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Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
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over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
TheCollector
What Is Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste? undefined
4 months ago
Christopher Butler
object – Game Boy It’s boxy, but it’s good. On Christmas in 1990, I received a Game Boy! Though I was never much...
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It’s boxy, but it’s good. On Christmas in 1990, I received a Game Boy! Though I was never much of a video game player, I was very excited about this little, handheld system. There was something about it that felt magical to me — so much more so than the Nintendo system we...
diamond geezer
The Taylor Swift tube map The most important event of the summer, if publicity is to be believed, is the arrival of Taylor...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The most important event of the summer, if publicity is to be believed, is the arrival of Taylor Swift to play eight gigs at Wembley Stadium. Taylor, as you'll be aware, is a billionaire singer from West Pennsylvania whose hit canon includes Shake It Off and several lesser known...
Sam Altman
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
Londonist
Goodbye Glory, Hello Divine - East London's New-Not-New LGBTQ+ Club "One New Year's Eve lock-in with Keira Knightley and Chelsea Clinton got a bit wild..."
10 months ago
Kat Snyder
No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are...
Noahpinion
Secrets of Japanese urbanism (part 2) A review of "Emergent Tokyo", by Jorge Almazan and Studiolab
9 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 355 | NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider getting your teams ready by looking for your instances before it drops. ZDNET | GLOBALSIGN | REDDIT DISCUSSION  The US accused 13 Chinese nationals of committing espionage-related...
Rest of World -...
India’s plan to export its wildly successful digital payments system After starting cross-border payments with Singapore, India is now setting up more international...
a year ago
Londonist
The West London Zoo You've Probably Never Heard Of Where the art is as impressive as the animals.
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
The Haskell Elephant in the Room
over a year ago
ben-mini
Buying a House Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of 2025. Why are you buying a house? To make money. I see this as an opportunity in a space that many friends and family consider a safe, high-return bet (if done right). When...
Laetitia@Work
5 things I find very interesting about the Boeing downfall Laetitia@Work #70
7 months ago
Probably...
Comparing Distributions This is the second is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
a month ago
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This is the second is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 8, which is about representing distribution using PMFs and CDFs. This section explains why I think CDFs are often better for plotting...
macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Options on early stage companies I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I believe that what I’m about to say is accepted by venture capitalists as fact, even trivially obvious fact, yet very few entrepreneurs I…
symmetry magazine
A cosmological headache For over a century, scientists have wondered what is counteracting the force of gravity in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
For over a century, scientists have wondered what is counteracting the force of gravity in the universe.
Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
7 months ago
The Modern House
How Abby Lee, founder of Mambow, is modernising Malaysian cuisine
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
Res Obscura
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s Lessons from Boyle's scientific desiderata and the Midgley Effect
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
99% Invisible
Don’t Forget to Remember [EPISODE] We memorialize the losses most important to us, as a civilization. But what even is a memorial, and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We memorialize the losses most important to us, as a civilization. But what even is a memorial, and what does it do? And how does one memorialize such a vast and distributed tragedy like COVID-19,  which was devastating physically but also divisive politically? Memorials tend to...
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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a year ago
This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
xkcd.com
Earth Layers
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Show solidarity to all who resist
over a year ago
Ferd.ca
A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
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10 months ago
2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
Old Structures...
Lucy Moses Award: 486 Liberty Avenue You can read about the building in the awards program: here. The short version: this was a very...
8 months ago
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You can read about the building in the awards program: here. The short version: this was a very ornate police precinct house constructed in 1892, when Brooklyn was still an inexpedient city, and abandoned for quite some time. Here’s what the interior looked like the first time we...
CONTEMPORIST
A Complete Renovation Was Given To This 1980s Plaster Clad House Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand,...
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Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand, that they renovated to bring it up to today’s standards. The house needed a re-design inside and out, with the clients requesting a contemporary design. The clients also wanted a...
