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The Marginalian
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier "The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
a year ago
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Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier

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

a year ago
"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."
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The American Scholar
Let Us Compare Mythologies Exploding the Canon, Episode 4 The post Let Us Compare Mythologies appeared first on The American...
a year ago
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Let Us Compare Mythologies

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Exploding the Canon, Episode 4 The post Let Us Compare Mythologies appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Alex Meub
Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
over a year ago
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Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows

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

over a year ago
Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Alternate Past Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: An Alternate Past

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

a year ago
Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create alternate pasts and futures. Above, a panel from “Gotham By Gaslight” in which a nineteenth-century version of Batman searches for Jack the Ripper. Note the building in the center...
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Rest of World -...
In the “Galapagos of Asia,” angry Philippine islanders fight the great nickel rush “It’s very ironic that, in order to mitigate the impact of global warming, you have to cut down our...
a year ago
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In the “Galapagos of Asia,” angry Philippine islanders fight the great nickel rush

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

a year ago
“It’s very ironic that, in order to mitigate the impact of global warming, you have to cut down our trees … just to support the initiatives of Elon Musk.”
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alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
a year ago
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Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
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Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
6 months ago
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Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming: With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
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Notes on software...
Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow....
over a year ago
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Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow. The only awkward component of the book's organization is that he tends to use a concept one section before explicitly introducing and defining that concept. I'm not sure yet if this...
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Old Vintage...
So long, Z80 You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s...
a year ago
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So long, Z80

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s (PDF), announcing earlier this week that after June 14th you won't be able to buy them anymore (specifically the last-part-standing Z84C00 which comes in various speeds from 6-20 MHz)...
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The Honest Broker
The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024 Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
6 months ago
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The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago
Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
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Society's Backend:...
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
a year ago
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
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Tech + Economics +...
Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug. Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the means. This is the...
a year ago
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Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Imagine a philosophy so focused on the ends that it becomes blind to the means. This is the seductive trap of Effective Altruism (EA), a doctrine born to the rationalist cradle, promising to solve the world's woes through a calculator. Into this world stepped Sam...
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Yale e360
Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's...
a year ago
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Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024

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

a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's goals, and talking about hopes and goals for next year. They're cliche, and they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other...
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Londonist
Buy London-Themed Stocking Fillers, Secret Santa Pressies And More In Londonist's Online Shop! Truly unique gifts designed by yours truly.
a year ago
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Buy London-Themed Stocking Fillers, Secret Santa Pressies And More In Londonist's Online Shop!

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Truly unique gifts designed by yours truly.
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Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
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A small LED Cube

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

over a year ago
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube. Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
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Josh Collinsworth
How to Connect Local with CodeKit Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with...
over a year ago
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How to Connect Local with CodeKit

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

over a year ago
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.
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Old Structures...
Originality Is Not Easy, Part 3 The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really...
9 months ago
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Originality Is Not Easy, Part 3

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

9 months ago
The first two parts of this series looked at patents that involved odd details that were not really part of the metal-frame revolution that was taking place in the 1890s but rather adjacent to it. Neither of those patents reflected actual structure that I’ve ever seen in an old...
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Flashbak
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922 “A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
a year ago
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens     In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) published La Gazette Des 7 Arts magazine and founded the Club des amis du...
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Josh Comeau's blog
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark...
over a year ago
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The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for...
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Greater Still by...
Web3’s Mobile Moment In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking...
over a year ago
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Web3’s Mobile Moment

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large.
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The Elysian
Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative? We're asking the wrong questions.
7 months ago
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Are Democrats too liberal? Or too conservative?

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

7 months ago
We're asking the wrong questions.
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Mark Manson
40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20) Today is my 40th birthday. When I turned 30 a decade ago, I wrote an article sharing life lessons to...
a year ago
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40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20)

from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Today is my 40th birthday. When I turned 30 a decade ago, I wrote an article sharing life lessons to survive your 20s and crowd-sourced advice on how to excel in your 30s. And apparently you guys loved it. So, here's more of the good stuff: 40 life lessons I now know at 40 that I...
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Louwrentius
'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks' Introduction When configuring a Linux RAID array, the chunk size needs to get chosen. But what is...
over a year ago
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'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks'

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction When configuring a Linux RAID array, the chunk size needs to get chosen. But what is the chunk size? When you write data to a RAID array that implements striping (level 0, 5, 6, 10 and so on), the chunk of data sent to the array is broken down in to pieces, each part...
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A Beautiful Site
Web standards are just "minor details" A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
over a year ago
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Web standards are just "minor details"

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

over a year ago
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
over a year ago
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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African History...
A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD. The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of...
10 months ago
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A General History of Iron Technology in Africa ca. 2000BC-1900AD.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

10 months ago
The smelting and working of iron is arguably the best known among the pre-colonial technologies of Africa, and the continent is home to some of the world's oldest sites of ironworking.
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Retail Design Blog
AMOUAGE opens a new flagship in the historic heart of the Zhang Yuan landmark in Shanghai, China Amouage, the Omani House of High Perfumery, expands its global presence with its first Asian...
5 months ago
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AMOUAGE opens a new flagship in the historic heart of the Zhang Yuan landmark in Shanghai, China

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

5 months ago
Amouage, the Omani House of High Perfumery, expands its global presence with its first Asian flagship in Zhang Yuan, Shanghai’s...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction) Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j....
over a year ago
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Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction)

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by  citizen3xx24j. License: All Rights Reserved. Now Wait for Last Year (1975). Cover art by Chris Foss. [More info on ISFDB] Roslyn Gothic arguably saw its most extensive and iconic use on the...
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Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “Masters of Uncertainty” Masters of Uncertainty: The Navy SEAL Way to Turn Stress into Success for You and Your Team By Rich...
2 months ago
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Book Notes: “Masters of Uncertainty”

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
Masters of Uncertainty: The Navy SEAL Way to Turn Stress into Success for You and Your Team By Rich Diviney  Amplify Publishing, 2025 We’re dealing with unprecedented levels of uncertainty. But that shouldn’t disempower us. Diviney, a former Navy SEAL, provides insights for...
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Retail Design Blog
Delight Showroom The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional...
5 months ago
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Delight Showroom

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

5 months ago
The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional work environment with unique...
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Ryan Hoover's...
Blogging is the New Resume
over a year ago
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Blogging is the New Resume

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over a year ago
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Josh Collinsworth
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best...
9 months ago
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed

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

9 months ago
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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diamond geezer
205 to Marble Arch TfL are chopping and changing two more buses in central London, specifically the 30 and 205,...
a month ago
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205 to Marble Arch

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

a month ago
TfL are chopping and changing two more buses in central London, specifically the 30 and 205, according to the results of a consultation released on Friday. This is despite their proposals receiving the support of less than 5% of respondents and widespread disapproval from all 22...
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Rest of World -...
A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats Out-discounting competitors: iFood’s bid to become Latin America's last-mile delivery king.
over a year ago
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A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats

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

over a year ago
Out-discounting competitors: iFood’s bid to become Latin America's last-mile delivery king.
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Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot...
8 months ago
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Steve Jobs on iPod and DRM

from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago
Guys – We need to make sure that when Music Match launches their download music store they cannot use iPod. Is this going to be an issue?
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Londonist
Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
a year ago
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Brixton Tube Station Gets A New Artwork From Jem Perucchini

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Rebirth of a Nation adds a bright touch to station entrance.
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Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 365.5 ...
5 months ago
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Hidden Open Thread 365.5

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5 months ago
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The Ruffian
What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
3 months ago
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What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys

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3 months ago
Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
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Uncharted...
How to Beat Cancer with Viruses: An Interview with Beata Halassy How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer,...
9 months ago
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How to Beat Cancer with Viruses: An Interview with Beata Halassy

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer, and much more
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #185 Capital Allocation, Progressive's strategy, Reading plans, Damodaran's free courses, Looking back at...
a year ago
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The Digest #185

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

a year ago
Capital Allocation, Progressive's strategy, Reading plans, Damodaran's free courses, Looking back at Alibaba's IPO, Chris Davis, Outsider CEOs, Shareholder activists, Oprah
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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...
a week ago
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Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a week 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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Seth's Blog
Student coach Big football at colleges in the US costs more than $5 billion a year. And none of these programs has...
11 months ago
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Student coach

