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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Latest MBA Weekly...
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From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 21.9 percent from two weeks earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week...
Seth's Blog
Choosing your problems Perhaps you only acknowledge and focus on problems where you know and are comfortable with the...
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Perhaps you only acknowledge and focus on problems where you know and are comfortable with the appropriate response. Denying the existence of the other ones is easier than dealing with them. Or it might be that you only choose to see the problems that are actually situations,...
Willem's Blog
Improve your sleep by blocking light I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's quality. Read along for my findings!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Feckful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of...
7 months ago
Open Culture
How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the...
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3 months ago
We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company in the nineteen-eighties. Even by that time, Kodak had already been a going concern for nearly a century, furnishing photographers around the world...
The Rational Walk
Buffett Accelerates Gifts to Family Foundations For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of...
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For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of the annual commitments pledged in 2006.
Astral Codex Ten
Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity ...
a month ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2023 The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the prize to Pedro Rodrigues, because even though the model number isn’t correct, as far as I can tell the portion of the electronics shown is identical between the TR-729 and the TR-733....
Florian Bellmann |...
Scripting = Configuration The idea of using a scripting language to write configuration is brilliant. Here is why.
a year ago
James Cheshire
Newspapers and the 1976 Drought With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase:...
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over a year ago
With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase: ‘it was this hot in 1976’. Of course it wasn’t, and crucially the planet overall was not as hot then as it is now. Parts of the UK media have had their part to play in fueling...
IEEE Spectrum
This Wearable Computer Made a Fashion Statement Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like...
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Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like no other. The Cyberdesk was an experiment in augmented reality. At a time when computers were mostly beige and boxy, Krohn envisioned a pliable, high-tech garment that fused...
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
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over a year ago
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
diamond geezer
Bus of the day 157 Bus Route Of The Day 157: Crystal Palace to Morden Quadrant: London southwest Length of journey: 12...
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Bus Route Of The Day 157: Crystal Palace to Morden Quadrant: London southwest Length of journey: 12 miles, 70 minutes Because it's 15th July I've been out riding the 157, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. Be warned I have a few of these up my sleeve as the week progresses,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Future Spells Only Disaster' Several weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential books...
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Several weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential books published in the twentieth century,” and listed some of the titles deserving a place in that category. Most, I wrote, “are not found in the traditionally defined literary categories; that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ritual Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd be awesome. Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
How Photorealistic Rendering Made A Difference For This Small Home Office Design This article has been brought to you by RenderDave. Hey everyone, RenderDave here to show you how...
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This article has been brought to you by RenderDave. Hey everyone, RenderDave here to show you how photorealistic rendering made a difference for this small home office design. When architects and interior designers work on a project in programs like Sketchup, Revit, or AutoCAD,...
The History of the...
The Free Web There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it. The post The Free Web...
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There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it. The post The Free Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
a week ago
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs. There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
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over a year ago
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
Notes on software...
Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it....
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a year ago
I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it. What's the difference between @typeInfo and @TypeOf? I ignored this aspect of Zig until a problem came up at work where reflection made sense. The situation was parsing and storing...
xkcd.com
Data Quality [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] ->...
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[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution? undefined
4 months ago
Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sodding Good and Touching Was the Poem' Kingsley Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father published his...
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11 months ago
Kingsley Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father published his first and finest novel, Lucky Jim. Three days later, Philip Larkin completed “Born Yesterday” (The Less Deceived, 1955) and dedicated it to the little girl:  “Tightly-folded bud, I...
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
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Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Many Worlds
Getting To Know Rogue Planets In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large...
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In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large and small orbiting around it.   This is hardly surprising since planets are pretty much exclusively illustrated in solar systems and, until the onset of the 21st century, no other...
Arduino Blog
Build Button Clash in minutes: a new fun game with Plug and Make Kit  The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about turning creative sparks into reality in mere minutes....
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The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about turning creative sparks into reality in mere minutes. With its intuitive, snap-together design, even the wildest ideas become achievable – fast, fun, and frustration-free. That’s exactly what Julián Caro Linares, Arduino’s Product...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Obstacles To Value-Based Care | Out-Of-Pocket taking on risk is easier said than done
a year ago
Astral Codex Ten
Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know ...
a month ago
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven: The Technicals A technical overview of how I'm applying the methods and ideas of the Becoming Data Driven in...
