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Ryan Mulligan
Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll We've seen it plenty of times around the web where a website's page header follows us as we scroll...
over a year ago
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Sticky Page Header Shadow on Scroll

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
We've seen it plenty of times around the web where a website's page header follows us as we scroll down the page. CSS makes doing this a breeze with sticky positioning: .page-header { position: sticky; top: 0; } What if we desired something a little bit extra, like applying a...
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Quantum Frontiers
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...
6 months ago
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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at Q2B for … Continue reading →
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This Space
39 Books: 2016 I love it when people announce that "if Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing Eastenders", or...
a year ago
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39 Books: 2016

from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
I love it when people announce that "if Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing Eastenders", or Game of Thrones or crime fiction, according to one and another variation. The innocence of the claim is charming, giving voice to the desperation to give weight to ephemera. But I...
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Taste We need good taste to make good things, but we must first qualify and understand what good means in...
11 months ago
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Taste

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

11 months ago
We need good taste to make good things, but we must first qualify and understand what good means in the sense of design. Taste is the ability to identify quality. To understand quality we need to look critically at: materials that are fit for purpose, ergonomics that considers...
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Open Culture
Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E‑Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students... Several years ago, Google launched a series of Career Certificates that will “prepare learners for...
5 months ago
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Google Unveils a Digital Marketing & E‑Commerce Certificate: 7 Courses Will Help Prepare Students for an Entry-Level Job in 6 Months

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5 months ago
Several years ago, Google launched a series of Career Certificates that will “prepare learners for an entry-level role in under six months.” Their first certificates focused on Project Management, Data Analytics, User Experience (UX) Design, IT Support and IT Automation. And they...
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A Weekly Dose of...
The Architecture of Suspense The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock University of...
over a year ago
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The Architecture of Suspense

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock University of Virginia Press, September 2022 Paperback (also available in hardcover and ebook) | 6-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches | 274 pages | 66 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780813947679 | $29.50 PUBLISHER'S...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Things I Like Over Things I Don’t It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me,...
a year ago
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Things I Like Over Things I Don’t

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It was another typical day on the internet: somebody did something, it felt like a big deal to me, and I wanted to blog about why I didn’t like it. To vent, I sent Dave a private message — well a couple of them — detailing my frustrations. Looking back, I don’t remember what I...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Dumb Apps
over a year ago
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Dumb Apps

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over a year ago
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brr
Mud Murdo The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
over a year ago
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Mud Murdo

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
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TheCollector
Missing Torso of Buddha Statue Found at Angkor Wat Complex Archaeologists just solved a century-old mystery at Cambodia’s Angkor Temple Complex. They unearthed...
3 months ago
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Missing Torso of Buddha Statue Found at Angkor Wat Complex

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Archaeologists just solved a century-old mystery at Cambodia’s Angkor Temple Complex. They unearthed the long-lost torso of a Buddha statue from the Khmer Empire, the medieval Hindu-Buddhist civilization that once exerted influence over much of mainland Southeast Asia. The same...
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Josh Thompson
Training for climbing (progress update) I am at the end of my second iteration of climbing training, and this is how it went and what I...
over a year ago
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Training for climbing (progress update)

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I am at the end of my second iteration of climbing training, and this is how it went and what I learned: I completed the workout twelve times, but I took a twelve-day break between workout eleven and twelve. I first skipped a workout because I had ripped skin open on one of my...
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Abishek Muthian
iPhone price drop making to headlines is aspiration porn It's no secret that consumer electronics brands are increasingly relying upon aspiration to sell...
over a year ago
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iPhone price drop making to headlines is aspiration porn

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
It's no secret that consumer electronics brands are increasingly relying upon aspiration to sell their products as their utility diminishes. None more so than Apple. Professional photographers, filmmakers use their phones says Apple every year, This year wasn't any different. So...
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Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Components There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to...
over a year ago
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Full Stack Components

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to share it with you all.
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Citation Needed
Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked...
5 months ago
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Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies.
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Making software...
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
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Using User-Select

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
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Diaries of Note
Blood, sweat and tears Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston...
a year ago
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Blood, sweat and tears

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston Churchill during the tumultuous years of World War II, and in this capacity had a front-row seat to some of the most consequential decisions and events of the 20th century. His diaries,...
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HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
over a year ago
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Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
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Steve Klabnik
Five years with Rust
over a year ago
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Five years with Rust

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over a year ago
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
The Forest I have been longing for a more enjoyable and unpredictable web experience for a while, and one that...
over a year ago
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The Forest

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I have been longing for a more enjoyable and unpredictable web experience for a while, and one that is less focused on commercialism. I want my digital life to be immersive in a different way—one where I can get lost in the trees of the forest of the internet. To discover places,...
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Herbert Lui
Itoya and the charm of stationary While corporations such as Staples or Office Depot may sell supplies, a retailer like Itoya sells...
6 months ago
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Itoya and the charm of stationary

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

6 months ago
While corporations such as Staples or Office Depot may sell supplies, a retailer like Itoya sells stationary. The difference is stationary comes with a charm just as essential as the equipment—creativity, possibilities, and consideration. If you visit Itoya’s 18-floor flagship...
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Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A...
9 months ago
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Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. The post Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem first appeared on Quanta...
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Working Theorys
Weekend Theorys No. 4 Time to lameness, netizens vs. citizens, and OpenAI scaring creative people (again)
a year ago
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Weekend Theorys No. 4

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Time to lameness, netizens vs. citizens, and OpenAI scaring creative people (again)
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#43) Slop wars; Poland and Ukraine; AI bubble; MMT reversal;
12 months ago
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At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#43)

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12 months ago
Slop wars; Poland and Ukraine; AI bubble; MMT reversal;
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swyx's site RSS Feed
React Suspense Q&A a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
over a year ago
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React Suspense Q&A

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
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Home on Erik...
Model benchmarks A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
over a year ago
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Model benchmarks

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
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Quanta Magazine
Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the...
a year ago
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Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade. The post Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Cheese and Biscuits
etch by Steven Edwards, Hove Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a...
5 months ago
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etch by Steven Edwards, Hove

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbrewery (I bet there aren't too many of them around) which made the (pretty easy actually) journey down from Battersea more than worth my...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will be nagging about this book for the next...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A City on Mars

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will be nagging about this book for the next while, and I apologize for that. Good news though - the main form of nag will be bonus SMBC comics. Also, HOLY SHIT GUYS, ANDY FUCKIN WEIR! Today's News: Good morning, friends. Today...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
over a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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over a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Rest of World -...
YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia  The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
6 months ago
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YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia 

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6 months ago
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
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Rest of World -...
The best articles we didn’t publish in 2023 Our favorite global tech stories from publications not named Rest of World.
a year ago
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The best articles we didn’t publish in 2023

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Our favorite global tech stories from publications not named Rest of World.
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The Universe of...
Just give the man the fish! Last week I complained about a Math SE pathology in which OP asks a simple question, and instead of...
8 months ago
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Just give the man the fish!

