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CEO diary: The things I learned in 2022 It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for...
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It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for PostHog. Here's my personal perspective on how it…
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Joker; One Who Breaks a Jest' When I encountered the word witcracker in Much Ado About Nothing, I marked it for further use and...
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When I encountered the word witcracker in Much Ado About Nothing, I marked it for further use and found myself silently singing it to the tune of “Matchmaker,Matchmaker” from Fiddler on the Roof: “Witcracker, witcracker, / Make me a wit . . .” In Shakespeare’s Act V, Scene 4,...
Diaries of Note
Nothing can be less beautiful than the first sight of London Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with...
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Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with intellectual curiosity. Born in Suffolk, England in 1819, her now-celebrated journal contains not just her intricate observations of the natural world, but also thoughtful reflections...
xkcd.com
Númenor Margaritaville
3 months ago
Adventures In...
Stories Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is...
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Here are some StoryMap stories that I’ve written over the years… Piracy & Time Travel How Deep is Challenger Deep? Julie’s Improbable Flight How to Write a Story, starring sharks and hurricanes Gap, Pass, Notch, & Saddle College Football Air Mile Index Rivers of Plastic Smoking,...
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
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Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
Moneyness
Kraken v Kraken, or how to protect the public from crypto exchange failures It's been a full year since FTX International and FTX-US collapsed, and the shocking thing is –...
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It's been a full year since FTX International and FTX-US collapsed, and the shocking thing is – there is still no regulated crypto venue in the U.S.! You'd think some lessons would have been learnt. To best protect the public from the Sam Bankman-Frieds of the world, what the...
Marian's Blog
16×16 LED Matrix This is a 16×16 RGB LED matrix, made of 256 WS2812B LEDs. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and can...
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This is a 16×16 RGB LED matrix, made of 256 WS2812B LEDs. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and can display images and animations. With a game controller attached, it can play games. The pictures below show how I built the frame. Painting the base plate Drawing...
Irrational...
Staff-Plus
6 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Digital vs analog error correction The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure...
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The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure I understood it. I figured others might find it interesting, too. ~ ~ ~ Digital signal processing corrects for errors better than its analog counterpart. This is one of the...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn JamesHoare Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
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mtlynch.io
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It...
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For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present. Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than that. The first two years Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Setting up Medley for TableBrowser development <![CDATA[Although Medley's documentation and published material is scattered across several archives...
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<![CDATA[Although Medley's documentation and published material is scattered across several archives and sources, and doesn't cover all the system facilities, once I find the right document I get most of the information I need on a specific feature. But sometimes the information...
xkcd.com
Situation
6 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
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While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
Josh Thompson
The Complete Guide to Rails Performance: basic setup You know the feeling. You are excited to start a guide or a tutorial. You buy it, crack it open, and...
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You know the feeling. You are excited to start a guide or a tutorial. You buy it, crack it open, and start working through the environment setup. Then… something goes wrong. Next thing you know, you’ve spent two three too many hours debugging random crap, and you’re not even done...
Rest of World -...
In Southeast Asia, Ramadan is an online shopping bonanza An e-commerce battle brews between Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop with the continued rise of...
9 months ago
TokyoDev
How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby...
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I came to Japan on a working holiday visa in 2006, and [found a job as a Ruby developer](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan) at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
nanoscale views
Getting light out of plasmonic tunnel junctions - the sequel A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal tunnel junctions.  In that work, we showed that in a planar tunnel junction, you can apply a bias voltage \(V\) and get lots of photons out at energies quite a bit greater than...
Tony Dinh's...
Sep 2022: I'm on Indie Hackers Podcast! Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0 I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
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I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
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When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9 months ago
The Marginalian
Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and... The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.
a year ago
The Elysian
The "letters to an anarchist" post-mortem Peter and I discuss our letter writing series.
a month ago
The Marginalian
There Was a Shadow: A Lyrical Illustrated Celebration of the Changing Light, in the World and in the... “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese...
