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ntietz.com blog
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
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a year ago
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
Open Culture
How Las Vegas’ Sphere Actually Works: A Looks Inside the New $2.3 Billion Arena If the United States of America is the Roman empire of our time, surely it must have an equivalent...
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6 months ago
If the United States of America is the Roman empire of our time, surely it must have an equivalent of the Colosseum. A year ago, you could’ve heard a wide variety of speculations as to what structure that could possibly be. Today, many of us would simply respond with “the...
Arduino Blog
This Flip-Pelt wearable concept enables ultra-fast thermal feedback in VR Wouldn’t it be great if, while playing a virtual reality game, you could feel the heat of a fire on...
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a month ago
Wouldn’t it be great if, while playing a virtual reality game, you could feel the heat of a fire on your arm? Or the cold of chilly water? Engineers around the world have been trying to make that happen, but there is a big problem: temperature changes are slow. The immersive...
Old Structures...
Two Anachronisms I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It...
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I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It implies a drama that may never have existed. In this case, the west block-front of Trinity Place between Edgar and Rector Streets provides a nice contrast of building ages. From...
Tech and Tea
Seasonal Changes Finding space and time to sloooooow down
a year ago
Don Melton
A metastasis in America America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
America is sick. And I don’t just mean with COVID-19. The bad news is that removing the ugly, orange tumor in the White House next week will not be enough to affect a cure. The malignancy has spread. It didn’t even start with the presidency. We’ve been brewing and self-dosing a...
99% Invisible
The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars [EPISODE] The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world. They’re loud, they pollute,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world. They’re loud, they pollute, and… how important is a leafless lawn anyway? In a lot of towns and cities, the gas-powered leaf blower has been banned. In others, there are strict guidelines on where and when they...
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible? undefined
7 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included. I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
The Rational Walk
The Digest #218 Books I read during Q3, Hurricane insurance claims, Berkshire's troubled railroad, Nike's troubles,...
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Books I read during Q3, Hurricane insurance claims, Berkshire's troubled railroad, Nike's troubles, Doing what you love, Human aging, Ray Ozzie on intelligent machines, Aesop's Fables
The American Scholar
Betsy, Mary, and Trish The post Betsy, Mary, and Trish appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
diamond geezer
Opening up the Thames Path I'm indebted to Ian Visits for alerting me that a new stretch of the Thames Path has just opened up....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I'm indebted to Ian Visits for alerting me that a new stretch of the Thames Path has just opened up. It's alongside Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham FC, where previously you had to divert inland around three sides of the stadium. That's no longer necessary because a new...
Prolost
Lightroom Adds Video Color Editing, with Prolost Presets From the Lightroom Blog: The same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From the Lightroom Blog: The same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine can now be used with your videos as well! Not only can you use Lightroom’s editing capabilities to make your video clips look their best, you can also copy and paste edit settings...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
ToughSF
Starship Lite: from rapid Interplanetary to Interstellar Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle able to push probes towards the farthest objects in our Solar System.  What other missions could the Starship ‘Lite’ do, and how quickly? Near SSTO Rockets performance scales...
Probably...
Why are you so slow? Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”, which invited customers...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called “Rob It to Get It”, which invited customers to try to steal something by grabbing it and running out of the store. But there was a catch — the “security guard” was a professional sprinter, Méba Mickael Zeze. As you would...
Citation Needed
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely...
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4 months ago
Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake crypto super PAC in May 2024.
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes? undefined
5 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to build an Auto-Playing Slideshow with React In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two sections: The trick
Archinect - Features
New Dog, New Tricks: Reflections on Construction, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To explore these questions in depth, Archinect speaks with both Boston Dynamics and the Applied Research + Development group at Foster + Partners for their experiences and...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
macwright.com
CSS Roundup I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
The American Scholar
A Toothsome Tale Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites The post A Toothsome...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites The post A Toothsome Tale appeared first on The American Scholar.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
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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a year ago
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...
Seth's Blog
The challenge of “a risky scheme” New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. “Look, Mikey, he likes it!” This is the story of tech innovations, dance crazes and even food. Ideas spread horizontally, and people who prefer the status quo will embrace...
diamond geezer
September events diary 2024 It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities...
