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Open Culture
60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles &... During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on...
a month ago
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60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang

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

a month ago
During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled fiction. These films were set in dark locations and shot in a black & white aesthetic that fit like a glove. Hardened men wore fedoras and forever smoked cigarettes. Women...
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Escaping Flatland
Look for people who likes the illegible you of today, not your past achievements Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth...
a year ago
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Look for people who likes the illegible you of today, not your past achievements

from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth about the world, there exist groups that encourage divergence and healthy individuation.
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A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
a year ago
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Thoughts on Framework Churn

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

a year ago
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster. Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
A demo notefile for WebCard <![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
8 months ago
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A demo notefile for WebCard

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file that stores the data of a NoteCards hypertext. The notefile WCDEMO.NOTEFILE contains exmples of Web cards filed into various types of containers and cards such as fileboxes and Text...
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Open Culture
The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward...
9 months ago
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The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris

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

9 months ago
It’s hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether or not we want to reward someone who tried to subvert our democracy four years ago. Whether we want to preserve the alliances that have kept the peace since World War II. Whether women want to resist losing...
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The Honest Broker
I Revisit My Doom-and Gloom Forecasts What did I get right? What did I get wrong? And what will happen next?
over a year ago
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I Revisit My Doom-and Gloom Forecasts

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

over a year ago
What did I get right? What did I get wrong? And what will happen next?
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HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
6 months ago
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datalists are more powerful than you think

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field. It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
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Herbert Lui
A path to consistency An earlier blog post I wrote has been bouncing around my mind lately: consistency starts with...
5 months ago
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A path to consistency

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

5 months ago
An earlier blog post I wrote has been bouncing around my mind lately: consistency starts with inconsistency. If the fear of commitment—or the avoidance of hard, consistent work—prevents you from getting started on something, the best solution is to find another way to see it....
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Eric Bailey
Making content-aware components using CSS’ <code>:has()</code>, grid, and quantity queries
9 months ago
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Making content-aware components using CSS’ <code>:has()</code>, grid, and quantity queries

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9 months ago
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Overcoming Bias
Culture Status Report I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my...
7 months ago
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Culture Status Report

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
I’ve been focused on cultural drift for about nine months now, and the probability estimates in my last post make this a good time to take stock.
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TheCollector
How Was King Louis XIV Involved in the “Affair of the Poisons?” Magic, poison, executions and King Louis XIV came together to create what is now known as the...
3 months ago
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How Was King Louis XIV Involved in the “Affair of the Poisons?”

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Magic, poison, executions and King Louis XIV came together to create what is now known as the ‘Affair of the Poisons’. How did one woman’s crime lead to a hunt to root out corruption at the heart of the royal court, and what role did the king come to play?   Who Was King […]
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MMapped blog
ckBTC internals: event log
over a year ago
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ckBTC internals: event log

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over a year ago
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The American Scholar
The March Down Main The post The March Down Main appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
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The March Down Main

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

8 months ago
The post The March Down Main appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Heresy
over a year ago
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Heresy

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over a year ago
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Ben Borgers
Driving School Corruption
over a year ago
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Driving School Corruption

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time...
a year ago
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On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder

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

a year ago
Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time creator to founder:
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DYNOMIGHT
Please show lots of digits Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve...
8 months ago
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Please show lots of digits

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

8 months ago
Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve brought you here today to ask a favor. Say you wrote something like this: There were 446 students tested. The left-handed students passed 5.67664% more often than right-handed...
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IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
4 months ago
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"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off

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

4 months ago
Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
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The Rational Walk
Endurance The amazing story of Shackleton's legendary voyage to the Antarctic and how his 28 men survived...
a year ago
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Endurance

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

a year ago
The amazing story of Shackleton's legendary voyage to the Antarctic and how his 28 men survived shipwreck, ice floes, and constant danger.
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Contemporist...
This Tiny House Makes the Most of Every Inch In an episode from find the Perfect Place, a YouTube channel focused on unique home tours, host...
a month ago
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This Tiny House Makes the Most of Every Inch

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

a month ago
In an episode from find the Perfect Place, a YouTube channel focused on unique home tours, host Bronson visits a small but well-considered tiny house in Wanaka, a scenic town on New Zealand’s South Island.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To (Properly) Text Patients | Out-Of-Pocket Do’s and don’ts + tactical tips from an actual doctor
a year ago
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How To (Properly) Text Patients | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Do’s and don’ts + tactical tips from an actual doctor
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Open Culture
Marvin Gaye’s Classic Vocals on ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Version It’s hard to believe, but Marvin Gaye’s classic 1967 recording of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”...
2 months ago
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Marvin Gaye’s Classic Vocals on ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’: The A Cappella Version

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

2 months ago
It’s hard to believe, but Marvin Gaye’s classic 1967 recording of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” was originally rejected by his record label. The song, about a man’s grief over hearing rumors of his lover’s infidelity, was written by the legendary Motown Records producer...
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The Tao Of Wealth
The 7 Common ( But Unhelpful) Beliefs That Keep Us From Feeling OK Your mind is not wise. From an early age we are taught to listen to our mind, remember that reason...
over a year ago
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The 7 Common ( But Unhelpful) Beliefs That Keep Us From Feeling OK

from The Tao Of Wealth [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Your mind is not wise. From an early age we are taught to listen to our mind, remember that reason and logic are the way to get ahead and to strengthen our mind. We think we are our mind. But we also have a heart.  The mind is a very good computer, but that’s aboutContinue...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Way to See Northern Lights in Norway
2 weeks ago
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The Best Way to See Northern Lights in Norway

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

2 weeks ago
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Quanta Magazine
Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to...
a year ago
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Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe

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

a year ago
As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values. The post Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
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Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography

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

a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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The Marginalian
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions "This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it,...
over a year ago
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Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions

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

over a year ago
"This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it."
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023 The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
over a year ago
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Name that Ware, April 2023

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

over a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
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Working Theorys
Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8 On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
over a year ago
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Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8

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

over a year ago
On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
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computers are bad
2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is...
over a year ago
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2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt

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

over a year ago
One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of things. Still, just within the span of my...
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Rest of World -...
Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
8 months ago
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Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working

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

8 months ago
Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
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Seth's Blog
How, why and hyperbole There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The...
a year ago
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How, why and hyperbole

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

a year ago
There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The first two: Headlines with “why” for articles that don’t actually explain why. Headlines with “how” that don’t really teach you how. Explaining why is difficult, which is where the...
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Liz Denys
Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site,...
over a year ago
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Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content

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

over a year ago
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site, or form says "introduce yourself, no pressure," I shrink back. How do I convince myself that other people find who I am or what I do interesting? I found myself asking this question...
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Neil Madden
API Security in Action is published! I wasn’t expecting it so quickly, so it caught me a little off guard, but API Security in Action is...
over a year ago
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API Security in Action is published!

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I wasn’t expecting it so quickly, so it caught me a little off guard, but API Security in Action is now finally published. PDF copies are available now, with printed copies shipping by the end of the month. Kindle/ePub take a little bit longer but should be out in a few weeks...
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Articles - Alex...
Adland is an island We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our...
over a year ago
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Adland is an island

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us more. We consider our clients’ companies and the categories in which they compete. We visit the sites in which our products are produced and the stores in which they are sold. We analyse their adverts...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
over a year ago
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How to timeout a promise

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
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The Pragmatic...
Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally? I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software...
over a year ago
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Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software engineer job vacancies. It looks like there is, but not everywhere.
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CONTEMPORIST
This House Has A Thin Floating Roof That Extends Out 15 Feet Specht Architects has designed a new home in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a retired couple that...
over a year ago
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This House Has A Thin Floating Roof That Extends Out 15 Feet

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Specht Architects has designed a new home in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a retired couple that wanted to simplify and downsize their lives. The new house embraces a minimalist, modern, aesthetic, and at the same time displays the priceless art, antiques, and found objects the...
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Applied Cartography
Becoming Trader Joe (Shout out to Red Queen Podcast for introducing me to this book.) Becoming Trader Joe is, more than...
5 months ago
34

Becoming Trader Joe

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
(Shout out to Red Queen Podcast for introducing me to this book.) Becoming Trader Joe is, more than any other business book (certainly any other business memoir), a turpentine book. There is interesting philosophy and retrospective here — and Coloumbe, whether through earnestness...
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TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
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Calculating your growth ceiling

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
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The Honest Broker
"The Next New Thing in Music Will Not Come from New York, Los Angeles, or London" Highlights from my conversation with The Ankler
4 weeks ago
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"The Next New Thing in Music Will Not Come from New York, Los Angeles, or London"

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

4 weeks ago
Highlights from my conversation with The Ankler
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Maggie Appleton
DeepSeek If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you...
5 months ago
59

DeepSeek

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

5 months ago
If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you might not know what DeepSeek is yet. Bless you.
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African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history

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

a year ago
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
a year ago
57

Can I Speak To Someone?