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“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty,” Junichiro Tanizaki wrote in the 1933 Japanese classic In Praise of Shadows. As a physical phenomenon, shadows are one of the most beguiling phenomena of nature, emissaries of the entwined history of light and consciousness; as...
Maps Mania
Free Maps for All
3 months ago
sbensu
There Is No Antimemetics Division Notes on the book.
3 months ago
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women undefined
5 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should start marketing early * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
The Architectural...
Can We Afford More Modernist Buildings? A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to...
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A common myth suggests that the unattractiveness of new buildings over the last century is due to rational or economic reasons, implying that building beautifully is too costly. In this article, I’ll debunk this idea and uncover the real reason behind the prevalence of...
Math Is Still...
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of...
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes. The post New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks...
mtlynch.io
Resurrecting a Dead Library: Part Two - Stabilization In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is...
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In this post, I demonstrate how to retrofit automated tests onto an untested legacy library. This is part two of a three-part series about how I resurrected ingredient-phrase-tagger, a library that uses machine learning to parse cooking ingredients (e.g., “2 cups milk”) into...
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
over a year ago
Wuthering...
Lucian's satires - Frankly he's a blamed nuisance The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago...
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The great 2nd century satirist Lucian was a great shock to me at one point, twenty-five years ago when I got serious about classical literature.  I had never heard of him, partly because of the odd historical artifact where what he writes is called “Menippean satire” even though...
ntietz.com blog
The most important goal in designing software is understandability When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
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When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
Birchtree
My default apps of 2024 Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default...
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Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default apps, and I though it would be fun to turn this into a tradition and revisit the list to see if anything has changed since last year. ✨ next to each change
diamond geezer
SL10 Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new...
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Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new outer orbital bus route yesterday, a peripheral dash connecting the boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet. new Superloop service, the previous four merely being existing routes...
Diaries of Note
The Pole at Last!!! Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had...
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had eluded explorers for centuries: reaching the North Pole. Driven by ambition and unwavering determination, Peary, an American explorer and United States Navy officer, believed he...
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
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I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
Spoon & Tamago
Coworking Space in Kinosaki Onsen Encourages Users to Take Bath Breaks Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The...
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Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The Kinosaki International Art Center (KIAC) is a multipurpose community center located in Kinosaki Onsen, a quaint town on the coast of Japan that’s known for their natural hot...
TheCollector
Battle of Kursk: The Largest Tank Battle in History undefined
11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future. With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
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I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert ‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert   Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
Don Melton
Sorry, we’re closed For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
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For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway. I still have a passion for making...
Oykun
The Almanac of Naval Ravikant My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my...
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My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my annual re-reading list. Lots of common sense practices in this book. I especially liked how Naval emphasises the importance of being a perpetual learner and reader which I greatly value...
Atoms vs Bits
Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
2 months ago
Archinect - Features
How to Effectively Introduce Your Architecture Firm in Under 2 Minutes Recently, we explained how to create an elevator pitch for your architecture portfolio when...
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Recently, we explained how to create an elevator pitch for your architecture portfolio when searching for your next role as a job seeker. As we noted, the ability to capture a body of work as rich, complex, and varied as an architecture portfolio in a timely, clear, and succinct...
TheCollector
What Is Voguing? undefined
10 months ago
Bits about Money
The Bond villain compliance strategy Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out...
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Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out for Binance and its CEO. Spoiler: poorly.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Marie Antoinette Syndrome? undefined
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Year in Review – 2023 At Work Despite challenges that made time seem like a rubber band — the AI panic of Q1, inflation,...
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At Work Despite challenges that made time seem like a rubber band — the AI panic of Q1, inflation, economic contractions, new services and staff growing by more than 30%, all of which kept me very busy at work — the year went by quickly. This is because I’m in my forties and...
High Signal
Making $15k a month from an AI app Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a...