3 months ago
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It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities and happenings before the nights draw in and we're all invited. Here's my weekend-by-weekend guide to free September delights. All month Totally Thames (Sep 1-30): Once again a...
Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
a week ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Life Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the humiliation fetish planet. Today's...
3 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
10 months ago
Contemporist...
A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 18,000 award winners from 139 different design disciplines.
TheCollector
What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop? undefined
9 months ago
Rest of World -...
Reliance and Disney team up to crush Netflix and Prime Video in India Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance and The Walt Disney Company have joined forces creating a hard-to-beat...
9 months ago
alexwlchan
Taking scheduled screenshots of my website A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation. What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on. For example,...
The Marginalian
An Ecology of Intimacies At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of interdependent growth, undergirded by a mycelial web of trust and tenderness. One is profoundly changed by it and yet becomes more purely oneself as projections give way to...
History Today Feed
How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist? How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist? JamesHoare Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:00
4 months ago
The Marginalian
Yellow Butterfly: A Moving Wordless Story About War, Hope, and Keeping the Light Alive In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that...
a year ago
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a year ago
In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader in the history of our civilization has shared “the great goal of the internal and external liberation of man* from the evils of war” as Freud...
Diaries of Note
I do not know the origin of this ugly sport For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
For most, Boxing Day is a time for leftovers and lounging, but in the New Forest of England during the late 1800s and early 1900s it signified something more primal. On the 26th of December each year, the winter-stilled woods echoed with the sounds of a cruel and peculiar...
TheCollector
Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France undefined
8 months ago
Arduino Blog
A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the 21st century so far. Gaudy? Maybe. Controversial? Definitely. Interesting? Absolutely — no one can debate that with a straight face. When 15-year-old Ben Kennedy’s bedroom nightlight...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 038: Preparedness October 27, 2023.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Cherry Blossom Trees Sprout From Terunobu Fujimori’s ‘Kodamari Fuji’ Lodge The quaint village of Fujimi is located near the border of Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures. Time...
a year ago
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a year ago
The quaint village of Fujimi is located near the border of Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures. Time tends to pass a bit more slowly here where rice paddies overlook the Southern Alps, Mt. Yatsugatake, and Mt. Fuji. It’s here that architect-extraordinaire Terunobu Fujimori decided...
ntietz.com blog
Three days of Advent of Code in Hurl Every year I do some of Advent of Code. One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year I do some of Advent of Code. One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as a social thing with friends and then taper off as interest wanes. This year, I did three days of it, and stopped because I really truly did not want to write more solutions in the...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #10 Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue to create long queues of traffic. This is a queue...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue to create long queues of traffic. This is a queue of traffic moving very slowly in brief bursts towards the end of Bow Road. On this particular day the back of the queue was around Bus Stop M although often it goes a lot further....
Old Structures...
Heat Wave Unlike a lot of other weather conditions, heat waves are easy to see coming. Modern weather...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Unlike a lot of other weather conditions, heat waves are easy to see coming. Modern weather forecasting is quite good and I’m writing this on Sunday knowing that it will be getting steadily hotter through Friday and that even after the high-temperature peak passes, the lows will...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Shelter of Man With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I can officially call myself a guerrilla cartographer. I’m not just an artist anymore. My relationship with cartography developed while studying architecture in Australia. I might have...
Old Structures...
Fun With Telephoto Lenses A lot of times, when I’m discussing an old photo, I’ll talk about where the photographer was...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A lot of times, when I’m discussing an old photo, I’ll talk about where the photographer was standing when he or she took the shot. It matters to understand exactly what you’re seeing, and figuring it out is usually not that difficult if you know some of the quirks of Manhattan...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
#1 💡 Massviews Analysis is a super useful free tool to identify niche trends, whether you’re trying to research content ideas or doing research on business opportunities. You can put in any Wikipedia category, and it will show you what pages inside that category are most...
Retail Design Blog
Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO Japanese fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto‘s store at K11 Musea in Hong Kong first opened five years ago....
a month ago
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a month ago
Japanese fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto‘s store at K11 Musea in Hong Kong first opened five years ago. Just a few...