Noahpinion
"Luxury" construction causes high rents like umbrellas cause rain The NIMBY mindset persists in the face of evidence.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Help me win the Golden Kitty Awards 2022? (just a quick announcement...)
a year ago
diamond geezer
The news from your borough The News From Your Borough If I went to your borough yesterday, here's some news from...
a year ago
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a year ago
The News From Your Borough If I went to your borough yesterday, here's some news from it. Barnet Brent Camden the same name for a pub they've rebranded on Camden High Street so I'm suddenly much less impressed. Also Tripadvisor reckons that Brondes Age is #14,524 of 15,760...
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Distros Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today and tomorrow
Jonas Hietala
Long Term Goals I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also to our training time. I haven’t trained a lot lately so it feels good to do something again and training the kids is very rewarding. On Monday I have the next graph theory lecture...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
Seth's Blog
Bongo 4 – Thinking about power users (skive!) Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they’re happy to share their preferences and...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they’re happy to share their preferences and they show up. But power users can also be a trap, because their specific needs might not match the market you seek to serve. When you pick your customers, you pick your future. Brooke...
Seth's Blog
Writing your book I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and their generosity in the form of books. A good book will change the reader, but it makes an even bigger impact on the author. Here’s a classic episode of Akimbo. Book publishing...
Map of the Week
A Few Nice Eclipse Maps-Part 1 In a month a total eclipse will make its way across North America. On April 8th the path will travel...
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9 months ago
In a month a total eclipse will make its way across North America. On April 8th the path will travel quickly, (under two hours) from Mazatlán on Mexico's Pacific coast to Newfoundland, Canada and then into the Atlantic Ocean. There are some really nice visualizations of the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
2 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: 2023 Round Up! What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put...
a year ago
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What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put together a round up for you with all of the wonderful advice our makers have given for creatives at any stage of their creative practice. Pop your feet up, grab yourself a nice...
Christopher Butler
Attention Degrowth No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important...
a year ago
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No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important insight beneath any design decision. Not to be combatted with manipulations, tricks, or just being a nuisance — but to be respected. The attention economy needs degrowth, too. We...
The Pragmatic...
The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight....
a year ago
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a year ago
The bank serving half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK collapsed more or less overnight. How did it play out, and what are the next steps for startups?
The Ruffian
Congrats Keir, You Won, Now Change Prime Minister Starmer Needs To Be Very Different To Opposition Leader Starmer
5 months ago
Prolost
Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020 You May Have Seen This Image Before. In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You May Have Seen This Image Before. In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example of guerrilla filmmaking taken too far. Which may also be an apt description of the entire film from which it was taken. In the summer of 1992, while I was home in Minnesota between...
Res Obscura
The most interesting things I read in 2023 Most of them are not from 2023
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The most important question to ask before taking seed money There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling entrepreneurs.   The teams that are selected…
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
7 months ago
TheCollector
Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The 8 Jobs of Management Recently, John Cutler...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
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a year ago
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden? undefined
2 weeks ago
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included. I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
TheCollector
Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII undefined
a month ago
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
Christian Selig
The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
TheCollector
New Study Reveals Fresh Insight Into Mayan Sacrifices undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Theodore Roosevelt: Life & Accomplishments of this American President undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking undefined
10 months ago
The Honest Broker
Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
a week ago
Londonist
70+ Spectacular Things To Do In London This Month: September 2023 Open House London! Plus a new music festival, fashion exhibitions, pole dancing, and sheep on the...
a year ago
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
11 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
a year ago
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A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
Scarlet Ink
Senior Engineer or Senior Citizen? How Can Vintage Tech Workers Age Like Fine Wine? Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Experience in some careers is viewed as universally positive, but that's not necessarily the case in tech. Why is that, and what can you do about it?