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Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a Mac desktop app which lets you use LLMs straight from your Apple machine. I talked to Daniel about his tips for learning to code, how he made BoltAI and the
Arduino Blog
How to use vintage LED bubble displays with your Arduino If you want to add a display to your Arduino project, the easiest solution will likely be an LCD or...
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If you want to add a display to your Arduino project, the easiest solution will likely be an LCD or OLED screen. But though those are affordable and work really well, they may not provide the vibe you’re looking for. If you want a more vintage look, Vaclav Krejci has a great...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Underground Art Scene
a month ago
TheCollector
Cricket & Colonialism: A Tale of Imperial Power & Influence undefined
4 months ago
The personal website...
Collaborative design research I spend a lot of my day talking to myself. “Maybe this whole experience should just be a chat...
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I spend a lot of my day talking to myself. “Maybe this whole experience should just be a chat interface,” I think while brushing my teeth. “What if that component didn’t have borders?” I ask to nobody while cooking dinner. The office-less office doesn’t help; I’m nostalgic for...
Londonist
Christmas Transport In London: What's Running, What's Closed, And What About Those Strikes? Fingers crossed we have a strike-free festive period...
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
How to delete a tag on GitHub In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot...
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In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot of folks will argue that you shouldn't delete tags, but there are real-world examples in which tags need to be deleted.  That said, it's both a good and a bad thing that GitHub...
TheCollector
How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness? undefined
3 months ago
Platformer
The Biden administration turns its attention toward AI The Commerce Department asks for public comment. Here are three problems it should consider
a year ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged September 30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi,"...
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30 unblogged things I did in September (contains nine additional clickable photos) Fri 1: "Hi," said the email. "I hope this doesn't come across as too strange but here goes. I was recently browsing eBay for a few things and came across something that I think you might like. So...
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The tradeoff between open and closed When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions...
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When having the “open vs closed” debate regarding a technology platform, a number of distinctions need to be made. First, what exactly is…
diamond geezer
Pentonville Road PENTONVILLE ROAD £120   London's Monopoly Streets PENTONVILLE ROAD Colour group: light...
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PENTONVILLE ROAD £120   London's Monopoly Streets PENTONVILLE ROAD Colour group: light blue Purchase price: £120 Rent: £8 Length: ¾ mile Borough: Islington Postcode: N1 Euston Road and the Angel Islington. That's because it's another segment of the New Road, London's first...
Identity Designed
Juicy Sonic Magic Designed by The Collected Works, New York.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The CEO helping thousands of women in Latin America launch successful online businesses Zach Oschin is the founder of Elenas, an app used by women to digitize their catalog sales.
11 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Offline Advocate Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of...
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Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind.
MMapped blog
Candid for engineers
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
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In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
TheCollector
Who Were the Twelve Disciples & What Happened to Them? undefined
6 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
März book covers, 1969–1987 Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights Reserved. März Texte 1, 1969. Compilation of texts by Bazon Brock, Peter O. Chotjewitz, William S. Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Uve Schmidt, Hermann Nitsch, and others. Among German...
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
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Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
Explorations of an...
Day Three at Río Bigal: A Rainout, Another Snake, And More Mothing Adventures Part of the reason why I gave myself five nights to spend at Río Bigal was to mitigate in case I had...
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Part of the reason why I gave myself five nights to spend at Río Bigal was to mitigate in case I had a couple of days washed out by heavy rain. The eastern Andes of Ecuador receive a high amount of precipitation. Moisture-laden air from the Amazon basin drifts westwards to the...
nanoscale views
What is a metal-insulator transition? The recent excitement about the alleged high temperature superconductor "LK99" has introduced some...
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The recent excitement about the alleged high temperature superconductor "LK99" has introduced some in the public to the idea of a metal-insulator or insulator-metal transition (MIT/IMT).  For example, one strong candidate explanation for the sharp drop in resistance as a function...