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy? undefined
4 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Cumberland Parkway Time Zone Crossing Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are...
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Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are easily recognizable landmarks. So you simply cross the state line and you change your watch. No big deal. Unfortunately Time Zones cut right through the middle of some states, like...
Steve Klabnik
About Crows
over a year ago
Platformer
13 predictions for platforms in 2023 Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Can unions and industrial policy coexist? They had better learn how to, and quickly.
a year ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Forgotten First Battle: La Maddalena, 1793 undefined
7 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Creating Cyanotypes using the Speedball UV Lamp Cyanotypes are made using a light sensitive solution to create designs on fabric and paper. Prints...
a year ago
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Cyanotypes are made using a light sensitive solution to create designs on fabric and paper. Prints are typically created using direct sunlight. Unfortunately here in the UK, sunshine is often in short supply! But we have discovered a work around using the Speedball UV Lamp, a...
Jonas Hietala
2022 in review A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
a year ago
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A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things. 2022 Non-Geek Achievements We got our third child! This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Math Is Still...
Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum...
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Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones. The post Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TokyoDev
Adoption of Ruby by Japanese Businesses The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi...
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The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi 2007](http://jp.rubyist.net/RubyKaigi2007/). At the conference, from talking to other developers, I was surprised to learn that despite them being passionate about Ruby, they weren't using Ruby at their day job....
Old Structures...
A Primer Worth Reading For people who don’t work on facades in New York, “Here’s why NYC sidewalks are (still) covered with...
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For people who don’t work on facades in New York, “Here’s why NYC sidewalks are (still) covered with 400 miles of scaffolding” by David Brand is worth a look. It’s a good introduction to the tangled issues around sidewalk sheds. A very short summary: the response, for decades, to...
mtlynch.io
End-to-End Testing Web Apps: The Painless Way Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal...
over a year ago
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Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal that their solution requires some hyper-specific tech stack or a paid third-party service. I won’t do that to you. This guide provides a straightforward and flexible template for...
Inverted Passion
Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
a year ago
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
over a year ago
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An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
Noahpinion
Pakistan needs a plan The country can't go on like this. It needs stability, privatization, education, foreign investment,...
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The country can't go on like this. It needs stability, privatization, education, foreign investment, and peace.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 11-17 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Crossing the boundary While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone...
9 months ago
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While I was in Enfield, heading away from the power station, I decided to depart across Sewardstone Marsh. Why exit the dull way when you can cross the Lea and walk through a minor Essex village? The riverside path passed nosey ponies and a pumping station and crossed three...
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
10 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
How to organize content
7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars undefined
9 months ago
Transit Maps
Historical Maps: Private Railways and Extra-urban Tramways of Italy, 1936 I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below –...
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I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below – head to the originating website to view all 20 of them. Enjoy! Source: Stagniweb.it
TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
a year ago
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a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
Construction Physics
Which city builds skyscrapers the fastest? Last week we looked at trends in skyscraper construction speed for New York and Chicago, finding...
a year ago
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Last week we looked at trends in skyscraper construction speed for New York and Chicago, finding that New York has gotten significantly slower at building skyscrapers over time. Chicago, on the other hand, has declined in speed less steadily, and currently builds skyscrapers much...
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
a year ago
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This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
Maps Mania
Giant Dancing Virtual Geoglyphs
a month ago
Maps Mania
Explore the World in 3D
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Salty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We too have our seasons, Frosty. Today's News:
a year ago
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe undefined
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bring on the Vitamines' When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took...
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3 weeks ago
When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took a class in something called “psychological anthropology.” The teacher was personable and the class was a sort of catch basin of random learning. We could write about any stray...
Old Structures...
Reuse, Well Done From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old...
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4 months ago
From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old theater for your big-box store, why not reuse the marquee and vertical knife sign for advertising?
Rest of World -...
Beyond a Barbie ban, Vietnam sets its censors on Netflix It’s not just the summer blockbuster that’s hit a nerve.
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
over a year ago
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When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Flashbak
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of Chicago (Volume 2), 1949 In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot...