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
Last week I complained about a Math SE pathology in which OP asks a simple question, and instead of an answer gets an attempt at a socratic dialog. I ended by saying: I have been banging this drum for decades, but I will cut the scroll here. Expect a followup article. Seeing...
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Seth's Blog
Widespread resistance Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid...
a year ago
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Widespread resistance

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in un-delivered talent are all symptoms of resistance. Knowing that it has a name helps us...
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A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
over a year ago
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Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice. Sometimes,...
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nanoscale views
What are parastatistics? While I could certainly write more about what is going on in the US these days (ahh, trying to...
4 months ago
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What are parastatistics?

from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
While I could certainly write more about what is going on in the US these days (ahh, trying to dismantle organizations you don't understand), instead I want to briefly highlight a very exciting result from my colleagues, published in Nature last month.  (I almost titled this post...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II,...
2 weeks ago
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part III

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2 weeks ago
This week at long last we come to the clash of men and horses as we finish our three-part (I, II, III) look at the iconic opening battle scene from the film Gladiator (2000). Last time, we brought the sequence up through the infantry advance, observing that the tactics of the...
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Basta’s Notes
33 Reflecting on another year
over a year ago
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33

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over a year ago
Reflecting on another year
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Birchtree
NVIDIA finally gets some competition Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around...
4 months ago
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NVIDIA finally gets some competition

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lalala Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lalala

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I were able to have entire conversations in Greek just by inflecting the word karoto. Today's News:
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The Berkeley...
Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine...
over a year ago
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Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine transition to protein engineering, but their design and application is nonetheless notoriously unprincipled. The development of tools and methods to guide this process is one of the...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
The enterprise: buyers versus users Why does most enterprise technology feel like it is a decade behind consumer technology? For the...
over a year ago
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The enterprise: buyers versus users

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Why does most enterprise technology feel like it is a decade behind consumer technology? For the same reason our health care system is…
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of Google Bard It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system...
over a year ago
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The Political Biases of Google Bard

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over a year ago
It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system designed to advance government interests
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Open Culture
How a Papal Conclave Works, and Who Might Be the Next Pope On Tuesday, the cardinals locked themselves into the Sistine Chapel, officially beginning the...
2 months ago
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How a Papal Conclave Works, and Who Might Be the Next Pope

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2 months ago
On Tuesday, the cardinals locked themselves into the Sistine Chapel, officially beginning the conclave to elect the 267th pope. First formalized by Pope Gregory X in 1274, the conclave (a word derived from the Latin words cum clave, meaning “with a key”) follows a highly scripted...
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Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 4 After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in...
8 months ago
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Baseball in New York 4

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
After old teams, old Brooklyn ballparks, and old Manhattan ballparks, it’s time for ballparks in Queens. Despite the modern use of a numbered street system, Queens has street naming that drives outsiders mad, so it is fitting that three of the four old ballparks in the borough...
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Seth's Blog
The power of a pause The single-most effective way to invest 90 seconds a day is simple (and difficult). 18 times a day,...
3 weeks ago
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The power of a pause

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3 weeks ago
The single-most effective way to invest 90 seconds a day is simple (and difficult). 18 times a day, when you’re about to offer advice, ask a question or blurt out a response, wait five seconds. That pause shifts the way what you say next will be perceived. It also opens the door...
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abdz.do - Have you...
Sarah Beth Morgan explores scars from bullying in new short film Sarah Beth Morgan explores scars from bullying in new short film ...
over a year ago
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Sarah Beth Morgan explores scars from bullying in new short film

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Sarah Beth Morgan explores scars from bullying in new short film abduzeedo0125—23 After a successful 2022 festival circuit with accolades (including Brooklyn Film Festival - Audience Award for Animation, Pictoplasma Berlin - Official Selection,...
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Open Culture
What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
a year ago
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What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction

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a year ago
One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, placed prominently in a shot of George C. Scott in the war room, is a binder with a spine labeled “WORLD TARGETS IN MEGADEATHS.” A megadeath, writes Eric...
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charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
9 months ago
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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
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diamond geezer
One photo from each day last week One photo from each day last week Sunday 1st June - Carshalton Beeches This is a bakery in...
a month ago
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One photo from each day last week

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a month ago
One photo from each day last week Sunday 1st June - Carshalton Beeches This is a bakery in Beeches Avenue, Carshalton Beeches, called The Bakery. It looks old and if you were trying to guess how old it is you might well use the 0181 phone number to date it somewhere between...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
7 months ago
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AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas

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7 months ago
December 6, 2024.
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Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
2 months ago
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Public company comparables.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
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Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
a year ago
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Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
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Londonist
The Most Festive Christmas Afternoon Teas In London This Year Scones and cakes with a seasonal twist.
a year ago
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The Most Festive Christmas Afternoon Teas In London This Year

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a year ago
Scones and cakes with a seasonal twist.
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Londonist
London Transport Museum Is Throwing A Special Friday Late For Students London Calling takes place on 6 October.
a year ago
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London Transport Museum Is Throwing A Special Friday Late For Students

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a year ago
London Calling takes place on 6 October.
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Quentin Santos
The ESP32-S2 reset pin RST defaults to high This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset. In that...
a month ago
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The ESP32-S2 reset pin

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
RST defaults to high This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset. In that article, we observed the effect of the RST pin on the ESP32-S2-Saola-1RI board: I skipped over this topic quickly, so I am now taking the time to explain how the RST pin manages to...
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Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
over a year ago
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Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
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Classical Wisdom
History as Tragedy? A Different View of Thucydides
11 months ago
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History as Tragedy?

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11 months ago
A Different View of Thucydides
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Opsbros
Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
over a year ago
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Nix Windows Feedback

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
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Londonist
A White Knuckle Guide To High Adrenaline Activities In London Feel the fear and do it anyway.
a year ago
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A White Knuckle Guide To High Adrenaline Activities In London

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a year ago
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Blog - Practical...
How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February 2021, a winter...
over a year ago
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How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse?

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February 2021, a winter storm that swept through Texas caused one of the most severe power crises in American history. The cold weather created shockingly high electricity demands as people tried to keep...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Maripedia The print library Maripedia offers you an overview of Marimekko’s art of printmaking from the 1950s...
11 months ago
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🔗 Maripedia

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
The print library Maripedia offers you an overview of Marimekko’s art of printmaking from the 1950s to the 2020s. Here you can identify and explore our vibrant prints, discover their designers, and enjoy the stories behind the patterns. Visit original link → or View on...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Emerging healthcare business models and the new vendors they need | Out-Of-Pocket looking for an idea to build? look at these areas
a year ago
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Emerging healthcare business models and the new vendors they need | Out-Of-Pocket

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a year ago
looking for an idea to build? look at these areas
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Jonas Hietala
addwatch: resource exhausted While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message: site:...
over a year ago
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addwatch: resource exhausted

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message: site: addWatch: resource exhausted (No space left on device) At first I tried to clear /tmp but, so clearly the device did have some space left. After a bit of googling I found a solution...
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Flashbak
Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920 “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
8 months ago
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches     Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
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Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
over a year ago
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Podcast submission notes

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
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Retail Design Blog
BREWTOWN by AIM Architecture Ancient Rome indulged in gladiator games at the Colosseum, and as of late, the modern boomtown of...
3 months ago
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BREWTOWN by AIM Architecture

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

3 months ago
Ancient Rome indulged in gladiator games at the Colosseum, and as of late, the modern boomtown of Shenzhen finds entertainment...
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Seth's Blog
The hard part first If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have...
a year ago
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The hard part first

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have minimized your time and effort. On the other hand, if you’re looking for buy-in and commitment so you can through the hard part, do it last. People are terrible at ignoring sunk costs, and...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
a year ago
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Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
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Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
over a year ago
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Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Broomfield and Denver Weekend I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and...
8 months ago
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Broomfield and Denver Weekend

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

8 months ago
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. It feels like I just got back from the Pacific Northwest, and before that England, and then I’m heading right back out the door again. This should do it for awhile though; I need some rest. But this trip was a little different because I was there...
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Rozado’s Visual...
Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists The case for customizable AI systems as an alternative to one-size-fits-all AI systems
a year ago
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Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
The case for customizable AI systems as an alternative to one-size-fits-all AI systems
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devonzuegel.com
OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, &amp; electric automobiles Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities...
over a year ago
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OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, &amp; electric automobiles

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities tackle the question of transportation, and how culture shapes how different transport technologies get adopted. RSS · Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Overcast Mobility is central to...
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Both Are True
am i old now? on committing to the bit and becoming a dad v2
a year ago
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am i old now?