The Rational Walk
Will Berkshire Hathaway Pay a Dividend? Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well...
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Investors have been debating the dividend question for decades. So far, shareholders have been well served by Warren Buffett's reluctance to send out dividend checks.
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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Noahpinion
In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear Bloggers love to argue.
3 months ago
diamond geezer
Route 310 Route 310: Golders Green - Stamford Hill Length of journey: 7 miles, 45 minutes promised during the...
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Route 310: Golders Green - Stamford Hill Length of journey: 7 miles, 45 minutes promised during the Mayoral election. It shadows two existing bus routes. It's being delivered on a twelve-month trial basis. It runs every day but not all of the day. It tackles one very specific...
Seth's Blog
Our new school When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small...
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When I include links to various books and items on this blog, your purchases generate a small royalty that I earmark for worthy causes. This year, we were able to help BuildOn and the community in Khakh build a new school. It’s the first real school building the village has ever...
Musings on Markets
For the fun of it: An Open House for my Spring 2025 Classes I am a teacher at heart, and every year, for more than two decades, I have invited people to join me...
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I am a teacher at heart, and every year, for more than two decades, I have invited people to join me in the classes that I teach at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Since I teach these classes only in the spring, and the first sessions for each of the classes...
Strange Loop Canon
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
a month ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Back to Lisp <![CDATA[Planet Python carried out my request to remove my blog from the aggregator. Now their feed...
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<![CDATA[Planet Python carried out my request to remove my blog from the aggregator. Now their feed no longer syndicates my posts about Python, which I'll no longer write much about. Planet Python is an aggregator of blogs, podcasts, and other resources of interest to the Python...
abdz.do - Have you...
Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV abduzeedo0501—23 ...
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Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV abduzeedo0501—23 GV, previously known as Google Ventures, recently underwent a rebranding and relaunch of their corporate website with a simpler UX. The new strategy and branding was created by the...
The Modern House
Kitchen tips and kimchi pancakes with Jesse Jenkins, founder of Another Day in Paradise
a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Baseball Diamonds We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York....
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We would never have come this way if weren't for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Not that I wanted to go there that badly, but when we took the kids to a baseball game back in Florida the Baseball Hall of Fame somehow came up and I remember Elliott saying "can...
Math Is Still...
The Year in Math Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time...
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Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Open Culture
How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his...
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It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his mark on the culture in a place like Williamsburg. But in the case of Man Ray, Williamsburg was his past. One must remember that the Brooklyn of today bears little resemblance to the...
Jonas Hietala
Autocomplete with nvim-cmp Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I...
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Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I must assume most programmers—use all the time. It’s not as crucial for writing blog posts as when you’re coding but it’s still easy to come up with examples of how autocomplete...
TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know undefined
4 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
The Noncommuting-Charges World Tour (Part 1 of 4) Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many...
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Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many similarities with fairy tales. For example, most of them begin with a familiar opening. In thermodynamics, the phrase “Consider an isolated box of particles” serves a similar purpose …...
Wanderingspace
Europa Seen by Juno Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the image to enhance the color and contrast.
over a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
in the mountains at chiang mai After spending a while in the city we moved to the mountains for a bit. Previously I had avoided any...
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In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page: "Which technology is worth learning in 2020?" And the most "upvoted" answer was: Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL Well,...
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There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
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If you count eyeballs, the zombie-mobileis the most popular story I have written. This week instead of my normal essay I want to simply point you to a show that will surely appeal to fans of car design and haters of the crossover.
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On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they refused to record until they got their fair share. Evan Chung explores one of the most consequential labor actions of the 20th...
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Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully electric, Arduino-powered car that’s as innovative as it is sustainable. Called the Batteryrunner, this vehicle is designed with a focus on environmental impact, simplicity, and custom...
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Cadence Architects has sent us photos of a new modern home they completed in Krishnagiri, India, that features a cube design with cut-outs. The K-Home, located in a busy residential neighborhood, has strategically scooped-out segments that create dynamic openings that frame the...