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7 months ago
In 1949, Look magazine sent its young photojournalist Stanley Kubrick on assignment to shoot pictures for a story documenting people’s life in the city of Chicago. You can see Volume 1 of his photos here. The series of photographs was accompanied by an essay from the Chicago...
TheCollector
Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete? undefined
a year ago
Unpacked
Tech's Pledge To Fight AI Election Interference & Twillio’s woes with Segment | EP 6 Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary...
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Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary pledge to fight election interference from AI-generated content going through 2024. We dive into the timing of the announcement (2024 is a big election year across the globe), some...
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE) undefined
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Trips to Lesser-Know Destinations by Discover Corps
a year ago
computers are bad
2024-10-12 commercial HF radio According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire undefined
a year ago
Map of the Week
Make the Desert Bloom Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tomas Pueyo has an idea to help combat global warming and rising seas. His idea is to create new seas by flooding several below sea level basins, such as the Dead Sea or Death Valley with seawater to create or enlarge inland seas. Here is an image from his Substack pages showing...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 27 November-3 December 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
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over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: DNS Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
NeuroLogica Blog
Artificial Diamond Boom The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us...
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a year ago
The history of aluminum, and what is now happening in the artificial diamond market, may tell us something about a post-scarcity world. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust. However, it like to form with other elements and therefore it was very difficulty to...
Noahpinion
Why the U.S. should fight Cold War 2 And what it means to "fight" in this case.
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Family Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The Queen frowns upon vacation days. Today's News:
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics....
a year ago
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a year ago
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of...
escape the algorithm
Live Near Friends I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m about to recommend that you subscribe to a product marketing...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m about to recommend that you subscribe to a product marketing email.
Common Edge
What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days? When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
a year ago
Contemporist...
A New Bunkhouse Provides Additional Accommodation For A Family's Cabin On An Island SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington State, that provides additional sleeping accommodations for a family's cabin.
TheCollector
Mark di Suvero California Sculpture Listed for Removal undefined
10 months ago
mtlynch.io
A Beginner's Guide to Mining Siacoin This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This guide is out of date. This post describes mining Sia with a desktop graphics card (GPU), but custom mining hardware is now available for Sia. The custom hardware has made Sia GPU mining non-viable. This guide will still work, but you may never reach payout, even with a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'New Eyes Each Year' From 1955 until his death in 1985, Philip Larkin worked as a librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library...
10 months ago
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From 1955 until his death in 1985, Philip Larkin worked as a librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, eventually becoming its director. Although Larkin complained about the time-consuming nature of the job, taking him away from poetry and other writing,...
Seth's Blog
The status quo is very good… at sticking around. In fact, that’s what it’s best at. New research shows that computers and robots...
a year ago
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a year ago
at sticking around. In fact, that’s what it’s best at. New research shows that computers and robots are now better at solving CAPTCHA puzzles than humans. This was inevitable. The interesting question is, “how long before they go away?” First, someone has to decide that it’s...
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
Nat Eliason's...
Maybe Your Sleep Tracking is Killing You? The Lure of the Measurable
a year ago
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Oscillation This is my 3rd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This is my 3rd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier posts first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line. This happens to me as much as...
Ben Borgers
Your Feelings Are Not Unique
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
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a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Harbinger of a Song Greater Still' “I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me...
a year ago
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a year ago
“I went to him very late each night, and he read many of the poems to me or discussed them with me till the early hours of the morning. The tears often ran down his face as he read, without the slightest apparent consciousness of them on his part. The pathos and grandeur of these...
AVC
Noya Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that “we’ve spent hundreds of years taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into our atmosphere and we are going to spend hundreds of years taking carbon out of the atmosphere...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review) Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
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TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know undefined
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Making software...
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
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CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
Civic Hax
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate....
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over a year ago
Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any! In 2016, I did some work in trying to find some hotspot areas for parking tickets to see if a bit of data munging could reduce those...
Construction Physics
What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs? For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating...
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For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating America’s telephone infrastructure. It manufactured the phones and electrical equipment, laid hundreds of millions of miles of wire across the country, and built and operated the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Yesss Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Mmmm, fully frontal prudity. Today's News:
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Scarlet Ink
6 Ways that Good People Build Trust, and Become Leaders That Others Follow What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many...
