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Wrong Side of...
Disappointment of the diaspora Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Six
3 months ago
Tech and Tea
Hustle culture is over-rated Let's celebrate sustainability over all-nighters and re-define what hard work looks like.
over a year ago
Herbert Lui
Three stories about emotional reactions 1. Anthony de Mello writes in Awareness: Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what...
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5 months ago
1. Anthony de Mello writes in Awareness: Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from. The doctor says, “Very well, I’ve understood your symptoms. Do you know what I will do? I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!” The patient replies,...
Val Sopi
Quitting is for the naive <p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your...
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over a year ago
<p>Pop culture glorifies quitting. I have done it. There's nothing glorious about it. Having your savings dwindle fast is no fun. Time is relative. You have no idea how fast it flies when you need it the most. Especially when you have no contacts in the industry nor an audience....
Adventures In...
John Snow’s Cholera Map Reimagined John Snow’s map of the 1854 London cholera outbreak was revolutionary in that it clearly drew a...
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John Snow’s map of the 1854 London cholera outbreak was revolutionary in that it clearly drew a visual connection between deaths and the locations of well pumps. It helped contribute to the idea that cholera was a water-borne disease and effectively marks the creation of the...
The Marginalian
A Lighthouse for Dark Times This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of...
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8 months ago
This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to another — that the system is most pliant, most possible. This chaos of particles that...
Mark Manson
My Response to Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke...
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over a year ago
Last weekend, Will Smith walked on stage at the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife. Since that moment, my phone and inbox have been inundated non-stop with people (friends, family, readers, journalists) wanting my “take” on the situation. After all, I...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Crypto Cities
over a year ago
Blog - Practical...
Why are Smokestacks So Tall? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] “The big black stacks of the...
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a month ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] “The big black stacks of the Illium Works of the Federal Apparatus Corporation spewed acid fumes and soot over the hundreds of men and women who were lined up before the red-brick employment office.” That’s the...
Herbert Lui
Convenience, growth, commitment, and sacredness When a theater shows a movie, it’s not convenient. You need to buy a relatively expensive ticket....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When a theater shows a movie, it’s not convenient. You need to buy a relatively expensive ticket. You need to arrive on time. You can’t pause it. There will be a day the theater stops showing it. Movie theaters are not growing—they are in decline. Movie theaters make you do...
Ryan Hoover's...
Miss you, Little D
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Two Imaginary Cages One mouse, one bird, and two cages. A grim parable for modern workers.
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Greek Travel Experiences for a Luxurious Escape
7 months ago
Londonist
Greek Things To Do In London: Cuisine, Culture, History And More As picked by experts.
a year ago
TheCollector
The 3 Most Infamous Praetorian Plots That (Un)Made Roman Emperors The Praetorian Guards were the personal bodyguard of the Roman Emperors from the reign of Augustus...
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The Praetorian Guards were the personal bodyguard of the Roman Emperors from the reign of Augustus through to the rise of Constantine. From the first century CE to the early fourth, these soldiers had an unrivaled proximity to imperial politics. This made them incredibly...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on...
5 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'But No One Style, I Think, is Recommended' A reader tells me of her disgust with most insects and reptiles, the small creatures, almost...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A reader tells me of her disgust with most insects and reptiles, the small creatures, almost domestic, that surround us. She resents the “nature sentimentality” such “vermin” rouse in some people. They “make [her] skin crawl,” she writes – an idiom I’ve always found amusing....
journal – Winnie Lim
daring to be ugly I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of...
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over a year ago
I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of insecurity. That insecurity made me feel ugly and that I was never...
TheCollector
Sistine Chapel Closes Ahead of Conclave to Elect Next Pope Following the death of Pope Francis last week, the Vatican announced the indefinite closure of its...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Following the death of Pope Francis last week, the Vatican announced the indefinite closure of its famed Sistine Chapel as preparations are made for the upcoming papal conclave.   Pope Francis was the head of the Roman Catholic Church for 12 years. His successor will be chosen...
Luxagraf:...
Fort Klock We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The bus blew down the road into the Mohawk Valley, to a small town on the shores of the Erie Canal where there was a marina that also had a few campsites. The campground was wedged...
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Willem's Blog
Understanding the security concerns in shared hosting People pay me to hack them, provided I'll explain how I did it. Read along to learn how hackers use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People pay me to hack them, provided I'll explain how I did it. Read along to learn how hackers use security holes to hack your app, webshop or website!
