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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Firing Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious...
over a year ago
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Firing

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

over a year ago
Firing is awful. You can try to avoid it, but even the most selective founders make serious mistakes. Here are a few things I’ve observed…
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Grant Slatton
Sports vs Games An aesthetic distinction
9 months ago
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Sports vs Games

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
An aesthetic distinction
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance recognized for...
3 months ago
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10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in France

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding cultural or natural importance recognized for their universal value to humanity. Spanning continents, these sites include ancient ruins, architectural marvels, sacred landscapes, and natural wonders, each telling a unique...
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Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
over a year ago
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Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show

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

over a year ago
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions. I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
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Matt Mullenweg
Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
5 months ago
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Ed Catmull on Change

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
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The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
over a year ago
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Joyful is the Dark

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that midnight   touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle   of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
10 months ago
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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

10 months ago
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
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Classical Wisdom
James Joyce's Ulysses Retelling of the Odyssey
over a year ago
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James Joyce's Ulysses

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over a year ago
Retelling of the Odyssey
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TheCollector
Paul Cezanne’s Metaphysical Paintings in 3 Works: A Failed Synthesis? Paul Cézanne’s late works attempted to relay nature, as well as his own impressions of it, with...
4 months ago
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Paul Cezanne’s Metaphysical Paintings in 3 Works: A Failed Synthesis?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Paul Cézanne’s late works attempted to relay nature, as well as his own impressions of it, with minimal artifice. He eschewed the weighty influence of artistic tradition—especially the rules of linear perspective—and increasingly relied upon the pure tones of individual...
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Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 217,000 The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of 14,000 from the...
6 months ago
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 217,000

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

6 months ago
The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 201,000 to 203,000. The 4-week moving average was 212,750, a decrease of 750 from the previous...
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Notes on software...
Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures

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

over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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The Berkeley...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
over a year ago
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On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning

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

over a year ago
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
10 months ago
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The Humble Link

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

10 months ago
I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone needs...
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.28 - Opposable Thumbs New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
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Comic for 2025.05.28 - Opposable Thumbs

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a month ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Josh Thompson
Corollas and U-Hauls These last few posts have a theme. We moved. I’m writing about it a lot because I thought about it a...
over a year ago
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Corollas and U-Hauls

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

over a year ago
These last few posts have a theme. We moved. I’m writing about it a lot because I thought about it a lot, and a lot of work went into it. When moving across the country, you have a few options. You could higher a moving company, who comes and boxes up your house, packs a truck,...
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Flashbak
Day Of The Fight: 24-Hours With Stanley Kubrick And Boxer Walter Cartier “…like almost everything else good that’s ever happened to me, by the sheerest stroke of luck, I had...
3 months ago
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Day Of The Fight: 24-Hours With Stanley Kubrick And Boxer Walter Cartier

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
“…like almost everything else good that’s ever happened to me, by the sheerest stroke of luck, I had a very good friend at Look, which gave me a job as a still photographer. After about six months, I was made a full-fledged staff photographer. My highest salary was $105 a week,...
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Aaron's Essays
Things that aren't progress A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to...
over a year ago
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Things that aren't progress

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

over a year ago
A few months ago, I wrote about things that look like work, but aren't. As I paid more attention to founders doing these things, I started thinking about why they were happening. I realized that the behaviors were largely a function of bad goal setting. When founders choose bad...
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Home on Erik...
Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
a year ago
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python

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

a year ago
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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The Works in...
The End of Combustion Vehicles The final section of Ch.2 of Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
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The End of Combustion Vehicles

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

a year ago
The final section of Ch.2 of Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
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The Changelog
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
a year ago
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The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
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CONTEMPORIST
Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently...
a year ago
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Wood Details Are Found Throughout This Apartment’s Interior

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architecture and Design Studio Cuaik CDS has sent us photos of an apartment they have recently completed in Madrid, Spain, that includes wood details throughout its interior. In the living room, a wall-mounted TV is disguised as art, while illuminated wooden shelves on either...
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Yale E360
China Allows New Coal Plants, but With More Limited Role China will allow the construction of new coal power plants through at least 2027 but with...
3 months ago
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China Allows New Coal Plants, but With More Limited Role

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
China will allow the construction of new coal power plants through at least 2027 but with restrictions aimed at limiting emissions and boosting renewables, according to a newly released action plan. Read more on E360 →
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DYNOMIGHT
Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good? If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED...
10 months ago
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Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good?

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

10 months ago
If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED because BREAST MILK = OPTIMAL FOOD FOR BABY. But if you look for evidence, you’ll discover two disturbing facts. First, there’s no consensus about why breastfeeding is good. I’ve seen...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in...
a year ago
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A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in California. The client asked the designers to create a kitchen garden and an outdoor gathering space for her large family to celebrate birthdays and holidays. One area of the yard was...
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Arduino Blog
How makers can use AR and VR Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in...
a year ago
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How makers can use AR and VR

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

a year ago
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity, with the combined market expected to reach $77 billion by 2025, from just $15.3 billion in 2020. For makers, AR and VR represent exciting opportunities to build new...
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SatPost by Trung...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles...
11 months ago
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Pixar

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

11 months ago
Revisiting the studio’s early highs (one lunch led to $6B at the box office), creative struggles (stale IP, original flops) and why "Inside Out 2" could trigger a renaissance.
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
8 months ago
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
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mtlynch.io
My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
over a year ago
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My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

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

over a year ago
Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. None of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, and they all had negative profits. Halfway...
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Rest of World -...
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
a year ago
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Sing your way to learning a new language

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

a year ago
Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million users.
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Luxagraf:...
Sport "Nothing will work unless you do." –John Wooden Humans are one of the few large mammals that don't...
5 months ago
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Sport

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

5 months ago
"Nothing will work unless you do." –John Wooden Humans are one of the few large mammals that don't practice for life by playing. Watch wolf puppies, lion cubs, young bears, elk, deer, pretty much any mammal and you'll notice that all they do is play. There's really no teaching...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
11 months ago
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

11 months ago
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Noahpinion
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
a year ago
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Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI

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a year ago
Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
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37signals Dev
Thruster is now open source We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote...
a year ago
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Thruster is now open source

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote to make it easier to serve a Rails application with great performance and security. It runs alongside your existing Puma process, and adds: HTTP/2 support SSL (via Let’s Encrypt,...
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Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
over a year ago
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StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
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diamond geezer
Compressor Square 45 45 Squared 9) COMPRESSOR SQUARE, E16 Borough of Newham, 50m×30m National Street Gazetteer so it...
4 months ago
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Compressor Square

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

4 months ago
45 45 Squared 9) COMPRESSOR SQUARE, E16 Borough of Newham, 50m×30m National Street Gazetteer so it officially exists. Locationwise it's in the Royal Docks immediately adjacent to Royal Albert station, which is renowned as the DLR station furthest away from anyone's home. But had...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Art of Making Websites Hidde de Vries gave a great talked titled “Creativity cannot be computed” (you can checkout the...
5 months ago
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The Art of Making Websites

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

5 months ago
Hidde de Vries gave a great talked titled “Creativity cannot be computed” (you can checkout the slides or watch the video). In his slides he has lots of bullet points that attempt to define what art is, and then in the talk he spends time covering each one. Here’s a sampling of...
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Articles
Is the Product-Market Fit survey accurate?
over a year ago
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Is the Product-Market Fit survey accurate?

