floating point numbers work, so before getting into...
Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
sbensu
Risk-takers decide faster Unsurprising connection between risk and speed.
a month ago
The Honest Broker
The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution
8 months ago
Louwrentius
Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia undefined
a year ago
Escaping Flatland
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a...
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
NeuroLogica Blog
Titan Disaster and Risk vs Benefit There has been a lot of discussion regarding the recent disaster of the Titan submersible. Was the...
a year ago
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a year ago
There has been a lot of discussion regarding the recent disaster of the Titan submersible. Was the risk justified? Who should be responsible for the safety issues? Who should be on the hook for the millions of dollars the rescue effort took? And why did this tragedy garner more...
Steve Klabnik
Twitter is too important to be owned by Twitter
over a year ago
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Pakistan needs a plan The country can't go on like this. It needs stability, privatization, education, foreign investment,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The country can't go on like this. It needs stability, privatization, education, foreign investment, and peace.
Londonist
Myra DuBois Takes Us On Her Perfect Day Out In London "Look at St Paul's! An icon in the capital! Much like myself."
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Deepfake Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking themselves for affirmation. Today's News:
Anarchy Unfolds
The big picture, AI, chemophobia, rocket mass heaters Green Gatherings #1
2 months ago
TokyoDev
What if We Had a Party, but the Entertainment was a Conference: Tokyu RubyKaigi 14 Recap [Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in Tokyo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the event, the last Ruby conference I went to was [RubyKaigi](/articles/rubykaigi-2023-recap), but since this event attracted a similar...
Explorations of an...
Potrero de Yala - Dippers, Red-faced Guans And More Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we...
a year ago
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a year ago
Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we slowly drove in along the entrance road, keeping an eye out for guans. We found quite a few guans on and around the road but none were our hoped-for Red-faced Guans; they were all...
The Marginalian
Favorite Books of 2023 To look back on a year of reading is to be handed a clear mirror of your priorities and passions, of...
a year ago
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a year ago
To look back on a year of reading is to be handed a clear mirror of your priorities and passions, of the questions that live in you and the reckonings that keep you up at night. While the literature of the present comprises only a tiny fraction of my own reading, here are a...
The Modern House
Outside chance: six homes with spectacular gardens “Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“Gardening is a promise,” said Piet Oudolf in Thomas Piper’s meditative documentary about the pioneering Dutch garden designer. “It doesn’t have to be there. You’re looking for what will be there.” From a particularly pastoral front garden in Brixton, to a transportive Cornish...
diamond geezer
Eu-stun For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For two decades Euston had a very long departures board across the front of the station concourse. large expectant crowd often gathered. switched off to be replaced by two new departure boards in the centre of the floor space. If you feel the need to tell us you would have...
Society's Backend
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
4 months ago
The Diff
Social Media as a Test of Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI Plus! Holdcos; Cash and Control; War Economies; In-Kind Dividends; Currency
a week ago
Rest of World -...
When Nigeria banned Twitter, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it Even the government officials who championed the Twitter competitor have stopped using it.
a year ago
The Codist
Why I Use Swift To Make Generative Art Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Now that I am retired from programming for a living, I make generative art (not AI; see my post What Is Generative Art?) every day. I belong to a discord community of generative artists, yet I stick out because I am the only person using Swift as my chosen language.
diamond geezer
Tube map gaps It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse...
a month ago
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a month ago
It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse chronological order 11 months Dec 2023  A Little Slice of Paradise ← Brent Cross West 7 months May 2023  Come Out, Come Out 6 months Nov 2022  Routes/Roots ← Bond Street 6...
African History...
The forgotten ruins of Botswana: stone towns at the desert's edge. At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
At its height in the 17th century, the stone towns of the ‘zimbabwe culture’ encompassed an area the size of France. The hundreds of ruins spread across three countries in south-eastern Africa are among the continent’s best-preserved historical monuments and have been the subject...
Old Structures...
Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere else. I’m at the 8th International Congress on Construction History this week, where I hope to learn a lot about past design and construction practice. I have certainly learned much...
TokyoDev
How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, July 2024 The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 2 A piece of a patent – number 612,365 to Willard Sears, applied for March 16, 1898, and awarded...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A piece of a patent – number 612,365 to Willard Sears, applied for March 16, 1898, and awarded October 11, 1898 – titled “Construction of Buildings”: Like yesterday’s patent, this is a riff on the then-new concepts of skeleton-frame buildings, with the exterior walls supported on...
Retail Design Blog
RUN TO THE FUTURE store by One Fine Day Studio & Partners Gender-neutral Chinese fashion brand RUN TO THE FUTURE is taking its operations to a higher level by...
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
Who in their right mind would do an AI hardware startup From megaFLOPS to mega flops.
8 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
Rest of World -...
Tears of a get-rich-quick guru Influencers like Sunny Ali promote the Amazon seller dream, but not everyone buys the hustlepreneur...
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
The Marginalian
Let the Last Thing Be Song "When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold."
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
In Our Cellular Clocks, She’s Found a Lifetime of Discoveries For decades, Carrie Partch has led pioneering structural research on the protein clockwork that...
a year ago
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a year ago
For decades, Carrie Partch has led pioneering structural research on the protein clockwork that keeps time for our circadian rhythm. Is time still on her side? The post In Our Cellular Clocks, She’s Found a Lifetime of Discoveries first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview undefined
a month ago
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.' Today's News: Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
Noahpinion
All the arguments against EVs are wrong EVs are just going to win.
a year ago
Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art "Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
diamond geezer
Pentonville Road PENTONVILLE ROAD £120   London's Monopoly Streets PENTONVILLE ROAD Colour group: light...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
PENTONVILLE ROAD £120   London's Monopoly Streets PENTONVILLE ROAD Colour group: light blue Purchase price: £120 Rent: £8 Length: ¾ mile Borough: Islington Postcode: N1 Euston Road and the Angel Islington. That's because it's another segment of the New Road, London's first...
Maggie Appleton
The Gift Economy
over a year ago
Daniel Bourke
Superglue and milk We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He moves slower than most. It keeps me in check when I’m steaming along. Walking into the movies I looked at the time. We were late. Friday afternoon traffic. So
Wuthering...
Books I Read in April 2024 - this irritation passes over into patient completed understanding Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925), a genuine monster.  “As I...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Grinding away at Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925), a genuine monster.  “As I was saying it is often irritating to listen to the repeating they are doing, always then that one has it as being to love repeating that is the whole history of each one, such a one has it...
Christopher Butler
Year in Review – 2023 At Work Despite challenges that made time seem like a rubber band — the AI panic of Q1, inflation,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
At Work Despite challenges that made time seem like a rubber band — the AI panic of Q1, inflation, economic contractions, new services and staff growing by more than 30%, all of which kept me very busy at work — the year went by quickly. This is because I’m in my forties and...
Buck on Software
Category velocity People make decisions, not businesses.
over a year ago
Open Culture
The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For Americans, it can come as a shock to hear that such familiar dishes as chop suey and General Tso’s chicken are unknown in China itself. By the same token, almost every country in...
Contemporist...
A Circular Off-Grid Home In Costa Rica Studio Saxe has shared photos of a secluded circular home they designed that's located deep within...
a month ago
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a month ago
Studio Saxe has shared photos of a secluded circular home they designed that's located deep within Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula.
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace! We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever for developers and businesses worldwide to integrate our powerful IoT platform into their AWS infrastructure. This development is particularly relevant for those in...
Rest of World -...
Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and...
a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
a year ago
Math Is Still...
The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. The post The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview undefined
2 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Undo git reset --hard I purposefully and more or less idiotically executed git reset --hard <hash> in hopes of going back...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I purposefully and more or less idiotically executed git reset --hard <hash> in hopes of going back a bit. What I didn’t realize then is that you throw away all the commits between now until <hash>. Not quite what was planned. After a bit of panic I found the answer: Find your...