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The attention economy is booming. While advertising, e-commerce, and social media are dominated by monopolies, the market for our attention is flush with competition. New movie studios, VR platforms, streaming services, and merchandisable cinematic universes are launched every...
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Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
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For half a century my brother earned his living making picture frames, some of which were themselves works of art. In later years he relied more on accounts with hotel chains and the glass office buildings in downtown Cleveland. Frames for these corporate accounts he called...
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I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
Seth's Blog
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Good pizza is rare, even though the method to create it is well known. Any efforts to make it more convenient, cheaper or easier will almost always make it worse. If you think this post is about pizza, I’m afraid that we’re already stuck.
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From Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, a view of 42nd Street looking east. On the left, Grand Central Terminal, the Commodore Hotel, and the Chrysler Building. On the right, the Pershing Square Building, the Bowery Savings Bank midtown branch, the Chanin Building, the Socony-Mobil...
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What does it mean to “trust science”? And this, my children, is why we do not say things like “I believe in science”. I mean, don’t get me...
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And this, my children, is why we do not say things like “I believe in science”. I mean, don’t get me wrong, science definitely exists—I’ve seen it. But not everything that calls itself science is science, and even good science sometimes gets wrong results. –Megan McArdle Should...
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It was towards the end of his life in 1979 that John Cheever told his son, Benjamin, about his journals, and of his wish for them to be published after his death. These journals comprised twenty-nine looseleaf notebooks filled with entries that, in Cheever’s inimitable style,...
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Romantic relationships get all the attention, but I'd argue that friendships are just as important—if not more so—for our health and happiness. Just like with romantic relationships, creating fulfilling, lasting friendships as an adult can be really hard. But… Why? I mean, sure,...
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A Tesla Powered by Insects An exhausted beetle crawled across the palm of a young child’s hand. The boy rotated his arm as the...
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An exhausted beetle crawled across the palm of a young child’s hand. The boy rotated his arm as the bug walked, creating an endless treadmill for his little friend. Around and around the June bug went until eventually it flew away. As he watched it leave, the boy made a...
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RITM Generator, an interactive tool that generates abstract waveform graphics AoiroStudio0131—23 In the world of design, innovation is key to pushing the boundaries of what's possible. And Antlii's latest project is doing just that with RITM,...
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I am not sure why, but I don’t have much interest in life. I have been this way for as long as I can remember, though I am not sure if my...
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Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order...
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We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order to increase or decrease the activity of specific regions and circuits in the brain. Such treatments are already shown to be effective in treating some Parkinson’s symptoms,...
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Molecular electronics in 2023 This past week I was fortunate to attend this meeting, the most recent in an every-few-years series...
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This past week I was fortunate to attend this meeting, the most recent in an every-few-years series that brings together a group of researchers interested in electronic transport in molecular systems.  This brings together physicists and chemists, and this was the first one I've...
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The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement ...
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Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and…
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Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
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It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
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Navigators In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is...
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In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes: Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
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Lets say you have a list of valid items, and you want to run another array against it, and pull out the items that don’t match. You don’t want to iterate through all of the items in one array, calling other_array.include?(item). (That’s computationally expensive) valid_people =...
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Patterned Brickwork Is Featured On The Exterior Of The Ace Hotel In Toronto Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in...
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Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in Toronto, Canada, which has a red brick facade that draws guests in with a wood-lined opening. Working closely with the creative agency Atelier Ace, the architects of the hotel...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
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There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
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A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
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If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
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Visit to Oxford Oratory This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few...
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This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few quiet moments, I had an opportunity to pray at the Oxford Oratory on Woodstock Road
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We began to explore a little further afield, still within Dorset, as we began to settle in to our home for the week. That took us a little further west and a few miles inland from the English Channel. It included a lot of open countryside and then a sizeable settlement....