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

a year ago
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
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Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
10 months ago
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LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why

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

10 months ago
Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Travel Is No Cure for the Mind Who we are inside a venue matters far more than the venue itself. Instead of having the wanderlust...
6 months ago
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🔗 Travel Is No Cure for the Mind

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago
Who we are inside a venue matters far more than the venue itself. Instead of having the wanderlust of travel guide our search for meaning, we have to look within and embrace the only thing that is present now. The only thing that actually exists today. — Lawrence Yeo I do love...
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David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1 With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
a year ago
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Campfire is ONCE #1

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

a year ago
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
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xkcd.com
Supersymmetry
a year ago
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Supersymmetry

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a year ago
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Transit Maps
Quick Project: Queensland Rail Network Diagram Okay, as promised in the previous post, here’s my version of the Queensland passenger rail network...
a week ago
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Quick Project: Queensland Rail Network Diagram

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

a week ago
Okay, as promised in the previous post, here’s my version of the Queensland passenger rail network as a diagram. As is usual for these redesigns, I’ve only spent a few hours on this – just to show that better design doesn’t necessarily need to take a lot of time. Everything is...
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Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
over a year ago
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Slack doesn't listen to its users.

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

over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
a year ago
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Aging Code

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

a year ago
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Home on Erik...
Presentation about Luigi I like the editing!
over a year ago
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Presentation about Luigi

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

over a year ago
I like the editing!
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions) Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
7 months ago
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Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)

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

7 months ago
Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Curvy Concrete Cube With Cut Outs For Windows Is The Form Of This New Home Cadence Architects has sent us photos of a new modern home they completed in Krishnagiri, India,...
9 months ago
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A Curvy Concrete Cube With Cut Outs For Windows Is The Form Of This New Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9 months ago
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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Birchtree
The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches! We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open...
3 months ago
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The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches! We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are compatible with thousands of your beloved Pebble apps. The original Pebble was my “a ha!” moment when I realized smart watches were the real deal, even in
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Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part IV: Construction of the World Trade Center This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World...
over a year ago
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Building Fast and Slow Part IV: Construction of the World Trade Center

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

over a year ago
This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center, and Part III covers the
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Louwrentius
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
over a year ago
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
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Marine Madness
Which countries eat the most seafood per person? The top 10 seafood-consuming nations in the world, plus trends among the world’s richest countries....
over a year ago
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Which countries eat the most seafood per person?

from Marine Madness [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The top 10 seafood-consuming nations in the world, plus trends among the world’s richest countries. Seafood is a vital food group and form of income for millions of people around the world. The seafood industry has more than quadrupled in the last 50 years and is estimated to be...
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 3 Marketing week? More like reliability week
over a year ago
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 3

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Marketing week? More like reliability week
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
over a year ago
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My Life as a Con Man

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

over a year ago
Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
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The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The...
2 days ago
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What I’ve Been Reading

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

2 days ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The Haywire Heart, Plato's Republic, and the King James Bible
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Londonist
Goodbye Glory, Hello Divine - East London's New-Not-New LGBTQ+ Club "One New Year's Eve lock-in with Keira Knightley and Chelsea Clinton got a bit wild..."
a year ago
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Goodbye Glory, Hello Divine - East London's New-Not-New LGBTQ+ Club

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
"One New Year's Eve lock-in with Keira Knightley and Chelsea Clinton got a bit wild..."
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Society's Backend:...
Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
a year ago
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Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering

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

a year ago
And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
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Open Culture
Behold James Sowerby’s Strikingly Illustrated New Elucidation of Colours (1809) James Sowerby was an artist dedicated to the natural world. It thus comes as no surprise that he was...
11 months ago
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Behold James Sowerby’s Strikingly Illustrated New Elucidation of Colours (1809)

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

11 months ago
James Sowerby was an artist dedicated to the natural world. It thus comes as no surprise that he was also enormously interested in color, especially given the era in which he lived. Born in 1757, he made his professional start as a painter of flowers: a viable career path in...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
a year ago
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The History of Commodore, Part 3

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

a year ago
Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
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Unfiltered by Tim...
3-6 Months of Beginner Hell Is What It Takes to Become Successful (And Join the Top 1%) 99% of people can't stand it – that's your big opportunity
3 months ago
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3-6 Months of Beginner Hell Is What It Takes to Become Successful (And Join the Top 1%)

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

3 months ago
99% of people can't stand it – that's your big opportunity
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The Rational Walk
Three Lessons A few life lessons based on observations over a half century.
a year ago
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Three Lessons

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

a year ago
A few life lessons based on observations over a half century.
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TheCollector
10 Oldest Museums in the U.S. Museums have long been places of curiosity and wonder, housing objects that tell the stories of...
4 months ago
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10 Oldest Museums in the U.S.

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
Museums have long been places of curiosity and wonder, housing objects that tell the stories of civilizations past. The idea of collecting and displaying artifacts for public study dates back centuries. Consider the Mouseion of Alexandria, an ancient Greek institution devoted to...
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Seth's Blog
Simple and painless productivity On the factory floor, productivity increases are relentlessly implemented, often without regard for...
2 months ago
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Simple and painless productivity

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

2 months ago
On the factory floor, productivity increases are relentlessly implemented, often without regard for worker satisfaction. For people working with a laptop, though, they are often seen as optional lifestyle choices instead of ways to significantly boost how much we can get done–and...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Matt Hooper My name is Matt Hooper and I’m a relief printmaker working from my rather compact studio I built in...
8 months ago
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Meet the Maker: Matt Hooper

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

8 months ago
My name is Matt Hooper and I’m a relief printmaker working from my rather compact studio I built in the garden of my home in a town just outside Leeds. I’m a self taught artist and printmaker, ironically having being in the print industry for 32 years. I left school at 16 with no...
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Londonist
The Lost Trees Of London The biggest and best trees that are no more.
a year ago
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The Lost Trees Of London

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
The biggest and best trees that are no more.
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TheCollector
The Incredible Life & Military Campaigns of the Assyrian King Sargon II Sargon II ascended the Assyrian throne in 722 BCE and reigned until 705 BCE. Little is known about...
a month ago
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The Incredible Life & Military Campaigns of the Assyrian King Sargon II

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Sargon II ascended the Assyrian throne in 722 BCE and reigned until 705 BCE. Little is known about him before his contentious rise to power. Throughout his tenure as king, Sargon II entangled himself in political disputes, which often led to war, and in most cases, he emerged...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies" "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is...
over a year ago
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies"

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

over a year ago
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal…
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Words and Buttons...
[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
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[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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Retail Design Blog
Ashan Yemek Offices by Gönye Design Gönye Design created a productive and enjoyable office space in Istanbul, prioritizing comfort,...
5 months ago
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Ashan Yemek Offices by Gönye Design

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

5 months ago
Gönye Design created a productive and enjoyable office space in Istanbul, prioritizing comfort, natural light, strategic space use, a sophisticated...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Open source starter pack for JS devs So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the...
over a year ago
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Open source starter pack for JS devs

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
So you've decided to open-source your project. Amazing! Bad news first: writing code is only the beginning. The information for library authors on the web is surprisingly fragmented, so I've decided to put together a list of things to keep in mind when open-sourcing a JS...
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Birchtree
New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use? A commonly-cited claim is...
5 months ago
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New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use? A commonly-cited claim is that powering an individual ChatGPT query requires around 3 watt-hours of electricity, or 10 times as much as a Google search. However… We find that typical ChatGPT queries using...
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Seth's Blog
Product and process What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well...
a year ago
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Product and process