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

11 months ago
Big football at colleges in the US costs more than $5 billion a year. And none of these programs has a student acting as a coach. The same analysis, at a much smaller scale, applies to school theater directors and producers, conductors of the jazz band or orchestra and even the...
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Archinect - Features
Architecture's Interest Rate Prayers Answered: Archinect’s State of AEC August 2024 Welcome to the third installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month,...
10 months ago
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Architecture's Interest Rate Prayers Answered: Archinect’s State of AEC August 2024

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10 months ago
Welcome to the third installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. In our previous edition of the...
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Open Culture
In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term...
5 months ago
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In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts

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5 months ago
The end of the nineteenth century is still widely referred to as the fin de siècle, a French term that evokes great, looming cultural, social, and technological changes. According to at least one French mind active at the time, among those changes would be a fin des livres as...
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devonzuegel.com
OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, & 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, & 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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Retail Design Blog
The Mix Restaurant and Café by The Bloom architects “Mix” is a restaurant and café project designed with the philosophy of blending nature and...
10 months ago
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The Mix Restaurant and Café by The Bloom architects

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

10 months ago
“Mix” is a restaurant and café project designed with the philosophy of blending nature and architecture. The main highlight of...
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ben-mini
Root Canals and Bill Gates In Finding Nemo, there was a scene about a root canal surgery that absolutely terrified me: This...
a year ago
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Root Canals and Bill Gates

from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
In Finding Nemo, there was a scene about a root canal surgery that absolutely terrified me: This could just be me, but I spent a remarkable amount of my childhood worrying about root canals. Horror stories like these created a universal phobia that dentists suck and that’s...
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Rest of World -...
How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with...
a year ago
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How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix

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

a year ago
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest soccer leagues in the world.
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Calculated Risk
NAR: Pending Home Sales Increase 2.2% in November; Up 6.9% Year-over-year From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of...
6 months ago
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NAR: Pending Home Sales Increase 2.2% in November; Up 6.9% Year-over-year

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6 months ago
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of Increases Pending home sales gained 2.2% in November – the fourth consecutive month of increases and the highest level since February 2023 – according to the National Association of REALTORS®....
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Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
over a year ago
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Progress on the Block Protocol

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over a year ago
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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CommitStrip
A touch of real life, but not too much
over a year ago
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A touch of real life, but not too much

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
a year ago
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We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack

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a year ago
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
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Londonist
Get Your Broken Stuff Fixed At These Workshops Across London This March Most are free, too.
a year ago
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Get Your Broken Stuff Fixed At These Workshops Across London This March

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a year ago
Most are free, too.
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Willem's Blog
Off the grid: Working on 100% renewable energy Learning from powering my personal devices using nothing but self generated electricity using a...
over a year ago
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Off the grid: Working on 100% renewable energy

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over a year ago
Learning from powering my personal devices using nothing but self generated electricity using a solar panel and power banks.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Moving beyond coin voting governance
over a year ago
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Moving beyond coin voting governance

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over a year ago
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Luxagraf:...
Fortified From Edisto we worked our way south, stopping off a Hunting Island for a few dismal days in the cold...
a year ago
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Fortified

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
From Edisto we worked our way south, stopping off a Hunting Island for a few dismal days in the cold and rain, camping in a site that was just a smidge above actual bog. We escaped that dreariness for the much more uplifting Fort McAllister, the first of a string of forts we...
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Calculated Risk
FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding...
6 months ago
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FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores

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6 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores A brief excerpt: Here are some graphs on outstanding mortgages by interest rate, the average mortgage interest rate, borrowers’ credit...
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Wuthering...
Philoctetes by Sophocles - Let me suffer what I must suffer Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in...
over a year ago
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Philoctetes by Sophocles - Let me suffer what I must suffer

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over a year ago
Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in a mood of reconciliation and healing.  Literal healing.  Philoctetes possesses the bow of Hercules.  Either the bow, or Philoctetes himself, or both – prophecies are ambiguous...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cell Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some people bulk up by eating 12 small bird-cells,...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cell

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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some people bulk up by eating 12 small bird-cells, but they are weak. Today's News:
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Seth's Blog
A treaty Successful treaties calm things down and let us get back to what’s really important. Sometimes, the...
over a year ago
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A treaty

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over a year ago
Successful treaties calm things down and let us get back to what’s really important. Sometimes, the fight becomes the entire point. Not surprisingly, when we’re busy fighting a war in our head about a previous injustice or slight, we can effectively consummate a treaty without...
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Josh Thompson
Primitive Obsession & Exceptional Values I’ve been working through Avdi Grimes’ Mastering the Object Oriented Mindset course. One of the...
over a year ago
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Primitive Obsession & Exceptional Values

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over a year ago
I’ve been working through Avdi Grimes’ Mastering the Object Oriented Mindset course. One of the topics was using “whole values”, instead of being “primative obsessed”. The example Avdi gave was clear as day. He used a course with a duration attribute to show the...
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Louwrentius
Don't use cloud services if you care about secrecy of your data When you use cloud services, you are storing your data on other people's hard drives. The moment you...
over a year ago
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Don't use cloud services if you care about secrecy of your data

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over a year ago
When you use cloud services, you are storing your data on other people's hard drives. The moment you put your data within a cloud service, that data is no longer under your control. You don't know who will access that data. Secrecy is lost. Instead of using services like Gmail...
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Essays - Benedict...
The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used...
a year ago
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The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI

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a year ago
Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries? How about if it’s changing entirely every 18 months?
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TheCollector
Bodhidharma: The Legendary Founder of Kung Fu & Zen (Myth vs Facts) Zen Buddhism’s enigmatic teachings and its masters have influenced East Asian art, philosophy, and...
4 months ago
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Bodhidharma: The Legendary Founder of Kung Fu & Zen (Myth vs Facts)

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4 months ago
Zen Buddhism’s enigmatic teachings and its masters have influenced East Asian art, philosophy, and poetry for over a thousand years. However, the entire tradition traces itself back to one legendary man, credited not only with bringing Zen to China but also with the development...
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bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
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Seth's Blog
Spines out I lost a cookbook the other day. After twenty more minutes of searching, there it was, right on the...
a year ago
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Spines out

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a year ago
I lost a cookbook the other day. After twenty more minutes of searching, there it was, right on the cookbook shelf. But the spine was much more subtle than the cover, and it hadn’t been what I was looking for or expecting. We spend a lot of time on our (metaphorical) book covers....
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The Prism
30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023) Ideas to help you make sense of the world
a year ago
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30 Useful Concepts (Autumn 2023)

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a year ago
Ideas to help you make sense of the world
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Londonist
You Can Take A Dip In This Rooftop Pool Overlooking Battersea Power Station art'otel announces series of aerobics classes.
a year ago
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You Can Take A Dip In This Rooftop Pool Overlooking Battersea Power Station

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a year ago
art'otel announces series of aerobics classes.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
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Weekend Roundup

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a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Wha? From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge,...
9 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Wha?

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9 months ago
From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, huh? It sure looks like something else…
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
There are three New York Cities There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born...
over a year ago
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There are three New York Cities

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over a year ago
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and…
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The Marginalian
Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe How to bear the gravity of being.
over a year ago
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Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe

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over a year ago
How to bear the gravity of being.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Relentlessly Resourceful
over a year ago
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Relentlessly Resourceful

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Plus X Innovation Offices by Oktra Oktra collaborated with Plus X Innovation to design a dynamic coworking space at The Future Works in...
8 months ago
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Plus X Innovation Offices by Oktra

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8 months ago
Oktra collaborated with Plus X Innovation to design a dynamic coworking space at The Future Works in Slough, emphasizing creativity,...
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The Last...
Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful the first thing you noticed is her great outfit and the first thing I noticed is she's covering her...
over a year ago
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Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful

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over a year ago
the first thing you noticed is her great outfit and the first thing I noticed is she's covering her wedding ring  this is why you are anxious and I am Alone Today in the United States and the developed world, women are better off than ever before. But the...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle...
2 weeks ago
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II

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2 weeks ago
This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle sequences, the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). I had planned this to be in two parts, but even though this sequence is relatively short, it provides an awful lot to talk...
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TheCollector
Unit 731: Japan’s Infamous Bioweapons Research Unit Established in 1935, Unit 731 was officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification...
a month ago
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Unit 731: Japan’s Infamous Bioweapons Research Unit

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a month ago
Established in 1935, Unit 731 was officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army. Under the Imperial Japanese government, the unit worked to develop biological and chemical weapons and performed cruel and frequently fatal tests...
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Notes on software...
Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up,...
over a year ago
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Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up, compiling it, and running it doesn't scare me. This post is to help you overcome your own fears about doing so. Not necessarily because you should be running out-of-tree diffs in...
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Common Edge
Architecture and the God Problem Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
a year ago
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Architecture and the God Problem

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a year ago
Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
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A Weekly Dose of...
From Web to Print Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by...
over a year ago
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From Web to Print

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

over a year ago
Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zoom being described as "a writer working on turning her blog into a book." I don't remember her name or even the subject, as the...
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Articles
Best affiliate programs for indie makers
over a year ago
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Best affiliate programs for indie makers

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Yongsan Francoreen HQ by JYA-RCHITECTS This project involves the major renovation of an old, deteriorated house into a space that serves as...
3 months ago
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Yongsan Francoreen HQ by JYA-RCHITECTS

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3 months ago
This project involves the major renovation of an old, deteriorated house into a space that serves as a resale shop,...
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Wuthering...
The appeal of Septology as religious fiction - the urge, inexplicably, to pray - because it helps!... Septology is a stream-of-consciousness novel throughout, a mix of sentence fragments, unconventional...
7 months ago
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The appeal of Septology as religious fiction - the urge, inexplicably, to pray - because it helps! it helps!