Noahpinion
The George Floyd protests were not a civil war (repost) And the less we collectively remember them as one, the better.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values. The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”? And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mono Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: With heartfelt apologies to Gary Larson. Today's...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Health Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several hours late because I had to turn in a manuscript that was due 6 months ago. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
Inconvenient! That’s great news. The thing you need, the road ahead, the element that will transform your...
a year ago
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a year ago
That’s great news. The thing you need, the road ahead, the element that will transform your project–it appears to be inconvenient. That’s terrific, because it means that most other people can’t be bothered. It’s valuable because the very inconvenience of it makes it scarce. The...
Seeking Wisdom
What I learned from Prof. Sanjay Bakshi’s Behavioral Economics Course at FLAME University I had the privilege to attend Prof. Sanjay Bakshi’s Behavioral Economics course at FLAME University....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had the privilege to attend Prof. Sanjay Bakshi’s Behavioral Economics course at FLAME University. Being his student since 2011, I realized my dream by sitting in his class for 3.5 days. Prof. Bakshi taught us around 20 different models from Charlie Munger’s Psychology of Human...
diamond geezer
Merton rebrands The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually...
a year ago
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a year ago
The London borough of Merton is updating its logo. But it has to die, slowly and gradually from the end of November, and I'll let the council's branding team explain why. We have been using the same logo as the foundation stone of our corporate identity for the past 30...
TheCollector
6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town undefined
a year ago
Londonist
What's Happening With London Housing, Rent And Development? November 2023 Our quickfire summary of bricks and mortar, steel and glass.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Blog - Mac Pierce
Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
diamond geezer
Piccadilly PICCADILLY £280   London's Monopoly Streets PICCADILLY Colour group: yellow Purchase price:...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
PICCADILLY £280   London's Monopoly Streets PICCADILLY Colour group: yellow Purchase price: £280 Rent: £22 Length: 1400m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1/SW1 Piccadilly leads from the West End to the west of town and is one of London's older roads. The eastern half was...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Mothers of the Ancient World
7 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Mite Spray Packaging Design by A SPRING DESIGN Mite Spray Packaging Design
5 months ago
Londonist
"Sensationally Naff": The 1995 Plans To Rebrand Tube Stations After Advertisers Tube sponsorship is nothing new.
9 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #174 Working Hard, Berkshire Q3 Recap, ProPublica attacks Buffett, Chipotle's international ambitions,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working Hard, Berkshire Q3 Recap, ProPublica attacks Buffett, Chipotle's international ambitions, The AI Gold Rush, 100th anniversary of Hitler's beer hall putsch, The Federalist Papers
Maps Mania
The Most Popular Music in Your Town
a year ago
Kagi Blog
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
a year ago
Damn Interesting
From Where the Sun Now Stands An American Indian man on horseback stood outlined against a steely sky past midday on 05 October...
a year ago
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a year ago
An American Indian man on horseback stood outlined against a steely sky past midday on 05 October 1877. Winter was already settling into the prairies of what would soon become the state of Montana. Five white men stood in the swaying grass on the other side of the field,...
Farnam Street
Lessons on Leadership: Michael Abrashoff on Turning the Worst Ship in the Navy into the Best Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile...
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over a year ago
Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile destroyer and one of the worst-performing ships in the navy. Despite her potency, the “dysfunctional ship had a sullen crew that resented being there and could not wait to get out...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
Seth's Blog
The positive auction In 2023, I developed a new idea that transforms an old way of doing commerce. In traditional...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In 2023, I developed a new idea that transforms an old way of doing commerce. In traditional auctions, there are rounds of bidding and the high bidder pays to get the prize. The last bid is the amount paid, and no one else is charged anything. This is an interesting ‘game’ in...
Math Is Still...
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness. The post Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness,...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 19-20 August 2023 Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We tried that, didn’t work In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
a year ago
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a year ago
In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible. That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
Arduino Blog
Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console....
a week ago
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a week ago
For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is...
Maps Mania
The New Medieval Map of London
6 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 21-22 October 2023 Exhibitions, tours, live music, and half term fun.
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Suffering: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/_W0xAHnxe6o Because suffering is an unavoidable part of the human...
a year ago
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a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/_W0xAHnxe6o Because suffering is an unavoidable part of the human experience and worries many of us, we can find many helpful quotes about it from the Stoics. Practicing Stoicism doesn't make us immune to pain, hardships and suffering . . . but it...