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a year ago
on committing to the bit and becoming a dad v2
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in...
over a year ago
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The Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in the first release of ChatGPT from November 30. After the December 15th update of ChatGPT, I replicated my analysis and it appeared as if the political bias had been partially...
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Strange Loop Canon
Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives Dreaming of Thoreau on Instagram
a month ago
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Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives

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a month ago
Dreaming of Thoreau on Instagram
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some ideas for native bitcoin apps Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin...
over a year ago
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Fred Wilson calls applications built using Bitcoin that couldn't have existed prior to Bitcoin "native Bitcoin apps". Most of the…
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Open Culture
The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Grok Just out of curiosity, and apropos of nothing, we asked Grok (the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk)...
3 months ago
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The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Grok

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3 months ago
Just out of curiosity, and apropos of nothing, we asked Grok (the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk) the following question: If a president of a superpower wanted to destroy his own country, what steps would he take? Here’s what Grok had to say: If a president of a superpower aimed...
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TheCollector
3 Hidden Gems in Occitanie, France: Off the Beaten Path In 2016, France created Occitanie from two smaller regions: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées....
3 months ago
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3 Hidden Gems in Occitanie, France: Off the Beaten Path

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3 months ago
In 2016, France created Occitanie from two smaller regions: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. Its name comes from Occitan, the historical language of southwestern France. Although this region is home to important cities like Narbonne (the first Roman colony in France) and...
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Mind Mine
just show up stop postponing the act
5 months ago
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just show up

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5 months ago
stop postponing the act
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Old Structures...
Specialty If you look closely, that stereotypical New England mill building, photographed yesterday in...
11 months ago
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Specialty

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
If you look closely, that stereotypical New England mill building, photographed yesterday in Pawtucket, has a sign reading “H. A. Briggs & Co. Cotton Waste.” I’ve heard of a lot of things you can do with cotton, but “cotton waste” was a new one for me. It apparently means scraps...
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Contemporist...
This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they...
3 months ago
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This Open Cabin Was Designed For Children

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 months ago
Architecture Firm Imaginary Objects, has shared photos of a small child-friendly cabin they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, that's inspired by the spirit of a treehouse.
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watchTowr Labs
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly...
5 months ago
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8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software development systems and environments, and more. “Ugh, won’t...
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Seth's Blog
Confused about good How often do we assume that popular things are good, and that good things become popular? If your...
8 months ago
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Confused about good

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
How often do we assume that popular things are good, and that good things become popular? If your work doesn’t catch on, does that mean it wasn’t good? In almost every field, people with insight, taste and experience admire and emulate good things that aren’t popular, and are...
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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Summary of changes for March

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Flashbak
Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York “I wanted an intimate setting so that I would be able to engage with people while also giving them...
3 weeks ago
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Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York

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3 weeks ago
“I wanted an intimate setting so that I would be able to engage with people while also giving them the opportunity to feel comfortable with me. A limousine seemed like a perfect choice.” – Kathy Shorr     In 1988, Kathy Shorr became a limousine driver. A graduate of the School...
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./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but...
over a year ago
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Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment. Intro After adding an UPS to accompany my server, my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power, but packs...
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Quanta Magazine
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways...
7 months ago
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Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup. The post Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Build In Public...
Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you? It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I...
over a year ago
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Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you?

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...
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Retail Design Blog
OOTOO coffee by Empatía OOTOO is a Kyoto-based coffee brand and we embarked on a journey to create its brand identity,...
7 months ago
27

OOTOO coffee by Empatía

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

7 months ago
OOTOO is a Kyoto-based coffee brand and we embarked on a journey to create its brand identity, wanting to encapsulate...
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Jonas Hietala
Customizing Neovim Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
a year ago
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Customizing Neovim

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 The Many Lives of Null Island At risk of ruining the secret for you, Null Island is a long-running inside joke among...
11 months ago
33

🔗 The Many Lives of Null Island

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

11 months ago
At risk of ruining the secret for you, Null Island is a long-running inside joke among cartographers. It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0º latitude and 0º longitude, a location in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa where the Prime...
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Melting Asphalt
Crony Beliefs [Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent...
over a year ago
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Crony Beliefs

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
[Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent podcast Second Enumerations. —Ed.]   Credits up front: This essay draws heavily from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, Robert Kurzban, Robert… Read more ›
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Christopher Butler
sketchbook – 2024 March 9 - March 16 Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything...
a year ago
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sketchbook – 2024 March 9 - March 16

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything is. We are doing solar this year! The back is better than the front.
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Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
over a year ago
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Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How MainStreet gets you government $ | Out-Of-Pocket Get government tax credits for your health startup
a year ago
24

How MainStreet gets you government $ | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Get government tax credits for your health startup
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pro Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pro

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt. Today's News:
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Jonas Hietala
The current Cybershard layout This is the keyboard layout I’m using for my custom keyboard that I generated, printed, and...
7 months ago
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The current Cybershard layout

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
This is the keyboard layout I’m using for my custom keyboard that I generated, printed, and hand-wired. It’s a minimalistic keyboard of 35 keys and features an integrated trackball on the right-hand side. The keyboard layout started out as a direct copy of the T-34 keyboard...
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Retail Design Blog
Poetry Gin by Studio Boam Creation of a complete graphic universe linked to the world of art, poetry and nature. Poetry Gin is...
a year ago
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Poetry Gin by Studio Boam

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a year ago
Creation of a complete graphic universe linked to the world of art, poetry and nature. Poetry Gin is the art...
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Charlie Becker
The Scrutiny Gap Critical Thinking at Critical Times
over a year ago
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The Scrutiny Gap

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over a year ago
Critical Thinking at Critical Times
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Birchtree
The battle of the budget phones Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out...
4 months ago
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The battle of the budget phones

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4 months ago
Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out here with new their new budget phones, the Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro. These models start at $379 and $459 respectively, so they certainly undercut the new iPhone, so let&
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CONTEMPORIST
A Pier Foundation Allowed This Home To Be Built On A Steeply Sloped Property LTD Architectural Design Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Auckland, New...
over a year ago
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A Pier Foundation Allowed This Home To Be Built On A Steeply Sloped Property

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
LTD Architectural Design Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Auckland, New Zealand, that’s located on a steep site. This very steep site provided a challenge for the architects in terms of creating a suitable living platform. They wanted to minimize piling...
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Odds and Ends of...
NEW EVENT: How the YIMBYs won Book now to see my conversation with housing hero Anya Martin!
5 months ago
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NEW EVENT: How the YIMBYs won

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5 months ago
Book now to see my conversation with housing hero Anya Martin!
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Media Recap 2024 I’m including the most memorable, impactful, or beloved works of—creative genius, or something, that...
6 months ago
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🔗 Media Recap 2024

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago
I’m including the most memorable, impactful, or beloved works of—creative genius, or something, that I’ve encountered this year. I’m not a critic; I am mostly just talking about things I liked. These are tremendous to me. I hope they can be tremendous to you, too. — Anh The list...
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Yale e360
What's hidden behind "just implementation details" Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the...
a year ago
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What's hidden behind "just implementation details"

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details." This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
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The Honest Broker
Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie I just care about the theme song
a year ago
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Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie

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a year ago
I just care about the theme song
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Archinect - Features
'Beauty Is a Measure of Ecological Intelligence'; A Conversation with ecoLogicStudio Founders... Against the backdrop of a frenzied AI discourse dominated by end-product tools such as ChatGPT and...
a year ago
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'Beauty Is a Measure of Ecological Intelligence'; A Conversation with ecoLogicStudio Founders Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto

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a year ago
Against the backdrop of a frenzied AI discourse dominated by end-product tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto articulate a refreshing call to adventure. The two ecoLogicStudio founders have built their professional and academic careers at the...
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diamond geezer
Extreme bus stops Ten years ago I visited (and blogged about) London's most extreme bus stops - that's the most...
2 weeks ago
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Extreme bus stops