Londonist
"There's A Mullet For Everyone" - How The Marmite Hairstyle Conquered Queer, Creative London What gave rise to the mullet in London's hippest circles?
a year ago
Josh Thompson
Blocks and Closures in Ruby Continuing on from yesterday’s post about method_missing, I’m moving on to a part of Ruby’s language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Continuing on from yesterday’s post about method_missing, I’m moving on to a part of Ruby’s language that has been a bit of a mystery for me for quite some time. I’m still working through Metaprogramming in Ruby. It’s the concept of lambdas, procs, blocks, and more. I also hope...
Blog posts of...
A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Ryan Hoover's...
Please be kind on launch day 😊
over a year ago
Steve Blank
The Secret History of Polaroid CEO Edwin Land – part 1 The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises....
a year ago
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a year ago
The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises. December 1976 – Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military space port on the coast of California As a Titan IIID rocket blasted off, it carried a spacecraft on top that would change...
Quanta Magazine
The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
By speedrunning ecosystems with microbes, researchers revealed intrinsic properties that may make a community susceptible to invasion. The post The Ecosystem Dynamics That Can Make or Break an Invasion first appeared on Quanta Magazine
diamond geezer
All the Overgrounds How long would it take to ride all the Overground lines? I gave it a go, and I started in the...
a month ago
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a month ago
How long would it take to ride all the Overground lines? I gave it a go, and I started in the obvious place. Intermission two members of staff on duty, one sweeping the platforms and the other holed up in his kiosk in case any situation transpired that required his...
Society's Backend:...
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
4 months ago
Wanderingspace
Saturn Family Portrait From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with...
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over a year ago
From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. This is a full-color look at a view that was originally published in...
Rest of World -...
How Indians are watching Succession after HBO ditched Disney With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones can no longer be streamed in the country.
Commoncog
Business with Tariffs; Business as Usual Every Asian Tycoon we’ve examined got their start in a world with tariffs. They could thrive and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Every Asian Tycoon we’ve examined got their start in a world with tariffs. They could thrive and adapt under severe uncertainty. So can we. Here’s how to calibrate for that world.
Quantum Frontiers
Caltech’s Ginsburg Center Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s Note: On 10 August 2023, Caltech celebrated the groundbreaking for the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, which will open in 2025. At a lunch following the ceremony, John Preskill made these remarks. Hello everyone. … Continue...
IEEE Spectrum
The Pioneer Behind Electromagnetism Without an understanding of the fundamental relationship between electricity and magnetism, it would...
a year ago
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a year ago
Without an understanding of the fundamental relationship between electricity and magnetism, it would not have been possible to invent motors, telecommunications equipment, kitchen appliances and more. A key part of our understanding of that relationship, known as classical...
anderegg.ca
Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
What Is This "War" Of Which You Speak? Do we mean what they mean?
2 months ago
Eric Bailey
Chinese rooms, wasps, slime molds, and the problem of other minds The Chinese room is an argument created by philosopher John Searle. It states that computer programs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Chinese room is an argument created by philosopher John Searle. It states that computer programs will never have consciousness, despite appearing so to an external human observer. Arguments about strong artifical intelligence, as well as the philosophy of mind commonly cite...
Jonas Hietala
2016 in Review See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
High Signal
$270k ARR from a Notion form app Julien Nahum caught my attention on Twitter by pulling in $22k MRR with his Notion form app, Notion...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Julien Nahum caught my attention on Twitter by pulling in $22k MRR with his Notion form app, Notion Forms. Back in August he was at $10k MRR
Wrong Side of...
Against Critical Trade Theory He’s given the word populism a bad name
3 months ago
Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Ending up in Shin-Takaoka Yesterday was probably our first proper rest day on this trip, so we mostly hung around the hotel...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Yesterday was probably our first proper rest day on this trip, so we mostly hung around the hotel and surrounds. It always feels like a waste loitering in an amazing place, but sometimes you need some downtime or you feel exhausted! Or maybe that’s just us. We started the day at...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: March 28, 2025 Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a week because I am off to a conference this week, the annual meeting of the Society for Military History, this year in Mobile, Alabama! I’m set to talk about how Roman military...
Blog posts of...
Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly. As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most...
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stochastic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wait why is her butt talking? Today's News:
a week ago
Noahpinion
All the arguments for tariffs are wrong and bad Trump's defenders are flailing.
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has...