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over a year ago
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of...
over a year ago
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What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed

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over a year ago
Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of their pages index and ranked by Google’s…
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Articles
The vague headline I see new startups emulating the vague, aspirational, "benefits-driven" headlines from established...
over a year ago
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The vague headline

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over a year ago
I see new startups emulating the vague, aspirational, "benefits-driven" headlines from established brands, and I think it's a mistake.
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle and Ethics Practical Philosophy
2 months ago
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Aristotle and Ethics

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2 months ago
Practical Philosophy
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Rest of World -...
A tale of two feeds Car smuggling in Bolivia is booming, despite thieves and theft victims widely documenting the...
a year ago
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A tale of two feeds

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a year ago
Car smuggling in Bolivia is booming, despite thieves and theft victims widely documenting the problem.
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The American Scholar
The Importance of Being Different A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The...
a year ago
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The Importance of Being Different

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

a year ago
A travel writer’s education The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The American Scholar.
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davidyat.es
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
a year ago
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Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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a year ago
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Sometimes It Works...
Thinking in packages Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in...
over a year ago
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Thinking in packages

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem: “How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
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Louwrentius
Most Technical debt is just bullshit Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me,...
over a year ago
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Most Technical debt is just bullshit

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to: cover up bad code cover up unfinished work source1 Calling...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
a year ago
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The History of Commodore, Part 3

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
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Calculated Risk
Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in November The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger...
6 months ago
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Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in November

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

6 months ago
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger image. On a year-over-year basis, the median CPI rose 3.8% (down from 3.9% YoY in November), the trimmed-mean CPI rose 3.2% (down slightly from 3.2%), and the CPI less food and energy...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3 September 22, 2023.
a year ago
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AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3

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a year ago
September 22, 2023.
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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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Abishek Muthian
Products Hi I'm Abishek Muthian, an indie, I write code to solve problems in health and build tools for...
7 months ago
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Products

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7 months ago
Hi I'm Abishek Muthian, an indie, I write code to solve problems in health and build tools for indies to create sustainable income. Bone Health Tracker Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. needgap Validate your problems, startup ideas to create...
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Commoncog
Capital Allocation as an Antidote to Business Luck The unspoken secret about new company formation is that you need to get lucky. Roll the dice, get a...
a year ago
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Capital Allocation as an Antidote to Business Luck

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a year ago
The unspoken secret about new company formation is that you need to get lucky. Roll the dice, get a business outcome. Capital allocation matters because it allows you more skill, less luck, on the journey to a large outcome.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
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Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think

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over a year ago
How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
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Retail Design Blog
Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the...
5 months ago
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Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab

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5 months ago
Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the site’s locality,...
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Essays - Benedict...
There’s no such thing as data Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own...
over a year ago
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There’s no such thing as data

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over a year ago
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
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Rest of World -...
WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most...
9 months ago
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WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force

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9 months ago
How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most vulnerable — by preventing them from burying their dead.
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Harris/Walz 2024 US Presidential Campaign Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License:...
10 months ago
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Harris/Walz 2024 US Presidential Campaign

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10 months ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License: All Rights Reserved. The Kamala Harris 2024 campaign identity, designed by Wide Eye Creative, is built around Sans Plomb, a condensed gothic not unlike the Bureau Grot used by...
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Christian Selig
Qi2 is kinda underwhelming Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication...
a year ago
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Qi2 is kinda underwhelming

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a year ago
Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication with the device, allowing for better efficiency due to better thermal management and charging Easily view the charge percentage of the external battery when first attaching it, and...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Branch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course the deep concern is that there's a way to...
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Branch

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course the deep concern is that there's a way to elegantly prove the existence of an ugliest possible proof. Today's News:
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TheCollector
Major Works by Botticelli, Renoir, and More to Tour 10 US States Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art announced plans to lend major works from its collection to...
3 months ago
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Major Works by Botticelli, Renoir, and More to Tour 10 US States

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3 months ago
Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art announced plans to lend major works from its collection to regional museums across the country. The historic loan program is part of a larger initiative marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.   National Gallery’s “Across the...
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Rest of World -...
China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage Rarely seen globally, there are already thousands of battery swap stations across China.
a year ago
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China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage

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a year ago
Rarely seen globally, there are already thousands of battery swap stations across China.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
over a year ago
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What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me

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over a year ago
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The Map is Mostly...
Small Spaces notes on building blocks
a year ago
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Small Spaces

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a year ago
notes on building blocks
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CONTEMPORIST
The Woody Palette Of The Exterior Is Brought Through To The Inside Of This Home In New Zealand First Light Studio has shared photos of a new home they designed that’s nestled into the Port Hills...
over a year ago
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The Woody Palette Of The Exterior Is Brought Through To The Inside Of This Home In New Zealand

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over a year ago
First Light Studio has shared photos of a new home they designed that’s nestled into the Port Hills in Governors Bay, New Zealand. The design brief for the house was to create a small home that was well crafted out of nice materials, which resulted in a gable form with a wood...
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Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
9 months ago
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I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too

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9 months ago
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
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Articles
We are not normal people
over a year ago
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We are not normal people

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over a year ago
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Londonist
Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
a year ago
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Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London

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a year ago
Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
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Seth's Blog
What are the stakes? How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5...
a year ago
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What are the stakes?

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a year ago
How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5 chips, some with $100 chips. Do the high rollers have more fun? Are they more engaged? It’s natural to imagine that bigger swings matter more. That a bigger audience means our...
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Seth's Blog
Get/Want/Have To Get to, want to and have to are an endless braid. How much of our time do we spend on each? Have to...
over a year ago
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Get/Want/Have To

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over a year ago
Get to, want to and have to are an endless braid. How much of our time do we spend on each? Have to is often up to someone else. The things we’re required to do by the system or the people in it. Get to is a matter of perspective. Trust and health and leverage […]
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Londonist
This Free Quentin Blake Exhibition Lands In London At The End Of January You can even buy the artworks.
a year ago
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This Free Quentin Blake Exhibition Lands In London At The End Of January

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a year ago
You can even buy the artworks.
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The Scholar's Stage
Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy Last month Civic Future invited me to join a panel at their annual policy forum. The topic: what the...
11 months ago
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Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy

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11 months ago
Last month Civic Future invited me to join a panel at their annual policy forum. The topic: what the United Kingdom should do about China. As I am neither a British citizen nor an expert in British affairs, I thought it impolitic to lecture my hosts on how they should be...
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Louwrentius
Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run...
over a year ago
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Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface

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over a year ago
Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run your own router at home, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B1 can be an excelent hardware choice: it's fairly cheap it's fast enough it can saturate it's gigabit network port it is...
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Ben Borgers
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
over a year ago
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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

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over a year ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The 5 Whys of Running If you ask "Why?" five times you can discover the motivation behind anything. At least that is what...
over a year ago
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The 5 Whys of Running

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over a year ago
If you ask "Why?" five times you can discover the motivation behind anything. At least that is what this simple interrogation method is supposed to do. It's never worked for me.
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lcamtuf’s thing
How do wood finishes hold up? A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
10 months ago
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How do wood finishes hold up?

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10 months ago
A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
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FIRE v London
Mar ’25: Anticipating tariffs What’s in the news? Talking about the news in March, give nwhat’s been happing on the tariff front...
3 months ago
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Mar ’25: Anticipating tariffs

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3 months ago
What’s in the news? Talking about the news in March, give nwhat’s been happing on the tariff front over the last few weeks, seems a bit pointless. We entered March with a lot of drama about Ukraine, and some notable ‘ceasefire’ activity on the diplomatic front. We finished March...
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Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 6.7% Year-over-year From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 18 January On the positive side of the MLK Day calendar...
5 months ago
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Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 6.7% Year-over-year

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5 months ago
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 18 January On the positive side of the MLK Day calendar shift, the U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 18 January. ... 12-18 January 2025 (percentage change from...
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Old Structures...
This Time, The Famous One Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post called “No, Not The Famous One.” Guess what? On a site visit to...
10 months ago
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This Time, The Famous One

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10 months ago
Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post called “No, Not The Famous One.” Guess what? On a site visit to Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, I noticed a lot of nice cast-iron storefronts in the old shopping streets. Given that iron wasn’t a major industry there in the nineteenth...
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Rest of World -...
Chinese sellers and U.S. buyers prepare for the end of ultracheap shopping Temu and Shein are set to raise prices ahead of the de minimis loophole’s closure.
2 months ago
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Chinese sellers and U.S. buyers prepare for the end of ultracheap shopping

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2 months ago
Temu and Shein are set to raise prices ahead of the de minimis loophole’s closure.
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 28
a year ago
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Updates June 28