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

a year ago
What do we get in exchange for our work? There’s pay, of course, and the satisfaction of a job well done. There’s stress and human interaction, learning and physical exertion. We get the drama of what might happen next and the delight of actually pulling it off. And mostly we get...
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Josh Thompson
Cheap fix to night-time teeth grinding A few years ago, I found out I grind me teeth at night. Kristi says it sounds like I’m chewing...
over a year ago
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Cheap fix to night-time teeth grinding

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

over a year ago
A few years ago, I found out I grind me teeth at night. Kristi says it sounds like I’m chewing marbles. Others who grind their teeth give themselves headaches, or wake themselves up at night. You can’t really stop yourself from grinding your teeth, since you’re asleep. You can...
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Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
5 months ago
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DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday

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

5 months ago
It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Anarchy in the East India Company I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East...
2 months ago
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Anarchy in the East India Company

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 months ago
I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple. Before reading The Anarchy, my vague pop-culture understanding of the East India company went something like this: England, as a strong colonial...
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Transit Maps
Historical Map: Sydney Railway Layout, c. 1940 Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights,...
a year ago
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Historical Map: Sydney Railway Layout, c. 1940

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

a year ago
Unearthed on Twitter (It’ll always be Twitter to me, no matter what Elon says) by @crossing_lights, this is quite an extraordinary find. Long-time readers may have seen the 1939 version of this diagram (and the digital recreation that I made). Here’s the thing: the general...
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Wuthering...
Naming the garden in The Story of the Stone - the pleasures of incomprehension The older sister of Bao-yu, the boy, now a young teen, who was born with the jade stone in his...
9 months ago
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Naming the garden in The Story of the Stone - the pleasures of incomprehension

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

9 months ago
The older sister of Bao-yu, the boy, now a young teen, who was born with the jade stone in his mouth, is an Imperial Concubine, a high prestige slave of the Emperor.  She is likely herself still a teen when we learn, in Chapter 16 of The Story of the Stone, that she has been...
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Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies? And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
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How Should We Treat Our Enemies?

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a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
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Common Edge
The Perils of Walking in Connecticut Why should it be so difficult for pedestrians here to traverse a road or cross the street?
3 weeks ago
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The Perils of Walking in Connecticut

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 weeks ago
Why should it be so difficult for pedestrians here to traverse a road or cross the street?
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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...
over a year ago
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The Hegelochus lesson

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

over 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...
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
7 months ago
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Unusual Git IDs

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

7 months ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
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Build In Public...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Andrew Barry) Hey everyone 👋 Hope you had a great week. In today’s edition, I wanted to feature Andrew Barry....
over a year ago
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Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Andrew Barry)

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Hope you had a great week. In today’s edition, I wanted to feature Andrew Barry. Andrew’s a friend/creator/former colleague that you may already be familiar with on Twitter. I’ve admired his work from afar and always enjoy conversing with him on topics of...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Introducing o(m)g:image I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a...
7 months ago
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Introducing o(m)g:image

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

7 months ago
I was popping off on Mastodon with an idea for a physical board game then decided to just make a digital version. It’s called “o(m)g:image” and you can play it now: omgimg.jim-nielsen.com Here’s the idea: You have a bunch images Each image is a real-life og:image pulled from an...
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Ben Borgers
College CS Classes Are Tragically Dull
over a year ago
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College CS Classes Are Tragically Dull

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over a year ago
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The Codist
Learn Something New Every Day You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early...
a year ago
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Learn Something New Every Day

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

a year ago
You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early 80s, learning new things was a fundamental requirement to being a programmer—almost everything you did was new, both to you and often to everyone else. I started
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Open Culture
The Wisdom of Alan Watts in 4 Mind-Expanding Animations Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts. In a...
8 months ago
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The Wisdom of Alan Watts in 4 Mind-Expanding Animations

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

8 months ago
Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts. In a sense, Watts prepared U.S. culture for more traditionally Zen teachers like Soto priest Suzuki Roshi, whose lineage continues today, but Watts did not consider himself a Zen Buddhist....
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Josh Thompson
Denver Botanic Gardens - What, How, Why I recently got access to a delightful amenity, based on where I live. I’ve been sharing it with...
a year ago
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Denver Botanic Gardens - What, How, Why

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

a year ago
I recently got access to a delightful amenity, based on where I live. I’ve been sharing it with others as quickly as possible, because they too have access to it. From here on out, when I reference “botanic gardens” or “the gardens”, I’m referencing the Denver Botanic Gardens,...
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Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
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I Fight For The Users

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
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The Honest Broker
Now You Know the Rest of the Story... I share updates on recent articles
2 months ago
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Now You Know the Rest of the Story...

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2 months ago
I share updates on recent articles
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Cremieux Recueil
"You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly" Attractiveness rating studies shouldn't be taken too seriously
7 months ago
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"You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly"

from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
Attractiveness rating studies shouldn't be taken too seriously
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Yale E360
Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
over a year ago
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Consider Part-Time Work

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

over a year ago
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autocomplete Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You catastrophic forgetter! You opaque box! You...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autocomplete

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You catastrophic forgetter! You opaque box! You absolute Chinese room! Today's News: Nice book selection here on Barnes and Noble, with an especially good pick right at the bottom.
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Herbert Lui
Pausing remains powerful My friend’s dad had a great saying: to “assume” makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me.” For example, if...
6 months ago
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Pausing remains powerful

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6 months ago
My friend’s dad had a great saying: to “assume” makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me.” For example, if you misspoke to another person and they assume they know your intentions, you look like an ass to them because they think you are being mean—and they will have made an ass of...
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Basta’s Notes
Read every error. You can't read every error. System stability is a steady state, not a goal
a year ago
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Read every error. You can't read every error.

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a year ago
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
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Steve Klabnik
Protocol and language
over a year ago
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Protocol and language

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over a year ago
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Diaries of Note
How can men be so cruel, as many of them are In 1872, just two years after the death of her mother, five-year-old Martha Van Orsdol embarked on a...
over a year ago
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How can men be so cruel, as many of them are

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over a year ago
In 1872, just two years after the death of her mother, five-year-old Martha Van Orsdol embarked on a journey with her family to the Kansas frontier. When she was fourteen, Martha began to keep a diary, and over the span of four decades diligently filled 4,000 pages with her...
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Nela Dunato Art &...
My new mixed media portrait painting process: more ease, confidence & fun In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process...
7 months ago
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My new mixed media portrait painting process: more ease, confidence & fun

from Nela Dunato Art & Design [alt+shift+b] in design

7 months ago
In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process that I’ve developed in recent months, which enabled me to create the kind of paintings I want with more ease and confidence. I’ll be talking about the challenges with the "ugly...
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The Marginalian
Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong "You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my...
over a year ago
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Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong

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over a year ago
"You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power... Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace."
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Benny Kuriakose
Design Consideration For Differently Abled Students in Schools It is important for the school layout to be sensitive to the differently abled, and implement some...
a year ago
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Design Consideration For Differently Abled Students in Schools

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
It is important for the school layout to be sensitive to the differently abled, and implement some techniques into space planning,...
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oftwominds-Charles...
The Tax Benefits of Self-Employment Lowering one's tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but it is something worth...
4 months ago
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The Tax Benefits of Self-Employment

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4 months ago
Lowering one's tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but it is something worth understanding if you're exploring self-employment. It's tax preparation time, the secular equivalent of crawling around the temple on cobblestones littered with broken glass....
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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: the struggle goes on In the final part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look at 2025...
3 months ago
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A decade of dissent: the struggle goes on

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3 months ago
In the final part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look at 2025 and beyond.
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Lighthouse Blog
Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content...
a year ago
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Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content overload

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a year ago
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pcloadletter
Agile is a tainted term Oh no, not another agile article. But at least this one isn't attempting to teach or reconcile. I'm...
a year ago
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Agile is a tainted term

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a year ago
Oh no, not another agile article. But at least this one isn't attempting to teach or reconcile. I'm not going to talk about the difference between agile and Agile™ nor will I try to convince you of my favorite flavor of Agile™. Instead, I'm here to assert that agile is a tainted...
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Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
a year ago
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All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure

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a year ago
Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
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TheCollector
Why Is Whistler’s Mother So Popular? James McNeill Whistler’s most famous painting represents his mother Anna, dressed in modest dark...
2 months ago
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Why Is Whistler’s Mother So Popular?