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7 months ago
Septology is a stream-of-consciousness novel throughout, a mix of sentence fragments, unconventional punctuation, and temporal shifts, meaning the painter Asle is sometimes thinking about the present and sometimes about the past.  These are all old moves, old techniques.  I was a...
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Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
over a year ago
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False Accusation

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

over a year ago
False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
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journal – Winnie Lim
one year of strength training Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had...
8 months ago
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one year of strength training

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8 months ago
Last year around this time I had my first strength training session with a personal trainer. I had only 3 sessions with them, but due to a fundamental incompatibility – they had...
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The Marginalian
Loving the Tree of Life: Annie Dillard on How to Bear Your Mortality "We live and move by splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water."
over a year ago
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Loving the Tree of Life: Annie Dillard on How to Bear Your Mortality

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over a year ago
"We live and move by splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water."
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Citation Needed
Issue 82 – E-moluments As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the...
2 months ago
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Issue 82 – E-moluments

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2 months ago
As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the Trump administration continues to dismantle those same rules while he pumps his personal memecoin with promises of private access
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The personal website...
All the books I read in 2018 I read 20-ish books in 2018. I think this is a personal record, and I owe it largely to a group of...
over a year ago
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All the books I read in 2018

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
I read 20-ish books in 2018. I think this is a personal record, and I owe it largely to a group of friends called the “Asynchronous Book Club,” or ABC for short. To wrap up the year, and to help my poor swiss-cheese memory, I’d like to share a quick comment on each in case you’re...
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journal – Winnie Lim
the experience of completing a sketchbook for my japan trip Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on...
a year ago
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the experience of completing a sketchbook for my japan trip

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on my travels. I did the same when I went to Japan, except a...
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Escaping Flatland
Why we ended up homeschooling “Little Sister”, Agnes Martin, 1962
3 months ago
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Why we ended up homeschooling

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3 months ago
“Little Sister”, Agnes Martin, 1962
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pop Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The problem is the ghost doesn't want to answer...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pop

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The problem is the ghost doesn't want to answer those emails either. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This time that's your excuse for yelling about...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This time that's your excuse for yelling about giant scrotum, but what about all the other times? Today's News:
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Optimal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you,...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Optimal

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me. Today's News: Another review for A City on Mars, this one in Scientific American!
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Yale e360
Distractions Cause Bad Code We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
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Distractions Cause Bad Code

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

over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
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Josh Thompson
Elixir/Phoenix part deux I planned on working through this tutorial for building a slack clone, but half-way through the...
over a year ago
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Elixir/Phoenix part deux

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

over a year ago
I planned on working through this tutorial for building a slack clone, but half-way through the set-up instructions, after I installed Elixir and Phoenix, I took a long detour through the basic set-up guide. Built some custom routes, along with controllers/views/templates,...
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Infinite Scroll
There is No Plan. They're Just Morons. Trump doesn't have complex trade theories. He's just an idiot.
2 months ago
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There is No Plan. They're Just Morons.

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2 months ago
Trump doesn't have complex trade theories. He's just an idiot.
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samwho.dev
API Design: Errors Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
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API Design: Errors

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over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience. › Guiding...
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computers are bad
2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
a year ago
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
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Evan Hahn's blog
Everything we know about the next Zelda game, as of March 2025 In short: it’ll probably emphasize player freedom, not be a “dungeon editor” game, and won’t reuse...
3 months ago
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Everything we know about the next Zelda game, as of March 2025

from Evan Hahn's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
In short: it’ll probably emphasize player freedom, not be a “dungeon editor” game, and won’t reuse the same map of Hyrule. See my post at Zelda Dungeon for more. I enjoyed rounding up all pre-release information about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I’m back to do this...
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Open Culture
Andy Warhol’s One Minute of Professional Wrestling Fame (1985) Andy Warhol did for art what the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) did for wrestling. He made it a...
8 months ago
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Andy Warhol’s One Minute of Professional Wrestling Fame (1985)

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

8 months ago
Andy Warhol did for art what the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) did for wrestling. He made it a spectacle. He made it something the “everyman” could enjoy. He infused it with celebrity. And, some would say, he cheapened it too. Looking back, it makes perfect sense that Warhol...
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computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
over a year ago
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2023-02-17 something up there pt II

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
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Jake Zimmerman
Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
11 months ago
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Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet

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11 months ago
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Londonist
The Absolute Worst Things You Can Say To A Londoner "I bought my flat in the early 2000s for 150k."
a year ago
21

The Absolute Worst Things You Can Say To A Londoner

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
"I bought my flat in the early 2000s for 150k."
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Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
over a year ago
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
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TheCollector
Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell”: Bringing Dante’s Inferno to Life The famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin spent most of his life working on the monumental structure...
a month ago
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Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell”: Bringing Dante’s Inferno to Life

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
The famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin spent most of his life working on the monumental structure The Gates of Hell. Initially planned as an entrance door to the Decorative Arts Museum, it eventually gained a life of its own, inspiring Rodin’s most famous free-standing...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!) Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut....
over a year ago
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Meet the Maker: Nick Morley (with giveaway!)

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
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Old Structures...
Nothing New For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files...
6 months ago
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Nothing New

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

6 months ago
For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files are only a memory – and it’s worth remembering that issues of logisitics and organization are nothing new. One of the sources for our filing system is the 1917 file classification...
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Londonist
The Church Service Held In The Middle Of London Bridge The Blessing of the River Thames.
a year ago
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The Church Service Held In The Middle Of London Bridge

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
The Blessing of the River Thames.
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The Diff
Klarna and the Two Pivots of 2022 Plus! Diff Jobs; Crypto Adoption; Art Margin Calls; Liquidations; Corporate Espionage; DeepSeek
3 months ago
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Klarna and the Two Pivots of 2022

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Plus! Diff Jobs; Crypto Adoption; Art Margin Calls; Liquidations; Corporate Espionage; DeepSeek
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.
over a year ago
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Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.
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Open Culture
Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977) Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to a...
4 months ago
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Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977)

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

4 months ago
Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to a variety of other media: comic books, video games, board games, television series, and of course films, David Lynch’s 1984 version and Denis Villeneuve’s two-parter earlier this...
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Maps Mania
Snakes on a Plane(t)
2 months ago
23

Snakes on a Plane(t)

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

2 months ago
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Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art "Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
over a year ago
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National Gallery of Art

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

over a year ago
"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
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99% Invisible
Player Piano [EPISODE] The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of...
over a year ago
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Player Piano [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of...
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Yale e360
RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions Wow, my RC batch is one-third done. I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks...
over a year ago
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RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions

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

over a year ago
Wow, my RC batch is one-third done. I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks left. Time is flying by. I feel like I've settled into a decent groove. Taking a step back, it is setting in how much I've learned so far and how much I've accomplished. In these four...
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
8 months ago
54

Race, economics and homicide in the United States: a summary

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
Why economic factors cannot explain homicide disparities in the United States
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Infinite Scroll
Midweek Scroll: Woke Puritanism Slack Espionage, Evil Scientists, and RIP Hamster Forums
3 months ago
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Midweek Scroll: Woke Puritanism

from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative

3 months ago
Slack Espionage, Evil Scientists, and RIP Hamster Forums
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Charlie Becker
The Third Year Online Creator Playbook How I'm going to have my most productive and creative year yet
a year ago
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The Third Year Online Creator Playbook