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 weeks ago
Ten years ago I visited (and blogged about) London's most extreme bus stops - that's the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly bus stops inside the Greater London boundary. But TfL's reach spreads wider than that so today I'm going one better, to the most northerly,...
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Yale e360
Malaria Cases Rising Amid Worsening Floods Malaria killed almost 600,000 people in 2023, as cases rose for the fifth consecutive year,...
6 months ago
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Malaria Cases Rising Amid Worsening Floods

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Malaria killed almost 600,000 people in 2023, as cases rose for the fifth consecutive year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. Read more on E360 →
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The Works in...
One simple deregulation that would save thousands of lives What we’ve been reading: urbanism, medicine, science, tech, AI, housing, energy, economics, culture,...
a month ago
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One simple deregulation that would save thousands of lives

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
What we’ve been reading: urbanism, medicine, science, tech, AI, housing, energy, economics, culture, work and more ...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020 I did a Q&A for Fullstack Academy Bootcamp Prep students - copying out my answers here!
over a year ago
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8 Q&A's for Bootcamp Students in 2020

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I did a Q&A for Fullstack Academy Bootcamp Prep students - copying out my answers here!
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Calculated Risk
Goldman: "When Will Growth Slow, and When Will We Know?" Goldman Sachs economists put out a note this morning: When Will Growth Slow, and When Will We...
2 months ago
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Goldman: "When Will Growth Slow, and When Will We Know?"

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
Goldman Sachs economists put out a note this morning: When Will Growth Slow, and When Will We Know? Most of the sequential inflation increases in the last trade war took place within 2-3 months of the tariffs’ implementation, and we expect spending growth to slow shortly after...
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1% From Goldman: We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
6 months ago
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Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.3% to 3.1%

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
From Goldman: We lowered our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). Our Q4 domestic final sales forecast stands at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized). [Dec 27th estimate] emphasis added And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model...
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mtlynch.io
Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5 I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs....
a year ago
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Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs. He made it sound so easy, so I decided to try it out. One of my longtime hobby projects is WanderJest, a site for finding live comedy. One of the challenges of that site is that the...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Oldey-Timey From a 1944 newspaper comic strip called Miss Fury – the title character is about two-thirds...
12 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Oldey-Timey

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

12 months ago
From a 1944 newspaper comic strip called Miss Fury – the title character is about two-thirds Catwoman and one-third Batman – a taxi trip through Manhattan, past Washington Square, and to a Greenwich Village rowhouse: The car speeding through below the arch is not a mistake:...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Generative AI Con It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen...
4 months ago
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The Generative AI Con

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

4 months ago
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO
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Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
over a year ago
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily > "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
over a year ago
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Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
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Computer Things
Nondeterminism in Formal Specification Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to...
a year ago
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Nondeterminism in Formal Specification

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to come from randomness, concurrency, or external forces (like user input or other systems). In specification languages, we also have nondeterminism as a means of abstraction. Say...
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alexwlchan
The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me...
over a year ago
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The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here. It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing. Most of my...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #48: The most important week of Labour government so far? Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird...
6 months ago
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Odds and Ends #48: The most important week of Labour government so far?

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird Parliament.
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The Marginalian
The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the... Days after I arrived in America as a lone teenager, the same age Mary Shelley was when she wrote...
a year ago
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The Birth of the Byline: How a Bronze Age Woman Became the World’s First Named Author and Used the Moon to Unify the World’s First Empire

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Days after I arrived in America as a lone teenager, the same age Mary Shelley was when she wrote Frankenstein, not yet knowing I too was to become a writer, I found myself wandering the vast cool halls of the Penn Museum. There among the thousands of ancient artifacts was one to...
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Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
over a year ago
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Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the coding challenge How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview...
over a year ago
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Acing the coding challenge

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
St. Mary’s (and Calvert), Maryland County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it...
a year ago
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St. Mary’s (and Calvert), Maryland

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it takes more than five hours to reach the closest unvisited county from my home. Fortunately I found a workaround by shifting my focus to overnight county visits. There are plenty of...
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Flashbak
This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
8 months ago
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bean Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Shouting BLOOOOOOOD is similarly...
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bean

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Shouting BLOOOOOOOD is similarly frustrating. Today's News:
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Quanta Magazine
Tiny Language Models Come of Age To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler...
a year ago
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Tiny Language Models Come of Age

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. The post Tiny Language Models Come of Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
over a year ago
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CSS formatting in the console

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console: Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Horriffic Symphony There is a faint whistle from the nose of a coworker as he exhales. Someone slurps his morning cup...
over a year ago
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The Horriffic Symphony

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
There is a faint whistle from the nose of a coworker as he exhales. Someone slurps his morning cup of coffee. I think about the rhythm of these sounds, wondering if they will sync up.
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Christopher Butler
Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate...
over a year ago
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Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate place elsewhere. It is a digital container that is at least 15 years old at this point. I’ve carried it from machine to machine. Every now and then I go back through it to see if...
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Paul Cudenec
The Parable of Emperor Zigazagazoga Long long ago and far far away there was a land called Yogania, whose ruler – officially at least –...
4 months ago
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The Parable of Emperor Zigazagazoga

from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life

4 months ago
Long long ago and far far away there was a land called Yogania, whose ruler – officially at least – was King Sossidge the Dull.
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
My eclipse photography plan .title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I...
a year ago
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My eclipse photography plan

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
.title {text-wrap:balance;} 2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision. Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full solar eclipse from the path...
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Overcoming Bias
My Status Circles Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our...
5 months ago
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My Status Circles

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5 months ago
Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles.
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Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
a year ago
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Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
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Yale e360
Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list...
a year ago
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Rust's iterators optimize nicely—and contain a footgun

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list twice, while the foreach loop iterates only once." The author continued that "Haskell can fuse maps together as an optimization but I don't think you safely fuse arbitrary map/filters?...
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Quentin Santos
You can move !Unpin Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the...
7 months ago
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You can move !Unpin

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the exact meaning of Unpin. The documentation says: The documentation of Unpin says: Types that do not require any pinning guarantees. Where pinning is described as: From this, you could...
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Christopher Butler
Can a Robot Do a Designer's Job? Automation isn’t as much of a threat as we have been told. The Grid, a so-called website...
over a year ago
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Can a Robot Do a Designer's Job?

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Automation isn’t as much of a threat as we have been told. The Grid, a so-called website creation service “powered by artificial intelligence” that launched through a crowdfunding campaign in 2014. Less than five years later, after selling many memberships and releasing a...
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Quanta Magazine
The Two Faces of Space-Time A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time,...
9 months ago
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The Two Faces of Space-Time

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. The post The Two Faces of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Marginalian
Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater,...
6 months ago
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Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing

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6 months ago
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and...
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Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Brussels S-Train by Elliot H Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been...
a year ago
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Submission – Unofficial Map: Brussels S-Train by Elliot H

from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

a year ago
Submitted by Elliot, who says: I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been lurking ever since. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at designing a trasit diagram, and having gotten some free time, I decided to redesign the S-Train diagram for Brussels. So here...
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Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
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A Great Bumper Sticker

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
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Rest of World -...
It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
over a year ago
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It’s not (just) Ticketmaster’s fault

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
A Mexican superstar’s concert tour proves no ticketing company’s tech is a match for fans and fraud.
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Ben Borgers
CS 15: Data Structures
over a year ago
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CS 15: Data Structures

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Atoms vs Bits
How Much Economic Activity Is Cross-Subsidized? how the @#$ does that store stay in business anyway?
2 months ago
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How Much Economic Activity Is Cross-Subsidized?