One Useful Thing
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Lunar Cycle and Suicide Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no matter how hard it is to confirm any actual effect. It’s now a cultural idea, deeply embedded and not going anywhere. A recent study, however, seems to show a correlation between...
TheCollector
5 Bizarre Claims by Famous Dictators That Defy All Logic The history of famous dictators is filled with bizarre claims and personal myths. From Idi Amin and...
a month ago
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a month ago
The history of famous dictators is filled with bizarre claims and personal myths. From Idi Amin and Kim Jong Il to Vladimir Putin, Yahya Jammeh, and Papa Doc Duvalier, famous dictators have used the power of propaganda to solidify their power and authority. Some have portrayed...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Common Edge
In Praise of a Great Mentor: Working With Geoffrey Bawa Life-long lessons from the father of Tropical Modernism.
a year ago
Old Structures...
A Bit Alien From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of the island: It’s the mid-length air shaft for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and, constructed circa 1950, it’s a relative newcomer to the island’s landscape. The diagram below,...
Blog -...
Book Review - King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine This book is a timeless classic that had a significant impact on deepening my understanding of the...
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over a year ago
This book is a timeless classic that had a significant impact on deepening my understanding of the masculine. Published in 1990, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover introduces readers to the concept of mature masculine archetypes and their immature shadows. The authors, Robert...
lcamtuf’s thing
Resistors, Johnson-Nyquist, nV/√Hz A major source of noise in electronic circuits is easy to understand. The unit we use to measure it...
2 months ago
The Works in...
Making american milk safe How good ideas spread
a month ago
Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream. But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
Grant Slatton
Designing bug-proof engines A spectrum of engineering philosophies
9 months ago
A Beautiful Site
$.postJSON() for jQuery $.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
Retail Design Blog
CMC Korea by Instory Creative CMC is one of the largest technology corporations in Vietnam. In the process of going global, CMC...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
CMC is one of the largest technology corporations in Vietnam. In the process of going global, CMC opened a branch...
Calculated Risk
Housing Feb 24th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 0.3% Week-over-week, Up 28.7% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.3% week-over-week. Inventory always...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.3% week-over-week. Inventory always declines seasonally in the Winter and usually bottoms in January or February. Inventory is now up 2.5% from the bottom six weeks ago in January. The first graph shows the seasonal...
Blog -...
Book Review - Codependent No More With more than five million copies sold by its twenty-fifth anniversary nearly a decade ago,...
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over a year ago
With more than five million copies sold by its twenty-fifth anniversary nearly a decade ago, Codependent No More is a startling, powerful book that has touched the lives of so very many.
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Hundred Rabbits Hundred Rabbits is a small artist collective. Together, we explore the planned failability of modern...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Hundred Rabbits is a small artist collective. Together, we explore the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world. We research and test low-tech solutions and document our findings with the hope of building a more resilient future. This is...
Beautiful Public...
A Rover's First 590 Days* on Mars I downloaded 60,000 images to experience what NASA's Perseverance rover has been seeing since...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I downloaded 60,000 images to experience what NASA's Perseverance rover has been seeing since landing there in Feb. 2021.
Stories by Andrej...
ICML accepted papers institution stats
over a year ago
Wrong Side of...
The lone wolves of Germany Why weak states resort to collective punishment of citizens
4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trolley Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is every last one of them is named...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird thing is every last one of them is named Bruce. Today's News: berk
Never Met a Science
TikTok in Romania Platform control and national sovereignty
7 months ago
Applied Cartography
Smoke test your Django admin site Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single most important asset of a codebase, but when it comes to auxiliary services like admin sites or CLIs when it comes to testing I tend to ask for forgiveness more than I ask for...
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
over a year ago
The Last...
Randi Zuckerberg Thinks We Should Untangle Our Wired Lives how hard could it be, none of those circles are actually connected Randi Zuckerberg is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
how hard could it be, none of those circles are actually connected Randi Zuckerberg is CEO of Zuckerberg Media, which, according to its 10-K, is an iphone.  If you have no idea who she is, and you shouldn't, then the answer to your one and only question is yes. In her...
Astral Codex Ten
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5 months ago
99% Invisible
Left to Write (3 of 3): Setting Up a Free One-Handed Touch-Typing System on Your PC Introducing the KURTY Single-Handed Half-Board Keymap (or KURTY for short!), a free plug-and-play...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Introducing the KURTY Single-Handed Half-Board Keymap (or KURTY for short!), a free plug-and-play system enabling one-handed touch-typing on two-handed QWERTY keyboards. After a debilitating injury to my right arm and hand, I researched and tested adaptive keyboards, which had...
HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
Ben Borgers
You Might Be Right, But Shut Up
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 00 · Keyhive Background Contextualizing Keyhive
11 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
Mazdak
Commercial vs. Residential Real Estate: Which One Is Right for You? Investing in real estate can be a great way to build wealth and generate passive income. But which...
a year ago
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a year ago
Investing in real estate can be a great way to build wealth and generate passive income. But which type of real estate is right for you? Commercial or residential? In this blog post, we will compare and contrast commercial and residential real estate, and help you decide which...
TheCollector
Rome vs. the Alamanni at the Battle of Strasbourg (357 CE) In the mid-4th century CE, the Roman Empire found itself in a precarious position. While the emperor...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
In the mid-4th century CE, the Roman Empire found itself in a precarious position. While the emperor Constantius II had been entrenched in a protracted war against the Sassanids in the East, the other Augustus, Constans, was murdered by the Germanic usurper, Magnentius. The power...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Security Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: WELL, the freaks on patreon felt that the word...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: WELL, the freaks on patreon felt that the word 'using' was a little ambiguous. Today's News:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prompting the Wrong Question So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?” The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys… It gives...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pino Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
9 months ago
Ryan Mulligan
Horizontal Scrolling in a Centered Max-Width Container The layout challenge When I had first assembled a gallery of CodePen projects to include on my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The layout challenge When I had first assembled a gallery of CodePen projects to include on my personal site redesign in the summer of 2021, I imagined the following layout and interaction: The page's main content container is centered on the page with a max-width set. The first...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ex Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sadly, the patreon subscriber ideas were all better...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sadly, the patreon subscriber ideas were all better than mine. Today's News:
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Curved Line Jellyfish I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended with gradients and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had pictured something quite bold, graphical and geometric but I ended with gradients and floatiness.
CONTEMPORIST
Tropical Living: This Modern Home Embraces The Steep Terrain Of The Costa Rican Jungle SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on...
a year ago
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a year ago
SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on transparency, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. The steep terrain posed the biggest challenge of the design, and as a result, the home was broken up into...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
over a year ago
Simply Explained
Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions) I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
Both Are True
the detonator no, i will not 'grieve' my pre-parent self
a year ago
Stat Significant
What Makes a Movie Hateable? A Statistical Analysis What makes a movie bad, and what makes a review of a bad movie?
8 months ago
TheCollector
Who (or What) Was Ma’at in Ancient Egypt? Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a mixture of order, harmony, and justice. As with many important concepts in the Egyptian world, Ma’at was considered to be a divine force fundamental within...
Farnam Street
A Wandering Mind: How Travel Can Change the Way You Think Most people travel as an observer, and as a result, “see” a lot. When you travel as an active...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most people travel as an observer, and as a result, “see” a lot. When you travel as an active participant, the experience can transform the way you think, and how you see the world. *** Here’s a situation familiar to many of us: We decide to take a vacation and go somewhere...
Global Inequality...
The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Scott Jenson
Design can be free (part 3) This is the third in a series. The first two showed how confusing products could be fixed with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the third in a series. The first two showed how confusing products could be fixed with fairly simple changes. It’s often possible to significantly improve a product even using the same hardware. This one tackles a much trickier problem: improving the quality of hardware....
Flashbak
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Born Murray Odessky on October 16, 1931, the artist who would eventually change his name to “moses” moved to the Big Island of Hawaii and began to create 255 brilliant paper bag hats – sculptures that he donated to the Mingei Museum in San Diego, CA. Until he died in 2015, moses...
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Optionality’s one of those things you don’t really think about. People don’t generally wake up one morning thinking “Why, it appears I’ve spent the past several decades of my life optimizing for optionality. Perhaps I should figure out why?”. Most don’t even recognize the term –...
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If three people are coming over for dinner, does that stress you out? What if it’s 17? If you’re giving a talk explaining your strategy to four people, does it feel like a high-risk event? What if it’s 54? How many more people are required before it flips to stressful? Because...
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The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify(). Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
Internal Tech Emails
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We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. We would like a stronger strategic position in the next wave of computing.
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In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries of Modern Physics:Time, and The Higgs Boson and Beyond. Now I’m happy to announce a new one, The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics....