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2 months ago
James McNeill Whistler’s most famous painting represents his mother Anna, dressed in modest dark attire and seated next to a gray wall. Over the years, the painting became iconic and even developed an entire mythology around it, quite far removed from the circumstances of its...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Cultivation As a Proficient Amateur' Perhaps the most interesting and even important person in Montaigne’s life – especially for...
a month ago
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'Cultivation As a Proficient Amateur'

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a month ago
Perhaps the most interesting and even important person in Montaigne’s life – especially for his readers -- was not his wife nor his friend Étienne de La Boétie, whose death in 1563 left him bereft, but Marie de Gournay (1565-1645), the model of an autodidact, who taught herself...
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Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
7 months ago
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Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis

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7 months ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
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Seth's Blog
Meaningfully informed Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we...
a year ago
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Meaningfully informed

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

a year ago
Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we ought to be able to chime in. But while every member of the community can speak out, the ones that are heard also have something useful to say. Being informed is a requirement to be...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
over a year ago
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Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
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xkcd.com
Physical Quantities
over a year ago
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Physical Quantities

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over a year ago
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Oxide Computer...
Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in...
over a year ago
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Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in between, the supply chain during COVID has been blamed for many consumer goods shortages, and rightfully so. During lockdown, how many of us stalked our local warehouse clubs for that...
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Engineer’s Codex
Meta reveals their serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more...
a year ago
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Meta reveals their serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
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somethingaboutmaps
Conventional Cartographic Wisdom that I have Failed to Grasp When I teach cartography, I am deliberate about not presenting my students with any rules. I do not...
over a year ago
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Conventional Cartographic Wisdom that I have Failed to Grasp

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

over a year ago
When I teach cartography, I am deliberate about not presenting my students with any rules. I do not want obedience to memorized maxims — instead, I simply tell them about practices that I think are good ideas, and then I offer an explanation of my reasoning. The students can...
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Quantum Frontiers
Winners of the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest During the past seven months, I’ve steamed across the Atlantic, sailed in a flying castle,...
over a year ago
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Winners of the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
During the past seven months, I’ve steamed across the Atlantic, sailed in a flying castle, teleported across the globe, and shuttled forward and backward in time. Literarily, not literally—the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest began welcoming submissions in October 2022. We...
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Sean Carroll
George B. Field, 1929-2024 George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the...
11 months ago
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George B. Field, 1929-2024

from Sean Carroll [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor and one of my favorite people in the world. I often tell my own students that the two most important people in your life who you...
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Articles
Why didn't my project take off? We think we should be rewarded for the effort, resources, and time we invest in a project.
over a year ago
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Why didn't my project take off?

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
We think we should be rewarded for the effort, resources, and time we invest in a project.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Farewell, Netlify On leaving Netlify
over a year ago
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Farewell, Netlify

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

over a year ago
On leaving Netlify
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Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #141 Building Civilizations, Nuclear Moon, Physical Intelligence, Argentina, Creatine
2 months ago
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #141

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 months ago
Building Civilizations, Nuclear Moon, Physical Intelligence, Argentina, Creatine
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The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
a month ago
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

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

a month ago
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
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diamond geezer
Old Coulsdon (this is the follow-up post to tomorrow's ride on my birthday bus route) Old Coulsdon, it's like...
3 months ago
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Old Coulsdon

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

3 months ago
(this is the follow-up post to tomorrow's ride on my birthday bus route) Old Coulsdon, it's like entering another world. A quiet well-to-do suburb on a hill, all broad avenues, backlanes and green tendrils reaching out into rolling chalkland on the edge of the North Downs. It's...
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brr
Showering at the South Pole Potable water, and not much of it.
over a year ago
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Showering at the South Pole

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over a year ago
Potable water, and not much of it.
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Ben Borgers
A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers
over a year ago
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A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers

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over a year ago
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PHD Comics
01/31/21 PHD comic: 'W O R D L E' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
over a year ago
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01/31/21 PHD comic: 'W O R D L E'

from PHD Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "W O R D L E" - originally published 1/31/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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alexwlchan
Taking scheduled screenshots of my website A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
a year ago
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Taking scheduled screenshots of my website

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation. What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on. For example,...
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bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
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Introducing Notez

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

over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Power of Fast Feedback Cycles I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position...
over a year ago
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The Power of Fast Feedback Cycles

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

over a year ago
I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position on the (controversial?) steps Svelte is taking to move off Typescript in favor of types-via-JSDoc comments. First off, I love how Rich prefaces his comments by basically saying,...
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Quanta Magazine
The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension,...
11 months ago
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The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology

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

11 months ago
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something. The post The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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xkcd.com
Jupiter Core
2 months ago
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Jupiter Core

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2 months ago
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Grantland Day 22: Oct 1, 2023 — As we suspect, the weather reports prove wildly inaccurate. At 8,000 feet,...
a year ago
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✏️ Grantland

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Day 22: Oct 1, 2023 — As we suspect, the weather reports prove wildly inaccurate. At 8,000 feet, we’re subject to alpine weather rules. Meaning, isolated storms can cycle in at anytime, and they do. Lightning flashes, thunder cracks. We sleep in fits and starts. I remove the...
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NeuroLogica Blog
About Those Lab Leak Documents It was recently revealed that the House subcommittee probing the origins of COVID-19 accidentally...
over a year ago
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About Those Lab Leak Documents

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

over a year ago
It was recently revealed that the House subcommittee probing the origins of COVID-19 accidentally released a “trove” of documents related to their investigations. The documents include e-mails and internal communications among the scientists and experts who put together the first...
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Herbert Lui
Define your work What do you do? Who do you do it for? Why? Answering these questions, and others like them, is hard...
2 months ago
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Define your work

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2 months ago
What do you do? Who do you do it for? Why? Answering these questions, and others like them, is hard work. It can also feel painful, because you commit to being labelled. Even though you contain multitudes, you’re making a decision: you will be known for one thing, for now and in...
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Herbert Lui
What’s the point? “What’s the point in planning, if it could all end at any time?” Dustin Gorton survived the...
5 months ago
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What’s the point?

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

5 months ago
“What’s the point in planning, if it could all end at any time?” Dustin Gorton survived the Columbine massacre at age 18. He learned how fleeting life can be that day. A blog attributes a powerful reflection to him, penned when he turned 36. It reads, “I came away with the...
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Notes on software...
Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
9 months ago
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton

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

9 months ago
This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Society's Backend:...
Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
a year ago
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Know Your Benchmarks

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

a year ago
How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
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The Convivial...
Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version) Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13 (supplement)
a year ago
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Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version)

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13 (supplement)
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David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
a year ago
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Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada

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

a year ago
When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
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TheCollector
Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: An In-Depth Guide If you’re an educator, student, or just someone who loves to learn, it’s worth checking out Paulo...
3 months ago
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Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: An In-Depth Guide

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3 months ago
If you’re an educator, student, or just someone who loves to learn, it’s worth checking out Paulo Freire. His educational philosophy changed the game. Freire believed that teaching shouldn’t be about bossing kids around—and that schools shouldn’t reproduce systems of oppression....
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Liquid Gold Hi, this is Weightshifting, a newsletter by Naz Hamid and Jen Schuetz, primarily about vehicular...
a year ago
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✏️ Liquid Gold

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Hi, this is Weightshifting, a newsletter by Naz Hamid and Jen Schuetz, primarily about vehicular travel and exploring the American West. This is season 2, en route from San Francisco to St. Louis. Our primary reason is to visit Jen’s family and attend a wedding. Our secondary...
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Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
over a year ago
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Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS

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

over a year ago
Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
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Dan Slimmon
Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
a year ago
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Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
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Diaries of Note
I have seen something splendid It was towards the end of his life in 1979 that John Cheever told his son, Benjamin, about his...
over a year ago
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I have seen something splendid

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over a year ago
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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Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
6 months ago
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2024 Year in Review

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

6 months ago
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
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Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
over a year ago
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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NeuroLogica Blog
The Physics of Flocks Most people have watched large flocks of birds. They are fascinating, and have interested scientists...
a year ago
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The Physics of Flocks

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

a year ago
Most people have watched large flocks of birds. They are fascinating, and have interested scientists for a long time. How, exactly, do so many birds maintain their cohesion as a flock? It’s obviously a dynamic process, but what are the mechanisms? When I was young I was taught...
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Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
over a year ago
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Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
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TheCollector
Is Lying Always Wrong? Exploring Different Ethical Routes Have you ever felt that telling the truth is morally overrated? There are certainly many situations...
4 months ago
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Is Lying Always Wrong? Exploring Different Ethical Routes