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What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many people follow them to their next role. And trust is the core tool to improve that metric.
Arduino Blog
Track the location history of your devices in Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether...
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Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether you’re a logistics company monitoring your fleet, a conservation organization tracking wildlife, or an individual passionate about outdoor adventures, the ability to track and...
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement undefined
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Both Are True
the thoughts that think me i'm not aware of almost anything I am thinking on a daily basis, surely that's not good doc???
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ZYETA‘s design for LinkedIn’s Bengaluru hub focuses on inclusivity, sustainability, and employee well-being, setting a new benchmark in workplace innovation...
TheCollector
La Llorona: Latin America’s Vengeful Ghost in Film & Literature undefined
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RhysTranter.com
Visit to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the...
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a year ago
In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the development of my faith. We even saw Arvo Pärt and his wife Nora shopping at their local...
TheCollector
Beauty That Kills: Was Renaissance Makeup Deadly? undefined
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Diaries of Note
The news from remote France grows more ominous every day Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life...
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a year ago
Siegfried Sassoon was a leading poet of the First World War, known for his vivid depictions of life in the trenches and his criticism of the conflict. In 1918, he had already gained recognition for his poetry, with his first collection, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, published...
Society's Backend
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
a year ago
The Wandering...
The Mathematics of the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling (This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the...
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(This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the pattern with compass and straightedge, go over to Part 1.) In the process of figuring out how to draw this pattern, I ran into a lot of questions, and had to do more than a little...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Causes of Haze
a year ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Thank You Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)  Thanks so much...
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Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)  Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology industry, and still...
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ICML accepted papers institution stats
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Asterisk
California vs. Big Soda Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work. But during the time it took to figure this out, enacting them...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work. But during the time it took to figure this out, enacting them became much harder.
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API → I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
Math Is Still...
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic...
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A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness. The post Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness,...
blag
Projects Some of the projects I have done.
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel - Part I One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every...
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One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern...
xkcd.com
Size Comparisons
a year ago
Raw Thought (from...
Lean into the pain
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Checking linearizability in Go You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to...
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You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to have to deal with the JVM. Porcupine, used by a number of real-world systems like etcd and TiDB, has you covered! Importantly, neither Jepsen projects nor Porcupine can...
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 2 This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
Diaries of Note
The Difficulty with Our Time Known to many as the “father of existentialism,” Søren Kierkegaard was a pivotal Danish philosopher,...
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Known to many as the “father of existentialism,” Søren Kierkegaard was a pivotal Danish philosopher, theologian, and cultural critic of the 19th century. His extensive published writings grappled with complex themes including ethics, religion, and the intricate facets of...
Jonas Hietala
The I'm Great quote A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
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Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
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over a year ago
Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not. Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn’t changed in years....
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing undefined
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Fun or Frustration? Ludum Dare 33 One of my goals this year was to participate in a Ludum Dare. I have cleared up my schedule,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my goals this year was to participate in a Ludum Dare. I have cleared up my schedule, negotiated with my better half and everything is set up for epicness. At first the idea was to make a game in rust, even tough I basically haven’t used it in almost a year, but when I...
Contemporist...
A Contemporary Reimagination Of A Classic New York Pizza Parlor Architecture firm MRDK has recently completed North of Brooklyn Pizzeria in Toronto, Canada, that...
a year ago
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
9 months ago
Londonist
The Crazy Clown Church Service That Happens In Hackney Every February Send in the clowns!
11 months ago
Josh Thompson
Find out how much money you've made (in your entire life) This post went by on the Personal Finance subreddit today: https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/ After...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post went by on the Personal Finance subreddit today: https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount/ After creating an account / logging in, click on Earnings, then add the columns. If you have been working for many years, try copying/pasting the column in excel and using the sum...
Rest of World -...
Why Southeast Asia became a spyware hotspot A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
8 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions and Perform 6 System Checks I had trouble making resolutions this year. Normally I love the process, I make my list, sketch out...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had trouble making resolutions this year. Normally I love the process, I make my list, sketch out a plan, maybe even buy an online course or two. But this year I couldn’t do it. Why was my brain blocking the New Year’s resolution tradition?
Home on Erik...