Joel Gascoigne
I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
Moneyness
There won't be a Blackrock bitcoin ETF, at least not until Binance bites the dust Back in 2018 I wrote about the controversy over the constant stream of bitcoin ETF denials emanating...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in 2018 I wrote about the controversy over the constant stream of bitcoin ETF denials emanating from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). And my conclusion then was: "further rejections likely." My conclusion in 2023 is the same. Even with Wall Street-giant...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #179 Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI...
a year ago
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a year ago
Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI colonoscopies, Advice on tipping, Alcohol and cardiovascular risks, Nicomachean ethics
Passing Time
Perfidious Pricing How Companies Use Drip Pricing to Overcharge Consumers
a year ago
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall? Who was Thorkell the Tall? JamesHoare Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
Maps Mania
The Taco Bell Interstate Map
yesterday
Jonas Hietala
Robot Project Start So it has begun, the long road until christmas when we’re supposed to have a working warrior robot....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So it has begun, the long road until christmas when we’re supposed to have a working warrior robot. We’re gonna do battle with infrared lasers instead of axes but it might be fun anyway. Luckily for me I’m responsible for software and nothing harder than that! w00p! We could...
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Here are six brief posts, none of which I spent more than 15 minutes on. 1) The consultation report for "Extending the DLR from Gallions Reach to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead" has just been published. At this very early stage in the project it focused on asking people...
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Traditional fairytale structure fits naturally in our brains, and thus can guide strategic problem-analysis, and a plan that everyone understands.
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Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit. He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
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A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959 Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing. Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 15, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab....
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The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions There’s been a lot of speculation lately about why big companies spend millions of dollars acquiring...
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Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising For 10 years, Yahoo was my default home page.  Now I can barely stand using the site.  I still use...
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For 10 years, Yahoo was my default home page.  Now I can barely stand using the site.  I still use it for Finance and Flickr, but that’s it…
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I think we are still in the early days of social networks. We are only just beginning to figure them out. We certainly underestimate how positive and useful they can be, partly from a careless pessimism, and partly because the owners of major social networks seem to lack vision....
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Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software was sourced and purchased by high-level…
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Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
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Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
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People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.
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One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair share of fog, and sometimes it creeps back up into the city. We had one of those days last week.
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The Big Dig [EPISODE] Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive...
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Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle imaginable: ruthless politics, engineering challenges, secretive contractors,...
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During the course of my professional career, one of the more important projects I had the pleasure to work on was the joint US/Russian Federation (RF) […]
Diaries of Note
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In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into turmoil as the Bolshevik Red Army entered, leaving the future uncertain for the once-thriving port and its inhabitants. One person who found himself caught amidst the chaos was Ivan...
Farza's Newsletter
just used a helium balloon as a standing desk and broke my apple newton Minutes In the last 6 days, Zip has streamed a total of 277,000 minutes of live classes across all...
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Minutes In the last 6 days, Zip has streamed a total of 277,000 minutes of live classes across all our students. Nice. 1,000,000 minutes soon! FB Group! Been working hard to get the FB Group rolling and create a community at Zip. Three learnings. First
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LOADMORE "loadmo.re is a mobile-websites showcase initiated by DVTK. The curation was initially based on our...
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"loadmo.re is a mobile-websites showcase initiated by DVTK. The curation was initially based on our own selection and is now meant to grow through submissions from our online community. From its earliest days, digital design practice has been focused on creating interfaces for...
Musings on Maps
Perilous Waters The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in...
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The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in international waters. The maps of legal oversight Stockton Rush avoided demand to be recognized as a creation of globalism, as much as a luxury diversion of the super-rich. ...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“Tolstoy was so much better than any other writer who ever lived that you couldn’t even remotely compare anyone to him.”  I first read War and Peace in the eighth grade in a paperback abridgement. I remember reading it in science class, half-heartedly hiding the book behind the...