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a year ago
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Quanta Magazine
Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side...
over a year ago
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Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed

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over a year ago
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. Geometry may explain why. The post Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed first appeared on Quanta...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
9 months ago
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge

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9 months ago
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Classical Wisdom
What to Expect When You're Dead *New Event* April 2nd, 2025
4 months ago
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What to Expect When You're Dead

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4 months ago
*New Event* April 2nd, 2025
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Inbox Full O’ Receipts Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get: I clearly have no ethics,...
a year ago
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An Inbox Full O’ Receipts

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a year ago
Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get: I clearly have no ethics, but you should enter a business relationship with me, a guy who found your email on the internet. That’s the subtext of those emails. You are now signed up for a no-opt-out email...
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Passing Time
How I passed the time in 2024 Essays, books, albums, & reviews
6 months ago
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How I passed the time in 2024

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6 months ago
Essays, books, albums, & reviews
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Diaries of Note
I cannot understand how these people exist without ice R. D. Blumenfeld is best known for being editor of British tabloid the Daily Express for twenty...
over a year ago
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I cannot understand how these people exist without ice

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over a year ago
R. D. Blumenfeld is best known for being editor of British tabloid the Daily Express for twenty seven years—a role he took on in 1902. But for the first thirty years he lived in the U.S., and in 1887 was dispatched to England for the first time to report on Queen Victoria’s...
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Open Culture
Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk One would count neither Elon Musk nor Neil deGrasse Tyson among the most reserved public figures of...
5 months ago
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Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk

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5 months ago
One would count neither Elon Musk nor Neil deGrasse Tyson among the most reserved public figures of the twenty-first century. Given the efforts Musk has been making to push into the business of outer space, which has long been Tyson’s intellectual domain, it’s only natural that...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Mystery of Penelope
11 months ago
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Weekend Roundup

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11 months ago
The Mystery of Penelope
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sauce Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sauce

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward cannibalism. Today's News:
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Yale E360
A Third of Forests Lost This Century Will Likely Never Be Restored Of the forest lost so far this century, roughly a third was destroyed to make room for farms, a new...
a month ago
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A Third of Forests Lost This Century Will Likely Never Be Restored

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a month ago
Of the forest lost so far this century, roughly a third was destroyed to make room for farms, a new analysis finds. Those woodlands, which spanned an area larger than Mongolia, will likely never be restored, authors say. Read more on E360 →
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Jason Fried
Introducing Writebook You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And...
a year ago
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Introducing Writebook

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a year ago
You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems. But it's surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
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10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes)

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over a year ago
Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
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xkcd.com
1-to-1 Scale
over a year ago
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1-to-1 Scale

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over a year ago
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sbensu
The Market for Takes Solving for the Twitter equilibrium
11 months ago
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The Market for Takes

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11 months ago
Solving for the Twitter equilibrium
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Atoms vs Bits
Dating Apps That Could Exist and wish I had the skills to make
a month ago
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Dating Apps That Could Exist

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a month ago
and wish I had the skills to make
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Celebrates Hiroshige’s Lasting Legacy A new exhibition and publication bring to life the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of...
a month ago
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New British Museum Book Celebrates Hiroshige’s Lasting Legacy

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a month ago
A new exhibition and publication bring to life the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of Japan’s most popular and prolific artists. Hiroshige: artist of the open road presents a rarely seen range of prints, paintings, books, and sketches. It is the first-ever exhibition...
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Greater Still by...
Integrate Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
a year ago
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Integrate

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a year ago
Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
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Blog - Bitfield...
Test names should be sentences Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves....
a year ago
26

Test names should be sentences

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

a year ago
Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
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Calculated Risk
Trade Deficit increased to $131.4 Billion in January The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S....
4 months ago
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Trade Deficit increased to $131.4 Billion in January

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

4 months ago
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $131.4 billion in January, up $33.3 billion from $98.1 billion in December, revised. ...
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Diaries of Note
It was the finest excitement I ever had Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine Corps aviator, was born on March 8, 1882, in Atlanta,...
a year ago
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It was the finest excitement I ever had

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a year ago
Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine Corps aviator, was born on March 8, 1882, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1917, under the directive of Major General Commandant George Barnett, he embarked on a crucial mission to France to observe Allied air operations and training during...
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Retail Design Blog
The Gallery of the Kings Museo Egizio by OMA + Andrea Tabocchini Architecture The Gallery of the Kings, which houses a collection of colossal statues from the ancient Egyptian...
7 months ago
38

The Gallery of the Kings Museo Egizio by OMA + Andrea Tabocchini Architecture

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7 months ago
The Gallery of the Kings, which houses a collection of colossal statues from the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes (modern-day...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
over a year ago
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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme

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

over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
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Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1) ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
over a year ago
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ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1)

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over a year ago
ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
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Seth's Blog
The Pinocchio protocol He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers...
a year ago
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The Pinocchio protocol

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

a year ago
He had a hard time lying because his nose got longer every time he did. Gas-powered leaf blowers would disappear if the smoke they belched out was black instead of invisible. And few people would start smoking if the deposits on their lungs ended up on their face instead. We’re...
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Rest of World -...
As muggings spike, phone thieves in Brazil have an easy target: Gig workers Losing a phone can devastate gig workers’ ability to make a living, while the apps they work for...
over a year ago
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As muggings spike, phone thieves in Brazil have an easy target: Gig workers

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over a year ago
Losing a phone can devastate gig workers’ ability to make a living, while the apps they work for provide little support.
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Retail Design Blog
Aruma restaurant by RAD+ar Although not yet on the same level as Asia‘s current number one lifestyle hub Seoul, the sprawling...
a year ago
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Aruma restaurant by RAD+ar

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a year ago
Although not yet on the same level as Asia‘s current number one lifestyle hub Seoul, the sprawling Indonesian capital Jakarta...
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The Turn Signal RSS...
How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Driverless Cars In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is...
over a year ago
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How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Driverless Cars

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over a year ago
In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is established through communication, both…
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Steve Klabnik
Burnout
over a year ago
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Burnout

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over a year ago
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Yale E360
Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful than Exhaust, Study Finds In cars, pollution doesn't come from exhaust alone. It also comes from wear and tear on roads,...
5 months ago
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Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful than Exhaust, Study Finds

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5 months ago
In cars, pollution doesn't come from exhaust alone. It also comes from wear and tear on roads, tires, and brakes. According to new research, tiny bits of dust cast off by brake pads may inflict more harm than car exhaust. Read more on E360 →
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A Weekly Dose of...
Archidose, 1999–2024 After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the...
a year ago
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Archidose, 1999–2024

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

a year ago
After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker — I've decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly...
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Sites in Vermont Vermont may be small in size, but it looms large in American history. From its fierce Revolutionary...
3 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Sites in Vermont

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3 months ago
Vermont may be small in size, but it looms large in American history. From its fierce Revolutionary War battles and independent 18th-century constitution to the quiet rise of a U.S. president, the Green Mountain State has witnessed defining moments that shaped both state and...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
over a year ago
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Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women

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over a year ago
Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
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Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing 3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
7 months ago
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The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing

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

7 months ago
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
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Applied Cartography
A good H1 Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we...
7 months ago
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A good H1

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7 months ago
Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we arrived at our current iteration, which is the anodyne yet pointed Email for you. Yes, you. Historically, we've called Buttondown a 'newsletter tool' — the h1 before this was 'The...
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Retail Design Blog
Element pop-up store by llLab. The Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui offers an unconventional reflection on curatorial retail...
10 months ago
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Element pop-up store by llLab.