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A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
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I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started. I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
Spoon & Tamago
You’ll Soon Be Able to Stay in One of Japan’s Most Beautifully Designed Prisons photos by Masashi Mizowaki and Takaharu Yagi Spending the night in jail is usually not a good thing....
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photos by Masashi Mizowaki and Takaharu Yagi Spending the night in jail is usually not a good thing. Unless of course you’re staying in Japan’s Nara Prison, a historic red-brick structure built in 1908 with western archways and onion domes that lend an air of castle more than...
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Whither Utopia? The mystery of why we don't dream of building perfect societies anymore
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Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
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Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
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One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Diaries of Note
It is in solitude that being shows its worth When she wrote the following entry in her diary, 18-year-old Simone de Beauvoir was on the cusp of...
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When she wrote the following entry in her diary, 18-year-old Simone de Beauvoir was on the cusp of adulthood and soon to begin studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. Born into an upper-middle-class family in Paris, even at this early age the seeds of her introspective nature and...
99% Invisible
The Country of the Blind [EPISODE] We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway...
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We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but...
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25 years of hurt 25 years ago today a total solar eclipse could be seen from the UK. How is that ever quarter of a...
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25 years ago today a total solar eclipse could be seen from the UK. How is that ever quarter of a century ago? small part of the UK mainland in south Devon and Cornwall, arriving over Land's End at 11:10am and departing near Salcombe five minutes later. All you had to do to...
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Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
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Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Asterisk
Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning? Across the world, more students than ever are in school. But it’s not clear that they're learning...
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Across the world, more students than ever are in school. But it’s not clear that they're learning more while there — or if that’s even the goal.
The Modern House
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Thinking about your goal with a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often reflect...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often reflect upon the differences between my previous startup and Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and think about what changes to my mindset affected the better outcome this time compared with...
Melting Asphalt
Here Be Sermons I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite...
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I've long turned up my nose at sermons and related forms of mass moralizing. One reason, quite simply, is that they bore me. Honesty good. Violence bad. My eyes glaze over. Empathy, rah! Racism, boo! Please, don't we know this… Read more ›
diamond geezer
Unblogged September 30 unblogged things I did in September Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour....
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30 unblogged things I did in September Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour. Yesterday it was in Shanghai, today it's in Köln and tomorrow it'll be in Stanford le Hope. Mon 2: At Gipsy Hill station I spotted a cat on the Oyster reader, and quite frankly this...
Spoon & Tamago
Tumi-Isi Wooden Stacking Rocks Designed by Nara-based design studio A4, tumi-isi (積み石; ‘stacking stones’ in Japanese) are a set of...
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Designed by Nara-based design studio A4, tumi-isi (積み石; ‘stacking stones’ in Japanese) are a set of 5 blocks individually hand bevelled into asymmetrical shapes by local artisans. No two sets are identical. These tactile objects are meant to nourish your sense of balance and...
Patterns in Humanity
When few do great harm Power laws in criminal behavior
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Quantum Frontiers
Identical twins and quantum entanglement “If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties,...
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“If I had a nickel for every unsolicited and very personal health question I’ve gotten at parties, I’d have paid off my medical school loans by now,” my doctor friend complained. As a physicist, I can somewhat relate. I occasionally … Continue reading →
Cheese and Biscuits
The White Horse, Churton Churton is not a place you're supposed to have heard of, so don't feel bad if you haven't. Unlike...
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Churton is not a place you're supposed to have heard of, so don't feel bad if you haven't. Unlike its larger, and lets face it more attractive, neighbour Farndon with its pretty medieval half-timbered cottages and 14th century church tower, or Tattenhall to the east, another...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates' Wayward Student ...and the Philosophy of Pleasure
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Noahpinion
Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? A guest post by Brian Potter of Construction Physics.
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Gentle Scrabble hacks Perhaps these might make a great game more fun: Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as...