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
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Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Ferd.ca
Counting Forest Fires 2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
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2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eulogy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful and protracted demise. Today's News:
Steve Klabnik
Trolling is a art
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Is your product the reason your startup is failing? The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very appealing. Perhaps that's why so many people risk doing it. The problem is, many of them don't succeed. There are hundreds of reasons a startup can fail, but let's focus on one for a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing the Avo Inspector app We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance...
over a year ago
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We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance platform which enables you track data consistently and…
A Beautiful Site
A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 20-26 November 2023 All our best articles from the past week.
a year ago
There are two types...
A Short Discussion of Residential Building Heights in New York City NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To...
a year ago
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a year ago
NOTE: The following was written for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Street Design, The Secret To Great Cities and Towns, where it will appear in a shorter version. This version still needs a little editing for its new context. Part … Continue reading → The post A Short...
Cheese and Biscuits
Archway, Battersea Park Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River...
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a year ago
Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River Café in Hammersmith, and I didn't like it. I think I was mainly intimidated - by the well-heeled crowd, the scale and the power of that vast dining room and open kitchen, and yes,...
SatPost by Trung...
How does Michelin Guide's business work? The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
Mark Manson
Pain Is Part of the Process https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a...
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https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski. He was a psychologist from the 1940s with a fascinating background. He studied with Freud's contemporaries in Vienna, worked with mentally ill patients, participated in the Polish resistance during...
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams? undefined
7 months ago
diamond geezer
Tractor Tax Protest Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest...
a month ago
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a month ago
Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest against the imposition of inheritance tax on farmland. You could tell something was up by the number of people in Barbour jackets, tweed caps and sensible outerwear milling around...
Blog System/5
Demystifying secure NFS My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and...
a month ago
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a month ago
My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.
Seth's Blog
Cat and mouse games I hope that most of us would agree that driving 50 mph in a school zone where little kids cross the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I hope that most of us would agree that driving 50 mph in a school zone where little kids cross the street is a significant safety problem. The speed limit is there for good reason, and if you selfishly and recklessly blow through the crosswalk, you ought to get a summons....
TokyoDev
All About Working Visas for Hiring Foreigners Full-time in Japan *This article is a translation of [a Japanese...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
*This article is a translation of [a Japanese article](https://michi.sociarise.co.jp/recruiting-tips/working-visas/) by Takumi Nakamura, the CEO of [Sociarise](https://sociarise.co.jp), a consultancy for hiring global talents.* When considering hiring foreign nationals, their...
The Honest Broker
Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25? How a creepy experiment from 1968 is eerily relevant today
6 months ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Tram and Busways of Casablanca, Morocco, 2024 Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length with the opening of T3 and T4. The Casatramway network, operated by RATP, is depicted in the new map alongside the Casabusway BRT lines currently under construction. The map...
CONTEMPORIST
This Alley Between Buildings Was Transformed With A Series Of Arches Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has...
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7 months ago
Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has transformed a nondescript alley in Miami, Florida, with a series of concrete arches. Photography by Heywood Chan This alley was originally surrounded by trash rooms, dumpsters, mechanical...
99% Invisible
Melanie Speaks [EPISODE] Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve been told that you speak like your mom, or that you laugh like your uncle. Maybe you sometimes slip back into an accent that reveals something about your past. Maybe you have a...
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
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a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Maps Mania
Do You Live in 15 Minute City?
a week ago
Castles in the Sky
What We Have Given Up in Exchange for This Limitless Bounty Novelty and Nostalgia in Second-Tier Grocery Stores
6 months ago
The Ruffian
The best reason to believe Woody Allen is innocent is the simplest one How we form opinions on limited information
a year ago
The Honest Broker
A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative...
4 months ago
The Modern House
Charlotte Taylor on the wonders of wood and her sudoku-orientated routine
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pisa Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you want an isometric view if you're being...
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Lost In The Future Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last...
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a month ago
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&
Oykun
3 skills that will get you ahead ~90% of Designers in 2023 Technical skills will get you so far in Design. You need to focus on soft skills such as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Technical skills will get you so far in Design. You need to focus on soft skills such as Communication, Time Management if you want to grow and stand out.