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4 months ago
Have you ever felt that telling the truth is morally overrated? There are certainly many situations where total transparency could trigger disastrous outcomes for all parties involved. Wouldn’t lying then be a moral duty in order to mitigate such negative consequences?  These...
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devonzuegel.com
No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization? At Doist we believe that open and sincere communication improves our decision-making process. That’s...
over a year ago
23

No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
At Doist we believe that open and sincere communication improves our decision-making process. That’s why we’ve built a culture that encourages feedback at all levels of decision-making: from purely technical solutions to team and product management. We built our team...
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Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959 Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken...
11 months ago
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First Pictures: View of the Earth from NASA’s Explorer 6 – August 14, 1959

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection […]
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Commoncog
The Shape of a Technological Window Technological Windows is Steve Jobs's conception of the game of consumer technology. We look at how...
over a year ago
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The Shape of a Technological Window

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
Technological Windows is Steve Jobs's conception of the game of consumer technology. We look at how he used it over the course of his career. Note: this is a follow-up to and an update for the Commoncog Case Library Beta.
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Quanta Magazine
Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re...
4 months ago
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Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive

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

4 months ago
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications. The post Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Diaries of Note
We are in the grip of Watergate American journalist Edward Robb Ellis was sixteen when he began to keep a diary; by the time of his...
over a year ago
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We are in the grip of Watergate

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

over a year ago
American journalist Edward Robb Ellis was sixteen when he began to keep a diary; by the time of his death 71 years later, he had written approximately 22 million words—an incredible feat which, until it was surpassed in 1994, earned him a world record for the “longest published...
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Thu Le
Things worth spending on Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
8 months ago
22

Things worth spending on

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

8 months ago
Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
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alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
a year ago
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What mammal is that?

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
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Eric Bailey
I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier
over a year ago
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I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier

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over a year ago
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Noahpinion
Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips! A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me
a year ago
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Give us your ideas on how to deal with Chinese chips!

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me
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Scarlet Ink
4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
6 months ago
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4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

6 months ago
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
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Flashbak
Loving Couples Posing For Studio Portraits in the 1970s Before the ubiquitous smart phone and achieving physical perfection through fillers and filters,...
5 months ago
40

Loving Couples Posing For Studio Portraits in the 1970s

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

5 months ago
Before the ubiquitous smart phone and achieving physical perfection through fillers and filters, anyone seeking a professional look hired a studio photographer. These portraits of couples from the 1970s are a release from all that narcissism. The lovers paid for these pictures...
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Rest of World -...
19 books to read in 2023 Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
over a year ago
245

19 books to read in 2023

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

over a year ago
Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Subprime Intelligence Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this...
a year ago
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Subprime Intelligence

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday! Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI's DALL-E turns text into
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Commoncog
Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload A simple, effective — though not easy! — technique for solving information overload. Written from...
4 months ago
36

Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
A simple, effective — though not easy! — technique for solving information overload. Written from practice.
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./techtipsy
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
7 months ago
73

You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device

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

7 months ago
Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
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Open Culture
Mary Tyler Moore Accidentally Nails a Perfect Pool Shot on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962) Let’s rewind the videotape and revisit a classic moment in The Dick Van Dyke Show. In the 1962...
7 months ago
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Mary Tyler Moore Accidentally Nails a Perfect Pool Shot on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1962)

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

7 months ago
Let’s rewind the videotape and revisit a classic moment in The Dick Van Dyke Show. In the 1962 episode called “Hustling the Hustler,” Mary Tyler Moore (as Laura Petrie) plays pool and sinks three balls in a single shot. The original plan was to splice in footage of a professional...
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Quanta Magazine
The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it...
a year ago
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The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings

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

a year ago
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain. The post The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings first appeared on Quanta...
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UX Collective
Story of a button Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
9 months ago
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Story of a button

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

9 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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The Marginalian
How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872 In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June...
5 months ago
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How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872

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

5 months ago
In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) ran for President, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate. Papers declared her candidacy “a brazen imposture, to be extinguished by laughter rather than by law.”...
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mtlynch.io
Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer...
a year ago
201

Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later

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

a year ago
In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The film is called Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, and it follows four college interns as they design, implement, and launch a completely new software product. That’s...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Have We Reached Peak AI? Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati,...
a year ago
55

Have We Reached Peak AI?

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that Murati failed to satisfactorily answer. When asked about what data was used to train...
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bookbear express
Dear Bear: how do I get over someone I thought was perfect for me? + what do I do if my friend is... + matchmaking closes in two days
3 months ago
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Dear Bear: how do I get over someone I thought was perfect for me? + what do I do if my friend is "too picky"?

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3 months ago
+ matchmaking closes in two days
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Jonas Hietala
Rising from the Dead, it's Ludum Dare I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not...
over a year ago
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Rising from the Dead, it's Ludum Dare

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

over a year ago
I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not making games or blogging. But I have revived! I scrambled to push my new website live because today it’s Ludum Dare time! The theme is “Evolution” and it’s the 24th time for Ludum Dare...
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Bits about Money
The Long Shadow of Checks A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the...
a year ago
110

The Long Shadow of Checks

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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Working Theorys
Tattoo Decisions On making opinionated commitments
11 months ago
98

Tattoo Decisions

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11 months ago
On making opinionated commitments
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Founder's blog
I really wanted to like Tailwind CSS TL;DR Nobody: Absolutely no one: Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS! First, a...
over a year ago
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I really wanted to like Tailwind CSS

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

over a year ago
TL;DR Nobody: Absolutely no one: Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS! First, a tip of the hat Let's get one thing out of the way: Tailwind CSS is great. For starters, Tailwind is a very polished and well-thought-out product. As a fellow bootstrapper - I...
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Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday (year two)
7 months ago
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forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing

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7 months ago
a new holiday (year two)
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FIRE v London
Jan ’25: Trump 2.0 begins Was it just me, or was the media relentless in January? We had a remarkable fracas about the...
4 months ago
41

Jan ’25: Trump 2.0 begins

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
Was it just me, or was the media relentless in January? We had a remarkable fracas about the so-called “Pakistani grooming gangs” scandal here in the UK, with Elon Musk weighing in. At the time it seemed remarkable but one month later, as I write this, I am pleased to say I can’t...
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Noahpinion
The Pettis Paradigm and the Second China Shock Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
5 months ago
64

The Pettis Paradigm and the Second China Shock

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5 months ago
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Ways Pharma Subsidizes Care | Out-Of-Pocket Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it just hard to track?
2 months ago
27

The New Ways Pharma Subsidizes Care | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2 months ago
Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it just hard to track?
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cite Your Sources, AI In a recent note of mine, I quoted Jaron Lanier on AI chatbots: There are two ways this could go....
over a year ago
63

Cite Your Sources, AI

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

over a year ago
In a recent note of mine, I quoted Jaron Lanier on AI chatbots: There are two ways this could go. One is that we pretend the bot is a real thing, a real entity like a person, then in order to keep that fantasy going we’re careful to forget whatever source texts were used to have...
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Rest of World -...
Why Nigerian filmmakers are skipping Netflix to go straight to YouTube Filmmakers say YouTube prevents piracy and is more accessible than Netflix, Prime Video, and...
a year ago
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Why Nigerian filmmakers are skipping Netflix to go straight to YouTube

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

a year ago
Filmmakers say YouTube prevents piracy and is more accessible than Netflix, Prime Video, and Showmax.
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
over a year ago
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rosie Mclay I'm Rosie, a 32 year old female artist who is mostly from Bristol but can't decide whether to live...
2 months ago
19

Meet the Maker: Rosie Mclay

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

2 months ago
I'm Rosie, a 32 year old female artist who is mostly from Bristol but can't decide whether to live in Bristol or the Welsh borders so is a bit all over the place. I've been a full time artist for eight years, mostly making art about our relationship to mortality and nature by...
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Arduino Blog
A gamified approach to therapy and motor skills testing For children who experience certain developmental delays, specific types of physical therapies are...
a year ago
55

A gamified approach to therapy and motor skills testing

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

a year ago
For children who experience certain developmental delays, specific types of physical therapies are often employed to assist them in improving their balance and motor skills/coordination. Ivan Hernandez, Juan Diego Zambrano, and Abdelrahman Farag were looking for a way to quantify...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
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A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
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IEEE Spectrum
Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments James Weldon Johnson’s hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” adopted by African Americans as the...
a year ago
20

Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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

a year ago
James Weldon Johnson’s hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under...
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Seth's Blog
Catastrophizing toward action A friend found a knobby growth near his knee. After a few doctor visits, it was diagnosed as cancer....
8 months ago
49

Catastrophizing toward action

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

8 months ago
A friend found a knobby growth near his knee. After a few doctor visits, it was diagnosed as cancer. A cancer diagnosis is a self-sufficient catastrophe–few people need more than that to start taking immediate action. At the same time, we live in a media culture where catastrophe...
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Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - October update
a year ago
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Road to 1 Million ARR - October update

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a year ago
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TheCollector
The 12 Best Places to Visit in Chile for History Buffs Chile has endured a long and at times tumultuous history over the years. Although the brutal...
3 months ago
25

The 12 Best Places to Visit in Chile for History Buffs

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Chile has endured a long and at times tumultuous history over the years. Although the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet continues to influence many of the country’s struggles, it is not—or rather should not be—the historical event that defines it most. With a...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Manifest V3’s foibles You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need...
over a year ago
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Manifest V3’s foibles

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know: Google has been developing a new…
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Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic Cato and Caesar
a year ago
25

The Fall of a Republic

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a year ago
Cato and Caesar
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the best joke ever. I quit. Today's News:
2 weeks ago
15

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ad

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

2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the best joke ever. I quit. Today's News:
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Nela Dunato Art &...
5 things you need before raising your prices Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that...
over a year ago
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5 things you need before raising your prices

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over a year ago
Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that happen. The hard truth is, you may not be able to raise your prices overnight. But in this article I'll tell you exactly what you need to do in order to become appealing to higher-paying...
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Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics Pricing - Paid vs Free
a year ago
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Google Analytics Pricing - Paid vs Free

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Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
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Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS

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over a year ago
Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
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Noahpinion
Why aren't we taking every Chinese refugee we can? Let's be the City on a Hill again.
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Why aren't we taking every Chinese refugee we can?

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Let's be the City on a Hill again.
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Essays - Benedict...
Tech questions for 2022 Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of...
over a year ago
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Tech questions for 2022

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over a year ago
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast fashion - there are others.
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Retail Design Blog
FOGO E ÁGUA at ALEA RESORT FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted...
9 months ago
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FOGO E ÁGUA at ALEA RESORT

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9 months ago
FOGO E ÁGUA was built in Bad Orb, near Frankfurt, a place where salt was traditionally extracted from a brine...
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Escaping Flatland
The third chair I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time....
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The third chair

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a year ago
I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time. The feeling that writing was impossible; that I would never find a place in the world that felt like home; that no one except my wife would ever care about me, about the things that...
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IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture

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7 months ago
Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
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The Marginalian
The Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes... “The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be...
a year ago
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The Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes of Meaning

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a year ago
“The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be an artist, “is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.” The choreographer Martha Graham called this particular shade of...
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Quanta Magazine
Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now...
a year ago
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Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem

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a year ago
Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it. The post Researchers Approach New Speed Limit for Seminal Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Notes on software...
Writing to be read There is a common struggle in the writing and maintenance of documentation, checklists, emails,...
over a year ago
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Writing to be read

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over a year ago
There is a common struggle in the writing and maintenance of documentation, checklists, emails, guides, etc. Each provides immense value; a document may be the key to an important process. The goal is to remove barriers -- to encourage understanding and correct application of...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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Maggie Appleton
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
a year ago
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Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

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a year ago
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
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Retail Design Blog
Curly Cube by People’s Architecture Office Juxtaposing organic tensile forms with a geometric silhouette, Curly Cube by People’s Architecture...
4 months ago
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Curly Cube by People’s Architecture Office

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4 months ago
Juxtaposing organic tensile forms with a geometric silhouette, Curly Cube by People’s Architecture Office (PAO) reactivates Shanghai’s waterfront for increased...
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Blog - Mac Pierce
Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.
over a year ago
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Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine

from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.
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History Today Feed
Bismarck’s Britain Bismarck’s Britain JamesHoare Wed, 04/16/2025 - 08:56
2 months ago
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Bismarck’s Britain

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2 months ago
Bismarck’s Britain JamesHoare Wed, 04/16/2025 - 08:56
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Home on Erik...
HubSpot's Picture Shows how to Maintain Monocultures in the 21st Century I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot's Awesome...
over a year ago
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HubSpot's Picture Shows how to Maintain Monocultures in the 21st Century

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over a year ago
I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot's Awesome Presentation Shows how to Create a 21st Century Culture”. Just FYI: You're not different. You're a bunch of white hipsters aged 25-30 dressed up in the same theme.
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Rest of World -...
Tesla arrives in Saudi Arabia after Musk’s tumultuous history Years after a dramatic fallout and a near-privatization saga, the electric vehicle giant is set to...
3 months ago
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Tesla arrives in Saudi Arabia after Musk’s tumultuous history

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3 months ago
Years after a dramatic fallout and a near-privatization saga, the electric vehicle giant is set to open showrooms in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam.
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Rest of World -...
Colombia’s EV sales soar, but battery recycling startups struggle to keep pace A surge in electric vehicle sales has helped drive a boom in battery recycling, but the startups...
4 months ago
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Colombia’s EV sales soar, but battery recycling startups struggle to keep pace

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4 months ago
A surge in electric vehicle sales has helped drive a boom in battery recycling, but the startups face major challenges.
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Prolost
Mac Studio and Studio Display Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of...
over a year ago
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Mac Studio and Studio Display

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over a year ago
Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of 2021 I got to test a 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor. It performed so well, that I, along with many Mac power-users, questioned whether it could replace my desktop Mac. Last...
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Yale E360
City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new...
2 weeks ago
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City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees

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2 weeks ago
From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →
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Herbert Lui
Every dollar you save is a coupon on the next thing you buy Retailers often offer incentives to encourage customers to buy more stuff. This can look like buy...
6 months ago
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Every dollar you save is a coupon on the next thing you buy

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6 months ago
Retailers often offer incentives to encourage customers to buy more stuff. This can look like buy two get one free, buy one get one 50% off, flash sales, and free shipping thresholds. Most of these mechanisms are designed to short circuit your brain. They work against clear...
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Engineer’s Codex
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
a year ago
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

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a year ago
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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FIRE v London
July ’24: New UK government July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some...
11 months ago
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July ’24: New UK government

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11 months ago
July has been quite a busy month. I’ve been getting about a bit. Some South Coast action, some Mediterranean fun, a trip up to Oxford, a visit to one of England’s great Cathedrals, and more. And July saw some fine times in London. Both outdoors and inside. And of course we had...
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The Rational Walk
Stepping into the River Just like no man steps into the same river twice, reading a worthwhile book multiple times continues...
8 months ago
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Stepping into the River

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8 months ago
Just like no man steps into the same river twice, reading a worthwhile book multiple times continues to yield new insights over the years.
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
6 months ago
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses

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6 months ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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A Beautiful Site
IE8 burns the Acid 2 test An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as...
over a year ago
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IE8 burns the Acid 2 test

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over a year ago
An internal build of IE8 is reported to have passed the Acid 2 test. This is great news, as Microsoft is showing more and more progress towards incorporating web standards into Internet Explorer, even though IE7 has remained dormant since it's release back in October 2006. The...
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A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
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Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas

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over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief The holy grail of virtual reality, the one that’s always been out of reach until now, is presence....
over a year ago
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Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief

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over a year ago
The holy grail of virtual reality, the one that’s always been out of reach until now, is presence. In the VR community, “presence” is a term…
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Calculated Risk
Housing March 3rd Weekly Update: Inventory down 0.1% Week-over-week, Up 28.3% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 0.1% week-over-week. Inventory is now...
4 months ago
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Housing March 3rd Weekly Update: Inventory down 0.1% Week-over-week, Up 28.3% Year-over-year

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4 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 0.1% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 2.4% from the seasonal bottom seven weeks ago in January and should start increasing seasonally in March. The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family...
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Maps Mania
2025 German Election Maps
4 months ago
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2025 German Election Maps

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4 months ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #20: Why do startups fail? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #20: Why do startups fail?