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10 months ago
The Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui offers an unconventional reflection on curatorial retail spaces. By thoughtfully curating the...
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Open Culture
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude I remember the first time I sat down and watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s lyrical, meandering sci-fi epic...
4 months ago
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to Young People: “Learn to Be Alone,” Enjoy Solitude

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4 months ago
I remember the first time I sat down and watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s lyrical, meandering sci-fi epic Stalker. It was a long time ago, before the advent of smartphones and tablets. I watched a beat-up VHS copy on a non-“smart” TV, and had no ability to pause every few minutes and...
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023 The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
over a year ago
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Name that Ware, May 2023

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over a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
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Rest of World -...
Starlink is coming to India. Here’s what to know An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite...
4 months ago
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Starlink is coming to India. Here’s what to know

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4 months ago
An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite giant to access the world’s second-largest internet user base.
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Apoorva Srinivasan
getting started with bayesian inference In my previous post, we spoke about hypothesis testing from a frequentist perspective. This is the...
over a year ago
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getting started with bayesian inference

from Apoorva Srinivasan [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
In my previous post, we spoke about hypothesis testing from a frequentist perspective. This is the method that is commonly taught in STAT101 classes. But for many decades, some statisticians have argued for another approach to conduct statistical analysis based on bayes...
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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
4 months ago
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Klarna and the Two Pivots of 2022

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4 months ago
Plus! Diff Jobs; Crypto Adoption; Art Margin Calls; Liquidations; Corporate Espionage; DeepSeek
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Machine Learning for...
If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here How to get started and make the best use of Machine Learning for Software Engineers
3 months ago
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If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here

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3 months ago
How to get started and make the best use of Machine Learning for Software Engineers
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Maggie Appleton
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
over a year ago
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GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

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

over a year ago
How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
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99% Invisible
Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE] Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this...
10 months ago
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Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE]

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10 months ago
Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
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Daniel Miessler
How to Survive and Thrive in a World Where AI Can Do Almost Everything Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance....
over a year ago
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How to Survive and Thrive in a World Where AI Can Do Almost Everything

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance. You can click it to get the full size to print out. This is UL Member Content Subscribe Already a member? Login
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Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
a year ago
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Power dynamics in web specifications

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a year ago
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
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Jorge Arango
Solsbury Hill Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing...
5 months ago
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Solsbury Hill

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5 months ago
Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing people together through the arts. But today, I want to celebrate one of his songs that’s had a profound impact on my life: Solsbury Hill. Solsbury Hill was Gabriel’s debut single as...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Give Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How come nobody ever prays for sound investment...
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Give

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How come nobody ever prays for sound investment advice? Today's News:
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Open Culture
Pablo Picasso’s Childhood Paintings: Precocious Works Painted Between the Ages of 8 and 15 It’s hard to imagine from this historical distance how upsetting Pablo Picasso’s 1907 modernist...
a month ago
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Pablo Picasso’s Childhood Paintings: Precocious Works Painted Between the Ages of 8 and 15

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a month ago
It’s hard to imagine from this historical distance how upsetting Pablo Picasso’s 1907 modernist painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was to Parisian society at its debut. On its 100th anniversary, Guardian critic Jonathan Jones described it as “the rift, the break that divides past...
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nanoscale views
Indirect costs + potential unintended consequences It's been another exciting week where I feel compelled to write about the practice of...
5 months ago
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Indirect costs + potential unintended consequences

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

5 months ago
It's been another exciting week where I feel compelled to write about the practice of university-based research in the US.  I've written about "indirect costs" before, but it's been a while.  I will try to get readers caught up on the basics of the university research ecosystem...
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Good Enough
TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant...
a year ago
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TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts

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a year ago
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant past, simple reactions to messages were added: what Apple calls Tapbacks. These are great for a quick way to say yes (or no, or WTF!?!), but they are a bit of a pain to actually...
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Louwrentius
24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
over a year ago
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24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
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Commoncog
Focus on the Cases Professor Rand Spiro on why (and how!) business cases are more important to learn from than...
over a year ago
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Focus on the Cases

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over a year ago
Professor Rand Spiro on why (and how!) business cases are more important to learn from than synthesised business concepts.
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Making software...
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
over a year ago
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos

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over a year ago
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
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somenice
CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
a year ago
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CBC Spark with Nora Young

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a year ago
Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
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xkcd.com
Black Holes vs Regular Holes
a year ago
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Black Holes vs Regular Holes

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a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
over a year ago
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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over a year ago
About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
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Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew “If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
12 months ago
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People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew

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12 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century)   What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
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Josh Thompson
Letter to Two Climbers (Part 1) Hello! We met recently. (I gave Justin tape after he cut his toe and didn’t have a bandaid.) You and...
over a year ago
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Letter to Two Climbers (Part 1)

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over a year ago
Hello! We met recently. (I gave Justin tape after he cut his toe and didn’t have a bandaid.) You and your partner were climbing a route near me and my partner. One of you (I’ll call Charles, because he had a British accent) was trying  so hard to figure out some moves high above...
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Odds and Ends of...
Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
8 months ago
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Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America

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8 months ago
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
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Willem's Blog
Designing an interface for a food ordering page Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need...
over a year ago
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Designing an interface for a food ordering page

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over a year ago
Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need to be accommodated on a very small screen.
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Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
over a year ago
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Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC

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over a year ago
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that...
over a year ago
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Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day

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over a year ago
Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star…
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Diaries of Note
 How utterly mad it all is Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was...
over a year ago
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 How utterly mad it all is

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over a year ago
Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was profound. Raised amid the racial turbulence of 1930s Chicago, she channelled her experiences into A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play that earned her three distinctions: the...
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Making software...
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
over a year ago
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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File

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over a year ago
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I'll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn't already obvious). I...
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Articles
How (not) to validate your idea
over a year ago
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How (not) to validate your idea

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over a year ago
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Ben Borgers
Publishing Class Notes
over a year ago
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Publishing Class Notes

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over a year ago
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CONTEMPORIST
A Boldly Colored Pasta Shop Brightens Up The Street In Athens Design firm Studio Materiality has shared photos of Macaroni, a pasta shop they completed that’s...
over a year ago
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A Boldly Colored Pasta Shop Brightens Up The Street In Athens

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over a year ago
Design firm Studio Materiality has shared photos of Macaroni, a pasta shop they completed that’s located in the heart of Athens, Greece. The designers drew inspiration from the 1970s, with a boldly colored design, complete with a font from that era to create the logo. The...
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Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a...
over a year ago
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Taking time to reflect

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why that may be. It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in fact quite
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Diaries of Note
I declare private war Alfred Wintle was living in Dunkirk when the First World War began—sixteen years old and fiercely...
over a year ago
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I declare private war

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

over a year ago
Alfred Wintle was living in Dunkirk when the First World War began—sixteen years old and fiercely patriotic. Desperate to join the army, in 1915 he entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich to begin his training, and within months was on the front line. At the Third Battle...
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Raw Thought (from...
Edmund Burke Explains
over a year ago
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Edmund Burke Explains

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over a year ago
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The Marginalian
A Glow in the Consciousness: The Continuous Creative Act of Seeing Clearly "Simply to look on anything... with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain...
a year ago
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A Glow in the Consciousness: The Continuous Creative Act of Seeing Clearly

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

a year ago
"Simply to look on anything... with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being."
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Yale E360
In Uganda, Deadly Landslides Force an Agricultural Reckoning As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become...
a week ago
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In Uganda, Deadly Landslides Force an Agricultural Reckoning

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a week ago
As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become increasingly vulnerable to landslides. In response, Ugandan farmers are planting native trees and changing the crops they plant in efforts to build resilience against future...
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Archinect - Features
FireCity | FireLAnd: New Models of Resilience and Community with UCLA's Hitoshi Abe and... As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, with thousands of residents displaced and entire...
5 months ago
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FireCity | FireLAnd: New Models of Resilience and Community with UCLA's Hitoshi Abe and Jeffrey Inaba's Research Studios

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

5 months ago
As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, with thousands of residents displaced and entire communities struggling to recover, the urgency of addressing fire resilience in urban landscapes has never been greater. In light of the ongoing crisis, we are republishing our 2021...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Veiled Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, evil Kant requires you to lie to save...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Veiled

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, evil Kant requires you to lie to save people from murderers. Today's News:
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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]