NoDoc We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about abolishing documentation. Or NoDoc, as I'm going to call this movement. This was meant to be mostly a thought experiment, but I don't see it as complete madness.
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome) Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
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over a year ago
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded all expectations. Today's News:
The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
mtlynch.io
I'm Probably Procrastinating Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights A change to Zestful’s website boosted it to the front page of Google results within days. I’m going to try to make a better version of a decades’ old application for managing machine shops. I’m doing lots of coding to avoid talking to customers. Goal Grades At the...
blag
Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
over a year ago
Londonist
Christmas Shows In London 2023: Fantastically Festive Theatre, Dance And Comedy Including a return for Elf The Musical - and a debut for Christmas Actually.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be...
yesterday
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yesterday
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question. The post Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. first...
TheCollector
10 Historic Hill Towns in Italy You Should Visit undefined
a week ago
The personal website...
How to generate color palettes for design systems It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It used to be easy to pick colors for design systems. Years ago, you could pick a handful of colors to match your brand’s ethos, or start with an off-the-shelf palette (remember flatuicolors.com?). Each hue and shade served a purpose, and usually had a quirky name like “idea...
Home on Erik...
statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
David Heinemeier...
Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right...
Retail Design Blog
CELINE store For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has...
4 months ago
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For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has certainly been...
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Introducing Whisper, A New Way To Write For The Web Today I want to tell you about a writing tool called Whisper that I created for authors who don't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I want to tell you about a writing tool called Whisper that I created for authors who don't want to let their art touch the gunk. But before I get to that, I need to describe my writing process.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Last of All Last Words Spoken Is, Good-bye' Memory is often an obligation, an expression of gratitude and fondness. It can be faulty, of course,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Memory is often an obligation, an expression of gratitude and fondness. It can be faulty, of course, especially with age, and it pays to double-check the important things if you intend to share the memories with others. I’ve just learned that a guy I haven’t seen in half a...
Noahpinion
An Age of Austerity is probably on the way It's not the 2010s anymore.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Wrestling, fighting or dancing? We can wrestle with a challenge or a problem and find energy and possibility while doing it. And we...
a year ago
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a year ago
We can wrestle with a challenge or a problem and find energy and possibility while doing it. And we can dance with someone else as we seek a mutual way forward. Fighting tends to be more brutal, final and hurtful than is often productive. You don’t want to spend your days...
Strange Loop Canon
Is AI hitting a wall?
3 weeks ago
CONTEMPORIST
Sculptural Walls Inspired By The Intricate Detailing Of Indian Temple Architecture Abin Design Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a gallery and store that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Abin Design Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a gallery and store that displays Italian furniture in Kolkata, India. The striking interior seamlessly blends the finesse and elegance of Italian craftsmanship with the vibrancy of Indian design traditions....
Seth's Blog
Five lessons from week one of This is Strategy Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the launch. People generally focus far too much on the launch of a project. Rocketships need a perfect launch, because just about everything after the launch is simply ballistic. But most...
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program? undefined
10 months ago
Moneyness
Who should pay for scams? Victims or their banks? Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC. Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC. Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to reimburse customers who have been scammed? I was recently reading a CBC article about a 63-year old Toronto man who responded to a phone call from a scammer claiming to be a Bank of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2 This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
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over a year ago
This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
The Changelog
Review of Reputable, Functional, and Secure Email Service I last reviewed email services in 2019. That review focused a lot of attention on privacy. At the...
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I last reviewed email services in 2019. That review focused a lot of attention on privacy. At the time, I selected mailbox.org as my provider, and have been using them for these 5 years since. However, both their service and their support have gone significantly downhill since,...
Birchtree
I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules about how often I share them, so here's another collection I enjoyed recently. An oldie but a goodie, I really loved what Scotty was doing back in
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
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over a year ago
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
Castles in the Sky
Beautiful and Ordinary Saturday
a year ago
The American Scholar
On Book August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page The post On...
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a month ago
August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page The post On Book appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jonas Hietala
Going down Ah my first game was so painless so I thought I could do any game I could imagine! Shooters, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah my first game was so painless so I thought I could do any game I could imagine! Shooters, and mario bros kinda stuff. Well now I’m not so upbeat anymore, I’ve worked on this game for 7 days now and it’s not playable at all. With seven days I don’t mean a week, I’ve had a big...