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
How I'm going to have my most productive and creative year yet
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This Space
39 Books: 1986 In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The...
a year ago
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39 Books: 1986

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

a year ago
In my second year of reading, I read four novels by DM Thomas, beginning with his most famous, The White Hotel, in the edition below with its very 1980s cover design. I look at the single-word titles of the others and can remember absolutely nothing about them. Both the title...
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Quanta Magazine
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one...
2 weeks ago
15

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

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

2 weeks ago
A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical. The post Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Josh Thompson
Use an Alarm to Go to Bed Ironically, this is about going to bed early. See, it’s 10:40p, and I’m getting up tomorrow at 6:00....
over a year ago
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Use an Alarm to Go to Bed

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

over a year ago
Ironically, this is about going to bed early. See, it’s 10:40p, and I’m getting up tomorrow at 6:00. So I’m looking at about 7 hours of sleep. This is perfect. But, that is only if I’m asleep in the next twenty minutes. I know how long it takes to get ready to leave in the...
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Rest of World -...
Pakistan’s mass transit is failing. BusCaro thinks it has the solution After the failure of Airlift and Swvl, this startup is stepping in to provide an alternative to...
6 months ago
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Pakistan’s mass transit is failing. BusCaro thinks it has the solution

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

6 months ago
After the failure of Airlift and Swvl, this startup is stepping in to provide an alternative to Pakistan’s unreliable public transport system.
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Charles Chen
Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees) Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
over a year ago
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Concurrent Processing in .NET 6 with System.Threading.Channels (Bonus: Interval Trees)

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Using .NET System.Threading.Channels for concurrent processing with interval trees.
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Don't Worry About...
Worries About AI Are Usually Complements Not Substitutes A common claim is that concern about [X] ‘distracts’ from concern about [Y].
2 months ago
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Worries About AI Are Usually Complements Not Substitutes

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 months ago
A common claim is that concern about [X] ‘distracts’ from concern about [Y].
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Working Theorys
Pursuits that can’t scale What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
a year ago
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Pursuits that can’t scale

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

a year ago
What you should do "instead of going to therapy”
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davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
9 months ago
21

Review: Bezos

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9 months ago
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This Space
This kingdom by the sea Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repressed writer Gustav von Aschenbach, when his...
over a year ago
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This kingdom by the sea

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

over a year ago
Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repressed writer Gustav von Aschenbach, when his supposedly objective appreciation of a young boy’s beauty becomes sexual obsession. This is how BBC Radio 4's In Our Time sets up a discussion of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice...
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Remains of the Day
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture “Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for...
over a year ago
35

The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for war” ...
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Open Culture
Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be... You know the sound of the theremin, that weird, warbly whine that signals mystery, danger, and...
10 months ago
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Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Shows Off the Theremin, the Early Electronic Instrument That Could Be Played Without Being Touched (1954)

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

10 months ago
You know the sound of the theremin, that weird, warbly whine that signals mystery, danger, and otherworldly portent in many classic sci-fi films. It has the distinction of being not only the very first electronic instrument but also the only instrument in history one plays...
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Tech + Economics +...
Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability....
a year ago
30

Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability. With tools like ChatGPT, anyone can conjure up rewritten Wikipedia articles, essays, code, poetry, and more with just a few prompts. This "democratisation" of content creation...
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UX Collective
Why AI (desperately) needs designers Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 months ago
41

Why AI (desperately) needs designers

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Construction Physics
Semiconductor fab reading list Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is...
a year ago
57

Semiconductor fab reading list

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is built and operates. But there's an enormous amount written about semiconductors and the technology used to manufacture them, much of it excellent and informative, which makes it...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.19.0 This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
over a year ago
25

Array 1.19.0

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

over a year ago
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
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latest projects -...
Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
3 months ago
36

Pocketwatch of Goo

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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bookbear express
present tense Housekeeping: ask me Dear Bear questions here. The matchmaking results will be out in the next...
2 months ago
22

present tense

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
Housekeeping: ask me Dear Bear questions here. The matchmaking results will be out in the next couple of days :)
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The Intimate Mirror
Love as Mutually Accelerating Disclosure The Erotic Heart of Reality
5 months ago
23

Love as Mutually Accelerating Disclosure

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5 months ago
The Erotic Heart of Reality
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There are two types...
The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on...
7 months ago
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The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed

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

7 months ago
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
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tim.sh
Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
8 months ago
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
Hi there!
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Win Vector LLC
What Fraction of Containerization is Just Working Around Dynamic Linking? Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average...
6 months ago
23

What Fraction of Containerization is Just Working Around Dynamic Linking?

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

6 months ago
Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average systems engineer wouldn’t dream of running something on an actual computer. Instead they would use Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, or who knows what else. These indirections or...
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: Housing Starts, FOMC Meeting Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
6 months ago
40

Wednesday: Housing Starts, FOMC Meeting

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

6 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Housing Starts for November. The consensus is for 1.344 million SAAR, up from 1.311 million SAAR. Architecture Billings Index for October (a leading indicator...
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Seth's Blog
Your project is important But that’s not why it’s your project. Lots of things are important. Countless problems need to be...
4 months ago
34

Your project is important

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

4 months ago
But that’s not why it’s your project. Lots of things are important. Countless problems need to be solved, people need to be connected, a living needs to be made. But this work you’re doing now, the work you’re doing instead of everything else–it’s your project. When we talk about...
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Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin...
over a year ago
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Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin for a few days. We went snow tubing at Beech Mountain while we were there, one of the many ski resorts in the area. As is common on vacations, I spent way too much time thinking...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 13-19 November 2023 The very best of Londonist from the past week.
a year ago
25

Best Of Londonist: 13-19 November 2023

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
The very best of Londonist from the past week.
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Quanta Magazine
Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other...
a year ago
42

Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life

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

a year ago
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community. The post Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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High Signal
$270k ARR from a Notion form app Julien Nahum caught my attention on Twitter by pulling in $22k MRR with his Notion form app, Notion...
over a year ago
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$270k ARR from a Notion form app

from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Julien Nahum caught my attention on Twitter by pulling in $22k MRR with his Notion form app, Notion Forms. Back in August he was at $10k MRR
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The Diff
There is an "AI Factor," and It's Worth Hedging Plus! Sweeteners; The American Difference; AI Experiments; Media Relations; Sanctions are Hard,...
5 months ago
28

There is an "AI Factor," and It's Worth Hedging

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Plus! Sweeteners; The American Difference; AI Experiments; Media Relations; Sanctions are Hard, Continued
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./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
over a year ago
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I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS

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

over a year ago
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
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Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
10 months ago
108

Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask

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10 months ago
A guest post and an in-person panel
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Articles
Business is like surfing
over a year ago
6

Business is like surfing

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
8 months ago
76

AI Roundup 090: Computer Use

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

8 months ago
October 25, 2024.
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Nothing Human
Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond...
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Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf

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As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond ilk hard to watch.
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Open Culture
Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & Make... As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in...
9 months ago
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Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & Make Your Soul Grow

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9 months ago
As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in common, but each could easily be recognized by his voice. Jones’ will come to mind as soon as you think of Darth Vader, Simba’s father, or “This is CNN.” Vonnegut’s distinction was...
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Herbert Lui
Find an idea that’s easy to pick up and put down One thing that made writing really frustrating for me early on was trying to complete a draft of an...
4 months ago
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Find an idea that’s easy to pick up and put down

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4 months ago
One thing that made writing really frustrating for me early on was trying to complete a draft of an idea that I clearly didn’t have enough time to express. For example, there are many days when I have 15 minutes—maybe five!—to write. If I was still “stuck” in the middle of a...
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tomcritchlow.com
Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able...
a year ago
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Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative

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“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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Josh Thompson
Driven by Compression Progress Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and...
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Driven by Compression Progress

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over a year ago
Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains. These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what...
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: Architecture Billings Index From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Unimpacted by New Executive Orders Bonds...
5 months ago
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Wednesday: Architecture Billings Index

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5 months ago
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Unimpacted by New Executive Orders Bonds were thus able to hold onto the gains from last week with some additional improvement today. The average mortgage lender wasn't eager to adjust rates, however, with the top tier...
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Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Death & Mortality? Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly...
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What Does Stoicism Teach About Death & Mortality?