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over a year ago
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TheCollector
The Origins of Agriculture: How We Domesticated Crops and Livestock For much of our history, humans have sustained themselves through hunting and gathering wild plants...
a month ago
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The Origins of Agriculture: How We Domesticated Crops and Livestock

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
For much of our history, humans have sustained themselves through hunting and gathering wild plants and animals. However, our trajectory changed around 12,000 years ago when agriculture emerged as humans began to domesticate livestock and crops, permanently altering our...
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SOCKS
Database, Network, Interface : The Architecture of Information. An exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL),... We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the...
over a year ago
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Database, Network, Interface : The Architecture of Information. An exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL), Lausanne, starting September 27th 2021

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the Archizoom Gallery (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.  In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, Database, Network, Interface...
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Asterisk
Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings America’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry...
a year ago
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
America’s HVAC labor force is plagued by dishonesty and frequently incapable of meeting industry standards. Interventions in indoor air quality are the next frontier in pandemic prevention — but are they up to the task?
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Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4) This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time...
over a year ago
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ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4)

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

over a year ago
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time to share my opinion about using Reason to create React applications. Access Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Though, my opinion shouldn't really matter if you're also...
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Vadim Kravcenko
The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic Once the pandemic hit and employers started to embrace remote work more openly, a new phenomenon...
over a year ago
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The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic

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

over a year ago
Once the pandemic hit and employers started to embrace remote work more openly, a new phenomenon gained momentum — Interviews-as-a-service. […] The post The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the...
over a year ago
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Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the hardest part of the Atlas in a Day experience. The first night, we developed a number of interesting concepts but nothing felt quite right. Were data available? What interesting story...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evolved Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evolved

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've heard people do this on Duolingo and it'll be the hardest thing to explain to AGI when it tries to do anthropology. Today's News:
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Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 2: Britney Coltrane 1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I...
over a year ago
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Season 3, Issue 2: Britney Coltrane

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I tried to deal with the company-side of work: setting up payroll, health insurance, and making sure we’re compliant (hello, bureaucracy!). Back in the day when Danny and I started...
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Quanta Magazine
‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be...
3 months ago
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‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle

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

3 months ago
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. The post ‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Josh Thompson
Learning Spanish: Conversation connectors I’m learning Spanish right now,  as I’ve mentioned. The bad news is I’ve been in some state...
over a year ago
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Learning Spanish: Conversation connectors

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

over a year ago
I’m learning Spanish right now,  as I’ve mentioned. The bad news is I’ve been in some state of learning spanish for the better part of the last 15 years. My mom’s parents came here from Paraguay, and so she and her siblings are all native Spanish speakers, plus their spouses....
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Krebs on Security
DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security...
3 months ago
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DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration's continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
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Adventures In...
North Arrow Necessity Can a map still be considered a map if it doesn’t have a north arrow? Yes. A north arrow is an...
10 months ago
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North Arrow Necessity

from Adventures In Mapping [alt+shift+b] in cartography

10 months ago
Can a map still be considered a map if it doesn’t have a north arrow? Yes. A north arrow is an optional map accompaniment and you should think critically about your map to determine for yourself if it needs a north arrow or not. For what it’s worth, often a map should not have a...
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tonsky.me
Logo: Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
2 months ago
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Logo:

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
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Abishek Muthian
Restart modem automatically when Internet is down If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would...
7 months ago
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Restart modem automatically when Internet is down

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

7 months ago
If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would have pitied the soul which had to restart their Internet modem often, Now I'm in the situation where the ISP seems to have not heard about network reliability and so my modem hangs at...
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Notes on software...
Two books I recommend to developers Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think...
over a year ago
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Two books I recommend to developers

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

over a year ago
Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think are actually so worthwhile. This list is down to two. I think that's a good thing actually. These are the books I recommend to developers wanting to improve their skills as...
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John Reynolds -...
Mammoth Life - Lights Out Music Video Title: Lights OutArtist: Mammoth LifeYear: 2014 --
over a year ago
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Mammoth Life - Lights Out

from John Reynolds - Designer & Creative Director [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Music Video Title: Lights OutArtist: Mammoth LifeYear: 2014 --
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Contemporist...
A Lush Rooftop Garden 30 Floors Above The City Perched atop a high-rise in central Melbourne, Australia, Phoenix Rooftop is a private garden...
a month ago
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A Lush Rooftop Garden 30 Floors Above The City

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

a month ago
Perched atop a high-rise in central Melbourne, Australia, Phoenix Rooftop is a private garden created for two professionals moving from the suburbs to the city.
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David Crawshaw
Limits of Superintelligence research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
over a year ago
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Limits of Superintelligence

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
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Noahpinion
All the arguments for tariffs are wrong and bad Trump's defenders are flailing.
3 months ago
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All the arguments for tariffs are wrong and bad

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3 months ago
Trump's defenders are flailing.
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Ben Borgers
Projects
9 months ago
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Projects

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9 months ago
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Damn Interesting
Lofty Ambitions One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named...
over a year ago
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Lofty Ambitions

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

over a year ago
One summer day in 1933, in a brief pocket of time between the two World Wars, a British man named Maurice Wilson clutched the stick of his tiny, open air biplane and watched his fuel gauge dwindle. He had only learned to fly two months earlier, but inexperience was not his...
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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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Seth's Blog
“What’s next?” The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one...
over a year ago
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“What’s next?”

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

over a year ago
The way we think about our priorities makes a huge difference. Leaders of every stripe make one thing more than any other: decisions. In any environment with constraints (which is, actually, any environment), the decisions about time and resources–about what to do next–change...
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Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
a year ago
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Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
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Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson. If we can only learn it.
9 months ago
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No End Of A Lesson.

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9 months ago
If we can only learn it.
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing DraftTable for iPad Pro We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing...
over a year ago
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Introducing DraftTable for iPad Pro

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

over a year ago
We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing and iteration with artists, designers and heavy iPad users to make the very best stand for working on iPad pro. Like a traditional drafters table, it is ultra-sturdy, widely...
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Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 1) Part 1: What is an agent, and how do they work?
a year ago
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Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 1)

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

a year ago
Part 1: What is an agent, and how do they work?
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The Elysian
CITY STATE: A discussion about autonomous governance Here's the recording from our literary salon discussion.
2 months ago
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CITY STATE: A discussion about autonomous governance

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

2 months ago
Here's the recording from our literary salon discussion.
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Blog - Guerrilla...
How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
a year ago
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How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
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Never Met a Science
What Are Survey Experiments For? The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint...
7 months ago
19

What Are Survey Experiments For?

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint experiment, just published at the Journal of Experimental Political Science:
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On the Arts
From Gothic Invaders to Mall Goths How an ancient Germanic tribe gave its name to a modern subculture.
over a year ago
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From Gothic Invaders to Mall Goths

from On the Arts [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
How an ancient Germanic tribe gave its name to a modern subculture.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
over a year ago
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Waterfall

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

over a year ago
The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
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The Elysian
Expanding your research "Research with me" session two.
5 months ago
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Expanding your research

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5 months ago
"Research with me" session two.
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essay – snarfed.org
Moderate people, not code Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big...
a year ago
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Moderate people, not code

from essay – snarfed.org [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big fedi? Or a small fedi? Are instances just nodes? Or networked communities? Which Camp of Mastodon are we in? How far should our replies travel? How about our blog posts and Bluesky...
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Open Culture
How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies “This is a work of fiction,” declares the disclaimer we’ve all noticed during the end credits of...
7 months ago
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How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies

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

7 months ago
“This is a work of fiction,” declares the disclaimer we’ve all noticed during the end credits of movies. “Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” In most cases, this may seem so trivial that it hardly merits a mention, but the...
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CONTEMPORIST
Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
a year ago
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Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
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Flashbak
Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933 “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often...
a year ago
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Helen Keller’s Letter on Why Book-Burning Nazis Will Never Defeat Ideas, 1933