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2 months ago
how the @#$ does that store stay in business anyway?
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Open Culture
Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso...
a year ago
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Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive

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a year ago
If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso Málaga, located in the artist’s Spanish birthplace. But to understand how his work developed throughout his life, you’ll have to get out of Spain — which is just what Picasso did...
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The Ruffian
How the World Failed Greta Thunberg The Perils of Praising Teenagers
9 months ago
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How the World Failed Greta Thunberg

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9 months ago
The Perils of Praising Teenagers
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General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
a year ago
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Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs

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a year ago
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Nervous MAGAs Plus! Creepy AI and College Admission Discourse
3 months ago
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Weekly Scroll: Nervous MAGAs

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3 months ago
Plus! Creepy AI and College Admission Discourse
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Open Culture
A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock,... ?si=yCx1pqpcATHND90L Once upon a time, the most convenient means of discovering movies was cable...
a year ago
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A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock, Kubrick, Errol Morris & Other Auteurs

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a year ago
?si=yCx1pqpcATHND90L Once upon a time, the most convenient means of discovering movies was cable television. This held especially true for those of us who happened to be adolescents on a break from school, ready and willing morning, midday, or night to sit through the...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
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CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification

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a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
over a year ago
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Errors Are Not Exceptions

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over a year ago
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City
a week ago
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9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City

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a week ago
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Old Structures...
Happy Thanksgiving ‘Nuff said.
7 months ago
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Happy Thanksgiving

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7 months ago
‘Nuff said.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Review Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You get scared to do 4 stars because then they...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Review

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You get scared to do 4 stars because then they inquire how they can improve service. Today's News:
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Seth's Blog
The good china Once you use your plates every day, they cease to be the good china. Of course, the plates didn’t...
over a year ago
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The good china

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over a year ago
Once you use your plates every day, they cease to be the good china. Of course, the plates didn’t change. Your story did. The way you treat them did. The same goes for the red carpet. If you roll it out for every visitor or every customer, it ceases to be red.
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Infinite Scroll
Flat Earthers and Belief in Belief What flat earthers can teach us about politics
6 months ago
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Flat Earthers and Belief in Belief

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6 months ago
What flat earthers can teach us about politics
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Contemporist...
A Warm Wood Interior Contrasts With The Black Charred Cedar Exterior At This Ranch Lodge In Oregon Architecture and Interior Design firm Hacker, has shared photos of Black Butte Ranch Lodge that they...
6 months ago
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A Warm Wood Interior Contrasts With The Black Charred Cedar Exterior At This Ranch Lodge In Oregon

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6 months ago
Architecture and Interior Design firm Hacker, has shared photos of Black Butte Ranch Lodge that they completed in Sisters, Oregon.
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somenice
Gold and Ghosts In the autumn of 1892, two miners, Earl and Edward, found themselves high in the Pacific Northwest...
8 months ago
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Gold and Ghosts

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8 months ago
In the autumn of 1892, two miners, Earl and Edward, found themselves high in the Pacific Northwest mountains, searching for a legend as old as the hills: the lost crate of gold. The tale of “Shining Creek Gold” was whispered in every saloon from Seattle to San Francisco, a cache...
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Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
a year ago
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

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a year ago
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
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Noahpinion
Why China's economy ran off the rails A short, simplistic, but fairly reasonable story.
a year ago
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Why China's economy ran off the rails

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a year ago
A short, simplistic, but fairly reasonable story.
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Yale e360
[Talk] Scaling Graphs On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
over a year ago
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[Talk] Scaling Graphs

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over a year ago
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Surface Aero for AirTag With the popularity of our TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag, we wanted another option that was just...
4 months ago
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Introducing TagVault Surface Aero for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
With the popularity of our TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag, we wanted another option that was just as durable, waterproof, and secure - but with a more minimal industrial design.  So we designed TagVault Surface Aero. It will look great on your motorcycle and even more...
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Ben Borgers
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
over a year ago
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

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over a year ago
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Josh Thompson
Turing Prep Chapter 1: Make Mod 1 Easier Than It Otherwise Would Be Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
over a year ago
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Turing Prep Chapter 1: Make Mod 1 Easier Than It Otherwise Would Be

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over a year ago
Preparing for Turing Series Index What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
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Azad's Blog
RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import...
11 months ago
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RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot

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11 months ago
TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import it into PostShot to train Gaussian Splats without using COLMAP. Video tutorial RealityCapture Import your images and align them. If you ever need help with tricky dataset, refer to...
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Eric Bailey
Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products I get asked about my opinion on overlay-adjacent accessibility products with enough frequency that I...
4 months ago
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Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products

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4 months ago
I get asked about my opinion on overlay-adjacent accessibility products with enough frequency that I thought it could be helpful to write about it. There’s a category of third party products out there that are almost, but not quite an accessibility overlay. By this I mean that...
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Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
a year ago
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LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty.

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a year ago
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
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Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll...
a year ago
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Type parameters in Go

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
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Londonist
Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree: Where's It From? What's Its History? When's The Switch-On? Spruce up on your arboreal knowhow.
a year ago
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Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree: Where's It From? What's Its History? When's The Switch-On?

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a year ago
Spruce up on your arboreal knowhow.
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Charlie Becker
Cathedral: A Short Story Castles in the Sky #42
a year ago
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Cathedral: A Short Story

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a year ago
Castles in the Sky #42
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The Roots of...
What is progress? In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another...
a year ago
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What is progress?

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview. The most basic meaning of “progress” is simply advancement along a path, or more generally from one state to another that is considered more...
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Platformer
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang...
a year ago
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How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk

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a year ago
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
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Rest of World -...
Shein’s hottest item in Latin America is its plastic bags The reusable packaging often ends up outliving the garments it once transported.
a year ago
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Shein’s hottest item in Latin America is its plastic bags

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a year ago
The reusable packaging often ends up outliving the garments it once transported.
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Quanta Magazine
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its...
over a year ago
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Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way

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over a year ago
There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants. The post Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Diaries of Note
How easy it is to say the wrong thing! Hugh Gaitskell found himself at the centre of an unintended media storm in November 1947, shortly...
a year ago
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How easy it is to say the wrong thing!

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a year ago
Hugh Gaitskell found himself at the centre of an unintended media storm in November 1947, shortly after being appointed as Britain’s Minister of Fuel and Power. In a speech addressing the stark realities of post-war austerity and fuel conservation, a comment about personal...
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Old Structures...
The Story Can Be Oversimplified The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective...
a year ago
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The Story Can Be Oversimplified

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective on an emotional level, and are easier to tell. So we often tell them. For example, Wikipedia (my go-to source for oversimplified explanations) states that the 1916 New York zoning...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
over a year ago
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Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
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Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
a year ago
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Housekeeping for 20240102

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a year ago
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
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Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Global Inequality...
Too much or not enough of Ricardo? Review of “Ricardo’s Dream” by Nat Dyer
3 weeks ago
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Too much or not enough of Ricardo?

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3 weeks ago
Review of “Ricardo’s Dream” by Nat Dyer
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
a year ago
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys

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a year ago
This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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Seth's Blog
Are you doing what you said you wanted to do? If you want to be a poet, write poetry. Every day. Show us your work. If you want to do improv,...
a year ago
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Are you doing what you said you wanted to do?