The American Scholar
Bitten The post Bitten appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Neil Madden
A few clarifications about CVE-2022-21449 Just a few quick notes/updates to correct some potentially inaccurate statements that are floating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few quick notes/updates to correct some potentially inaccurate statements that are floating around on Reddit/Twitter etc: The bug only impacts Java 15 and above. The original advisory from Oracle incorrectly listed earlier versions (like 7, 8 and 11) as being impacted....
The American Scholar
Overconsumed Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard The post...
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a month ago
Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard The post Overconsumed appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Good Friday: The Significance of the Day & How Christians Observe It undefined
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Create value If your job feels like a dead end, it might be because you’ve traded agency and responsibility for...
a year ago
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a year ago
If your job feels like a dead end, it might be because you’ve traded agency and responsibility for the feeling of security. But real security lies in creating value. Creating value isn’t easy, but it’s resilient and generous and often profitable. “How do I create more value?” is...
Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
3 months ago
Common Edge
From Venice to Detroit: Laboratories of the Future, Reconsidered Optimism and action trump didactic scolding every time.
a year ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: TRAM d’Alacant Fare Zones, 2023 Submitted by Roberto, who says: I would like to share the TRAM d’Alacant fare zone map. It describes...
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Submitted by Roberto, who says: I would like to share the TRAM d’Alacant fare zone map. It describes the different zones and stops of this tramway/narrow gauge train in the Spanish province of Alacant (Alicante). It’s been reopened recently after six years of renovation works....
Eukaryote Writes...
Who invented knitting? The plot thickens Last time on Eukaryote Writes Blog: You learned about knitting history. You thought you were done...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last time on Eukaryote Writes Blog: You learned about knitting history. You thought you were done learning about knitting history? You fool. You buffoon. I wanted to double check some things in the last post and found out that the origins of knitting are even weirder than I...
The Elysian
The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
2 months ago
The Universe of...
Loki the comedian Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The Æsir have killed Skaði's father, and owe her compensation. She has been sad since her father died, she says, and demands that the Æsir make her laugh. Loki rubs his hands together...
Irrational...
Systems-Thinking
8 months ago
The Roots of...
Accelerating science through evolvable institutions This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on “Accelerating Science.” We’re here to discuss “accelerating science.” I like to start on topics like this by taking the historical view: When (if ever) has science accelerated in the...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
Platformer
Reddit doubles down Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.' a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
Platformer
Five reasons Threads could still go the distance One week later, engagement is down — but the prize is still there for the taking
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the...
8 months ago
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After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the Hamiltonian of a physical system at any constant temperature. The post Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
Divided Providence Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War The post Divided Providence appeared first on...
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Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War The post Divided Providence appeared first on The American Scholar.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
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8 months ago
If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Irrational...
Eng-Strategy-Book
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Moneyness
Thoughts on Privacy Pools and the law Here's my quick first-pass take on Privacy Pools, the heir apparent to privacy tool Tornado Cash. My...
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a year ago
Here's my quick first-pass take on Privacy Pools, the heir apparent to privacy tool Tornado Cash. My comments are on the legal side, and less so the technical side, although the two aren't mutually exclusive.  I've already written a bunch of times about Tornado Cash on this blog....
Stephen Diehl
A Haskell Reading List
over a year ago
Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965 We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
a year ago
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a year ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
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Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot sales continue running strong despite a delay in launching our next product. I analyze how I’m spending my time and figure out ways to allocate my hours better. Goal Grades At the...
The American Scholar
“À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire appeared first on The...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire appeared first on The American Scholar.
Mark Manson
Are You Entertained—Or Addicted? In David Foster Wallace’s classic novel, Infinite Jest, there's a movie that is so entertaining that...
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over a year ago
In David Foster Wallace’s classic novel, Infinite Jest, there's a movie that is so entertaining that anyone who views even a small portion of it will give up all desire to do anything else in life in order to keep watching. Throughout the book, characters who see it give up...
Tech + Economics +...
Bitcoin ETFs will make greater fools of us all. Reuters: US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan...
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12 months ago
Reuters: US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday approved the first U.S.-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) to track bitcoin, its Chair Gary Gensler said, in a...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
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