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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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charity.wtf
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
7 months ago
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

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7 months ago
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
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The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
over a year ago
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Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg

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

over a year ago
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
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Retail Design Blog
Vida – “Pura Vida” Cocktail by Horus Academy Vida is a canned Cocktail product with an inclusive spirit, unique, modern and more accessible than...
a year ago
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Vida – “Pura Vida” Cocktail by Horus Academy

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a year ago
Vida is a canned Cocktail product with an inclusive spirit, unique, modern and more accessible than traditional cocktails. There is...
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Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Growth Unrevised at 2.3% Annual Rate From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Second Estimate) Real gross...
4 months ago
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Q4 GDP Growth Unrevised at 2.3% Annual Rate

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

4 months ago
From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Second Estimate) Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the second estimate released by the U.S....
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Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, volume 3 - melodrama, drinking games, and "a convocation of bees and... I am two-thirds through Cao Xueqin’s enormous The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), volume 3 of the...
7 months ago
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The Story of the Stone, volume 3 - melodrama, drinking games, and "a convocation of bees and butterflies"

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7 months ago
I am two-thirds through Cao Xueqin’s enormous The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), volume 3 of the David Hawkes translation, and the next twenty chapters have arrived at the library so I had better write this chunk up. In this big middle section a number of minor or even...
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Diaries of Note
I have woken fairly early to think about human life Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with...
a year ago
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I have woken fairly early to think about human life

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a year ago
Frances Partridge was a remarkable British diarist born in 1900 whose long life was interwoven with the illustrious Bloomsbury Group. By 1967, when she wrote the following entry, she had already lost two of her nearest and dearest: her husband, Ralph, in 1960, and then tragically...
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History Today Feed
Why Did Rome Fall? Why Did Rome Fall? JamesHoare Thu, 05/29/2025 - 09:06
a month ago
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Why Did Rome Fall?

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a month ago
Why Did Rome Fall? JamesHoare Thu, 05/29/2025 - 09:06
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Ploum.net
Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité J’écris mon journal personnel à la machine à écrire. De simples...
7 months ago
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Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité

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7 months ago
Pérenniser ma numérique éphémérité J’écris mon journal personnel à la machine à écrire. De simples feuilles de papier que je fais relier chaque année et dont le contenu n’est nulle part en ligne. Pourtant, j’ai le sentiment que ce contenu a beaucoup plus de chances d’être un jour...
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This Space
39 Books: 1990 The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only two...
a year ago
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39 Books: 1990

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a year ago
The first book I read in the 39 years of this series was a genre thriller, and I've read only two more since. The second one came along this year. In 1989, I got a temporary job in the archives of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum where I met Carl Erlewyn-Lajeunesse, an...
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diamond geezer
Accursed passports Yesterday was the accursed day when I renewed my passport. Accursed because it's not expired but I...
5 months ago
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Accursed passports

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5 months ago
Yesterday was the accursed day when I renewed my passport. Accursed because it's not expired but I can't use it. It used to be the case that they gave you a couple of extra months so my current passport officially still has five weeks to go. I remember thinking when I got it...
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Flashbak
Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s Whenever Doug Biggert (1941-2023) picked up a hitch-hiker in Northern California he took their...
a month ago
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Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s

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a month ago
Whenever Doug Biggert (1941-2023) picked up a hitch-hiker in Northern California he took their picture. To make the  “explanation simpler”, and reassure hitchhikers of his intentions, he kept a binder full of his pictures to show them. What turned into a decades-long project...
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Quanta Magazine
A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly...
over a year ago
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A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation

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over a year ago
A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species. The post A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Yale E360
Brazilian Judge Orders Seizure of Illegally Cleared Lands A justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court has directed the government to seize private lands where...
2 months ago
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Brazilian Judge Orders Seizure of Illegally Cleared Lands

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2 months ago
A justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court has directed the government to seize private lands where forests have been illegally razed.  Read more on E360 →
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Oykun
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham My recommendation: 9/10 More details and reviews on Amazon The advice in this book is timeless! No...
over a year ago
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The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

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over a year ago
My recommendation: 9/10 More details and reviews on Amazon The advice in this book is timeless! No wonder why this book has taken its well-deserved place in the best-ever investment books. The main premise is investing in the companies we know of and believe its value at. Not...
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Rest of World -...
In Dubai’s AI job market, your passport matters Western job seekers see lucrative offers in the booming AI hub, while others deal with rejections...
a month ago
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In Dubai’s AI job market, your passport matters

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a month ago
Western job seekers see lucrative offers in the booming AI hub, while others deal with rejections and lower pay.
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Both Are True
the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july if america is so bold, why aren't you?
a week ago
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the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july

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a week ago
if america is so bold, why aren't you?
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
10 months ago
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Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves

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

10 months ago
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
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Rest of World -...
Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
a year ago
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Argentina’s far-right front-runner is not the crypto candidate fans think he is

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a year ago
Milei’s plans for the dollarization of Argentina’s economy might even depress crypto adoption.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Natal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing Derek Parfit were still around to roll his...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Natal

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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wishing Derek Parfit were still around to roll his eyes at this. Today's News:
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Wait But Why
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro Welcome to the 2030s. The post All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro appeared first on...
a year ago
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All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro

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a year ago
Welcome to the 2030s. The post All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro appeared first on Wait But Why.
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The Ruffian
Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
a year ago
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Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster

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a year ago
What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
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Retail Design Blog
Freeths LLP office by Denton A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office...
8 months ago
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Freeths LLP office by Denton

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

8 months ago
A New Beginning for Freeths LLP Leeds Freeths LLP, a leading legal firm, found its Leeds office bursting at the...
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Patterns in Humanity
Global crime How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
7 months ago
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Global crime

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7 months ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 4 (Lewis & Clark Country) We were now officially between races. A day earlier I ran a half-marathon in Pendleton, Oregon and I...
9 months ago
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Inland Northwest, Day 4 (Lewis & Clark Country)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

9 months ago
We were now officially between races. A day earlier I ran a half-marathon in Pendleton, Oregon and I had to do it again in Clarkston, Washington the following day. So this was the rest day, or at least it was for me. Most participants in the Mainly Marathons Northwest series...
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Wuthering...
Wealth by Aristophanes - gout here, pot bellies there, ... obesity beyond all bounds We saw Sophocles and Euripides end their long careers with masterpieces, but we do not have that...
over a year ago
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Wealth by Aristophanes - gout here, pot bellies there, ... obesity beyond all bounds

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over a year ago
We saw Sophocles and Euripides end their long careers with masterpieces, but we do not have that luck with Aristophanes.  Wealth (388 BCE) is thin, scattershot, perhaps even a bit defeated or exhausted. The conceit is as usual excellent.  Plutus, the god of wealth, is freed...
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Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
5 months ago
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The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

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

5 months ago
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ... Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
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mtlynch.io
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The...
over a year ago
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Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

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

over a year ago
Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
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Articles - Alex...
The digital dark side The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously...
over a year ago
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The digital dark side

from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
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davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
6 months ago
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Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10

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6 months ago
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Quanta Magazine
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still...
7 months ago
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Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

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7 months ago
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. The post Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Honest Broker
I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding So I'm sharing it with you too
a year ago
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I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding

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a year ago
So I'm sharing it with you too
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Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
a year ago
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

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

a year ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
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A Beautiful Site
The Future of Frameworks Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of...
over a year ago
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The Future of Frameworks

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

over a year ago
Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of front-end development. As of today, close to 18% of page views in Chrome are registering web components. That's an insane amount of usage! The benefits of a framework-agnostic...
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Open Culture
Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar As a young guitar player, perhaps no one inspired me as much as Jimi Hendrix, though I never dreamed...
a year ago
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Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Great Recordings of Hendrix Playing Acoustic Guitar

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

a year ago
As a young guitar player, perhaps no one inspired me as much as Jimi Hendrix, though I never dreamed I’d attain even a fraction of his skill. But what attracted me to him was his near-total lack of formality—he didn’t read music, wasn’t trained in any classical sense, played an...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Lowest Common Denominator: www Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease...
8 months ago
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The Lowest Common Denominator: www

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

8 months ago
Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to. But on the web you give up that control....
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The Roots of...
Can we “cure” cancer? In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes: Ask most biologists...
over a year ago
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Can we “cure” cancer?