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The color-coded wires Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was...
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Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was like? Neither have I. The Beatles recorded some of their best work there, and I have no idea if it was a rat’s nest of tangled wires, or if each wire was labeled, coded and perfectly...
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At a recent event Tesla showcased the capabilities of its humanoid autonomous robot, Optimus. The demonstration has come under some criticism, however, for not being fully transparent about the nature of the demonstration. We interviewed robotics expert, Christian Hubicki, on the...
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Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
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This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
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Horton Interiors designed Efficio’s Dubai headquarters with a focus on employee well-being, minimalistic color palette, eco-conscious materials, and cutting-edge technologies,...
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Because of multiple factors my mind seem to be perpetually stuck in an unwanted state of sadness, fatigue and paralysis. I have learnt that it is possible to break out of this...
Anecdotal Evidence
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On Tuesday I wrote about Walter Savage Landor, his poems and especially Imaginary Conversations, a collection of 174 dialogues, mostly of historical and literary figures, published in five volumes between 1824 and 1829. I keep a mental list of books I admire and enjoy that seem...
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One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Carpenders Park, one stop beyond Hatch End on what will next week be the Lioness line. For positioning purposes...
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How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective. In my life, there have only been three periods where I
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Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a...
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You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a better adapter like the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260, and found that Bluetooth is not working as intended on your ThinkPad T430 running Linux? Here’s a guide on what you can...
Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
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If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
Neil Madden
I still don’t really get “hash shucking” If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the...
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If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet. These cheat sheets are generally pretty good, and the password storage one is particularly good. The editors do a great job of keeping it up to...
FIRE v London
My 20 year property returns I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But...
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I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But my net worth includes an important asset class – property – that I don’t normally track, but which I have held in some form for over 20 years. So, this post takes a look at how my…...
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) VC funding, here we come.
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somenice
Hummingbird at the feeder With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not...
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With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Introducing o(m)g:image I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a...
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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...
CONTEMPORIST
This Small Shingle Clad Cabin Has An Organic Shape Photography by Peter Markos Markos Design Workshop has shared photos of a small organically shaped...
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Photography by Peter Markos Markos Design Workshop has shared photos of a small organically shaped cabin clad in wood shingles they designed, that began as a project during the pandemic, however, they didn’t have any money or land for the project. Peter Markos explains, “My...
Paul Graham: Essays
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99% Invisible
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In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the...
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Big questions for big data Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different...
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Big data is big news. Search for it and Google will return 75 million results. That’s a different article for every 100 people on earth. There are also 18 million videos on the topic. At 5 minutes each, it would take 170 years to watch them all. Then there’s the one million...
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
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We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and...
Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
Retail Design Blog
Matraz Gin by MABA A floral bottle. Matraz is the new concept of this premium gin with 13 botanicals and five...
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A floral bottle. Matraz is the new concept of this premium gin with 13 botanicals and five distillations, bottled in...
Both Are True
The ONE Amazon Prime "Big Deal Days" (tf?) Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT Read this asap before Bezos & Co delete it !!! Surely I'm in jail by now, please spread the word!!!
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CONTEMPORIST
A Garage Transformed Into An Apartment With A Home Office YR Architecture + Design has shared photos of a modern 575 square foot (53 sqm) live/work studio in...
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YR Architecture + Design has shared photos of a modern 575 square foot (53 sqm) live/work studio in Columbus, OH, that was once a 2-car garage. The homeowners were determined for their two-car garage to be an asset, with the couple seeking to maximize their property, and at the...
Articles - Chris...
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20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was the payoff. It was cause for celebration. But first, I wept.
TheCollector
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Entrepreneurs need to learn some law I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own,...
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I recently wrote a post where I said entrepreneurs need to understand term sheets on their own, without the assistance of lawyers.  I got…
Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve...
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I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not some other size? With any question like this, I think there are two options: It’s a historical accident,...
The Marginalian
Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong "You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my...