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Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that dates back to the third century BC, has become increasingly popular in modern times. This philosophy, which focuses on self-control, rational thinking, and acceptance of the inevitability of life's ups and downs, has much to offer those who...
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Flashbak
Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive...
a year ago
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Libby Hall: Remembering The Photographer and Collector of Dog Photography

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a year ago
Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate Institute. “Mine...
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One Useful Thing
Not much is changing, a lot is changing OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
a year ago
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Not much is changing, a lot is changing

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a year ago
OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
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Ruud van Asseldonk
AI alignment starter pack
a year ago
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AI alignment starter pack

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a year ago
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Flashbak
Oliver Sacks: Why the Oxford English Dictionary is the most ‘coveted and desirable book in the... “Each of us … constructs and lives a ‘narrative’ and is defined by this narrative … I suspect that a...
2 weeks ago
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Oliver Sacks: Why the Oxford English Dictionary is the most ‘coveted and desirable book in the world’

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2 weeks ago
“Each of us … constructs and lives a ‘narrative’ and is defined by this narrative … I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory.” – Oliver Sacks, the...
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The Ruffian
In (Partial) Defence of Jeff Bezos It's Weird That Newspapers Endorse Politicians
8 months ago
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In (Partial) Defence of Jeff Bezos

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8 months ago
It's Weird That Newspapers Endorse Politicians
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A Smart Bear
The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of...
over a year ago
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The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand"

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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of actually doing it. It’s not just about how big tasks are, but about using different frameworks to prioritize each, and following certain guidelines about how to construct sprints.
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Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
a year ago
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The complex simplicity of my static websites

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
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99% Invisible
Dear John and Roman [EPISODE] Last year, Roman Mars teamed up with Hank Green to guest host Dear Hank & John — this year he’s back...
over a year ago
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Dear John and Roman [EPISODE]

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over a year ago
Last year, Roman Mars teamed up with Hank Green to guest host Dear Hank & John — this year he’s back on the Greens’ show once again, but this time with Hank’s brother John. In their podcast Dear Hank & John, “hosts John and Hank Green (who are also authors and YouTubers) offer...
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Marcus on AI
𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on... [Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
5 months ago
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𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on new essay by Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei

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5 months ago
[Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
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Strange Loop Canon
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
8 months ago
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

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8 months ago
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
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Noahpinion
How tariffs on China could help the world Looking for the silver lining in a messy policy.
10 months ago
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How tariffs on China could help the world

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10 months ago
Looking for the silver lining in a messy policy.
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Writing - Andreas...
Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
over a year ago
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Two-Storey Rear Addition For An Old Australian Cottage Bijl Architecture has shared photos of the Stealth House, a renovation project they completed that...
over a year ago
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A Modern Two-Storey Rear Addition For An Old Australian Cottage

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over a year ago
Bijl Architecture has shared photos of the Stealth House, a renovation project they completed that included a modern addition to an inter-war cottage located in Hunters Hill, Australia. From the street, the original facade and front garden of the home hide the barely visible rear...
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Seth's Blog
Complaints are a gift It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has...
a year ago
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Complaints are a gift

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a year ago
It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has enough insulation from the real world that they can share their dissatisfaction over just about anything. But a complaint unheard gives us no way to improve. In our current medical...
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Wuthering...
Books finished in March 2023 For some reason I have been putting a monthly account of completed books on Twitter, where it is a...
over a year ago
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Books finished in March 2023

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over a year ago
For some reason I have been putting a monthly account of completed books on Twitter, where it is a common practice, although mostly with photographs of book stacks.  I am not sure why I have not put the lists here as well.  I guess I am not sure any of this is interesting. Soon,...
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Computer Things
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses No Newsletter next week I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe. NoCode Will Not Bring...
a year ago
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NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses

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a year ago
No Newsletter next week I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe. NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses I don't have a whole lot of time this week so here's something that's been on my mind a little. I haven't researched any of the factual claims; consider this...
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The Rational Walk
Primary Sources Consulting primary sources represents table stakes for intelligent investors and responsible...
4 months ago
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Primary Sources

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4 months ago
Consulting primary sources represents table stakes for intelligent investors and responsible citizens.
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Astral Codex Ten
Links For February 2025 ...
4 months ago
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Links For February 2025

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4 months ago
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TheCollector
Who Were the Nicolaitans Condemned in the Book of Revelation? Revelation mentions the Nicolaitans twice without providing any context to who they were or what...
2 months ago
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Who Were the Nicolaitans Condemned in the Book of Revelation?

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2 months ago
Revelation mentions the Nicolaitans twice without providing any context to who they were or what they believed. The church in Ephesus hated their works, just like Jesus did, but the church of Pergamum, the third of the seven churches, tolerated it. The Bible presents tolerance of...
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Diaries of Note
A wet day and all its luxuries Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker...
a year ago
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A wet day and all its luxuries

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a year ago
Caroline Fox was an English diarist born in 1819 in Cornwall, England, into a prominent Quaker family—her father, Robert Were Fox, was a scientist and respected member of the community. Fox was sixteen when she began keeping the diary for which she is now known, posthumously...
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computers are bad
2024-03-27 telephone cables So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the...
a year ago
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2024-03-27 telephone cables

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a year ago
So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
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Flashbak
David the Dreamer: Ralph Bergengren’s Children’s Book Illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922 ‘The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.” – Anaïs Nin     Published in 1922 with illustrations...
2 months ago
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David the Dreamer: Ralph Bergengren’s Children’s Book Illustrated by Tom Seidmann-Freud, 1922

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2 months ago
‘The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.” – Anaïs Nin     Published in 1922 with illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud, Ralph Bergengren’s David the Dreamer: His Book of Dreams tells the story of a boy’s dreams for his pet dog Fido’s third birthday. David finds himself in a...
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The Marginalian
The Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes... “The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be...
a year ago
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The Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes of Meaning

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a year ago
“The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be an artist, “is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.” The choreographer Martha Graham called this particular shade of...
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TheCollector
Early Hellenistic Mosaics Unearthed in Ancient City of Teos Archaeologists uncovered a pair of mosaics that once decorated the city council building of Teos, an...
3 months ago
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Early Hellenistic Mosaics Unearthed in Ancient City of Teos

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3 months ago
Archaeologists uncovered a pair of mosaics that once decorated the city council building of Teos, an ancient Greek city whose ruins now rest on the western coast of Türkiye.   Teos: From Ancient Greece to Modern-Day Türkiye   Teos was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia,...
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devonzuegel.com
What are startup cities for? While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project...
over a year ago
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What are startup cities for?

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over a year ago
While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project has its own distinct set of goals, motivations, and scope. However, this diversity isn’t fully captured by the vocabulary we use right now. To help myself create a mental map of the...
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One Useful Thing
What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴ Siri versus the machine god?
a year ago
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What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴

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a year ago
Siri versus the machine god?
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Quanta Magazine
Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the...
a year ago
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Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

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a year ago
The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. The post Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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High Signal
$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get...
over a year ago
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$100k from building a SaaS boilerplate for Django

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over a year ago
Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
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Tony Dinh's...
March 2022: $5,316 MRR and my journey to 30K followers Hello everyone! 👋 I’m happy to share that this newsletter has now reached 2,000 subscribers. Yay!...
over a year ago
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March 2022: $5,316 MRR and my journey to 30K followers

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Hello everyone! 👋 I’m happy to share that this newsletter has now reached 2,000 subscribers. Yay! 🥳 I’m very grateful to have your support, and I hope what I shared here has been helpful for you! Let’s dig in. Here is what happened in March 2022. 📊 Reached $5K MRR, but it's...
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Citation Needed
"The Monkey Fraud": An interview with Ryder Ripps An interview with Ryder Ripps, a defendant in the Yuga Labs v. Ripps case about Bored Ape Yacht Club...
a year ago
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"The Monkey Fraud": An interview with Ryder Ripps

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a year ago
An interview with Ryder Ripps, a defendant in the Yuga Labs v. Ripps case about Bored Ape Yacht Club trademark infringement and racism.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering...
a year ago
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A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS

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

a year ago
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax. For someone who is...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Us Against Spacetime On the improbability and promise of being alive on Earth in 2025
2 months ago
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Us Against Spacetime

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2 months ago
On the improbability and promise of being alive on Earth in 2025
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ding Dong Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really weird part is he's been talking about it...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ding Dong

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really weird part is he's been talking about it non-stop for 50 years. Today's News:
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Selecting Sticks and Stones When my behavior was bad enough to warrant a swat on the butt, my family performed an odd ritual....
over a year ago
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Selecting Sticks and Stones

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

over a year ago
When my behavior was bad enough to warrant a swat on the butt, my family performed an odd ritual. Dad and I would go for a walk in search of a spanking stick. Today as an adult I punish my body by running. I follow another odd ritual before particularly demanding workouts.
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TheCollector
Does the Hebrew Bible Predict the Virgin Birth of Christ? The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke...
3 months ago
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Does the Hebrew Bible Predict the Virgin Birth of Christ?