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge? undefined
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Substacks For those who like writing online, the blogging platform of choice continues to evolve. Substack,...
a week ago
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a week ago
For those who like writing online, the blogging platform of choice continues to evolve. Substack, founded in 2017, which has been picking up more and more top writers of late. I have no intention of jumping ship, let's make that clear at the start, but I thought I'd take a...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror? What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Secret Research Techniques | Out-Of-Pocket A magician always reveals his tricks for the purposes of engagement
a year ago
Open Culture
Private Snafu: The World War II Propaganda Cartoons Created by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra & Mel Blanc Private Snafu was the U.S. Army’s worst soldier. He was sloppy, lazy and prone to shooting off his...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Private Snafu was the U.S. Army’s worst soldier. He was sloppy, lazy and prone to shooting off his mouth to Nazi agents. And he was hugely popular with his fellow GIs. Private Snafu was, of course, an animated cartoon character designed for the military recruits. He was an...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deno De-emphasizes HTTP Imports I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure how I feel about their latest admission which makes their dependency story more like npm and less like the web. Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. It...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Use class instead of className with Preact and TypeScript ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain...
a year ago
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a year ago
New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain separately from those recording unusual events. The post The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland undefined
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Gemma Berenguer (Monostereo) My name is Gemma Berenguer and I'm from Barcelona. I'm a printmaker specialising in screen printing,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
My name is Gemma Berenguer and I'm from Barcelona. I'm a printmaker specialising in screen printing, although I also dabble in etching and block printing as well. I run Monostereo, a screen printing company in Barcelona, which has been operating for 15 years now.  I first...
TheCollector
The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence undefined
2 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
TheCollector
7 Prominent Photorealist Artists in the World Today undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect frequently reports on, several states and cities across the United States have enacted their own requirements for employers seeking to hire or promote within their...
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We evolved to be wary of change. Our attention is limited, new things can be a threat and the status quo feels comfortable. As a result, we spend a lot of time and energy being afraid (and arguing about) the upcoming changes in our lives, but almost no time at all thinking about...
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Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length with the opening of T3 and T4. The Casatramway network, operated by RATP, is depicted in the new map alongside the Casabusway BRT lines currently under construction. The map...
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The first step in building a successful and elegant strategy is to see the systems that are part of our lives. October is a fine month to take a moment to look closely at one: the system that brings us cheap chocolate. Like most systems, it’s largely invisible. The people in it...
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That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the bar became well understood: If you can’t jump over the bar that the current leader cleared, you don’t win. But most of the innovations that change our culture don’t actually...
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I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I...
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I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
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This is one of those technology news stories where the implications of the technology is greater than the thing itself. Relativity Space, a rocket company based in California, launched their first Terran-1 rocket. The launch ultimately failed when the second stage failed to...
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I was in Portugal for three weeks in June.  Five hours a day for four days I was in this inlingua classroom in Porto, or one much like it: The results: B1 in Portuguese after about two years of fairly relaxed study – relaxed until those four days – which seems pretty good. ...
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They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare one–a car that goes fast but doesn’t feel like it’s on the edge. The hot rod is a car that is actually pretty safe, precisely because it doesn’t feel that way. You don’t have to...
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Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
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Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
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To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Financing risk Startups that raise seed funding face the risk of not being able to raise additional money. This is...
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Startups that raise seed funding face the risk of not being able to raise additional money. This is what is sometimes known as “financing…
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It's now quicker to walk from Canada Water station to the big Tesco. This is because British Land are trying to sell flats. swooshy timber boardwalk has just opened and it's red. Very red. It starts from the dock edge by the library and ends at the far end of what used to be...
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As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need quantitative and qualitative insights into user…
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Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
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I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
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I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
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Different types of risk The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to...
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The idea that founders take on “risk” is a misleading generalization. It is far more informative to separate the specific types of risks…
Stoic Simple
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Life can be incredibly unpredictable, and there are times when it can feel like the entire world is working against us. These are the moments when we need to muster all the resilience we can and face adversity with a sturdy sense of perseverance. Luckily, the philosophy of...