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
“History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them’ – Helen Keller     Helen Keller is best known for her campaign to help the disabled and support for...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
How venting is supposed to feel A comic about venting to others. View on my website
over a year ago
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How venting is supposed to feel

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

over a year ago
A comic about venting to others. View on my website
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Nothing Human
Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
a year ago
40

Prayer over a new smartphone

from Nothing Human [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Alberta’s Best Nature Escapes for Adventurous Travelers
8 months ago
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Alberta’s Best Nature Escapes for Adventurous Travelers

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

8 months ago
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print...
10 months ago
69

Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis

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

10 months ago
I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print colourful patterned fabrics from a Somerset barn, a space we share with the sparrows and house-martins. What inspires you? I love bold and bright design. I always seem to come back to...
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Yale E360
Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Climate and Weather Specialists The Trump administration has re-fired hundreds of probationary workers at NOAA after a court ruling...
3 months ago
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Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Climate and Weather Specialists

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
The Trump administration has re-fired hundreds of probationary workers at NOAA after a court ruling cleared the way. Read more on E360 →
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Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2025 May Catching Up
a month ago
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visual journal – 2025 May

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Catching Up
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Many Worlds
The Familiar, Yet So Different, Hydrocarbon Rivers of Titan There are three planets or moons in our solar system known to now have, or once had, surface rivers,...
a year ago
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The Familiar, Yet So Different, Hydrocarbon Rivers of Titan

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There are three planets or moons in our solar system known to now have, or once had, surface rivers, lakes, deltas and a hydrologic system.  There’s Earth, of course, Mars long ago when it was warmer and wetter, and the so different yet so similar rivers of hydrocarbons on...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Anarchy in the East India Company I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East...
2 months ago
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Anarchy in the East India Company

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2 months ago
I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple. Before reading The Anarchy, my vague pop-culture understanding of the East India company went something like this: England, as a strong colonial...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval,...
a year ago
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How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js

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a year ago
Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval, users get a notification email and can use the app.
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
2 months ago
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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2 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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Flashbak
Show Us Your Knickers: Vintage Snapshots Of People And Their Underwear Underwear. Comfy apple catchers, snaggy thongs or reassuring Y-fronts? In this gallery from Robert...
2 months ago
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Show Us Your Knickers: Vintage Snapshots Of People And Their Underwear

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2 months ago
Underwear. Comfy apple catchers, snaggy thongs or reassuring Y-fronts? In this gallery from Robert E. Jackson’s photograph collection, we see some of the vast range of undies – those designed to be seen and other ‘unmentionables’ Victoria really should keep secret.    “Made you...
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computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
over a year ago
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines

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over a year ago
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
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The Marginalian
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism On cruelty, kindness, and the song of life.
over a year ago
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Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism

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over a year ago
On cruelty, kindness, and the song of life.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Poems Can Be True in Different Ways' Something seems to be stirring out there. I’m too cautious and cynical to proclaim a renaissance in...
5 months ago
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'Poems Can Be True in Different Ways'

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5 months ago
Something seems to be stirring out there. I’m too cautious and cynical to proclaim a renaissance in formalist poetry but the prognosis is promising. Clarence Caddell, an Australian, has published the second issue of The Borough: A Journal of Poetry. I wrote about the first issue...
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Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour to Colombia's Central Andes I have recently returned from an excellent tour to Colombia that I led for Quest Nature Tours. This...
3 months ago
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A Quest Nature Tour to Colombia's Central Andes

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3 months ago
I have recently returned from an excellent tour to Colombia that I led for Quest Nature Tours. This was my third time guiding in Colombia, following excellent trips in 2020 and 2022. Those previous tours covered a lot of ground, in the eastern Andes near Bogotá, the Central Andes...
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TheCollector
Before Newton: How the Islamic Golden Age Shaped the Physics We Know The rise of Islam across India, the Middle East, and Spain kindled intellectual achievements that...
2 months ago
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Before Newton: How the Islamic Golden Age Shaped the Physics We Know

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2 months ago
The rise of Islam across India, the Middle East, and Spain kindled intellectual achievements that are still relevant today. The Islamic Golden Age, lasting some five hundred years from the 8th to 14th centuries, saw important discoveries – especially in physics.   What Was the...
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Society's Backend:...
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
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Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More

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5 months ago
Important resources for 2-14-25
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Both Are True
This week in BATCAVE! live AMA on Wednesday, live cowrite on Saturday
2 months ago
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This week in BATCAVE!

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2 months ago
live AMA on Wednesday, live cowrite on Saturday
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics there's SOME chance a duck explodes because you thought about it. Today's News:
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Letters of Note
Never get a bulldog When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in...
over a year ago
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Never get a bulldog

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over a year ago
When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.—one of hundreds of undercover agents employed by Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service to spy on the United States. Dahl’s debut novel, The Gremlins, had been...
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Atoms vs Bits
Who Will Decide Whether The Guardians Need Some Guarding? Not me, surely
2 months ago
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Who Will Decide Whether The Guardians Need Some Guarding?

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2 months ago
Not me, surely
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Asterisk
Democracy by Mistake Most political scientists see democracy as the natural consequence of economic development or the...
a year ago
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Democracy by Mistake

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a year ago
Most political scientists see democracy as the natural consequence of economic development or the result of strategic and rational choice. A detailed look through history suggests democracy emerges as often as not by another path: human error.
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Bits about Money
Deposit franchises as natural hedges Many observe that banks seem to be blowing up due to predictable consequences of rising interest...
over a year ago
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Deposit franchises as natural hedges

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over a year ago
Many observe that banks seem to be blowing up due to predictable consequences of rising interest rates. How did we get here?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Apologize Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also they each get their own name. Today's News:
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Apologize

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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also they each get their own name. Today's News:
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IEEE Spectrum
Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns. science fiction. The...
a year ago
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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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a year ago
zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns. science fiction. The publishers of Astounding Science Fiction approached Hubbard to write stories that focused on people, rather than robots and machines. His first story, “The Dangerous Dimension,” was...
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Yale E360
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
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Making it fast shouldn't be the last step

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a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1 This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule. But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance. Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
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Seth's Blog
Replacing bad systems with bad systems A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a...
over a year ago
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Replacing bad systems with bad systems

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over a year ago
A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a cumbersome, awkward system. Coins are heavy and you need to have them handy, meters need to be reinforced against theft and breakage, town employees have to empty the coins and...
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Maps Mania
When is the sun directly overhead?
4 weeks ago
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When is the sun directly overhead?

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4 weeks ago
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Seth's Blog
Unfettered That’s unlikely. You’re rarely going to get the freedom and resources to do your best work...
over a year ago
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Unfettered

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over a year ago
That’s unlikely. You’re rarely going to get the freedom and resources to do your best work unfettered. The hard part (and the opportunity) is to figure out how to get comfortable with fettered. Because fettered is what’s on offer. Boundaries and scarcity aren’t simply...
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TheCollector
10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the...
a month ago
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10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit

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a month ago
Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the Civil War and the Cuban exile era. But no city within the state reflects this layered past quite like Miami. Founded in 1896, Miami quickly grew from a swampy frontier town into a...
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Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy AI can only improve if its limits as well as its strengths are faced honestly
2 months ago
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OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy

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2 months ago
AI can only improve if its limits as well as its strengths are faced honestly
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Scarlet Ink
A Time When I Was Tricked Into Being Honest — Bringing Facts Into Work Discussions Moving discussions from emotional interpretations to facts and metrics can move a group from...
4 months ago
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A Time When I Was Tricked Into Being Honest — Bringing Facts Into Work Discussions

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4 months ago
Moving discussions from emotional interpretations to facts and metrics can move a group from conflict to problem-solving.
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Nat Eliason's...
This Moment is Your Life How to not waste it
a year ago
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This Moment is Your Life

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a year ago
How to not waste it
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Grow With Less
Stoicism: Can the Ancient Philosophy Make You a Better Business Owner? I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated...
over a year ago
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Stoicism: Can the Ancient Philosophy Make You a Better Business Owner?