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3 months ago
The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke tells the story without referencing any specific passages from Jewish scripture, Matthew quotes several biblical texts and speaks of them as being “fulfilled” in the events...
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diamond geezer
Square days Today is 5.5.25, a square day. It's also the second time a square day has been a bank...
a month ago
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Square days

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

a month ago
Today is 5.5.25, a square day. It's also the second time a square day has been a bank holiday. 1.1.01 (Monday) century ending with a double-zero year. The reason for this is that there was no year 0, the first century starting in AD 1 and running until AD 100. Thus every...
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HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend! Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button...
over a year ago
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#21 Legendary legend!

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over a year ago
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true"> <legend> Industries Served </legend> </button> Issues and how to fix them legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
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The Berkeley...
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is...
a year ago
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Goal Representations for Instruction Following

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a year ago
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
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Quanta Magazine
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that...
8 months ago
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Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

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8 months ago
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. The post Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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99% Invisible
Office Space [EPISODE] Right now, in Manhattan, 18% of office space is vacant. At the same time, the city of New York has a...
a year ago
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Office Space [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Right now, in Manhattan, 18% of office space is vacant. At the same time, the city of New York has a major housing problem, with more than 100,000 people using the municipal shelter system. So Eric Adams and city officials are talking a lot about taking those empty offices, and...
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Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 4 more thoughts
a month ago
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Is This Anything? 4

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more thoughts
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journal – Winnie Lim
43 I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wrote this time last year that I felt like I was coping better than the year before. This year I don’t feel like I have made much progress, and perhaps I...
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Cheese and Biscuits
Med Salleh Viet, Earl's Court It's a funny old part of town is Earl's Court. Not quite Kensington, not quite Chelsea, not many...
8 months ago
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Med Salleh Viet, Earl's Court

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

8 months ago
It's a funny old part of town is Earl's Court. Not quite Kensington, not quite Chelsea, not many reasons to visit (certainly not since the conference center/arena got pulled down), it's these days little more than a fairly ordinary provincial high street dumped in West London,...
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Diaries of Note
The Jewish police have been ordered to erect the gallows Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub in 1909) was a Lithuanian Jew who played a significant role during...
a year ago
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The Jewish police have been ordered to erect the gallows

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Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub in 1909) was a Lithuanian Jew who played a significant role during one of history’s most harrowing periods. As the secretary of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Kovno Ghetto during World War II, he was privy to the inner workings of the...
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A Day In The Life...
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
over a year ago
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From Mac to Windows

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over a year ago
From Mac to Windows
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Hixie's Natural Log
Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
a year ago
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG

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a year ago
Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
15 Best Glamping Resorts Around the World
a year ago
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15 Best Glamping Resorts Around the World

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a year ago
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CONTEMPORIST
Plants Are Encouraged To Grow Over The Exterior Of This New House Giles Miller Studio has shared photos of their first completed residential property in Kent,...
over a year ago
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Plants Are Encouraged To Grow Over The Exterior Of This New House

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over a year ago
Giles Miller Studio has shared photos of their first completed residential property in Kent, England, that features a sculptural black facade. The house breaks down barriers between the building’s internal spaces and the glade of natural planting and trees that surround it. By...
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bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
a year ago
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New Domain and Code Forge

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a year ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
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The Elysian
How WeFunder democratizes business ownership A discussion with Jonny Price, president of WeFunder.
3 months ago
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How WeFunder democratizes business ownership

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3 months ago
A discussion with Jonny Price, president of WeFunder.
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TheCollector
Anne Frank: Her Life, Death, and Legacy Explained On August 4, 1944, a group of German soldiers stormed into the premises of the Frank family’s...
2 months ago
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Anne Frank: Her Life, Death, and Legacy Explained

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2 months ago
On August 4, 1944, a group of German soldiers stormed into the premises of the Frank family’s business in Amsterdam. During the search, the soldiers discovered a secret annex behind a bookcase, arresting the eight people who had been hiding there for two years. Among them was the...
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Noahpinion
Why has American pop culture stagnated? Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.
a month ago
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Why has American pop culture stagnated?

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a month ago
Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.
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McMansion Hell
this house may or may not be real on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5...
over a year ago
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this house may or may not be real

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over a year ago
on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...
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Charlie Becker
The Virtue of Tourism Castles in the Sky #40
a year ago
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The Virtue of Tourism

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a year ago
Castles in the Sky #40
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PHD Comics
07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
over a year ago
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07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope'

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over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "James Webb Telescope" - originally published 7/12/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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42!
Finding and fixing slow queries Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to...
over a year ago
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Finding and fixing slow queries

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to monitor my HR startup in real time. I love collecting data points around subscriptions, user activity, and most importantly, server uptime and performance. Especially now that we are...
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Londonist
Art Of The Brick: New LEGO Show Comes To London In March 90 sculptures, one million bricks.
a year ago
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Art Of The Brick: New LEGO Show Comes To London In March

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a year ago
90 sculptures, one million bricks.
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Passing Time
Slos 50k: Countdown Feel free to delete if not racing
2 months ago
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Slos 50k: Countdown

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2 months ago
Feel free to delete if not racing
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Eric Bailey
It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
over a year ago
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It needs to map back to a role

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
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Maggie Appleton
Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud Some insights into how I collaborative with experts to create illustrated notes on technical topics
over a year ago
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Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud

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over a year ago
Some insights into how I collaborative with experts to create illustrated notes on technical topics
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TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
a year ago
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You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech

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a year ago
You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
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The Ruffian
Did John Lennon Think He Was Jesus? John's Messiah Complex
3 months ago
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Did John Lennon Think He Was Jesus?

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3 months ago
John's Messiah Complex
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Contemporist...
A Home Inspired By The Idea Of A Chapel Jan Žaloudek Architekt has recently completed a home that was built by the architect for himself and...
2 months ago
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A Home Inspired By The Idea Of A Chapel

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

2 months ago
Jan Žaloudek Architekt has recently completed a home that was built by the architect for himself and his family. Together with his wife, art historian and writer Jolanta Trojak, they long dreamed of a place where one could connect with the landscape or retreat inward.
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Jonas Hietala
Generating ideas So I got a fairly fun assignment from the game design course I’m taking for once. I should come up...
over a year ago
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Generating ideas

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

over a year ago
So I got a fairly fun assignment from the game design course I’m taking for once. I should come up with 50 ideas using my own idea generation technique. I used a sort of “notes in the basket” approach where you placed some notes with words in a basket and randomly drew two and...
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Quanta Magazine
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer? Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for...
8 months ago
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How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?

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

8 months ago
Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for each case of this diverse, dynamic disease remains a challenge. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with computational biologist Franziska Michor about how math,...
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Retail Design Blog
Prompt Café by SAISA STUDIO The cafe called Prompt is a cafe with a small nature in the city center. To contain the outside...
9 months ago
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Prompt Café by SAISA STUDIO

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

9 months ago
The cafe called Prompt is a cafe with a small nature in the city center. To contain the outside nature,...
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IEEE Spectrum
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy,...
a month ago
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Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages

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

a month ago
As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a...
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Patrick Kayongo
Use Local Technology Services On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the...
over a year ago
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Use Local Technology Services

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the Sekunjalo Group of Companies should remain open after closure by some banks, and imminent closure by others. The reason the various banks were closing the accounts of Sekunjalo was...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Phosphor Icons Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations — whatever, really. Visit...
10 months ago
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🔗 Phosphor Icons

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10 months ago
Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations — whatever, really. Visit original link → or View on nazhamid.com →
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Machine Learning for...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
a month ago
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How to be an agentic engineer

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a month ago
Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
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David Heinemeier...
Stick with the customer One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the...
4 months ago
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Stick with the customer

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

4 months ago
One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the customer-facing roles too early. Whether it's customer support or it's sales, it's an incredible advantage to have the founders doing that work directly, and for much longer than they find...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Noteworthy Action of Human Life' I dreamed my late brother was here in Houston, a city he never visited. He was phobic about flying...
3 months ago
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'The Most Noteworthy Action of Human Life'