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/3GTYvkPMEh8 it's a fact: the future is always uncertain, no matter how much we try to plan for it or predict it. And that uncertainty can easily upset people, because it's always a possibility that the future won't go as we want it to. For...
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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of "security" or "easier platform management". This approach forces...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“The Ferryman’s Due,” my article about Andrew Rickard and his Obolus Press, is published in the January 2025 issue of The New Criterion.: “Rickard often encounters such passages, in which the author he is translating seems to speak for him. ‘It’s uncanny. The past is not dead,’...
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Bangladesh’s EV industry will likely grow now, and drivers no longer have to worry about being fined or having their vehicles impounded.
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Photo by Tamiko Thiel via Wikimedia Commons How can we know whether a claim someone makes is scientific or not? The question is of the utmost consequence, as we are surrounded on all sides by claims that sound credible, that use the language of science—and often do so in attempts...
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A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year I’ve done this kind of quick review… Time sure flies. 2021 Non-Geek Achievements Started strength training using a strength coach from Kabuki. I got inspired by the book Peak that...
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Internal Tech Emails
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One way to make sure we can move quickly is for everyone to understand our strategy behind the major product areas we're working on. I've tried to summarize some of the key ones here.
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I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after my coworker built bshift, a compiler for a C-like language. BSDScheme is an interpreter for a (currently small subset of) Scheme written in D. It implements a few substantial...
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This episode examines the Washington Post's controversial decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, a move that has sparked outrage and accusations of cowardice, especially given the perceived threat to democracy posed by one of the candidates.
The Ruffian
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Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me. After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling...
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There is a certain well respected venture capital firm (VC) that has a program for fledgling entrepreneurs.   The teams that are selected…
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In the evenings the song of whippoorwills echoes on all sides. Spring peepers croak and creak in the marsh reeds. Here and there through the trees I can catch a glimmering flicker of flames from a campfire. Only the truly committed are having fires in this heat. The air is still...
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As a child, growing up in Japan, there was one book that terrified me. Luckily, I didn’t own it. The red hardback sat on the bottom shelf in my friend’s room and every time I went over to play I could see it, out of the corner of my eye, staring me in the face. […] Related...
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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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Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
Both Are True
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Some strange realizations I had while making some truly delicious fuckin yum yum food from Hungry as Hell, the new cookbook by Michelle Albanes-Davis that I highly recommend !
NeuroLogica Blog
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ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not surprising, as that is Gaia’s mission – to precisely map the three-dimensional position of two billion objects in our galaxy, using three separate instruments. The process is called...
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This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
Tinloof - Blog
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I like to go to the Roadmap of ReasonML from time to time to get excited about what's getting cooked. Whenever I visit the page, I can't help but notice these 2 points: So the official documentation itself admits that the async story and JSON handling are not that great. This...
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Why it’s hard to read the time on Infograph Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple...
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Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple Watch’s new default Infograph face, you’re not alone: John Gruber finds it “far too busy” Jason Snell finds it “pretty and packed with features”, but misses hour numerals Zac Hall...
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I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The ReadME project. This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year, when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project. That project is a...
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If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a computer. With its 36 keys and its paper-strip printer, it might strike you as some kind of oversized adding machine, albeit an unusually handsome one. But then, you’d expect that...
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In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish content that is specific to languages/regions.
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by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
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This is the second half of the second part of our three part (I, IIa) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome which covers the broader Mediterranean and South Asia from the very late fourth century through to the end of the first century BC, the...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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It's crushing and disheartening to discover I live in a country where half the adults around me still haven't learned something I'm teaching my kindergartener.
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I have never thought of reading as a “hobby.” I put the word in quotes because I sense a patronizing tinge to the word. A hobby is a lesser pastime than a job, something frivolous, a “leisure activity” that most people in the past couldn’t afford because they had to earn a...
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I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it with serveral people, and I had been regularly posting updated DateandTime countdown links for the revised launch attempts. With the schedule chnages and scrubs that have happened...
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
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In the New York Times, Ezra Klein investigated the recent Goolsbee and Syverson paper on construction productivity we recently looked at. Klein suggests that the stagnation in construction productivity might be the result of organized special interests increasingly leveraging...