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Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
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Mid-Autumn Festival is not only an occasion for people to gather and enjoy delicious mooncakes, but also a moment to...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job." - Jim Rohn A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by Jim Rohn. It stook in my mind, and as the years
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This brand creation for Southwestern Distillery is born from the legend of two nineteenth century Cornish brothers who spent all...
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One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems that aren’t working, and you tend to write about things during times of change. So most writing about productivity systems stem from people whose systems have failed them. It is...
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In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The process behaviour chart is the easiest way to differentiate between routine and exceptional variation. This is everything you need to know to use it well.
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Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then installing it on location can be tedious for multi-part projects. What if there was a way for your printer to print its creation exactly where you needed it? That’s the promise of...
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Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE
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We discussed metaphysics like… how it felt to tap them, with and without shadow. We endlessly fiddled with shadows, geometric and visual sizes, gradients, colors, border radii, and lighting concepts. Our obsession to get them just right went far beyond reason. An interesting...
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Almost twelve years after first opening up shop in Soho, LEICA has inaugurated a second store and gallery in the...
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Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.   Adapted from TOC figure of this paper Consider my shaving cream.  You might imagine that the (mostly water) material would just pool as a homogeneous liquid, since water molecules have a strong attraction for one...
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Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of terms (tags, categories) falling out of sync with the content they describe. A response to that post raised an important distinction worth clarifying: the difference between creating...
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If the majority of attention your webpage gets is from AI, not humans, what does it need to look like? How does it need to work? When mobile device browsers first became a design problem, some people said that the best way to solve it was with two sets of markup — one for...
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Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
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If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where they are located in the chassis. My Norco 4020 case has twenty drives in RAID 6, plus two operating system drives in RAID 1. I wrote a script that shows me the temperature of each...
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Deep in the public archives of the NHTSA, there are thousands of films of some classic (and some ugly) 70’s and 80’s cars being smashed into smithereens.
Noahpinion
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The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel: here. The New Civil Engineer has a good short summary here: “Grenfell disaster: ‘culmination of decades of failure by government and construction industry’” In one sense there are few...
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One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
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How to Market Yourself Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market...
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Assemble your Personal Brand, your Domain, and your Coding Skills/Business Value, then Market Yourself in Public + at Work.
Seth's Blog
Your audiobook Here’s a useful habit that’s more than a hack… The next time things are going well, when a project...
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Here’s a useful habit that’s more than a hack… The next time things are going well, when a project is about to launch, when a meeting has been successful, when the sun is shining… take your phone and go for a walk. Hit record on an audio app and make a twenty-minute audiobook....
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: More security stories! The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures,...
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The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures, including concerns about Twitter's "favorites" evolved into "likes," and some juicier news stories: Security stories: surveillance databases, unlocking apps, unexpected photo booths, and...
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Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
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People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Was Designed To Surround A Swimming Pool With A Slide Architect Alexis Dornier has shared a new home in Pererenan, Bali, that combines modern...
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Architect Alexis Dornier has shared a new home in Pererenan, Bali, that combines modern architectural principles with a spirit of creativity and exploration. The house is defined by its bold central void, an architectural centerpiece that brings natural light, air, and a sense of...
Quantum Frontiers
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Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. The number one question asked about quantum computers by outsiders is very common sensical: What are they good for? The honest answer reveals an elephant in the room: We don’t fully know yet. For theorists like me, it’s an...
A Smart Bear
The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
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This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
Calculated Risk
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The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger image. On a year-over-year basis, the median CPI rose 3.5% (down from 3.6% YoY in January), the trimmed-mean CPI rose 3.1% (unchanged from 3.1%), and the CPI less food and energy rose...
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TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years, the Hilleberg Akto is the tent to get. Also worth considering is the Hilleberg Enan, which is discussed in the review below. Most of the best days I can remember, I woke up in a...
Calculated Risk
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in November Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in November A brief excerpt: From housing economist Tom Lawler: seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in November, up 3.3% from October’s preliminary pace and up 4.6% from...
NeuroLogica Blog
Managing Plastic Waste The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is...
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The world produces 350-400 million metric tons of plastic waste. Less than 10% of this waste is recycled, while 25% is mismanaged or littered. About 1.7 million tons ends up in the ocean. This is not sustainable, but whose responsibility is it to deal with this issue? The debate...
The American Scholar
Last Laugh The post Last Laugh appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Take His Experience Along With Him' We shouldn’t be surprised that bookish tastes change across time. They mature, just as some of us...