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
If you want to be a poet, write poetry. Every day. Show us your work. If you want to do improv, start a troupe. Don’t wait to get picked. If you want to help animals, don’t wait for vet school. Volunteer at an animal shelter right now. If you want to write a screenplay, write […]
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Diaries of Note
Sunk deeply into the blues Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work...
a year ago
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Sunk deeply into the blues

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of interrelated short stories that painted an intimate portrait of small-town America and had a lasting impact on American literature. By 1938, three...
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TheCollector
The 10 Museums With the Largest Ancient Egyptian Collections Egyptian artifacts are showcased at international museums across the Western world. If anyone was...
4 months ago
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The 10 Museums With the Largest Ancient Egyptian Collections

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4 months ago
Egyptian artifacts are showcased at international museums across the Western world. If anyone was determined to see every great collection of ancient Egyptian art, they would need to travel across three continents. The museums on this list have tens of thousands of Egyptian...
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Andrew Fraknoi –...
Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
6 months ago
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Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with which we mark the beginning of the winter season in the Earth’s northern hemisphere.  It’s interesting to note that the planets Venus and Jupiter do not have seasons like the...
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TheCollector
6 Fascinating Facts About Niki de Saint Phalle In her multifaceted artistic career, Niki de Saint Phalle explored femininity, gender inequality,...
3 months ago
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6 Fascinating Facts About Niki de Saint Phalle

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
In her multifaceted artistic career, Niki de Saint Phalle explored femininity, gender inequality, violence, and joy. She continually rejected traditional conventions in art and society, caring little for what others thought about her work. Saint Phalle created highly expressive...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Founder Stories Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where...
over a year ago
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Founder Stories

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch asked me a few months ago if I’d be on a TechCrunch video show where we interviewed startup founders. I love…
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Machine Learning for...
How to afford Machine Learning for Software Engineers How I'm planning to make ML for SWEs more helpful while remaining affordable
3 weeks ago
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How to afford Machine Learning for Software Engineers

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3 weeks ago
How I'm planning to make ML for SWEs more helpful while remaining affordable
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Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
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Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
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bt RSS Feed
My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
over a year ago
23

My Robotic Mower Woes

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
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Louwrentius
The sorry state of CoW file systems I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks...
over a year ago
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The sorry state of CoW file systems

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks and that it may still be a long way off before we have something truly great. Both ZFS and BTRFS are two heroic feats of engineering, created by people who are probably ten times...
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Retail Design Blog
Aesop Suzhou Cangjie Store by Offhand Practice Aesop Suzhou Cangjie: A Fusion of Ancient Charm and Modern Poetry – As the first soft rays of dawn...
8 months ago
32

Aesop Suzhou Cangjie Store by Offhand Practice

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

8 months ago
Aesop Suzhou Cangjie: A Fusion of Ancient Charm and Modern Poetry – As the first soft rays of dawn paint...
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Old Structures...
Reuse, Not Really Adaptive From an elevated subway station in Queens: two generations of roof. Or, if you prefer, a palimpsest...
11 months ago
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Reuse, Not Really Adaptive

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
From an elevated subway station in Queens: two generations of roof. Or, if you prefer, a palimpsest in steel. The roof over the rather wide platform is supported by two lines of columns. That’s a column in the lower left, with the curves of the lower flange of the built-up main...
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./techtipsy
We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But...
a month ago
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We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them

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a month ago
I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But really, they do suck. A laptop can be great to use, have a fantastic keyboard, sharp display, lots of storage and a fast CPU, and all of that can be ruined by one component: the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
a year ago
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot...
over a year ago
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Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
People who criticize Obama’s economic policies forget that, around the beginning of this year, a lot of serious people thought we were…
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Blog -...
Book Review - Zen in the Art of Archery Zen in the Art of Archery is described by John Stevens in his book Zen Bow, Zen Arrow as likely...
over a year ago
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Book Review - Zen in the Art of Archery

from Blog - Anchorpointexpeditions.com [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Zen in the Art of Archery is described by John Stevens in his book Zen Bow, Zen Arrow as likely being the most popular book about Japanese culture and martial arts ever. This is a bold statement I cannot contest, having read only three other books about Zen: the...
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The American Scholar
Tessa G. O’Brien Expansiveness and wonder The post Tessa G. O’Brien appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
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Tessa G. O’Brien

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a month ago
Expansiveness and wonder The post Tessa G. O’Brien appeared first on The American Scholar.
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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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Long Term Goals

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

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...
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David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
a year ago
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Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
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There are two types...
DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from...
8 months ago
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DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from the Westchester County Airport. One morning, I was talking on the phone with a friend whom I would see later in the … Continue reading → The post DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A...
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Moneyness
Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable,...
4 months ago
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Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels

from Moneyness [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable, costing 3.69 cents to produce each one. In response, the lobbyists that earn big profits from the ongoing existence of the penny have come out in full force with dubious arguments for...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
over a year ago
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session. Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense. This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB. What is...
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Multiple MagicBots Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
7 months ago
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Video Friday: Multiple MagicBots

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

7 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December...
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Seth's Blog
As hot as possible At sea level, water boils at 100 degrees C. It doesn’t matter how much more heat you use, steam is...
a week ago
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As hot as possible

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a week ago
At sea level, water boils at 100 degrees C. It doesn’t matter how much more heat you use, steam is what you get. It turns out that water this hot makes lousy coffee. Tea too. And an amp turned up to 11 doesn’t sound that good. Just because we can send more emails, hustle a […]
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Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures Weekend: Schedule for Week of January 5, 2025 Question #2 for 2025: How much will job growth slow in...
6 months ago
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Sunday Night Futures

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
Weekend: Schedule for Week of January 5, 2025 Question #2 for 2025: How much will job growth slow in 2025? Or will the economy lose jobs? Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Will there be a recession in 2025? Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500...
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
3 months ago
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 6.2 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 14, 2025....
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The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
a year ago
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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

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a year ago
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
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Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
8 months ago
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How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
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Abishek Muthian
Contact Us You can contact us through email me@[this domain] or through any of the social media platforms...
over a year ago
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Contact Us

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
You can contact us through email me@[this domain] or through any of the social media platforms mentioned above.
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Wuthering...
Lucian's satires - Frankly he's a blamed nuisance The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago...
a year ago
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Lucian's satires - Frankly he's a blamed nuisance

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago when I got serious about classical literature.  I had never heard of him, partly because of the odd historical artifact where what he writes is called “Menippean satire” even though...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #162 Volcker on inflation, Parametric insurance, The futility of guidance, Corporate governance reform,...
a year ago
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The Digest #162

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Volcker on inflation, Parametric insurance, The futility of guidance, Corporate governance reform, Keeping a notebook, Singleton and Teledyne, The pros and cons of cancer screening
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Wanderingspace
Triton Image from Voyager Colored Nice update to an old Voyager image with colors added based on actual colors captured in other...
over a year ago
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Triton Image from Voyager Colored

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Nice update to an old Voyager image with colors added based on actual colors captured in other images. See original post here by Jason Major.
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mtlynch.io
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick A quick, practical guide to interviewing customers during the early stages of a new product idea. I...
over a year ago
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The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
A quick, practical guide to interviewing customers during the early stages of a new product idea. I expected basic advice about how you shouldn’t ask customers leading questions, but Fitzpatrick goes much more in-depth. The book made me recognize weaknesses in my approach to...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
over a year ago
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Serverless Functions are Stateful

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
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Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
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How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
a year ago
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Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
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Raptitude.com
How It Seems vs How It Is The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down,...
7 months ago
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How It Seems vs How It Is

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

7 months ago
The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down, suddenly the room seemed to lose half its size. Turns out it’s just a claustrophobic little room with a toilet, sink, and tub. The sense that there’s open space in front of me while...
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Louwrentius
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
over a year ago
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Coaching with Empathy The show Ted Lasso is about to wrap up its final season. I am one of the many people who really...
over a year ago
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Coaching with Empathy

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The show Ted Lasso is about to wrap up its final season. I am one of the many people who really enjoy the show, which turns on a group of likable people helping each other through various life challenges with care and empathy. Lasso is an American college football coach who was...
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Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
over a year ago
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API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ...

from Business Brainstorms [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
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Christopher Butler
Discernment in the Digital Age How elimination, curation, and optimization can help us see through the technological...
3 months ago
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Discernment in the Digital Age