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Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
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Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
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'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
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all photos by Masamichi Kirihara courtesy Sankei Japanese trains often get all the love, but we’re a fan of their buses too. And if you’re keen on living the slow life while also experiencing the Japanese countryside, boy do we have the perfect activity for you. The Yagi-Shingu...
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My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later and 1006 more commits I’m finally done! Well, I’m done with the online version at least. I still plan to create an e-book, a PDF and a paperback and who knows how long that will...
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Setting up super fast Cypress tests on GitHub Actions Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array...
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Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array release posts you know that we prioritize…
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It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the kids in my family once invented a version where you had to get one of each color in order to get through the final step, mathematically guaranteeing the game could never end. The didn't mind at all. I feel like there's...
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In 1907, fourteen years before she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was introduced to Morton Fullerton, a journalist with whom she would embark on a passionate affair. It was months after that first encounter, in October, that she...
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Creating a startup to commercialize technology developed during research is a risky road for physicists and engineers, but the help of experts can improve their chances.
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A novel type of neural network is helping physicists with the daunting challenge of data analysis. The post Sparse Networks Come to the Aid of Big Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most exciting parts of the culture we’ve developed at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] for me is our international retreats. It’s also potentially something we’ve not shared that much...
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I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
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The Modern House
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Over half a century later, our admiration for mid-century design shows no sign of slumping. As we crave a closer connection to our surroundings and distinct, mood-matching spaces throughout our homes – time and again, mid-century modern seems to satisfy our exacting demands....
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Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately, this still isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE
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Technological Windows is Steve Jobs's conception of the game of consumer technology. We look at how he used it over the course of his career. Note: this is a follow-up to and an update for the Commoncog Case Library Beta.
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The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
The Changelog
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It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
Math Is Still...
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The topologist Danny Calegari discusses the inevitability of disappointment in math, and how to learn from it. The post How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
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It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The better strategy is to not sign up for trains that are likely to run away. The first principle of risk reduction is to figure out if you can stop it later. If you can’t, […]
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I used to sit in my apartment, eating Ramen and watching Anthony Bourdain, wondering about all of the things life and the world had to offer. It’s difficult to overstate the influence Anthony Bourdain has had on my worldview. For over a decade, whenever someone asked, “what do...
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The rise and fall of D&D in Japan In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
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In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
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This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next game. This could really be anything, from graphics to user interaction… But I’ve got an idea. It’ll be a real challange for me to make but hopefully I’ll have a game in a few weeks...
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Noahpinion
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JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
diamond geezer
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As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. n.b. there are four Denhams. Specifically Stanley Kubrick Road is in Denham Green. Three things to see in Denham Green 1) Denham Film Studios Alexander Korda opened his film studios just north of Denham in 1935. Some...
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Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work. The post The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Josh Collinsworth
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Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
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Fixing and enhancing the WebCard card constructor <![CDATA[I fixed a bug in the initial code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project. An infinite...
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<![CDATA[I fixed a bug in the initial code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project. An infinite loop in the constructor of the Web card type caused a stack overflow that aborted Medley. The Web constructor was supposed to call the constructor of the parent card type Text. But...
Paul Graham: Essays
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NeuroLogica Blog
Biofrequency Gadgets are a Total Scam I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes...
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I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes this claim: AO Scan Technology by Solex is an elegant, yet simple-to-use frequency technology based on Tesla, Einstein, and other prominent scientists’ discoveries. It uses delicate...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it. Today's News:
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In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).  For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
Grow With Less
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Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money blogging is to blog about blogging. Luckily, you would be mistaken. The reality is that there are successful blogs in all kinds of niches. You simply hear more about the make money...
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Seth's Blog
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Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they’re happy to share their preferences and they show up. But power users can also be a trap, because their specific needs might not match the market you seek to serve. When you pick your customers, you pick your future. Brooke...
Mazdak
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The number of products and services we sign up for is ballooning as almost every industry latches onto the subscription business model. This is because businesses can make more money up-front and over time by selling subscriptions and building loyalty. They can also mine...
On the Arts
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is highly appreciated. Today's News:
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History is in the making It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect...
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Math Is Still...
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Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise. The post Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Oykun
Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
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Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...