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We shouldn’t be surprised that bookish tastes change across time. They mature, just as some of us do. The books we choose to read and reread follow a path parallel to our experience and maturity. This isn’t to imply “progress.” It’s not as though all of us shed bad taste and move...
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Teens Obsessed with YouTube and TikTok: New Survey Reveals Usage Trends Nearly 1 in 5 teens are on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly," according to a new survey by Pew...
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Nearly 1 in 5 teens are on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly," according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. This highlights the immense popularity of these video-streaming platforms among younger generations. Here are the key takeaways from the survey:
TheCollector
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The earliest statement of the problem of evil predates Christianity by about 350 years. The philosopher Epicurus stated what scholars refer to as the Epicurean paradox:   “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then...
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Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
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The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
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Developers often think parser generators are the sole legit way to build programming language frontends, possibly because compiler courses in university teach lex/yacc variants. But do any modern programming languages actually use parser generators anymore? To find out, this post...
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After hiding underground for the last 17 years, billions of cicadas will take to the skies this summer, from Tennessee to Cape Cod.  Read more on E360 →
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Between failure and Facebook Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The...
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Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The programmer had just graduated from college and…
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So Long, Prog21 I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
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I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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I've been a proponent of high-refresh rate displays for years now, and I think it's pretty ridiculous that Apple doesn't put these displays in their sub-$1,000 iPhones. I think if you're just keeping up with the Apple ecosystem then you
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thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is all the rage in web design right now. It’s a toggle in your operating system settings that allows you to update your operating system from traditional lighter colors to a darker...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background images to an element, e.g. <div> My content with background images. </div> <style> div { background-image: url(image-one.jpg), url(image-two.jpg); ...
Classical Wisdom
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Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest scales. The post New ‘Superdiffusion’ Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Open Culture
Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane... Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The...
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Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The Raven (1845), but he never felt that he received the recognition he deserved. In some respects, he was right. He was, after all, paid only nine dollars for the poem, and he struggled...
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One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of Skyscrapers in America was that the issues discussed apply to buildings outside the specific boundaries of my research. My research was specifically on buildings ten stories and...
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After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Josh Collinsworth
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I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
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Old Structures...
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I took this photo last summer while eating dinner in a brew-pub in Utica, New York. I’m looking up at the second-floor framing from below, in an old industrial building near the train tracks (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad). The building structure consists...
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No Newsletter next week I'll be giving my conference talk at DDD Europe. NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses I don't have a whole lot of time this week so here's something that's been on my mind a little. I haven't researched any of the factual claims; consider this...
THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Four Versions: This Is How Penn Station, NY, Might Look if Rebuilt You may have heard about ReThinkNYC, a movement and not-for-profit corporation dedicated to...
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You may have heard about ReThinkNYC, a movement and not-for-profit corporation dedicated to rebuilding the original Pennsylvania Station in New York through ReThinkPennStationNYC. Collaborating with classical architect Richard Cameron, they have developed three new variations on...
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
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Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
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Snapshot Testing A smoll intro to snapshot testing
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Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
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The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users. Mobile applications...
Old Structures...
Reflections That’s 21 (left) and 20 West Street, with 17 Battery Place off to the right. This was taken early in...
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That’s 21 (left) and 20 West Street, with 17 Battery Place off to the right. This was taken early in the morning and the facades facing me are the west facades of the buildings. Across West Street, to my right, is a modern apartment house with a mostly-glass facade. It doesn’t...
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
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How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
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Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development. What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A...
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What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
Seth's Blog
1,000 fans (which sort?) Not all customers are fans. And not all fans are the sort of customers you can thrive with. Cadres...
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Not all customers are fans. And not all fans are the sort of customers you can thrive with. Cadres of supporters often migrate into one of two camps… The generous stans (a more positive riff from a twenty-year-old Eminem track), are there for the work and the change being made,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Is Only Man' “You either fell under his spell and loved the wild ride of his prose, or you shunned or ignored...
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“You either fell under his spell and loved the wild ride of his prose, or you shunned or ignored it.”   Infatuation of the literary sort is likely possible only among the young. That’s my experience. I have discovered good writers in recent decades – Yvor Winters, C.H. Sisson –...
journal – Winnie Lim
the beach I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a...
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I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a vacation, it would almost always be the beach. My younger self would...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dared Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sawwy! Today's News:
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