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over a year ago
I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated concepts. So I was pretty surprised when I read Epictetus’ Manual for the first time. The advice in the book was not only understandable but also surprisingly actionable. I have...
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Applied Cartography
YOLO-squashing our Django repository Buttondown's core application is a Django app, and a fairly long-lived one at that — it was, until...
4 months ago
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YOLO-squashing our Django repository

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4 months ago
Buttondown's core application is a Django app, and a fairly long-lived one at that — it was, until recently, sporting around seven hundred migration files (five hundred of which were in emails, the "main" module of the app). An engineer pointed out that the majority of our five...
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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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Tech and Tea
Life is not a race Wisdom from a 6 year-old, and top regrets of the dying
11 months ago
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Life is not a race

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11 months ago
Wisdom from a 6 year-old, and top regrets of the dying
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Found Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This theory actually makes sense of all holiday...
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Found

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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This theory actually makes sense of all holiday creatures that manage to visit every house. Today's News:
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Blog System/5
Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
a year ago
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Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines

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a year ago
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
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Yale E360
Britain Sees Sunniest Spring on Record This spring was the warmest and sunniest on record in the U.K., a symptom of a rapidly warming...
a month ago
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Britain Sees Sunniest Spring on Record

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a month ago
This spring was the warmest and sunniest on record in the U.K., a symptom of a rapidly warming climate, weather officials say. Read more on E360 →
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Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4 These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
a year ago
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Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4

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a year ago
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
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Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
over a year ago
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A Survival Guide to a PhD

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe that's classical at low speeds. Today's News:
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Maps Mania
Mapping Myths Across the World
4 months ago
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Mapping Myths Across the World

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4 months ago
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Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
over a year ago
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The Coddling of the Professional Mind

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over a year ago
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
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Noahpinion
Let us pause to appreciate the remarkable U.S. economy It really doesn't get much better than this, folks.
9 months ago
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Let us pause to appreciate the remarkable U.S. economy

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9 months ago
It really doesn't get much better than this, folks.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator (Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
over a year ago
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PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator

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over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
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Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
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Protological Control: an introduction

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over a year ago
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Seth's Blog
The run-on sentence Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on...
8 months ago
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The run-on sentence

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8 months ago
Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention. The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences shorter. I was reading a magazine article yesterday and was rapidly losing interest....
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Ink & Switch
Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
9 months ago
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Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates

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9 months ago
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
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Common Edge
20 Life Lessons in Architecture (and Beyond) Some suggestions on living a life in design with meaning and purpose.
10 months ago
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20 Life Lessons in Architecture (and Beyond)

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10 months ago
Some suggestions on living a life in design with meaning and purpose.
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Rest of World -...
Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them  Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of...
3 months ago
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Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them 

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3 months ago
Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of generative AI, jobs have become less lucrative and harder to find.
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SOCKS
The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale... Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
a year ago
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The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale Italiana” at Milan Triennale (1936)

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a year ago
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
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Christopher Butler
Periodical 21 – Working Spaces Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by...
8 months ago
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Periodical 21 – Working Spaces

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

8 months ago
Working Spaces dezeen recently featured Nineteen Taiwanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin. My favorite images are the ones that highlight the working nature of the spaces. And the spaces I am most interested in being in are those which embrace the...
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Quanta Magazine
Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a...
a year ago
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Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

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a year ago
Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a group of young physicists think they have resolved the conflict by appealing to the central pillar of the new century — the physics of quantum information. The post...
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Londonist
Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
a year ago
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Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book

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a year ago
London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
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Asterisk
Read This, Not That: The Hidden Cost of Nutrition Misinformation Our daily lives are inundated with misleading claims about nutrition. That’s not just distracting —...
over a year ago
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Read This, Not That: The Hidden Cost of Nutrition Misinformation

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over a year ago
Our daily lives are inundated with misleading claims about nutrition. That’s not just distracting — it’s also harming our health.
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CONTEMPORIST
Custom Bunk Beds Were Designed For This Jungle-Themed Kid’s Bedroom Interior design firm Britt White Studio has shared photos of a jungle-themed kid’s bedroom they...
over a year ago
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Custom Bunk Beds Were Designed For This Jungle-Themed Kid’s Bedroom

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over a year ago
Interior design firm Britt White Studio has shared photos of a jungle-themed kid’s bedroom they designed as part of an overall penthouse project. The room was designed for two brothers, aged 7 and 9, who worked directly with the designers for the creation of their shared room,...
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Old Structures...
So It Begins LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer...
a year ago
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So It Begins

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a year ago
LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer helper. I approve of the reinforced seams in the flat-plane base: Building the stone-tile floor before we’ve completed the base. Very edgy. Clever foundation for the apse. LEGO...
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Benny Kuriakose
Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in...
over a year ago
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Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home

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over a year ago
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in India to the Study Centre for the...
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mtlynch.io
How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019,...
over a year ago
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How to Grow Quickly and Never Turn a Profit

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

over a year ago
Early last year, I launched a nutrition site called Is It Keto. From November 2018 until March 2019, the site was my full-time focus. Every month, visitors increased by 50% to 150%, an exhilarating growth rate that far outpaced any of my previous projects. There was only one...
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Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
5 months ago
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Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025

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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025 A brief excerpt: Earlier this week, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-February 2025 I reviewed home inventory, housing...
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Joel Gascoigne
Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that...
over a year ago
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Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that get up at 5am rule the world" - Robin Sharma Those who know me, know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Death, Indeed, Continually Hovers About Us' A high-school friend writes to ask what I remember of May 4, 1970. We would graduate in a month and...
2 months ago
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'Death, Indeed, Continually Hovers About Us'

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2 months ago
A high-school friend writes to ask what I remember of May 4, 1970. We would graduate in a month and go to university in the fall. The fear and excitement of that symbolic step toward adulthood was blunted by the killing of four students by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanities Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is this the one that gets me that sweet sweet...
12 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanities

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12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is this the one that gets me that sweet sweet hatemail I've craved for 20 years? Today's News:
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A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
over a year ago
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Distributed Logical Time

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over a year ago
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
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journal – Winnie Lim
pandemic grief and sadness One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know...
a year ago
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pandemic grief and sadness

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a year ago
One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know – including the most intelligent and the most socially responsible – throw away all covid...
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TheCollector
Who Were the 5 Most Important Lutheran Reformers? Any student of the Protestant Reformation will be intimately familiar with the likes of Luther and...
4 months ago
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Who Were the 5 Most Important Lutheran Reformers?

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4 months ago
Any student of the Protestant Reformation will be intimately familiar with the likes of Luther and Melanchthon, both of whom spearheaded the reforms in the western church in the first half of the 16th century. However, their legacy only endured because of those who followed their...
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Louwrentius
Script that deletes old files to keep disk from filling up When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur. Therefore, I've created a...
over a year ago
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Script that deletes old files to keep disk from filling up

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur. Therefore, I've created a script that monitors the used space of a volume and deletes the oldest file if a certain threshold is reached. The script will keep on deleting the oldest file present on disk until...
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Open Culture
William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Images via Wikimedia Commons In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs in the American literary...
3 months ago
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William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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3 months ago
Images via Wikimedia Commons In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs in the American literary scene were William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Both were internationally revered, both were masters of the novel and the short story, and both won Nobel Prizes. Born in Mississippi,...
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SatPost by Trung...
Disney's ~$4B Acquisition That (Probably) Saved The Company When Disney made an all-in bet on streaming to take on Netflix, it had to buy a little-known...
5 months ago
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Disney's ~$4B Acquisition That (Probably) Saved The Company

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5 months ago
When Disney made an all-in bet on streaming to take on Netflix, it had to buy a little-known technology unit incubated within the MLB called BAMTech.
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The Elysian
Asia and the future of the nation state A discussion with Benjamin Perry.
8 months ago
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Asia and the future of the nation state

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8 months ago
A discussion with Benjamin Perry.
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Molson Hart's Blog -...
Clarifying the Costs of Selling on Various Marketplaces In my piece on e-commerce in 2020, I made a mistake. I wrote "In 2013, Amazon’s expenses as a...
over a year ago
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Clarifying the Costs of Selling on Various Marketplaces

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over a year ago
In my piece on e-commerce in 2020, I made a mistake. I wrote "In 2013, Amazon’s expenses as a percent of Amazon sales were 33.16%. In 2018, they were 49.70%. In 2020, they were 51.75%." I made a mistake in equating two different calculations. The first calculation is what Amazon...
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO Heritage Sites in India UNESCO World Heritage Sites are globally recognized landmarks celebrated for their cultural,...
3 months ago
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10 Must-See UNESCO Heritage Sites in India

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3 months ago
UNESCO World Heritage Sites are globally recognized landmarks celebrated for their cultural, historical, artistic, or environmental significance. From ancient cities and architectural wonders to biodiversity hotspots, these sites are legally protected to preserve their legacy for...
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Retail Design Blog
Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package,...
a month ago
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Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios

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a month ago
It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package, offering a stylish setting which...
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Tech and Tea
Last chance to join Creating Space! Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with...
2 weeks ago
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Last chance to join Creating Space!