from The Roots of Progress | Articles [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes: Ask most biologists about the cure for cancer, and they will tell you it doesn’t exist: cancer is many diseases that are mostly unrelated to each other, and that all have to be cured one at a...
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The Honest Broker
How African Musicians Came to Medieval and Renaissance Europe Western music has always been multicultural
a year ago
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How African Musicians Came to Medieval and Renaissance Europe

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a year ago
Western music has always been multicultural
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #202 George Washington on debt, Superinvestors of micro-caps, BYD, OXY/BHE joint venture, Imposter...
a year ago
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The Digest #202

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

a year ago
George Washington on debt, Superinvestors of micro-caps, BYD, OXY/BHE joint venture, Imposter syndrome, Decline of higher education, Howard Schultz, Cathie Wood, Robert Hagstrom
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nanoscale views
Updates, thoughts about industrial support of university research Lots of news in the last few days regarding federal funding of university research: NSF has now...
2 months ago
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Updates, thoughts about industrial support of university research

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

2 months ago
Lots of news in the last few days regarding federal funding of university research: NSF has now frozen all funding for new and continuing awards.  This is not good; just how bad it is depends on the definition of "until further notice".   Here is an open letter from the NSF...
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TokyoDev
How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they...
10 months ago
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How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
While domestically quite successful, Cybozu struggled to attract international customers—until they started their own English-speaking, international unit from scratch. Domestic vs. foreign success Cybozu, founded in 1997, was one of Japan’s first B2B software companies. They’ve...
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xkcd.com
Celestial Event
11 months ago
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Celestial Event

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11 months ago
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IEEE Spectrum
How a Robot Is Grabbing Fuel From a Fukushima Reactor Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power...
9 months ago
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How a Robot Is Grabbing Fuel From a Fukushima Reactor

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

9 months ago
Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a loss of power, meltdowns and a major release of radioactive material, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) finally seems to be close to...
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Oykun
Introvert Designer I’m an introvert. Unfortunately, I have discovered this term and its true meaning quite late in my...
over a year ago
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Introvert Designer

from Oykun [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
I’m an introvert. Unfortunately, I have discovered this term and its true meaning quite late in my life. I have always been the person who talks less in a large group. I've always preferred to be either by myself or with a small number of people
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Retail Design Blog
The Standard hotel by Jaspers-Eyers Architects & Bernard Dubois Architects From staid and bureaucratic, to cool and happening. It’s an audacious transformation which The...
a month ago
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The Standard hotel by Jaspers-Eyers Architects & Bernard Dubois Architects

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

a month ago
From staid and bureaucratic, to cool and happening. It’s an audacious transformation which The Standard hotel chain, known for its...
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The American Scholar
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The...
6 months ago
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“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

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6 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Rest of World -...
A former fish farmer’s startup is flourishing during a tech downturn Gibran Huzaifah’s eFishery made a case for tech companies solving rural issues.
a year ago
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A former fish farmer’s startup is flourishing during a tech downturn

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a year ago
Gibran Huzaifah’s eFishery made a case for tech companies solving rural issues.
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Working Theorys
caring about newness we don't create with the intent to recycle
a year ago
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caring about newness

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a year ago
we don't create with the intent to recycle
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TheCollector
What Is “Lebensraum” and Why Did Hitler Promote It? The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book...
2 months ago
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What Is “Lebensraum” and Why Did Hitler Promote It?

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2 months ago
The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book Politische Geographie (Political Geography). According to Ratzel, a nation-state should become self-sufficient by acquiring resources and territories in order to maintain independence and...
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David Heinemeier...
The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
a year ago
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The Musk Algorithm

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

a year ago
Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
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Seeking Wisdom
Stay the course I spend a couple of weeks every February keeping up with my investments, timing it to coincide with...
a year ago
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Stay the course

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
I spend a couple of weeks every February keeping up with my investments, timing it to coincide with the release of Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders. I found something interesting while performing this ritual this time. I came across Aswath Damodaran’s website, where he has...
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Josh Thompson
Streets in Asheville Quick-and-dirty street analysis in Asheville, NC A few months ago, I visited Asheville, NC. It’s a...
over a year ago
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Streets in Asheville

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

over a year ago
Quick-and-dirty street analysis in Asheville, NC A few months ago, I visited Asheville, NC. It’s a nice town, and has a great pedestrian life, as far as I can tell. As a thought experiment, I decided to see how well I could make the case for reducing the road width of a few...
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Common Edge
How the Much-Maligned Porch Supports Walkable, Sustainable Communities Its aesthetic detractors don’t understand the porch’s ability to create community.
10 months ago
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How the Much-Maligned Porch Supports Walkable, Sustainable Communities

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10 months ago
Its aesthetic detractors don’t understand the porch’s ability to create community.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Google’s feature creep Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most...
over a year ago
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Google’s feature creep

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

over a year ago
Microsoft used to be considered the king of feature creep.  Here was Microsoft Word when it was most cluttered: I don’t use any of…
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray... The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
a year ago
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Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray Tans

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a year ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s  series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
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Willem Pennings
ClockSquared improvements My ClockSquared project has a long history – it goes all the way back to 2015, when it was simply...
over a year ago
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ClockSquared improvements

from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
My ClockSquared project has a long history – it goes all the way back to 2015, when it was simply called the “Birthday word clock”. I haven’t spent much time on the project in recent years, but I’ve upgraded the internals a while ago and finally felt like writing a post about it....
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
a year ago
28

Canvas: A Bet On New EMRs | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
what if EMRs didn't totally suck?
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One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
over a year ago
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I hope you weren't getting too comfortable.

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
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./techtipsy
Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware I used to work on a short-term project a while ago where the goal was to visualize some metrics that...
over a year ago
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Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware

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

over a year ago
I used to work on a short-term project a while ago where the goal was to visualize some metrics that were collected from a pretty fancy smart home setup. This data included power usage of various sections of the building, temperature sensors, water usage levels and more. The data...
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Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews Jim Clark from Mosaic Communications (1994) They discuss how to commercialize the internet.
3 months ago
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MicroTimes Interviews Jim Clark from Mosaic Communications (1994)

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3 months ago
They discuss how to commercialize the internet.
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Common Edge
From Venice to Detroit: Laboratories of the Future, Reconsidered Optimism and action trump didactic scolding every time.
over a year ago
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From Venice to Detroit: Laboratories of the Future, Reconsidered

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over a year ago
Optimism and action trump didactic scolding every time.
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Jonas Hietala
Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
9 months ago
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4

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

9 months ago
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
6 months ago
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Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025

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6 months ago
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
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ben-mini
IMG_0416 Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube”...
8 months ago
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IMG_0416

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

8 months ago
Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app. The feature worked… really well. In fact, YouTube reported a 1700% increase in total video uploads...
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On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
6 months ago
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2024 - A year in review

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
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Construction Physics
Reading List 03/01/25 Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use...
4 months ago
41

Reading List 03/01/25

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

4 months ago
Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use existing interconnection capacity, and more.
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Citation Needed
25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried "The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious...
a year ago
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25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
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Prolost
Visual Effects Compositing in Adobe After Effects: My IBC 2019 Talk Adobe graciously invited me to speak at their IBC 2019 booth about visual effects compositing in...
over a year ago
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Visual Effects Compositing in Adobe After Effects: My IBC 2019 Talk

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Adobe graciously invited me to speak at their IBC 2019 booth about visual effects compositing in After Effects — something I’ve been doing against all advice for many (many!) years. You can watch the entire talk here:
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Calculated Risk
Comments on January Employment Report The headline jobs number in the January employment report was below expectations, however, November...
5 months ago
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Comments on January Employment Report

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

5 months ago
The headline jobs number in the January employment report was below expectations, however, November and December payrolls were revised up by 100,000 combined.   The participation rate and the employment population ratio increased, and the unemployment rate decreased to...
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Passing Time
My body is not a temple My body is a machine.
3 months ago
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My body is not a temple

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

3 months ago
My body is a machine.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Infinite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Infinite

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

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science. Today's News: Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
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Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 366.666 ...
5 months ago
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Hidden Open Thread 366.666

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5 months ago
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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...
a year ago
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Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid

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

a year 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...
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Society's Backend:...
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve...
a year ago
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024

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

a year ago
Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve decided to try out separating paid/free updates. I’m constantly trying new ways to make information consumption easier for you while working within the confines of the platforms...
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