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3 months ago
I dreamed my late brother was here in Houston, a city he never visited. He was phobic about flying and traveled by air only twice in his life, when very young. We were seated across from each other, on the couches by the front window. What I remember of the dream is brief, little...
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Stoic Simple
Self-Help Books & Stoicism: Why Stoic Thought is Having a Resurgence In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism as a philosophy for personal...
over a year ago
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Self-Help Books & Stoicism: Why Stoic Thought is Having a Resurgence

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over a year ago
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Stoicism as a philosophy for personal development. Once considered a relic of ancient Greece and Rome, its teachings are being rediscovered and repackaged for modern audiences. In this article, we'll explore the origins of...
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Dylan Huang Blog
I Built My Resume In Markdown Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
7 months ago
10

I Built My Resume In Markdown

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7 months ago
Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
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Old Structures...
Bucolia First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and...
a year ago
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Bucolia

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

a year ago
First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and foggy – stretch of water, as seen from a causeway: This is, against most people’s expectations, the Bronx. More specifically, it’s Pelham Bay Park, and Eastchester Bay, where the...
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bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
over a year ago
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0

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

over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
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mtlynch.io
WanderJest: Month 1 Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog...
over a year ago
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WanderJest: Month 1

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

over a year ago
Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News. Is It Keto earned its all-time-highest monthly revenue, doubling its previous record. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare...
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Josh Thompson
Refactoring practice: Get rid of `attr_accessors` in `ogre.rb` in 2 minutes 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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Refactoring practice: Get rid of `attr_accessors` in `ogre.rb` in 2 minutes

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

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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escape the algorithm
Be specific Ode to ᵗᶦⁿʸ ᵗᵒᵒˡˢ
a year ago
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Be specific

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Ode to ᵗᶦⁿʸ ᵗᵒᵒˡˢ
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Aaron's Essays
Don't focus on the NASDAQ While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the...
over a year ago
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Don't focus on the NASDAQ

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the world started relative to NASDAQ. At first, I thought I'd find no correlation between how well the index was doing and when successful companies were founded. I love...
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Astral Codex Ten
Introducing AI 2027 Or maybe 2028, it's complicated
2 months ago
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Introducing AI 2027

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2 months ago
Or maybe 2028, it's complicated
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Rest of World -...
Why African governments must prioritize affordable internet and smartphones Lacina Koné of Smart Africa discusses the continent’s digital transformation and potential.
a year ago
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Why African governments must prioritize affordable internet and smartphones

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a year ago
Lacina Koné of Smart Africa discusses the continent’s digital transformation and potential.
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Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
a year ago
25

Why most CMSes suck

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

a year ago
We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
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Seth's Blog
Thinking about jobs Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the...
7 months ago
50

Thinking about jobs

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7 months ago
Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the replacement of human labor, yet, somehow we’ve found useful activities for a rapidly growing population. Coordinated without a coordinator, people go to work each day, often doing...
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Classical Wisdom
How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies? “Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
a year ago
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?

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a year ago
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Musings on Markets
The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip? It is true that most investing lessons are directed at those who invest only in stocks and bonds,...
2 weeks ago
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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

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2 weeks ago
It is true that most investing lessons are directed at those who invest only in stocks and bonds, and mostly with long-only strategies. It is also true that in the process, we are ignoring vast swaths of the investment universe, from other asset classes (real estate,...
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Londonist
London's Going Snowdrop Crazy This Month - Here's Where To See Them The flower that's about to take over your Instagram feed.
a year ago
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London's Going Snowdrop Crazy This Month - Here's Where To See Them

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a year ago
The flower that's about to take over your Instagram feed.
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Grant Slatton
Status among whom? An essay about status relativism
10 months ago
12

Status among whom?

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10 months ago
An essay about status relativism
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The Ruffian
Yog, Andy, and George Wham! and the Struggle For Fun
a year ago
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Yog, Andy, and George

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a year ago
Wham! and the Struggle For Fun
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Asterisk
Why We Shut Down In international development, it’s not enough to try to do good. We need the tools to tell if a...
12 months ago
15

Why We Shut Down

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

12 months ago
In international development, it’s not enough to try to do good. We need the tools to tell if a project is really working — and the incentive to end it if it’s not.
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Mazdak
Google Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Google is making bold moves in the AI space with the release of Gemini 2.0, a series of advanced AI...
4 months ago
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Google Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Google is making bold moves in the AI space with the release of Gemini 2.0, a series of advanced AI models designed to challenge industry leaders like OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Anthropic.
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CONTEMPORIST
This Little Laneway House In Toronto Has An Upstairs Bedroom Overlooking The Street Creative Union Network Inc. has designed a small laneway house in Toronto, Canada, that was...
over a year ago
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This Little Laneway House In Toronto Has An Upstairs Bedroom Overlooking The Street

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Creative Union Network Inc. has designed a small laneway house in Toronto, Canada, that was originally built as a garage. The building occupied a prominent location on the corner of the lane and main street. The original structure, although rundown, was a well-loved structure...
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SubAnima
Can Biology Be Reduced To Physics? "Physics is the most fundamental and all-inclusive of the sciences." Or is it?
over a year ago
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Can Biology Be Reduced To Physics?

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over a year ago
"Physics is the most fundamental and all-inclusive of the sciences." Or is it?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup St. Nick and Saturnalia
6 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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6 months ago
St. Nick and Saturnalia
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./techtipsy
Steam local network game transfers are a game-changer Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have...
a year ago
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Steam local network game transfers are a game-changer

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a year ago
Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have a game downloaded on another PC and you’re both on the same local network, then Steam can download game data from that PC, avoiding the need to download the game over public...
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The Works in...
How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars - 2022, Ukraine Maintains A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
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How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars - 2022, Ukraine Maintains

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a year ago
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
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Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
a year ago
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4

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a year ago
This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
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Londonist
Save The Chewing Gum Art Trail On The Millennium Bridge Ben Wilson's art is threatened.
a year ago
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Save The Chewing Gum Art Trail On The Millennium Bridge

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a year ago
Ben Wilson's art is threatened.
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The Convivial...
Life Cannot Be Delegated The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
6 months ago
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Life Cannot Be Delegated

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6 months ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
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Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions

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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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Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛳️ Cruise hustles
11 months ago
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💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week

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11 months ago
🛳️ Cruise hustles
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Londonist
Where To Eat And Drink In Croydon Chew your way through CR0.
a year ago
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Where To Eat And Drink In Croydon

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a year ago
Chew your way through CR0.
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diamond geezer
The Queen Vic On EastEnders' 40th birthday, let's go in search of the soap's iconic pub. London has only one...
4 months ago
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The Queen Vic

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4 months ago
On EastEnders' 40th birthday, let's go in search of the soap's iconic pub. London has only one remaining Queen Victoria pub, as far as I can tell, but remnants of several pubs of that name survive. The Queen Victoria, 148 Southwark Park Road, Bermondsey SE16 3RP corner pub from...
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TheCollector
When Was the Trojan War? Finding Legendary Troy in History The Trojan War, famously recounted by 8th century BCE poet Homer in the Iliad, has been a subject of...
a month ago
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When Was the Trojan War? Finding Legendary Troy in History

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a month ago
The Trojan War, famously recounted by 8th century BCE poet Homer in the Iliad, has been a subject of awe and debate among scholars, ancient and modern, for over 2,000 years. While the views of modern scholars differ on whether or not the war happened, they generally agree that...
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Retail Design Blog
KRW by Shakshi Designs Clothing Brand Identity, Positioning & Packaging | KRW KRW is poised to be a trailblazer in the...
2 months ago
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KRW by Shakshi Designs

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2 months ago
Clothing Brand Identity, Positioning & Packaging | KRW KRW is poised to be a trailblazer in the fusion of premium...
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Quanta Magazine
Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of...
a year ago
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Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands

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a year ago
To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of “bog physics” applicable around the world. The post Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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ByteofDev
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
6 months ago
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My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist

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6 months ago
JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
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Rest of World -...
Brazil is the first stop in the Latin American electric motorcycle market Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85%...
over a year ago
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Brazil is the first stop in the Latin American electric motorcycle market

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

over a year ago
Vammo, an electric mobility company for delivery workers, chose to launch in the country because 85% of its electric grid runs on renewable energy.
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This Space
39 Books: 2004 Bought for an eye-watering £13 in the LRB Bookshop three months before this blog began, Once Again...
a year ago
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39 Books: 2004