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2 weeks ago
Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with Buster Benson of 750 Words!
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diamond geezer
Haringey NEWS Haringey South southernmost point in the borough of Haringey. Which is this pub on the Seven...
a week ago
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Haringey NEWS

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

a week ago
Haringey South southernmost point in the borough of Haringey. Which is this pub on the Seven Sisters Road. Finsbury Park station is 50 metres away. The southern tip of Haringey is a properly busy spot, a staggered crossroads between a mainline station and a massive park gate....
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Anecdotal Evidence
'He Lies Until the Trauma Trots Away' At age fourteen, our dog, if human, would be eligible for Social Security. Luke sleeps more than he...
2 months ago
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'He Lies Until the Trauma Trots Away'

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2 months ago
At age fourteen, our dog, if human, would be eligible for Social Security. Luke sleeps more than he did when a pup. His rear end aches and he takes nearly as many meds each day as I do. He throws up more often and has trouble jumping on the bed. We indulge him as we would a sick...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles

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over a year ago
Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
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Quanta Magazine
The New Quest to Control Evolution Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it. ...
a year ago
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The New Quest to Control Evolution

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a year ago
Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it. The post The New Quest to Control Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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CONTEMPORIST
A Coffee Shop Inspired By The Spectral Allure Of The Aurora Borealis Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they...
a year ago
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A Coffee Shop Inspired By The Spectral Allure Of The Aurora Borealis

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a year ago
Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, with a sculptural and eye-catching facade. Inspired by the spectral allure of the Aurora Borealis, the design abstractly interprets these atmospheric...
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TheCollector
Great Wall of China Is Centuries Older Than Previously Thought Dating back millennia and once spanning over 13,000 miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the...
4 months ago
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Great Wall of China Is Centuries Older Than Previously Thought

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Dating back millennia and once spanning over 13,000 miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the most ambitious construction projects ever undertaken by humans. Recent excavations at the ancient monument suggest that its oldest sections were built 300 years earlier than...
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Hidden History
World War One Trench Songs Today, we remember the First World War as a long drawn-out stalemate that resulted in four years of...
3 months ago
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World War One Trench Songs

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3 months ago
Today, we remember the First World War as a long drawn-out stalemate that resulted in four years of blood but no gains by anybody—and a peace treaty that did nothing but cause another World War twenty years later. But less often remembered is the fact that the war was one of the...
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The Ruffian
The Infrastructure of Genius Behind every radical breakthrough is someone trying hold back change (or what ABBA and Adam Smith...
over a year ago
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The Infrastructure of Genius

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over a year ago
Behind every radical breakthrough is someone trying hold back change (or what ABBA and Adam Smith have in common)
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Steve Jobs on problem solving When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple,  you don’t really understand the...
over a year ago
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Steve Jobs on problem solving

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

over a year ago
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple,  you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem.  Then you get…
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A Collection of...
Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein...
2 months ago
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Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien

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2 months ago
This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien’s work, which express...
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Seth's Blog
Complaints The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a...
7 months ago
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Complaints

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

7 months ago
The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a useful way to explain our behavior. And best of all, it gives us a way to communicate as we work to create community action. The rest sort of complaint requires generosity and...
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Abort Retry Fail
Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible
a month ago
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Tandy Corporation, Part 3

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a month ago
Becoming IBM Compatible
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Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
5 months ago
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963? An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
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How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?

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a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
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The Ruffian
The Ruffian Speaks An Ad For My Speaking Services (Plus Book Tour News)
4 months ago
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The Ruffian Speaks

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4 months ago
An Ad For My Speaking Services (Plus Book Tour News)
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Flashbak
Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside “I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit     Jindřich Štreit (born 5...
10 months ago
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Jindřich Štreit’s Villge People : Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside

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10 months ago
“I try not to present villages in a romantic way’ – Jindřich Štreit     Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer best known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. His...
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macwright.com
Recently November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow...
over a year ago
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Recently

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over a year ago
November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow takes over. Reading I finally finished Barbarian Days. I think it took over a month to get through it - kept losing momentum by taking a few days off from reading during a trip. It...
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Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
a year ago
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No more talking to politicians

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
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Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
a year ago
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures

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a year ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
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A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
over a year ago
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The difference between web designers and web developers

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over a year ago
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
a year ago
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Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster. I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
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The Intimate Mirror
The Seduction of Rationality How Our Minds Transform Reality to Serve Our Desires
4 months ago
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The Seduction of Rationality

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4 months ago
How Our Minds Transform Reality to Serve Our Desires
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Seth's Blog
The paradox of brittle Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the...
9 months ago
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The paradox of brittle

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9 months ago
Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the short-run, optimization works as long as the world stays the same. We can optimize a device to work at capacity. However, something working at capacity blows up if you step on the gas when...
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Ben Borgers
Pluto was 2006??
over a year ago
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Pluto was 2006??

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over a year ago
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Retail Design Blog
Marsh Offices by Shirli Zamir Design Studio Shirli Zamir Design Studio created a 1000-square-meter space for Marsh in Ramat Gan inspired by the...
a year ago
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Marsh Offices by Shirli Zamir Design Studio

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a year ago
Shirli Zamir Design Studio created a 1000-square-meter space for Marsh in Ramat Gan inspired by the insurance industry, featuring minimalist...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Always have 18 months of cash in the bank I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18...
over a year ago
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank

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over a year ago
I was once told by an experienced entrepreneur (I can’t remember who) to always have at least 18 months of cash in the bank. The logic…
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AVC
A Conversation With Mike Zamansky Mike Zamansky is the person who got me interested in K12 Computer Science Education in NYC, a cause...
over a year ago
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A Conversation With Mike Zamansky

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over a year ago
Mike Zamansky is the person who got me interested in K12 Computer Science Education in NYC, a cause I have now contributed almost fifteen years of my life to. Our family’s public charity, Gotham Gives, has been funding the work we do in K12 Computer Science Education in NYC for...
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TheCollector
What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method? When considering Hegel’s contribution to logic, nothing is more significant than his dialectic...
2 weeks ago
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What Is Hegel’s Dialectic Method?

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2 weeks ago
When considering Hegel’s contribution to logic, nothing is more significant than his dialectic method. The method is prevalent in almost all his works, most notably Logic, Philosophy of History, and Phenomenology of Spirit. He describes it as “the only true method” and the basic...
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TheCollector
The Nag Hammadi Library & the Recovery of the Lost Gnostic Tradition Discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of...
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The Nag Hammadi Library & the Recovery of the Lost Gnostic Tradition

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Discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of ancient texts that has profoundly influenced our understanding of early Christianity and Gnostic beliefs. This remarkable find, consisting of 13 codices and over 50 texts, sheds...
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A Video History of Self-Driving Cars
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A Video History of Self-Driving Cars

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Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
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Digital hygiene: Emails

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Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies

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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
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