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"You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power... Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace."
Out-of-Pocket Blog
"AI sucks", Quantifying EMR burden, and Loneliness | Out-Of-Pocket 3 interesting papers I like
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Cryptography in Go: AES implementation The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s...
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The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go standard library. Even I can understand it!
Retail Design Blog
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485 MetaGalaxy is a designer cluster label dedicated to pushing the boundaries of design and leading future design trends. It...
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MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great. This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Classical Wisdom
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How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
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In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
The Pragmatic...
Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing...
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A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing more transparent. A deepdive on how exactly they did it.
xkcd.com
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Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
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With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
pcloadletter
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Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs. I'm positive there are wonderful applications for LLMs. The ChatGPT web UI seems great for summarizing information from various online sources (as long as you're willing to verify the things that you learn). But a lot fo the "AI...
Electronics etc…
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Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the logic analyzer Allow the logic analyzer to access your Ubuntu X server Configure the X-window Settings on the logic analyzer Install and declare the HP logic analyzer font...
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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they...
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This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals?
CONTEMPORIST
A Tree House That Feels Like It’s Floating Inside The Forest INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the...
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INTEGRA STUDIO ARQUITETURA has shared photos of a modern Tree House project they completed for the NaCarapina accommodation complex, that’s located in Brazil. The Tree House which has the feeling of ‘floating inside the forest’, is fully integrated with the imposing Araucaria...
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This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers _This article was [published on Indie...
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_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
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REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
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A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
The Wandering...
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(This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the pattern with compass and straightedge, go over to Part 1.) In the process of figuring out how to draw this pattern, I ran into a lot of questions, and had to do more than a little...
Willem's Blog
Swimming and cycling with Apple Watch This month I tested the newest watchOS while swimming and cycling.
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Open Culture
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A heads-up on a deal: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive...
nanoscale views
The physics of squeaky shoes In these unsettling and trying times, I wanted to write about the physics of a challenge I'm facing...
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In these unsettling and trying times, I wanted to write about the physics of a challenge I'm facing in my professional life: super squeaky shoes.  When I wear a particularly comfortable pair of shoes at work, when I walk in some hallways in my building (but not all), my shoes...
Matt Mazur
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Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
Passing Time
My Experience Posting Satire to the Internet The lesson: I should have known better
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
3D Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the...
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Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It's based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic.
Seth's Blog
Peer support Treasure it when you find it. Offer it when you can. One of the greatest joys of being an author is...
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Treasure it when you find it. Offer it when you can. One of the greatest joys of being an author is the other authors. The game theory would indicate that authors are competitors–there are a scarce number of publishers, of bookshelf slots, of readers. But, being the only author...
Old Structures...
Travelog: Minimal Observation How much can you determine about a building in a minute or two? The short answer is “not much” but...
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The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
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After a decade of arguing, regulators will change Apple’s App Store rules. How much money is involved, what might happen next and, most importantly, who cares? This is a big deal for Spotify, but does it matter to anyone else?
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In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury has found Google Play guilty of violating antitrust laws in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. This landmark decision has sent shockwaves through the tech industry and raised questions...
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Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output is written to a file or disk. Only when Nmap is finished, is all output written to the output file. Often, I want to start processing results of hosts that have already been...
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Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full crazy. Test […] The post Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a calm material palette. Large windows were integrated into the homes’ design so that the surrounding nature and the gardens could be seen from within the home. In the garden,...
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
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USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
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Array 1.19.0 This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
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This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
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Belief makes us human. Belief is our tool to dance with a possible future, confront our fears, and build community. Our personal taste and our preferences belong to us as well, helping us believe in ourselves. For millennia, belief thrived in most parts of our lives. We didn’t...
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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. There’s a relatively famous line from Bezos, circulated first at YC in ’08 and then more recently by the folks at Acquired (a great pod!): Jeff uses this analogy for AWS. He talks about...