Scarlet Ink
9 Simple Actions You Can Take to Build a Culture of Empathy You can build an accidental culture, or a purposeful culture. Take action to build a culture of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
You can build an accidental culture, or a purposeful culture. Take action to build a culture of empathy, and reap the rewards.
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals undefined
10 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Getting Out on a High Note Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Quentin Tarantino show the psychological power of walking away at...
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The only college major that matters If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of those companies, or work as an employee in…
TheCollector
Who Was Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Magnificent)? undefined
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia The India-born tech investor, entrepreneur and billionaire businessman spoke to Rest of World about...
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In Marseille’s Cours Julien, Street Art Creates Dynamic Context Submitting to this area’s urban rhythm reveals the power of public art to define a place.
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Construction Physics
The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
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Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
tomcritchlow.com
How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is...
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summary The answer is that the most successful companies have a key executive who is customer-centric - someone who has a rich mental model for what customers want and is able to step into the customer's shoes. I theorize that beyond a culture of being customer-centric it's the...
Identity Designed
Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers
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Arduino Blog
ThermoGrasp brings thermal feedback to virtual reality Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The...
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Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The Combine. Or operating a robot through augmented reality and feeling coldness on your fingers when you get close to exceeding the robot’s limits. A prototype device called ThermoGrasp...
Open Culture
Bringing Tsarist Russia to Life: Vivid Color Images from 1905–1915 History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective...
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History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective memory. If we’re pointing fingers, we might point at educational systems that fail to educate, or at huge historical blind spots in mass media. Maybe another reason the recent past...
xkcd.com
Tick Marks
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Rest of World -...
India banned a Chinese app four years ago. Government agencies are still using it CamScanner was one of 59 Chinese apps the Indian government banned in 2020, amid a border conflict...
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Diaries of Note
The Difficulty with Our Time Known to many as the “father of existentialism,” Søren Kierkegaard was a pivotal Danish philosopher,...
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Known to many as the “father of existentialism,” Søren Kierkegaard was a pivotal Danish philosopher, theologian, and cultural critic of the 19th century. His extensive published writings grappled with complex themes including ethics, religion, and the intricate facets of...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Old Structures...
Expertise In the course of doing research on old buildings, I’ve looked at some non-traditional sources. For...
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In the course of doing research on old buildings, I’ve looked at some non-traditional sources. For example, in trying to find original images of demolished and non-famous buildings, I’ve had some success with magazine ads from tenants. It used to be popular to put a picture of...
TheCollector
Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop undefined
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Jonas Hietala
Calling closures in a Vec In rust one might want to have a list of closures, for example as a list of callbacks. let mut fs:...
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In rust one might want to have a list of closures, for example as a list of callbacks. let mut fs: Vec<||> = Vec::new(); fs.push(|| { println!("imma firing my lazer"); }); for f in fs.iter() { f(); // error: expected function but found `&||` }; Maybe if we borrow...
McMansion Hell
ode to a faux grecian urn Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago...
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Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia...
Seth's Blog
Digital prepwork It’s so tempting to simply begin painting a wall. After all, it’s pretty easy to lay down paint. But...
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It’s so tempting to simply begin painting a wall. After all, it’s pretty easy to lay down paint. But it turns out that masking and dropcloths, painstakingly put into place, save many hours compared to cleaning up a mess afterward. The same is true for what happens when we have a...
Wuthering...
Readalongs I wish someone else would organize - Cuban literature, August Wilson plays, and many more The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.”  I hosted several: Scottish literature,...
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The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.”  I hosted several: Scottish literature, Italian, Austrian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, always limited to the 19th century and earlier to keep the scope manageable.  The idea was that I read a lot, while others were invited to...