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Perhaps these might make a great game more fun: Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as regular Scrabble, but focus on increasing the total score of all players instead of defeating the others. It’s subtle, it can be challenging for a good player, and it creates more...
Epic Web Dev
Fully Typed Web Apps The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to...
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The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Efficient Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If heroes would just check the betting markets...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If heroes would just check the betting markets before fighting they could make much better choices. Today's News:
Home on Erik...
Subway waiting math Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found...
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Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it's worth just giving up. This isn't a proof that the subway doesn't run on time – in fact it might actually proves that the subway runs really...
Louwrentius
Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
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During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
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A Guide to Mindful Travel in Greater Palm Springs
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
TheCollector
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Newsletter One + Patient Zero | Out-Of-Pocket Shall we begin?
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Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
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Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
diamond geezer
Weather 2023 the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too...
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the dg weather review of the year used to do this with big colourful monthly tables but that's too much effort for too little reward so here's a breezier summary. All data is for Hampstead, as per usual.  temperaturerainfallsunshine Janmild then...
Londonist
London On Fire: Paintings Of The Blitz By The Firefighters Who Were There City's darkest hour captured in vivid paint.
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Vadim Kravcenko
🥇 The unfair advantage 🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The...
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🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The post 🥇 The unfair advantage appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
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Anecdotal Evidence
'His Empty Heart is Full at Length' Two-hundred-fifty years ago, in the late summer and fall of 1773, Dr. Johnson and Boswell made their...
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Two-hundred-fifty years ago, in the late summer and fall of 1773, Dr. Johnson and Boswell made their grand tour of Scotland, including the Hebrides, and both would publish accounts of their adventures. Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland appeared in...
Contemporist...
A Circular Off-Grid Home In Costa Rica Studio Saxe has shared photos of a secluded circular home they designed that's located deep within...
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Studio Saxe has shared photos of a secluded circular home they designed that's located deep within Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula.
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817 Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Farza's Newsletter
been playing mario kart on my tamagotchi Hey everyone! Chilling at a little cafe right now. Got a cappuccino and a cheese danish. So, we’re...
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Hey everyone! Chilling at a little cafe right now. Got a cappuccino and a cheese danish. So, we’re working on _buildspace now and a lot of folks have asked me about why we pivoted away from ZipSchool. I’ll answer that question with a screenshot from our investor update below:
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
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Arduino Blog
Bringing Quake to Arduino: a game-changing project by Nicola Wrachien Following up on his successful Doom port last year, engineer Nicola Wrachien – who works at Silicon...
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Following up on his successful Doom port last year, engineer Nicola Wrachien – who works at Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world and long-time Arduino partner – has now tackled an even bigger challenge: porting Quake, the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm like 4 comics away from the Clown Book. Today's...
a year ago
MMapped blog
IC internals: Internet Identity storage
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The Marginalian
There’s a Ghost in the Garden: A Subtle and Soulful Illustrated Fable about Memory and Mystery One of the things no one tells us as we grow up is that we will be living in a world rife with...
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One of the things no one tells us as we grow up is that we will be living in a world rife with ghosts — all of our disappointed hopes and our outgrown dreams, all the abandoned novels and unproven theorems, all the people we used to love, all the people we used to be. A ghost is...
Retail Design Blog
Mercure Bukhara Old Town Hotel by ARC Architects The project is situated in the northern part of Bukhara, close to the Samarkand Gates, a significant...
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The project is situated in the northern part of Bukhara, close to the Samarkand Gates, a significant transport and trade...
blag
Recurse Center Day 11: B Tree Insertions I started writing code for B Tree insertions
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Diaries of Note
I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting On 20th November 1825, shortly after reading the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron for the...
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On 20th November 1825, shortly after reading the diaries of Samuel Pepys and Lord Byron for the first time, Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott began his own diary by way of the following opening entry. Fifty-four at the time, Scott had already established himself as a...
Retail Design Blog
Gutteridge Corso Vittorio Emanuele Milano Flagship Store The immeasurable heritage of the Gutteridge brand intends to remain an absolute priority in the...