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When engineering and design company Atkins presented the city of Cambridge with a sparkling gift, it must have felt rather pleased. It had simultaneously provided a brand new station and answered the question of how to ensure that same station embodied the character of the local...
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Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s plumbing. And I can demo it via a git magic trick 🪄1 $ tree...
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The Great Unzippening Society is splintering in an unacceptable way and I have a metaphor for it.
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I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything. Then I saw this fantastic mural on the side of a building in Annapolis Royal so I just had to share it. Enjoy!
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When did they stop building churches on housing estates? Time was when even the smallest village had a church, such was the domination of religion in our society. As towns and suburbs grew they too were always built with churches, often of multiple denominations, these an...
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Sure, the southern United States has more than its fair share of pesky bugs that most people actively avoid. Mosquitos, horseflies, and palmetto bugs probably top that list. So it probably sounds strange that we devoted an entire day to insects, particularly to the appreciation...
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I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where there wasn't a quiche in my refrigerator because I just love quiche that much. Why? Well, it's great any time of day, it reheats well, it can feed a crowd, and it doesn't have to be...
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Want to be successful? Be inconsistent * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t your usual advice, and I found it...
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The hard part isn’t good ideas. It never has been. The hard part is choosing. Ask GPT for ten subtitles for your book, or sixteen ways to hold a surprise party, and you’ll be delighted at how useful they are. Ask Dreamstudio or Kittl for some logo designs, same thing. There is...
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I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date Line from Honolulu. But it also meant I got a free weekend in Tokyo before resuming work on Monday. It’s easier and cheaper to stay in a hotel all weekend than go half way around the...
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Every now and day blog posts about what it takes to be a good programmer or how you figure out if someone is a bad programmer arrives. There’s always talk about how you find the good programmers in interviews and the topic is always hot in schools and universities. Today I read...
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This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have a relatively small carbon footprint, while those who live further out have some of the largest footprints in the nation. While that may not be surprising by itself there are some...
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Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it wasn’t until 2015 that he...
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The brewing fight between Facebook and Zynga is what is known in economic strategy circles as “buyer-supplier hold up.” The classic…
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Inflation took the auto insurance industry by surprise in the 1970s, impacting Berkshire's auto insurance business as well as nearly bankrupting GEICO.
the singularity is...
…and now we see what is possible Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The...
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Every 70 years America goes through a revolutionary transition. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, now? The Republicans now control the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Is that everything? Does government power lie there, like we are told, or is it all secretly...
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It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve...
Seth's Blog
Choose your fuel wisely If worrying about paying the mortgage gets you motivated to lean hard into the next project, don’t...
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If worrying about paying the mortgage gets you motivated to lean hard into the next project, don’t be surprised if that sort of fear arises every time you have hard work to do. If your goal is to teach the naysayers a lesson, remember that you’ll need to find people who you want...
Seth's Blog
A really good reason Do you see the defaults? The question, “What are things like around here?” has two possible answers....
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Do you see the defaults? The question, “What are things like around here?” has two possible answers. When a new idea or opportunity arrives, your organization says yes, unless there’s a really good reason to say no. Or your organization says no, unless someone makes a powerful...
Noahpinion
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
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I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
Math Is Still...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one...
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Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
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Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an understanding of Greek mythology.
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There’s been a huge volume of literature written on the subject of startup methodologies and philosophies. This is a positive thing for the ecosystem - just as new software tools mean it’s simpler and cheaper to start a company, these methodologies allow first-time entrepreneurs...
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People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
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Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
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Steve Baxter, one of Australia's most prominent investors and a judge on Shark Tank, is on record as saying that I am a man pretending to be a woman. It's an old, outdated, obsolete and uninteresting transphobic trope. In itself, it's almost not worth mentioning. But...
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The big story on Wednesday, September 18, was that the Federal Reserve’s open market committee finally got around to “cutting rates”, and doing so by more than expected. This action, much debated and discussed during all of 2024, was greeted as "big" news, and market...