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Domestic work in Vietnam: The 5-star butler who naps on the steps She cooks, cleans, and has a key. But she also naps in stairwells and eats in hallways.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
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TheCollector
7 Artists of German Expressionism You Should Know undefined
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TheCollector
Quipu: How Did the Inca Record Information with Cords & Knots? undefined
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Louwrentius
'Improved' image gallery for Blogofile This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports...
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This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports a small image gallery that has been written to illustrate how to create your own 'controllers' or Blogofile plugins. My Python skills are horrible buy I managed to improve a bit...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Our homunculus is showing The little person at the control panel, the one who sees what the retina produces, the one who...
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The little person at the control panel, the one who sees what the retina produces, the one who decides, the one who speaks up… (This is the dualist solution to the free will problem–yes, I have a physical body, they say, but I also have a little human inside of me that gets to...
99% Invisible
Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former...
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For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. If you’ve been listening to 99% Invisible’sPower Broker Breakdown, you’re familiar with the story.  The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Air of Baffled Absence' R.L. Barth has sent a new epigram, “Baffled,” not overtly related to the Vietnam War:  “I see...
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R.L. Barth has sent a new epigram, “Baffled,” not overtly related to the Vietnam War:  “I see these hands on the deck railing, but Whose are they? Have they any meaning? What?”   Some readers will understand. The familiar can become strange with age. That’s not always a...
Open Culture
George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf: “He Envisages a Horrible Brainless Empire” (1940) Christopher Hitchens once wrote that there were three major issues of the twentieth century —...
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Christopher Hitchens once wrote that there were three major issues of the twentieth century — imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism — and George Orwell proved to be right about all of them. Orwell displays his remarkable foresight in a fascinating book review, published in March...
Rest of World -...
Chinese EV sellers found a loophole to export cars around the world A gray market grows for Chinese EVs in Russia, the Middle East, and beyond.
10 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation Offices by SUBU Design Architecture SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles,...
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SUBU Design Architecture transformed the Levitt Foundation’s office space in Los Angeles, emphasizing luxury and community with a focus on...
TheCollector
Dadaism: 12 Iconic Artworks From The Dada Art Movement undefined
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
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A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
xkcd.com
Range Safety
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Cremieux Recueil
High-Frequency Trading Is Good Sichuan Mala has written a guest post on one of the most unfairly maligned parts of the financial...
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Sichuan Mala has written a guest post on one of the most unfairly maligned parts of the financial industry
brr
The Beer Can Connecting old and new.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot S10 Review​: “This Is the Future of Home Robots” I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. It’s been...
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I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. It’s been astonishing how the technology has evolved, from the original iRobot Roomba bouncing off of walls and furniture to robots that use lidar and vision to map your entire house and...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3 May 10, 2024.
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Rest of World -...
How Zimbabwe’s biggest fast-food company became a popular fintech solution Innbucks started as an app to receive loose change at some restaurants. Now, it’s a licensed...
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
L'Étrange défaite: Réalité et réalisme Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
The Modern House
Green Series #4: how to make your home breathable and thermal-bridge free For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of...
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For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of experts how to make our homes breathable – and to explain thermal bridging … Because the Passivhaus ideal is all about incredible insulation and airtight construction,...
Mazdak
Apple Intelligence is FINALLY HERE! 🤯 What You NEED to Know! 🧠 Join us as we explore Apple's groundbreaking AI platform:
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The Elysian
Humanity from the perspective of robots Talking points for our literary salon next week.
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine...
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Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. served aboard the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, an experience that led...
Stephen Wolfram...
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription...
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Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For additional installation information see here.] Just Say What You Want! Turning Words into Computation Nearly a year and a half ago—just a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Book You Know You Don’t Understand' Some thirty years ago, at his request, I met with an author in upstate New York who wanted me to...
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Some thirty years ago, at his request, I met with an author in upstate New York who wanted me to write a feature story for my newspaper about him and the small-press book he had written. Frank had been lobbying me for weeks by telephone. He was middle-aged but carried himself...
Ian's Blog
Having a Website Used to Be Fun According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that...