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

a year ago
Bought for an eye-watering £13 in the LRB Bookshop three months before this blog began, Once Again for Thucydides is another example in this series of how a book of under 100 pages can be worth as much as any number of maximalist breeze blocks. But do I really want to make such...
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Rest of World -...
AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets...
2 weeks ago
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AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon

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2 weeks ago
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.
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Christopher Butler
Shut up, Siri The post-screen future does not exist. Every day I see a new thinkpiece on “the post-screen...
4 months ago
7

Shut up, Siri

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

4 months ago
The post-screen future does not exist. Every day I see a new thinkpiece on “the post-screen future” or “UI-less design” or “the end of the click.” I even used to write things like that. But that’s because I had less experience with human-computer interaction than I have now....
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Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis What are the best movie sequels, and why?
5 months ago
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What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis

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5 months ago
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
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Notes on software...
Edit for clarity I have the fortune to review a few important blog posts every year and the biggest value I add is to...
5 months ago
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Edit for clarity

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
I have the fortune to review a few important blog posts every year and the biggest value I add is to call out sentences or sections that make no sense. It is quite simple and you can do it too. Without clarity only those at your company in marketing and sales (whose job it is to...
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mtlynch.io
Lessons from my First Exit In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for...
7 months ago
50

Lessons from my First Exit

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

7 months ago
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the practical lessons I learned from the experience. In this post, I’m sharing what...
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Asterisk
The Highway to NIMBYism San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up...
a year ago
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The Highway to NIMBYism

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up by highways. Today, that same legacy prevents the city from building what it desperately needs: more housing.
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macwright.com
Hooking up search results from Astro Starlight in other sites At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty...
a year ago
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Hooking up search results from Astro Starlight in other sites

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty neat. One thing that I thought would be cool to include in it would be search results from our documentation site, which is authored using Astro Starlight. Our main application is...
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Classical Wisdom
Can You ‘Believe In The Science’? The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
a year ago
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?

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a year ago
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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CONTEMPORIST
This Hotel Includes A Series Of Treehouse Inspired Elevated Cabins Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa...
a year ago
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This Hotel Includes A Series Of Treehouse Inspired Elevated Cabins

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa Rica, that offers a distinct canopy-based guest experience. Inspired by childhood treehouses, the designers created tree-inspired pods floating over the landscape, together with a...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
over a year ago
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022

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

over a year ago
We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
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Home on Erik...
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
over a year ago
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

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

over a year ago
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria will become a net exporter of tech talent: Nigerian Minister Dr. Bosun Tijani The tech entrepreneur-turned-bureaucrat spoke to Rest of World about his year in government, his...
9 months ago
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Nigeria will become a net exporter of tech talent: Nigerian Minister Dr. Bosun Tijani

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9 months ago
The tech entrepreneur-turned-bureaucrat spoke to Rest of World about his year in government, his administration’s priorities for advancing AI in Nigeria, and the difficult task of choosing between allies.
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David Heinemeier...
The new Framework 13 HX370 The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers....
2 months ago
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The new Framework 13 HX370

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

2 months ago
The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers. It runs our HEY test suite in 2m7s, compared to 2m43s for the 7840U (and 2m49s for a M4 Pro!). It's also about 20% faster in most single-core tasks than the 7840U. But is that...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
a month ago
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The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession

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

a month ago
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Neolithic Revolution What was the greatest invention of human civilization? Arguably it was agriculture, which allowed...
11 months ago
85

The Neolithic Revolution

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

11 months ago
What was the greatest invention of human civilization? Arguably it was agriculture, which allowed for civilization itself. Prior to agriculture humans were some combination of hunters, gatherers, scavengers, and fishers. We lived off the land, which was a full-time job. Many...
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Blog - Practical...
How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On September 28, 2022,...
over a year ago
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How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian

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.] On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall on the western coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm, bringing enormous volumes of rainfall and extreme winds to the state. Ian was the deadliest hurricane to...
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Louwrentius
Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet? Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts....
over a year ago
16

Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet?

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts. It is easy to pick on Microsoft and I do respect what they have accomplished, however, it may not come as a surprise that they did it all wrong with RDP in terms of security. By...
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symmetry magazine
A different way of thinking Neurodivergent physicists face barriers in STEM, but there are also benefits to being who they are.
over a year ago
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A different way of thinking

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over a year ago
Neurodivergent physicists face barriers in STEM, but there are also benefits to being who they are.
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Abishek Muthian
Meta is holding my Facebook Page hostage I have been trying to delete my Meta/Facebook account for past several months in vain because I...
over a year ago
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Meta is holding my Facebook Page hostage

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

over a year ago
I have been trying to delete my Meta/Facebook account for past several months in vain because I couldn't download a copy of my Facebook Page before I delete my account. Facebook provides 'Request a download' feature for downloading a copy of the the Page. It worked fine for pages...
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Tom Blomfield
Growth “When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an...
over a year ago
22

Growth

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
“When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an investor a year or two ago, shortly after our Series A, and the subject of revenue goals came up. At the time, our revenue was pretty low - less than 10% of monthly costs. We estimated...
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Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight. Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
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The Year's Midnight.

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over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
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Yale e360
Renewables Made Up More Than 90 Percent of New Power Installed Globally Last Year Renewables accounted for 92 percent of new power capacity worldwide last year, a new report...
3 months ago
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Renewables Made Up More Than 90 Percent of New Power Installed Globally Last Year

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3 months ago
Renewables accounted for 92 percent of new power capacity worldwide last year, a new report shows. Read more on E360 →
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Paul Graham: Essays
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
over a year ago
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How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

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over a year ago
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Yale e360
How Wolves Could Help Bring Back Scottish Forests Wolves have been gone from the Scottish Highlands for more than 200 years, and in their absence red...
4 months ago
4

How Wolves Could Help Bring Back Scottish Forests

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

4 months ago
Wolves have been gone from the Scottish Highlands for more than 200 years, and in their absence red deer have proliferated. Researchers say that returning wolves to the Highlands would keep deer in check, allowing large areas of native woodland to regrow. Read more on E360 →
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Herbert Lui
Some notes on a return visit to Hong Kong In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended...
7 months ago
42

Some notes on a return visit to Hong Kong

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

7 months ago
In late 2021, I moved to Hong Kong for six months. My partner and I enjoyed it so much that we ended up staying nearly a year and a half. We moved to New York City shortly after that, and I started my job at Figma.  I always thought I’d document the trip some other […] The post...
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Blog posts of...
Getting Old 👴🏼
over a year ago
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Getting Old

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
👴🏼
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Josh Thompson
Whole Messages in Slack I use Slack at work. And used it in Turing. And am in a few programming-related Slack groups. (Ahoy,...
over a year ago
16

Whole Messages in Slack

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

over a year ago
I use Slack at work. And used it in Turing. And am in a few programming-related Slack groups. (Ahoy, #DenverDevs). My last job, I used Slack. The job before that, I got the whole company on Slack. I’ve used it for years. Slack delivers value to me, and induces little anxiety, and...
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Scarlet Ink
You Can't Schedule Creativity: Putting Inspiration Into Your Outlook Calendar Creation can't be forced, but it can certainly be encouraged gently.
5 months ago
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You Can't Schedule Creativity: Putting Inspiration Into Your Outlook Calendar

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5 months ago
Creation can't be forced, but it can certainly be encouraged gently.
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: The Ban Cometh TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
5 months ago
54

Weekly Scroll: The Ban Cometh

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5 months ago
TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Superposition
over a year ago
32

Quantum Superposition

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over a year ago
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Irrational...
Good hypergrowth/curator manager. In 2016, I wrote Productivity in the age of hypergrowth to discuss the challenges of engineering...
over a year ago
91

Good hypergrowth/curator manager.

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

over a year ago
In 2016, I wrote Productivity in the age of hypergrowth to discuss the challenges of engineering management during periods of hypergrowth. Managers in such periods spend much of their time on hiring and onboarding, with the remainder devoted to organizational structure and...
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Christopher Butler
Persuasion is Plural Earn attention before you use it. Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first,...
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Persuasion is Plural

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5 months ago
Earn attention before you use it. Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth their time, money, or effort. Most marketers and designers focus their energy on the second...
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The Honest Broker
Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage
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Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean

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Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage
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Uncharted...
The Moral Case for More People on Earth Today we’re going to cover four points that have emerged from the last few articles on growing our...
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The Moral Case for More People on Earth

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7 months ago
Today we’re going to cover four points that have emerged from the last few articles on growing our population, but which I haven’t covered yet:
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