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

3 months ago
How elimination, curation, and optimization can help us see through the technological mirror. Technology functions as both mirror and lens — reflecting our self-image while simultaneously shaping how we see everything else. This metaphor of recursion, while perhaps obvious...
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Mazdak
Apple & Google Face Mounting Threats to $500 Billion Market The $500 billion app store market, which has been a cash cow for Apple and Google for years, is...
a year ago
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Apple & Google Face Mounting Threats to $500 Billion Market

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
The $500 billion app store market, which has been a cash cow for Apple and Google for years, is facing a growing number of threats. A recent court ruling against Google and new regulations in Europe and Asia could force the two tech giants to open up their app stores to more...
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Flashbak
Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training.     In...
11 hours ago
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Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

11 hours ago
Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training.     In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was often in pubs and bars in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Berlin, Hamburg, Johannesburg, New York,...
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Wuthering...
The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their... I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato.  Minimized for...
over a year ago
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The sophists and their rehabilitation - they clearly cause the ruin and corruption of their followers

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
I have been pursuing the sophists, the great antagonists of Socrates and Plato.  Minimized for centuries in the history of philosophy as, following Plato (but not Socrates), hucksters, they, or some of them, are now taken seriously as an intermediate step between the cosmological...
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Blog of Simple...
Google pulls Uno Reverse card: Rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies
11 months ago
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Google pulls Uno Reverse card: Rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies

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11 months ago
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The American Scholar
“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell appeared first on The...
10 months ago
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“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

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10 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive “We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
a year ago
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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NeuroLogica Blog
End of Life on Earth Let’s talk about climate change and life on Earth. Not anthropogenic climate change – but long term...
a month ago
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End of Life on Earth

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
Let’s talk about climate change and life on Earth. Not anthropogenic climate change – but long term natural changes in the Earth’s environment due to stellar evolution. Eventually, as our sun burns through its fuel, it will go through changes. It will begin to grow, becoming a...
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Josh Thompson
Winter on Two Pairs of Socks We’re minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the...
over a year ago
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Winter on Two Pairs of Socks

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
We’re minimalists, mostly. We try to not have a bunch of stuff. This naturally extends to the wardrobe. I’ll cover more about what we wear another time, but for now, I want to give you an idea. With the right socks, you can go an entire winter with just two pairs of socks. You...
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Yale e360
Teleportation teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of...
9 months ago
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Teleportation

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of myself —unwelcome guests poisoning me from the inside no longer welcome
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Old Structures...
Wrong But Impressive I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s...
8 months ago
61

Wrong But Impressive

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s on, the cleaning probably will; the content generally ranges from idiotic (here’s my name – isn’t it impressive?) to puerile (pictures of genitalia being the most common); and it’s...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Now is your moment to shine A comic about an eclipse. View on my website
a year ago
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Now is your moment to shine

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
A comic about an eclipse. View on my website
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SatPost by Trung...
The (Ludicrous) Psychology of Slot Machines Slot Machines are the workhorse of Las Vegas casinos. After decades of design tweaks, the "crack...
2 months ago
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The (Ludicrous) Psychology of Slot Machines

from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups

2 months ago
Slot Machines are the workhorse of Las Vegas casinos. After decades of design tweaks, the "crack cocaine of gambling" brings in more revenue than every other casino game combined.
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Open Culture
1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults In the 1980s, The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization co-founded by Tipper Gore...
a month ago
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1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a month ago
In the 1980s, The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization co-founded by Tipper Gore and the wives of several other Washington power brokers, launched a political campaign against pop music, hoping to put warning labels on records that promoted Sex, Violence, Drug...
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Open Culture
How Jackson Pollock Redefined Modern Art: An Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQ_cfZ8q9kVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:...
3 weeks ago
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How Jackson Pollock Redefined Modern Art: An Introduction

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3 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQ_cfZ8q9kVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Jackson Pollock: the Myth of the Modern Artist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQ_cfZ8q9k) In his lifetime, Jackson Pollock had only one successful art show. It took place at the...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: (sorry) Today's News:
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: (sorry) Today's News:
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Artificial Ignorance
Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too) AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
2 months ago
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Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too)

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2 months ago
AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
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HTMHell
You don’t need the isOpen class by Maureen Holland Don’t get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you don’t need it. A...
6 months ago
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You don’t need the isOpen class

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6 months ago
by Maureen Holland Don’t get me wrong. You can keep it if you like it. But you don’t need it. A class selector can allow us to visually show or hide content for disclosure widgets, like a custom select component or dropdown navigation menu. But a disclosure widget is made of two...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scribe Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You'll be tempted to hit the printer, but then it...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scribe

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You'll be tempted to hit the printer, but then it might leak blood on your tablets. Today's News:
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Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
over a year ago
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A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant

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over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
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Lighthouse Blog
How to subscribe to content
a year ago
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How to subscribe to content

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a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
9 months ago
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When should I use String vs &str?

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9 months ago
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Tinloof - Blog
How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval,...
a year ago
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How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval, users get a notification email and can use the app.
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Flashbak
Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order:...
9 months ago
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Welcome to the Country Club: Prison Life in Four Different Nations

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9 months ago
Dutch photographer Jan Banning turned his lens on prisons and prisoners for his book Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice,. Below we see photographs pictures of prison life in Colombia, France, Uganda and the United States. “I’m interested in these aspects of society that...
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Wrong Side of...
Democracy vs liberalism in the heart of Europe ‘All state authority is derived from the people’
4 months ago
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Democracy vs liberalism in the heart of Europe

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4 months ago
‘All state authority is derived from the people’
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The American Scholar
All in Your Head The post All in Your Head appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
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All in Your Head

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7 months ago
The post All in Your Head appeared first on The American Scholar.
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journal – Winnie Lim
44 I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my...
3 months ago
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44

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3 months ago
I read last year’s post before writing this. Writing is a strange phenomenon. Though I am reading my own writing, it feels like I am reading the writing of another person. Perhaps...
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Eric Bailey
The Radium Craze Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need...
over a year ago
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The Radium Craze

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over a year ago
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need to extract it from pitchblende, an ore that contains uranium. Radium was discovered in working with the known properties of pitchblende. Curie noticed that pitchblende in its...
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Casey Handmer's blog
Powering the Mars base This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The...
8 months ago
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Powering the Mars base

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8 months ago
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A growing Mars base has a prodigious need for power. I’ve previously written two posts on...
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Computer Ads from...
Datamost Nightraiders Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
a month ago
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Datamost Nightraiders

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a month ago
Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin] Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin]

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over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
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Global Inequality...
Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I...
a year ago
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
6 months ago
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
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The Gradient
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
11 months ago
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

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11 months ago
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
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Eric Bailey
Free idea: design token ugly mode A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every...
a year ago
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Free idea: design token ugly mode

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a year ago
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design. Smaller, newer experiences tend to be more uniform than not. This makes sense in that the bulk of the experience is created at the same...
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Robert Caro
A Peek Inside Robert Caro’s Home Library, Hidden Shelves and All THE WASHINGTON POST takes us inside Robert Caro’s literary collection, and shows us the most...
3 months ago
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A Peek Inside Robert Caro’s Home Library, Hidden Shelves and All

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3 months ago
THE WASHINGTON POST takes us inside Robert Caro’s literary collection, and shows us the most precious volumes in his home library.
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Citation Needed
Issue 54 – Cases continue Crypto-related litigation is in full swing, as the Terra civil fraud trial has kicked off and two...
a year ago
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Issue 54 – Cases continue