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According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that thought alone makes me feel old, but going back through the old snapshots of my websites made me feel a profound feeling of longing for a time when having a website used to be a novel...
Moneyness
The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss...
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The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a pretty unremarkable coin. It's the second-lowest value Swiss coin, the Swiss version of America's lowly nickel, the sort of coin that many...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Generation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm even into heterocyclic compounds. Today's News:
a year ago
Londonist
David Attenborough Waxwork Comes To Madame Tussauds It's the second time he's been honoured here.
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
A framework for choosing what to do A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure...
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A year ago, I left YC and felt a bit lost about what to do next.[1] A lot of people were pretty sure they knew what I should do. But...I didn't and most of their suggestions didn’t excite me. As I thought through my possible paths, I realized that I didn't have a useful framework...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
Herbert Lui
Just do the real thing (again) If you want to get good at something, just start by doing it. Today.  Sam Altman writes an important...
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If you want to get good at something, just start by doing it. Today.  Sam Altman writes an important reminder on this: don’t outsmart yourself and spend precious time and energy working on fake prerequisites. Here’s an example, from my life, that I write about in Creative Doing:...
The Marginalian
How to Make a World: A Poem Like mathematics, the truest metaphors are not invented but discovered. In fact, they hardly feel...
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Like mathematics, the truest metaphors are not invented but discovered. In fact, they hardly feel like metaphors — they feel like equations equating something previously unseen with something familiar in order to see more deeply into the nature of reality. One morning out on a...
Common Edge
Condocide: Death of a Building Type The building collapse in Miami may not have been an aberration. The condition of aging condos...
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The building collapse in Miami may not have been an aberration. The condition of aging condos nationwide is dire.
CONTEMPORIST
The Color And Material Palette Of This New Home Allows It To Blend Into The Desert Setting Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy...
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Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy color palette that complements its surroundings. The home, designed for an architect and graphic designer, was built on a site with an irregular shape, however, from the street, it...
TheCollector
What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics? undefined
a year ago
Product Identity
I'm writing a zine Will I become an author now?
2 weeks ago
Math Is Still...
The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation...
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Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation while championing women in mathematics and computer science. Now consciousness is on her mind. The post The ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics...
Applied Cartography
VC does not guarantee PMF Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico)...
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Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico) sold to an MMA-themed holdco earlier this year. Raised a $4.5m seed from Stripe and Bloomberg Beta and a $10m Series A; crossed the finish line at $200K ARR after eight years. Stir...
Seth's Blog
The maverick and the status quo The future isn’t the same as the past. Technology develops, systems change and most of all, someone...
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The future isn’t the same as the past. Technology develops, systems change and most of all, someone cares enough to make things better. The maverick isn’t the selfish gunslinger of myth. In fact, she’s focused on resilient, useful interactions that change what we expect, pushing...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Major Garbage Producers in JS The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally conscious (hey there, my European readers), you probably do all sorts of crazy thinks to cut down on garbage — reject plastic bags in a supermarket, recycle bottles, keep the paper...
The Modern House
How an artist and architect converted a war bunker on the wild Isle of Wight coast
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
22 ways PostHog makes it easier to build great products PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product analytics is just one feature among many these…
Musings on Maps
Along Narnia’s Enchanted Shores As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have...
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As we face an age when the norms of legal conduct in the United States stand to be shredded, we have been suggested to benefit from looking, both for perspective and solace, if only for relief, to fantasy literature as … Continue reading →
TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught? undefined
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Seth's Blog
I’ve been doing it wrong all along This is one of the great benefits of learning. It’s also a common challenge. When we get better at...
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This is one of the great benefits of learning. It’s also a common challenge. When we get better at something, it is preceded by a moment of incompetence. In that moment, we’re not exactly sure how to do it better, but we realize that the way we’d been doing it wasn’t nearly as...