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The immeasurable heritage of the Gutteridge brand intends to remain an absolute priority in the design approach and vision for...
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Illinois Cliffs If you look at a map of the U.S., there's a few routes that will get you from Pensacola FL to...
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If you look at a map of the U.S., there's a few routes that will get you from Pensacola FL to Wisconsin. They all have one things in common: they pass through Illinois. Unfortunately, there isn't much camping in Illinois, and what camping there is... is generally not great. We've...
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...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of March. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Uxn, lots of progress on Uxn, started documenting the assembly...
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Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too...
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In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for 1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities. ingredients Rough quantities per person: 100g pasta Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: (sorry) Today's News:
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Costly Impact of Non-Strategic Patents The five largest auto manufacturers will face massive U.S. patent fees within the next five years....
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The five largest auto manufacturers will face massive U.S. patent fees within the next five years. This report examines auto industry lapse trends and how a company’s decisions on keeping, selling or pruning patents can greatly impact its cost savings and revenue generation...
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983 In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
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In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism and the Path to Finding Inner Peace in Your Life In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events,...
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In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events, emotions, and distractions around us. Many of us seek a sense of inner peace, a place of refuge from the chaos of the outside world. While there are many paths to inner peace, one...
Map of the Week
Huge Lego Model of the Lake District Artist Jon Tordoff has made a 100 square foot, 200,000 piece (so far) Lego model of England's Lake...
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Artist Jon Tordoff has made a 100 square foot, 200,000 piece (so far) Lego model of England's Lake District. via Getty Images  The model began as a pandemic recreation map of Buttermere, his favorite spot.  "Now I've come over the Honister Pass, up Borrowdale and I've got...
NeuroLogica Blog
It’s Not Possible – Until Suddenly It Is There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the...
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There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the world is political will. Often politicians and motivational speakers will say something along the lines of, “We can do anything, if we put our minds to it.” While this sounds like...
CONTEMPORIST
The Design Of This Shingle-Clad Hotel Lobby Was Inspired By A Coconut Architecture firm Onion, has shared photos of a hotel lobby they completed for Holiday Inn Samui in...
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Architecture firm Onion, has shared photos of a hotel lobby they completed for Holiday Inn Samui in Thailand, whose design is inspired by the coconut shell after its meat has been grated to make Thai dessert. The curved building exterior is clad with wooden shingles, with...
Posts on Made of...
Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance) For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
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For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
Maps Mania
The Map of Roman Amphitheaters
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web...
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over a year ago
Google is fighting battles on almost every front:  social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.  Much…
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Left To Write
What A Moroccan Uber Driver Can Teach Us About Living Life is simple, but we insist on complicating it
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Using Custom Searches in Safari (in 2022) I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss most from Chrome is custom searches. There you can search Amazon directly from the address bar by doing: You can change the search prompts to be single letters like ‘a’ for...
Seth's Blog
The Hegelochus lesson More than 2,000 years ago, an actor in Greece botched a line in a play. In an inflection error, he...
a year ago
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a year ago
More than 2,000 years ago, an actor in Greece botched a line in a play. In an inflection error, he said “weasel” when he meant to say “calm sea.” As a result, he was mocked by Sannyrion and then Aristophanes and others. He never worked again. The lesson might be that one innocent...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #11: Brennan Lee Mulligan This is the eleventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
a month ago
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a month ago
This is the eleventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with Brennan Lee Mulligan, a comedian and host with Dropout TV, where he’s...
Math Is Still...
Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program. The post Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
Things To Do This Week In London: 13-19 November 2023 Winter Wonderland, Doctor Who, Elf The Musical and Christmas at Kew.
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
$322 → $2K MRR in 60 days by building in public Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
Maps Mania
The Interactive Pathfinding Map
a year ago
Liz Denys
Hardbrücke, Zürich The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.