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Crypto-related litigation is in full swing, as the Terra civil fraud trial has kicked off and two other cases against crypto companies have survived motions to dismiss.
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Grow With Less
4 Simple Strategies I Use to Never Run out of Article Ideas Want to know a secret? I never run out of article ideas. In fact, my main struggle is usually...
over a year ago
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4 Simple Strategies I Use to Never Run out of Article Ideas

from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Want to know a secret? I never run out of article ideas. In fact, my main struggle is usually choosing between a myriad of topics I would love to write about. You may think it’s because I’m very creative but the simple truth is that I simply use 4 simple strategies that guarantee...
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Charles Chen
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4 A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing...
a year ago
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A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4

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a year ago
A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing defineModel
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Both Are True
BATWRITE IS NOW WAKE UP gonna happen for the next two hours here's the link
3 weeks ago
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BATWRITE IS NOW WAKE UP

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3 weeks ago
gonna happen for the next two hours here's the link
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Eric Bailey
Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with...
over a year ago
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Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media

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over a year ago
Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with different groups in the past week, so I want to talk about it. Explicit norms are the parameters the social media platform sets for you. Tweets are predominately text and images,...
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ribbonfarm
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No...
a year ago
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

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a year ago
I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020) by qntm. The premise is that our world is full of things with antimemetic properties. An antimeme is “an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by...
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Mind Prison: Notes...
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
9 months ago
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Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model

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9 months ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
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Rest of World -...
How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could...
a year ago
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How we measured air quality for gig workers in South Asia

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Rest of World gave pollution monitors to riders in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh so they could gather data on what they breathe.
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The Marginalian
On Change and Denial "It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to...
a year ago
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On Change and Denial

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a year ago
"It’s strange to feel change coming. It’s easy to ignore. An underlying restlessness seems to accompany it like birds flocking before a storm."
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Beautiful Basilicas Around the World For over a thousand years, basilicas have been stages for history. Charlemagne knelt in St. Peter’s...
3 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Beautiful Basilicas Around the World

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
For over a thousand years, basilicas have been stages for history. Charlemagne knelt in St. Peter’s Basilica to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD. In 1436, the citizens of Florence gathered beneath Brunelleschi’s revolutionary dome as Santa Maria del Fiore was consecrated....
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Drew Ex Machina
Star Way of Humanity: American Space Art During the COVID-19 shutdown three years ago, I spent a lot of my time at home digging through my...
a year ago
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Star Way of Humanity: American Space Art

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
During the COVID-19 shutdown three years ago, I spent a lot of my time at home digging through my archives discovering all sorts of items I […]
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Epic Web Dev
Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip) Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
over a year ago
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Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
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Calculated Risk
LA Ports: Inbound Traffic Increased Sharply Year-over-year in December Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
5 months ago
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LA Ports: Inbound Traffic Increased Sharply Year-over-year in December

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Geniune Love and Infatuation After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
over a year ago
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Geniune Love and Infatuation

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
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Arduino Blog
This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their...
9 months ago
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This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9 months ago
Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their potential within our world. Because the practical applications are actually pretty limited (given the high cost), we inevitably begin to consider how those robots might function as...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for...
7 months ago
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🔗 Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era

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7 months ago
This new era – the Automation Era – is marked by platforms managing the content and connections for you, so you can spend your attention elsewhere. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s) This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
6 months ago
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Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s)

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6 months ago
This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails.   A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
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Raptitude.com
In Favor of Reading Aloud When I read Jane Eyre, I stalled for a full year between the opening part at the boarding school and...
10 months ago
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In Favor of Reading Aloud

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10 months ago
When I read Jane Eyre, I stalled for a full year between the opening part at the boarding school and the rest of the book. I tend to dislike boarding-school openings in books, but the real problem was I found myself having to reread too many of Charlotte Brontë’s winding,...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
over a year ago
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Developer Exception Engineering

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
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Damn Interesting
To Hell With Facebook The earliest known version of the idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” was written by the...
over a year ago
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To Hell With Facebook

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The earliest known version of the idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” was written by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury in 1677, though it was concerned with horses and feathers: “The last Dictate of the Judgement, concerning the Good or Bad, that may...
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TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
over a year ago
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup

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over a year ago
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
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Product Identity
What’s the future of AI hardware? I don't have answers
a year ago
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What’s the future of AI hardware?

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a year ago
I don't have answers
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Naz Hamid
Operating Rules for Email Collaboration Writing, giving, and soliciting feedback via your inbox. For over 25 years, I’ve been using email to...
3 months ago
32

Operating Rules for Email Collaboration

from Naz Hamid [alt+shift+b] in literature

3 months ago
Writing, giving, and soliciting feedback via your inbox. For over 25 years, I’ve been using email to collaborate and work with people. Before there were any messaging platforms, project management tools, and hybrid tools like Slack and Discord, phone calls, Skype and email were...
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Artificial Ignorance
The subscriptionization of AI Navigating the paid AI landscape.
a year ago
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The subscriptionization of AI

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a year ago
Navigating the paid AI landscape.
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Lars Lofgren
How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
over a year ago
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How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant

from Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
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Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
23

Code reviews: A success story

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a year ago
A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
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Applied Cartography
Grace notes I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking...
a year ago
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Grace notes

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking for: Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with,...
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Fatih Arslan
Four years at PlanetScale It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and...
5 months ago
73

Four years at PlanetScale

from Fatih Arslan [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.
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Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
5 months ago
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Full Stack AI Agents

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

5 months ago
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
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Jonas Hietala
Settled on an unoriginal idea I think I’ve decided what to do. Some very slight progress has been made.
over a year ago
20

Settled on an unoriginal idea

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over a year ago
I think I’ve decided what to do. Some very slight progress has been made.
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MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
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Fungible tokens: payment flows

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over a year ago
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Londonist
Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
a year ago
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Brentford's Enchanting Musical Museum Is Under Threat - And You Can Help Save It

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a year ago
Uniquely quirky museum could close later this year.
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Computer Ads from...
Suture Software's Bludgeons 'n' Braggarts We very simply give you what you've been asking for -- we give you BLOOD
a year ago
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Suture Software's Bludgeons 'n' Braggarts

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a year ago
We very simply give you what you've been asking for -- we give you BLOOD
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Seth's Blog
At the speed of judgment Getting to the conference in Santa Fe isn’t difficult. Someone will drive/fly you there. The hard...
4 months ago
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At the speed of judgment

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4 months ago
Getting to the conference in Santa Fe isn’t difficult. Someone will drive/fly you there. The hard part is deciding to go. And yet, it might take 8 hours to arrive. If they invented teleportation and offered it for free, it would be very clear that where we went would simply...
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xkcd.com
Cuisine
over a year ago
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Cuisine

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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Curaçao Is a Top Caribbean Adventure Destination
4 months ago
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Why Curaçao Is a Top Caribbean Adventure Destination

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4 months ago
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journal – Winnie Lim
temporary amnesia Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to...
11 months ago
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temporary amnesia

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11 months ago
Travel enriches me in many ways. Apart from novelty and discovery, new surroundings help me to temporarily forget things that usually weigh me down. Certain familiar things back home trigger uncomfortable feelings...
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A Beautiful Site
On Buttons and Links I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
over a year ago
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On Buttons and Links

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over a year ago
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it. Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component. — Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021 At face value, I understand why...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions

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over a year ago
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
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Ryan Hoover's...
Defining your company values in emoji
over a year ago
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Defining your company values in emoji

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over a year ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The part of the impression that gets the most...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanness

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The part of the impression that gets the most laughs is when the robot imitates living an entire life pursuing other people's dreams. Today's News:
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Jonas Hietala
MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive...
over a year ago
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MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough

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over a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive feedback! I’m so thrilled :) However, all isn’t blue skies and nice sunshine. A lot of times the first question is: How do you play it? or How do you get past the first level? I admit...
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Probably...
Reject Math Supremacy The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool...
6 months ago
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Reject Math Supremacy

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6 months ago
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are commonly presented in math notation can be more clearly presented in code. In the draft third edition of Think Stats there is...
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