Lennart Koopmann
Close Access Denial I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
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a year ago
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
Seth's Blog
Generational shifts in punditry In 1970, when Walter Cronkite was narrating current events for the United States, he was 54 years...
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In 1970, when Walter Cronkite was narrating current events for the United States, he was 54 years old. Hitchcock made his last film when he was 77. When there’s a limited number of slots for narrators to fill, they can stick around for a long time. One of the overlooked cultural...
The Modern House
The brilliant reimagining of Sunny Side Up, a family home in Clapton
10 months ago
Max Countryman
Mindset for New Engineering Managers Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common...
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Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common mistake is to assume that our previous expertise will make this transition seamless. In reality, it's important to recognize the need to shift mindsets entirely.
The Modern House
Harriet Verney on her camp interiors and life within a converted Bible factory in Dalston
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Defending the apostrophe Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local...
a year ago
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a year ago
Does it need defending? The sign on some bushes near a park in my town says, Beware: Bee’s. A local merchant adds a note to some receipts that says, Your awesome. It’s tempting to speak up and point out that the sky comma is showing up where it shouldn’t. And missing when it...
Noahpinion
Bad and good arguments for industrial policy Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy?
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
The half apology What a waste. Something went wrong, and the other person cared enough about the relationship to let...
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What a waste. Something went wrong, and the other person cared enough about the relationship to let you know. Perhaps they’re hoping that you can rebuild a bridge. That you can see what they see and care enough to do something about it. A half apology is a little like half a...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Ali Ansari On the Spot: Ali Ansari JamesHoare Mon, 04/08/2024 - 12:28
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mtlynch.io
Guidelines for Freelance Developers Working with Me I’ve been hiring software developers and other freelancers for the past seven years. Even though I...
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I’ve been hiring software developers and other freelancers for the past seven years. Even though I write most code myself, hiring other developers is a tremendous force multiplier that frees up time for other parts of my business. Freelancers work well if you manage the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
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Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Therapy is now horrible Intrusive thoughts and more. View on my website
5 months ago
The DESK Magazine
When good is no longer good enough It wasn’t long ago I’d see a 3D rendering or piece of highly detailed art and feel blown away.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Striped pitcher, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, denim satin glaze
7 months ago
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
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After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
balajis.com
#4 - The Winklevoss Twins and Balaji Listen now (50 min) | Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss talk with Balaji about how Washington, DC is...
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Listen now (50 min) | Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss talk with Balaji about how Washington, DC is losing crypto, while other countries like the UAE and Japan are winning web3. OUTLINE 0:00 - I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me! 0:58 - Crypto flippening from America to Asia
Maps Mania
The American Home Values Map
8 months ago
Londonist
Dreaming Of Owning A Home In France? You Need To Know About This Event! The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
11 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist undefined
3 months ago
One Useful Thing
Four Singularities for Research The rise of AI is creating both crisis and opportunity
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
The explosion We spend much of our worrying time on crises. Our media is filled with warnings, coverage and fear...
a year ago
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We spend much of our worrying time on crises. Our media is filled with warnings, coverage and fear of cataclysms. The big boom, the sudden end, the crash. In fact, rot is far more common. Things decay unless we persistently work to support them. Organizations, reputations,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Details About My Notes Website A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...
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a year ago
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site. First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta? undefined
7 months ago
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...
Mazdak
Google and the Canadian Government Reach a Deal on Online News Act The Government of Canada and Google have reached a deal on the Online News Act (C-18), just three...
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The Government of Canada and Google have reached a deal on the Online News Act (C-18), just three weeks before the act is scheduled to come into effect. The deal will see Google continue to show Canadian news on its platforms in exchange for annual payments to Canadian news...
Tech and Tea
Saying No to what I feel I should do Navigating the space between should and want, and finding more permission for ease and rest.
8 months ago
./techtipsy
How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix) It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck...
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It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck and how the Proton compatibility layer works, I decided to write a backup script that would back up everything in the home folder, excluding the Steam games themselves due to the...